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Re: Screenshots for every Fan Age

ddb174 — Tue Feb 23, 2010 12:45 am

Author: ddb174

Posted: Tue Feb 23, 2010 12:45 am

There is the link to the gallery, which has all the pictures on a single page, but yeah, thumbnails would be nice too!

(By the way, the list is 100% up to date as of this moment, but sometimes lags behind by a few weeks depending on how busy we are.)

Re: Screenshots for every Fan Age

Deg — Fri Feb 19, 2010 11:17 pm

Author: Deg

Posted: Fri Feb 19, 2010 11:17 pm

Thanks for the list! I was hoping to find one and was disappointed I couldn't... until now! It'd be nice to have a box-grid view of thumbnails for a quick glance, if possible.

Cheers,
- Deg -

Re: Screenshots for every Fan Age

Calam — Thu Dec 10, 2009 2:07 am

Author: Calam

Posted: Thu Dec 10, 2009 2:07 am

I'd like to see the Wiki updated with the Ages that have been released, such as Tweek's Ages, etc.

Re: Screenshots for every Fan Age

matthornb — Mon Dec 07, 2009 4:38 am

Author: matthornb

Posted: Mon Dec 07, 2009 4:38 am

Personally, I have no trouble with all the ages being found in the Nexus - that avoids the need to design a gigantic, continually expanding library building for the books, or worse, making such a library AND trying to fit it into Relto somehow.

There are about 90 fan ages now. And that's just the start.

What I'd personally want more than a library and lots of shelves, is (in the Nexus) to have some sort of good sorting method for the fan ages, something which helps you find the ages you're looking for.

Wouldn't it be great to be able to sort through fan ages by looking at:

-Name
-Author(s)
-Date released
-Rating
-Images

...and so on?

As for quality, I know, the ages we've seen thus far are mostly pretty mediocre. That said, most systems of user-created content start that way. In any game, usually the first wave of mods and levels are pretty bad. As the fan artists gain experience with the tools, and the tools are improved, and the artists are given enough time to complete better, bigger projects, then a fanbase can produce great things.

The ages that turn out well are usually ones that take a while to finish. It takes thousands of hours, potentially, to construct an age that looks as good, and works as well, as the ones Cyan Worlds makes. They had a team of 37 people working for a year on MO:UL, and that's what it took to make the content they released. So, let's put it this way - to make a fan-created equivalent of Eder Delin, you need something like five skilled/talented fans working on it for a year, full-time. But since we're doing it as a hobby, it takes longer - so imagine that our hypothetical "Cyan-quality age" takes 3 years of part-time work from a team of seven fans, just to get one excellent quality (but fairly small) age made.

The good news is that such quality projects ARE in production. Eh'ko is not the only example.
Breldur looks absolutely stunning, Yinfara and some other GoW group projects show a lot of promise, Keith Lord's work is really good, the stuff that Subterranean Restorations is doing - it's kind of secretive and I can't say much, but I've seen some of their work and it's starting to look really impressive. They have great concept art and they're slowly cobbling together detailed environments from it.

For my part, I'm trying to create something of quality too, with my temple environment. It's nowhere near complete yet, but when it is, I think/hope it'll turn out well.

The GoW forums have 778 members. That's a big group of fans. We have hundreds of people working on fan ages right now, gaining skill in their craft, a few of them nearing professional quality in their work, and I'm sure better content will be released during the next year or two as some of the more ambitious, longer, better-quality projects are completed.

Re: Screenshots for every Fan Age

Christopher910 — Sat Jan 31, 2009 2:04 pm

Author: Christopher910

Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2009 2:04 pm

Great Job Fans on the Ages. The only thing that we need now is more bookshelves in each reltoes link book to own personal library. The size of this library must be size of Library of Congress in Washington D.C. I think that Cyan need create content for every relto.

Re: Screenshots for every Fan Age

DarK — Sat Jan 31, 2009 1:16 pm

Author: DarK

Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2009 1:16 pm

Good Effort ...

I feel the vast majority of Age Developers still have a huge leap to make, understanding what is required to make a realistic age.

Eh'ko is still the only age I've seen that does not look like its been made in a 90's game of Quake.

keep up the work guys ... I'm sure it will get there eventually

Re: Screenshots for every Fan Age

veralun — Sat Jan 31, 2009 9:51 am

Author: veralun

Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2009 9:51 am

ddb174 wrote:

It would be possible to post these on the wiki too, but I'm a little worried that it will kill the fun for some people.

You can post them in Fan Created Ages: Spoiler,Hints and Tips, so ppl know there are spoilers or hints.

Re: Screenshots for every Fan Age

ddb174 — Sat Jan 31, 2009 2:56 am

Author: ddb174

Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2009 2:56 am

I've made walkthroughs for every Fan Age except Zephyr Cove, because I crash there.

It would be possible to post these on the wiki too, but I'm a little worried that it will kill the fun for some people.

Re: Screenshots for every Fan Age

Jamey — Sat Jan 31, 2009 2:42 am

Author: Jamey

Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2009 2:42 am

Gandhar wrote:

These are great!!! With all the ages available now and hopefully in the future, I'm wondering if somewhere down the road there might be a need for a new guild?

Guild of Walkthroughers

Thanks for the pics

Most likely, Guild of Greeters may handle tours of ages

But if not, Guild of Tourism comes to mind

Re: Screenshots for every Fan Age

Gandhar — Sat Jan 31, 2009 2:31 am

Author: Gandhar

Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2009 2:31 am

These are great!!! With all the ages available now and hopefully in the future, I'm wondering if somewhere down the road there might be a need for a new guild?

Guild of Walkthroughers

Thanks for the pics

Re: Screenshots for every Fan Age

ddb174 — Sat Jan 31, 2009 2:12 am

Author: ddb174

Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2009 2:12 am

Oops, sorry. It's fixed now!

Re: Screenshots for every Fan Age

Jamey — Sat Jan 31, 2009 1:05 am

Author: Jamey

Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2009 1:05 am

Thanks so much for the list ddb174!

Just a small side note though, my age Tsoidahl Sheegahtee is mispelled

Re: Screenshots for every Fan Age

Nalates — Sat Jan 31, 2009 12:44 am

Author: Nalates

Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2009 12:44 am

Thanks!

I've never made it into ZC, something on my computer does not like it. Nice to finally see it.

Screenshots for every Fan Age

ddb174 — Fri Jan 30, 2009 10:55 pm

Author: ddb174

Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2009 10:55 pm

I've put up screenshots of every single Fan Age.

All on one page: http://alcugs.almlys.org/Drizzle/Ages
Broken onto separate pages: http://alcugs.almlys.org/Drizzle/Ages/Grouped

There are 60 of them, though, so having them all on one page may crush the server. If there are problems, let me know, and I'll move them onto 4 separate smaller pages.

Enjoy!