Tenderfoot Thahd Suislide Posted September 8, 2011 Share Posted September 8, 2011 Do you guys make the engine for the game? I really like Avadon, I would give it a 9/10 as I sunk three hours into the demo and then bought it right at the end of the demo! However, the graphics are pretty rough in various ways. I don't mind the 2d graphics in the slightest but I wish there was a greater sense of scale. I.e. when you meet the dragon, he is totally tiny! So I ask if you guys make your own engine in which case it makes sense because that can consume a ton of resources. Has it ever been considered to outsource the engine? I would imagine something like the Infinity engine by Bioware wouldn't be too expensive to license now days (if its not already Open source). Anyways just a thought! P.S. If I could see one improvement, it would be different weapons and armors for the paperdolls! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Lilith Posted September 8, 2011 Share Posted September 8, 2011 The entire game, engine and all, is pretty much the work of one guy, his wife and his secretary, and the games are made on shoestring budgets. I'm not sure how much a 13-year-old engine goes for these days, nor how much work it'd take to ensure the games made with said 13-year-old engine still run properly on most modern computers, but I suspect that using a licensed engine would be more trouble than you're making it sound like. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tenderfoot Thahd Suislide Posted September 8, 2011 Author Share Posted September 8, 2011 Interesting. I guess that makes sense. Well we will just have to promote the crap out of the game so he makes more money! Hopefully with it being on Steam it has turned out somewhat successful. The Infinity engine runs pretty fine on Windows 7 with no problems and there is a pretty active mod community who I'm sure would be willing to participate in such a project but of course it could be much more complicated. The scripting could be an issue perhaps. Who knows though, just a thought! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Randomizer Posted September 8, 2011 Share Posted September 8, 2011 The iPad version used: Originally Posted By: Jeff Vogel There are several good, free game engines for the devices. (I used a heavily modified version of the open source engine iPTK.) Avadon used a modified version of the Geneforge 5 game engine for the PC and regular Mac versions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Understated Ur-Drakon Earth Posted September 8, 2011 Share Posted September 8, 2011 Dragons might been bigger on 1st trilogy (and at A5 dragon looked bigger than at Avadon). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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