dev 018 – economics
traders and banks
we have no singular “server wide per side” auction house. we use a system of traders that offer most goods, either npcs or actual human players. i went through a period where i actually played lots of different mmorpgs. i played on official servers and development ones.
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misc 016 – in game footage
i wanted to take this time to apologize for the lack of in game footage, screenshots of bits and bobs and this and that.. i have made them over the years and i delete that sh@*
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023 – audio
some bits and bobs about audio production and music
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dev 015 – hardware (realtime cg) directx 11
this article discusses a bit of computer graphics, realtime graphics, effects, and hardware evolution. it also talks about our target hardware for the project (not a minimum spec)
totally unrelated.. according to Wow.com, Blizzard is tracking 180,000 bugs.
read http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/opengl-directx,2019.html (OpenGL3 & Directx11)
Ruby, a CG character developed by ATI also see Directx11 Features and ATI Releases new GPU/
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022 – Visual3d.NET Version 5.0
Visual3d.net has released Beta version 0.9.5 (Beta 5.0) over at their site for test and review. The Visual3d engine is really nice (albeit not a full MMO game engine, of course) with a TON of really cool editors (the terrain Editor is cool and supports infinite sized seamless terrains)
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020 – community site code freeze
ive decided the combination of systems we are using for the new official site is stable enough to leave alone and move to the next stage (layout and design). it is using a combination of wordpress mu, buddypress, and bbpress for forums
please go there sign up post forums stuff or whatever.. theres nothing there yet but its a decent starting point
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019 – garbage collection
misc bits and bobs that dont go in other sections
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misc 014 – preproduction takes long time
30 people several years preproduction.. versus just me.. at 5 years preproduction (unpaid self funded) im doing okay indeed
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars:_The_Force_Unleashed
misc 013 – tv after 4 years
i havent played video games (except a run through of gears of war and occasional bouts of world of warcraft) in years.. i havent watched television (except when visiting others) since maybe 1999.. im catching up on what is reality for most.. a bit of everything and special little bits of.. wendy williams, family guy, lots of movies, pawn stars..
aint no future in yo frontin (one of my fav songs.. mc breed)
mmorpg suitable engines – commercial
just a note http://www.trinigy.net (lacking default mmorpg components but seems to be out of indie budget? http://www.trinigy.net
misc 012 – hot ass action
as production slowly stirs and preproduction comes to an end (does it ever end? no) the bar is ever raised higher.. not just because of the new action and effects set pieces that are released, but because of older pieces of interactive art that i may have missed before
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