Posts by Sentura

  • Team Arguments

    personally i think 3d games are easier to do than 2d unless you have an engine optimized for 2d (such as flixel or similar). i'd much rather just have 3d environments then make the camera just avoid one dimension entirely. it creates a few problems along the way (such as players not being visible at all times), but these are neglible compared to how fast you can get this up and running.

    there are also some 2d frameworks for unity out there that look good and simple, though i can't say i've ever tried them out.

    like i said before, unity is very good for scripting and prototyping in C#, probably the best one can ask for - especially as a designer. however, without tools like probuilder you'll be hard pressed to get 3d environments working in a manageable way. if you choose UDK you'd have to do the entire scripting in kismet, but the editor would be built in and everything would be workable out of the box. unity is completely barebone out of the box, by contrast.

  • Team Arguments

    i recognize this discussion. it's not one i've had with anyone, but it's definitely one i've had in my head lining out the pros and cons. i've used both engines professionally. i'll flat out say that scripting in unity may be the best thing ever, provided you don't need someone to hold your hand (as in kismet). it gets better as creating new editor features are as easy as knowing C#. UDK has a built in FBX export which can export for unity. it's not the most optional, especially for prototyping 3d spaces fast, but it works. probuilder is a great alternative at the very least for blocking out and playtesting fast. at best one can really do some cool stuff with it.

    UDK isn't bad either, but speaking from a professional UE3 perspective, it might be going overboard for a smaller game. UDK literally has the power to do everything, but in this it becomes very feature creepy and may be too hard to manage for a smaller team. i don't know how it is with UE4, all i have heard is that they've made it easier. this may shed some light: http://www.unrealengine.com/udk/

    finally, sort of echoing everyone else: focus on the game, focus on the gameplay, focus on the driving power of the game. you might start with unity then find out through prototyping that UDK is the better alternative. once you know what you're really going to make the game about and the scope of it, the choice will seem more obvious

  • Man of Steel (Superman)

    it's shaping up a bit better, still not entire convinced since this is SUPERMAN AKA THE MOST BORING SUPERHERO EVER, but it's definitely a better direction

    more grit, more kryptonite, more weaknesses plox and this might actually take off

  • Oculus Rift

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    The future of gaming

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    nextgen combat simulator

  • Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon

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    Ok, if the gameplay is similar to FC3 - should I play this instead? I haven't played FC3.

    FC3 is pretty good in my eyes. I know others would disagree on the story, but it is well told and the character development is amazing.

  • The Real Problem with Metacritic - Sessler views

    http://kotaku.com/me...games-472462218

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    There’s the story of the mocked mock reviewer, for example. Some background: game publishers and developers often hire consultants or game critics to come into their offices, play early copies of games, and write up mock reviews that predict how those games will perform on Metacritic. Often, if possible, publishers and developers will make changes to their games based on what those mock reviews say. Mock reviewers are then ethically prohibited from writing consumer reviews of that game, as they have taken money from the publisher.One developer–a high-ranking studio employee who we’ll call Ed–told me he hired someone to write a mock review, then threw that review in the shredder. Ed didn’t care what was inside. He just wanted to make sure the reviewer–a notoriously fickle scorer–couldn’t review his studio’s game. Ed knew that by eliminating at least that one potentially-negative review score from contention, he could skew the Metascore higher. Checkmate.