Tetsuya Mizuguchi is the public face of Q Entertainment. He's the one everyone recognizes at the parties and gets the groupies. But behind every great game designer there's someone behind them, keeping them partially grounded in reality -- that's Shuji Utsumi, the CEO of Q Entertainment. Mr. Utsumi gave a presentation at GDC today where he talked about Q, working with Mizuguchi, and why Japanese Denny's are actually worth staying at for a while.
"It's good to be with him [Mizuguchi], but there are some headaches too," said Utsumi. He then presented some of the good things about Mizuguchi -- his ability to inspire, soak up information like a sponge, communicate effectively and motive those around him -- and the bad things -- he loves to spend money and time on a high-quality product, ideas too far ahead of the times, isn't a disciplinarian, and doesn't bother with management. Utsumi helps Mizuguchi by helping the developer realize the limitations, both financial and technologically, to better conceptionalize what's actually doable. And while all this is going on Q is "try[ing] to have a rock spirit all the time." ROCK.
Last year at the Game Developers Conference, Epic Games unveiled the impressive looking Samaritan demo. The demo was so intense that it took three NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 video cards in SLI to run the demo in real-time. Today GDC 2012 Epic again showed the same Samaritan demo, but this time the demo was shown running on a single NVIDIA 'Kepler' graphics card.
Looks good. Can't wait to buy one of these cards this month. Though after playing games like BF3 max settings that demo doesn't actually look all that mind blowing. (still impressive though)
"Without anti-aliasing, Samaritan’s lighting pass uses about 120MB of GPU memory. Enabling 4x MSAA consumes close to 500MB, or a third of what's available on the GTX 580.'
That's the really impressive part.
You are correct my man. THAT is impressive. It should pay off well for the consoles in dividends.
Well technically they are on the same level graphically.
Just this is aimed to impress console folks. Basically Battlefield 3 and this = to a bare minimum of what next generation can do.
I question why was it demoed on NVIDIA tech if rumors are of AMD having GPU in next generation consoles.
They did mention a single "card", but not a single GPU. It may very well have been running a dual GPU, single-slot card.
I believe they said Samaritan requires 2.5 TeraFLOPS in order to run. A GTX 580 can output about 1.6, so if it is indeed above 2.5 TeraFLOPS, that's a mighty leap for a single GPU in one generation.
But they also said that the card used under 200W of power, the TDP of a GTX 580 is 244W, I'm pretty sure it's a single GPU.
Very likely single GPU. They evolve drastically every year. This year PCIexpress 3.0 will be unleashed. So the new bandwidth and capabilities of that bus will be more than enough to kick up this type of demo on a single GPU. Although most cards don't fully utilize PCIexpress 2 yet.
Optimization is also something worth noting. Its been a year since last tech demo of same tech. Very likely they have shifted the engine around a bit. Much like how CryTek popped CryEngine 3 out in less than a year after CryEngine 2. I still say its just a revamped optimized build of 2 more than anything else. The differences in performance from CE 2 to 3 are worth noting.
Epic will have a version of this engine on all three consoles and even mobile platforms so. Optimizing it is an essential focus.
I don't get it! Frostbite 2.0 can do same visuals as video shows, anybody ho have played Battlefield 3 or Syndicate on PC will confirm it.
Syndicate is not running Frostbite 2. It's Starbreeze's own proprietary engine. Same one used in their Chronicles of Riddick games.
Good point, i could swear it's looks like Frostbite 2. Then there is already 2 engines! Maybe they use same light engine in new games. Mass Effect 3 clearly have light tehnology from DICE, but u still can see shity unreal engin shaders with black spots.
Lol - You are so full of yourself ..
Stop lying to your self - and I have a high end PC,
I can play bf3 and Syndicate maxed out with everything on ultra with the ENB-Tool
And i am a HUGE bf3 fan and i can say that THIS
looks so much better then BF3 in any way.
Dont take me wrong now kids that will rape the disagree button - i think bf3 looks awesome in every way ... but it is NOT in the same league as this samarian demo...
Thats a FACT
After meeting at GDC with CEO Michael Bunnell of Fantasy Lab, PSU recieved new details on a game called Danger Planet.
Danger Planet is a third person action adventure game being developed by Fantasy Lab for the new generation of consoles and gaming PCs. It features cutting edge animation and beautiful visuals courtesy of the Fantasy Engine.
As Captain Jason Storm you have crash landed on an alien planet of monstrous creatures, hostile robots, and derelict alien spacecraft. Fortunately, help will come from an unexpected source, and you will need it along with all your wits and skill to find and disable the terrible weapon that blasted you from the sky or you will become a permanent resident of DANGER PLANET.
Pocket Gamer had the chance to go hands on with Brooktown High, part of Konami's continuing PlayStation Portable push, during the Game Developers Conference earlier this month.
An out-of-the-ordinary high school simulation, Brooktown High brings academia and hormones together for a quirky yet surprisingly fun experience. Forget studying - your ultimate goal is to score a partner for the senior prom; naturally, it'll take some hard work, determination, and a bit of hair gel to land a hot date.
