Freeform sword-fighting
Marketing appears to have done its job today. Then it appeared to go a bit crazy. Either way, development, which is my job, better look busy so as not to fall behind.
Some newcomers may be confused as to what we mean by freeform sword-fighting. Indeed, Marketing itself is worried people may think that we mean it’s a bit like Grand Theft Auto 3. What freeform sword-fighting in fact means, is that you can move your sword anywhere you want and angle it however you want. People who were paying attention in 1997 then tend to say something along the lines of, “Like Die By The Sword?”, and we usually reply, “No”.
You use the mouse to control the sword, and a modifier key with the mouse to control the angle: it’s a little bit like DBTS’ system, but much more in-depth and much easier to learn. DBTS was, by the way, completely legendary.
Anyway, here are a couple of screenshots of Omroth swinging his sword around. When we release the full trailer video it’ll be much easier to see how it works (I think Paul has some kind of stunt lined up to do with that).
Ian
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5 Responses to “Freeform sword-fighting”
§ April 29th, 2006 at 7:14 am
Cool! cant wait to test it out
§ May 1st, 2006 at 7:18 pm
Yeah, it really is [i]not[/i] that much like Die By The Sword’s system, in that it’s actually possible to control the damn thing. I’m both quite crap and quite impatient as gamer’s go (actually pretty darn crap and seriously impatient), but even I managed to vaguely get the hang of it without becoming bored or frustrated, whereas DBTS drove me up the wall in about two minutes flat, once I’d stopped laughing at the goblins.
§ May 2nd, 2006 at 1:41 pm
An undisclosed source has recently called it, “Die By the Other Guy’s Sword”.
§ July 3rd, 2009 at 4:33 pm
What happened to the *ding*? It dosen’t sound the same. Something was missing in this podcast… music?
§ July 3rd, 2009 at 4:34 pm
Why are you commenting here Xeno???