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OpenXcom => Offtopic => Topic started by: pmprog on March 28, 2013, 10:29:29 am
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Tweeted by Julian Gallop
https://twitter.com/julian_gollop/status/317109806718648321
#xcom postmortem will be broadcast live from #gdc on gamespot https://www.gamespot.com/shows/gamespot-live/?event=classic-game-postmortem-x-com-20130328 …
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It's begun! :D
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Yep, I loved the giant white bunnies as aliens. They should so have been in the game :D
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Yeah, I took a screenie of the sprite concepts:
(https://i.imgur.com/XGsgaZL.png)
Funny how all the art was done by just 2 guys. Those were the days, ;)
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Wow i missed this last night, looks like we have a few new aliens to bring back to life :P
UPDATE:
Just finished watching, made my self a nice big screenshot from there artwork concepts also, should be good Mod later to expand the game with different groups of aliens as i already want to support the other UFO ship designs.
Surprised about the original interception system being viewed from the cockpit of the craft.
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Very informative. It's good to know how history was made.
In the concept art, what's the circled alien two positions to the right of the circled Muton?
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In the concept art, what's the circled alien two positions to the right of the circled Muton?
Floater
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Very interesting video.
"Dynamic difficulty adjustment" - I didn't even know this was in x-com?
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Very interesting video.
"Dynamic difficulty adjustment" - I didn't even know this was in x-com?
better add it :)
I have just picked my favourite aliens from the concept art , expect to see at least the cyborg human one day :P
Also that space bunny looks like it has a Pig nose , i can just picture it tracking humans with it Psi-Tracking power and pouncing between levels ( like a Jump pack would work but using Bunny power only) to Eat x-com soliders, then lay a Live baby space bunny, to grow up .
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Floater
Why was I imaginig floaters being mostly pink, not green? Must have been looking too much at the Ufopaedia pictures.
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Why was I imaginig floaters being mostly pink, not green? Must have been looking too much at the Ufopaedia pictures.
Same sprite, just different color schemes, probably to make it distinct from the muton.
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Very interesting video.
"Dynamic difficulty adjustment" - I didn't even know this was in x-com?
Yeah that was my reaction in IRC too. This explains why the game doesn't seem to escalate as fast as the original. We could also use such a system to dynamically update other game settings if you're doing "too well", or even too poorly.
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The gamespot video keeps freezing up at the same place for me (which is the 470K sales in North America bit)
:(
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Try downloading it.
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Now they've followed it up with a
CLASH OF THE TITANS Julian Gollop and Jake Solomon (old X-Com and new XCOM) meeting for the first time: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/04/02/x-com-vs-xcom-gollop-vs-solomon-past-vs-present/
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Who's Jake Solomon? First time heard of that dude. I guess he's one of hundereds of thousands of employees who didn't even write a line of code...
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Now they've followed it up with a CLASH OF THE TITANS Julian Gollop and Jake Solomon (old X-Com and new XCOM) meeting for the first time: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/04/02/x-com-vs-xcom-gollop-vs-solomon-past-vs-present/
Thanks, I'll have a read (or watch, as I've just noticed it's a vid)
Who's Jake Solomon? First time heard of that dude. I guess he's one of hundereds of thousands of employees who didn't even write a line of code...
He is (was) the lead designer on the new XCOM game. Check the link from this post
https://openxcom.org/forum/index.php/topic,357.msg9569.html#msg9569
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Wow great presentation, tbh I always was 'grr Microprose made stuff bad with their evil publisher ways' but it's nice to see they actually gave a huge inspiration of the game and the parts that I loved.
Still think they rushed Apoc though :P
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Julian Gollop seems to be really in love with the new xcom - "the phoenix rising from the ashes"
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Comparing new xcom with old xcom enfoncer or xcom interceptor - he's right.
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Still think they rushed Apoc though :P
I wouldn't say "rushed" since it apparently took 2-3 years. :P But I would've loved to hear the full story behind X-Com Apocalypse. He's only mentioned it in passing in interviews (https://www.nowgamer.com/features/1034964/interview_with_xcom_creator_julian_gollop.html) and apparently it was the complete opposite of the original X-Com, a really bumpy and overambitious development. Much more interesting to hear. ;)
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I wouldn't say "rushed" since it apparently took 2-3 years. :P But I would've loved to hear the full story behind X-Com Apocalypse. He's only mentioned it in passing in interviews (https://www.nowgamer.com/features/1034964/interview_with_xcom_creator_julian_gollop.html) and apparently it was the complete opposite of the original X-Com, a really bumpy and overambitious development. Much more interesting to hear. ;)
I might tweet him and see if he'll ever do something like that.
In fact, does anyone have any questions regarding Apocalypse? I might try and group them all together and see if I can "interview" him on it :)
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I might tweet him and see if he'll ever do something like that.
In fact, does anyone have any questions regarding Apocalypse? I might try and group them all together and see if I can "interview" him on it :)
Ask him what he thinks about OpenXcom :D
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pmprog, he already ignored my question about "opportunity fire" (in ufo) which replaced "enemy spotted" free action from laser squad...:(
if you'll be interviewing him, please ask this too.
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I wouldn't say "rushed" since it apparently took 2-3 years. :P But I would've loved to hear the full story behind X-Com Apocalypse. He's only mentioned it in passing in interviews (https://www.nowgamer.com/features/1034964/interview_with_xcom_creator_julian_gollop.html) and apparently it was the complete opposite of the original X-Com, a really bumpy and overambitious development. Much more interesting to hear. ;)
There was a little bit he wrote when mythosgames.com (now defunct) was still around about the cut features of Apocalypse, and luckily I trawled through the wayback machine to find it.
https://web.archive.org/web/20010411120930https:///www.mythosgames.com/xcomapocalypse.htm
It's sad looking at all the features that could have been in it but were cut, also I really liked the pausable real-time, it needed a bit of balancing to make it harder to abuse but it's a great feature to give the feel of making strategic descisions while actually looking a bit more realistic of a how a battle would be and interesting with all the projectiles flying about.