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Hey! Since the 2nd technical demo of UFO:AI is not finished yet, we decided to upload a christmas mission pack for our fans! :angel: http://www.ufoai.net Merry Christmas!

Uploaded some more screenies. An alien ship crash site this time. Hope you like it. B) We also have a cool new url for our webpage now: http://www.ufoai.net

@Pumkinhead: It's a commercial game. I asked the devs a few weeks ago. Looks not bad to me... there should be more games like X-COM. Even if they are quite similar.

Yes, we plan to do a 2nd technical demo, showing random map assembly, the new geoscape design, grenades and maybe some base building features.

Ah, I see! Honestly, we don't know yet ourselfes. We are making good progress, but there are still tons of things to do.

ETA?

We now can randomly auto-generate maps! This gives us a nearly infinite number of maps. Like in the good old times of X-COM.

We uploaded a few new screenshots to the media section of our homepage. http://ufo.myexp.de A new alien model, some changes on the geoscape and new maps can be seen there.

FPS games have complicated algorithms, so non-visible objects are not rendered if they are behind a wall or something. In most cases this would not work in our game. :hmmm: However, the way it's done in other strategy games like Warcraft3 is some kind of "Fog of War". Map objects and actors disappear, when they are far away. Maybe something like that would make sense.

We could change the elevation, but this requires a lot of hardware power. A big part of the map would be visible then. -> high polycount why do poeple have a mouse without a middle mouse button... :hmmm: We will define a key for turning then.

- Reaction fire will be implented soon. - You CAN turn your guys to look in another direction. Click with the middle mouse button in the direction you would like to look (requires 1 time unit). A Linux version is online now too btw.

Ok thanks. I will send some mails next weekend or so.

Hey, which computer game magazine is the most popular in the UK? I would like to ask them if they want to put the demo on their cover disk.

Thanks. The demo has been released now!

Yep, and today we uploaded two tracks of our UFO-AI soundrack to our homepage!

The demo will be released on the 14. February. You may want to give it a try...

We are planning to release a fully playable demo of UFO - Alien Invasion on the 14. February. Visit our project homepage at http://ufo.myexp.de I hope you will like the demo... :angel:

Yep, and Doom was even before Quake! Without Wolfenstein1 and Doom1, there would be no HL at all! But I agree with Pete, I think HL2 will be more succesfull than Doom3.

All the engines you are talking about run with OpenGL, right? However, these impressive looking features are mostly OpenGL functions. We could implement them in our engine. But we think it would not have the desired effect in our game because of the field of view. And it would also kill the performance since a lot of player models are visible at the same time. I agree, Doom3 really looks cool. :o

Yeah, this is not our fist project. We made first-person-shooter-mods before. This is also the reason why UFO - AI is based on Quake2 engine.

Thx for the advertisment. The demo is nearly finished, but we want to test it properly before the release. Only a few tiny bugs left... they will be eliminated soon!

Ah, your site is up again. Design looks good.

Maybe the source of HL will be published too.

I know the problem. I am asked often if I could make maps for a mod or a game. As far as I know none of these were ever released. However, our team has quite a lot of experience, this is not our first project. I am quite optimistic about UFO - Alien Invasion! Thx for the news-posting!

Lol. The demo will be released in about three weeks. Then you can find out yourself. Nah serious: We are working over a year on this project now. It's already playable and really fun in my opinion.