Oct 1. 2008 - Quick Status Update

Published October 02, 2008
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Hey guys...the game is 99% artwork complete, 90-95% code complete.

I still have to get the car physics working as well as I want...I'm tired of wrestling with the raycast PhysX vehicles...I'll be working ona true rigid body simulation of the vehicles in the next week....the implementation will be very similar to what I was doing with Newton Physics. I loved how my Newton cars would slide, loose traction, burnout, sway around corners...they were so realistic compared to these raycast approximations.

I'm also working on a lot of optimizations in terms of the physics, it looks like I'll have to partition the static physics world to get the kind of results I want [ performance wise ] ...

I also have to re-do a lot of the multiplayer, to the new specs, and re-work and implement some of the gameplay elements that I had in there.

Overall I'm very confident that the game will end up being a much better product than it would have been if I pulled the trigger a year ago, before I re-did all the artwork etc.

Stay tuned for more updates....

P.S. I'm also playing around with a real-time camera in the Radioactive-Software control center. Game development action broadcast straight to your eye/ear holes 24/7. I give you... The Dan Cam. lol. [ errrr it doesnt work in firefox, i'll fix that later xD ]

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Aardvajk
Awesome. And what a very comfy looking chair you have.
October 03, 2008 07:37 AM
nolongerhere
You were quite humorous when I was watching you and a rap song came on..
October 03, 2008 01:32 PM
dgreen02
Quote:Original post by Falling Sky
You were quite humorous when I was watching you and a rap song came on..



Lol. Wu Tang Clan 4 Life. *does some arbitrary gang related hand signal*

I've got a few clips I'm just looping now until I get around to fixing the firefox compatibility etc...

I gotta focus on the vehicle physics :-o Hopefully I can get some cool game development related clips discussing design and showing the end result and I can talk while showing the game clips...I dunno that might be interesting.
October 03, 2008 02:01 PM
caffeineaddict
This reminds me of Antitrust, watch out for any thugs with bats :-P
October 03, 2008 02:05 PM
Moss
Booo for it not working in Firefox :(
Have you thought about using services like Ustream, YLive, or Justin.tv?
All of these offer live streaming for free and do work fine in firefox :P
Just thought I'd mention these so you can focus on the game rather than programming a live streaming site.

Anyway, keep up the great work on this game. Can't wait to get my hands on it.
October 03, 2008 02:58 PM
dgreen02
Quote:Original post by Moss
Booo for it not working in Firefox :(
Have you thought about using services like Ustream, YLive, or Justin.tv?
All of these offer live streaming for free and do work fine in firefox :P
Just thought I'd mention these so you can focus on the game rather than programming a live streaming site.

Anyway, keep up the great work on this game. Can't wait to get my hands on it.


Awesome, thanks for the suggestions! Right now i'm just using windows media encoder...it was trivial to setup and is easy to use :-D I was looking around for some better solutions and all of the ones you mentioned are new to me, I appreciate it.

Orrrr if somebody knows how to get an embedded windows media player to function in firefox or Safari ( even possible? )...I searched around for a bit, but like you said I've got a lot of other things to focus on lol, this is just a little joke/side thing Im doing.
October 03, 2008 04:27 PM
ildave1
This is a surprisingly interesting, and possibly disturbing, cam feed...

Well, if anything, I got a diverse music station to listen too.

*thumbs up*

You almost need one more cam so viewers can tell when you're programming, surfing the web, or sniffing around porn sites.
October 03, 2008 09:22 PM
dgreen02
Quote:Original post by ildave1
You almost need one more cam so viewers can tell when you're programming, surfing the web, or sniffing around porn sites.


I can do all 3 at once while watching TV. :-o

October 03, 2008 11:31 PM
brandonman
Epic. Makes me wonder what I look like ;)
October 04, 2008 01:34 AM
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