Dude, I gotta bump my blog. I'm tired of all of that cross-posting nonsense. I just got off the plane and I'm sitting at the office here in Paris. I'm very tired but I can't check into my hotel till later today. I had a relatively uneventful flight and read two books on the way. Perhaps I will post reviews when I wake up.
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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