Interview with Luca - PlaneShift's top guy

[Moogie]

Well we havn\'t screen the sides of the arena, so I\'d expect spectator stands to be along there.


Unless I\'m absolutely wrong and the devs have missed the whole point of an \"Arena\" building...

[SaintNuclear]

Originally posted by snow_RAveN
the statues must be of the forgoten gladitors that died makeing the pepsi ad

If they\'re forgotten, how did anyone knew about them to carve them on the arena?

[John_Thazer]

Originally posted by karakth
Yeah they do look awesome.

Just think...Only a few more months and CB will be here!

The concept of the \"few\" always amazed me...

Ionas, I tend to disagree. Although a naked chick could be nice, if she\'s holding an arena she gotta be one of those weight-lifting women, you know, those that shoot testosteron and got pumped muscles, beard, and a deeper voice than a biker... Scary.

Well...not deeper than biker..but still...i believe you can make her just right...but indeed it seems that blokes get made in statutes more ofter than chicks...

Yeah, that statue needs at least a loin-cloth or something... but that arena looks so cool, I can\'t wait to school you all there

Ooooo...Hercules style...

Ah...well we will just have to wait and see how the arena works...and hope it actually works...

[tygerwilde]

Ionas, I tend to disagree. Although a naked chick could be nice, if she\'s holding an arena she gotta be one of those weight-lifting women, you know, those that shoot testosteron and got pumped muscles, beard, and a deeper voice than a biker... Scary.

hey man, not all bodybuilding women look like men, peggy schoolcraft is damn sexy, there\'s chyna and aysia.

although some of them make my privates want to shrivel up and hide somewhere

[mbahleda]

This is the best update errr... since the movie.

Really, though, it was very informative (what I could understand) about the progress and why there are delays.

Btw, the renderings look great.

[BlueScreenJunky]

isn\'t the second statue we can see in the first picture a girl ?

Anyway, great news, the renders are really good, and the interview makes me think it will be worth the wait ^^;

and one last thing :

We are still missing a lot of RPG features, stories, quests, areas, deepness of setting in general. We feel that an RPG game deserves a lot more, so we don\'t want to call CB an \"RPG game\" yet. We have a lot of good ideas to create a good RPG game, but we decided to go step by step and to release tech demos to bring attention of other developers.

So is someone already working on stories, quests and setting ? I feel it would be a waste of time not to work on that while the engine is being done, since both might take a great amount of time.

[SaintNuclear]

Originally posted by BlueScreenJunky
isn\'t the second statue we can see in the first picture a girl ?

The second looks like a mage, and I think that the last is a jester...

Originally posted by BlueScreenJunky
So is someone already working on stories, quests and setting ? I feel it would be a waste of time not to work on that while the engine is being done, since both might take a great amount of time.

The stories, setting, and quests shouldn\'t be hard to come up with. You just need a few basic ideas, and you can develop stories from them.
The problem is compatibility of the quests.
The quests shouldn\'t be programmed into the game each one on it\'s own, but there should be a general programmed thing that can have quests put in like skins.
From there, it\'s just choosing wich NPC does what, and what\'s your goal.

[Toadhead]

If they want an interview with me, they can just ask me for it.

I do it for $100