Development Info Age of Decadence July Update

How many post processing effects does AoD have planned?

Seriously though being able to click an Advanced Graphical Options checkbox and see a shitload of stuff pop up would be good shit. Just make sure you explain anything techy with tooltips or information you've garnered from performance testing.

News are late like always.

Anyway, catch that Fallout reference!

I wonder if the performance improvements come from instancing, dynamic batching, virtual texturing and/or dynamic lightmaps.

Faggotry is afoot!

i mean, it¨'s a good thing that a lot of people find these updates fascinating and all but i would have loads of more respect for these guys if they'd just quietly finished the game.

Guys, I know that it's trendy to hate consoles and all, but we all know that consoles can double our sales. Should we pass on it and risk earning nothing after years of work, just so you can feel better knowing that the game is PC exclusive?

I can definitely see AoD on Live arcade. At its inception it was very much arcade games. There were coinup classics, simple indie spaceshooters, and stuff like that. Now you have a more diverse mix. AoD would stand out but it wouldn’t be unusual. RPGs are under represented but there is less competition and more attention. You can list the games by downloads. Castle Crashers is number 2, Clash of Heroes is number 19, Torchlight 21, and Faery at 97 is an abysmal TB RPG with no hype. That’s 97 out of more than 370. It would stand to reason AoD would fall inbetween Torchlight and Faery based on name rec and style. That's the goal.

So that means the PC version of AOD will support the XBOX controller?

Thank god, Keyboard and mouse is for working on Office, not playing video games.

I see a ton of dramatic UI redesign necessary for a game like AOD to work on a console. Everything would have to be larger, and mouse-less. Controller-friendly.

This UI redesign will eventually trigger "tweaks" to mechanics here, and then there. And then over there. And some over here too. And, while we're at it, just a little bit way over there...

EDIT: I've been trolled

Vault Dweller: Bashing consoles isn't trendy but making potentially good PC games turn into shit because of certain design choices made to please console gamers is.

A rather old-school, pc oriented rpg going to the xbox live arcade... I don't like where this is heading.

More sales to them, more garbage to us. No thanks.

Dumbfuck detected.

What?

He's tossed out some silly divisions in some container loops or something...WHATS THE PROBLEM?!


Oh


Meh...TB on consoles does not require major gameplay tweaks.

Some GUI yes but...thank god this isnt Pop-A-Mole.

Developing for consoles raises new issues here

for example will we be able to get all the achievements in one playthrough and will there be co-op or deathmatch features

Given the rather low average IQ of the codex it's hard to tell when someone's being serious and when he's not. Kind of hard to spot a trolling attempt/sarcasm when everyone flip flops and says stupid stuff all the time.
That said I still don't know whether he was serious or trolling.

I think he was actually serious...

We have absolutely no interest in consoles. ITS official position on this matter: the console audience can shove their consoles in their stupid asses.

I edited Oscar's update when he posted it and added "and consoles". I blame my dry sense of humor.

Don't do that again!

it's not that much of a joke.

The Return of the Melissan.

God dammit, people. As if it was the first time VD was doing some trollin'.
Still, one could say Age of Decadence is a big troll attempt to begin with...

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