Wizardy, I tell you. WIZARDRY.

O RLY. Half-Life 1, Deus Ex, and Max Payne all pull amazing feats with their engines, due to excellent artistic direction—DX in particular shines as an example of grubby-but-not-colourless and futuristic-without-neon-overload. If anything, the tendancy to slop-bucket pixel shaders over everything these days seems to be making modellers and texture artists lazy. (Massive exception for Team Fortress 2 applies.)

Also, UT99 forever. Although one cannot underestimate the awesome of UT2004’s VCTF when teamwork actually happens.

The humanoids in the UT3 universe are about the size of a golfball.

Not surprisingly, he’s an art director at Epic now, whose whole approach to visual design seems to be summable with the phrase “you missed a spot.”

As a “fratboy,” I must respectfully disagree with your broad sweeping generaliza-WOOO KEGGERRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ok, this has absolutely nothing to do with the dinosaur mod, but since people are once again bashing Dude Huge, I’d like to point you to this little post on kotaku:

http://kotaku.com/5057652/three-developers-explain-littlebigplanet-level-design-to-a-7+year+old

While David Jaffe and that guy from Metroid treated the boy’s question with respect and gave good answers, all Mr. Betzinski came up with, was a lame joke.

If a guy can’t even respect a 7 year old kid, how do you expect him to respect his customers.

Jesus, it’s like having a fratboy as a game designer.

While David Jaffe and that guy from Metroid treated the boy’s question with respect and gave good answers, all Mr. Betzinski came up with, was a lame joke.

If a guy can’t even respect a 7 year old kid, how do you expect him to respect his customers.

In 1998, CliffyB laughed in my e-face after I told him I wanted to be a game designer. After that he said “Oh wait… you’re serious?”. At the time I was the same age he was when he started at Epic.

MY ENTIRE CAREER IS THEREFORE NOTHING BUT A REVENGE QUEST.

In 1998 I wrote up a design document for Leper Arena which included a “Dino Munch” game mode.

It was basically Quake 3’s overload, but with a mobile team Dinosaur which morphed between a T-Rex and a Velociraptor depending on health. It grew smaller and nippier the lower its health (so it was a slippery devil to finally kill), and slower but more dangerous the more it ate. The objective was to kill the other team’s Dino.

You could feed it the limbs of enemies, or sacrifice your own limbs (limb loss being a mainstay mechanics of Leper Quake). If you overfed your dinosaur, it would poop mega healths and quad damages.

Damn I was a cool designer before I started to understand about technical realities and market forces. I want my imagination back!