[HulkNukem]

axl, on 21 November 2016 - 07:55 AM, said:

- is it a standalone game? Because I'm not that interested in Bombshell;
- is it the same length as any of the main build games? (Duke, Blood, Shadow Warrior)? Or is it more like an expansion/dlc?
- any information regarding the release date?

You don't need Bombshell to play it, but if you buy the special edition of Bombshell, you get beta access to the prequel.
The project's overall vision changed at some point and caused the game to essentially be 'delayed' despite not really having an official release date to begin with. I take this to mean the project became bigger than what it was originally intended to be.
That is about all we know.

[Striker]

HulkNukem, on 20 November 2016 - 09:27 AM, said:

I might be in the minority but I think that gun is a little too high-res, especially compared to some of those textures :/

I personally like it, makes me think of Redneck Rampage with it's high resolution weapon sprites.

[brullov]

Really great palette, I love green, blue and brown colors a lot. All 256 colors work well together, what is very important. Also feels unique.

[neznam]

So is this going to be built on the Duke 3D source code like Redneck Rampage or is it going to be on an independent version of the Build engine like Blood?

[TerminX]

Built on the EDuke32 source to avoid years of extra work.

[Micky C]

Frog, on 22 November 2016 - 03:10 PM, said:

Is it normal for the colours to go beyond the row like that, or is it something fancy?

[Kawa]

Micky C, on 23 November 2016 - 02:54 AM, said:

Is it normal for the colours to go beyond the row like that, or is it something fancy?

That's just what you get when the amount of shades per hue isn't a power of two.

[Micky C]

But if the total amount of colours is the same doesn't that mean something's had to be cut out?

[Kawa]

Not at all. It's just a matter of which hues the designer thinks are the most important. Those hues get more shades assigned to them, at the cost of others. That's why Duke3D and SW have four hues with 32 shades and the rest only get 16 shades, while Blood has one hue with 32 shades, two with 24 (!) shades, four with only eight shades, and the rest with 16. Bombshell's palette is simply... visually unbalanced in that way. But you know what? So are ROTT and Wolf3D's.

[Micky C]

I suppose it's a good variety. A nice black gradient. Two Browns, two greens, two blues, a purple, a red, red/orange/yellow and gold.

Are the bottom ones full brights?

[Kawa]

They might be. Duke3D's last 15 were, but that's no guarantee.

[MetHy]

I've pretty much I've heard TerminX ITT or in another thread say they used a trick to change palette as they wanted.

[Kawa]

Gotta wonder what's so tricky about that.

[MusicallyInspired]

One thing I've always wanted to see in a "2.5D engine" is 8-bit style colour palette cycling. I admit it'd be tricky especially with different lighting, but there's gotta be some application for it...

[Kawa]

Now that would be a neat trick. Color cycling is easy, but then there's the shading and transparancy tables, remaps... Frightening. You could only get away with that in Wolf-tier engines.

[MusicallyInspired]

Yeah, with no lighting. Unless the renderer was higher than 8-bit but somehow still using indexed colours. I guess it's not really compatible.

[Sledgehammer]

Now that I looked at MusicallyInspired, I wonder what composer is going to work on the soundtrack. Would be neat if it's Lee Jackson.

[MusicallyInspired]

I actually asked, I was quite interested in the prospect myself. But they weren't interested.

"They" being Interceptor, not Voidpoint and co. My guess is Hulshult.

[TerminX]

We're aiming for something a bit different from Hulshult's style, so we didn't use him.

[MusicallyInspired]

Oh. Well whoever it is I can't wait to hear it!

[Loke]

I hope it's the dude who made the soundtrack to Extreme Paintbrawl.

[Mr. Tibbs]

TerminX, on 23 November 2016 - 11:29 AM, said:

We're aiming for something a bit different from Hulshult's style, so we didn't use him.

Could it be Lee Jackson?

For the rest of the thread, Voidpoint mentioned on Twitter they're aiming to release in "half a year or so."

[TerminX]

It's not Lee Jackson, though that would be pretty awesome! We tapped the European C64/Amiga demo scene and found a guy who has been making mod tracker music for about 20 years. This is why EDuke32 now supports module music.

[MusicallyInspired]

Really looking forward to that! I love MODs!

[Micky C]

TerminX, on 23 November 2016 - 05:45 PM, said:

It's not Lee Jackson, though that would be pretty awesome! We tapped the European C64/Amiga demo scene and found a guy who has been making mod tracker music for about 20 years. This is why EDuke32 now supports module music.

The commercial projects such as this, and HTTKC are the best things to ever happen to eduke32. So many features (a few large, but mostly small albeit in large quantity) have been added on account of them. Plus it doesn't hurt for the devs to see some monetary return on the years of investment they've put in.

Now we just need a commercial project requiring modern graphics and multiplayer

[brullov]

Micky C, on 23 November 2016 - 10:56 PM, said:

multiplayer

this

[Lunick]

https://twitter.com/...646450245025792

[HulkNukem]

Not digging some of those textures :/

[TerminX]

HulkNukem, on 26 November 2016 - 03:48 PM, said:

Not digging some of those textures :/

The textures don't dig you either!

[Kawa]

I quite like them.

They make me sad.