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[BorisTheBrave]

I know I'm new here, but how are you guys getting so excited over some screenshots, a name and some vague hints? All I see is a muddy brown room with pixelated textures that even I could have knocked up. The fact it's a custom ray caster is neat, and I applaud making one for the pedagogical reasons, but it's not like that magically makes a game better in some way (except in RAW INDIE CRED, obviously).

Or is it just excitement that Terry & increpare are making a game, and therefore awesome? It's hard to tell.

[increpare]

The fact it's a custom ray caster is neat

It's not one we've built from scratch; we're taking an open-source one as a starting point (Terry has made several significant modifications to it already).

[skaldicpoet9]

I know I'm new here, but how are you guys getting so excited over some screenshots, a name and some vague hints?

I think it is the prospect of a 3D indie game which are somewhat rare coupled with the fact that it will be a 3D adventure game. That's just how I feel though, I don't know about everyone else.

[FishyBoy]

I'm somewhere in between on the interest level.

Why something being 3D in the indie community is fantastic compared to being 3D in the industry is boring and generic is sort of lost on me.

On the other hand...

The atmosphere, especially with things like this,

looks incredibly creepy and awesome.

[Nate Kling]

Im interested in seeing what kind of game you guys can pull off.  As for the excitement, its good to build up lots of excitement and encouragement for the devs, and i think it helps build the community as well.  I like seeing excitement over all the new games coming out of tigsource.

[Loren Schmidt]

I know I'm new here, but how are you guys getting so excited over some screenshots, a name and some vague hints? All I see is a muddy brown room with pixelated textures that even I could have knocked up. The fact it's a custom ray caster is neat, and I applaud making one for the pedagogical reasons, but it's not like that magically makes a game better in some way (except in RAW INDIE CRED, obviously).

Or is it just excitement that Terry & increpare are making a game, and therefore awesome? It's hard to tell.

Personally, my interest in this project stems from the demos that came out of increpare and Terry's first work with this raycaster. I really like seeing these in motion- the download is in the first post if anyone missed it. I've always been interested in the idea of a game that used a real-time raycaster, and this is the first I've seen. Also judging by work these two have done in the past, I think the currently mysterious gameplay and narrative parts of the project will be more important than the visuals in the end.

I also think it's important to be supportive of one another, like little happy bees. Wait, was that corny? I meant hornets. Yes, angry but mutually supportive hornets.

[skaldicpoet9]

Why something being 3D in the indie community is fantastic compared to being 3D in the industry is boring and generic is sort of lost on me.

I didn't mean that at all. I meant that it is just interesting to see a 3D adventure game coming out of the indie community (not that that hasn't happened just that it is usually a rarity). I am more intrigued as you said by the atmosphere of the screenshots. The scant details that have been provided allow my mind to wander wildly as to what the game will entail as well...

[William Broom]

Why something being 3D in the indie community is fantastic compared to being 3D in the industry is boring and generic is sort of lost on me.

Well, 3D first-person games in the mainstream industry are the norm. So an indie will avoid this and make a sidescrolling metroidvania instead. However, within the indie community, the sidescroller is the norm. So if an indie makes a 3D first-person game, he has out-indied the indies. It's a double-indie.

However, you have just gone against those in this thread, who are going against the indie community at large, who are going against the mainstream games industry (who are going against the traditional media establishment). You are the SUPER INDIE!

[Corpus]

Looks awesome! I love the fact that you guys are meeting up in real life, building an indie empire in Dublin

[increpare]

Looks awesome! I love the fact that you guys are meeting up in real life, building an indie empire in Dublin

heh.

We had our second day at it today.  Got a reasonable amount done.  The project is going to take longer than either of us maybe initially thought (though it's blessedly limited in size...more a matter of the details taking longer to work out than anticipated).

[JLJac]

Why is it that even if you double the time you think is reasonable for a project to take it still doubles that time one more time, so that everything takes four times the time that you estimated... Ah, you get what I mean

Btw, this looks really nice. Have you thought of adding a weak noise filter and maybe some darkness in the corners of the screen?

[muku]

I'm really looking forward to what you will come up with. A Terry/increpare cooperation, how can that not be good.

Also I request the inevitable gamma slider; the screenshots are fine on my laptop, but on my CRT I can hardly see anything.

[Terry]

Why is it that even if you double the time you think is reasonable for a project to take it still doubles that time one more time, so that everything takes four times the time that you estimated... Ah, you get what I mean

It's so true

Btw, this looks really nice. Have you thought of adding a weak noise filter and maybe some darkness in the corners of the screen?

Thanks! Actually, we did a whole load of messing around with filters the last day - we had a staticy effect that looked pretty good that we considered using for the whole game... but right now though it's not that clear how we're going to incorporate all or any of the rendermode experiments into the actual narrative we've got going without it all feeling a bit tacked on (The original idea is that there were a lot of different areas that had a different feeling, i.e. different lighting, different rendermodes, different filters and all that)

I'm really looking forward to what you will come up with. A Terry/increpare cooperation, how can that not be good.

Also I request the inevitable gamma slider; the screenshots are fine on my laptop, but on my CRT I can hardly see anything.

Ohh, good idea, will try to keep that in mind

[Terry]

We're both making a big, final push to finish Judith this weekend! Give out to us if we don't!

[FishyBoy]

We're both making a big, final push to finish Judith this weekend! Give out to us if we don't!

That's awesome! I can't wait to play it, it looks intriguingly creepy!

You are the SUPER INDIE!

HUZZAH 

[Problem Machine]

Eagerly anticipating, I've been digging through you guys' old projects and I'm interested to see what a collaboration will bring.

[increpare]

I had a session with Terry on this tonight.  We're just finished now.



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[muku]

That was... fucking creepy.

I just wanted to go to bed, then I saw you posted this. I felt compelled to finish it in one sitting. An excellent piece of interactive storytelling (even if I'll probably have troubles going to sleep now). I enjoyed how the "archaeological" style of storytelling was intertwined with a first-hand retelling. At first it was a bit difficult to tell apart who was who, but I caught on quickly enough. At any rate, I take it we're not supposed to come to any specific conclusions, but rather find our own interpretation?

It's a bit of a pity that all those rendermode experiments didn't go into the game, but in the end you're right that it would have felt tacked on. The atmosphere is very immersive as it is, so I'm not complaining. Good use of music, by the way.

Also this must the the first game in this raycasting style I've seen that wasn't a dumb shooter. It's interesting how certain styles of visuals are so rigidly linked to modes of gameplay in our minds, and I applaud you for doing something completely different within this framework. Was Gravity Bone a part of the inspiration for doing this?

[FishyBoy]

Really cool and atmospheric.

Movement was weird, though. Kind of felt myself wanting to know more, but I suppose that's the point.

[Melly]

Quite beautifully creepy.