The Tomorrow Children

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The Tomorrow Children
Developer(s)Q-Games[a]
Publisher(s)Sony Interactive Entertainment
Director(s)Dylan Cuthbert
Producer(s)Kazuharu Tanaka
Hiroshi Shiina
Artist(s)Dylan Cuthbert
Composer(s)Joel Corelitz
Platform(s)PlayStation 4
ReleaseOctober 25, 2016[1]
Genre(s)Action

The Tomorrow Children was an adventure video game developed by Q-Games and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment.[2] It was announced during Gamescom 2014 at Sony's press conference in August 2014.[3]

Development[]

Engadget has described the game as "a mix of Minecraft-esque collaborative building, social economics and a Soviet Union-themed post-apocalyptic dystopia."[4] The Tomorrow Children runs on a proprietary game engine developed by Q-Games.[5] The game's graphics engine utilizes new technology, aiming to achieve a Pixar-like pre-rendered CGI look with real-time 3D graphics.[2][6] It utilizes the PlayStation 4's Async Compute technology extensively.[5] It features new lighting techniques developed by Q-Games, such as cascaded voxel cone ray tracing, which simulates lighting in real-time and uses more realistic reflections rather than screen space reflections.[6] This allows real-time global illumination,[5] without any need for pre-calculated or pre-baked lighting.[2][7] It supports direct and indirect illumination in real-time,[5] and up to three bounces of light per pixel from all directions (compared to one bounce for Pixar films).[6] It also features deformable landscapes, with layered depth cubes, representing the world as volumes, which are then converted to polygons as needed.[6]

A public beta test occurred from June 3–6, 2016.[8]

The game was released as an early access title on September 6, 2016 as The Tomorrow Children: Founder's Pack.

Discontinuation and relaunch[]

On July 6, 2017, it was announced the game would cease operations on November 1, 2017.[9]

On November 9 2021, Q-Games announced that they had acquired the IP to The Tomorrow Children from Sony Interactive Entertainment and intended to "rebuild" and relaunch the game at a later date.[10] This was an unprecedented move, as SIE had previously expressed disapproval towards the idea of selling their IPs.[11]

Reception[]

The Tomorrow Children received mixed or average reviews, according to review aggregator Metacritic.

Notes[]

  1. ^ Additional work by Japan Studio

References[]

  1. ^ "Play the Tomorrow Children for Free Starting Today". 25 October 2016.
  2. ^ a b c Dutton, Fred (September 16, 2015). "The Tomorrow Children – Delving deeper into Dylan Cuthbert's weird, wonderful PS4 exclusive". PlayStation Blog. Retrieved December 7, 2015.
  3. ^ Cuthbert, Dylan (12 August 2014). "PS4 Exclusive The Tomorrow Children Announced at Gamescom 2014". PlayStation Blog. Retrieved August 12, 2014.
  4. ^ Trew, James. "PlayStation's push for indie games is epitomized by 'The Tomorrow Children'". Engadet. Retrieved August 26, 2014.
  5. ^ a b c d "The Technology Of The Tomorrow Children" (PDF). Game Developers Conference. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-04-06. Retrieved December 7, 2015.
  6. ^ a b c d Cuthbert, Dylan (October 24, 2015). "Creating the beautiful, ground-breaking visuals of The Tomorrow Children on PS4". PlayStation Blog. Retrieved December 7, 2015.
  7. ^ Walton, Mark (August 13, 2014). "PixelJunk Developer Reveals Details of Genre-Bending PS4 Exclusive The Tomorrow Children". GameSpot. Retrieved December 7, 2015.
  8. ^ "The Tomorrow Children Open Beta Weekend Starts This Friday". June 1, 2016.
  9. ^ Japan, Sony Interactive Entertainment. "『The Tomorrow Children(トゥモロー チルドレン) 』サービス終了のお知らせ/End of Service Announcement for The Tomorrow Children | The Tomorrow Children(トゥモロー チルドレン) プレイヤーズインフォメーション | プレイステーション". プレイステーション (in ja-JP). Retrieved 2017-07-07.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)
  10. ^ Romano, Sal (9 November 2021). "Q-Games acquires The Tomorrow Children from Sony Interactive Entertainment, rebuilding for re-release". Gematsu. Retrieved 11 November 2021.
  11. ^ Arevalo-Downes, Lauren (15 February 2012). "Sony Admits To Dropping The Ball On Demon's Souls". AList. Retrieved 11 November 2021.
  12. ^ "The Tomorrow Children for PlayStation 4 Reviews". Metacritic. Retrieved 2021-09-06.
  13. ^ Smith, Rob (6 September 2021). "The Tomorrow Children Review". IGN. Retrieved 6 September 2021.
  14. ^ Butterworth, Scott (6 September 2021). "The Tomorrow Children Review". GameSpot. Retrieved 6 September 2021.
  15. ^ "The Tomorrow Children Review (PS4) | Aces high". Push Square. 6 September 2021. Retrieved 6 September 2021.
  16. ^ Whitaker, Jed (6 September 2021). "The Tomorrow Children (PS4) Review". Computer Games Magazine. Retrieved 6 September 2021.

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