Brutal - a source engine mod being developed by Surrogate Interactive with dreams of becoming a full retail project -has had it's showcase uploaded to their website for your viewing pleasure. You can watch the video which also includes a director commentary at http://brutal.surrogateinteractive.com/ "We are looking to…
I downloaded the HD QuickTime video which took an hour or two and it was buggy. I kept getting random blips of a single frame during the whole thing and then at the end the video sped and flashed a bunch of artwork to fast to see then at 21:43 the screen went white for the rest of the commentary. It looks like you have a…
Hey all. Thanks for the great critiques. Yeah, its really annoying the glitches in the videos. I don't know what's causing them. When I export from premiere I'm doing so as uncompressed video and audio and then using SUPER to encode the videos and it seems to randomly botch things up. I sort of gave up as I wanted to get…
The entire fight scene that is shown is simulated. Since the programmer left, we didn't get to the stage of development where we could start working with the ragdolls, but I know its possible. We had a rough version of it working in the Quake 2 engine a few years back, and with what I know of Source, its more than capable.…
Wow thats tough losing your programmer. It looks like your characters are getting close to completion hopefully your game Design/Concept document is just as far if not completed. Your design may not work in the engine yet but it can still work on paper. If you can make a mock sequence of what combat would be like from the…
Hey Pete, you forgot to mention in yer credits one of the concepts was done by Ted Beargeon. Kraylor would still be Goro's step-son without big mean Ted. :D
The game itself looks like it could be interesting. The presentation of it all isn't going to help you much. I like the white guy :) How about some embedded videos? People don't download movies these days. Check out vimeo.com (HD) and you might as well put it on youtube as well. They are extra promotion. Or you can simply…
To me, this looked more like a machinima movie with a few cool animations. With the very obvious human-controlled camera, if I didn't know better, I'd have no idea this was even a game.
Overall, this came out great. I'd only like to crit the presentation itself. When your characters are presented in the video they drop in at a distance. At a time when character focus is important, the emphasis was placed on the environment. This is a common theme on all of the video. While it's great that you gave such…
Ok, so I've gone back over and re-recorded the levels, now flying through them and all four maps are shown in under 3 minutes. http://brutal.surrogateinteractive.com/maps_fast.html Any better or?