J O N A S H E I D E S M I T H

Jonas Heide Smith

Dept. of Digital Aesthetics and Communication,
The IT University of Copenhagen

Rued Langgaards Vej 7
Office 2D27
DK-2300 Copenhagen

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Last update
24-08-2004

The FUNdamentals game text-book project
Simon Egenfeldt-Nielsen, Susana Tosca, and yours truly are working on a game text-book (know more)

The distant sound of trumpets

Infrequently updated musings vaguely inspired by my PhD project.

Wednesday, January 05, 2005

In glorious 3D

The recent earth-shattering (and server-crashing) news of Age of Empires III being in the advanced stages of development made me tackle the technicalities of encouraging the prequel to run on (through) my DSL. It was worth every bit of geekish tinkering.
Meet me on zone.com ye who dare (ask for Lord_Wumpus).

Interesting bucket of mixed emotions on the forums. Mainly the 3D extravanganza has a few people worried (me - and certainly my trusted laptop - included).

posted by Jonas Heide Smith # 5.1.05

Comments:

I too am worried about the huge amount of 3D effects going into AOE3. The IGN interview says that Ensemble Studios want to make the "best looking game ever" or something like that.

Looks like we'll be sticking to AOC here, what with old laptops for LAN games.

-Jalada
dustydreams.co.uk

# posted by Anonymous : 5.1.05