The Greentooth Awards After a brief 20 years of being a community, we here at Polycount are pleased to kick off this year's year-end community awards. We last awarded trophies for 2016, but then we skipped a year, because we'll just say 2017 was a bit odd. Har har. We want to take a moment and celebrate the people,…
Insomniac Games is an independent videogame developer that has released award-winning hits for PlayStation and PlayStation 2 for 12 years. We created the first three Spyro the Dragon games and the Ratchet & Clank franchise, which have combined to sell over 20 million copies worldwide and have won dozens of awards.…
You know what I've loved the most about this contest? It was a reminder of the old days, where Polycount was based around the PPM - plugin player model - for the Quakes and Half-Life. It's been a nice ride and I hope we can do it again some time. And with that, we now have just under 11 hours left in the Team Fortress 2:…
@ Paul, thanks for the speedy crit man. Very much appreciated! About breaking up the mid piece, I think I will for sure add some detail in the HP on top. Hopefully the detail from t he normal maps as well as the emissives break it up enough. I think it will. I also might toy with a subtly tiling sci-fi type texture that…
Thanks for your responses. It really gave me some valuable input. It's interesting that most of you favored designs that I wasn't satisfied with. But it shows how different things can be judged. So your responses made it even harder for me to decide what to go for. As most were not in favor of the one I was about to pick.…
We here at Polycount are pleased to announce our first ever year end community awards: The Greentooth Awards After a brief 19 years of being a community, we've decided that we're finally ready to have a set of yearly awards. We want to take a moment and celebrate the people, studios, games and tools that we all love as a…
Welcome to our 5th monthly unofficial Dota 2 workshop friendly competition This month we decided to go for old guys on the workshop, the ones that received a a good amount of items last year and got almost forgotten after that by the workshop reddit decided for us and here is the FIVE heroes we are going to work this month…
Cold Bodies Cold Bodies is a survival, open-world FPS featuring CO-OP and Singleplayer with AI Bots. This game will have a crafting system, which permits you to craft useful items to help you survive. A Day and Night cycle, with a Dynamic Watch system so you know the in-game time. An amazing bullet check system to help you…
Hey Everyone. So I'm working on a presentation to present at a local convention like anime, sci-fi, games, an overall general convention of entertainment. I wanted to give a presentation at one of them about being a Game Developer and Animator for those who have an interest in the Game Industry. The audience would range…
Hey everyone! The small team over at Bohica Studios, http://www.bohicastudios.com, has finally come out of hiding and is looking to expand operations for preproduction on the UT2k7 total conversion "Talon 1-5." We currently have eight highly dedicated and ambitious developers and are looking to recruit a new generation of…