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OptimusShr: Mar 1, 2008

Kairo posted:

Hey dudes, here's what those shots look like in motion (thanks for posting them, Alehkhs):

More stuff on the way, working on map mode for the solar system.

I need to change my pants now.

# ? Feb 2, 2014 18:29

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# ? Jun 1, 2024 23:43

Rabhadh: Aug 26, 2007

Last night I actually thought about buying a joystick while watching the stream.

edit: :awesome:

Rabhadh fucked around with this message at 20:41 on Feb 2, 2014

# ? Feb 2, 2014 20:38

TychoCelchuuu: Jan 2, 2012; This space for Rent.

There was a stream last night? Twitch didn't even email me.

# ? Feb 2, 2014 20:42

Rabhadh: Aug 26, 2007

No I was watching an old one.

# ? Feb 2, 2014 20:56

Willie Tomg: Feb 2, 2006

mad.radhu posted:

(i'm well aware of nonavailability, this is a subtle hint to monetize the video game)

It's not a game right now, is the thing, and Kairo is seriously ultra-loving cool for recognizing that in an industry where charging money for blatantly unfinished product is increasingly a fine and totally okay thing to do because the demographic of "gamers" generally has such poor impulse control they make IRL drug addicts look like Mormon missionaries.

If anyone wants to help this game they should tell their friends, and tell their friends to tell their friends because that kind of word of mouth is GOLD for small time indie media types like Kairo. If anyone ITT does not have friends, well, there's a thing to work on until such time as Enemy Starfighter reaches a feature-locked beta when I'm sure it'll get monetized to everyone's satisfaction because holy poo poo have you seen this game? for real. the clouds. the shimmer on the universe during jump drive effects. gently caress.

Willie Tomg fucked around with this message at 21:31 on Feb 2, 2014

# ? Feb 2, 2014 21:22

Fishstick: Jul 9, 2005; Does not require preheating

Just saw the dev stream, and holy poo poo when can I throw money at you?

As visibility goes, I would also recommend at least watermarking the twitter gifs for easy sharing.

# ? Feb 3, 2014 00:11

Supraluminal: Feb 17, 2012

I don't really like the way the clouds look. They seem very atmospheric (as in occurring in atmosphere) rather than nebulous (as in a nebula). I will say they look better when scaled up; the effect is most noticeable on the small, puffy ones.

I also think I might prefer the flat gradient background color to the more mottled look? That one is a lot more subtle, though, and very hard to judge from these small images.

These are fairly minor complaints, though! I love everything else I've seen of the aesthetics.

# ? Feb 3, 2014 00:35

Bubbacub: Apr 17, 2001

Yeah, I was actually also going to post that I prefer the smooth background. I like the cleaner look and it helps the sense of scale when background detail is left more to the imagination.

# ? Feb 3, 2014 20:13

Dessel: Feb 21, 2011

I was searching for the Freespace thread and stumbled across this one again and saw the developer stream :asoiaf:

This game has no right whatsoever to look this god drat good and appearing to do everything just so... right? It's something I could imagine having a fever dream of: an unholy offspring of Homeworld and FreeSpace 2, waking up and being disappointed it doesn't exist.

# ? Feb 3, 2014 21:54

Alehkhs: Oct 6, 2010; The Sorrow of Poets

@tipul posted:

Still playing with the curves, but sun shafts are awesome.

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@tipul posted:

Solar System Map > Local Map > Cockpit. Had a bug in the transition code all weekend. JUST squashed it. Now to tweak.

# ? Feb 3, 2014 22:20

turn off the TV: Aug 4, 2010; moderately annoying

Alehkhs posted:

Yeah the backgrounds are cool.

# ? Feb 3, 2014 23:14

Banano: Jan 10, 2005; Soiled Meat

Kairo posted:

Hey dudes, here's what those shots look like in motion (thanks for posting them, Alehkhs):

More stuff on the way, working on map mode for the solar system.

Christ alive. Why must you torture us like this?

