Sounds like a cool game. I'll have to keep an eye on this one. I like solo RPGs myself, party based ones always made me feel less connected to my characters, especially with my focus being split among them.
Looking at the screenshots it looks 3d with a fixed, isometric camera like Arcanum not 2d isometric like BG or Ultima Online. You mentioned both 2d and Arcanum in this article Dhruin so I'm confused. Comparing the graphics to Arcanum may not be a compliment as there were so many criticisms about it (although I liked it in their game. Troika's choice for a demo was a mistake IMO).
I'm disappointed on the limited choice of a male profile but indy development can be like that. UFO:ET was like that in there was only voiceset, a man dying, even when there were female characters.
It sounds like you play a single character and not a party. Are there any Fallout like companions you can pick up instead then?
Yes, now that nearly everyone is using fixed-resolution monitors (ie LCDs) it's an extremely bad idea to only offer one resolution. Could have been worse, though. A lot of people have 20" 1600x1200 LCDs, so 800x600 scales into that perfectly by just quadrupling everything. If he'd picked 1024x768, it would have looked bad for just about everyone.I'll check out the interpolation quality of the demo but I'm not expecting much. This is pretty much a show stopper for me. Blurry graphics are a huge turnoff for me
Part 5: General Information
The Game Engine
17) How different is the art creation process than in Fallout?
Sharon Shellman 3/12/2001
All of our art was created using Maya, a 3D program. A character is modeled, textured, animated and then rendered out into sprites (the full animation, for each of the 8 rotations available in the game). The sprites are then palleted and turned into a .art file using our own custom program. Then we use a different custom program to set the speed and "action" frame on the .art file, name it appropriately, edit a .mes file to tell the game its there and then its done.
No harm done, as you're far from the first one to mention M&M with this game. Heck, Basilisk trots out the reference as well. I was curious whether the reference was due to M&M being a pillar of "old skool RPG" like Wizardry and Ultima (2 other series that keep getting mentioned) or if there were significant similarities. Thanks for clarifying.@dte, the Might & Magic thing is probably a bit lazy on my part. It's not very similar really apart from that sort of highly-interactive not-holding-your-hand-too-much kinda classic CRPG gameplay.
800x600 resolution seems odd to me. The last time I sold a monitor with this as the max was a 15" in 1995. Otherwise, I've only recently seen projectors with this. I think even HDTV's do better.
I wasn't aware that some LCD's have fixed resolutions that can't do this low so is Windowed going to be the only option or will they have big black edges on the side?