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Daemonica #196470
04/04/06 17:55 04/04/06 17:55

Joined: Jan 2003
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Templar

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Daemonica

Hi guys!

Initially, we wanted to make this announcement when our game was available in both english and german language (which should hopefully happen in a couple of days) and kind of surprise the A6 community. But now it seems that some of you damn good detectives ( namely Orange Brat and Wormhole ) beat us to it, so there's no use in remaining silent

Few days ago our game Daemonica hit the US shelves and if things go right, it will happen also in couple of days in Germany. Although the game is usually by its looks mistaken for an rpg believe me when I say that it's actualy an adventure

It has already been published in some other european countries as well - Czech Republic, Poland, Russia and Italy. The majority of the reviews there were really good (with the rating varying from 60% to 80%).

There are also some early reviews available in the US (some can be found at this link ) .

There is a demo available for the game that can be downloaded at our US publisher's website - Meridian4 (you have to be from the USA/Canada i believe) and at some other sites ( Softpedia etc. - those are not restricted in any way)

If you're interested, give it a try and if you like it, be so kind and rate it at any major gaming site (gamerankings.com, gamespot.com etc.) As much as we are pleased by the reviews, what we are really interested in is how the players like it.

( ... and if you like it a lot - buy the game and support us - you will have our eternal gratitude!

)

And now for the most important part of this long, long post:

This would never be possible without the A6 engine. Thanks go to all the Conitec guys - JCL, Doug, Marco and others. Great job!!

The same goes for the wonderful A6 community. There are so many of you that made our work easier by your contributions to the community! It's impossible to name you all so just a few:

TripleX, Ventilator, Steempipe, Orange Brat, George, ello, Matt ... etc. etc.

Thanks guys, I owe you one!

A note for the GERMAN SPEAKING PLAYERS: a localized german version (with german voiceovers) should be coming out probably in couple of days. It is published by Frogster Interactive AG and the localization is (in my opinion) really great...

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Re: Daemonica [Re: Templar] #196520 04/10/06 19:30 04/10/06 19:30
Joined: Mar 2005 Posts: 442 Germany, Hamburg Blitzblaster1 Senior Member
Blitzblaster1 Senior Member Joined: Mar 2005 Posts: 442 Germany, Hamburg	So i play`d the demos and i must say, great stuff, really. The gfx and sound are very nice. I wish you all the best with this game. Regards Blitzblaster1 Last edited by Blitzblaster1; 04/10/06 19:31. Casual Games: www.playsmallgames.de

Re: Daemonica [Re: Blitzblaster1] #196521 04/10/06 20:14 04/10/06 20:14
Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 1,220 Just down the road from Raven BlueBeast Serious User
BlueBeast Serious User Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 1,220 Just down the road from Raven	Hey, since when do we get 32 dynamic lights in Gamestudio? Jason Gamestudio Pro 6.4 Pentium 4 3.0 GHz 800MHz BUS AtiRadeon 9800 pro 256Mb 21" Monitor 1 Gig DDR RAM 36 Gig RAPTOR SATA+ 120 Gig SATA SB Audigy 2 w/ 450 watt Logitech Z680 5.1 www.nordicepitaph.com

Re: Daemonica DELETED [Re: BlueBeast] #196522 04/10/06 21:16 04/10/06 21:16
Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 7,490 O Orange Brat Senior Expert
Orange Brat Senior Expert O Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 7,490	Post deleted by Orange Brat My User Contributions master list - my initial post links are down but scroll down page to find list to active links

Re: Daemonica [Re: Orange Brat] #196523 04/10/06 21:19 04/10/06 21:19
Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 1,012 germany, dresden ulf Serious User
ulf Serious User Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 1,012 germany, dresden	believe it or not this is directly from the german manual: Quote: Die Zahl der Entitys, die gleichzeitig dynamischen Licht aussenden d�rfen, ist auf 32 beschr�nkt. it means: the number of entities wich can emit dynamic light at the same time is limited to 32. i think they must mean the dynamic light sources with that. maybe its a bug in the german translation...

Re: Daemonica [Re: ulf] #196524 04/10/06 22:41 04/10/06 22:41
Joined: Oct 2003 Posts: 128 Austria/Vorarlberg W Wolfgang_Knecht Member
Wolfgang_Knecht Member W Joined: Oct 2003 Posts: 128 Austria/Vorarlberg	wow, i have missed the typical gamestudio feeling! great game! www.wolfgang-knecht.com

Re: Daemonica [Re: Wolfgang_Knecht] #196525 04/11/06 00:31 04/11/06 00:31
Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 7,490 O Orange Brat Senior Expert
Orange Brat Senior Expert O Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 7,490	It was 32 in A5 mode(d3d_tranform = 0) and in A5. They didn't use DirectX for dynamic lights back then so it was capped at 32 instead of 8. d3d_transform is gone as is A5 mode, so unless there's still a way to use the old software ligths...that 32 should be removed. My User Contributions master list - my initial post links are down but scroll down page to find list to active links

Re: Daemonica [Re: Orange Brat] #196526 04/11/06 01:31 04/11/06 01:31
Joined: Sep 2003 Posts: 3,236 San Diego, CA M Marco_Grubert Expert
Marco_Grubert Expert M Joined: Sep 2003 Posts: 3,236 San Diego, CA	The only thing that really annoyed me was the left/right cursor keys being flipped. Rotating with the mouse is intuitive but with arrow keys it seems to be inverted. Not too fond of the English voice actor either.. But other than that: great graphics, sounds, and scripting!

Re: Daemonica [Re: Marco_Grubert] #196527 04/11/06 06:54 04/11/06 06:54
Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 1,012 germany, dresden ulf Serious User
ulf Serious User Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 1,012 germany, dresden	thanks for clearing that up. may i also ask you what kind of pathfinding you use for the player and how you got the whole thing smooth as it is? thanks again.

Re: Daemonica [Re: ulf] #196528 04/11/06 07:57 04/11/06 07:57
Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 710 T Templar OP Developer
Templar OP Developer T Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 710	The algorithm we used is quite similar to what George shows in one of his earlier AUMs, so one way to get you started would be to read and test it (this shows just how much has George helped the community). It just takes a lot of testing and tweaking to get the results you want but it's not that difficult. Compute the path over several frames to reduce it's impact on fps, check for all the cases when it behaves else than expected and solve them one after another till you're satisfied The nodes we used for the pathfinder to work had to be placed manualy but I just could not find any other reliable way to achieve this. I don't check A6 forums as frequently as I used to but I believe that Larry Laffer did some excelent job when it comes to pathfinding - far better I think than what we did. You should definitely check his posts.

Re: Daemonica [Re: Templar] #196529 04/11/06 08:23 04/11/06 08:23
Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 1,012 germany, dresden ulf Serious User
ulf Serious User Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 1,012 germany, dresden	thanks templar for clearing that up. can you remember how many nodes you used inside the city for example? or around a tree? i guess you are using 4 nodes around the trees or little objects and place them close to the edges? my main problem understanding that is how to get georges system smooth. i guess it can be done either by clever node placement or by some kind of smoothing postprocessing the path... maybe you can help again edit: to make my question more clear i made a little picture: on the left side the nodes around the obstacle are placed more away from it. if the player clicks somewhere near the top node it will make a big edgy circle around the obstacle. walking exactaly along the nodes. on the second picture the nodes are closer to the object so the player will probably walk closer to it when trying to reach the goal. is this how you did it? also how do you reach the little red dot on the right side picture if the player clicked there but there is no node and make the movement smooth? thanks! Last edited by ulf; 04/11/06 15:07.

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