Podcasts about impulse gear

Welcome to Dev Game Club for a second Dark Forces special bonus interview edition. We speak with Matt Tateishi, a level designer on the game, talking about the environment around the building of Dark Forces, process, and leaping into the new. Dev Game Club looks at classic video games and plays through them over several episodes, providing commentary. Podcast breakdown: 0:39       Interview 1:03:31  Break 1:04:01  Feedback Issues covered: a brief history of Matt, architecture department at Berkeley, starting as art techs, hourly wages, having your Star Wars bedsheets, Master Chief body pillow, thinking about the use of a space, trying to outdo one another, abstract spaces vs real-feeling one, geeking out over the Dark Trooper intro, simulating screen shake, just getting the thing to run, how big should levels be, figuring out production, difficulty spikes and weapon (mis-)balancing, dreaming of work, skill-based challenges, losing sight of your work, some doubt about doing Dark Forces, "puzzles are how we're going to be different from DOOM," throwing everything at the player, saving state mid-level, the pie tin mine, motivating the space, being brought in to be an artist (rather than the technical specifics), being near ILM at the time, everyone coming together to make cool stuff, Brett sings terribly again, an argument for Jabba's Palace, going from high concept to design, productivity and scheduling, Pomodoro, meeting-driven, Brett walks down memory lane, discussion of Mac vs PC in the 90s. Games, people, and influences mentioned or discussed: Shadows of the Empire, Jedi Knight, Lucas Learning, Droid Works, Infinite Machine, Nihilistic Software, The Force Unleashed, Dante's Inferno, EA, Visceral, 1313 (RIP), WETA Digital, Impulse Gear, Farpoint, Daron Stinnett, Ingar Shu, Jim Current, Kilani Striker, Ralph Gerth, Winston Wolff, Ray Gresko, Rob Huebner, Brett Tosti, Republic Commando, Troy Mashburn, Skyrim, X-Wing, DOOM, Peter Tsacle, Full Throttle, Double Fine, George Lucas, Tom Payne, Ben Burtt, Dungeons & Dragons, Colette Michaud, Peter Chan, Day of the Tentacle, Forrest Gump, Steve Dauterman, A Knight of Ren, Dire Straits, Zachary Crownover, Zimmy Finger, Quake, Mysteries of the Sith, Marathon, Philip Kramer, Apple, Myth, Kevin Steven. Next time: Deus Ex; up to the airfield @brett_douville, @timlongojr, and @devgameclub DevGameClub@gmail.com

A panel of VR experts, including Seth Luisi, co-founder of Impulse Gear, Against Gravity's Ryan Cousins, Tom Doyle, co-founder of Endeavor One, and Leslie Pirritano from AMD, discuss the challenges of designing for the medium + following through on unique ideas.

Wow, eine packende Story! Gleich zu Beginn wird der Spieler in die «Farpoint»-Welt eingesogen. Achtung: Gamer mit schwachem Magen werden bei diesem Spiel ihre Probleme haben. Alle anderen, die mit Sonys VR-Brille gut klarkommen, und neues Spielfutter suchen, werden hier fündig. Zudem gibt es im Luxuspaket noch die «Aim Controller»-Knarre dazu - dank dieser taucht Ihr noch mehr ins Spielgeschehen ein - alle Knöpfe und Steuerungselemente (ausser das Touchpad) sind integriert. Optisch sieht das Gerät zwar obskur aus, spielerisch unterstützt der Controller das Geschehen aber optimal. Auf dem unbekannten Planeten tauchen schon bald feindselige Gestalten auf, die sich in den Levels gut verteilen. Neben der guten Story, gibt es auch Rätsel zu lösen, Ressourcen einzusammeln und Infos zu holen aus Nachrichten aus der Vergangenheit oder aktuellen Begegnungen mit anderen Überlebenden. Online lässt sich das Ganze auch im Zweispieler-Koop-Modus bewältigen. Das Ganze sieht dank Unreal-power auch richtig gut aus. Spielerisch kommt zwar viel gleichförmiges, Highlight ist der Bosskampf, dennoch: Impulse Gear hat hier ein tolles VR-Erlebnis erschaffen, das insbesondere in Kombination mit dem «Aim Controller» richtig gut funktioniert. (raf)

This week's episode sees us finding out what's in store when PlayStation VR arrives this month. We chat to Sefton Hill from Rocksteady Studios about Batman: Arkham VR, which is an all-new take on the Batman series. Instead of the classic action we've seen from previous games in the Arkham series, Rocksteady's letting Batman live up to his title as the World's Greatest Detective. Jonny catches up with Greg Koreman from Impulse Gear, the studio behind brand new PSVR exclusive first-person shooter Farpoint. This one is designed to work with the PSVR Aim Controller to really put you inside the game, which is set on a hostile alien world. Frankly, it looks pretty terrifying! And if you're not into VR, we have a mobile review for you too: We played Red Dwarf XI: The Game, so you don't have to. Yes yes, we know, the words "Red Dwarf" and "Video Game" got us pretty excited too, but ...no. Stay away from this one, okay? ...plus, of course, we have all the latest in gaming news - this is Player Attack! http://www.playerattack.com