Tantalizing Gish 2 Tech Video
Alex Austin has posted some details of the news physics for Gish 2 over at the Cryptic Sea development blog:
The new model is made up of 128 particles which move independently and have an attraction to each other. The trick has been wrangling the particles to move as one blob, it’s getting closer but still needs some work to feel like the original Gish.
Check out the video:
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on April 17th, 2008 at 10:32 pm
That looks absolutely slick.
on April 18th, 2008 at 1:14 am
Awesome!
I like how you can split up and connect again. amazing.
Great with an update (:
Am i the only one who hates the gish music?
on April 18th, 2008 at 1:31 am
^ lol i get it, cuz its oil ^.^
i love the independant control of the different globs of GIsh, im interested to see how that comes to fruition in the game!
on April 18th, 2008 at 3:40 am
Wow, that looks awesome :D
on April 18th, 2008 at 7:37 am
DO WANT
on April 18th, 2008 at 10:00 am
Very nice, this will effect gameplay much!
on April 18th, 2008 at 10:04 am
This is absolutely amazing. Totally expanding the usage of real-time physics on a downloadable game. Being able to actively change the size of Gish is crazy.
on April 18th, 2008 at 2:08 pm
this will be amazing, however the gameplay will definately be different when you can split into smaller bits.. also the gish music is awesome, just more complicated than your average radio tune.
the gish soundtrack for the egyptian levels! i love it, just the right amount of math.
looking forward to this!
on April 18th, 2008 at 2:41 pm
Looks nice, and as Liam said, controlling various Gishes (???) will be fun.
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It’s still free by the way.
on April 18th, 2008 at 3:55 pm
I’m not sure you control different blobs but apparently he can turn into a liquid form now AND change size.
Yeah this looks awesome times fifty!
on April 19th, 2008 at 1:13 pm
It looks like if the attraction was a little stronger, and they switched attraction to certain places it might not de-link as much (like layers of rings, where each other ring is connected to the next ring inwards.)
But hey, your the designer, do as you wish.
on April 19th, 2008 at 1:46 pm
For the music – I don’t know if the Gish guys licensed that, but that’s “The Secret Song” by Mr. Bungle.
on April 20th, 2008 at 1:09 pm
This comment is not to do with anything in particular. Im just telling everyone that i am very happy at the moment. bye.
on April 23rd, 2008 at 12:52 pm
An update, yay! This looks great, i just hope they’ve still got that squishy feeling when controlling the Gish. And 2-player mode, that was a blast.
on April 23rd, 2008 at 2:28 pm
There is only one word that describes this.
“Wow”.
on May 3rd, 2008 at 12:17 am
Have this site gone into monthly updates or longer?
Just a tip:
Mirror’s Edge from DICE. Still in work but also something to take a look into.
on May 4th, 2008 at 1:16 pm
this site hasnt seen much activity as of late. *sigh* i remember when wed get an update every week or two… matthew must be busy, we have to respect that, but him hiring on more people i thought wed have had more articles.
on May 5th, 2008 at 11:53 pm
Maby matthews dead
on May 21st, 2008 at 11:06 pm
:-O Don’t talk like that!! WE HAVE TO HAVE HOPE!