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RagDoll Development

Posted by Zonk on from the hi-yaaa dept.

Gamasutra is running an interview with Mark Healey, developer on the Bullfrog title Dungeon Keeper and, more recently, developer of the Steam-powered beat em' up RagDoll Kung Fu. From the article: "GS: Were you influenced by any gesture interface work in particular? MH: Yes. I remember playing a demo where you could push crash dummies down some stairs, I forget what it was called, maybe it was 'Stair Dismount' or something like that. I almost got a little buzz that you could be like a puppeteer. " Update: 12/06 23:49 GMT by Z : Oops. It's on the Steam service, not made in the Source engine. Wrong (tm).

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  1. BlackShades by KaosConMan · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If you enjoy Dismount, check out BlackShades -- http://www.icculus.org/blackshades/ One of it's unique features is the rag-doll skeletal animation. I found the game play to be cute, graphics to be lacking, but the animations very cool.

  2. Re:Rag Doll Kung Fu? by LearningHard · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I played it on a friend's account for awhile. I must say that I came away inredibly happy I didn't shell out money for the game. I really have nothing positive to say about it. For me it definitely ranks as one of the most horrible computer games I've ever played (and this is since the mid 80's).

  3. Rag Doll Masters by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Rag Doll Masters is another great rag doll game. At least my roomates and I were able to kill a couple drunken hours playing it. It brought back such good memories of mac shareware that I shelled out the $5 to register. I highly reccomend it.