This week’s broadcast continued with the art theme with Chris Perna providing feedback on community art concepts. In addition, they introduced “cognitive psychologist” Celia Hodent as the user experience expert that will be working on UT.
Good to know that Epic is willing to spend the effort to try and produce a top notch UX.
There is some good footage in this week’s podcast of the new map in last week’s build that I mentioned previously. Definitely fun to watch the pro’s making maps!
The number of new maps in the new UT is slowly growing as Epic continues to build out BSP shells for new layouts. This week, one of the new maps particularly caught my eye with a very interesting layout.
It’s not often that texture-less BSP gets me excited but I can definitely see good potential in the screenshot below.
Steve Polge is back in this week’s Twitch Broadcast and is still wearing his vacation shorts no less. This edition is highly enjoyable with substantial discussion on various proposed aspects of the game.
I have to say I’ve been getting a little burned out in the forums lately but watching this video nicely hit the reset button and got me excited again!
Epic has also started a new blog for UT which looks like it will get substantial regular updates. I’ve added the new blog link in the UT section on the left hand side of the site.
TWD and Sir Brizz are at it again with their excellent podcast series. This time out, they take some swipes at UT3. Certainly this is valid for the early days of UT3 but not more recent days with the low poly maps.
Epic’s Twitch broadcast for this week focuses on art direction for the new UT. Cool to see them discussing the awesome community contributions so far!
ChongLee updated his DM-Deck-CLee map this week. I have to say, this is looking really fun. This will be a must-have map when it’s done.
The guys over at BU have me begging like little puppy for more of these Podcasts! I’m totally addicted to these!
So today we have our first real indication that Epic truly IS going to use community made designs in their development process. In addition, they will be giving a credit to the author in the game credits when it is released. This is really cool!
TimEh is the first community contributor to the new UT. Yay Tim! His work on building jump pads for the game was accepted by Epic into the current build of the game. To go along with this, Flak will be giving out “UT Contributor” tags in the forums for successful contributors. Very exciting and motivating stuff I’d say!
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