I look forward to reading/watching your presentation and tour sometime. Please email Bart once you’ve have that info up!

Yeah – 2.5′s realtime feedback from the editor – if this is what you are refering to – will help a lot of artists.

Cheers for the quick reply and good luck with future ventures!!

To answer your questions:

1. Why, funny you mention this…I’ll be submitting a presentation proposal for Blender Conference 2009 later tonight ;)
2. Once again, funny you mention this, and once again Blender Conference ;) Suffice to say, we will definitely be providing some polished tours and resources about our production pipeline and business solutions at a later date.
3. I unfortunately didn’t handle any of the coding side of things, so I couldn’t tell you much about SIO2. As for Blender, I love it! The one tool I really yearned for is thankfully coming in Blender 2.5. I am a poor hand at coding, but in college when I used Maya, I nonetheless picked up much of the basics of MELscripting just by seeing what got spat back at me in their macro recorder. I had wanted for some time to learn Python using the same method so I could learn how to make quick automation tools, but haven’t been able to. Luckily, it’s shown off in the newest Blender 2.5 tour!

I know that for now these are totally cop-out answers or NDA related :p But I hope they help, and expect more information on Prophetic Sky’s processes in weeks to come.

And great to read from you Oscar!!

This really is a ‘profesional game’ – in appearance and game play.

It’s very very inspiring to see a company, especially partly formed by ex MS employees, use Blender as a core game pipeline too!

It advertises Blender to other game developers and motivates people like myself who work in related media and have been planning to start developing a commerical game in the future.

I’m very appreciative, and I’m sure everyone else here is, of your contribution to this forum and in progressing the use of Blender.

Thanks for sharing your knowledge about the polygon rendering limits of the iphone. It’s this kind of information that really helps a new team save a lot of time and money by making better informed development decisions!

Would you please be able to answer the following questions?

1. Have you thought about sharing more development information? I know time is money, and knowledge is power (sometimes it seems we should protect what we have had to learn the hard and expensive way ourselves), but as you are already using a free tool – Blender – that has been contributed to by many many hours of free work from others…
>>>Would your team consider open sourcing some of your development knowledge?
Perhaps not everything – so no one can immediately jump in and make a copy-cat game – but just the basics on integrating Blender into your pipeline, for example, working with Blender and SIO2?
There was a recent post on this forum by a flash game team who blogged on their game page with some information on the development process.
This reciprocal sharing – you get to use Blender for free and contribute back at least 1 blog page on developing some basic parts of your game with Blender etc, would really increase your ‘cool’ in this community, increase your site traffic, and potentially get you more customers at least from curious developers!

2. Has your team looked at using Blender for developing games for other platforms? If so, which platforms? (Have you checked out http://www.dperry.com/archives/news/dp_blog/gaikai_-_video/ and looked at potentially developing for this platform?)

3. What are the good/bad things your team has found working with Blender and SIO2 and what could be improved?

Just 3 questions – sorry for the long desciption of number 1.

We look forward to your reply!

And thanks again.