[project1dev] Re: Cinematics
- From: Kent Petersen <kentkmp@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: project1dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 11:50:46 -0700
Cool that sounds better than what I was thinking =)
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 11:49 AM, Alan Wolfe <alan.wolfe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> basically when you click "new game" it would go into a movie (ie mpeg) and
> same thing, when you beat the game it would launch up another movie.
>
> the contents of that movie could be anything from ray traced hyper
> realistic graphics, to an animated cartoon, to a slide show of hand drawn
> (or painted) art.
>
> no clue what eric has planned but he said he had some ideas. It ought to
> be interesting to see what he comes up with (:
>
>
> On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 11:46 AM, Kent Petersen <kentkmp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> What were you thinking for a cinematic? Like a scripted event or something
>> else? When you say a slide show with a voice over my thoughts drift to
>> something like Fallout or Fallout2
>>
>>
>> On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 10:18 AM, Alan Wolfe <alan.wolfe@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>>
>>> Hey Guys,
>>>
>>> headin off to work but just wanted to mention this.
>>>
>>> In our game, our goal is to have somewhere between 5-10 levels (each
>>> level having an overworld and a first person area) and a cinematic at the
>>> beginning of the game and a cinematic at the end of the game too if we can
>>> make it happen. All this in 12-18 months total (tomorow is the end of the
>>> 1st month!)
>>>
>>> The cinematic at the beginning is there to tell the story that happened
>>> before the game... who your character is, what his motivations are, etc.
>>>
>>> The cinematic at the end is there to tell the story about what happens
>>> after you beat the game. If it's really hard to make the cinematics, or
>>> just takes way too much effort, we'll stick to just a cinematic in the
>>> beginning i think.
>>>
>>> Eric made up this back story for the game so he's going to be doing the
>>> cinematics too. Woot!
>>>
>>> This is potentially a really huge task (even if we make a simple slide
>>> show cinematic with voice over) and we have like 9-12 months for it so it's
>>> good we are starting this early i think.
>>>
>>
>>
>
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