We could ask Conitec to make the Showcase 2 ,
and only projects having the hightest score would go to Showcase 2

I think Damocles_ is right on this point !
A8 is heavily used by coders mainly , not lot of skilled 3D art people use A8, or they move to some others engines allowing to use their full creativity sometimes.

And that would be a good thing, because you could be sure to earn a special place in the gallery when you create a really good project. With the effect of new custumors buying Gamestudio and a bigger community. Because beginners who see great screenshots know that the engine can do more then Quake 2 if you put a little effort in the projects. Like it was in A5/A6 times.



There are or were great projects. Nobody knows them anymore because they are hidden between all the the bad minigames and beginner projects. CSiS, AAAAaaaaAAAaaA - A Reckless Disregard For Gravity , Glider collect´n´kill, Meteor Mess 3D, The Rebel Planet: Orion (RPG), Silas (Fun-Racer), The Battle for Forgol, Stromberg- Büro ist Krieg, Kabus 22, Razor, or even the old Sunset Down because of the screens are just few of them. Bus Simulator 2008 , Spreng und Abriss Simulator, Schwimmbad Tycoon , Disco Tycoon , Game Tycoon ... Also, there are really great designed mini-games that look great and are fun. For example A7titude or that old crane simulator that showed the A6 physics engine.
Also there are projects from miniteams with potential like Der Turm Der Gezeiten , Superku, Airfix or, again, CSiS...

"We could ask Conitec to make the Showcase 2 ,"

Some years ago there used to be one Showcase forum. Then we got another Showcase forum, Showcase 2. The first one then was renamed to Projects and the second Showcase lost its 2.


This project definitely does not belong here, it should be moved to Projects. It is not fun (in my opinion) and most of the graphics do not like nice, nor are they selfmade.
I'm sorry, painkiller, don't be offended, I don't have anything against you on my mind.

I have to agree with Rondidon, I prefer quality over quantity.

This project definitely does not belong here

Don't be too harsh ! Even this mini game looks lot lot better than some strange things/experiments in Showcase

A very good project in Showcaes is "Battle For Forgol"
Battle For Forgol
It's more WII Nintendo graphics, but it's an indie game made by a graphic artist and a coder !
And it is very polished, it would just need a video and demo
to confirm how goos it is !

Even the platform game made with Georges should be in Showcase !

Yes, i think Conitec should put a ranking for projects targetting Showcase ! Only top ranking would be on it !
Juts to proove at beginners or A8 users : it's possible to do as good as that ! That would motivate some of them to make as good also or better !
Some people would take that as challenge also, to do better than some of gallery

Usually I am not really that present in forum discussions but I think this is a very good & very useful idea.

The very first thing that any newcomer would do when considering using unfamiliar piece of software of this kind is to check out projects created with it. He then goes to GS forum, opens GS showcase and... never returns to the GS forum again.

There are three things that really needs to be considered :
This is what, in my opinion, more serious showcase projects list should look like (in the order that they appear when active in the last 6 months is set). Also the main Showcase should be only game-oriented or game-plugin-oriented (only plugins that enhance game visuals):
Should be something to consider if thinking about the future of GS Showcase and, maybe, GS itself.

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I am terribly sorry for this digression & I really don't think that Kill them All! is a bad project, it's just not completed & polished enough to be considered visually attractive.

What we really need are good demos that the people can see and test. Look at the unity webpage, there is a gallery with projects from the unity team, specially the last 3rd person shooter demo. When people see that demo, he thinks, this is a good engine and i'm going to use it, but if one goes to the gamestudio galery on the wepage you see only ugly screenshots from old projects and not possible to test. Whe need Conitec to create such technical demos as the 3rd person shooter in unity, so people can see what is the really capacity of the engine and they will get interested.

Fully agree with painkiller!

He "3run"

Painkiller I realy like your game but, the player code is alittlebit maw...

rules of the forum are set. while i do agree that there are rules. i also agree that unfortunately there arent enough projects being posted in showcase on a regular basis to keep it alive. i honestly think the two forums should be combined, and renamed "showcase and projects". give us something to look forward to. thats just my opinion. good job painkiller, but the rules are the rules. it shouldve been posted in the projects section because it was as you said, a quick game, and not a finished showcase quality game. its not being harsh, but its the truth. i look forward to seeing your progress.

ha! funny, i personally dont care much for posting my screens here and am sure my projects are some of the better gamestudio games [scion, goldeneye and naother which i cant reveal yet]

the problem is and others have said it, its sad to post your awesome looking game here and some retarded looking demo[not referring to this] comes and pushes it to the background, theres no moderation at all...

i personally would undertake making a demo for GS to showoff quality IF it seemed like they themselves cared about making their stuff look good... a good gallery perhaps...