Came back, ready to fufill me promise, and starting at the end of next mend to possibly mid august, you should expect a demo... I WILL DISCLOSE NO MORE DETAILS.

Oh and yes, I'm back.






Opinions and suggestions are welcome, and I'm still using the DX7 engine due to the fact that the DX9 engine isn't finished and very unstable, this will hopefully change by the end of the year, but its out of my hands.

Arg bad random lighting?

You can't see any light sources whatsoever.

OH MY GOD!
SWEET BLOODY JESUS IVE MISSED YOU!
CELEBRATION!

To be added, I'm going to add torches, however I'm still working on the emitters.



Trust me, I am making this feeling NULL.

Looks pretty cool. I don't know what it is for sure, but I'll be looking forward to a demo or something.

Orgasm much?

How can you have a demo in a month and a half when there's... nothing there.

It will be a walk around a map thingy. No combat, there will be a testing of an apartment/housing system I am working on, there will also be an NPC interaction testing. Thats all I promise, other than that, don't expect anything.

Its not a "game", its just a beggining.

Showcase forum is that-a-way.

I'm confused? It's an MMO in one room?

And Echoman, anything gold posts should be in here.

this screenshot was better

Sometimes I don't know if people are being serious or sarcastic around here, but no, its not a one room mmo, I'm just showing pictures of 1 room, but theres more, they are just too early to show off right now, expect more screenshots during this or the next week.

Me and Antony have a bet going. I bet 100 dollars that SF_Gold will never make an MMO that more than 2 people play.

Antony will give SF_Gold 100 dollars if he gets into game design school, because then he knows he'll win the bet.

Antony thinks SF_Gold has more determination than anyone else, and all he needs is to learn. Says Gold reminds him of Steven Spielberg. My response: Spielberg isn't that great of a director.

Oh Gold, how I've missed thee. Please bring your shenanigans back to Massassi.

Welcome back.

Things were getting boring around here. This is a good thing.

<-------------- UNIMPRESSED. Same old act.

I'm with Freelancer.

FYI that's really not hard to do. Alot of schools are slowly starting to offer courses in game development. I just finished up a second semester of it. GRANTED, it's probably a far cry from anything you'd get in a school completely devoted to it, but at least where I'm going, it ain't half bad.

His knees can direct better than yours.

oh wait...

Now that I've thought about it.... What are you smoking?

Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
Indiana Jones.
JAWS.

You mean to tell me those movies sucked?

don't forget schindler's list...

Eh? I thought Spielberg was just a producer to Band of Brothers, not the director.

I need to quickly look this up.

Yeah, he did.

I thought he directed an episode like Hanks did, but I was wrong.

Ninja-post-delete, fish. :/

good hygiene and a portfolio is more important than a degree.

in fact, a game design or game programming degree is basically worthless because all it shows is that you don't have the broad knowledge and experience necessary to do the job and you don't really care enough to get it.

so making a bet that sf_goldg_01 won't go to a game college is pretty dumb because he's still not going to make a game anyway.

But everyone knows college is the best way to get a job in anything!

Those are some pretty awesome models you stole from somewhere, or composed of simple shapes by drop-dragging squares.

Gold. May i suggest getting a new name?
Really get a new one and come back in a couple months with it done.

Yes. Because that will change everything. No one would expect a random new user who suddenly posts about this fantastic new game he's working on to be him. Your plan is flawless.

The reason I said I would love to see him go to game design school is because if he actually had someone around to help him do the things he wants to do, I think he could make something cool.

I don't understand. When do you collect on this bet if you win? When Gold dies?

I agree, with the possible exception of masters degrees in those fields.

yeah, except nobody would want to work for him. even if he had money to pay artists to do the work nothing would get done because he doesn't know how to make a game. game college won't teach him that either.

ideas are cheap.

a master's degree implies you have 2+ years of industry experience. good luck getting that with a degree in tightening up the graphics

edit: I'd actually say the exception would be a degree from digipen since nintendo seems to enjoy hiring out of there. works great for the top 10% of their students, I guess, but that's sorta like getting paid in company dollars.

wooo... he made a quake 3 map and slapped on/photoshopped a custom hud...

I'm not even going to collect anything ever. It's a situation where I'm so confident I'd give 100 dollars away.

Our Game Dev program does. We have two Design courses, both required. First runs through alot of the documentation and organizational stuff, and introduces you to prototyping through various means. Usually by creating a board game. The second sticks you in a group of your choice, everyone is given a job, and by the end of the semester you have to turn out a game. It's essentially making you put into effect everything you learned in the first semester. My group ended up with the backbone for a Zelda like RPG. Completely original engine and graphics, and to keep things simple, it was all top down and we used sprites. Story for it was basically a complete parody of every major RPG franchise to date.

Finally, before you're allowed to graduate out of the program, there's a project class. Again, you're building a game, one that tries to show where you're strengths lie, and instructors assist the students in creating a portfolio of all their course related work done during the program. We're told to save our work to a server, so we always have it. So this ranges from pictures and instructions for the simple board games, to UT2k4 levels where we learned about level design, to concept drawings, to documents and the final versions of our games.

Is this the best way to do things? Maybe not. But our program has only been running about 2 years now, and every semester things are changed in attempts to make it better. The first round of students graduated last semester, about half of them managed to find jobs right away with local companies. And since that obviously means nothing without numbers... I think there's roughly 200 people in the program right now.

You'll get no "welcome back" from me.

And this belongs on the showcase forum!

Take your own advice?

Less people like you. You're just trying to push the attention off of you onto him.