Developed by Clover Studio and directed by legendary Hideki Kamiya, Okami is among my favorite action adventure games ever, it’s brilliant.

And upon discovering this Mix and Jam Youtube video, recreating Okami’s brush mechanic, I got inspired to try and do so myself as well. By the way, Mix and Jam channel is fantastic, full of really impressive gameplay recreations.

Okami Study
Okami Study github

So, the project itself turned out to be quite challenging but immensely satisfying when it all worked out. Here are a couple of cool accomplishments from the project:

  • seamless projection of the camera image onto the drawing canvas with a custom shader made with ShaderGraph
  • a canvas drawing system featuring stylized brush stroke textures and fluid brush animations
  • a brush stroke recognition system, utilizing $P Point-Cloud Recognizer solution for Unity
  • interpretation of a brush stroke gesture and its projection into the game world, resulting in actions like a tree-cutting slash attack or a cherry bomb