Just a reminder that on Saturday evening I will be having my showing of "Empire of the Sun" for the Saturday Night Screening Room. With the exception of the President of SNSR, Phil Steinberg, no one has sent an RSVP. So, if you are planning on coming, please let me know. Today Terry painted the marquee and framed the rest of my movie posters so the theatre is set!
Planetside Screenshots
I realize that this post is going to cause some Web-Wiplash, but I think that is ok. For years I have held onto some old Planetside screenshots that I wanted to post online some day. After scouring an old hard drive yesterday these are the ones I came up with. Still, I know I am missing many of the screenshots I really wanted to keep. Especially ones from when the game was very early in development. I designed the entire client side game engine myself and I had a lot of fun during the development process. One of my regrets is that, in many respects, the final game did not look nearly as visually impressive as it did at certain points during development. There were a number of reasons for this. One was from a technology stand point. Most developers of an MMO game engine might assume it would be reasonable to stream data in as a player moved around the environment. That was certainly my original design. However, once the game got into heavy beta testing there was a strong push to get eve
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