SkySaga

Rather than a project update this time, I'm pleased to share some links to the great new game SkySaga: Infinite Isles that's just been announced.  This is being developed by the company I work for Radiant Worlds and we're all super excited about our efforts soon becoming available to the world.

Here's our announce trailer:

And some gameplay:


More information can be found at the game website: http://www.skysaga.com/ including how you can get involved with the alpha program right now.

Enjoy!

Links, old and new

I thought people with similar interests to myself might find these recent presentations interesting:

Terrain in Battlefield 3 (GDC 2012)

Deferred Radiance Transfer Volumes in Far Cry 3 (GDC 2012)

I also came across a commercial terrain tool I wasn't aware of:

GeoControl 2

and finally just for fun here are some retro links to some information on "White Magic 1" & "White Magic 2" - the very first games I had commercially published:

This was on the Acorn Electron back in 1990, 1 whole Mhz of 8bit power and 32K of total RAM driving a 160x256 screen resolution with four colours and a tape drive!

I couldn't afford a floppy disc drive at the time so had to assemble the code to the screen memory, save the assembly source to tape then copy the machine code from the screen memory into normal memory to run it before loading the graphics from tape each time I wanted to test anything...happy days.

The Scale of the Universe

Just a short note this one to point out a link I find very interesting.  Entitled "The Scale of the Universe" by Cary Huang it's a fascinating interactive exploration of the relative sizes of all manner of entities in the Universe.

The Scale of the Universe

Maybe it's just me, but I find zooming in and out and clicking on the different entities for extra information strangely compulsive...