The fact of the matter is your game has to be good. If it's innovative and good then people will like it (doesn't mean it will sell well). If it's based on a winning formula with few deviations and good people will like it if they're not sick of that formula (and with a large enough marketing budget...

I played the void for a bit. Never really got into it. I couldn't figure out if it was just really boring or just had a really slow start. Must have played for a couple of hours and the whole thing just seemed to be walking around. There was no challenge of any sort. I don't mean it was easy. I mean...

Agreed. There's not just the technical cost of getting the code/map working. There's also the balance cost of figuring out how to stop the play from wanting to constantly traipse back to their storage location to effectively increase the size of their inventory (a valuable resource).

agree with Jonas. No one is going to think its real from anything but the most cursory of glances but I get that thats not really the point and for what it is its pretty impressive.

That's not how I remember tnm going...

DDL wrote:It seems pointlessly self-restrictive, like deliberately not getting better glasses because "hey the world looks good enough even when blurred".

I have done exactly that for about 5 years now. It's not even a laziness thing. I own glasses. I just don't wear them.

it sounds like your point isn't that good graphics add nothing but rather that they shouldn't be considered necessary.

It's also worth noting that many techniques are benchmarked against a global illumination model using radiosity. They fire a fucktonne of light rays into a scene for a few days and see what they end up with. Then they figure out how well their new technique addresses the discrepancies between their ...

come to think of it thats more or less how mine went except I had to present to group of about 20 people (mostly other students) then people would ask questions.

well yeah defense implies that they'd be actively criticizing it but it sounds like thats pretty much how it works.

Does the term "defense" sound a lot less... defensive, in Danish?

I figured that out pretty quickly but I agree its unforgivable that they dont mention it

I bet they pop some sweet wheelies too

The metals only very thin. Its a complete vacuum inside. That's why he can jump so high.

I bet they pop some sweet wheelies