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THE ZOO RACE Movies and Demo
#198818
08/17/07 21:28
08/17/07 21:28
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THE ZOO RACE Movies and Demo
Hi, The Zoo Race game project is done. I just have to get the game web-site made now. Some screenshots and movie links are below. ------------------------------------- Watch Cain the Cougar run the race of his life. Short movie version below: 3 mins http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pS8J_WekLVI After making fun of Rueben for believing in the biblical Noah’s Ark story, then Hannah the librarian has a dream about it. In her dream, her friends turn into animals and she herself changes into a racehorse and then they have the funniest and most thrilling times of their lives. Full movie version below: 8 mins http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVfV2OzEHwg Screenshots: Contributors from this forum are: Nitro777 - models and animations Dan Silverman - models Blatsallat - models and animations Excessus - shaders ISG - multiplayer <aborted> George, where is the tuts? Other help: Rincewind - train models Realspawn - textures and models in trailor movie Jigalypuff - Bell model in above screenshot Stansmedia - Arches in the Priscilla's Place level Well, I hope I did not forget anybody. If I did, just let me know. Okay, the demo will be out soon. Give me a few days okay. lol Bye...
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Re: THE ZOO RACE Movies and Demo
[Re: thegamedesigner]
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09/08/07 00:24
09/08/07 00:24
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About the Graphics: I agree, but also consider the fact that the racetrack level is very large in quants, but it is only a 23 MB download. Because, that cave scene really compresses nicely. If I had a 50 MB download, then the bandwidth is too much. Big hitters of Noah 1 like China, Czech and Turkey will crush Noah 2 in bandwidth. I know and can see the stats. Remember my customers and my distribution methods. Judge the idea and the "originality" of such a race, because there is no other on the market like this in either console or PC gaming. Now to get the site going fully.
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Re: THE ZOO RACE Movies and Demo
[Re: Ran Man]
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09/08/07 16:54
09/08/07 16:54
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But, the graphics are not bad though. Gimme a break! lol See the screenshot below for example. SCREENSHOT FROM TAMAR'S TURF: A very nice forest and sky with shaded creatures and shaded water. Will somebody think this screenshot below is dated also? TAMAR'S TURF: Okay, so to summarize everything, because maybe somebody clicks on this thread 30 years from now and wonders what it is about. Here are the movies listed below. There are 3 of them. *** Movies #1 Hannah the librarian describes her recent dream of becoming a racehorse and then the un-thinkable happens. 90 SECOND MOVIE #2 Watch Cain the Cougar run the race of his life. Short movie version below:3 MINUTE MOVIE #3 After making fun of Rueben for believing in the biblical Noah’s Ark story, then Hannah the librarian has a dream about it. In her dream, her friends turn into animals and she herself changes into a racehorse and then they have the funniest and most thrilling times of their lives. Full movie version below: 8 MINUTE MOVIE *** Okay, so now the 23 MB playable demo is located at the following link: http://www.noahsadventures.com/downloads/ZooRace.exeOkay, talk to you guys later Randall...
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Re: THE ZOO RACE Movies and Demo
[Re: lostclimate]
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09/08/07 21:51
09/08/07 21:51
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well even then, the water could be reflective, and the terrain really needs to be made into a mutitexture terrain, I could do it for you for cheap if you wanted.
It'd be worth it. It wouldn't increase your file size by much at all (a few extra skins for multitexture) and will improve the look of your game by 100 percent!!!
As well, the changes can be made so that they run on low end machines or, as an option, you can turn them off and have what you already have in case of VERY low end machines.
I would definitely take him up on this; you won't regret it! Just make sure to include a "no shader" option to start up so that you retain the highest level of compatability.
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Re: THE ZOO RACE Movies and Demo
[Re: Realspawn]
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09/09/07 03:00
09/09/07 03:00
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@Ran: I haven't played your demo, but from the comments it sounds like you have some nice gameplay but the graphics are the problem. You've found a nice niche market. Find a talented, like-minded modeler and/or artist or at least someone who likes the color of money (or find a better resource for pre-made textures) and get those graphics beefed up. I highly recommenced Dan Silverman. He's a true believer, and he gets the job done. He can't animate nor rig, but having a quality model is a huge first step. He also does level work, but I've never used him for that. He's doesn't work for free, but that issue would be left up to you two. Keep up the good work and despite (to spite?) the criticism from certain corners keep making these kinds of games. However, I'd advise you to take any and all constructive critisism to heart and make every effort to make improvements based on them. You have provided a superb example of how to handle negative, somewhat hateful, non-constructive comments. You're basically laughing it off. I hope it isn't bothering you inside (and you hide it). Don't do that because it will eat you up inside in the end.
My User Contributions master list - my initial post links are down but scroll down page to find list to active links
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