Hey folks,
I wanted to take a moment to let you what's been happening in the world of Natural Selection 2. After a couple years with a skeleton crew, our team is now up to full capacity! Now we've got animators, environment artists, a level designer, a sound guy, a music guy, heck, even a part-time producer! It feels good to be "firing on all cylinders" as Max says.
This week we released the Gorge "reveal"! This showed the concept art, in-game model and some video footage showing him performing some of his trademark moves.
http://www.unknownworlds.com/ns2/news/2009/8/gorge_reveal
So far the response has been overwhelmingly positive, which we're thrilled about! Especially after our taser idea (http://www.unknownworlds.com/ns2/news/2009/7/knife_pistol_taser)...
For any of you that are working on your own games or have an interest in the methodology behind game development, we posted a short guide to motion-capture. One of our animators, Colin Knueppel, was giving us some tips before we motion-capture the NS2 marine and we thought it was so helpful that we'd make it into a blog post:
http://www.unknownworlds.com/ns2/news/2009/8/motion_capture_tips
We've also started posting images of some of our environment props. Cory wrote up a blog entry discussing and showing some of these a few weeks ago:
http://www.unknownworlds.com/ns2/news/2009/7/environment_props
The next milestone for us is the content tools release, which we will release to everyone that pre-ordered NS2 (http://www.naturalselection2.com/buy). We're making great progress and can't wait to have you guys start making levels. We'll keep you posted.
Thanks for sticking around, we owe you!
-Charlie, Max, Cory, Matt (and Colin, Matthew, Brian, Oli, I Gede, Dave, Simon, Phil, Henry, Bill...)