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Air Ace ready for alpha testing
Air Ace ready for alpha testing
| Name: | Thomas "Man of Ice" Lund |  |
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| Date Posted: | Sep 28, 2006 | |
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Ahhhh - FINALLY.
Definitions of alpha test are many, but we finally have a stable and fun game that doesnt crash anymore. With a basic dogfighting mission that looks OK'ish, I'll try to convince Phil that we should open up for alpha tests. Check our forums for latest news and the important "why should we pick you as a tester" post in the announcement section.
Forums for anyone not signed up yet: airaceonline.arcadersplanet.com/
After merging with MS4 we still have some issues, but we managed to fix a lot of bugs the last few weeks - both in TSE and in Air Ace. So here we are 3 days before leaving with a game thats ready to be burned onto a CD and taken to Eugene.
But before going to the US, I wanted to take the time to post a new blog.
No blog without a screenie:
Well - we still have tons of things to fix, optimize, test, add, remove etc. Especially our menus are crap, but we got a nice concept going with some layers. I like it, and hopefully so will everyone else.
Air Ace is now fully playable with no known crash bugs. Particle effects have been added, the alpha test level is done and in general we are happy campers (OK - I am at least happy. Phil isnt happy, as he is "homeless" as you might have read)
So without much further words a link to an ingame movie!
airaceonline.arcadersplanet.com/movies/AlphaTestMovie.wmv
Obviously there are some visual bugs still. In the upgrade process we lost the material mappings on the plane and the canopy cube map. Dunno what happened.
The big thing is Adam deGrandis fantastic effects. We are sponsoring his explosion pack, and he is also helping with level design and other things. Very cool, and fantastic work on the explosions. Check out how the spawned effect is determined by what it hits. Water spray when hitting water, dirt on the ground etc. Cool!
But heck! Time to ramp up internal testing and finding all glitches.
One of the hotter things we will work on after returning are the new planes we got in the pipeline. We found another great guy - Jesse - who has a few nifty planes that we bought a license for.
Read the entire post here: airaceonline.arcadersplanet.com/viewtopic.php?t=94
And check out this nice P-38 - comming to Air Ace very very soon
(Yes - this is a slight rewrite of a forum post on our forums - bite me ;-) )
Regarding community weekend - Steelhead next Thursday at 7 pm!! Say no more. And dont drive, as we will drink all night and have great fun ;-) Eugene beware.
Definitions of alpha test are many, but we finally have a stable and fun game that doesnt crash anymore. With a basic dogfighting mission that looks OK'ish, I'll try to convince Phil that we should open up for alpha tests. Check our forums for latest news and the important "why should we pick you as a tester" post in the announcement section.
Forums for anyone not signed up yet: airaceonline.arcadersplanet.com/
After merging with MS4 we still have some issues, but we managed to fix a lot of bugs the last few weeks - both in TSE and in Air Ace. So here we are 3 days before leaving with a game thats ready to be burned onto a CD and taken to Eugene.
But before going to the US, I wanted to take the time to post a new blog.
No blog without a screenie:
Well - we still have tons of things to fix, optimize, test, add, remove etc. Especially our menus are crap, but we got a nice concept going with some layers. I like it, and hopefully so will everyone else.
Air Ace is now fully playable with no known crash bugs. Particle effects have been added, the alpha test level is done and in general we are happy campers (OK - I am at least happy. Phil isnt happy, as he is "homeless" as you might have read)
So without much further words a link to an ingame movie!
airaceonline.arcadersplanet.com/movies/AlphaTestMovie.wmv
Obviously there are some visual bugs still. In the upgrade process we lost the material mappings on the plane and the canopy cube map. Dunno what happened.
The big thing is Adam deGrandis fantastic effects. We are sponsoring his explosion pack, and he is also helping with level design and other things. Very cool, and fantastic work on the explosions. Check out how the spawned effect is determined by what it hits. Water spray when hitting water, dirt on the ground etc. Cool!
But heck! Time to ramp up internal testing and finding all glitches.
One of the hotter things we will work on after returning are the new planes we got in the pipeline. We found another great guy - Jesse - who has a few nifty planes that we bought a license for.
Read the entire post here: airaceonline.arcadersplanet.com/viewtopic.php?t=94
And check out this nice P-38 - comming to Air Ace very very soon
(Yes - this is a slight rewrite of a forum post on our forums - bite me ;-) )
Regarding community weekend - Steelhead next Thursday at 7 pm!! Say no more. And dont drive, as we will drink all night and have great fun ;-) Eugene beware.
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Submit your own resources!| Michael Hense (Sep 28, 2006 at 21:46 GMT) |
the top shot though... the runways contrast toooo much with the rest of the terrain...
(i know it's alpha testing, so i'm sure a lot of stuff is still a wip)
--Mike
Edited on Sep 28, 2006 21:48 GMT
| Magnus Blikstad (Sep 28, 2006 at 21:47 GMT) |
See ya in Eugene!
| Peter Kojesta (Sep 28, 2006 at 21:53 GMT) |
Edited on Sep 28, 2006 22:56 GMT
| Michael Cozzolino (Sep 28, 2006 at 21:53 GMT) |
| Jeppie (Sep 28, 2006 at 22:10 GMT) |
| Eric Forhan (Sep 28, 2006 at 22:40 GMT) |
| Eric Preisz (Sep 28, 2006 at 23:12 GMT) |
Try turning on anisotropic filtering for your screen shot of the runway, it will help improving the look of lines when they are coplaner to the eye vector. :) If you app is limited by textures (which is unlkely with TGE which is almost always cpu or bus bound, you may see a decrease in performance. If you aren't limited by textures then you probably won't see much of a decrease in performance at all.
| Andrew Kerr (Sep 28, 2006 at 23:40 GMT) |
;)
| Tom Bentz (Sep 29, 2006 at 01:30 GMT) |
Edited on Sep 29, 2006 01:39 GMT
| Vashner (Sep 29, 2006 at 02:24 GMT) |
| Thomas "Man of Ice" Lund (Sep 29, 2006 at 05:54 GMT) |
We are ultra happy with reaching this stage - still some hard work ahead of us to turn it into a real game.
Opening up the game to "others" is hard. There are still visual bugs and issues in there, menus dont look to great etc. So when do you say enough is enough, and get externals onto it? The good old test early, test often sometimes is hindered by 2 old grumpy farts (me and Phil) who want things to look great, work great before someone else critizises the game.
@Michael - the runway blends in nicely ingame. But yeah - on the screenshot it stands out. Might have to take Erics advice next time :-D
@Andrew - our initial lineup will be the 5-6 named planes in the referenced forum link. If (when?) Air Ace becomes profitable, we will increase the number of planes and make interiors to match. But for initial launch we had to do some hard choices.
| Phil Carlisle (Sep 29, 2006 at 10:07 GMT) |
And yeah, materials need some looking at.. and ui.. and and and... :)
| Alan Hembra (Sep 29, 2006 at 12:14 GMT) |
Seriously - you guys are awsome!
I hope you have some "what if" scenarios one day that let me fly a plane from the European theatre against a plane from the pacific theatre. Even German planes against Japanese, or Russian agains Japanese or even Russian against the RAF, etc, etc.
| Jeff Murray (Sep 29, 2006 at 14:09 GMT) |
| Kenneth Holst (Sep 30, 2006 at 20:51 GMT) |
| Jeff Murray (Nov 02, 2006 at 19:24 GMT) |
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