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Project Offset FPS Amazes
Spaceman40 wrote to mention a post up on Joystiq about a beautiful next-gen FPS called Project Offset. From the article: "Doom 3 engine? Was nice knowing you. UT? Old news. Source? Over there. We'll call you if we need you. You can all stand back, though. There's a new king on the way to town. Project Offset is a new first person shooter, and the developer is showing off what their new graphics engine can do. The movies are not pre-rendered. The developer says they're all real time...The demo looks amazing! Videos are available at the official site.'"
at least one of the developers worked on the very cool indie games festival winner 'savage: battle for newerth' (sp?) as well, so they have already proved that they can do some cool stuff, game-design wise
unfortunately the character designs are less than inspired...so many games doing the same kind of blah characters...
but very inspiring to have a team like this blowing the lid off the whole 'throw away your code' attitude that gabe newell spouted a few weeks back, and the 'indie developers wont be able to compete' line that EA tried to pass off a while back as well.
lets hope the online play is as innovative as savage was (even being the natural selection ripoff that it sorta was)...combining an rts, fps and 3rd person game into a very fun online action game...
savage did things in it's online play that haven't been seen in an action game before or since, with the ai controlled npc's mining resources and other very cool things like that.
looking forward to seeing how this project (pardon the pun) progresses...
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Hey guys, just to clarify a couple things: - We're ex developers of S2 Games, but no longer affiliated with them. Offset Software is a new company. - Project Offset is not a multiplayer only game. We have a single player and coop mode planned. I've been developing this engine for about a 1.5 years now, and Travis and Trevor (the artists) started helping me out full time about six months ago. We feel like we've been making good progress, but we don't plan on completing the game with only the three of us, so we are looking for publishing opportunities and other forms of funding (licensing the engine...) Our goal is not to just make a game with pretty graphics. We're dedicated to making the gameplay equally as good. Sam McGrath www.projectoffset.com