wacko

I am getting wet over the fact the game is done

If anyone wants to play let me know... I have a little bit of free time

So i got all those who PMed me on the list and they should get invites soon.

Those who want a key just PM me your Battle.net account email and I will get you a key

Fixed today and the Map Editor is now live

all I can say is soon.

Indeed, This is largely due to a profile corruption issue that is already fixed but has yet to be deployed.

He will send more if you send him a naked picture of yourself... I did and he gave me 2 keys

lol I feel bad for Peris... getting all these PMs

yeah he's on the same team as me! Man work is great, even better than I expected. I really hope to see more mapcore people at blizzard in the future . Irvine is very boring though, it really is corporationtown USA. I think I'll get a car in a while and move somewhere nicer, maybe close to the beach =). boring is an understatement... there is nothing to do past 9 :/

Its true he gets the 80's lounge and the tiki bar...

lets make a mapcore doodad

I would not even say 99.9% of them fail but most people who work on indie companies came from the likes of places like blizzard and they at least have an understanding of what the industry has to offer and what it takes to make a game. I mean sure not every gaming company is awesome but a lot of them are. I do think if your going to comment on the company you should at least work for them or have worked for them or even better had a job in the industry; because you really do not know what your talking about until then. I think you find anyone who works in the industry is crazy passionate about their company and their products and for you to sit there and say well the company sucks because they don't innovate or they just release the same product over and over... is really a slap in the face because you know nothing about it and these people make huge sacrifices to their lives and families for your entertainment and not because they give a shit about what you say.. but because they love it and they want to make something awesome. I would agree with Furyo if you would question working at a company like Blizzard or Valve etc... then you should likely look somewhere else for a job because your not the type of person the industry wants.

are you serious? and if yes, care to elaborate? LOL... innovation LOL it takes more than innovation to make a good game. Sure I am bias since I work there but I think the reason is successful is because they make good games. If you think the gaming industry is full of innovation then you are an idiot. The gaming industry is one of the least innovative industries out there, companies are often just rehacking what other companies do but as i said it takes more than that to make a good game. Once again I think your just jealous... go get a job in the industry before you make comments on it

haha this is news to me! And yeah I'll be on the new mmo team, so that should be interesting . I'll be moving to the US first of february, can't wait! yea that part of the building is nice... on the same floor I am... then again maybe that is not a good thing

I look forward to his working here... I think Sentura is just jealous Knowing what Pericolos0 would likely be working on, I think he has a great op to work with some really awesome people and on an awesome title. Plus he gets to work in the part of the building that has 2 bars LOL

YAY Bram

Hey all I have some free Pet codes for the pets recently released on the Blizzard store. If you would like one of these awesome pets plz send me a msg This is for the US only sorry EU folks

its a total hack though and one that I think is just lame... So you have to create a 3rd party app that listens on a TCP port and then inside the game/mod you create a TCPLink to talk to the 3rd party app LOL I mean thats a total hack. Unreal supports save and loading I do not see why they could not have abstracted that to unrealscript. That is the major issue I have with the UE3 engine is they give you this scripting lang and there are things you can't do with it because epic said hmm this would be too slow in script so lets make it all in native code but not expose what we are doing in native code to the user which is what they did here for saving and loading of games.

the UDK is like modding UT3, I mean there is some stuff you do not get, server browser for online multiplayer games, which was built using gamespy for UT3. Saving and loading data was removed, but overall I think whats there is enough for you to be able to make most games. Unrealscript is not OMG awesome but it does the job, and you can do most things it. Overall its a quick way to ramp up a title but there again you are limited by unrealscript which can be a pain but in most cases is enough.

Cool! Congrats! Say hello to Ellen from me Skdr what will be your role?

out of curiousity, which code changes are we speaking here? anything you could disclose? I guess you have never read his blog before because he talks about what he does all the time which would give you insight into what he is talking about.

So I am going to ask why are you teaching a course you know little or nothing about ? Also is the course more about engine design or graphics programming ?

I look forward to this game myself, the playable at Blizzcon was pretty awesome.

well as the panel mentioned, it uses "Tile Sets" in that you have a set of textures, but you essentially paint your terrain on, which was not the case for wc3, its supports alpha blended terrain like many other terrain editors, you can also raise and lower the height like a normal terrain editor, as well as use cliffs like you could in wc3