[Katana][Alpha] Decay: Tempus

[hogsy]

This should probably be moved over to the new Indie board and renamed as "[Katana][Alpha] OpenKatana"

If an admin can do that I'd appreciate it.

[Spirit]

Sure thing, done.

[hogsy]

[hogsy]

A really rushed, but new, blog post!

[hogsy]

The source-code for OpenKatana itself is now public on our GitHub, though you have to remember a lot of this is still being worked on so please ignore any mess

[qbism]

I really like the textures and lighting in the screenshots, grungy but with good depth shading and decorative patterns.

[jim]

I was thinking it looks something like Unreal, both lighting and texturing.

[leileilol]

Saturated colored lighting without overbrights on blocky architecture does make for unintentional period pieces. Not that it's a bad thing, i'm doing something similar as well, being dangerously under the minimum curve/bezier count for a q3 snob in the name of fixed-function performance and '2000 retreaux', which is a bit hard to explain but distinguishable from 99 and 2001...

[hogsy]

Here's a quick update; we're releasing a multiplayer alpha very soon, either Christmas or early next year, we'll see. I hope some of you will be able to check it out, we'll probably have a server up for a few days and do a little marathon or something. Anyway here's a few little snippets...









Additionally, all the base content used for Katana (OpenKatana's engine) is being released . Nothing major on there quite yet, but if anyone is interested in playing around with the engine then they will be able to use this content as a foundation for their own projects, and be sure to check out the license document that's included. Additionally if you're looking for documentation; .

[jim]

Sounds cool. The space level look like it could be a CTF level with the red/blue lighting. The checkerboard level could have something more to it (or is it just to display the models?).

[qbism]

Have surface flags or shaders been considered for the new bsp format? Transparency, flowing, etc. The crate spacemap looks awesome.

[hogsy]

[mankrip]

I couldn't find some answers in the blog:

Is this a remake of Daikatana?

What is the focus? Being faithful to the released PC version alone, or introducing elements from the betas / Q1-engine era / N64 versions of the game?

Does it require data from Daikatana itself, or is it standalone?

Where did the idea of this project come from? What inspired you to do it?

What are the main differences between OpenKatana and Daikatana?


OpenKatana's graphics looks really good, by the way. Specially the textures - and the green clouds are wonderful.

[hogsy]

[mankrip]

It sounds like an "alternate universe" story then. Nice.