Overgrowth Weekly 104 - Three in one
Q&A #20 with Lukas, Anton, David and Max.
Related blog post: http://blog.wolfire.com/2015/12/Overg...
Here is a summary of what we talked about before the Q&A:
00:38 Two new programmers: Turo & Tuomas from Alternative Games
02:17 advance_testing branch on Steam now acts as release candidate again
03:51 No big new features for the upcoming alpha
06:09 Navigation mesh is now generated on level load
08:50 Three new arenas in the next alpha
09:50 Character design blog post from Steve soon
Here are the community questions with accompanying time stamps and summaries of the answers. If you want to hear the full answer, go to the related time stamp in the video:
11:13 - Thomason1005
Q: What's going on with the Under Glass jam game?
A: David might revisit it at some point, but has a lot on his plate right now.
14:00 - Rodeje
Q: That seems like an excuse to not work on the game.
A: It's more a reason than an excuse, David can only work on one thing at a time.
15:20 - Softsquare
Q: Should some races be more resistant to fall damage?
A: That would be a cool addition that we might implement.
18:35 - wake
Q: Will you fully separate Overgrowth from its engine?
A: No, it will be similar to how it is now as it's useful for us to be able to hard code some things into the engine.
20:47 - wake
Q: Will Awesomium be replaced?
A: That is unlikely.
23:22 - MadExecutioner
Q: Have you thought about virtual reality for Overgrowth?
A: That would be cool, but we're not sure if it would work well.
27:55 - Glade
Q: What can you tell us about the story in the game?
A: We are currently focusing on the story for the arena, then we'll go from there.
28:53 - Rodeje
Q: When will you fix split screen?
A: In a while.
30:21 - Rodeje
Q: Will you implement SMAA?
A: We like MSAA better.
Here is the show on the website: http://ogweekly.com/104.htm
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Overgrowth Weekly is a live show airing on some Sundays at 21:00 CET. In it we discuss Wolfire and Overgrowth news and show you what the Wolfire community is up to. http://ogweekly.com
Overgrowth is a 3d action-adventure game for Mac, Windows, and Linux, coming soon from the independent game studio, Wolfire Games. It is the spiritual successor to Lugaru. http://wolfire.com/overgrowth