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General discussion (archive)Wolfire gives Euphoria a run for their money!(10 posts)(10 posts)
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Posted January 19, 2011
We tend to hear about how games developers invests heavily in animation these days, and for a good reason - while games nowadays look nearly on par with big budget pre-rendered hollywood CGI, the animation of characters in games still lags far behind. Developers pay a lot for third-party help from the likes of Euphoria or Havoc to help make their games look more lifelike.

Enter Wolfire, a comperably small, gamer-founded indie developer that has been hammering away on their next game, Overgrowth, for the past couple of years. For the past few months, they have been releasing weekly alpha-videos, to show the progress. This week, they demonstrate an early version of a new animation system that looks set to give far more expensive mainstream projects a real run for their money. Sure, it's new, still a bit wet behind the ears, but I think that makes it all the more fantastic to behold.

You can see it here. And don't forget, this will only get better over time.
Posted January 20, 2011
Sorry for being off-topic here, I just could not help but notice that Wolfire logo is quite similar (like a mirror) to Wolvix, a GNU/Linux distro, logo.

Wolfire logo: http://blog.wolfire.com/2010/06/Evolution-of-the-Wolfire-Logo

Wolvix logo: http://wolvix.org/img/wolvix_logo.png
http://wolvix.org/index.php

Just an observation. Again, sorry for being off-topic.
Posted January 20, 2011
I love that guy's blog. He is seriously a cool dude and he (and whoever else is involved over there) really love what they do.
Posted January 20, 2011
Why is it I never hear about the awesome stuff until years after it comes out? o.o

I musts have this Lugaru game. I hope it's okay if I imagine I'm part of the Long Patrol while I play. (9/10 people reading this sentence will have no clue what I'm talking about).
Posted January 20, 2011
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Runehamster: I musts have this Lugaru game. I hope it's okay if I imagine I'm part of the Long Patrol while I play. (9/10 people reading this sentence will have no clue what I'm talking about).
I am the 1/10 that loves you right now.
Posted January 20, 2011
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Runehamster: I hope it's okay if I imagine I'm part of the Long Patrol while I play.
EEEEULALIA!!
Posted January 20, 2011
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Runehamster: Why is it I never hear about the awesome stuff until years after it comes out? o.o

I musts have this Lugaru game. I hope it's okay if I imagine I'm part of the Long Patrol while I play. (9/10 people reading this sentence will have no clue what I'm talking about).
I doubt that, it was part of the first Humble Indie Bundle, freaking ninja rabbits, man. That game was hard and I sucked at it. Fun though, and blazing fast, seemingly deep combat (I really didn't practice it enough to assess it fully, like I said I was bad).
Post edited January 20, 2011 by orcishgamer
Posted January 20, 2011
Is it weird that I imagined most of the hares in those books sounding like Hugh Laurie? English idiot Hugh Laurie, not grumpy American doctor Hugh Laurie that is.
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Runehamster: Why is it I never hear about the awesome stuff until years after it comes out? o.o

I musts have this Lugaru game. I hope it's okay if I imagine I'm part of the Long Patrol while I play. (9/10 people reading this sentence will have no clue what I'm talking about).
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orcishgamer: I doubt that, it was part of the first Humble Indie Bundle, freaking ninja rabbits, man. That game was hard and I sucked at it. Fun though, and blazing fast, seemingly deep combat (I really didn't practice it enough to assess it fully, like I said I was bad).
You doubt what exactly?

EDIT: That sounded very accusatory, sorry. I'm just confused by your post.
Post edited January 20, 2011 by eyeball226
Posted January 20, 2011
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orcishgamer: I doubt that, it was part of the first Humble Indie Bundle, freaking ninja rabbits, man. That game was hard and I sucked at it. Fun though, and blazing fast, seemingly deep combat (I really didn't practice it enough to assess it fully, like I said I was bad).
Yeah, sadly the difficulty killed that game for me. I do enjoy a challenge, but not that much of one.
Posted January 20, 2011
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eyeball226: Is it weird that I imagined most of the hares in those books sounding like Hugh Laurie? English idiot Hugh Laurie, not grumpy American doctor Hugh Laurie that is.
Nope, that sounds about right xD
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