Development Info Wasteland 2 Crowdsourcing Experiment

[Brother None]

Batch one purchases have been made.

A quick search of the Unity Asset Store turned up the following "as seen in Wasteland 2" assets. Not necessarily a complete list.

Satellite Dish/Communication Tower
Dilapidated Car
Shanty Shack Pack
Wasteland 2 Turret
Wasteland Water Tower
Wasteland Water Tower
Sandstone Rocks
Rocks Pack
Desert Sandstone
Weathered Bike
Bike and Rack Set
Old Flatbed Train Car
Bicycle and Rack
Dilapidated Car
WCE - Turret
WCE - Bicycle
Old Satellite Dish
Water Tower

I also like some of the submissions being made for batch 3, like http://wasteland.inxile-entertainment.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=3292#p61939 http://wasteland.inxile-entertainment.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=3336#p62091 http://wasteland.inxile-entertainment.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=3323#p62124

 

[TwinkieGorilla]

A bike with decagon wheels. A pleasant ride!

 

[felipepepe]

BTW, bikes are quite present in those things... will they have a in-game use or something?

Just imagine 6 rangers riding into battle on their bikes...

 

[Excidium]

Probably not but would be p. cool. BMX Rangers!

That stuff is p. expensive. $10 for a rock?

 

[felipepepe]

That stuff is p. expensive. $10 for a rock?

Just you wait to see how many times they'll use that goddamn rock.

Also:

 

[hiver]

Those satellite dishes look the best. But all of it is pretty good stuff.

 

[Brother None]

BTW, bikes are quite present in those things... will they have a in-game use or something?

Just imagine 6 rangers riding into battle on their bikes...

Ilya Feldshteyn
@BrianFargo Brian this lady's article asks why are there no bicycles in post-apoc fiction. http://tinyurl.com/bzgeqsq

Brian Fargo
@IlyaFeldshteyn @asymmetricinfo it's a good point though leather clad villains don't look as menacing when peddling.

It's just one asset that happened to be jumped on a few times. The one with decagon wheels was free, so Frith knows if they'll use it. They might tho. Nothing says oldschool like square/decagon wheels.

 

[Kirtai]

Cargo bikes can carry a crazy amount of stuff quite easily. Even ordinary bikes can carry a load of stuff. It's annoying that they don't appear more often.

I'd pay money to see the bad guys cycling around on a delta trike with a machine gun mounted on the back

 

[WhiskeyWolf]

The Imperial Japanese Army used bikes to blitz the Brits in WW2.

 

[NiM82]

De-lurking to smug that my satellite dish got selected, felt good bros. The wait to hear anything back was pretty annoying though, I'd pretty much written it off.

Wasn't really sure what it'd be worth (I'd never used Unity before), so given it was for a good cause decided to simply give it away. Depressing to see what I could've made tho

 

[Surf Solar]

Can't believe they actually purchased those stones when they can be randomly generated for free by many programs. Money well spent again!

 

[Davaris]

Brian Fargo
@IlyaFeldshteyn @asymmetricinfo it's a good point though leather clad villains don't look as menacing when peddling.

Yeah, but they would look funny though. Wasteland is allowed to have a sense of humor.

 

[SwiftCrack]

Those satellite dishes look the best. But all of it is pretty good stuff.

Agreed, and the first one of them is free lol.

 

[SwiftCrack]

De-lurking to smug that my satellite dish got selected, felt good bros. The wait to hear anything back was pretty annoying though, I'd pretty much written it off.

Wasn't really sure what it'd be worth (I'd never used Unity before), so given it was for a good cause decided to simply give it away. Depressing to see what I could've made tho

You made that free satellite dish?

nice one man

 

[tuluse]

Can't believe they actually purchased those stones when they can be randomly generated for free by many programs. Money well spent again!

Are we really complaining about $25 spent on some rocks, and letting fans get involved now?

 

[FUDU]

De-lurking to smug that my satellite dish got selected, felt good bros. The wait to hear anything back was pretty annoying though, I'd pretty much written it off.

Wasn't really sure what it'd be worth (I'd never used Unity before), so given it was for a good cause decided to simply give it away. Depressing to see what I could've made tho

You made that free satellite dish?

nice one man

Seconded. Now go make some more, and get what your work is worth, this time. Make them a bicycle with 12 sided wheels and an old dilapidated barn with one of those rooster weather veins on top.

 

[TalesfromtheCrypt]

Can't believe they actually purchased those stones when they can be randomly generated for free by many programs. Money well spent again!

Are we really complaining about $25 spent on some rocks, and letting fans get involved now?

Surf Solar is just being retarded again.

 

[TwinkieGorilla]

"Again"? Does he have any other mode?

 

[Brother None]

The process is pretty slow because it got from Unity to inXile and I think there only Koy was reviewing them. I think he's roping more people in now so it speeds up some, hopefully it'll improve.

And yeah, they noted they want deviations and creativity but a lot of people made some literal interpretations. Problem with that is you end up with identical copies inXile can't use. They want variety so they can buy and use multiple, ideally.

 

[EG]

De-lurking to smug that my satellite dish got selected, felt good bros.

Gonna have to join you on that one.
Funny how it actually turned that I was the only one who wasn't following that concept to the letter, despite them blurting out something about

The wait to hear anything back was pretty annoying though, I'd pretty much written it off.

So did I. For a moment it looked like they weren't too enthusiastic about it. Guess they were simply too busy, what's with assembling a working build in a months' time and all.

That is a very nice turret. o_O And without the exaggerated proportions on the barrel that pissed me off about "the other."

 

[hiver]

Great job, both of you. Looks like professional grade stuff to me.

 

[I_am_Ian]

Any chance one of you fine gentleman can create a railroad car based on North American design rather than the European type in the screenshots? Are they asking for anything like that?

 

[hiver]

No offense, but if you want to encourage creativity, you better state that outright. If I remember the descriptions for the first batch correctly, there was not a single hint about how closely you have to stick to the concept. Sure, there were some rather vague statements that were open for interpretation, but that was it. It was quite logical that most of them ended up sticking to the concepts as close as possible.

This.

 

[I_am_Ian]

Here's a website with pictures of various North American railroad cars:

http://www.american-rails.com/freight-cars.html

Note the coupling mechanisms on the end of the cars. This is the primary difference between European and American cars.

 

[Kosmonaut]

Here's a website with pictures of various North American railroad cars:

http://www.american-rails.com/freight-cars.html

Note the coupling mechanisms on the end of the cars. This is the primary difference between European and American cars.

Jesus, indeed you are obsessed with this issue.