GDC: Insomniac shares developing techniques with Nocturnal
- Posted February 21st, 2008 at 19:58 EDT by
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Insomniac is doing something developers never do, let other companies know their secrets. In what is being called a ground breaking decision, Insomniac is releasing their tidbits instead of keeping them close-guarded secrets from the developing community.
The project at hand is going to be called, "Nocturnal Initiative." One reason for this is, "developers spend resources solving problems that have already been solved."
By doing this for the community, Insomniac expects it to allow gamers the opportunity to experience better games overall. The public site, nocturnal.insomniacgames.com will allow developers to browse in a wiki-format in order to access bits of Insomniac code.
These tools will obviously be usable with the PlayStation 3 console, but because they're PC-based, they'll more than likely be compatible with the XBOX 360 as well.
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gamewaffle
- 8:33pm GMT - February 21st, 2008
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OMG! isnt this what thier R&D page is for, just a little less organized?
http://www.insomniacgames.com/tech/techpage.php
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AclayPS3
- 9:17pm GMT - February 21st, 2008
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If I were Insomniac, I sure wouldn't have done that. If Nocturnal was developing a game exclusively for the PS3, then maybe I would have, but if they are going to be developing for the 360.... NO WAY. If Nocturnal needs some help with development or tips they can go beg Bungie or someother no-name developer for the Xbox 360.
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InfernoReaper |
GrimDarkling- 12:51am GMT - February 22nd, 2008
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Hopefully this will lead to better PS3 games.
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Lozt_again |
Lozt_again- 3:35am GMT - February 22nd, 2008
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Insomniac are just to kind to us all. Good on 'em. If I ever meet one, I'll buy them a beer.
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PS3-The Ultimate Machine
- 4:19am GMT - February 22nd, 2008
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@TechM
You took the words right out of my mouth.
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dannyphantom105 |
dannyphantom105- 10:35am GMT - February 22nd, 2008
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i hope this really helps companies who want to make new games for the ps3. this combined with playstation edge should help people making their first ps3 game.
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princevegeta1980
- 11:59am GMT - February 22nd, 2008
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good, maybe with this EA will start making better games for ps3
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selfish
- 12:30pm GMT - February 22nd, 2008
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I don't think Insomniac is giving up any critical information at all. They're not giving away secrets of there game engine just how to stream game assets on and off the spu's effeciently which can chew up a lot of man hours if you don't know what your doing. Big up's to Insomniac and whatever you guys are doing don't stop as us PS3 owners are reaping the benefits!!
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