Comments on: I Just Saw A Flying Fish

By: themadpeacock

themadpeacock — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 22:01:16 +0000

Great post, questioning the unquestionable truths in our lives can be liberating and lead to great breakthroughs.
What game truths are you questioning?
AAA games must have 20+ levels?
All storyline choices should still allow the player to complete the game?

By: Jake Birkett

Jake Birkett — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 20:35:55 +0000

flying shark = great game

By: Sargon

Sargon — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 19:24:53 +0000

Flying fish, my worst nightmare…
It’s only a matter of time before there will be flying sharks!!

By: Dexter Kofa

Dexter Kofa — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 04:04:09 +0000

Interesting. I was wondering where you were going with the flying fish business. But then you put it all together in the last paragraph.

It’s kinda like in my current 2D game Prague, I’m trying to fake water reflection. The way to do it in BMax is to usually capture the water area and then apply some distortion function then paste it back. But this is hard on the FPS. Since the water in Prague is only reflecting the clouds, all I did instead was distort the original cloud image and then paste it at 0.25 alpha onto the water. It ain’t the best but it’s FPS friendly and better than nothing.
As they say, it always helps to think out of the box .