Planets³, an Open-World Voxel-Based rpg • Hacker News Board

Re: Planets³, an Open-World Voxel-Based rpg

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Post by wildpeaks » Sun, Mar 09, 2014, 9:52 PM UTC

rdl wrote: post #4

This looks pretty cool as an idea. The pseudonyms and cartoons for all the developers is somewhat concerning, as a naturally suspicious person. I've been happy when I funded game projects by known successful teams (UberEnt, Garriott), but I'd be reluctant to fund someone who didn't have a track record or a real identity. (I just noticed if you dig into their FB page and such, you see stills from French TV interviews…

There was an interview (in french, sorry) of the developers on Clubic yesterday: http://www.clubic.com/internet/financement-participatif/actu...

Re: Planets³, an Open-World Voxel-Based rpg

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Post by eropple » Sun, Mar 09, 2014, 9:54 PM UTC

pekk wrote: post #14

eropple wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You are conflating "celebrity" and "somebody who is likely to deliver and not waste your backing money." As someone doing a Kickstarter fairly soon, this is an issue I'm working to alleviate, but not with cute pseudonyms. I mean, WTF is this (from their Kickstarter page): Why should you trust us? The fate of our company and its team depends on the success of this game. Well, of course , but that doesn't do anything t…

I'm not conflating those things. You don't have to be Richard Garriott to be credible. Why even mention the guy? The only way you can be him is if you have decades of published games, it's not useful advice for people who are relatively unknown.

You don't have to be Garriott to be credible, but he is credible. Because he has a track record. If they do have a track record of building quality projects (and they say they do), they aren't substantiating it. See the problem?

I don't have a shipped-product track record, so I'm going to have a playable vertical slice--not a complete game, not narrative-based, but a demonstration that our features are already working, that our game isn't just hype, and what we need a Kickstarter for is assets and content creation. Because I understand people do and should laugh at projects that handwave this stuff.

Re: Planets³, an Open-World Voxel-Based rpg

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Post by blister » Sun, Mar 09, 2014, 10:01 PM UTC

mml wrote: post #16

No OSX port until the surpass their initial goal. Meh.

Agreed. Not funding until they get there. :/ Looks like an interesting game though.

Re: Planets³, an Open-World Voxel-Based rpg

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Post by jws » Sun, Mar 09, 2014, 10:08 PM UTC

gamegoblin wrote: post #19

I'm curious how gravity will work when tunneling through a planet.

I don't know how they plan to handle it. In a similar game I've worked on (unpublished) gravity is handled like our universe, but with a bias toward the three orthogonal axis. This leaves you feeling like a 2d world on the faces, but as you approach to edges you begin to lean into them until you are "standing on the peak of the roof" at the edge, continuing brings you upright on the next face. A coefficient governs the strength of the bias, which I adjusted to trade off the width of the "funny" zones and the gravity direction gradient.

At the center of the planets, there is a singularity (which if you screw up the math can catapult you into space, game debugging has lots of fun to it) but is actually a non-issue because the strength of the gravity approaches zero, so the fact that it flips around in directions doesn't really matter, after you debug it.

Re: Planets³, an Open-World Voxel-Based rpg

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Post by ansimionescu » Sun, Mar 09, 2014, 10:08 PM UTC

salman89 wrote: post #18

krsunny wrote: post #5

Sidebar; I have never seen super script in URL before. Didnt even think it was possible.

http://thepicrain.com/planets%C2%B3-an-open-world-voxel-base... I think it is bad practice - users cannot type it out if needed

http://goo.gl/lhN4kG

There, solved it for you. [yes, I'm implying that nobody types in long URLs, and if they do, they're in a negligible minority]

Re: Planets³, an Open-World Voxel-Based rpg

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Post by agumonkey » Sun, Mar 09, 2014, 10:09 PM UTC

I like the 16bit ascii art impressionism with a modern rendering feel. Finally.

Re: Planets³, an Open-World Voxel-Based rpg

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Post by shiven » Sun, Mar 09, 2014, 10:27 PM UTC

Sorry to sound cynical, but having seen the glacial pace of progress with Godus, thanks, but no thanks.

Kickstarted, drip-fed games, are not my cup of tea.

Re: Planets³, an Open-World Voxel-Based rpg

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Post by rdl » Sun, Mar 09, 2014, 10:43 PM UTC

eropple wrote: post #22

pekk wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not conflating those things. You don't have to be Richard Garriott to be credible. Why even mention the guy? The only way you can be him is if you have decades of published games, it's not useful advice for people who are relatively unknown.

You don't have to be Garriott to be credible, but he is credible. Because he has a track record. If they do have a track record of building quality projects (and they say they do), they aren't substantiating it. See the problem? I don't have a shipped-product track record, so I'm going to have a playable vertical slice--not a complete game, not narrative-based, but a demonstration that our features are already workin…

What platform?

Re: Planets³, an Open-World Voxel-Based rpg

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Post by beefsack » Sun, Mar 09, 2014, 10:45 PM UTC

I can't seem to figure out which PC platforms they're targeting, they just say "PC".

Re: Planets³, an Open-World Voxel-Based rpg

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Post by touristtam » Sun, Mar 09, 2014, 10:47 PM UTC

shiven wrote: post #27

Sorry to sound cynical, but having seen the glacial pace of progress with Godus, thanks, but no thanks. Kickstarted, drip-fed games, are not my cup of tea.

Godus is certainly not the odd one out, but at the same time the lead behind it is quite well known for under delivering as opposed to those guys who are unknown.