Johannes
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An RTS with apparently no multiplayer?
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Game News Battle of the Sands just got released
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No it didn't. Take Your nostalgia glasses of.
Not interested in this, but it's good that he's done with the game, and can get back to making KoTC 2.
The demo crashed my laptop and I had to do a hard reset.
Well they are both pretty similar. But I think Dune 2 looks a bit more detailed. Even though both look pretty rough.
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Asperger's Syndrome?
Well they are both pretty similar. But I think Dune 2 looks a bit more detailed. Even though both look pretty rough.
I like the buidlings more in Dune 2.
Damn fanboys.
Absalom
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Same here. The official forum (lol) has only 7 posts in the BotS subforum so no help there. More evidence that this whole thing is a bizarre joke
As far as I remember he doesn't think BotS will have more appeal than KotC2. The reason was that a lot of code from an RTS would be reusable in an RPG (line-of-sight and similar stuff) and a (simple) RTS would be a quicker project than finishing KotC2. So the reasons were basically exercise and building a better code base with a short game.
He states this here for example, though I seem to remember a post in another thread there where he said it more clearly.
I agree that a significant portion of sales will be to people mainly wanting to support KotC2, tough. Not that that is necessarily a bad thing.
Trash
Pointing and laughing.
I think he just had a lot of fun with making his own little Dune II. And yeah, his game looks way rougher than that one. Not so strange, considering Dune II graphics were drawn by artists with an actual budget, while he fiddled it together in his loft.
Am I the only one who liked KotC's graphics?
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He had paid artists for KoTC, at least one of whom was a professional. He clearly had an art style in mind and he achieved it. I thought it worked great.
KotC's art is servicable. The viewpoint is pretty bad. Both have little impact on the game's functionality.
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dune 2's art style is consistent, whether units, the background, the gui or the sequences. this makes the entire package more pleasing from an aesthetic point of view, while here you have the sharp style of the units clashing with the blurry (though that might just be the screenie) style and perspective of the buildings which both in turn clash with the gui (especially the scroll bars)... so, yeah, dune 2 looks better. not much, but it does.
That's blackmail.
DraQ
Arcane
At least it looks better than their previous game.
It also looks like pretty shameless Dune 2 ripoff and Dune 2, despite not being the prettiest game ever, still looked quite a bit better thanks to less sterility and more definition to stuff.
May sell to some desperate D2 fans who cannot into DOSBox.
Also notice how sterile this game is compared to Dune 2 - in Dune you had splatter, craters, rubble, even vehicle tracks IIRC.
I liked D2 music more too.
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It also looks like pretty shameless Dune 2 ripoff and Dune 2, despite not being the prettiest game ever, still looked quite a bit better thanks to less sterility and more definition to stuff.
May sell to some desperate D2 fans who cannot into DOSBox.
Notice how Dune 2 had more definition to stuff - rock looked rough, sand looked sand-y, etc. - here you just have multicoloured nondescript splotches.Well they are both pretty similar. But I think Dune 2 looks a bit more detailed. Even though both look pretty rough.
I like the buidlings more in Dune 2.
Also notice how sterile this game is compared to Dune 2 - in Dune you had splatter, craters, rubble, even vehicle tracks IIRC.
I liked D2 music more too.
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Definitely, it's a really vast improvement over KotC.
Trash
Pointing and laughing.
Duh. Dune 2 had a budget. It was a mayor project by a big developer working together with one of the biggest publishers at the time. This is some hobbyist having fun making an rts.
If you just want to help him then buy another copy of KotC. At least you'll get a good game you can gift to somebody.
DraQ
Arcane
Doesn't excuse him from not giving rock rocky feel, not drawing sprites in a way that would appear shaded and not making terrain damage decals, which would have taken him may be an hour in any freely avialable raster graphics program - together.
If he sucks so much at graphics that he actually can't do those, he should be doing text adventures instead.
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