Posts by Zacker

For the past 4-5 months I have been TA on a master degree course(4th year though, so this is not their final project) in Game Development at the IT University of Copenhagen. The students have developed 3d games in groups of 6. All groups, except for Man In The Middle, used the Unreal engine, as that was the officially supported engine for the course. Below is a few vids, the last one is from the XNA group.

The Chronicles of Steel-O Mall:

http://catalog.xna.com/GameDetails.aspx?releaseId=33

The course is a part of the Media Technology and Games degree, which has two lines: Design and Analysis and Technology. The first is about game design and the second about programming which means that the games should not be judged too much on the visuals as there were no real artists.

It looks pretty good.

Damn sad with Zeitguyz, they had quite some talent there and a really promising game in the works. Also I knew most of them personally..:/

What's up with the gravedigging?

http://community.ageofconan.com/wsp/con ... nc_id=2421

Looks pretty similar to WoW?

Congrats Insta!

I was not too impressed. In general it was too fast paced for my taste, I needed some more relaxed moments in order to really be able to enjoy the action scenes.

An a lot of the scenes were way too unrealistic. I usually don't mind crazy stuff, but this was simply just too much in many places.

The ending was kinda boring. Too much alien shit, too much cg and too much romance. The vortex was taken straight out of some tech demo. The wedding was totally useless.

AOC does indeed look like it could very well be the next big MMO! I will most certainly try it out at some point, but that is probably going to be in a few months when the worst rush on the game and the servers has worn off.

Woah that's kickass man! In particular with FF;)

Yeah I think he was pretty honest about the the lack of quality in his work.

Are you talking about mesh smoothing as in subdividing it such as the meshsmooth modifier does? I don't think this feature exists in max, but could indeed be a good idea.

If you are looking for just smoothing the existing polygons however, then the paint deformation relax does the job nicely.

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whut? you are serious? that would be a reason for me to give my employer the finger. i want to do what i want in my spare time.

What? We are allowed to have whatever we want of sparetime projects at IOI! I even have a spare-time job(TA in a Game Development course) which IO is fine with:)

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You are Anakin Skywalker!

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http://www.sandsoffire.com/ take a look at these guys work. They are doing it right.

That was pretty cool indeed.

How can anyone actually be excited about this after Doom 3? That game was one of the most over hyped, over rated and incredible repetitive games ever.

This still looks interesting and I am still loving the lighting model:)

Wow that sounds bad KFS!

Here at IO we are treated in a very fair way. There is crunch at the end of projects but far from to a degree where it's damaging peoples bodies. Outside of the crunchtimes we have a very relaxed schedule.

One thing is for sure, working here is an a lot less stressfull than back when I was trying to both do high school and manage a mod project at the same time. That was some really stressing years and it took it's toll on my physical and mental condition.

As much as this sucks for the people involved, I am afraid that it was badly needed. It should be said that this is not so much about the Warner Bros deal as much as it's about the plan for cutting 25% of the expenses.

We here in IO are going to be mostly untouched and if anything there will be people from Wimbledon moving in here as PR and marketing will now be done more in-house.

The company currently taking care of most of the Warner Bros licensed games is Deadline. They currently have 10 small games in production(with assistance from an outsourcing studio) based on those properties.

Worst looking 3Dmark edition ever. The space scenes are okay, but the rest sucks major balls.

This sounds like great fun guys!