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Project Spark Information Q&A
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Stronghammer22
Member
Same here. I was using the Consumer preview, then upgraded when Windows 8 was officially released. Steam has been completely fine, as have 99% of my games.
It sounds like you were just unlucky.
Any predictions of what new info we'll get on Saturday?.
edit: Wow, wrong thread.... How did that happen.. lol
Mike_Lescault
Neo Member
Any predictions of what new info we'll get on Saturday?
We're hoping to put out a little teaser video tomorrow (Friday) that talks about some of the things that will be covered.
Also, I'm still working on the Key-value Pair collection constructs question. The brain programmers haven given me the "it's a little too complicated to explain to you right this minute. (and can't you see I'm just trying to get a quick cup of coffee?)" look when I've asked.
haha sounds good look forward to the video, and I'm sure the other guy will appreciate the complicated tech question as soon as they decide to teach it to you ha
Mike_Lescault
Neo Member
haha sounds good look forward to the video, and I'm sure the other guy will appreciate the complicated tech question as soon as they decide to teach it to you ha
We just posted the video: http://youtu.be/bR_S7T6XyKs
-Mike
Project Spark Pre-PAX vlog!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bR_S7T6XyKs
Small sample of Character studio is shown, level linking is shown, and looks like Kinect Capture is heavily improved from the Gamescom build. Looks great.
edit: Beaten by the man himself!
Also, question Mike. Since we can unglue and create new objects with other objects, will we be able to also make armor and weapons that our characters can wear too? Or is there a set library of items that we can put on our characters?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bR_S7T6XyKs
Small sample of Character studio is shown, level linking is shown, and looks like Kinect Capture is heavily improved from the Gamescom build. Looks great.
edit: Beaten by the man himself!
Also, question Mike. Since we can unglue and create new objects with other objects, will we be able to also make armor and weapons that our characters can wear too? Or is there a set library of items that we can put on our characters?
FUCK.
Forsaken82
Member
cant wait for the Mario 64 clones to appear after seeing that unlimited world stuff.
Garrett 2U
Member
Thanks Mike, updated the OP so new people coming in can see it. Loved the over-world ala Super Mario World part to do 1-1 worlds and such, and the ending was pretty much as well.
statham
Member
man, that world linking & overworld looked great.
MightyHedgehog
Member
WOW. Arbitrarily linking to other levels and not just those that are yours is gonna make it possible to channel surf creations whose authors have networked together their levels. And the size of the world with Kinect mocap. Maybe the best thing showing for next-gen, period.
Miles Quaritch
Member
That really does look very impressive. One thing, will there be any super powers? I'm giving serious thought to creating my own Crackdown.
Yeah, you can do that. They've shown 'Logic Cubes' that you can use to track/control everything that happens in a game - experience gained, enemies killed, coins collected, etc.
dragonbane
Member
This is really cool. Actually interested in trying it out on PC.
I actually remember seeing a character having a super jump ability in one of the other videos, so a Crackdown clone does seem possible.
CitizenCope
Member
Wow I could lose hours and hours messing around with this.
Pretty much all characteristics of movements seem to be adjustable via programming, so I'm thinking that changing a character over time would be a snap.
I'm hoping the colours in clothing are adjustable via programming as well. I'd love enemies to turn darker the more you shoot them, for instance, or a gun that turns enemies to gold. I'd call it the Midas gun.
There was one demo where they gave a character a quintuple jump, and then there was another where they had a character level up and gain a fireball ability, so you could conceivably merge those two ideas for a Crackdown-type experience.
Someone somewhere mentioned that the max run speed was 30km/h, but I dunno if that's actually the case.
SlipperyFishes
Banned
I wonder what the preprogrammed AI will be like.
Pretty graphics are nice but it all falls apart if the pathfinding and AI is shit.
Pretty graphics are nice but it all falls apart if the pathfinding and AI is shit.
Twilight Gap
Member
This game is going to be loads of fun
if the AI each person has isn't something you like, just make them do what you want them to.
hipbabboom
Huh? What did I say? Did I screw up again? :(
Miles Quaritch
Member
That's all I needed to know. Crackdown x Prototype x crazy level design and an insane amount of collectibles = game of the forever.
I cannot wait to get my hands on this, really hope I'm accepted for the beta.
hipbabboom
Huh? What did I say? Did I screw up again? :(
I wonder if there's anyway to gauge the economy of these massive worlds. Assuming people will have the time and talent resources (after all the community collaboration will probably make for some massive amounts of man-hours) for generating the level of content needed to fill these worlds, RAM, Storage and bandwidth are finite resources. If I sit down with, lets say, 1000 of my closest friends on Live and decide to create something with the density and foot print of Skyrim or the World of crack down, that's surely a few Gigabytes of data right? I wonder how we would know when we are hitting limits of system resources... what's the economy of these worlds I wonder.
TIMtationX
Member
This is really the only XBone game I'm interested in.
Looks really good.
Looks really good.
There is a female character that gives you quests in one of the first Spark videos. You'll most likely be able to make her playable.
It should be installed right in the box from day 1.
PC OEMS should also make deals with MS, install it and offer free DLCs if you buy a specific laptop from Acer, Asus...etc.
It has strong potentials to boost Xbox and Windows 8 app store as a great gaming ecosystem but knowing MS, they will find a way to halfass it.
RubenCordeiro
Neo Member
This looks interesting. I still have many questions about the creation tools and their flexibility, but I'm in.
yeah they are holding onto the multiplayer details, maybe they're still hammering details out or just like teasing us ha
Garrett 2U
Member
I was so disappointed by the length of the Twitch PAX interview. This was the only game I cared about seeing at PAX, really.
Although I believe they are doing another livestream this week, so that will be nice.
But they must support it, or at least be working on it, if they aren't talking about it.
Well, I hope.
Although I believe they are doing another livestream this week, so that will be nice.
I feel like if they definitely weren't supporting multiplayer then they would say something.
But they must support it, or at least be working on it, if they aren't talking about it.
Well, I hope.
Hmm, from all the info we have so far, this would not be possible unless they include spider in the character assets.
BTW, how come we have never seen player control other characters, like orc or anything like that. I hope that the player is not forced to always be that generic avatar. :/