Reality Factory

Really? That hasn't been my experience at all. With the bigger levels at comparable complexity I get better performance with mesh. Weird.

Genre is definately the deciding factor here. There are very few games that use cemera schemes inapropreate to their gameplay and actually pull it off. Metal Arms is a great example of this. (I love that game.) Another good example is Oblivion. Personally, I prefer third person for shooters. Never d...

You get much better performance if you stay away from BSP geometry as much as possible.

The beginnings of a level. http://img512.imageshack.us/img512/6976 ... el1yn9.jpg
I want to make the mushrooms bouncy, so I'm thinking a gravlift triggered only when you touch em'.

Looks sweet. How many polys is the alien?

It's the enimies that are going to do the dying though. Not the player. That shouldn't be as difficult as a scripted player, right?

Alright, I'm no scripter so I come seeking guidence. What I want to do is have alternate death animations depending on what killed the pawn. For example, if the pawn is killed by a regular attack, it'll just fall back and die. But if it is killed by poison it might fall to it's knees, puke and then ...

The more tools of distruction, the better. Duke Nukem would agree.

Those are some excillent observations. Sph!nx, listen to this guy, he knows what he's talking about.

Thanks
I should be able to get some more work done after the weekend and perhaps have a few more screens shortly after.

You could take the Zelda aproach. Like where you just hear a character say a simple greeting like "Hey" and then the rest is text. This way, the player knows what the voice sounds like but you only have to get one word to sound right instead of a whole dialouge.

Kind of cartoon style. Very stylized but with realistic colors and textures. I guess I'm trying to capture that feeling of surrealism when you imagine some bizzare, impossible creature inhabiting the real world... Like it doesn't quite fit in but it's there anyway. ...if that makes any sense... Pri...

Looks nice man.
Whats the res on that texture? Plenty of detail for such a low poly count.

Glad you guys like it.
It'll be a 3d person melee combat game with a few fps elements. Sorta like American McGee's Alice. As far as weapons go, I'm considering just having abilities that will be unlocked by solving certain puzzles. Stuff like a venomous bite or some kind of stinger projectile.

Thanks man. Here's a few more screens- two enemys I did this morning. Not rigged yet. The tiny space men will have a mining operation goin' on that will be... disrupted during the course of the game. The grub is a mostly harmless larval stage of a larger bug. links>> http://img148.imageshack.us/img1...