I can imagine the possibilities - I worked on a similiar engine for awhile - which is why I know something about the problems involved... spherical terrain for flybys, etc. like in that video is relatively childs play compared to whats required to implement contact physics, zoning, etc. never mind the gameplay aspects. Don't get me wrong I'd love it if he could pull this off its one of my fantasys to see a seamless open space game with the ability to land on planets, etc.
Infinity - My word!!
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Yeah IIRC first heard about it around 2003/2004 and some videos poped up around 2005/2006 which turned out to be pre-rendered. Its not really much to show for the time its been in development tbh - looks like hes just shoe horned L3DT output into a spherical terrain engine - which is like 2 months work tops.
Sorry if I seem a bit harsh but I've been down this road before.
Sorry if I seem a bit harsh but I've been down this road before.
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Eve, JGC.... to name a few... this game is built by gamers and will no doubt be exactly what we need... rather than head office demanding they release asap!
Black Prophecy actually has a chance of becoming a finished product...
Infinity has a staggering amount of work required to take it from a rolling tech demo to something that actually has working collision physics, gameplay aspects, world zoning, etc. What you see in the video is little more than L3DT output (or similiar generation techniques) hacked onto a spherical terrain engine, some pretty artwork and a free floating camera.
Infinity has a staggering amount of work required to take it from a rolling tech demo to something that actually has working collision physics, gameplay aspects, world zoning, etc. What you see in the video is little more than L3DT output (or similiar generation techniques) hacked onto a spherical terrain engine, some pretty artwork and a free floating camera.
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If they do manage it, it'll be one hell of a warning shot across the bow for these major game creators and if they use the source engine they might be able to spawn different games that can use these areas to open up new possibilities.
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it's being made by one guy pretty much
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Think about what you said though, you build a warp gate after a years working gathering parts, but you've chosen a part of the galaxy no one else has ever visited and never will.
There is just too big, if you want a fight and have to travel for 5 hours before you see one person to go fight, then you die?
Infinite is a bad idea in design terms, theres a reason why every developer who has ever tried to do too much in one go has either gone bust without releasing a game, or released a complete and utter turd of a failure.
Companies waste all their time scaling back the engine/scope of a game every few months, so 80% of the work done in the first few years simple never makes it in game, had they started off with an attainable goal in the beginning, well, theres a reason why almost every successful game has started that way.
Good luck to them but, either see a game with a massively scaled down version of what they are trying, or see a game given up on, if they finish it as they want it to be right now, I'd be gobsmacked.
Happily i imagine that's one of the pre-renders Rroff was referring to, so your social life should be safe...for now
Happily i imagine that's one of the pre-renders Rroff was referring to, so your social life should be safe...for now
Phew, seems like I have a bit more time left to make something productive of my life then until The Great Gaming Stupor
Well, it's all fine and dandy unless it turns out like this guy right here who's been promising to revolutionize the whole computer graphics industry single-handedly for years now.
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