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by Tansin A. Darcos (TDARCOS) 02/28/2013, 5:48pm PST |
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Can people design their own levels for System Shock and play them?
And if you can do it, can you do it with not a huge amount of trouble? Is editing / creating new leavels something one can do easily?
The key word is "easily". The third party tools for Doom were fairly easy for creating levels.
The tools that came with Duke Nukem 3D were also reasonably easy to work with.
But you get into some of the level building / world building tools lately are a son-of-a-bitch to work with and basically require a degree in rocket science. Quake III, Half-Life 2 and Portal, and others I've seen, designing a level is an exercise in self-performed root canal surgery. It's like they took the huge effort to write code in C++ and moved that agonizing pain over to the task of the level designers.
For anyone that thinks designing a 3D world requires agonizing effort should try installing Trimble Sketchup, what is probably one of the finest tools for doing 3D modeling around, then see what it takes to design something. Or go to the on-line warehouse and download a model, there are tens of thousands of models there. I've uploaded over a hundred myself.
Building 3D landscapes or building 3D environments for a game doesn't have to be the equivalent of the labor of giving birth. But too many systems end up that way because nobody has taken the time to work on the user interface.
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Games need to be shipped fast, before designers have a chance to ruin them. by Ken "Common Sense" Levine 02/19/2013, 3:55pm PST
System Shock 2 is the greatest FPS of all time! NT by Mischief Maker 02/19/2013, 10:25pm PST
Someone explain this to me by fabio 02/20/2013, 10:39am PST
Reaction time, eye-hand coordination, you know. by Mischief Maker 02/20/2013, 11:56am PST
You mean Bioshock was more than a wrench-bludgeoning simulator? NT by WITTGENSTEIN 02/21/2013, 1:21pm PST
BioShock was a very good game that was also very nearly a great game. by Jerry Whorebach 02/21/2013, 1:51pm PST
I don't understand why you guys are such cunts about this game by Arbit 02/21/2013, 5:14pm PST
Re: I don't understand why you guys are such cunts about this game by Mischief Maker 02/22/2013, 10:23am PST
Even if you removed the resource management difficulty by fabio 02/22/2013, 11:58am PST
Was SS2 the game that started OMM on making fun of "the thinking man's shooter"? NT by Mischief Maker 02/22/2013, 12:57pm PST
I liked the simple melee combat in BioShock. by Jerry Whorebach 02/22/2013, 12:59pm PST
I like how the banner ads make the Bioshock 3 girl look like she's in her 20s. NT by Mischief Maker 02/22/2013, 6:29pm PST
Welcome to last season by fabio 02/22/2013, 11:53pm PST
I bought The First Encounter when it was on sale, and played it for five minutes by Jerry Whorebach 02/22/2013, 12:48pm PST
Don't play Serious Sam with a pad. by Mischief Maker 02/22/2013, 12:56pm PST
Serious Sam doesn't need to exist in a universe that has Painkiller by Arbit 02/22/2013, 3:18pm PST
Haha I didn't even watch that video you linked until now by Arbit 02/22/2013, 3:21pm PST
You would prefer a room that spawns 30 kleers, 5 at a time? NT by Mischief Maker 02/22/2013, 3:30pm PST
I would prefer an enemy that is fun to fight NT by Arbit 02/22/2013, 5:46pm PST
I take it I won the System Shock 2 portion of this thread. NT by Mischief Maker 02/22/2013, 5:54pm PST
I'm not sure what you think you won, or that we are even arguing. by Arbit 02/26/2013, 12:04pm PST
How does setting the difficulty to unpossible fix the wrench trick? by The Happiness Engine 02/26/2013, 8:29pm PST
Re: How does setting the difficulty to unpossible fix the wrench trick? by Arbit 02/27/2013, 3:06pm PST
Have you played System Shock 1? by Mischief Maker 02/27/2013, 4:10pm PST
Re: Have you played System Shock 1? by Arbit 02/28/2013, 5:15pm PST
Re: Have you played System Shock 1? by Ice Cream Jonsey 02/28/2013, 7:57pm PST
Re: Have you played System Shock 1? by Mischief Maker 02/28/2013, 8:50pm PST
Then what the Christ am I doing wrong? by Ice Cream Jonsey 02/28/2013, 9:10pm PST
I loved those Kleer marathon sections. by Fullofkittens 02/22/2013, 3:56pm PST
Oh, another special snowflake that likes to LEARN and TEST HIS SKILLS by Arbit 02/22/2013, 6:00pm PST
Re: Oh, another special snowflake that likes to LEARN and TEST HIS SKILLS by Mysterio 02/22/2013, 6:22pm PST
Left 4 Dead 2 NT by Fullofkittens 02/22/2013, 6:37pm PST
Yes by Arbit 02/26/2013, 12:13pm PST
Re: Oh, another special snowflake that likes to LEARN and TEST HIS SKILLS by Fullofkittens 02/22/2013, 6:37pm PST
I've never played an FPS with more perfectly-tuned hitstun than Doom. NT by Doom is HITSTUN: THE VIDEO GAME. 02/23/2013, 1:50pm PST
But can you design your own levels in System Shock? And if so, do so "easily"? by Tansin A. Darcos (TDARCOS) 02/28/2013, 5:48pm PST
Oh sorry, this is the 'rage' forum; take my prior comment for rage instead of SS NT by Tansin A. Darcos (TDARCOS) 02/28/2013, 5:51pm PST
I wonder if there are any steps between a 3D model and a game engine? NT by Nope! Probably not! Lazy devs! 03/01/2013, 10:52am PST
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