George Lucas at D5: Pirates and games
Walt, Kara, and George talk movies and games.
(Credit: CNET Networks)George Lucas is onstage at D5, with his video game guy. He's talking about building game characters that the player can "buy in to."
First up, the water effects in Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End. If you want to make a maelstrom a mile wide, Lucas has your guys.
Next up, a preview of the game, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed. One of the concepts is to "amp up" the Force--allowing players and characters to do much more Force-y things than we've seen in the Star Wars movies. For example: picking up stormtroopers and flinging them to their death (or at least grievous injury). Basically, it's Half-Life's gravity gun. Without the gun. Looks like a lot of fun.
The Force: Now with extra zapping power.
(Credit: CNET Networks)Also, using a technology they're calling Euphoria, they're giving nonplayer characters a "nervous system" to allow them to react on their own, rather than having scripted or animated responses to game events. The demo showed Indiana Jones balancing on a wobbly bridge--very convincing. It's all to create "unscripted" interactions.
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They are not "calling it" anything because Euphoria is a middleware product from NaturalMotion available for licensing, euphoria brings Dynamic Motion Synthesis (DMS) to games, basically it is an AI and physics driven Animation Blender.
For more info check out: http://www.naturalmotion.com/euphoria.htm
It would be nice if people knew what the heck they are talking about wend they write these articles ;)
used his IP to offend over 200k star wars fans by ruining the game they had paid in advance for and then never offered refunds....and told us to "go play something else".
i wonder if he ever had to answer that.....