Theryon Wars: Community Q&A: One Week

About space, atm I can only point out there will be three different "zones": The neutral base, acting as a trade outpost and entry point for "the general public", and one station for each other faction. These two are intended for in-Faction use exclusively: if you want to go to one of them, sign up for the appropriate faction and start completing missions for them.

On the planet itself. We have generated land masses and underwater reliefs using fractals, procedural tools and geo-sim processes; then we've had to clean them up. Now most of the initial land masses fit nicely in an area-based grid, some still need some tweaking. Once tweaked, they undergo "design retouching" and after that "artistic makeup". So the overall shapes and coastlines for, say, half the planet surface have been plotted and the first areas to be implemented have a solid 1.0 starting point

Story-wise, the truce forbids uncontrolled expansion, so access to new areas will be restricted even if you can see their features in the map. I shall check how much of this I can unveil without spoiling...

 

Infiltration and sabetage will be needed not only because of "superiority", but because of the truce: open aggression without the proper surface facilities and "rooting" could lead to a disaster. But yes, this is the kind of missions where we can have pure PvP, pure PvE and mixed PvP+PvE. Also, instead of having one single mission, we could have 3 (just as an example): Destroy the ship's shield generator, its engine room and its nav control. One player/team can select only one, so destroying the ship can't be achieved by just one team... This was to remove, if possible, the "fake" feeling I told you before.

Now, about your question... The first one is in the oven right now; the countdown to release the arcade game is measured in weeks, not months. For the next two we have yet to prioritize, there are other corporate developments for which we'll have to allocate resources, so we'll focus on one at a time beginning next summer. Can't be sharper, sorry.
2012 is going to be quite an intense year for us, in all fronts.

 

This is starting to sound like an adult movie... Could we please chill out and get back to biz?

 

First part, same as above.

Actual question: Absolutely yes. Of course, your definition of "normal" may differ from ours

 

Lots of original Crytek-crafted documentation also apply to Entropia's tools... Geez, you know I can't tell much.

Not all of us in the team were exposed to Cry Engine before T:W but all who are involved with it at the moment have worked with more than one game engine, each. Not to show off, but to let you know a little of the expertise of the team currently working on T:W, several of the engines we've already worked with (combined & previous experience) are:

• Hero Engine (obviously)
• BigWorld
• Esenthel
• C4
• Source
• ShiVa
• Multiverse
• Torque (the whole family)
• Ryzom & NeL
• Trinigy's Vision Engine
• Unreal & UDK

... among others and apart from Cry. Recently Cry 3 included a new licensing model, so we approached them to explore the possibility of developing other Theryon games with Cry 3; I guess they'll come back to us once they fully understand our situation, so as time goes by we're exploring other options within non-Cry engines we already know well.

 

I'm not sure if you're aware of this but...

Most English-speakers coming over to Spain forget about that word (and many others) as soon as they start saying "CERVEZA".

I guess they'd write it all caps, bold+italic, but it's just a guess.

 

So good you're 'round! Miss-yaaa...

Having you telling me about levels of communication is like... applying acceleration to mass... media
I guess you can do it and we-the-rest can try with varying degrees of success

We should check our inboxes more often... and feed them once in a while

 

What an interesting idiom, "cold turkey"... Oh, well, nope. After Dec 7th I'll keep dropping by here, at least a couple of days each week. On January SB's blogs should be ready to receive content; I'll see if I can trick some mates to write there or I'll have to ask them every once in a while to keep you briefed.

We'll also come up with other means: interviews, Q&A threads, "ask the devs"...