# ? Feb 3, 2014 23:38

mashed: Jul 27, 2004

Why do I keep watching these streams when they only make me want to play this game more. :unsmith:

# ? Feb 4, 2014 00:11

Orv: May 4, 2011

Ugh this game is basically visual heroin. Gotta get that next gif.

# ? Feb 4, 2014 01:19

Galaga Galaxian: Apr 23, 2009; What a childish tactic!
Don't you think you should put more thought into your battleplan?!

Forget gifs, its been too long since I've had a stream. I'm getting the shakes!

# ? Feb 4, 2014 01:22

Back Hack: Jan 17, 2010

Galaga Galaxian posted:

Forget gifs, its been too long since I've had a stream. I'm getting the shakes!

Here, this should hold you over.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vE-ojMQuNM&list=PLqf-rK8ZumztC1ZgbnCvxFQLfe3ERswgK

# ? Feb 4, 2014 01:41

HiroProtagonist: May 7, 2007

Adagio for Strings still gives me chills.

"We are away." :frogbon:

# ? Feb 4, 2014 04:46

MrYenko: Jun 18, 2012; #2 isn't ALWAYS bad...

HiroProtagonist posted:

Adagio for Strings still gives me chills.

"We are away."

Coming back to Kharak from the Khar-Selim was the first moment in a video game that ever made me tear up.

# ? Feb 4, 2014 04:55

I Greyhound: Apr 22, 2008; MusicKrew Dawn Patrol

Alehkhs posted:

Those are some fine-looking crepuscular rays.

# ? Feb 4, 2014 05:09

doctorfrog: Mar 14, 2007; Great.

Given that we are going to be playing Super Bad Jerks in Space, it'd be an interesting kick if it ended in us destroying an analog to the protagonists in Homeworld.

# ? Feb 4, 2014 05:23

mad.radhu: Jan 8, 2006; Fun Shoe

this thread is making me reinstall Homeworld 1 which is somewhat tricky to do on Windows 7 apparently

# ? Feb 4, 2014 06:08

powderific: May 13, 2004; Grimey Drawer

I got it working fine in 7 and 8 after a bit of futzing around. Once you get it to load up it seems to work fine (at least for me).

# ? Feb 4, 2014 06:18

Kiavahr: Oct 17, 2013; Outrageous Lumpwad

What is the method of planetary extermination preferred by the Penitent Crusade, anyway? It wouldn't happen to be something like Low Orbit Atmosphere Deprivation Weapons, would it? Now that'd be an escort mission with a satisfying climax.

# ? Feb 4, 2014 06:23

Entropia: Nov 18, 2012; Can't post for 10 years!

I just found out about this, and now I have a pressing need to get this into my eyeballs. When is this coming out? OP said 2013, but I'm having my doubts as to the veracity of that information.

# ? Feb 4, 2014 14:52

General Battuta: Feb 7, 2011; This is how you communicate with a fellow intelligence: you hurt it, you keep on hurting it, until you can distinguish the posts from the screams.

We don't know. The dev posts here pretty regularly, so presumably he'll tell us once he has a confident estimate. Until then we got more livestreams :allears:

# ? Feb 4, 2014 15:46

TychoCelchuuu: Jan 2, 2012; This space for Rent.

Entropia posted:

I just found out about this, and now I have a pressing need to get this into my eyeballs. When is this coming out? OP said 2013, but I'm having my doubts as to the veracity of that information.

Whoops. Better increment that number...

# ? Feb 4, 2014 16:50

Alehkhs: Oct 6, 2010; The Sorrow of Poets

@tipul posted:

Lots of progress on fleet AI, solar system map, and some material work (Shader Forge for Unity is pretty cool).

# ? Feb 10, 2014 02:39

Sphrin: Apr 13, 2012

MrYenko posted:

Coming back to Kharak from the Khar-Selim was the first moment in a video game that ever made me tear up.

Hah yeah, Homeworld mission 3 and the Dam in Halflife are the 2 big events in video games that have stuck with me since experiencing them.

