Hopefully this hasn't been posted already, I didn't have time to go through the xbox one thread and it seemed more relevant here. A study was recently done on the used game market in Japan suggesting that a publishers could expect to see their profits decline by 10% if the used game market were eliminated. Another article…
I think things like this are a sign of a dysfunctional society. Banning guns might help slightly but it wont get to the root of the problem. In spite of events like this though, crime in the USA has declined. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/24/us/24crime.html Its kind of surprising and baffling. I reckon its normalisation…
No, it's not. Most games aren't optimized for SLI yet, so you get only moderate frame rate boosts for the extra money you're spending. Instead of getting two 6600gts in SLI for example, you should get a 7900gt. Check out this page for an example: http://www.tomshardware.com/2005/05/24/vga_charts_vi/page8.html Two 6800gts…
Awesomness thread I made a blog post about this shader on my wordpress, linked this thread I used the Auxpecker maps ! They are awesome ! You need to check them http://zellersamuel.wordpress.com/2010/05/07/improve-your-3ds-max-viewport-qualit/ I wonder if you could extract images from the Zbrush matcaps ? (zmt files) that…
I wasn't really thinking about the technical side more the gameplay but that certainly has value. http://higherorderfun.com/blog/2012/05/20/the-guide-to-implementing-2d-platformers/ ^ Things like that for example. (thanks to razorb) I could link dump all day. (gameplay discussion like;) [ame="…
Hey guys, Unfortunately free time isn't my best friend lately, so I didn't quite finish all things I wanted to do. My biggest regret is not shattering the ice into little pieces at the end... but such is life :) Here is my final entry: Final Update#05: * Added Buildup + Release * Impact polish * Added tiny snow splats *…
Dell 2002 (my machine from college...) P4 2.40GHz 512.00 MB RAM :( NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT 23-inch Samsung HDTV something I won at GDC '05 from Microsoft Creative SB Live! Speakers I bought from a lady at a gas station for $20 bucks 10 years ago Saitek keyboard $10 Logitech mouse 6 x 8 Wacom
Just take a look at some N64 / PS1 / PC games from that era. Very polygonal, with most of the detail coming from low res color textures. http://www.gamegoldies.org/old_game_files/2009/05/unreal-1-screenshot-yard.jpg http://www.blogcdn.com/news.bigdownload.com/media/2009/04/1999feature99.jpg…
Only got a couple of hours this evening but got a thatch roof material a good way. Still a bit WIP think it needs more work to define the individual strands as at the moment doesn't read well with colour. Would really welcome some feedback on this material especially as it is still fairly simple and early stages. I was…