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"An extra 10% of effort yields an addition 40% to the final perception of polish." These numbers are hard to verify, simply because these attributes aren't quantifiable in the first place. However, the slides on display show how significantly a product can change over a short period of time. What took 3 days to make can be enhanced with just two more days of work. It can be further enhanced with an additional day. And then a few more hours. See the huge strides made in the slide above.
The team admits that they underestimated the "tech revisions to grow from Daxter to God of War." As impressive as Daxter was, God of War required far more tech, due to its more realistic graphics. Lighting, for example, had to be completely changed in order to meet the demands of the game.
Here's one of the funnier notes of development. Apparently, the Battle of Attica level actually "took up almost 40% of [Ready at Dawn's] production time." This is the level that was included in the demo, and is the level that has been primarily on display. The team wanted to get everything right for the game's introduction before going on to the remainder of the game.
So what's next for Ready at Dawn? It's rather unhelpful and vague: "new original IPs, new platforms, new mistakes!" We'll certainly keep an eye on their next project.
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2-20-2008 @ 8:34PM
Fiddlesworth said...
It'd be cool to see them strut their stuff on PS3. See if they can compete with the big boys. ;p
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2-20-2008 @ 9:49PM
Dehshizknight said...
Lol, make sure that you guys are allowed to blog this stuff. After all, we wouldn't want the whole Sony/Home and Kotaku fiasco happening to this site since this place is too cool! Lol.
Wasn't it GDC where Home got revealed last year and no one except the developers were allowed to see it?
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2-20-2008 @ 10:14PM
Dahk said...
Haha yeah, but this is small.
I mean it's not like they said anything out of the obvious =P. And for BTS production stuff, I'm pretty sure they're releasing some vids and whatnot with the game anyway.
2-21-2008 @ 11:58AM
Alien said...
Lets hope that their new game will be a PSP game :D
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2-21-2008 @ 9:33PM
[email protected] said...
new mistakes..LMAO...please make all the mistakes you want, as long as you make such wonderful and awesome games be my guest ^^
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2-23-2008 @ 10:17AM
drdre74 said...
Yeha he talked alot about mistakes. I was kinda mad that he didnt show anything new from the game except for a underwater shot. But then I hit the game floor and they had he full game on display. I played it for about 10 min. I didnt want to play too much of it so i'd have some fun when i pick it up. But it looks great and the AI is really hard.
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