Hawken (the game)

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Bloody impressive

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zm7gEDhrPfk[/ame]

wait a minute... Hawken? LOL

Bal

No, not the polycount user.

Big mechs jumping around shooting rockets in awesome sci-fi cities indie game!

http://www.youtube.com/user/AdhesiveGamesLTD#p/a/u/0/Zm7gEDhrPfk

Looks great, I want, discuss.

Bal

Oh bastard, you beat my thread by 2 minutes, hah (guess you can delete mine, at least you integrated the youtube vid right, heh).

Yeah this game looks amazing!

CheeseOnToast

Looks really nice. Any idea which engine it's on?

c0ldhands

Nothing to discuss, just balls out awesome. Im just wondering how nobody came out with this idea before. Also, I wanna know more about the artists behind the game, who they are, any portfolios/ previous work?

Adam Curtis

They have really nailed the sense of scale in those environments. Beautiful stuff.

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Yes you have to be fast on polycount. I don't have the power to delete GD stuff, so maybe we'll see a thread merge happening soon.

This game could teach Gundam a thing or two.

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c0ldhands wrote: »

Im just wondering how nobody came out with this idea before.

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Stinger88

Looks gorgeous. reminds me of Phantom Crash.

c0ldhands

hawken wrote: »

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Was sarcastic about that hawken.

Purplepaint

:O mech game count me in.

hawken wrote: »

This game could teach Gundam a thing or two.

Blasphemy! Although i do prefer Knightmares from Code Geass more now :P

d1ver

The guys are from LA, California. And there I was thinking it must be some Japanese or Korean dudes. The environments are downright boner inducing. Really solid art direction and scale is definitely spot on. I'd definitely like to see more.

fearian

Saw this on RPS, looks sweet!

HAL

Hmmm this looks nice, environments, mechs and those massive scale skyboxes look goregous!

bounchfx

wow. that looks like my kind of game! do want!

Jeremy Wright

Just saw this on Twitter.

CAN'T WAIT

rooster

awesome! altho, i was really hoping at the start of the trailer for a singleplayer game with story.. looks like a beautiful world to be immersed in.

almost a shame imo that its a fps multiplayer

Joshua Stubbles

Hot damn. Go indies! The environments and mechs look spectacular. Some of the particles looked a bit wonky but that's minor.

Mark Dygert

Love it...

Reminds me of Armored Core but way more impressive. If they smooth out some of the animations and get some 2ndary motion on the legs when they're flying I think I'll love it all the more.

Zpanzer

Impressive work, just saw it of the UDK facebook feed. That environment is just super super sweet, lacks some AA though

EarthQuake

d1ver wrote: »

The guys are from LA, California. And there I was thinking it must be some Japanese or Korean dudes. The environments are downright boner inducing. Really solid art direction and scale is definitely spot on. I'd definitely like to see more.

I think there might be one or two Korean/Japanese dudes in LA =P

aesir

Those mechs have a pretty strange design to them. A lot of smooth parts where I wouldn't expect it.

Very cool overall atmosphere to the game. I like missiles.

Jeremy Wright

The Mechs have a Kazuhisa Kondo or Makoto Kobayashi feel to them.

Andreas

That looked lovely till the weightless animations were shown, but Im sure thats just WIP animation.

Snader

Looks pretty sweet, though I have a bit of mixed feelings towards some parts of the environment. The first shot of the video looks really awesome and future-dank-urban, but the second shot feels a bit too greebly. I'm assuming that's just because it's still in heavy development, though.

Anyone got an idea/image of what the player P.O.V. is like? This footage looks like it's done with spectator cams only.

Cyrael

This looks awesome.. Reminds me of Virtual on... oh Virtual on, how i miss thee.

