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Couple of screenshots

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http://i.imgur.com/IlY3WVX.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/aWaT5dJ.jpg

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Nice.. 8)

Belongs in Outworld though, I think.
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Moved to Outworld. Very, very nice, especially the one with the planet city lights.
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Guess I'm hard to impress then, as I don't think ED looks nearly as good as it should - and some of those ship designs are horrible!
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Yes, nice screenies and I love the night-side planet, but that ship does look a bit like a plastic toy.
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Smivs wrote:
... but that ship does look a bit like a plastic toy.
A Jobsian plastic toy!
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Cody wrote:
Smivs wrote:
... but that ship does look a bit like a plastic toy.
A Jobsian plastic toy!
iShip.
Or, what happens when Apple tries to break into the spacecraft industry.
Likely it's overpriced and overflashy as well.
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Graphics have become easy with today's computers.

Gameplay, that's hard.
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Layne wrote:
Graphics have become easy with today's computers.

Gameplay, that's hard.
Gameplay is hard, absolutely - but it's no harder or easier than it's ever been, and if anything it's marginally easier because there's less need to make compromises of the "well, it's certainly more fun if X, but it takes too much memory to store the background data it needs" sort.

Graphics there's a lot more possible than there used to be - and now it requires huge teams of artists and programmers working full-time to produce all the assets and effect code. It's gone from something where I could produce some adequate graphics by hand-drawing a few things in a paint programme to something which requires multiple specialisms of skill I simply don't have and takes a huge fraction of the budget of modern commercial releases. Graphics have become really hard with today's computers - if you want to produce something in a "realistic" style, anyway.
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