We need to understand exactly where we are. Mark: There's a lot of stuff to be done about working out the world. RPS: So Subversion is just an experiment? For how long? You were always looking down at something – it's one solution to the problem of having so many polygons – lock that camera downwards. I played Republic and I never got it to zoom in and out like that. And I think they turned most of that stuff off in the game. It was more of a tool to allow artists to make whatever they wanted. The idea being they could create a street in infinite detail. What they said they were doing was creating an engine that could create any number of polygons. But they were never doing procedural generation. RPS: Wasn't that Republic's claim five or six years ago?Ĭhris: Yeah, they were banging on about that with their million polygon engine thing. Our original aim was to go from a satellite view, right down to a pen on the table in an office, and everything in between.
We're working on creating cities, big ten kilometre city blocks. You can expand outwards using procedural generation. You face the Fable effect: try to go off the path and you run into a wall. The case with most games now is that you'll work on a specific storyline, and that's all you can play. It can fill in a world, create the backdrop. We're generating huge amounts of content using algorithms, and you can make vast amounts of material using this method. RPS: Well something is going on, we've all seen those lovely cityscape screenshots!Ĭhris: We're experimenting pretty heavily at the moment with procedural generation. Not everyone believes that, but it's true. RPS: Okay, I've had enough, what's going on with Subversion? Tell me about it.Ĭhris: We genuinely don't know what's going on, it's true. And it's aspirational for me, I can't help but think, “Multiwinia can be that easy to get into”, it just requires the talent to make it like that. Team Fortress and Portal, in terms of accessibility, are right there. You can't look at those games and say, “Yes, but you've dumbed it down or reduced the complexity,” it's just that they've made it easy to get into.
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RPS: Accessibility seems to be this year's key theme in PC gaming.Ĭhris: I think this is partly down to Valve producing a bunch of games that are really accessible. With Darwinia it wasn't particularly friendly, especially at the very beginning, and that's something we want to solve for Multiwinia. We've been working towards a more user-friendly interface.
Knowing why you lost is a big part of that, but also allowing the player to really grasp the controls quickly. You'll lose, but we wanted to make that fun. It's going to be similar here, it's going to be an initial battle against a computer opponent, or maybe even another player. Your first experience was a slightly nervous game against the computer. RPS: What's the first hour of Multiwinia going to be like?Ĭhris: Well, it's probably going to be like playing Defcon. So much stuff going on on the screen, many things collide and explode. Well, Mark says it's not there, he keeps saying “Chris, you still have to finish it,” but it is actually there and it's great fun to play and watch the anarchy unfold. Multiwinia is the big one, with Subversion being the longer one. We talked about their forthcoming games, Multiwinia, Subversion, the state of the industry, and their aspirations towards being indie publishers.Ĭhris: Yes, lots of projects, lots of stuff. (GeForce GTX 560 Ti) Anton.While at GDC '08 I met up with Mark Morris and Chris Delay from Introversion.
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