Skamberin

Visually it reminds me of Killzone 2-3, just with less bloom blurry lensflare glare all over the screen as a postprocess to hide low res textures and shadows, this looks waaaaaay better. The animations need work of course as do the particle effects but i'll be damned if that isn't some hot shit.
Amazing what you can do with UDK. I seriously thought they were some Ex-Guerilla game folk with the engine until I saw the UDK logo :P

gauss

I was going to say, to me looks like the first crop of what we can hopefully expect more of from UDK. Really looking great.

VPrime

Wow, looks amazing... The cockpit view at the end was pretty exciting, I love when a mech game gives you an awes,e cockpit n

Mask_Salesman

Kickass, Lovin the cockpit. That alone is a good enough reason to hook up a Steel Battalion Controller lol.

Drav

Lovely lovely. 9 months work? These guys can be very proud of themselves. As mentioned, bar some in flight animation issues this is very polished indeed. Lets hope its as fun to play as look at. Extra thumbs up to the concept/enviro team, these are some outstandingly well realised futuristic cities. Do I smell some stefan morrell here?

Slave_zero

This looks lovely. the city is just damn impressive. Lighting really kicks. What really pisses me of is the reaction by some people on common game forums. While a few people really appreciate the look and quality of the game I've seen quite a few comments who really brag about quality here. And they don't mean animation or lack of sound. They cry about mediocre quality.
I don't get this people. I mean sure most of them don't know shit about grafics and how its created and some are just some trolls that bitch about everything but anyway how can you not see the quality those guys are delivering.
Especially when you consider that this is an indie development with 9 months of work. I think it's incredible.

Edit:
And what I'm also asking my self. I reall enjoy this style and I'm impressed by the quality. But if a certain part of the target audience is really not appreciating this (I hope this part isn't the majority) where do they expect us to go.
Are some people really that used to brown-grey dusty middle east military scenarios that they disapprove everything else what delivers abit of visual freshness.
Browsing comments on game forums leaves me cluesless for who we are working for.

Drav

Oh man Im not even going to look.....

achmedthesnake

I have to say, it looks beautiful (the enivronment and the meks)- I'd buy it as it is...

minor crits are smoothing between animation states (walking transitioning into jumping etc..)

Jungsik

the buildings were amazingly done...cant wait..and yea the mechs had this weird...stall between their jump and when they were flying or was it a video issue idk but overall i would buy it

moof

looks like tribes, but mechs, and in cities.

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luke wrote: »

hah googleing your self hawken then you came across this?

googling myself only brings up tobacco and guns

May change my name to Turok

ae.

Game looks amazing, the only that i didn't like was the animation which needs some work.

in cockpit view is boner inducing!

Hazardous

Man this thing spread like wildfire today. looks freakin amazing. thumbs where flyin up all around the art team here today.

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sprunghunt

I have to say that this demo looks amazing. The style is perfectly executed.

Anuxinamoon

The environments look amazing. The little horizontal lines against the larger vertical haphazard structures. I'm drooling, again. Dammit!

Props to the artists and Art Director. Very impressive!

c0ldhands

At last a game with decent cockpit graphics thats not a flight/car simulator Tanks for the screenshot "hawken", been starring at it all morning...

Snefer

Fucking love it.

Shiv

Awesome, reminds me (as others have said) of phantom crash

dtschultz

Those environments are top notch. I'm not sure about the game, but I love the look.

Jeremy Wright

AWESOME! That cockpit is perfect.

[Deleted User]

the animations are probably fine

http://www.hawkengame.com/blog/ wrote:

Yes, there is choppiness in the mech locations in the video, it’s because it was captured in slow motion with a spectator camera from demos recorded from network games. Actual network play looks fine.

HitmonInfinity

There's a nice article on Kotaku about the studio. Seems like a great group of guys.

http://kotaku.com/#!5780912/nine-guys-giant-mechs-and-2011s-sexiest-indie-game

moof

From reading the kotaku article I just like these guys.

Mark Dygert

'post-apocalyptic Hello Kitty' awesome.