Comments on: Commercial Game – Ignite

By: NetOperator Wibby

NetOperator Wibby — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 20:21:23 +0000

This looks very promising and the screenshots look excellent.

@Bmud : Rockstar Games makes a lot of nice banners in their games, plenty of variety there [haven't played Midnight Club, only GTA].

By: Bmud

Bmud — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 01:36:14 +0000

One of the things that sometimes bothers me in racing games is the lack of variety in the banner advertisements that hang around the track. I'm curious what would happen if the community was allowed to get involved to spice things up. At the very least, the signage wouldn't look like it was all made by one person as advertisements usually are. Heck, I'd love to see a BlenderNation ad for that matter.

By: endi

endi — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 15:58:05 +0000

Bruce, the full car list is secret. :)

By: Nikos

Nikos — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 07:58:22 +0000

wow exciting stuff

By: Bruce

Bruce — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 18:07:49 +0000

The screenshots are looking great and I'll be standing in line when it comes out.

Can you tell me what cars you are using for this project?

By: endi

endi — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 18:01:24 +0000

Agile, we need good and fast artists. The speed is important, because we have no many time (small team, small time).

For example I make this: http://etyekfilm.hu/ironsteam/ in 20*8 hours (except the human characters).

By: endi

endi — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 17:59:24 +0000

Cyrr, I think BGE now is good for AAA games! Yes! But the game must be carefully designed. For example: an fps or a tps game with relatively _small_ levels can work in BGE with AAA (nextgen) graphics! So this game must be an story based adventure with some actions, like a Hitman.

But as I read the Blender forums, many Blender users think: "when BGE has many nextgen feature we can make AAA games at home". I dont want to hurt anyone… this is nonsense.

So, again: it is possible to make AAA games with BGE, and _now_. But it dont works with beginners and with a small home team.

Most of the people dont know: using a big engine like Unreal Engine needed many programmers to use the engine. A common Unreal Engine game (like on Xbox360 or on PS3) has very big team, 10-30 programmerse and 20-50 artists etc.

So… I dont want to hurt anyone. :)

By: Agile

Agile — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 17:58:08 +0000

@ endi : How good the artists that you search for must be?

By: endi

endi — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 17:50:21 +0000

My answers from Blenderartists:

Now the BGE is slow. Maybe good programmers can make it better, but we already has own engine that our programmers developed. So we dont use BGE. And as I know if we modify BGE we must publish it as open source. This is not good for a commercial project.
And: we have no experience with BGE.

Another and bigger reason: we cant find good Blender artists. So we must work with 3dsMax users for example. Our engine can read models from 3dsMax and Blender.

By: flagus

flagus — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 13:29:22 +0000

Where you guys have arrived in 7 months time. Thats an awesome achievement. From the screenshots the game seems really nice. All the best for your game.

I did not understood until now why games were not done with the BGE. Thanks Logan for the little explanation.

Trinity5150, I'm also like you. I'm doing more architectural design than anything else. I love to part take in the creation of videogames. If you'll like to begin something, I like to help. I'll check this post for your reponse.

Good Blending to all.