The Playtest

Like the third screenshot ... weally good !

A while ago now TWHL held a competition called 'Talking Scientists'. The original contest rules can be found here: http://cariad.co.za/twhl/compoinfo.php?id=9


This is my entry for their contest. Since I had exams while I made it and a very thight deadline for it, it's not really polished on all aspects, so I overused some textures (no time to create more custom ones) and the voice-acting ain't of the quality I had wanted, but overall it's gameplay and experience are good. At least that's what I heard from my betatesters. As you will see, I added quite a twist to the original contest rules by integrating the chatter into a bit of action... :biggrin:

I'd like to get some reactions on this one. Feel free to play... :smile:

Looks pretty cool, although the lighting is fairly bland. I'll play it
when I get a chance, probably be a couple of days though. :smile:

Yeah, I think even a generic air vent texture would look a lot better than that weird concrete texture over that curving air duct brushwork. Looks okay though.

Everything in this map is a square, from the textures to the brushwork to the shadows.

It's right, architecture isn't really outstanding. I focussed more on gameplay and gameflow. If I had some more time I would've done it different but well, 2 weeks during exams ain't really that much time. But about that, anyone liked to play the map?

Oh, and any suggestions on how to keep the squariness low? Might be handy for future maps... :smile:

Run -extra.

Cassius said:
Run -extra.

Yea, on the light exe run -extra at the end, you probably already know this but[ i don't doubt your intelligence] -full on the vis is helpful aswell.

I know the -full command on VIS, wich I always use, but the -extra command on RAD is something I haven't really investigated yet. I might have tried it out a long while ago but well have forgotten it. Thanks. I really should investigate those compile commands some more...

Like the map Cap'n. Although, that first voice bit was a little wierd:
"now its your turn walter no more secrets this time. only one". It kinda sounded like one sentence.

I always run -extra on RAD. And another 1000 options.

I found that full vis gave me loads of lighting errors, and worse r_speeds. I think you just have to experiment and see what works best for your map.

That isn't right. Full VIS should technically make the r_speeds lower because running with no VIS makes em terrible.

what SJ said actually happened so it is right, sure it shouldnt happen but it did

Just another case where there is no 'always applies' rule :smile:

I have played it and it is pretty good. The only bug I noticed was that the mouse seemed to be waaaaay to sensitive. Even with the sensitivity set low it was still really responsive. What's up wit dat?

The water looks real

Thanks. The water consists of just two transparant layers, with textures moving in different directions. Nothing fancy, but it gives a nice semi-random result.

As for mouse sensitivity (I know it's a late reply, sorry!), I've taken out the config files a while ago so that should be fine now.

The water does look really nice, just like everything else. I liked the voice-over, much better than the original scientist voices.