Important Lesson in Game Design

[alexxkay]

When one is creating a sequence wherein a maniacal villain is ranting at the good guys, said villain will look much more impressive if you do *not* place them in the middle of a city street, so that they get hit by a car in mid-rant.

Comments

[metahacker.livejournal.com]

Does he react? or does the car just breeze through him?

In either case, it might make good PR. Y'know, release it "unofficially" on the secret blog your company is using to generating buzz... :P

[alexx-kay.livejournal.com]

We have a fine physics engine. Said villain was properly knocked about and damaged :-) On the other hand, being in a CS, they didn't react in any other way, not having been scripted to do so.

And this *is* the secret blog. Don't tell anyone :-)

[juldea.livejournal.com]

Did you get your bag of things (including the sock of mine that I didn't mean to leave in there!) from Mara?

[alexx-kay.livejournal.com]

Yup. I suspected that the single red sock was there by error :-) Will try to remember to bring it to the event Saturday.

You want more Narnia?

[juldea.livejournal.com]

Yes please!

[jducoeur]

I just *love* emergent behaviour. Someday, there's going to be an entire field of entertainment built around making game engines do gloriously stupid things...