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Blackthorne519 · #26 Post by **Blackthorne519** » Tue May 24, 2005 12:48 am

navynuke04 wrote:
Alias wrote:BT, have you eve thought of making a 3D game but with hand blended/painted graphics? To give it that smooth and artistsic feel. ;)
Have you ever been to the Himalaya Studios website to look at screenshots?

Love the backgrounds; ain't too crazy about the Al Emmo sprite, actually.

Bt

Alias · #27 Post by **Alias** » Tue May 24, 2005 4:53 pm

navynuke04 wrote:
Alias wrote:BT, have you eve thought of making a 3D game but with hand blended/painted graphics? To give it that smooth and artistsic feel. ;)
Have you ever been to the Himalaya Studios website to look at screenshots?

Of course. They arent 3D backgrounds though just sprites.

BT> Your just picky. :p

Blackthorne519 · #28 Post by **Blackthorne519** » Tue May 24, 2005 6:05 pm

Alias wrote: BT> Your just picky. :p

Perhaps; I just don't like the 3-D look of him, though I love his design. I understand why they 3D modled him, for time reasons perhaps - maybe some pixel editing of the actual frames of animation would help get rid of that "rendered" look I loathe.

Bt

#29 Post by **Erpy** » Wed May 25, 2005 5:25 pm

Actually, the reason was most likely because 3D animations are often a lot smoother than 2D animations. In 320x200, you can get away with a lot animation wise without the player seeing things skipping. As resolution increases, more frames are required to keep animations smooth.

Alias · #30 Post by **Alias** » Wed May 25, 2005 7:47 pm

Makes me wander why people wouldent make a hi-res VGA game?

Wizard · #31 Post by **Wizard** » Wed May 25, 2005 8:11 pm

Is this gonna be like the old king's quests in gameplay or is it gonna be like 8(*shudder)?

adeyke · #32 Post by **adeyke** » Wed May 25, 2005 8:51 pm

a hi-res VGA game

Heh.

Alias · #33 Post by **Alias** » Thu May 26, 2005 7:06 am

Adeyke, still know how to form complete sentences? Please explain your comment.

Gronagor · #34 Post by **Gronagor** » Thu May 26, 2005 7:16 am

He probably means that it would be 4 times the work (if 640x480... even more for 800x600)

Alias · #35 Post by **Alias** » Thu May 26, 2005 7:27 am

And he thinks I dont know that? A friend of mine does VGS-like screen at a very large resolution and it ends up looking a thousand times better than your average 320x200 game.

Gronagor · #36 Post by **Gronagor** » Thu May 26, 2005 7:34 am

Alias... I don't think he was laughing at you.
It was probably the thought of creating QfG2VGA in hi-res. Scary thought indeed.

#37 Post by **Erpy** » Thu May 26, 2005 8:28 am

QFG2VGA in hi-res...would be interesting, although a pain to work on. A 640x400-game with lots of animation like Al Emmo is already so large that it takes AGS about 20 minutes to load the project and about 10 minutes to save/compile it. (not quicksave)

If QFG2VGA would be hi-res too, it'd be about 1.5 gig uncompressed at least. (due to the large amount of animations in there)

Fribbi · #38 Post by **Fribbi** » Thu May 26, 2005 11:01 am

Since they can't sell it on Cd's Why not then try to give it out as a special bonus with a hotdogs's package wich are sold in all foodmarket or let it be included on some magazines or books. I mean lots of computer magazine has always included free demo cd as a special bonus gift so I think they should try it out to give out free cd's on something like that. At least that is what I am going to do when my game will be compleated. But of course since my game will have original story I think I ask for some % of it. I just can't afford to pay for website for my 15 mb game. And well if it will be bigger than that. I can never host it up on the Internet in the future.
Of course I can ask Angelus about hosting my game but I am not sure if he really can do it for me. I just don't want to put big pressure on him.

adeyke · #39 Post by **adeyke** » Thu May 26, 2005 1:23 pm

VGA is, per definition, not high-res. If you want 256 colours, you're limited to 320x200. So saying you want a "hi-res VGA game" would be like saying you want a "colourful monochrome game." I thought the irony of that statement was clear enough.

Blackthorne519 · #40 Post by **Blackthorne519** » Thu May 26, 2005 2:39 pm

adeyke wrote:VGA is, per definition, not high-res. If you want 256 colours, you're limited to 320x200. So saying you want a "hi-res VGA game" would be like saying you want a "colourful monochrome game." I thought the irony of that statement was clear enough.

As did I; most didn't need clarification on that one. It was, perhaps to say, an oxymoron.

Bt

Alias · #41 Post by **Alias** » Thu May 26, 2005 3:03 pm

Let me rephrase it to make ya'll happy then.

''Makes me wonder why people wouldent make a hi-res VGA-style true colour game?

MusicallyInspired · #42 Post by **MusicallyInspired** » Thu May 26, 2005 4:16 pm

I think the proper term would be Super VGA Game, since VGA, by definition, means 320x200 or 320x240 only.

Vildern · #43 Post by **Vildern** » Thu May 26, 2005 6:15 pm

Iirc, there was a whole thread, an interesting one, about "VGA" and "SVGA" a long while ago. It would be nice if someone could fish it.

Da_elf · #44 Post by **Da_elf** » Thu May 26, 2005 8:34 pm

this is the problem i found with my project. i was trying to design it at 640x480 however im seeing that AGS isnt structured well enough for it. ill just rescale everything i do down to 320x240 to fit the usual VGA style

FatherGhostface · #45 Post by **FatherGhostface** » Fri May 27, 2005 11:47 pm

I just though you'd all like to know they have new Screenshots....OH WELL!!

Yonkey · #46 Post by **Yonkey** » Mon May 30, 2005 4:40 am

Thanks for great feedback on the screenshots everyone!

Wizard wrote:Is this gonna be like the old king's quests in gameplay or is it gonna be like 8(*shudder)?

It will be just like the old KQ games in terms of gameplay since it'll be a screen-to-screen adventure game, but at the same time it won't be like any of the previous KQ games because it's 3D.

It's also different from Mask of Eternity which was a 3D action-adventure game. KQIX is a 3D screen-to-screen 3rd person adventure game.

koko992001 · #47 Post by **koko992001** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 5:20 pm

The Yoneilkey has spoken ;)

Da_elf · #48 Post by **Da_elf** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 5:29 pm

kinda like mine

Blackthorne519 · #49 Post by **Blackthorne519** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 6:41 pm

Yonkey wrote:Thanks for great feedback on the screenshots everyone!

Wizard wrote:Is this gonna be like the old king's quests in gameplay or is it gonna be like 8(*shudder)?
It will be just like the old KQ games in terms of gameplay since it'll be a screen-to-screen adventure game, but at the same time it won't be like any of the previous KQ games because it's 3D.

It's also different from Mask of Eternity which was a 3D action-adventure game. KQIX is a 3D screen-to-screen 3rd person adventure game.

Regardless, I think it will be very cool!

Bt

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