This is a great idea: Using Photography and Photogrammetry to Create a Video Game World (video)

Very Kewl...

Oh, yes

I thought about doing this a while back, but at the time the tools for turning real world objects into 3d models were very limited. It was much easier to just make the 3d models and textures digitally.

I love Blender 3d. :P

kinda looks nice artistically but meh i kinda lost interest in games after the super Nintendo died off. Games have gone from being flights of fantasy to murder death kill or trying to mimic reality, rehash after rehash while lacking origionality and gameplay.

games industry is in a sad state these days

:)

Most game developers lose touch with their inner gamer. All the work they put into a project makes them start to hate that game. (or games like that game) I hate all my finished games and never want to see them again. It's very hard to keep that passion alive while you work like a slave.

asteroids has better graphics than this

You can't expect independent developers to have graphics like games from Square Enix or Epic Games. They don't have the time or man power to do it. If they went for that high of quality they would never release a game.

Hey my friend I hear ye, having been working over 20 years in the games industry. Having worked on teams of 3 people to teams of over 100. Early days were fun. We just wanted to make fun games for us and for people to play. Slowly the marketing/publishers moved in and took control. Money is king now. And unfortunately creativity and originality took a back seat. Ask a kid now what game do they wanna buy. It's FIFA x, call duty x, etc.

I remember doing ps3 stuff and spending months upon months texturing/modeling stuff that the player would run by in a matter of minutes, that was not interactive with. Meanwhile the gameplay was hideous, a mess of ideas between 10 game designers that couldn't agree on anything.

The golden age was in the late 80s with some beautifully designed arcade/console games that were really unique.

I sound like a moany old so and so I know :). Just think its a shame to see. I know there are still some good games out there and some people love the latest stuff but meh, I kinda like what's been happening with the iPhone/smartphone development but the limitation of the touch screen sucks.

Each to there own really but I just thought I'd get that out :)

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