'Test' Driving Stage3D: A Post Mortem Nate Beck, Co-Founder, The Engine Company @jnbeck Jeremy Saenz, Founder, Leedo Studios @jeremysaenz

Nate Beck Chief Paper Pusher The Engine Co.

Also Father, Hacker and makes a mean pico de gallo

Jeremy Saenz Principal Architect Leedo Studios

Also Gangsta, Hacker and wears cool glasses

Disclaimer

Introducing the 2013 VrooomBox

The Project

Tech

WWW.SMASH.IO

Hardware

Controllers Wheel Keyboard

Differences

Gameplay

Secondary Gameplay

Secondary Gameplay

Art

3 Million Polys down to 50,000

Art pipeline

Need for Tools

Need for Tools

Time to see it in action!

What worked

Reload Consts

What didn't work so well

What didn't work so well •  Using alpha software •  Physics and collisions •  OBJ files •  Lighting •  Load time •  Lack of editor

Lessons learned

Lessons learned •  No 5.1 in AIR Desktop •  No StageVideo in AIR •  Long Load Time when parsing OBJ •  Most assets are static, making things

move was a challenge •  Windmills, how do they rotate?

Funny things

Questions?

@jnbeck @jeremysaenz