Today the entire company (Oslo office at any rate...with a remote Skype presentation from Montreal) gathered at a big cinema to present the progress and development of all the different projects in-house over the last year. As a busy group in our own floor of the Oslo office it is always very exciting to get a look at the progress the other projects have made in the last months...we rarely find the time to drop in on other projects. It was very exciting to get a sneak peak at the Conan expansion and a live look at gameplay in the Secret World. (Apparently I am a Templar already...I can't wait to play it myself!). It was great to share some of the progress we have made over the last year with the rest of the building...a lot of Funcom are AO players from long back...some will be back to try out some of the new systems and additions they hadn't heard of...things get as busy on other teams as they are on ours. With the weekly updates of this post often you guys are better informed than the rest of the company...unfortunately that means this week they are still at the company party and I am at home writing this. If a funeral didn't stop me I guess a party won't either. Any typos in this post I am blaming on foreign contaminants intentionally released into my bloodstream. Asking Kintaii to step in for me this week would have been the worst kind of abuse of my position...damn it was tempting.
German Server Transfer Questions from Shooorty and almost everyone else.
Originally Posted by ShooortyThe EngineOriginally Posted by Means
Work this week was spent integrating Dreamworld-Skybox technology and working through the 3 separate and different ways Self-Illumination is displayed in Anarchy Online (things that glow in game should now glow in the new engine..Whompa signs, ights etc.) I also had the pleasure of seeing Tracer effects work in the new engine for the first time....having most of the old effects working in the new engine without having to be redone (nightmare) is shaving months of the time needed to complete this integration...so it was great to see. Bloom turned on during sunset in Tir was also exciting to see. Unfortunately I returned the USB key from the presentation to Lindelu without thinking some of you would be interested in seeing the images. Again I blame dark rum and cola. I will add those images to this thread next week (new post not an update here...I know you all hate edits.)
Christmas Update
There is a nasty problem on TestLive at the moment..but we are still looking at a live release of the Christmas content next week. This year we will be running the popular 12 days of christmas Safaris that were popular in 2005...but with all new Christmas items to collect. The team have outdone themselves this year making new creative toys for the season.
I hope this all made sense.
Have a great weekend everyone