Summary: Kotaku had a good day yesterday with me. But while I'm actually still trying to get to the new bits in the Rose & Camellia sequel, their news that Real-Time World's incredibly exciting MMO-GTA APB is what got my thoughts really racing.
The website Rock, Paper, Shotgun has released an article of previewing the Real-Time World's incredibly exciting MMO-GTA APB by Kieron Gillen.
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Kotaku had a good day yesterday with me. But while I'm actually still trying to get to the new bits in the Rose & Camellia sequel, their news that Real-Time World's incredibly exciting MMO-GTA APB is what got my thoughts really racing. Not that they'll be a Beta, which is lovely, clearly. But specifically a snippet of footage in the comments thread from Dave Jones' GDC demonstration which I hadn't watched yet. Somehow, despite being obsessed by other snippets from the same speech.
It's of the APB character generator, and is probably the best example of the sort I've ever seen. And I'm going to rant about why that's ace beneath the cut. At length. Yes.
00:14, Just absolutely basic facial modeling. When I say "basic", I mean "enormously naturalistic and flexible".
00:35, They start playing around the hair.
01:00, A minute in, and they've got a really interesting dude in a East-Asian Gangster sort of way.
01:02, Man in his pants!
01:17, They're starting to play around with Tattoos, showing that you can scale and colour the designs.
01:20, Now we drop it on the body. Which is nifty. But immediately, it becomes much niftier than just a design, they show that they can move it to different places on the body.
01:25, At which point you realise it's not just on some set places. It's able to moved anywhere on your body, wrapping itself onto the point appropriately. Then they drop another tattoo on there, just to show that you can do it.
02:00, And then we move onto clothes, which seems fairly standard, if more fashionable and genre-appropriate than most games you'll face.
02:30, Amusing face-gear, which always works for me. Oh, and I notice there's a colour palette on the left to completely customise everything.
03:20, We move onto cars, which shows that a similar process to the tattoo application can move designs all over the body of your vehicles, including making it smaller or larger.
03:22, Okay. Now I'm completely convinced we've got the freedom to make pretty much any cool character we choose. Except Jones' demonstration takes a left turn sharply, and shows us an impressively accurate Peter Molyneux, complete with with Lionhead symbol on his jacket and a I HEART FABLE badge. This is followed by Warren Spector, Richard Garriott and Shigeru Miyamoto. In his pants.
04:32, And the Geek Squad, in game, posturing amusingly with machineguns. Awesome!
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