turtleman155
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A$AP MADOC 
What's Next?
- Thread starter Madoc
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Johnssonhill
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- PvP/Co-op
- Steam controller support
- Procedural weapons
TwoPumpWarrior
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I see youA$AP MADOC
Greenbrog
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Doubt it, the reason he's even bothering is the unique thumb touch pad on the right thumb, still need the fine control similar to a mouse. But I could be way off here.
Chris.J0621
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Inception.
Orlacktherof
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Perhaps you could move the camera around a bit with VR, and it does this passively, but pressing space will let you turn or rotate the camera around you?
Mikodzi
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Heh, you should try https://share.oculus.com/app/mythos-of-the-world-axis - it is also a dungeon crawler and it plays awesome in VR. I have even completed it with Oculus and it was a first game I finished in VR (in most cases I got motion sickness and stopped playing)
konggary
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Still in this example, the camera isn't directly locked onto the character like it is in Exanima. One of the main complaints people have about EX is the camera, and having it fluid around the character would make it even worse. On the other hand, if you did have it locked onto the character with VR, that practically defeats the whole purpose of VR.
The problem I can see is that you would need to be able to swivel around to see from better angles, which cannot be done with a keyboard+mouse. Maybe steam controller will help with this.
konggary
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All of the features implemented into EX will be in SG. SG will feature a larger world with more characters and dialogue, but all the combat, skill, etc. systems updated in EX will be in SG. To see the planned features just go to the "games" section of the main website, or visit the "grand list of dev quotes" forum post.
Scully
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My question was more related to the actual development of the games. I know what features are planned.
Tony
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There are not two teams working on the games. They have a small team which includes less than 10 members working on both games. Exanima is currently the priority and most of the devs' time is spent on that. However, working on Exanima is the same as working on SG since all of the assets, mechanics, etc. created for Exanima are necessary for SG. Progress in Exanima is also progress towards SG.
Madoc
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Short answer is that virtually nothing we do for Exanima isn't also useful for SG, and we go well out of our way to do things in ways that support what we need for SG rather than just what's good enough for Exanima. We are building Exanima as SG.
A recent example of this is how we have a shop in the new arena where you can buy weapons and armour. To do this we finalised the system behind trade and industry in SG so that the shop can dynamically determine what it should stock from any object that exists within the world based on target market, availability and numerous other factors. Obviously this includes shops that sell completely different things (that may not be of particular interest tothe player) or a craftsman selling the goods they produce. We've even developed a very detailed system for how every item is produced or obtained, the skills and materials involved etc.
A recent example of this is how we have a shop in the new arena where you can buy weapons and armour. To do this we finalised the system behind trade and industry in SG so that the shop can dynamically determine what it should stock from any object that exists within the world based on target market, availability and numerous other factors. Obviously this includes shops that sell completely different things (that may not be of particular interest tothe player) or a craftsman selling the goods they produce. We've even developed a very detailed system for how every item is produced or obtained, the skills and materials involved etc.
turtleman155
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the hype
