Comments on: Club SILO, Driving Sim Eye Candy

By: moumou

moumou — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 19:05:06 +0000

merci

By: UglyMike

UglyMike — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 15:37:32 +0000

Just saw the game video. Wow, this really blew me away!! I had no idea that the GameBlender had come so far… Sure, nice for simple things like tetris, frogger and rolling marbles. Indeed, most content shown in the Games forum on BlenderArtists is rather amateurish (not all, but this others tend to be simpler in scope) however, this SILO game seems to take it to a whole other dimension!
If you pull this off (ie a complete game with different levels, AI opponents, scoring and such) kudo's to you! Blender will start getting noticed on the game scene(maybe not by ID, but hey…)
My favorite GameBlender demo/game till now was the old TRONTANK by John Nillson (http://www.flexiblefront.com/trontank/) which had a proffesional finish to it although limited in scope.

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 11:40:31 +0000

Awesome!

I didnt think blenders game engine could churn out those sort of graphics…

keep up the good work is all i can say!

By: Haggis

Haggis — Sun, 02 Jul 2006 10:32:10 +0000

Impressive… most impressive. [/vader]

I can't wait to see what people come up with in the coming months, as everyone jumps on the post-2.42 Blender Game Engine bandwagon. Didn't I read somewhere that OGRE was going to be integrated into the engine to handle rendering? Things are looking good for us OS junkies.

@Luma, seeing as you're reading this (which is great): Far be it from be to say what your game should look like, but IMHO the realistic car models don't jibe well with the track design. I've yet to see a Subaru do a loop-de-loop! Maybe more futuristic-looking vehicles would work well? More artistic licence, and you get away with more gravity-defying stuff before it looks wrong. Just my $0.02!

By: epat

epat — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 22:12:29 +0000

cooo-oool!!!

it won't run on my tacky old computer of course; but I'm hoping to get a new one soon - though I've been saying that for ages *lol*; and I can't decide what hardware to get! Still, this might be just the thing that makes me decide…

-epat.

By: Luma

Luma — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 11:05:50 +0000

WOW! Thanks for the interest!

We really are trying hard to get this thing to work well.
Thanks to all the people involved in the 2.42 release.

http://www.luma.co.za

By: 3DGURU

3DGURU — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 11:05:45 +0000

yes , because blender can ! …. this will be the game that will change the world ….

3DGURU

By: Mantar

Mantar — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 20:45:44 +0000

The speed looks pretty playable on the demo video. A little choppy here and there, but video recording+playing at the same time can often cause some framerate loss even with fast games. The upcoming release's new GE is supposed to have pretty good performance, but this game is still working with an early build, and there are bound to be areas where improvements could be made.

By: buergi

buergi — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 15:50:56 +0000

WTF is this? THIS is blender? WOW that is more than awesome! It really almost looks like NFS BUT it's done in Blender GE. If it's open source i can't wait to see the blenderfiles.
But i got one question: Is it as fast as other racing simultion games? Because what performance concerns blender's ge is not the best, isn't it?

By: lox_federico

lox_federico — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 00:24:14 +0000

@Robin & Kayde:

At the time of writing there's still no info about which licence type the game will be released under, sorry. So we don't know actually if this will be a really good commercial product or an amazing FOSS game.