Posts by marque_pierre

  • drawings

    Hi Silver,

    Time spent drawing is never spent in vain. About the first one (Pain), a thing a lot of people get wrong is that they don't leave enough room for the skull. If you draw a horizontal line across a face roughly at the middle of the human face, that line would be around the eyes. Which means if you feel there is something wrong with this guy's face, then it is because he needs way more forehead.

    Keep it up!

  • Sad? No! Slightly obsessed? Perhaps...

    Guys, I didn't come to kick anybody's balls. And I am not a fanboy for any particular sportsteam or games console manufacturer. I am a gamer's gamer, and I am proud of it.

    I don't mind taking style cues from the Italians, they usually know what they are talking about. I remember in Rome, guys when dressing up would wear a funky dress suit along with their favourite football shirt underneath. Super slick both casual and classy style. For sure it beats the hell out of football shirt and jeans, which seems to be the favourite dress code in the UK.

    At any rate, next time I will be walking a red carpet at some ceremony or party with publicity, that will be my attire. I believe it is possible to show your geeky loyalties and look cool at the same time. Will anybody care? So what, I do it for my own self respect. One day people will care, and I will be prepared.

    Pericoloso: I don't understand? Relocating or working for a big games company. Why would that be a problem? My family just comes along if that is what you are refering to. My wife has lived in 3 different countries, my children are trilingual and have 2 different nationalities, why would moving to another country even be an obstacle?

  • Sad? No! Slightly obsessed? Perhaps...

    He is not. Take Jason Rubin for example. But we need more still.

    I mean, when I rode snowboards, I never had any trouble telling people what I did for a living. In fact I was always looking forward to that question. Nowadays, what I have come to expect from people is that confused and disappointed feeling. To the general public we are more associated with cop killing prostitute abusing criminals from GTA or high school shootings than all the marvellous good times we give people all over the world. It is sad. But I refuse to give in, I refuse to not be proud of being a games developer. It is the only way...

    If you have no idea what I am talking about, please treat yourself to an Aha! moment here: http://%7boption%7d

  • Sad? No! Slightly obsessed? Perhaps...

    Quote from MrH2o

    And how many girlfriends did you said you had ?

    I am happily married to a stunningly beautiful woman, thank you very much!

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    And I resent that implication. Why can't you be nuts about games and still be rockingly cool? Would you think that of someone who collected Jean Paul Gaultier suits or Picasso paintings? Guys, in this industry we seem to suffer from a collective inferiority complex, but wake up and smell the high score guys, we are fast on our way to becoming the largest and most dominant entertainment sector in the world. That is power. That is sexy. That is cool. We should carry ourselves with that pride; Believe that that pride carries through, not just in geek circles, but also everywhere else! If we don't nobody will!

  • Great animation tutorial in Develop

    They DO ship global. But then you have to pay a bit. When I lived back in Denmark, I made a deal with the subscription manager, so you can press the price a bit. I guess you Yanks can get GamesDeveloper freely, and this is what you get likewise in the UK. The magazine is a lot different from GDMag though, but I personally feel out of the loop without either of them.

  • Great animation tutorial in Develop

    If you don't already read Develop magazine (a monthly for European games developers http://%7boption%7d ) get a copy of the latest issue.

    There is a great tutorial article on embedding bodylanguage into character animation. Essentially to make animation support storytelling and gameplay better in games, but the tips are useful for any kind of animation. I seem to remember Christiaan Moleman/Ninja Dodo showing off WIPs on CG Talk a while ago when he was carrying out the research/project...

    Anyway, well worth your time.

  • New XBox 360 screens?

    Quote from Kosmo

    They are fucking up the whole industry and people just smile and give them their money to fuck it up some more, what is this?

    Well, don't! I never gave them any money, for that very reason. Vote with your feet. Money talks, bullshit walks...

  • Online distribution

    I am very much a box in the hands kinda guy. But this is too important I think. At the end of the day, this is just one of hopefully many distribution channels of the future; To have online distribution exclusively would not make sense...

  • Online distribution

    I so badly want that change of power everybody is talking about. Developers not being completely at the publishers mercy. Online distribution is one of the holy grails people are hoping for. Do anybody here have experience with it?

    I bought my HL2 from a webshop in a box and all. But I have made the decision that from now on (even though I am very much a box on the shelf kind of person), I will buy things through online distribution if at all possible. I know of Direct2Drive from the IGN/Gamespy network and I have just bought a few games from them - they are downloading as we speak.

    Are there any other similar initiatives out there, apart from Steam?