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Among the Sleep, a psychological horror in which players experience the world through the eyes of a two year old child with a vivid imagination, will launch for PS4 on December 10, developer Killbrite Studio has announced.
The game launched on Steam back in May 2014, but we’re promised some major improvements with the PS4 version, including moving the game to the most recent version of Unity to make the most of the hardware.
“We had to redo the lightmapped levels and we had to rebake everything, which is fancy developer speak for fixing lights and putting it all together,” explained Kristina Halvorsen, chief of marketing & community development at Krillbite.
“Another time-consuming issue with conversion were related to the physics engine used in the game. Unity uses Nvidia PhysX which has been completely redone in the newer versions of Unity. We encountered a lot of weird and funny bugs because of this. We saw chairs floating and doing 360s as you grabbed them, and apples flying hundreds of kilometres an hour. Among the Sleep was actually quite fun with fruit flying around randomly, but it sort of broke the atmosphere so we made the apples go back to their fruitbowl.”
Halvorsen continues: “One of the coolest things in the PlayStation version of the game is the full audio-visual upgrade – Among the Sleep now has even better graphics and an even better sound experience. We think frame rate is an essential part of a good game experience and have worked hard to get the game to run at a proper 60 frames per second. This was probably the biggest part of the upgrade and it makes for a super smooth experience and does a lot for immersion!”
Check out the launch trailer below.
A PlayStation VR enabled version of Among the Sleep had also been planned, but this was cancelled earlier this month.
Xbox One owners are also expecting the game at some point this year.
Source: EU PS Blog