# ? Feb 11, 2014 01:00

Entropia: Nov 18, 2012; Can't post for 10 years!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPfY1D3O7C8

Dem feels :qq:

Entropia fucked around with this message at 02:10 on Feb 11, 2014

# ? Feb 11, 2014 02:07

mad.radhu: Jan 8, 2006; Fun Shoe

The Homeworld OST on CD that came with the GOTY edition started my love of progressive rock. I was listening to the last track, Yes - Homeworld (The Ladder) when my dad walked past my bedroom. He stopped and asked what I was listening to, and when I told him he gave me the weirdest look. An hour later he came back from the garage with an old turntable and his collection of Yes records.

# ? Feb 11, 2014 05:02

Depressing Box: Jun 27, 2010; Half-price sideshow.

mad.radhu posted:

The Homeworld OST on CD that came with the GOTY edition started my love of progressive rock.

Same here. It's still one of my favorite game end credits.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJkoBNOPvjU

# ? Feb 11, 2014 05:18

Tanith: Jul 17, 2005; _{Alpha, Beta, Gamma cores

Use them, lose them, salvage more

Kick off the next AI war

In the Persean Sector}

I'm still just hoping that Shipbreakers turns out like Ground Control with Homeworld-aesthetics. :ohdear:

This is scratching my need for Freelancer, Flotilla and Freespace.

# ? Feb 11, 2014 06:04

Phrosphor: Feb 25, 2007; Urbanisation

Tanith posted:

I'm still just hoping that Shipbreakers turns out like Ground Control with Homeworld-aesthetics.

This is scratching my need for Freelancer, Flotilla and Freespace.

Ground Control is the bomb, and I am almost certain it is abandonware nowadays and works pretty well on a modern machine. I think you can even upscale the resolution. I was playing it mid last year.

# ? Feb 11, 2014 10:46

Mr Darcy: Feb 8, 2006

Phrosphor posted:

Ground Control is the bomb, and I am almost certain it is abandonware nowadays and works pretty well on a modern machine. I think you can even upscale the resolution. I was playing it mid last year.

You can get GC 1 & 2 (with expansions included I think) for $5.99 each from gog.com.

Mr Darcy fucked around with this message at 14:01 on Feb 11, 2014

# ? Feb 11, 2014 12:42

DatonKallandor: Aug 21, 2009; "I can no longer sit back and allow nationalist shitposting, nationalist indoctrination, nationalist subversion, and the German nationalist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious game balance."

Phrosphor posted:

Ground Control is the bomb, and I am almost certain it is abandonware nowadays and works pretty well on a modern machine. I think you can even upscale the resolution. I was playing it mid last year.

They released GC1 for free a while back. Not GC2 though. And if you don't like fiddling to get it to run, GoG has em both.

# ? Feb 11, 2014 13:43

Kibayasu: Mar 28, 2010

Depressing Box posted:

Same here. It's still one of my favorite game end credits.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJkoBNOPvjU

Huh, since when did could this get uploaded without getting muted? Neat.

# ? Feb 11, 2014 17:15

Tanith: Jul 17, 2005; _{Alpha, Beta, Gamma cores

Use them, lose them, salvage more

Kick off the next AI war

In the Persean Sector}

I just rewatched the credits and plenty of :420:

was apparently involved.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJkoBNOPvjU&t=4m48s
Right on, Relic.

Tanith fucked around with this message at 22:52 on Feb 11, 2014

# ? Feb 11, 2014 22:48

TychoCelchuuu: Jan 2, 2012; This space for Rent.

Since I'm sitting in this thread listening to the embedded video with the Yes song and browsing this blog, I figured I might as well link it in case people like the whole color scheme/Chris Foss aesthetic this game (and Homeworld) have got gong on, since the blog posts a lot of stuff from Foss and similar artists like John Berkey and by people who are inspired by them. Cool stuff if you like spaceships and colors that aren't gray and black and sometimes, if you're lucky, off-white.