voyage to mars

Friday, January 28, 2005

Back from London, just in time for a lovely Dreamfall deadline. Despite bugs - lots of bugs; lots of bugs - things look very good. The visual quality has received another bump, and the Xbox version (wheee!) is looking almost as good as the (already stunning) PC version. Wandering around Casablanca with Zoë, bumping into locals and chatting with friends, gives me that TLJ vibe; the sense of being transported into the head of a character, into her world and her life. It's promising stuff. We have a ways to go, and getting voice-overs, lip sync, facial animations, motion capture data - all of that stuff - in there will improve the game massively. But it's working. It's getting there. I'm happy.

Regarding my previous post, I want to extend my sincerest apologies to my readers from Las Vegas, whose comments below made me realise that, like any city, there are layers to Las Vegas. It's not all the Strip; it's not all casinos and gambling and prostitutes and Wayne Newton. I'm fundamentally opposed to gambling - addiction has destroyed too many lives to count, and the casinos have built their fortunes on the backs of human tragedies - but of course there are other sides, positive sides, to Vegas. I just haven't had the chance to experience them. I'll keep an open mind next week when I'm out there.
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Comments:

bah, next you'll say they should take away my pr0n, beer, and drugs.

# posted by Anonymous : 9:00 PM

and playing videogames leads to a life of violence. :p

# posted by Anonymous : 10:13 PM

Cool. It was always fun wandering about Venice with April.

# posted by Anonymous : 12:20 AM

If the Xbox version is looking anywhere near as good as the PC version you ain't doing it right.

# posted by Anonymous : 1:39 AM

^ditto.

Although these blurbs are getting me excited about the game.

# posted by Anonymous : 4:05 AM

"Take yer time, look 'round!" We're patient 8)

# posted by Polar Fox : 9:47 AM

Hmmm...well..I Wasn't expecting Dreamfall to be really groundbreaking visualy( especialy judging by in-game screens)... so this news doesn't suprise me. Still modern PCs graphical abilities are way above Xbox ones...so it's a bit dissapoiting to see that Dreamfall won't be really advanced visualy. Well..at least the art style is very nice. I guess if I want impressive graphics I'll just play FEAR or Half-life2, groundbreaking graphics aren't exacly the most important thing in adventure game anyway.

# posted by Anonymous : 2:43 PM

But then there's a game like Jade Empire that's exclusive to X-Box and looks awesome. The Dreamfall screenshots look great...

# posted by Anonymous : 11:06 PM

TLJ transported the player to another world(s). The story, voice-acting, characters were believable. I felt sad knowing I would never see my new "friend" - April - again. Please retain the TLJ vibe in the new game.
Thank you so much!

# posted by Anonymous : 5:23 PM