Models from a psp game - Deadbolt

MartinKDahl · May 2006

Hi!
These models are from a psp game our team was developing, we had contacts presenting the game at E3 but we was unable to get a devkit
(wich we were aiming for) So the game was put on ice.

Thought i'd show some of the models we made for the demo.

sevenfingers · May 2006

that's looking mighty fine. Nice colours and sharp but smooth textures

Shame about putting it on ice.

One Q though, 4x128x128, isn't that kind of...overkill for PSP?

BoBo_the_seal · May 2006

Sorry to hear that. These kick ass! I've done some contract work on PSP and DS and must say its sooooo much fun to work on. Are y'all trying again with a different IP?

- BoBo

b1ll · May 2006

Nice, very Cool style, I realy dig the first Pic!!
sorry it didnt work out tho

benregimbal@hotmail.com

seforin · May 2006

this seems very iron kingdoms to me...Was this based off there mech designs or something?

http://privateerpress.com/WARMACHINE/gallery/miniature_pages/previews/hunter_preview.html

http://privateerpress.com/WARMACHINE/default.php?x=gallery/cygnar

Honolulu_Ninja · May 2006

yes yes, they were totally inspired by warmachine

Some of the mechs were based heavely on their warmachine counterparts. It was a great source of inspiration throughout the project.

Honolulu_Ninja · May 2006

And here is some more.

5x128 for the body in the last one not four and 1x128 for each weapon not two, sorry

poopinmymouth · May 2006

Killer job guys. Sony is nutso for not giving you guys a dev kit. This is better work than most of the published PSP stuff I've seen.

Keep it up, awesome work. Maybe when I visit later this year I'll have to smuggle a devkit in by Samer.

Spoon_of_death · May 2006

Nice work!!! I really like the warmachine style you guys got going there! I think the specs might be a bit too high for a PSP game though...

seforin · May 2006

HA I knew this looked way to familiar, maybe because I have a figuring of a painted guy right next to me. But dude killer job on the models!

hawken · May 2006

couldn't just take a pic of the model? There's more of your nipple in that picture than subject matter related to what you want to say

Junerahe · May 2006

Hahahahahahahhahahahahahaha!!!! OMFG!! The Nipple has a mind of Its own!!

thomasp · May 2006

just be glad that he didn't plant his wang on the table - for size comparisons...

nice models by the way, very "oldskool" texturing style that brings back memories

however personally i would prefer to see the models presented somewhat smaller at their intended resolution. upscaled textures do not look that nice, imo.

MartinKDahl · May 2006

Thanks sevenfingers, bobo, bill, poop, spoon and thomas!

bobo: It was for a student project and since we didnt get the devkit we had to decide if we wanted to continue making the game, with no real guarantee for publishing the game or focusing on portfolio and later on internship. We chose the latter. But it was a great learning progress.

Seforin: Yeah the basic concept is highly influenced by warmachine. Though we expanded on and modified the universe to suit our style

I can post some of our concept if people are interrested

seforin · May 2006

great, just introduced to the site, and someone craked a nipple joke.

I can tell this is going off on a great start

Well in either case, where they any issues with warmachines since the styles are so similar with the 3d models and all?

Honolulu_Ninja · May 2006

Thanks sevenfingers, bobo, bill, poop, seforin, spoon, thomasp and Per128!

Seforin: Don't know, We did'nt get the dev-kit so no game or copyright infringement.
If there would have been a problem we would've changed some features of the design of the mechs.
Most of the mechs in the final game would have been completely original designs, and the Warmachine-universe and the DeadBolt-Universe would have been very different.
Deadbolt would take place in an alternate past were the Roman empire had discovered steampower 2000 years ago.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeolipile

seforin · May 2006

Per128: Thanks,

I think I might make my nip in the next texture I do just for th hell of it....How did a nipple joke follow me online is beyond me

Honolulu_Ninja: Ah ok, I was kinda wondering how they would go about it, Im actually working on a high poly version of one of there characters for my TO-DO list for the upcoming year. I kinda get ideas stuck of cool things I wish to model, but It seems people beat me to it. Maybe if where lucky they might make a ironkingdoms game like they did warhammer 40k stuff. mech + steam = T3h s3xn3ss!

kodde · May 2006

Great stuff guys.
Too bad about the devkit issue.

retleks · May 2006

isn't the dev kit like 4200 dollars? That's really not an unreasonable amount to save up.

CheeseOnToast · May 2006

Nice stuff man...would really like to see those textures displayed unfiltered, for that classic handheld look

KDR_11k · May 2006

retleks: Yeah but the manufacturer won't hand them to everyone who can cough up the money. Usually they want to make sure you're serious about that.

moose · May 2006

these look great, love the look

sucks about its luck.. but the art that went into it is sweet

ebagg · May 2006

Those robots are killer, top notch low poly stuff!!

uk_resistant · Jun 2006

Yeah thats some good stuff.

Im just wondering thought how you came up with the specs for it?

Im doing a games art course and I wanted to do some psp spec models but Had no idea where to beginlooking.

Obviosly i looked up the machines specs but that didnt really make any sense to me!

Cheers

MartinKDahl · Jun 2006

Well a psp is stated to be able to push 50,000 triangles onscreen, unshaded ofcourse. from that take into account the processing power required for textures, basic light, bones or equal for animation, GUI, particles and all other sort of stuff that is essential to a game. Then you make a fair estimate of what you're left with. Ofcourse it depends on what kind of game you're making. For Deadbolt we had the advantage of not having many characters onscreen at once, since it was intented to be a gladiator game. Also the advantage that the level was an arena so we could have all the details, textures tri's visible for the player to see, instead of making intricate levels like in most platform games where you only see a portion of the level at a time.

We used about 50+ textures all in all. and 30,000+ tri's so we borderlined what a psp could push, and that is without taking animation and particles into account.

uk_resistant · Jun 2006

Ah i see. I assume psp can only handly textures up to 128 x 128? Or is that just the way it's been done, just because?

Also do you guys have a website, either for the studio, game or perhaps a university/college page?

I do a games design course in the Uk, so it would be intresting to see what you guys are doing.

tokidokizenzen · Jun 2006

Nice! Good luck to you.

Models from a psp game - Deadbolt

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