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Daemonica #196470
04/04/06 17:55
04/04/06 17:55
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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: Rad_Daddy] #196510
04/08/06 02:36
04/08/06 02:36
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Very nice !
I had read the Daemonica review on Adventure Gamers a few months ago, but did not realize that it's a 3DGS title. Good luck with sales !

Regarding demo size: it is annoying, but demos have grown a lot recently. For AAA title it's not unusual to find 600-800MB demos.

Re: Daemonica [Re: Marco_Grubert] #196511
04/09/06 11:43
04/09/06 11:43
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I would prefer a progress bar for the startscreen. Itīs annoying to wait a long time and it seems that nothing happens.
Beside that, itīs a very powerful game! Congratulations, that was a big amount of work...!


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Re: Daemonica [Re: fogman] #196512
04/09/06 14:11
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Congratulations, this is definitely the first good looking 3DGS commercial product I have seen.


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Re: Daemonica [Re: Matt_Aufderheide] #196513
04/09/06 20:15
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Wow... its a very nice game.
The graphic its very beatifull.

gg Nicolas

Re: Daemonica [Re: Nicolas_B] #196514
04/10/06 15:47
04/10/06 15:47
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iam still curious how you have done the different lightning. i guess that the light from inside the buildings shining through the window on the ground is also baked in the groundmodel?

how have you done the overall lighting then where a latern is making the surrounding brighter? is that also done with only changing the textures of the models?

thanks in advance!

Re: Daemonica [Re: ulf] #196515
04/10/06 16:12
04/10/06 16:12
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It could have been done with dynamic lights.


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Re: Daemonica [Re: Machinery_Frank] #196516
04/10/06 16:41
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shure but you are limited to 32, so you would have to turn them on and off if you come close i believe? maybe templar can tell us something about that...

iam also highly interested in how big your model blocks are and what texture size(s) you use for them?

it must be hell lot of work to bake in all those shadows and lightning from the houses so how was your workflow? i know a lot of questions but this could really help us.

thanks in advance

Re: Daemonica [Re: ulf] #196517
04/10/06 18:05
04/10/06 18:05
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The screens looks good. Now i start the download and after then, i give more feedback.

Regards
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Re: Daemonica [Re: Orange Brat] #196518
04/10/06 18:15
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OMFG! That looks amazing! *Controls himself* Herm, the screens look nice. Reminds me of baulders gate a bit. I love it. Congrats on the release aswell!


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Re: Daemonica [Re: Blitzblaster1] #196519
04/10/06 18:31
04/10/06 18:31
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Hi guys,

terrain: yes, everything is indeed baked into the texture. It really was hell of a job to make the terrains and the guy who did that (along with the lighting, materials,textures and many, many other things ) has done _absolutely_ amazing job considering what techniques were available to him at that time.

the area around the torches and lights look different because there are flares (billboarding sprites) used there - if that's what you mean. It is a pretty common thing in games.

the terrain models were of different sizes and textures used on it ranged, I think, from 512x512 to 1024x1024. I think you can uderstand why we really missed compressed textures that were not implemented at that time.

we could use max. 8 visible lights at once so I did some pretty basic scripting to switch on / off the lights that were not needed based on their distance from the camera and some other conditions that could affect their visibility.

T.

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