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KickStarter Voxel Quest - voxel-based roguelike RPG and engine
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Hey all, just wanted to give you a heads up that VQ now has a forum - I know joining multiple forums is kind of a pain but if anyone wants to check it out feel free to hop in - we've got a lot going on over there. 
http://www.voxelquest.com/forums.html
http://www.voxelquest.com/forums.html
Gavan Woolery
I just backed the project, hoping you'll reach the $30k USD goal soon. Honestly, I think you'll need much more than $30k to get some decent base for the further production (at least a budget for additional art/sound).
One question regarding the visuals: do you have plans to add some more randomness/chaos to the voxel rendering? Right now, it looks very clean and artificial - like a plastic factory made world. Especially the walls and buildings could need some more noise/randomness.
I just backed the project, hoping you'll reach the $30k USD goal soon. Honestly, I think you'll need much more than $30k to get some decent base for the further production (at least a budget for additional art/sound).
One question regarding the visuals: do you have plans to add some more randomness/chaos to the voxel rendering? Right now, it looks very clean and artificial - like a plastic factory made world. Especially the walls and buildings could need some more noise/randomness.
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Some of those screens made me think of Little Big Adventure.
Jesus voxel returns as buzzword.
It's just a 3D pixel, what the hell OP do you want from it?
It's also hard to represent efficiently in memory but let's not confuse you further.
Edit: like the "Infinite Detail" hoax. Once he gets more (say, 50k) voxels it gets 10 fps. Don't try to explain to 'true believers'.
It's just a 3D pixel, what the hell OP do you want from it?
It's also hard to represent efficiently in memory but let's not confuse you further.
Edit: like the "Infinite Detail" hoax. Once he gets more (say, 50k) voxels it gets 10 fps. Don't try to explain to 'true believers'.
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On totally unrelated note - Yaar Podshipnik , your signature drives me nuts. Google translate tells me "Everything has its good side. Sausage has two.", but google has lied to me before.
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Really interesting sounding game. Looks like it might not meet the Kickstarter goal, but speaking of Notch (mentioned earlier in the thread), I don't use Twitter, but maybe one of you who does could tweet at him, mentioning Voxel Quest. He kinda has a history of supporting games he likes, and he is a billionaire now.
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Eh, that's more or less reasonable translation. It's a bit of a wordplay, so hard to autotranslate. The first part is more accurately translated as "Everything good comes to an end", i.e. is a bit sad. The second part plays on the fact that lukanka (I believe BG wants to trademark the name & recepie in EU, same as Oscupek in PL) has, amazingly, two "ends", and it's up to you from which end you want to eat it. So maybe, a bit more playful English translation, requiring a similar a-ha moment would be "Lukanka's so good, it has (or maybe comes to) two ends!". Guess it works as well in German, and other languages where you "have" things, instead of "be/become" things (i.e. in german you have a thirst, while in english you are thirsty).
Now, having explained it, I have to look for something more difficult to translate
Anyway, back on topic.
Gavan Woolery, (almost went with Gavlan, damn wheeler&dealer!), is the engine flexible enough to do a Populus-like game with it? I.e. give player ability to sculpt terrain in real time, have some AI on a per villager level with tens or hundreds villagers simultaneously simulated?
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Ahh, I see. "Все хорошее имеет конец, но [или "и только"] у колбасы их два"? It kinda loses its wordplay somewhat in Russian. Thanks for the explanations, :Flash:, Yaar.
Eh, that's more or less reasonable translation. It's a bit of a wordplay, so hard to autotranslate. The first part is more accurately translated as "Everything good comes to an end", i.e. is a bit sad. The second part plays on the fact that lukanka (I believe BG wants to trademark the name & recepie in EU, same as Oscupek in PL) has, amazingly, two "ends", and it's up to you from which end you want to eat it. So maybe, a bit more playful English translation, requiring a similar a-ha moment would be "Lukanka's so good, it has (or maybe comes to) two ends!". Guess it works as well in German, and other languages where you "have" things, instead of "be/become" things (i.e. in german you have a thirst, while in english you are thirsty).
Now, having explained it, I have to look for something more difficult to translate
The graphics and engine look good. But I want proper gameplay examples before I'm willing to pledge. IT sounds like the devs haven't really though about how it's going to play yet. If they get funded I'll definitely check it out when it nears release though.
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Stainless Veteran, yeah but I would drop the opposition from that sentence (но) completely. I haven't ever heard any of my russian friends use such an expression though.
Yep, might do that; someone else squatted the voxelquest name though.
My lowest investment offer is over $200,000, so if I need more money its there, but I prefer to stay private for as long as possible and at least build up my value via sweat equity. (P.S. one of my potential investors has now stepped forth "publicly" on facebook, but I don't know if he wants it disclosed any further than that). If you know where to find it, you know where and now people can see I'm not full of BS.
Yes, going to make things more varied as well.
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In isometric mode, the amount of voxels makes no difference in terms of performance hit. The only thing that makes a difference is screen resolution.
And if you read about my stats, I am doing 2 million voxels per cubic meter, and generating about 1 billion voxels per second. Not a hoax, you can see in my twitch channel this is real:
twitch.tv/gavanw.
You can also read more about how I accomplish this at voxelquest.com -- see this article:
http://www.voxelquest.com/news/how-does-it-work
Don't confuse me with the Infinite Detail (Euclidean) snake oil - I make my methods public (unlike them), and my engine can do more than just repeated geometry - every voxel can be unique because it is generated on the fly and then dumped once rendered.
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I sent an email to notch, but explicitly stated I was not looking for money or promotion. He wrote a very nice, detailed reply and gave my engine some praise and some constructive criticism as well. Honestly, that is worth more to me than anything else.
Fair enough.
Check out my forums for gameplay discussion - it is vague and I'm taking community input but a lot has been thoughtout/designed already as you can see in the design doc and elsewhere.
P.S Everyone - just got Lord British backing it! Hail Britannia!
Hail Britannia!
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