Galway Games company releases in-dev screenshots of 2 New games

starfire2

For local Galway gamers who are interested in finding out more of the Galway based PC / Console Games company, here are two screenshots of 2 new games that were released as Snapshot of the Day on GarageGames.com.

Illumina
http://www.garagegames.com/mg/snapshot/view.php?qid=1058

Terra: Formations
http://www.garagegames.com/mg/snapshot/view.php?qid=1059

We look forward to your thoughts on them, release dates are expected before the year is out.

Anima

Looks pretty cool, good luck with it.

DRakE

I've seen FAR worse. That's not to say its not good.. err that came out wrong.

Looks good, demo?

po0k

Any more info?

Target release date?

Ruffty^

defo worth a look.

starfire2

I will post more info in about 2 weeks time (we are showing off our games and the LAN gaming at the Indie Games Conference in OR, USA at the end of this week). After that i expect (tho its not 100% certain yet of when the date will be) that Illumina will go on release as a closed beta. Terra on the other hand won't be in beta until the end of the year or early next year.

Illumina uses the Torque Game Engine while Terra uses the Torque Shader Engine (which is not complete yet) which is technology a few years old and the licence of these engines are affordable for a startup.
But we did recently get our hands on an engine that rivals Unreal 3 (its 2nd best to it pretty much) engine, Reality Engine. This will allow us to develop (which we are starting) our "AAA" title for Xbox 360 & PC.
Don't expect any release dates on that title til early 2007 :rolleyes:

silverlining

good stuff, its good to know games are being developed locally. You probably cant say but does it really cost millions to make a console game these days? and is development for the next-gen consoles going to cost that much more?

starfire2

silverlining: Yes & Yes
It costs alot as you mentioned which are norm for the last 5 years and the next gen costs have gone through the roof on an amazing scale with many developers closing their studios or being brought out over it.
We are doing things slightly different to others regarding development cycles, budgets, teams, designs, etc. Very competitive industry & harder cause we are located in Ireland with limited support, however we are marching on pretty decent so far on a smaller scale.

silverlining

thanks for the reply, it sounds like you've got a lot of work on your hands but I liked the character models, really professional, I guess more and more game developers will be focussing on one particular aspect of the process rather than doing everything themselves. I have another question, seeing as EA (I think) are bringing out a Gaelic football game shortly by modifying an australian rules game, have you ever considered 'doing' or assisting the development of a hurling or football game?

po0k

Middleware.

starfire2

The link will give you our new posters, do check them out

http://www.gamedevelopers.ie/forums/viewtopic.php?p=18815#18815

Hope ye like them, feedback always welcome.

silverlining

starfire2 wrote:

The link will give you our new posters, do check them out

http://www.gamedevelopers.ie/forums/viewtopic.php?p=18815#18815

Hope ye like them, feedback always welcome.

yes very nice (particularily the Terra one) but they'd be even better with hurleys.

Anima

lol

They are both nice, but I'd say the Terra one is better.

po0k

Any connection between starfire and Cavenet? I remember hearing something about game developers in connection with it, but I forget the context.

starfire2

SycPax: yes i was involved with Cavenet & thats the connection (apart during July when we had our Interns all working in there for the month since there was about 15 of them and we needed alot of spare comps)

There are only 2/3 PC - Consoles developers in the whole country, one of them are here in Galway. StarCave.

Ruffty^

TERRA poster is class, I think a bit more variation in the ILLUMINA poster would look better if you are using a few models.

DRakE

Get Kelly Brook over here! (And do the shoot in Galway)

po0k

Yes. Ms. Brook is a nice girl.

starfire2

Thanks for the feedback & to celebrate the released news of our summer Internship program (5 Interns are now full time and they successfully completed a little 3d action puzzle game during the program), here is the link to download the day in the life video of StarCave when we held our official launch back in August in the Eye Cinema.

http://www.starcave.com/SCSlaunch/CG_Launch_V04_Xvid.avi

StarCave recently has become Ireland's leading PC & Console content games developers & before the end of the year we will release tease screenshots of our "AAA" Xbox 360 action game.

For anyone interested to hearing how the Internship program went, check out the following link.

http://www.gamedevelopers.ie/news/viewnews.php?article=231

Let us know what you think, your feedback is always good to see from a local level.


Keith
CEO - Producer

Star Cave Studios - Ireland