i cant wait to play this, it looks great!

I am still very excited for this! The version you guys released for the contest was killer; can't wait for the finished product!

Currently a lot of polishing work is done. While our beta testers have begun their work and the coders give their best to fix the bugs, a lot of background things were added: moths flying around lanterns, steem coming out of pipes etc.

Don't be surprised that we haven't released new screenshots for a long time, but we think that it will be more exciting for you to play the final version without having seen the current state all the time. What do you think?

Regards,
Pegamode.

By the way:

We are still searching for some help with the character models and animations.

If someone is interested in helping us, please send me a PM.

Although we can't pay you any money, you can be sure that your work will be seen world-wide. The alpha version has been downloaded several 10.000 times and it was mentioned in some german print magazines. So being part of the MM3D team can be a good advertise for you.

Regards,
Pegamode.

Here is a new video that shows the current state of the outside area and the mansion.
The character models are still the old ones, but they will be replaced as soon as we found an 3D artist for that.
For better quality switch to 720p!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=No4UTHQNRrA

There's a discussion about MM3D in "The international House of Mojo":

http://www.lucasforums.com/showthread.php?t=204806

We were also been asked by a member of the mojo to give an interview.

Regards,
Pegamode.

I love the style, i am just a little curious. why cant you use the models you currently have in the game? they dont look bad.

The characters don't look bad, I agree, but it's not the quality we wish to have in the final release. The poly count should be less and we'd like to have smoother and more realistic animations. They don't have to look completely different.

couldnt you just use a polygon reduction tool, and redo the animations? that would save a lot of time. i have a cool animation frame jpeg that could be helpful to you if they have bones.

A reduction tool has already been used ... As I am not an 3D artist I don't know if our current models can be optimized further by removing unseen polygons or something like that.
Our 3D artist comes from the highpoly rendering scene so he isn't very firm in lowpoly character modeling and animations, though he learned a lot during this project and the rooms and objects look great now (without many polygons).
But he's still busy optimizing the rooms and so he can't work on the characters.
Unfortunately at the beginning of the year Matt joined the team to do the characters and animations, but some weeks later he got so very busy in his job that currently he can't help us any further. He provided a new Dave model that looks really great, but it doesn't have any animations.

If you are interested in helping us: you are welcome :-)
Or maybe you know someone who could help us?

I'm also interested in this animation frame jpeg.

Regards,
Pegamode.