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By: MM

MM — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 15:22:58 +0000

Clawbug: The community will create the actual graphics and MM will just pick the best samples Haha, that's called chinese procedural graphics.

By: DARK_AVENGER

DARK_AVENGER — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 18:01:31 +0000

MM if you don’t finish the fucking game I will come to Poland(or whatever hole you’re hiding in) and beat you like in that fucking video you posted on youtube for the preview of Berserker , you understand MM ?
Fucking crap , what the fuck do I care about Sigvatr ? Fuck him.
All these wankers on this forum are masterbating about Sigvatr , graphics and so forth , just finish the fucking game already, it’s been like 2-3 years… come on…

By: Clawbug

Clawbug — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 23:36:15 +0000

First public beta with placeholder graphics. The community will create the actual graphics and MM will just pick the best samples and uses them in the next release, and the cycle goes over.. Problem solved.

By: ZeroG001

ZeroG001 — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 22:51:19 +0000

To be honest, I don’t really care about that graphics. Dispite soldat’s graphics, I found the game to be very entertaining. Its the only good game that I have on my PC. Well, that only because my PC can’t play today’s games very well.

By: namuol

namuol — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 21:23:50 +0000

I’m all for procedural art. Go for it, MM.

By: MM

MM — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 20:04:51 +0000

archont:) just because nobody did it, doesn’t mean I can’t.

Procedural graphics could be great. The hard part is defining exactly what it is you want.
Yes, exactly.

By: ZeroG001

ZeroG001 — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 19:47:13 +0000

shit…-_-

By: F3nyx

F3nyx — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 18:50:21 +0000

Procedural graphics would definitely be suitable for a PLACEHOLDER, yeah. Or for a game with a very abstract style, such as the gorgeous White Butterfly (http://db.tigsource.com/games/white-butterfly). But unless the entire concept of Link-Dead (what was it again?) is getting revamped, they’ll never work together.

By: Jesse

Jesse — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 17:59:45 +0000

Procedural graphics could be great. The hard part is defining exactly what it is you want. Most artists can’t even do that, and gain most of their inspiration from fixing mistakes throughout the process of creating art.

Also, you could procedurally generate art THEN have an artist go over it with a fine-tooth comb and really make it shine. It’ll save time (money) and you’ll always have placeholder art, allowing you to improve assets based on their gameplay priority.

By: Tenshi

Tenshi — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 14:39:14 +0000

@yv3: yeah, but that shouldn’t suggest graphics should be forgotten about.

Soldat is about speed and effectivity, it doesn’t need much feeling from graphics because you don’t really have time to focus on that during gameplay.

But not all games are like that. Take a look at “Braid”: simple but ingenious graphics add 100% to the game feeling.