Tiger Concept
2014-06-16
Artistic
This week Reymantha would like to present you his current graphical research.
3D character concept
2014-05-25
Artistic
This week’s update won’t be very long, things are progressing smoothly.
We still have work to do regarding the integration of the backers in our system, but this should be resolved soon.
On the development side we started to work on the planets rotation, and more specifically on an evolution of our physical engine.
We also started adapting the characters design from 2D concepts to 3D modeling. Here is an example to illustrate the current progression.
We still have work to do regarding the integration of the backers in our system, but this should be resolved soon.
On the development side we started to work on the planets rotation, and more specifically on an evolution of our physical engine.
We also started adapting the characters design from 2D concepts to 3D modeling. Here is an example to illustrate the current progression.
The first arrivals
2014-05-11
General
This week we’d like to share a picture with some of the team members in front of the studio’s office.
From left to right: Reymantha, NeoM and Altalus
Reymantha just moved from London and will be joining us in a few days. Altalus is new in the team, until now he was working with us in freelance, but we decided to hire him as web developer. He has entirely developed our website and will be in charge of it’s continuous improvement. He’s currently integrating the backers data in our system, and will be developing the forum in a few weeks.
From left to right: Reymantha, NeoM and Altalus
Reymantha just moved from London and will be joining us in a few days. Altalus is new in the team, until now he was working with us in freelance, but we decided to hire him as web developer. He has entirely developed our website and will be in charge of it’s continuous improvement. He’s currently integrating the backers data in our system, and will be developing the forum in a few weeks.
Backers Distribution
2014-04-27
General
This week we’d like to present you some statistics about Planets³'s Kickstarter campaign and more specifically the 13 first countries in number of backers:
We know that people of some countries (especially in Europe) couldn’t take part in the Kickstarter campaign because, in their country, having a credit card isn’t that common. So we really are curious to see how this distribution of backers will evolve with our online store (that you can find on our website: http://www.planets-cube.com).
As previously stated, we have had an issue preventing people to pay in USD on our website, we resolved the problem for the direct payment by credit card. However the paypal option still doesn’t work in USD, we are still waiting for a response from our bank.
As for the technical progression, we are updating the version of the libraries we use to the latest versions (Boost and Ogre 3D). Updating the version of Ogre improved the dynamic shadow rendering even if some work is still required on that subject. We also added the possibility to use Direct3D 11 (for now the prototype only worked with Direct3D 9) but this is still a work in progress. It is already possible to use OpenGL (which is required for the Mac and eventually the Linux version of the game), but it still requires some tweaking of the shaders to get the same results as with Direct3D 9.
- No big surprise there, the large majority of the backers come from the United States (38%)
- As French ourselves we are proud that France is the second most represented country with 13%
- 11% of the backers didn’t answer to the survey
We know that people of some countries (especially in Europe) couldn’t take part in the Kickstarter campaign because, in their country, having a credit card isn’t that common. So we really are curious to see how this distribution of backers will evolve with our online store (that you can find on our website: http://www.planets-cube.com).
As previously stated, we have had an issue preventing people to pay in USD on our website, we resolved the problem for the direct payment by credit card. However the paypal option still doesn’t work in USD, we are still waiting for a response from our bank.
As for the technical progression, we are updating the version of the libraries we use to the latest versions (Boost and Ogre 3D). Updating the version of Ogre improved the dynamic shadow rendering even if some work is still required on that subject. We also added the possibility to use Direct3D 11 (for now the prototype only worked with Direct3D 9) but this is still a work in progress. It is already possible to use OpenGL (which is required for the Mac and eventually the Linux version of the game), but it still requires some tweaking of the shaders to get the same results as with Direct3D 9.