New game "Humanity Pending"

Fisttech | 2011-01-06 22:23

Hello Quadropolis, i am the head of an independent studio called Fist Technologies. I decided to join this forum to inform the Cube 2 community that we are using the Cube 2 engine to create a game called Humanity Pending. Before anyone questions the legitimacy of this I will tell you its real and you can check out our Indie DB page here: http://www.indiedb.com/games/humanitypending. This is however a closed source, commercial game. It will not be released for a while, However I figured we should tell you now because it would be really great to have community support. You can find more details about the game at the Indie DB page that i mentioned earlier.

- fisttech

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Windecker | 2011-01-06 22:41

I noticed your page said you have switched to DirectX rather than OpenGl.
If your planning to make a commercial game, cross compatibility would be something that you should maintain. There is a larger Linux and Mac user base than most people like to believe, and many user's would likely buy a good game if it works natively in their OS.
( Good chunk of the market )

Fisttech | 2011-01-06 23:52

The Mac version will still be using OpenGl, thanks to SDL, switching requires only a few short lines of code.

RaZgRiZ | 2011-01-07 00:31

Kind of funny how most people "nag" about the shortage of mac developers, yet mac versions are the most widespread lately.

Meister | 2011-01-07 08:28

Sorry for "intruding", not my custom to argue on such matters, but I would to understand two points:

1) as far as I know Cube2 -by will of its creators- it's totally open source, read the license at http://sauerbraten.org/README.html; now, I am not a license expert of course, but I can't get how do you think to make a "commercial" closed source port/mod of this game.

2) I know it's still early to tell, but man, judging from the screenshots on your website, in my opinion your mod (sorry to say that) is really ugly; are you sure someone would buy that when we have sauerbraten for free?

And for the same reasons as above, asking here a "community support" for a commercial mod of a game that has been always free maybe is a bit pretentious. Just my opinions of course.
Just be sure you are not wasting your time ;)
By the way I wish you good luck.
Wishes.

Fisttech | 2011-01-07 23:22

Just some clarification:

-Humanity Pending is not a mod but a standalone game using the Cube 2 engine.

-The Gameplay differs significantly from that of Sauerbraten and the code is completely different.

-We are not the first to use the Cube 2 engine commercially for instance Proper Games is using it for an XBLA game.

-No content from Sauerbraten will remain in the official release.

Also about the ugly models if you read further on our page you would see that I said "we have begun getting really deep into some heavy duty modeling and its going great!" and "sorry about the bad models we need to hire a new modeler because I fail at modeling and i have lots of programming to do." So most of the models should be replaced before the first alpha is released.

P.S. thanks for the good luck wishes

Edit :
As for licensing issues, readme_source.txt clearly states "Permission is granted to anyone to use this software for any purpose,
including commercial applications, and to alter it and redistribute it
freely" this allows us to use the code as we wish.

SheeEttin | 2011-01-08 06:41

Sounds interesting, but I think it's a little early for you to be publicizing your project. People tend to heavily judge based on their first impressions.

But hey, if you're hiring a modeler, I can do some passable modeling. :D

Also, I assume you've read the modding guide, as well as the associated How not to start a mod and How to approach modding articles?

Fisttech | 2011-01-08 15:56

if you wanna help, can you model hudguns?
we will put you in the credits.
I'm not sure if we can pay you, we're not sure if its even gonna make money but if it does you can be sure that some of it will be donated to the Cube 2 project.

we will send you details and concept art if you can help.

skiingpenguins | 2011-01-08 16:24

unfortunately it is not legal to donate to the cube 2 project, due to the non-commercial status of most of the content. eihrul has discuessed this in IRC a few times, as some people wanted to donate to him for cube 2.

Fisttech | 2011-01-08 16:38

Thats a real pity but I promise somehow I will thank the developers for making such a great engine.

Blarget2 | 2011-01-10 03:18

but it IS legal just to hand someone money out of the kindness of their heart then later call it a "donation". ;)

Windecker | 2011-01-10 04:11

I'm feeling kind, and since my monopoly board got ruined, you can have six hundred dollars for free! You needn't even pass GO.

RaZgRiZ | 2011-01-10 08:49

i can haz?

SheeEttin | 2011-01-09 06:43

I certainly can model hudguns.
Animate, skin, and make them work properly is another story, but I can take a crack at it. ;)
(I'm partially kidding. I can animate fine and make them work properly no problem, but it's skinning I have the least experience with.)

Go ahead and send me an email or something (sheeettin@gmail.com).

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