Can you present yourself succinctly ?
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Jean-Claude Cottier
Can you present yourself succinctly ?
My name is Jean-Claude Cottier and i'm a 3D programmer. (_TLN : i must specify who is LionHead Studio's programmer of Black & White _).
The game (Black & White) must be advanced now. In comparison with what you have did, when the game is prepared for ?
The game will be approximately on the market to the spring 2001 (_TLN : few of time before the XBOX's sale _).
What pertinents reforms are happened pending the development ?
The game has enormously evolved during its development. The foundation's design contained on any pages. The design is filled out itself at the same time the game et the engine. This allowed us to implement as better the engine's capacity.
What will you sale after Black & White ? (add-ons, B&W 2, etc)
We have just created a new company "Black & White Studio". Its role will be to program the game on Play Station 2 and XBOX. But especially to take care of Add-Ons and of Black & White's series.
What graphics effects will use the game ?
We shove really extremely the 3D graphics cards but the engine's main quality is all mean harmoniously integrate. For instance items on ground appear to be integrated at the world.
What computers will we need with best quality ?
If you put details' levels at the bottom, you computer will have a PIII 733Mhz with a GeForce 256 _( TLN : GeForce 2 Ultra are lucky and reassure _;-))
What do you think about FSAA, T&L and Hyper-Z technologies ?
The FSAA is interesting for the console (low resolution). For the PC, it's different because currents cards can support highs resolutions and the FSAA isn't imperative. The Transform and Lighting will be increasingly major in 2001 (numerous games will support it).
What is your judgment about graphics cards' inflation ?
The actuals cards are really expensive, but this price is justified by their capacity. Our probllem (qua programmer) is to developed a game which use the last PC's generation but which work with a maximum of PC.
How many person work on Black & White ?
During two years we was 15, but now we are 25 to work directly on the game.
Where Black & White will be playable ?
PC, Mac, DreamCast, XBOX, PSX1, PSX2, GameBoy. (_TLN : no Game Cube ? _)
What is the last game have you play ?
I'm very busy now with finish Black & White. I spend unfortunately few of time to play but I played at Age Of The Empire, Driver and Resident Evil 3.
Peter Molineux is friendly ? ;-)
Yes Peter is really friendly.
Propos obtenus par Sanyas Nil, alias TLN : TwinsenleLionNoir.
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