What happens when a rocket-propelled mouse hits an elephant? Is the elephant scared or just a bit distracted? Can you see an assassin jump from the shadows? He leaps through the air towards the unaware victim and his mother calls on his mobile phone. What then? Yup, these are things you think about when you make games. If…
Hi! I'm new to polycount and this is my first post...~ (side note... I am amazed at how good everyone is. Hope I'll learn a lot from you all) I recently started working on my portfolio after having graduated and my first non-school project is a 3d character fanart of Witch Princess from Harvest Moon DS, for instance these…
2D TRADITIONAL ANIMATION STUDIOS Hi, to help all you 2D free lance guys working in the UK I have made this list for you. I have no idea how many of these company links are dead until we look them up. If you can add the hyperlinks some time that would be great and I will up date the first post. Little update for you. Attack…
Yeah I did the same and left, I tried the same approach and if you approach it know nothing or expecting anything about Thief, then it's an ok game, otherwise they completely missed the mark on everything bar a few things that I did like that added some immersion. Like you say the constant hand-holding and directed flow of…
The principle you are talking about is integral to the majority of games produced on the market today whether that be AAA stuff or right down to DS games. Its really important to reuse as many assetts as you can, thats both textures and models and you will find pretty much every studio does it in some form or another.…
Pokemon prompted me to Pirate DS games for a while since I didn't want to pay another +$30 to get essentially the same game. Some of the R4 hacks were also extremely convenient for breeding, infinite TMs, and so forth. Not to mention I could have all my games in one cartridge. But the 3DS DRM is/was much tougher to crack…
I started a thread about this not too long ago. Didn't have much luck unfortunately. http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=77764 There appears to be one or two guys out there claiming to have an app built ready in Unity, but they want to sell the code for publishing I think. I did find one that's on the app…
On photoshop being in gammaspace and not linearspace The easiest test is to create an image with every other pixel being black and white, then put what photoshop says is 50% grey (127,127,127) beside it. Notice what photoshop says is "halfway" between white and black is actually WAY darker than the image with every other…
Well, that's just insisting on minor points though. There are so many games now that don't even charge you a box fee. You download the entire game for free, play it for free, and pay them if you feel like it (and want to experience their locked content). I mean, this isn't anything new. I've had Shareware literally shared…
PC gaming is dying in the same way Nintendo is dying in the home console market: It's not going away, not meeting total annihilation but it becomes insignificant. More and more games that would usually have gone to the PC are now console-only, very few quality games still reach the platform and variety is decreasing. The…