Publications

On Earth Day this year, employees from Volition Games took part in Boneyard Creek Community Day, in which volunteers from local companies, schools, organizations, agencies, and families get together to pick up trash and litter around the creek. The 3.3-mile waterway runs through the cities of Champaign and Urbana and…

Gearbox Entertainment, a leading video game developer and publisher, recently finalized its partnership with Volition, a studio known for its critically acclaimed titles and innovative gameplay mechanics. You may remember when news of the agreement was announced last fall and now we’re proud to say it’s done and Volition is…

As we approach the release of Saints Row, we here at Volition would like to honor those we’ve lost during development. Remembering Mike “IdolNinja” Watson Mike Watson was Volition’s Community Manager since 2014 until his passing in August 2021. One of the most caring and passionate humans…

This talk, presented at GDC 2018, covers some of the main rendering technologies used on Volition’s ‘Agents of Mayhem’. The presentation includes Volition’s adaptation of Weighted Blended Order-Independent Transparency for use with additive as well as non-additive alpha. Also covered is Volition’s approach to tile-based deferred shading, which breaks shading…