By Jim Rossignol on June 29th, 2008 at 9:50 am.
Eskil Steenberg, solo developer of the impressionistic art-MMO, Love – which I talked about in detail here – has been posting some more screenshots of his work over on his blog. I’ve collected them and posted them after the jump. The show new water rendering systems, as well as the city-rendering systems. It’s all deformable, destructible, and absolutely beautiful. (Click on the images for full-size.)
29/06/2008 at 10:10 rob says:
If there is one MMO I would consider playing it is this one.
29/06/2008 at 10:19 Vollgassen says:
I’d really like to see this in motion. I wonder if the blurry impressionistic look is more distracting than appealing when actually moving. In the hi res screen it seems like there are a lot of things going on that while moving could be really obnoxious or be static planar sprites that just don’t look good when viewed from multiple angles.
The stills look fantastic though.
29/06/2008 at 10:21 Fede says:
Looks very nice indeed, I really really hope the gameplay won’t disappoint us.
29/06/2008 at 10:27 Andrew Doull says:
Amazing.
29/06/2008 at 10:28 nabeel says:
Astounding. I’d been looking forward to any tiny new bit of info since your preview, so thanks for the heads-up.
nabeel
29/06/2008 at 10:40 Jesse says:
I just *can’t* wait until this is released. So excited. I’m just going to love it!
Couldn’t help myself.
29/06/2008 at 11:15 Kadayi says:
The imagery is fantastic, but seems vaguely at odds with the intention of it being a shooter. Like Vollgassen I’d like to see a trailer though.
29/06/2008 at 11:25 Willem says:
But is it art?
*strokes beard*
29/06/2008 at 11:35 Cooper says:
I just hope – so much – that this doesn’t fall through.
29/06/2008 at 11:38 sana says:
No anti-aliasing?
29/06/2008 at 11:48 K says:
He’s given himself a huge challenge to get this right first time. It’s only new once. But it’s looking fantastic.
I wonder if it deforms in a way that looks like water running down a painting.
29/06/2008 at 15:36 Corvus says:
Here’s a link for anyone looking for some actual footage. Though it doesn’t show any actual gameplay, and is filmed on a camcorder, I still think it shows that Love looks just as spectacular in motion:
http://www.massively.com/2008/02/26/gdc08-when-love-came-to-town/
I think the day-night cycle might need slowing down a bit however.
29/06/2008 at 15:50 Valentin Galea says:
Finally a game where I can be the Nameless One! given that you won’t be able to choose/have a name…
29/06/2008 at 16:42 TychoCelchuuu says:
Looks like that filter that Grand Theft Auto 4 uses to make everything blurry.
29/06/2008 at 16:50 Kadayi says:
Cheers for linkage Corvus, it’s nice to know it’s much more than some fancy screenshots ;)
29/06/2008 at 17:52 nabeel says:
Thanks for the link, Corvus, that looks bloody awesome.
nabeel
29/06/2008 at 18:40 dbdkmezz says:
Cheers for the link, Corvus. The stills alone look beautiful, but in action, Wow, spectacular!
Better start queuing for spaces in the first 400 player server now :)
30/06/2008 at 02:08 Noc says:
What those jerks said.
30/06/2008 at 09:44 Mooey Poo says:
It’s all too brown today
30/06/2008 at 13:59 Jamie says:
game looks so good
30/06/2008 at 23:44 Stromko says:
I think the graphics are a good choice, an attempt to be sort of ‘ageless’. High-definition realistic graphics show their age immediately, even if they ever become 100% realistic, they’ll be outshone by games that look better than real. Going for a sort of symbolic vision rather than realism should avoid eyepain down the line. I think the time will come when Gears of War or MGS3 is too ugly to look at, but I for one never get tired ASCII-esque ROGUE-likes or ‘altered reality’ games like Uplink or DEFCON.
I don’t think using symbolic art is necessary for a game to be ‘art’ though. Even the worst game is more unique and less derivative than a summer blockbuster.
01/07/2008 at 09:36 Fashigady says:
“they’ll be outshone by games that look better than real.”
Better than real? How is that possible?
01/07/2008 at 09:51 fluffy bunny says:
“Better than real? How is that possible?”
Heh. Looked at any pictures of pretty women lately? Noticed how their skin always look so perfect and how their teeth are so shining and white? :-)