So, it's just fine to make horrible films, as long as you intended to make horrible films? It is unfair for me to criticize a creative effort just because it lived up to what the creator expected it to be? YES! Do you want me to admit that I'm an intellectual snob? That I genuinely believe my opinion is more relevant than…
I totally feel for you when it comes to lacking time, it bothers me too and I'm not nearly as busy as you are. And I'll be honest with you in that I don't quite know if having an online portfolio of short games is a way to get hired; I certainly haven't heard of it, and there is a massive difference in attitude between the…
It sounds like you talked to the same guy I did at Pax. He basically said the same thing. I think pointing out that as game developers, we work on the same consumer hardware as the end user would be prudent to making our case. They seem to want to combine us into the CAD/CAM and realtime simulation camp. We are not. If…
THE TEXTS & FONTS USED Alright, earlier on I did mentioned I used some text as finishing touches in the weapon finish. Here's the 2 i used. This is created using a Font Family named "Still Time Regular" created by Raymond Larabie. Source: http://www.1001fonts.com/still-time-font.html In fact, I liked his fonts which are…
Yes CCP spent a lot of time developing that system for the game, however, what happened was the player base became very vocal against CCP spending so much time on this rather unnecessary component to the game, rather than spending that same time either adding new meaningful content or fixing content that had been having…
The tool set to me does seem to speed up the process of some things. I mean, yeah, I agree that it all depends on the artist and their abilities to make the game actually work and look great, but would it be wrong to assume that some back end things might be taken care of a lot easier with an engine designed specifically…
Among other things that video likely inspired and led to the development of programs like LightTable, Nightmod, and Apple's new programming language Swift. There are actually quite a few other "live coding" environments such as Extempore, Overtone and Sonic Pi for performing music and CG visuals with code (I think Sonic Pi…
fx work: Cascade. Indie/Unity games generate very little money compared to AAA games, and for AAA games, they often use UE4 or their own engines. You can't do stuff using all sorts of propreitary engines, so Cascade for UE4 is probably the best portfolio-creating tool to use. If you want to make non-trivial money, learn…
Immersion is always vital to enjoyment in my opinion. I don't read a book that doesn't immerse me, watch tv show, or a movie. Why would I play a game that doesn't immerse me? At the same time no one said a damn thing about photo realism except you. Immersive graphics can be in any art style. At the same time, almost all…
Thanks for the feedbacks guys. I'll have to do some testing to see if I can come up with a transparency like poop suggested as its the best suggestion that can fit with what I had in mind. The blackops character is kind of "blinding" now that I look at it again so I appreciate those suggestions. Also Chris ; the color…