Space Giraffe ... on PSN???

[hugheverett]

DIRT runs faster and smoother on the PS3. It was written for the 360 first.

QED.

[aureole]

Ah, that must be why so many people have commented that their engines run like DIRT on the PS3.

[hugheverett]

Ah, that must be why so many people have commented that their engines run like DIRT on the PS3.

nice pun...surely Space Giraffe doesn't need a full fledged 3d engine anyway.
point is 1 cell processer can run the game, and the rest the winmx plugin type graphics background.

Parallel processing is where it's at these days anyway, might as well get stuck in now right?

Besides I come from an era where people crammed entire 3d universe, and full stock marketing
system into 32K of space. (Elite). Do you think they ever thought it wasn't possible?
(one guy even improved on centipede on the vic-20 in less than 3K!)

Heck did we even goto the moon?

ball men, balls! or nowadays... nuts...

[Jimaroid]

Yawn.

Thought you were banned?

[gravy]

He's right on the edge of getting banned again.

[Bubba]

nice pun...surely Space Giraffe doesn't need a full fledged 3d engine anyway.
point is 1 cell processer can run the game, and the rest the winmx plugin type graphics background.

Parallel processing is where it's at these days anyway, might as well get stuck in now right?

Oh for fucks sake Some very talented people have just said that this isn't possible. You've cited a general purpose 3d engine not even remotely suitable for something like Neon / Space Giraffe and once called out on it are acting like a cock. Be a man and admit that this kinda stuff is a bit beyond you, or at least stop trolling if in fact you're a cell extraordinaire. Of course it'd be possible to do SG on the PS3 - there's not been a title yet (and it's highly unlikely that there ever will be) on either system that couldn't run on the other*, regardless of how the marketing types would like to spin it. But now is not the right time for SG, as pointed out by lots of people in this thread.

Cheers

Bubba

*with minimal gameplay / graphics changes but significant implementation changes aside

[Kronos]

I reckon GR+++ would be a nice little addition mind...falling nicely into the Super Stardust HD niche....

I agree with LANs here, I think GR+++ would be a great start if it were to happen.

And as people have said, it's only a two man team here, and they're already working on two things at least at the same time so doubt it will be possible anyway even if they wanted to and had the time to implement the significant changes to accomodate a completely alien architecture to either the PC or 360 versions (which both use basically the same DirectX features?)

Also didn't MS make the first move in asking for Neon to be coded for the 360 visualizer hence the whole thing grew into an agreement for XBLA Space Giraffe? Neither Sony nor Nintendo have made such a move to sweeten the deal so I doubt it's high on their priority list. So guess we should leave it as 'it would be nice to see...' and see what happens in the future

[axel000]

This isn't EA we're talking about here, llamasoft chose the 360 and thats where they are. They can't be expected to cover multi-platform as they did in the 8bit era, its just too expensive now.

They just need a couple of moderate hits under their belts on this platform and they'll be sitting pretty....and GR+++ is looking like just what the Dr ordered.

[hugheverett]

This isn't EA we're talking about here, llamasoft chose the 360 and thats where they are. They can't be expected to cover multi-platform as they did in the 8bit era, its just too expensive now.

They just need a couple of moderate hits under their belts on this platform and they'll be sitting pretty....and GR+++ is looking like just what the Dr ordered.

Ok it's not going to happen so clearly my even imagining the possibility is nuts.
So sorry guys, it's clearly flogging a dead horse now - so I think case closed and move on.
sorry for dreaming.

Really Looking forward to GR+++ though.
The first game I played on the vic-20, was infact Gridrunner. Which was my first computer.

Mind you it does make me wonder if there really is a game -not full fledged studio title- but an 'arcade' title.
that is cross platform. Something to look out for in the future.

Interestingly enough it did make me wonder why REZ was ported to the 360 and not the PSX3, the psx3 must be a nightmare to port, even they couldn't port an exisitng psx2 title to the PSX3 arcade.
You would have though the would let developers port their exisitng psx2 games to the psx3 arcade downloader, to get that extra life out of them.
- especially when the 40Gb psx3 can't play ps2 games.

