Joystiq http://www.joystiq.com Joystiq http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/http://www.joystiq.com/media/feedlogo.gif Joystiq http://www.joystiq.com en-us Copyright 2013 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/<![CDATA[Infinity Ward animator talks first-person flourishes]]>http://www.joystiq.com/2012/11/08/infinity-ward-animator-talks-first-person-flourishes/http://www.joystiq.com/2012/11/08/infinity-ward-animator-talks-first-person-flourishes/http://www.joystiq.com/2012/11/08/infinity-ward-animator-talks-first-person-flourishes/#comments Infinity Ward animator on FPS design in a Reddit AMA pretty interestingChance Glasgo, a first-person animator at Infinity Ward, did a Reddit Ask Me Anything thread last weekend, taking on questions about the complicated weapon animations seen in games like Call of Duty and Battlefield. You should read through the whole thread if you're interested, but PC Gamer has kindly grabbed some of the most fascinating insights.

Glasgo says that "most serial numbers on guns in CoD have significance" of some kind, whether it's just a reference to his workout gym of choice, or a hint to something in the game's larger mythology.

He also explains that while gun aficionados will often tell him he's made some sort of technical mistake in rendering realistic weapons, the choice to do things differently is simply creative. For example, you're never supposed to point a real gun anywhere but forward even while reloading it, but following that rule would make some of these just so ... boring.

JoystiqInfinity Ward animator talks first-person flourishes originally appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 08 Nov 2012 03:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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There are also plenty of new mobs, new biomes and landscape features, and new crafting items and recipes, and a whole host of bug fixes and stability additions. Unfortunately, if you want to know when the update is going live, you'll just have to wait. Even after digging down deep, all we came up with for a release date was "soon." That's not exactly emerald ore, unfortunately.

JoystiqMinecraft for Xbox 360 getting Creative Mode, more in next update originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 03 Oct 2012 22:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>biomescreativecreative-modefeaturesmicrosoftMinecraftmojangsandboxupdatexboxxbox-360Wed, 03 Oct 2012 22:30:00 EST<![CDATA[Valve looking for user-created items in Team Fortress 2]]>http://www.joystiq.com/2010/01/14/valve-looking-for-user-created-items-in-team-fortress-2/http://www.joystiq.com/2010/01/14/valve-looking-for-user-created-items-in-team-fortress-2/http://www.joystiq.com/2010/01/14/valve-looking-for-user-created-items-in-team-fortress-2/#comments There once was a time when your only option for exercising creativity in Team Fortress 2 was to come up with clever ways to grief your fellow players. Today, Valve announced that players would soon have a less annoying way to stretch their imagination muscles -- by designing their own items and avatars which could possibly show up in-game.

Of course, you can't simply break one of the classes by creating a mini-nuke launcher for them -- there's a number of restrictions to what's appropriate for the game. Check out Valve's handy "Tips and Tricks" page to find out how to ensure your homebrewed creations are TF2-acceptable. For instance, a new fedora for the Sniper? Absolutely. A gun shaped like genitalia for the Heavy? Absolutely not.

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It doesn't take much ingenuity to create Mii versions of celebrities like The Office cast, of The Big Lebowski, and some Japanese guys we've never heard of, but it takes some true inspiration to make the Pac-man face above, complete with frowning ghost facial hair. For those who doubt such a creation is possible with the Wii's somewhat-limited palette of face-creation options, we've included a video of the process after the jump. As for us, we're off to the barber and then the plastic surgeon to make this Mii-inspired dream a reality.

[Thanks Luis Camino]

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JoystiqPac-man + Mii = Pac-miin originally appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 03 Apr 2007 22:25:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>creativemiinamcopac-manwakawakawakawiiTue, 03 Apr 2007 22:25:00 EST<![CDATA[Ad critic: Oblivion ad hot or not?]]>http://www.joystiq.com/2006/04/21/ad-critic-oblivion-ad-hot-or-not/http://www.joystiq.com/2006/04/21/ad-critic-oblivion-ad-hot-or-not/http://www.joystiq.com/2006/04/21/ad-critic-oblivion-ad-hot-or-not/#commentsFiled under: , , , , ,

In our third installment of the Friday ad critic series, we bring you a more mundane ad (hey, sometimes it's just not appropriate to use sex to sell a game, but it sure makes for a less exciting ad), this time from the April issue of Computer Gaming World. This is a condensed version of a two-page Oblivion advert that ran across many gaming magazines in the month of April, and the best word to describe it might be "conventional." Is it too conventional, too standard, too boring? Does this epitome of the standard video game advertisement succeed or fail?

Does the ad do justice to the game? If you're breathing and if you've been reading games media printed on dead trees, you've seen this thing in a magazine. Did it do anything for you when you first saw it? How about now?

See also: Hitman ad critique, Tomb Raider ad critique.

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JoystiqAd critic: Oblivion ad hot or not? originally appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 21 Apr 2006 11:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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