[BlackDove]

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2010-12-12-retrospective-freespace-2-article

edit: I suppose this was more of a Blue Planet plug?

Maybe it should go there.

[Satellight]

Play Freespace 2 today and you'd be forgiven for laughing incredulously when told that it's over a decade old. Half a decade old, even. Two or three years, perhaps, but the game has been under such heavy cosmetic surgery, under such skill and passion, that this isn't a 10-year-old game anymore. This is the best space sim ever released given the due care and attention it so rightly deserved, to make it an experience that looks as good as it plays. The Freespace 2 Source Code Project is genuinely incredible.

Niiiiice...

[The E]

Oh holy crap.

The entirety of page 3 is a Blue Planet review????????

How the hell did THAT happen?

[General Battuta]

Holy ****, a third of the article is about Blue Planet.

[BlackDove]

There are more eyes on this place than you'd think.

[BlackDove]

Also, much of the article is to the credit of the SCP team as well.

Perhaps try get them to read it as well. They deserve the praise.

[General Battuta]

Also, much of the article is to the credit of the SCP team as well.

Perhaps try get them to read it as well. They deserve the praise.

I have no doubt they will.

[Kolgena]

Brava BP and SCP teams!

[-Norbert-]

The author certainly sounds very taken. And I can understand him very well

[torc]

in italian we say: GRANDI RAGAZZI !!!!!!!!!!  
NON MOLLATE MAI !!!!!!!!!  

[Kolgena]

Erm, what's spectral lighting? He may mean specular?

"The modding scene has been playing catchup ever since, introducing things like normal mapping, and spectral lighting."

[The E]

I think that's what he means.

[Dragon]

On a related note, I've once wrote an article about BP (and earlier, about FS) to my school newspaper.  
As I'm now in a different school, maybe I'll do that again.

[Kolgena]

Reminds me, I have a friend who works in my university's student newspaper. I could probably push an article through her on Freespace.

[IronBeer]

Reminds me, I have a friend who works in my university's student newspaper. I could probably push an article through her on Freespace.

Publicity can't hurt us.

....can it? 

[Kolgena]

Depends on where it's applied. Expanding the community is good, but not if it means tons of immature kiddies start BAWing all over the forums because our freeware isn't up to snuff. One of the online game communities I was part of got completely trashed once they started advertising themselves to those Top 100 game sites and such.

Or, if Interplay or whoever decides to be all dickish and CnD's us for some reason because we garner a lot of attention, that could be bad. That doesn't seem possible though.

[Rodo]

Not gonna happen, we'll lurk into darkness and rebuild our shivanish empire from there.

Then it's just a matter of time.... again.


On topic, nice to see FSO get's some outside love

[Androgeos Exeunt]

Aww, they linked to ModDB instead of here, but then again, that's fair, since we're not the only ones out there.

[übermetroid]

Nice!  Good job with the review!

[Lucika]

My problem with the article is that is basically displays the game as "FS1,FS2,BP,WiH" and that is all. I have no problem with BP getting coverage (good mod ), but it is really easily misinterpreted, as I've seen in some comments.