ZOMG ! Pre-Alpha Goodness ^^

Pre-Alpha is up ^_^

So today has been a really good day - managed to get a whole lot done. Most importantly today was when we finally managed to merge our disparate prototypes and world into our pre-alpha. Its great being able to fly around and gives you a real sense of the world. Screenies don't really help demonstrate what we've got but hopefully THIS will.

We did want to upload it in its current state to let you guys get your mits on it and start breaking it but theres a couple of things we've got to do first. Namely theres the issue of getting fully keyboard and mouse compatibility. Currently its only really set up for the XBOX 360 controller, but shouldn't take to long to fix. We also went and put and FPS counter on the screen to help with a bit more feedback. We have some nice release notes and a handy bug tracking form to go along side it so probably be up tomorrow (?)

Kudos to Rowen and Rich who have been wrestling with this beastie for the last few days / weeks, that we can start plugging assets into.

Other news is that today we sent off our plan for our own web site which means we wont have to put up with comments from the denizens of Youtube and the likes - and also means well have a bit more control for feedback and uploading assets etc.

Camera guy was back - Ross managed to go a session without insulting an entire nation (his rant to follow, we've decided its safer for him to have his own page on the new site in an attempt to try and contain the rage).

Really good day - currently Ross is back to modeling the character and Dave is turning out some good texture work as well as putting together some image maps for Eleesos wings. Feels really good to have something more tangible up and running and should hopefully allow me to knock together a schedule for the remaining 4 weeks, which has been impossible up until this point.

More deluded ramblings and UT2004 smack talk to follow!

The Lucid Dream Team