Lucage
30-03-2006, 21:14
Because Jock was whinging at me in IRC to post something.
This is going to go out worldwide in a couple of days, but I figured I'd share a sneaky peak for you guys.. just keep it under yer hats willya?
Ok.. so.. Air Ace is coming along really well. I mean REALLY well. Loads of stuff happening and its impossible to tell you all of it.
but the big big big BIG news is that we are now partnering up with another team to release BOTH Air Ace AND another game.
The other game?
Jet Thunder!!! (www.jet-thunder.com)
Yep, that means, basically we get access to JT's artists, they get access to our programmers and everyone is happy and we're all going to retire to our own private island and begin training or our ninja army (complete with clothing in a single colour and a sponsored logo).
But I digress...
Anyway, JT is a sim I think many of you guys will find some affinity with, so its a good match, plus the buggers have almost the whole artwork load done, so its just us getting the code done.
This also helps becuase it means we will be shipping the game with MORE than the initial lineup of planes we were expecting!!!
To show you how both Air Ace and JT have been progressing, I thought I'd share a couple of things..
First up, is a pretty big image Thomas (our danish programmer) took of the Stuka doing a bombing pass on a train..
Please click the link, the image is too big to paste into here.
http://www.zoombapup.com/airace/stukabomb1.jpg
Next up, is a quickie little movie thomas took of him flying across an enemy base.. (yeah, the base flickers, zfighting, we'll fix that soon). Note the ak ak, flak bursts and tracer fire. And yes, thomas cant spell flak Smile
http://www.zoombapup.com/airace/flak.wmv
Just so you get a flavour of JT, I've included a link to a quick movie of JT running with a quick terrain I threw together, that same terrain might form part of a mission in Air Ace too.
http://www.zoombapup.com/jt/TSE_SeaHarrier.avi
So I hope you can see, we're not being lazy asses.. in fact, we're moving along with this thing so fast at the moment its too much to keep you up to date with.
Oh, on another note, playtests will start up again in a few weeks. We've got a persistant backend in there now and we'll need to start checking user authentication and all that good stuff.
So there ya go.. big stuff. So keep it to yerselves right now, this news goes live day after tommorow.
Phil.
This is going to go out worldwide in a couple of days, but I figured I'd share a sneaky peak for you guys.. just keep it under yer hats willya?
Ok.. so.. Air Ace is coming along really well. I mean REALLY well. Loads of stuff happening and its impossible to tell you all of it.
but the big big big BIG news is that we are now partnering up with another team to release BOTH Air Ace AND another game.
The other game?
Jet Thunder!!! (www.jet-thunder.com)
Yep, that means, basically we get access to JT's artists, they get access to our programmers and everyone is happy and we're all going to retire to our own private island and begin training or our ninja army (complete with clothing in a single colour and a sponsored logo).
But I digress...
Anyway, JT is a sim I think many of you guys will find some affinity with, so its a good match, plus the buggers have almost the whole artwork load done, so its just us getting the code done.
This also helps becuase it means we will be shipping the game with MORE than the initial lineup of planes we were expecting!!!
To show you how both Air Ace and JT have been progressing, I thought I'd share a couple of things..
First up, is a pretty big image Thomas (our danish programmer) took of the Stuka doing a bombing pass on a train..
Please click the link, the image is too big to paste into here.
http://www.zoombapup.com/airace/stukabomb1.jpg
Next up, is a quickie little movie thomas took of him flying across an enemy base.. (yeah, the base flickers, zfighting, we'll fix that soon). Note the ak ak, flak bursts and tracer fire. And yes, thomas cant spell flak Smile
http://www.zoombapup.com/airace/flak.wmv
Just so you get a flavour of JT, I've included a link to a quick movie of JT running with a quick terrain I threw together, that same terrain might form part of a mission in Air Ace too.
http://www.zoombapup.com/jt/TSE_SeaHarrier.avi
So I hope you can see, we're not being lazy asses.. in fact, we're moving along with this thing so fast at the moment its too much to keep you up to date with.
Oh, on another note, playtests will start up again in a few weeks. We've got a persistant backend in there now and we'll need to start checking user authentication and all that good stuff.
So there ya go.. big stuff. So keep it to yerselves right now, this news goes live day after tommorow.
Phil.