Friday 2010-02-12 VIDEO and Discussion Thread

[luthier]

DISCLAIMER: THIS IS SO WORK IN PROGRESS IT'S NOT EVEN FUNNY

For today's update, we have a little TV spot about Battle of Britain from a TV show about video game peripherals that run on the Russia Today channel last week.

They were mostly interested in the TrackIR, so we gave them a little demo of our 6DOF implementation.

The TV crew caught us at just about the worst time imaginable. We were making big changes to our terrain engine. The crew came on very short notice. The day they told us they were coming, we started replacing terrain placeholders with final features. It was a tedious procedure that took several days.

We couldn't hold back development for Russia Today, and we couldn't reschedule their visit. So, on the day of the shooting, long story short, we only had half the game in working condition to show them. The other half... Well, see for yourself.

Nevertheless, we hope you will find this clip interesting. If anything, it'll give you a taste of what our development environment is really like, and all the iterations our games go through before they're good and ready.

Now, where's my asbestos suit?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xoz1Kb2wkPE

[Blackdog_kt]

Oh man, this will be good. Thanks a lot people

[Tbag]

Thanks Ilya! Can I have a closeup of your dektop?

[Flyby]

thanks Luthier! I've taken to wearing a drool bib on Fridays. The work on SoW looks amazing.
Flyby out
PS I'm glad to hear the bit about (basically) BoP being cool and all, but the team is focusing on the PC because it's all about "processing power", and "the real action is on computers". Bodes good for the continuation of the the flight sim genre, imo.
PhysX FM and DM anyone?

[Snuff_Pidgeon]

of course

[luthier]

Originally Posted by Tbag

Thanks Ilya! Can I have a closeup of your dektop?

That's not even my desk. They found the one desk in our office that could be shot from multiple angles, and had me swap out with its rightful owner, move my old clunker of a PC there, all my devices, etc.

If you mean my computer desktop, there's nothing fun there. I keep it extra clean.

[Tbag]

I meant the Stuka screenshot!

[zapatista]

thanks for posting a new video update !

good news the terrain placeholders are now being replaced with final features

no signs of final textures in that video yet, right ? or maybe in the 1e section of the vid where you are flying at medium altitude ? because shortly after that the scenery becomes very cartoonish !

sounds like we are a step closer to getting a beta version up and running !

[Foo'bar]

...real action is still on computers!

Amen.

[luthier]

Originally Posted by Tbag

I meant the Stuka screenshot!

Oh I just paused the game.