Posts by Tisky

  • Kingpin: Reloaded

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    Man i loved the first game back in the days, i remember paying for internet in a café so i could download the demo, took a whole day. Worth it!

  • What have you watched recently?

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    What an awesome movie! (trailer does not do it justice)

    Stallone nailed it in this one by going back to the roots of "First Blood" from 1982. No over the top hero stuff, just a war vet with PTSD and a past, trying to cope, but life manages to throw a hard curve ball at him by drawing first blood.

     The story is heartbreaking, the fight sequence is very tight, brutal, nostalgic, and reminiscent of the first movie, and the end credits sequence with shots from previous Rambo, especially "First Blood" almost brought a tear to my eye.

    I watched the previous ones as a kid in the 80s, and with this last one concluding the story after more than 35 years (no spoilers), one feels like losing a close friend.

    Taken for the first hour, Home Stallone for the rest half hour. I wish it was more Home Stallone.

  • What music have you listened to recently?

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    Fuck yeah this is great!

  • Where do you start today, if you want to work in the gaming-industry?

    Quote from blackdog

    On 11/24/2019 at 3:48 PM, blackdog said: Make sure you visit the topic with the links to all mapping resources, there were many articles on lighting or broader design theory.

    For your digital sketch, are you using any relatable scale from Illustrator? When sketching on paper, despite using squared(?) paper and try to assign a relatable size to the unit, when translating to Hammer sizing always changes noticeably. Not a big deal, just sometimes irritating or making me feel stupid for underestimating/overestimating the size of a certain area :D

    No real scale, using my towns center as an inspiration and i've nailed alot of the sizes except for some bits that feel small in-game haha.

  • Half-Life Alyx

    Quote from leplubodeslapin

    1 hour ago, leplubodeslapin said: The lighting is just insane, pause the video at any frame and it's incredibly crisp and clear with no glitch whatsoever. I'm sure this brings a lot to the table of VR and player immersion.

    I don't know what to do, it's just so expensive (I would want to play it on the Index for sure, and my PC is quite not up to date enough ?)

    Same here! Kinda want it more because of the SDK now, imagine all the stuff one can do with it.

  • Half-Life Alyx

    Quote from tr0nic

    48 minutes ago, tr0nic said: I bet they will announce a pre-order bundle including the Vive, just in time for a huge Blackfriday discount. I wonder what is Valve's target audience? A player with no prior experience with VR or someone who had the time to assimilate the ways of virtual reality.

    Maybe, i keep thinkin Valve has to go big after such a long abscence, so stoked! Even if it is nothing special i hope we get to see Source 2 in all its glory :)

  • Where do you start today, if you want to work in the gaming-industry?

    Quote from MikeGon

    14 hours ago, MikeGon said: @Tisky so you wanna go design or art? Those are two very different paths with their own set of priorities...

    Personally what I did after finishing school until I found my first gig was shipping a ton of small level design projects on various editors, with a quick turnaround (1 project per week on average including pre-prod, documentation, etc) to build a decent LD-focused portfolio and replace the cringy school projects asap. Most of them were be pretty bad at first but they slowly got better and better. I recommend doing this because that way you not only build a portfolio, but also invest on your knowledge which is wayyy more important on the long run.

    When it comes to tools/games/engines etc. I'd say it just depends on what you wanna aim for with your portfolio. The truly crucial thing at the end of the day is the intent, thought process and presentation. A level that just "looks really kewl" without the right purpose to back it up is just worthless, unfortunately.

    Although if you wanna go for art it's a completely different story, one which I can't give advice on... other than you gonna have to get on the ArtStation rat race haha

    btw you have a portfolio already or are you starting from scratch?

    Design! I used to have alot of unfinished work. I never did feel that what i did was "perfect" so when i finished something i never felt it was as i had envisioned it from the start. Either that or poor game-play (it was mostly Counter-Strike maps at the end).

    So sadly, i have to start from scratch. Somehow it feels good also, getting a fresh start. I guess my old work would qualify as the "cringy school projects" in my own eyes. I want to do things "right" and at the same time, a good job. I don't want to complete a level and feel that i wasn't completely sure if i did things correct. Backtracking is time-consuming :)