DeleD Community Edition

[Vijchti]

http://www.gamevideos.com/video/id/9866

*gasp*
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"Psst, Here's a secret...Your last mortal thought will be,
'Why did I take so many days - just like today - for granted?'"

[Daaark]

I can't watch past 5:15 for some reason.

But big deal. It's just graphics. Show me new gameplay. It's still Quake with dynamic shadows until then. We solved the graphics problem like 10 years ago.
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[Vijchti]

I suppose I'm a sucker for dynamic lighting, then.

Here's a video showing off actual gameplay. It's cool and all, but I'm always more interested in the level editing software.
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"Psst, Here's a secret...Your last mortal thought will be,
'Why did I take so many days - just like today - for granted?'"

[Daaark]

I watched a lot of the GDC videos. I'm more impressed by innovation rather than things that require expensive upgrades to play the same game over again.

Updating the shadow of a palm tree that got shot down doesn't make the GAME any better. I don't see the reason to get excited that it can render 60 kilometers of water and trees.

Having real 3d clouds instead of a texture map doesn't impress me. The game is about walking around terrain and shooting people who stand there, and shoot directly back at you until they die. How does spending cpu and gpu cycles simulating clouds help that?

The new mario game that flips back and forth from a 2D game to a 3D one looks awesome. That was impressive. Watch that video on the link you posted. It's > *

PS3 HOME impressed the hell out of me. The FREE XBox live killer.

Not saying that stuff looked BAD, but it's overly highend stuff, to render what will end up being mostl likely a simple and a unimpressive game.

GUITAR HERO was innovation.... This new engine is simply a reason to sell new GeForces.
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[Paul-Jan]

As a game player, I agree with Vampyre Dark, but as a developer I'll definitely have to say... *GASP*. If you stop and realize how much work (and math) it is to actually develop a sky system like that, I don't think you have much choice but to be impressed with it.

[TenTerHooK]

...unfreaking believable....

I know graphics doesnt make a game but it doesnt hurt either and it tends to appeal to people to a degree (even those who claim it doesnt make a game).

The thing is that the physics engine in that game does actual effect gameplay! ...so does the voxel editing.

As a game developer I realise caves are a chore to add to terrain in most engines at present.

The one idea that springs to mind for me is a battlefield game with those kind of physics.
Tanks that drive through walls!
Destructible trees!
Atomic bomb effects!
Component destruction on vehicles! (which was actually around since interstate 76 and b4 but you dont see it much as it takes so much effort)

[gearedmah]

OMG...that editor is SOOOOO sweet...that is just ridiculous!! I was actually just starting to wonder if some of the things I have planned for my game were even possible...and this engine proves it can be done!! The day/night shading?? OMG...that alone is sick...caves and overhangs?? Graphics are definately not the be all end all of games, but REALISM is a HUGE part...and God knows that in reality there are caves and overhangs...this editor makes it SO simple...and roads?? Oh man...I gotta have this editor!!
Now whether or not the next FarCry will be any good?? I don't care...I'm not thinking about what they're doing with it, but rather WHAT I COULD DO WITH IT!! ha ha ha...

[rogue72]

suprise to see pople knocking games that actually push the envolope rather
than just reuse it, this engine surely is a leap forward comapared to the same old tech4
& unreal 2 engine games were currently flooded with

and comparing this level creation tool with such are unreal-ed or hammer
(ie level tool distributed with games) surely no comparasion

and yeah FPS isnt anything new, can you name the last inovative (PC) game

how about
manic miner +/-1982 started the platform genre
wolfenstien +/- 1992 started the fps genre
(lemmings possibly as a puzzler)

guiatr hero ?, just doing what ddr did 10 years ago on ps1

arnt they the only 2 origanal game ever then?

[jwatte]

Personally, I see games as stories. I want to experience the story. I think immersive technologies (not the company :-) help a lot with that, be it 6.1 surround sound or high-end graphics or controller vibration. Compare movies: there are some really innovative movies at times, but most of the time, the movie structure is quite well known. That doesn't make the story in the movies, told in those structures, less valuable.

(Btw: boo-hiss on PS/3; I didn't know the sixaxis didn't have vibrate when I bought for of them half a year ago, and now I'll have to buy another four -- at 50 bucks a pop. Eek! Maybe I'll just buy all my games on the Xbox instead. But that's off topic :-)

[Daaark]

[rogue72]

I defo agree on the story , one of my favs is the halflife 2 & ep's

the story to that beats most movie plot hands down

[Starnick]

[Jeroen]

[Nocturn]

[Jeroen]

Ha, I'm not talking about the Ultima series actually! I'm talking about Ultima Underworld 1 & 2. These games stand apart from the Ultima series, which I haven't played so I don't know how good they are.