Comments on: Things That Make You Go Boom?

By: SleepyMatt

SleepyMatt — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 01:39:31 +0000

And who says games can’t also be art? Genious.

Now I merely await an equally awesome and fitting tribute to that other FPS staple – the collapsible crate.

By: Davee

Davee — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 09:10:30 +0000

Ah yes, good old UT2k4. And now with seas of exploding barrels; even better!

Let me quote the Heavy Weapons Guy: “Ratatatata, ratatatata, kaboom! KABOOM!”.

I.e; EPIC!

By: Earl_of_Josh

Earl_of_Josh — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 20:04:56 +0000

@Clovis

Great article! I er, literally enjoyed it ;-)

By: midijunky

midijunky — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 20:02:56 +0000

A fitting tribute to the exploding barrel, which has been a staple in FPS games since Doom.

Which makes me wonder, can anyone provide an example of barrels exploding in a FPS before Doom?

By: Bobsy

Bobsy — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 18:25:10 +0000

Brought a tear to my eye. I salute the victor in the eternal war against explosive barrels.

By: Carra

Carra — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 18:19:23 +0000

I was thinking about V when I saw Kieron mention the Ouverture. Noticing the V in the clip made me giggle :)

By: theleif

theleif — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 16:32:31 +0000

Oh. That song always make me think of the lovely Project X for amiga. That was the high score tune.

By: gobion

gobion — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 16:32:29 +0000

Awesome :)

By: Frenz0rz

Frenz0rz — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 16:08:24 +0000

Oh wow I used to play with the Omnipotents lads all the time, nice to see they’re still playing some classic UT2k4 Assault mode. Damn, makes me want to go back and play it all over again, I wonder if the communitys still going strong.

By: Michael Leung

Michael Leung — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 15:49:26 +0000

The 1812 Overture may be wonderful, but it’s nothing compared to explosions with the Ride of the Valkyries in the background.

By: EGTF

EGTF — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 15:11:26 +0000

Obscure 90′s song reference title win/fail. I can’t decide which it is.

By: Daniel Klein

Daniel Klein — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 13:57:41 +0000

Reminds me of the glorious days of mapmaking for Duke3D. Once I’d figured out how to rig explosions (like the condemned building in the second level) that was all I did, to the extent that my friends came to me with almost finished maps saying stuff like “and there in the end when you escape from the compound on the high speed train, I want EVERYTHING TO BLOW UP behind you”.

I think the biggest thing I built was something like 700 gas canisters. Now in Build, you had to place these entities one by one. You needed to shrink them horizontally as far as they would let you, and that would make them invisible, and then you had to rig up two variables attached to the sprite, one to say what explosion they’re part of (technically, which other item/zone triggered them) and the delay between the main trigger and this particular sub-explosion. That was it was possible the build these extremely elaborate tendrils of explosions slowly rising into the air.

I went a little crazy with those.