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This week, our agents made a daring operation — they infiltrated the Starni Games office and smuggled out a few screenshots of Early footage from the internal testing of 4th operation Barbarossa from the USSR side.









Our intelligence network located the Spectre of Communism haunting Unreal Engine Dev Contest 2020. We are eager to see, will the World Communism be victorious.


Our undercover agents overheard some of the Starni Games employees talking about launching a series of short episodes featuring the cinematics from Blitzkrieg. What do you think about this idea? Let us know in the comments below.

This is it for this week’s report.

We will keep delivering fresh reports every Monday.

Starni Games intelligence service

Hello, guys!

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[h2]Command the army you have created[/h2]



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[h2]Fully immerse yourself into the WW2 atmosphere[/h2]



Use all sorts of historical units with their customizable equipment.

[h2]Relive the epochal battles[/h2]



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We have just uploaded one of the Blitzkrieg cinematic tracks on YouTube for all of you to enjoy:

[previewyoutube][/previewyoutube]
This German song is dated the 19th century and the author is unknown. Yet, it was very popular both during WWI and WWII.

[h2]Legal issues[/h2]
In Strategic Mind: Blitzkrieg we decided that we want to use at least a couple of real music pieces of the time. However, there were possible legal issues: we could not just use someone else's performance. So, we decided to ask Daraba studio to perform and record the march, so that we do not violate the rights of any outside artists performing it. The only problem that we could not use the chorus.

[h2]More historical music[/h2]
Let us know whether you would like to have more authentic music playing in the game. Would you like to have it in cinematics only, or as a gameplay track as well? Next week we will post one more historic
track — so that you have more examples. We are keen on learning your opinion.

If you want to support the further expansion of the Strategic Mind soundtrack — consider buying our soundtrack:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1358280/Strategic_Mind_Franchise_Soundtrack/?beta=0

Looking forward to your feedback.

With best regards
Strani Games team

Hello guys!

Creating games is a challenging, creative and exciting process.

We decided to share with you what happens behind the scenes in our new series
of articles — Developers’ Diaries by Starni Games.

Recently, we have announced our next project Strategic Mind: Spectre of Communism (to be released in Q4 2020). We are already working full steam on the project.

Last week we tested a new setup for mocap and sound recording: we tested two different microphones to decide what is the best way to record sound and animation for Spectre of Communism. Additionally, we had to decide whether to switch to an adjusted production process for mocap and VO.

We tested two microphones: stationary studio mic and DPA microphone lavalier.



Microphone lavalier is used on TV and in TV-series if the actor has to move a lot during the recording as it is very convenient and moves with the actor.

Studio stationary mic is used for music recording, podcasts and radio. It is fixed in place and cannot be used by a moving actor.

Despite the stationary mic providing finer details of the voice, we decided to use the lavalier mic as it offers high quality recording while also allows movement. It is extremely important for us as we will use the motion capture technologies to record the movements and facial animations of the actor and then transfer them to the game character. If we use a stationary mic, the sound will drop if the actor turns his head away from the mic to look at the other character.

Our cinematic director Constantine tries out the some of the motion capture equipment setup:



Our COO Oleksandr is adjusting the helmet with an attached Iphone, which is used to capture facial animations:



Some weird stuff happening during the tests. The good thing is that the issue was quickly solved:



[h3]The results of test[/h3]
We decided to go for a new technical setup.

[h3]Old production process[/h3]
Motion capture + preliminary VO made by one actor for all characters. All other voice actors had to fit the preliminary VO and lip sync during the final VO.

[h3]Planned production process[/h3]
Motion capture + final VO at the same time by every actor. We think this way the voice and animation will be a better match. The time will tell.

We hope that these adjustments and new mic will help us deliver the cinematics of higher quality in the upcoming project.

The VO + mocap sessions will start soon. We will keep you informed about our progress.

Your Starni Games team

General!

To keep you up to date with all the latest data, our intelligence service has prepared a new weekly report.

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[h2]Winter has come for the USSR Armed forces[/h2]

New gameplay screenshots added for Strategic Mind: Spectre of Communism!

[h3]Winter War[/h3]



[h3]Japanese equipment captured at Khalkhin Gol[/h3]



[h3]The Partition of Poland[/h3]



Make sure to check them out:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1341170/Strategic_Mind_Spectre_of_Communism/

[h2]New setup for mocap and sound recording[/h2]



Last week, our spies reported unusual activity and the sound recording studio. Several Starni Games team members were spotted at the facility, running some tests on new equipment. We will prepare a more detailed report on their activity later this week.

Strani Games intelligence service