Thoughts on GDC 2012 (Old Post)

Overview and thoughts on:

GDC 2012 & Game Developers Choice Awards

 

About the show 

blah blah I love this 

really enjoyed the watch

Unreal Engine 3 'GDC 2012 Features Demo'

Also a few for the new unreal things

Unreal Engine 4 'Elemental Demo'

This was a very nice video utilising some of the below video content that the UT3 has at the moment.

And

NVIDIA physx Unreal Engine 3 & 4 Feature

1:10 Jeese that fracturing stuff is amazing the destruction tech
also he is running about with a rocket launcher at 3:05 is very tasty

Above one video near the end we had the Samaritan demo which they have included the character in the end of this video, all the cloth simulation is getting unloaded and is looking very nice.

Portal 2 - Post Mortem with Spoilers

Just informative and enjoyable, so enjoy.

GDC 2012: From Console to Chrome 

HTML 5 Games, so the way to write one code base and  run it everywhere.
What they are proposing is that people are looking at the HTML 5 are using the browser as a platform.

They are looking for "credible console style experiences" in the browser. Need to use WebGL, which is kinda like the OpenGL but basically stripped. Writing in Javascript is able to give the output necessary now to produce these games. O.K. I am now on 16:33 and they are talking about arrays, the class just went over this but I was and still currently sick so off to learn stuff before watching the rest.

Notibale but no videos here:

• CryEngine looks good but haven't seen anything inspiring as of yet.
• Planetside 2 Developer Interview - Was intresting, I have played it, was in the beta but I need a new graphics card to run it well and don't want to make a full judgement on it. He goes into why it is free-to-play. He is looking for the player base, which is correct free is the lowest buy in. With the graphical area it also has a low buy in but again I feel that I would get a lot more if I had a better GPU.
• MechWarrior Online is looking very nice maybe a but camp with the lasers :P. I am liking the HUD and the general look of the game.
• War of the Roses Gameplay reminds me so much of my COD2 days. Looks like good multilayer and a lot of replay value to it. Has a squad system, active reload like GOW3 and some nice death animations. 

And Lastly

Star Citizen

So this is Star Citizen 

and OOooooh looks nice and in game rendering :D making me happy.