OverDose Technology Video - Part Two

[o'dium]

This is the second part of our three part Technology Demo video set that are going to show you all. Please watch and let us know what you think! You can download a higher resolution version of the demo by clicking this link, or you can view a You Tube version of the demo directly below:

YouTube (Low Quality - Stream): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqbwpqrOt3c
ModDB (Medium Quality - Stream): http://www.moddb.com/mods/overdose/vide ... o-part-two
FileFront (High Quality - Download): http://files.filefront.com/OverDose+tec ... einfo.html

[Scourge]

Would you like me to mirror some of these files? I have the space and bandwidth.

[dichtfux]

That hellknight-like guy looks sexy.

[o'dium]

Oh lordy...

[dichtfux]

[fKd]

the more you show the more it kinda just looks like tech4. but that aside the fact your team is only 3 and this came off the q2 engine, its amazing stuff
looking forward to seeing some content.

[o'dium]

Leaps and bounds over tech 4 mate.

[fKd]

sorry i did not mean to offend. its very impressive

[o'dium]

lol dont worry, you didnt at all

[gregs2k2]

OMG, it looks like teh Source Engine.

[g0th-]

Looks awesome. What ever happen to that alpha you mentioned a while back?

[fKd]

an alpha you say??

[o'dium]

Alpha is in closed Alpha now, we have about 20 people with it with about 15 devs working on it.

[jkoder]

Alpha is in closed Alpha now, we have about 20 people with it with about 15 devs working on it.

Dieing to play this. I will actually need to invest in a graphics card to be able to run this. Do you have a rough idea of
when a public release will be available O'dium?

[o'dium]

Public? Not really, we are still crafting models and stuff so a good while yet.

[Silicone_Milk]

Kind of a dumb question but do the liquids have physics applied to them (ie. can they flow out of containers) or are they static in position?

[o'dium]

Erm... They are static... Theres one game coming out soon that looks to have nice water physics (Called Hydrofear or something like that), but you wont find anything that does proper water simulations for a looooooooong time.

[Silicone_Milk]

I know that real-time water simulation is a little ways off in videogames (at least anything remotely decent) just thought maybe you guys were attempting to get something good working.

Like I said, kind of a dumb question :P

[fKd]

the physix (?) engine had a interesting liquids demo.. but yeah, its gonna be years before water starts to act realistic....

[^misantropia^]

Alpha is in closed Alpha now, we have about 20 people with it with about 15 devs working on it.

You forked from the GPL'ed Q2, right? How then can it be closed source, closed alpha, closed anything? Apart from that, remember the adage that many eyes make bugs shallow.

[fKd]

what he said?

[o'dium]

You can closed source the game as much as you want. Its only when you release to the public that you must provide the source code. The source code is available on request, as always, but the rest (Tools source code, all of the art/models etc) is freely available from the SVN.

In short, only people working on this thing get the source handed to them on a plate, because its only them that have access to the actual build .exe. Until we release it publicly, we wont be releasing the source code, so that we gain an advantage against hackers who will no doubt try to mess up everything, and even then we will probably be buyinbg the actual Source ($10k) before we release.

Trust us, Berserk and myself have thought long, hard, and exchanged many emails with id Software over this, and this is the best way to go

[^misantropia^]

Fair point about the 'internal use only' clause. But this I don't understand:

that we gain an advantage against hackers

If you are planning to go commercial, you are better off with a business plan where you sell additional content for a decent price. Being binary only has never stopped a pirate before. Cheaters neither, when it comes to that.

[o'dium]

We arn't planning on selling OverDose. But we are planning on buying a licence.

Think about it... Hackers will hack anything if its played enough. But giving them the code on a plate? lol, good luck...

We may infact code protection in a seperate .dll which we wouldn't have to release the code for, which could work, I dunno...

[Silicone_Milk]

I just wanted to make sure I understand this correctly...

Blur is going to spend $10,000 USD for a license to a game that they're planning on distributing for free so that they don't have to reveal the source code? (all this in an attempt to thwart hackers)