News Meet the Team #5: Mike Evans (Game Designer)

[Tinman]

OT: Anyone with questions for Ben Parry for next week?

I got one.

Since this game eventually will get things like planetary landings and having the ability to walk around inside your ship/stations and probably planets down the line I'm just wondering how this is being handled in regards to the current design. How is this being planned for? Are you leaving "headroom" to be able to show these things of at a later date?

Oh...and are you better at positioning your camera view than Mike Evans?

 

[Geraldine]

Anyone with questions for Ben Parry for next week?

I've got one Ashley, what new challenges has Ben faced working with procedural content?

Oh...and are you better at positioning your camera view than Mike Evans?

Perhaps we might get to actually see the Holy Rock this time?

 

[Josh Atack]

They all know the risks!


OT: Anyone with questions for Ben Parry for next week?

Yes! Phong or Blinn?

 

[Commander Thane]

OT: Anyone with questions for Ben Parry for next week?

What's his role?

 

[Ashley Barley]

What's his role?

Its like you didn't even read Mike's interview!

He's a graphics programmer.

 

[withnail]

How scalable are the graphics going to be?

 

[Cody]

Any questions...

'Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?'

 

[JohnStabler]

Its like you didn't even read Mike's interview!

He's a graphics programmer.

LOL. Pwned.

 

[JohnStabler]

Two questions (I'm greedy):

Apart from the obvious, what's the defining features of a good graphics programmer? What skills are most important?

What's your opinion on the Lua in Elite Dangerous debate?

 

[Commander Thane]

Its like you didn't even read Mike's interview!

He's a graphics programmer.

I'm afraid I'm notorious for not being very good at catching names, Andy.

 

[Voyager_NL]

Question for Ben:
How does the procedural generation element of this game fit into your day to day work?
E.g.:

• Are you defining formulas,
• just tweaking formulas but someone else created them,
• none whatsoever,
• what's Procedural generation?

 

[Geraldine]

[*]what's Procedural generation?

This post might help you Yoyager_NL. It was a general answer to a previous question I asked the Frontier devs a while ago.

 

[Ashley Barley]

This post might help you Yoyager_NL. It was a general answer to a previous question I asked the Frontier devs a while ago.

Interesting post, but we're not all in Slytherin. I for one am in Ravenclaw!

 

[Geraldine]

Interesting post from a long forgotten interesting thread. Poor TJ never got his question answered back then.

 

[Ashley Barley]

Interesting post from a long forgotten interesting thread. Poor TJ never got his question answered back then.

I guess it'd be a bit too late to answer it for him now!

 

[G.T]

Interesting post from a long forgotten interesting thread. Poor TJ never got his question answered back then.

I must ask really rubbish questions as mine never get answered, *sigh*

 

[Geraldine]

I guess it'd be a bit too late to answer it for him now!

Just a tad

 

[illu Minti]

I must ask really rubbish questions as mine never get answered, *sigh*

Some talk the talk while others walk the walk, err you know what i mean!

 

[psykokow]

Enhanced I say EnHanCED

 

[Alien]

Psykokow ... I hope you realise, that when the game is released (or even in Alpha or Beta) you are so in for it from every Frontier employee