After more than a year of owning VR headsets it's about time for the first VR report.
As of beginning of 2021, PC VR situation with Valve Index and Oculus Rift S is best summarised with following quote:
-- fire of texnoforge
VR is really an impressive โฆ
We've spent last year and a half learning Unreal Engine 4. It's indeed a powerful and high performance engine with impressive graphical results which is pushing game industry forward. However, as a single indie game developer following certain vision, I found Unreal unfit for my purposes to a point where โฆ
After intro to Theory of Magic let's think about Invocation of Magic and human-to-magic interfaces next. In particular let's focus on ways spells can be triggered by mages in videogames.
All videos in this post were made in-game by me, and they are all under 1 minute so don't be โฆ
Welcome to the first ever texnoforge devlog about magic system in our upcoming game Words of Power which is focused on spellcasting and interactive invocation of magic using hand-drawn symbols.
This post describes high level concepts of proposed magic system such as symbols, words, alphabets and sentences without going into โฆ
texnoforge completed one full orbit around the central star แ( แ )แ
Please see the new projects page as we finally announce first 3 official texnoforge projects!
Expect us to update projects with more information as we work on them and hopefully some blog posts focused on โฆ
After a much needed break from corporate exploitation and work in general, texnoforge has gone FULL UNREAL!
We've been occasionally playing with Unreal Engine past year and we hit no critical issues. We also ran out of good videogames to play so now we're developing our own โฆ
Behold first texnoforge planetary tech demo!
In 1998 a very special videogame was released called Populous: The Beginning (Populous 3). It's one of very few god videogames ever created (wikipedia only lists 42) and it's also one of first games to feature dynamic 3D spherical maps - planets. As if that โฆ
We've started 2020 by playing 20 years old Real-Time Strategy which got significant new (re)release called Age of Empires 2: Definitive Edition.
While previous AoE2 HD edition was basically an update for modern systems, Definitive Edition brings significant and much needed improvements which make the two-decades-old game more playable โฆ
Initial texnoforge boostrap is complete and we're now entering research and chill mode. Read more about it in the updated and extended status page.
I've also created new mission statement to explain where we're headed in the long run.
Finally, look at these fabulous screenshots of us doing all the โฆ
Behold, the first photo of enigmatic fire of texnoforge interfacing with VR using Oculus Rift S.
In the name of science, of course.
