Dino Diary #7

[MarkG]

http://www.firaxis.com/dinosaurs/dia...20000424_1.cfm

[heardie]

Nice Diary there! Is that twice that within a week of apolyoton hinnted for a new diary one came out?.....
ANyway good to see that they use max with Character Studio. In fact for a tottaly unrelated thing I made a dino animation too, usuing bones plugin for 3dmax - http://members.xoom.com/acchiron/Dino/intro.avi
Interesting huh?

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[Atahualpa]

When I first heard that Dinosaurs is the current game Sid is working on, I was really dissapointed. I thought: "uaaa Dinosaurs, who cares!"
But with every Diary that is published, my interest in this game gets bigger and bigger. I am now at a status, where I definetly want to see a demo or try the game. Before, I did not even care.

Great Work, Sid, Mike and Greg!!!

ATa

[MidKnight Lament]

Not as interesting as the last few diaries, but that's only because we didn't get many tidbits about game-play. And I know I'm being picky.

Still very interesting to see what they're doing with the art. I guess it's just not so much my area of expertise.

Thanks for the effort Greg! And thanks for trying to keep us informed. We want to talk about Dinos... believe us, we do!

- MKL

[Hugo Rune]

Does this mean dinos will not be dynamic? Does the hints about "picking advances" make this game a _really_ bad simulation? I'm unconvinced by this last diary to say the least.

[yin26]

His talk about being able to locate units in a "hectic" game + the animation leads to only one conclusion:

Age of Dinos!!! Yes!

(Sorry, Markos )

[SailorUranus]

I beg to differ yin. It won't be "Age of Dinos". What it will be has been said probably a hundred times before. Combining what we already know from the previous diaries, added to knowing we will have the ability "to locate units in a 'hectic' game" sounds more akin to the game becoming this instead:

DINOCRAFT

No... actually, this:

Sid Meier's Dinocraft!

[WarVoid]

DinoCraft

Oooh, I hope so.

A mutant T. Rex with a plasma rifle.

Cool.
Like totally...