[Inquisitor]

First off, apologies for the spam nature and the IM's I sent everyone.

Second, as most of you know, I have been working part time for the last year or so on a commercial game project, Dark Horizons- Lore.

http://www.garagegames.com/lore

It's $24.95, it's of fun, and, well, it's on sale now

I am gonna go have a beer now

[Unknown Target]

You get payed?
And interested and doing anything else????

[an0n]

Looks like Halo.

[Unknown Target]

No, it's an MMO game, using Torque, where you ONLY pilot mechs. In fact, it's nothing LIKE Halo

or at least it doesn't look like it

[aldo_14]

looks neat

[Inquisitor]

Not QUITE an MMO (well, not like EQ or Planetside) no subscriptions. But there is some persistence to the players data.

A little more than Squad Wars was, I'd say. Something similar to Multi Player Battle Tech that EA cancelled. We're all mech fiends, so, we wanted a mech game

And we will get paid for this, if people buy it

[an0n]

Originally posted by Unknown Target
No, it's an MMO game, using Torque, where you ONLY pilot mechs. In fact, it's nothing LIKE Halo

or at least it doesn't look like it

I wasn't refering to the game, I was refering to the general look of the graphics and models.

[Ace]

So you're involved with this? Cool.

Personally though, I'm looking forward to SS:2845 when it comes to giant robot/mech games.

[Inquisitor]

Download the demo, if you hate it, well, that's cool too, but try it, and go into it with an open mind

[WMCoolmon]

Looks nice

Will it be available at CompUSA?

[mikhael]

So I gave it a try, Inqui. Interestingly, I had no idea when I was getting hit. There wasn't damage taking sound played. The graphics were reasonably smooth and fast in OpenGL, though the Direct3d was wonky as hell. The instructor's voice was... interesting. He must have been UTTERLY bored reading the script.

All in all, not bad. I need to configure my stick and throttle before I decide if I like the game or not though.

[J3Vr6]

I can't see the website, says something about a lot of traffic.

[Inquisitor]

Yeah, Murphy's law. Release the game, publisher's site goes down from the traffic

Check back soon

mik: it's not perfect, certainly, but, we had fun making it, and peopel seem to enjoy it. The demo goes I think 7 days, so, get a feel for it

Unless you want to help a local boy make good, then you can just buy it (Hey, I am not proud ).

[Setekh]

Ditto, looks like I'm getting the same traffic message. Pity, I've been really looking forward to seeing this come to completion. Mega kudos, Inq.

[Turnsky]

Originally posted by Inquisitor
Yeah, Murphy's law

It's actually ..

"If there are two or more ways to do something and one of those results in a catastrophe, then someone will do it that way"

-Air Force Captain Edward A. Murphy Jnr

"Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong."
-Finagle's Law

[Kazan]

hopefully it sells well enough for you to get  funding to develope another title and be able to hire professional voice actors and such

[mikhael]

Originally posted by Inquisitor
Yeah, Murphy's law. Release the game, publisher's site goes down from the traffic

Check back soon

mik: it's not perfect, certainly, but, we had fun making it, and peopel seem to enjoy it. The demo goes I think 7 days, so, get a feel for it

Unless you want to help a local boy make good, then you can just buy it (Hey, I am not proud ).

If I like it at the end of the trial, I will buy it. I've been looking for a cheap mech piloting game.

[J3Vr6]

The screenshots look cool.  But is it only a multiplayer game? I don't have a phone at home

[mikhael]

It is not multiplayer only, J3Vr6 (man, can we get an easier to type name on you? like JPee6 or something? ). There's (i think) three single player missions in the demo.

[Inquisitor]

6 missions, but, the AI is not the brightest feature in the game. It's principally multiplayer (for now).