Der Shovel posted:

I'm currently working as a research programmer at a university. Basically this means that when researchers need some software made for their projects, I help them make it, or just outright make it myself.

Recently I've been working on VR stuff as part of a project that studies player experiences in VR, and the various factors that negatively or positively affect it (basically what will come out of this will be a set of guidelines for what to do and what not to do if you want to make a fun, playable VR experience).

One of the very central "underline this poo poo three times so you don't forget" concepts is that you should be VERY careful about taking vision control away from the player. Don't do canned animations where the player's field of view is manipulated by the game and ignoring the player's actual head position, because that's a Autobahn speed shortcut to vomit city.

I bring this up in the Star Citizen thread because cultists insist that VR support is coming and it will just be a case of ... I dunno, refactoring the graphics pipeline full stack backend occlusion containers to V2.1, or whatever the gently caress, and then CIG can put "vr-support = 1" into the config files and away we go.

It's hilarious to think how miserable playing Star Citizen in VR would be. You need fast, steady framerates (90+ minimum, for two independent displays basically), you need to consider FoV and design your entire UI around VR. Even if CIG somehow did that, crobbert's genius "drunken sailor headbob, first person motion captured cinematic loving looks around my plane's cockpit before I take off" is just fundamentally incompatible with how VR games work.

CaressMeGently posted:

I remember our VR guy telling CR not to take cam control off of the player specifically when the player is getting into the ship as it would make the player sick as a loving dog.

Needless to say, CR knows better.

Ghostlight posted:

it turns out that not only are they not faked in the way I thought, but you can "EVA" seamlessly all the way from "planet to pupil", even in VR

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZ1YmUypTL0

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I have a lot of industry friends pat me on the back and say, “Wow, it must be so great to be operating in profit even before you ship!” Their look usually turns to incredulity when I explain that my intention is for all the money we bring in before launch to be spent on development.

Kosumo posted:

If the only useful thing to come out of star Citizen is that some goon in this thread points me to some nice tequila to try, so be it.

I've just currently started drink tequila about a month ago instead of beer and am ready to sample recommendations.

p.s. tanequila

DigitalPenny posted:

No profits, just a purchased a 4.7 million dollar mansion....

What is profit?

Zzr posted:

Star citizen : not a game, and also not a game.

Prawned posted:

I thought Robert's brother was making the single player and he was a semi competent game developer

Nebakenezzer posted:

[fnord]For everybody above Angel OA, I made a secret thread in the Paranormal subforum to clear the air about Mockingbird.[/fnord]

I heard star citizen is bad and is a scam

Agony Aunt posted:

The impression i have is yes, but also when Erin says things like "How about we focus on core features first and get those shipped" Chris then shouts "FIDELITY", waves his arms, and tells Erin to do something not necessary.

Quavers posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMgt9Dv5A20

CrazyLoon posted:

Oh hey...ships literally handle exactly the same as I remember them back in 2014. Zero progress on that in five years.

Zazz Razzamatazz posted:

I heard they fired the guy who wrote BL2 and made it funny. Is the new one funny?

Zazz Razzamatazz posted:

I heard they fired the guy who wrote BL2 and made it funny. Is the new one funny?

DigitalPenny posted:

No profits, just a purchased a 4.7 million dollar mansion....

What is profit?

Sandweed posted:

It's the Roberts Family Trust. So when they come for Chris Roberts money they can't go after his house since he doesn't own it.

itry posted:

trucutru posted:

The great wheel of Shitsara, according to the backers.

Sandweed posted:

Someone who reads this thread every day once tried to strangle (allegedly) Chris Roberts.

Sandweed posted:

Someone who reads this thread every day once tried to strangle (allegedly) Chris Roberts.

Zzr posted:

My guess : she's a relative of someone who's has been lesnicked.

DigitalPenny posted:

Not sure how trusts work in some the US, so I could be wrong here but the nature of trusts means It can not have any debt. Maybe ortwin has some next level finance wizardry going on but in theory there is no mortgage on said house.

Yes it does add a very strong layer of protection, but there are some ways around it.

Usually people at a high risk of being sued use em, doctors, lawyers, accountants & The very rich.

Guess I did not know game dev was a highly paid and risky profession...

Hazamuth posted:

The Lesnick Maneuver

Bofast posted:

Who said anything about Chris still being a game dev?

skeletors_condom posted:

Anyone want to help me develop a new game called Scam Crowdfunder Tycoon (also know as SC Tycoon).

It will be a business sim where the main challenge will be to keep maintaining crowdfunding revenue for an indefinite period.

Something like "Mad Games Tycoon" or "Game Dev Tycoon" but instead of real games you make fake demos, 3D assets and some other BS. There will also be a "send money to Swiss Bank" game mechanic like in the original Tropico.


They are "making" it.

Mr Fronts posted:

Would you take a grey market Idris? Its value can only go up! Who knows how valuable it could turn out to be in the year 2456, when Star Citizen goes into early beta...