GooBall progress

[NicholasFrancis]

Hi Guys

Just a quick note on what has been transpiring with GooBall the past couple 'o months....


We've been publisher shopping - nothing I can really talk about, other than to say we're 'close'...

We've been real busy getting levels added. We still have a few to go (to say the least ;-), but they're quick to assemble.

We made the game be twice as fast, by ditching Python & moving to C#. Love that language.

Then lots of pixelshaders, and other stuff... Some images below for your browsing pleasure...

The GooBall is now the proud owner of a shadow & refraction effects
http://www.otee.dk/images/gooball1.jpg

And we got glow in:
http://www.otee.dk/images/gooball2.jpg

Then we added a water world:
http://www.otee.dk/images/gooball3.jpg

'Till next time...

[codemattic]

puuurdy!

[Steven]

Is it just me or all the images broken links?

[OneSadCookie]

it's just you, steven :)

I'm'a have to agree, purdy :)

Those shader parameters -- is there some kind of metainformation stored with the Cg files that tells it which attributes are editable, and what kind of widget is most appropriate to edit them with?

[Steven]

Odd, they work now. Maybe their server went down. And yeah it does look cool!

[blobbo]

Wow, this looks terrific. Estimated price? What are the minimum specs?

[skyhawk]

Wow, this looks terrific. Estimated price? What are the minimum specs?
the engine scales the graphics to match your computer. so it will run on most computers.

also, a question about Unity: How easy is it to turn on and off FSAA/Anisotropic Filtering for your game?

[NicholasFrancis]

About the parameters:
If a parameter begins with an underscore, we don't show it and you have to set it from code
The type of widget to use is extracted from the type of the variable (float = singe entrty)
The descriptive name is gotten from a comment above. You can force the widget type there

About FSAA / Aniso:
Currently we don't support FSAA. We will when we ship, though. Not sure how to actually set it up, but it'll be sth like:
Application.antiAlias = true;

You set the Aniso level per texture. I'm considering changing this to some sort of global setting, as nobody can really be bothered. Possibly just a 'texture quality' slider that goes Bilinear->Trilinear->Aniso... Then we have a global parameter which gets addded to the value.

[NicholasFrancis]

Estimated price: 20-25$
Minimum specs: G3 iBook with a radeon card (although that is not so nice, it IS playable)
Recommended specs: 800MHz with a Geforce3+ or Radeon 9000+

Of course, a anything above that just makes it look better & better.

[Danlab]

nice to see a really nice game, i hope you go to sell well

have fun
Dan

[skyhawk]

http://ambrosiasw.com/news/upcoming/

[quartex]

Congratulations on being picked up by Ambrosia! Everyone on the Ambrosia Boards is really excited. It looks like an awesome game!

[blobbo]

OneSadCookie: Now what was that you were ranting about the other day - about how AmbrosiaSW didn't publish any good games anymore?

/me gloats...

[OneSadCookie]

Well, it looks like Ambrosia have got themselves a good deal here. I only hope that Gooball doesn't go the way of the other games Ambrosia have "picked up" ;)

[Danlab]

Well, it looks like Ambrosia have got themselves a good deal here. I only hope that Gooball doesn't go the way of the other games Ambrosia have "picked up" ;)

i was thinking the same thing but OSC say it ;-)