Construction Machines 2014 apparently
Construction Machines 2014 apparently
Just found it on Steam, wow! So what, did he just quit because the game turned out so terrible?
Don't know. Terrible or not kudos for finishing it.
So I just bought the game for eleven dollars, and played it for two hours or so. Not to be rude but he does NOT deserve kudos for finishing it. It's an absolute nightmare. So bad that I wouldn't be surprised if it was simply the result of some kind of money laundering scheme or other financial shadiness. There's no way anyone who actually remotely wanted to make a good game would have possibly released it. You can't even change the resolution! Like, at all. The game is permanently fixed to this awful 4:3 aspect ratio that renders at what seems to be somewhere between 800x600 and 1024X768, and simply looks dire on a 1080p monitor. The supposedly advanced physics engine doesn't exist. All of the vehicles are ludicrously faster than they should be, which makes them all feel virtually identical, and it's essentially impossible not to crash into walls. There's also no way to customize the controls. And so on and so forth........ Now, interestingly, it appears the the underlying engine itself DOES actually exist, at least in some capacity. I ran ConstructionMachines.exe through IDR and it revealed a number of what seem to be addon units for GLScene.... "THGLSLPostSaturation", "THGLSLPostBloom", "THGLSLPostFilmGrain", e.t.c. So I'm left just being really curious as to whether the engine was actually good and was simply woefully underused in the game, or whether the engine itself was bad and the game reflected that in kind? We'll probably never know, unfortunately!Originally Posted by laggyluk
Last edited by Akira13; 05-06-2017 at 03:12 AM.
No kudos then. If it's that terrible then maybe it was released only to finalize the deal with publisher? I know the name from local market and word is it puts quantity over quality
But they released Construction Machines 2016 -> https://store.steampowered.com/app/3...imulator_2016/
I think they are using the same engine, but don't post any news on the forum.
AFAIK that game is a new game developed by different company (PlayWay SA), not a sequel. Engine seems to be a different one too.
I'm sad that this ended that way. Engine looked promising. Fortunatelly we still have Castle Engine.
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The engine at its core was GLScene - so the rendering and scene management didn't differ bar some rendering extensions - I think the most impressive part of Gamecask was the integration of the engine with the real time engine tool.
Some people put too much emphasis on game/rendering engines. Capabilities are important but in terms of creating almost any game, the content creation/editing tools play a far larger role in terms of an end product. You're going to be able to work far faster and thus have more time to focus on gameplay.
Providing your project can live with the level of graphical capability an engine provides - then ease of development including available tools should be the primary factor when choosing an engine.
Nobody would use unity if it didn't have the unity editor - without that? unity is just a poorly performing .NET based engine for less experienced coders.
The people behind Gamecask put the greater emphasis on the tools and I think that's the best call - from what I saw it was very capable, certainly its physics integration - although it appears things are not entirely what they seemed :\
Last edited by phibermon; 14-06-2017 at 08:14 PM.
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