[fog]

Interestingly enough it did make me wonder why REZ was ported to the 360 and not the PSX3, the psx3 must be a nightmare to port, even they couldn't port an exisitng psx2 title to the PSX3 arcade.
You would have though the would let developers port their exisitng psx2 games to the psx3 arcade downloader, to get that extra life out of them.
- especially when the 40Gb psx3 can't play ps2 games.

What's with all the extra X's ?

Sorry. Pet hate.

[gilesgoat]

"I should not be here","I should not be watching this","I should not be replying to this".

But this stuff I see here is really hitting the surrealism, the ridicule and the very absurd.

I am saying you "but have you ever actually TRIED to do things other than just open the mouth and throw out the first words that come into your mind ?".

No really I mean have you ever tried in DOING anything FOR REAL ?

Have you ever seen how whatever you plan to do with X ends up always in needing quite lot more X than what you planned and things are never going smooth and nice as one would ?

It's not that one wakes up in the morning and says "yes, I'll do this for <insert whatver here> and it will be ready and perfect in a snap" ..

*IF* we could do it we would, if we could make and sell games for every possible plattform and make conversions that works perfectly for one machine and another and be distributed in every corner of the planet we'd be doing it for sure and we'd be millionaire.

But things do not work like that, it all takes lot more work and resources than what two people can do and have.

And it takes far too much time we can't just afford.

Life says "there's no job that can be done in 5 minutes", not even to make a good coffee it takes a bit more than that.

And it's true another thing as well "time is money".

Anyway I really find incredible that here, in a forum supposedly of "computer geeks" and people that know about how things go that someone can come out with such a kind of stuff.

I can't believe I am seeing this ... I think it's a kind of bad dream .. must be ..

[RiK]

Anyway I really find incredible that here, in a forum supposedly of "computer geeks" and people that know about how things go that someone can come out with such a kind of stuff.

That's Hanniff Giles, if you want to check his past performance try the search box...

[hugheverett]

"I should not be here","I should not be watching this","I should not be replying to this".

But this stuff I see here is really hitting the surrealism, the ridicule and the very absurd.

I am saying you "but have you ever actually TRIED to do things other than just open the mouth and throw out the first words that come into your mind ?".

No really I mean have you ever tried in DOING anything FOR REAL ?

Have you ever seen how whatever you plan to do with X ends up always in needing quite lot more X than what you planned and things are never going smooth and nice as one would ?

It's not that one wakes up in the morning and says "yes, I'll do this for <insert whatver here> and it will be ready and perfect in a snap" ..

*IF* we could do it we would, if we could make and sell games for every possible plattform and make conversions that works perfectly for one machine and another and be distributed in every corner of the planet we'd be doing it for sure and we'd be millionaire.

But things do not work like that, it all takes lot more work and resources than what two people can do and have.

And it takes far too much time we can't just afford.

Life says "there's no job that can be done in 5 minutes", not even to make a good coffee it takes a bit more than that.

And it's true another thing as well "time is money".

Anyway I really find incredible that here, in a forum supposedly of "computer geeks" and people that know about how things go that someone can come out with such a kind of stuff.

I can't believe I am seeing this ... I think it's a kind of bad dream .. must be ..

Hey you just reminded me why after like 5 years of windows C++ programming, I packed the whole lot in.

I realised one day, the reason why I got into computers was to have fun as I wanted to know how the games in the arcade were made.
It turns out they had 'computers' in them. You make life as simple or as complex as you want. I choose simple.

I did though learn the secret of project management, and work more in that area. So I know how to get around
why the X takes more thing you mention.

I asked a very successful project manager who was retiring at a xtreme design methodoly shindig, what his secret was.

he told me.

(and yes what he told be could have been a surreal monty python sketch)

If I told you you'd laugh your nut's off.

It really is so simple. So simple, can't see for the woods type of thing,
I'd never seen it in all the text books and courses/degrees.

[gravy]

No one's biting

Haniff's jumped the shark

[PumaG]

Space Giraffe the Movie on Blu-Ray! that'll keep em happy