flOwer (PSN title)

[deepbrown]

Flowers 30fps, and im pretty sure its not native 1080p.

810p apparently.

 

[green.pixel]

Why couldn't they achieve 1080p for such graphically undemanding game ?

 

[tha_con]

Why couldn't they achieve 1080p for such graphically undemanding game ?

What?

You do realize it renders each blade of grass individually, right? Not to mention the team behind the game is rather small, and doesn't consist of 100+ individuals.

 

[deepbrown]

Why couldn't they achieve 1080p for such graphically undemanding game ?

200,000 grass blades...one of the most impressive looking downloadable games. I believe they wanted the highest resolution possible that would sitll look good when upscaled to 1080p. They chose 810by1440

 

[deepbrown]

What?

You do realize it renders each blade of grass individually, right? Not to mention the team behind the game is rather small, and doesn't consist of 100+ individuals.

Yeah not everyone is as good as the WipEout team.

 

[Shifty Geezer]

Why couldn't they achieve 1080p for such graphically undemanding game ?

They could, but an adminstration error caused this. Someone incorrectly typed '1080' for the target resolution in the design docs, typing instead '0810' which appeared as '810' in the numerical field. That's why it's such a weird vertical resoution.

 

[deepbrown]

They could, but an adminstration error caused this. Someone incorrectly typed '1080' for the target resolution in the design docs, typing instead '0810' which appeared as '810' in the numerical field. That's why it's such a weird vertical resoution.

That'd be it

Here's the answers to our questions: http://www.gamezine.co.uk/features/formats/playstation3/an-interview-with-thatgamecompany-flower-$1281103.htm

 

[Antan]

That'd be it

Here's the answers to our questions: http://www.gamezine.co.uk/features/formats/playstation3/an-interview-with-thatgamecompany-flower-$1281103.htm

Exellent interview Paddy.

 

[tha_con]

They could, but an adminstration error caused this. Someone incorrectly typed '1080' for the target resolution in the design docs, typing instead '0810' which appeared as '810' in the numerical field. That's why it's such a weird vertical resoution.

:smile:

Comedy gold

 

[patsu]

Here's the answers to our questions: http://www.gamezine.co.uk/features/formats/playstation3/an-interview-with-thatgamecompany-flower-$1281103.htm

Thanks for the interview, deepbrown. I like it a lot (muahaha).

Patsu asks: When will Jenova Chen be talking to Hayao Miyazaki about making a Studio Ghibli game? ThatGameCompany's creations are very similar in essence to Miyazaki's work. Camp outside his office if they have to, ThatGameCompany might be one of the few teams Miyazaki would allow to touch his work.

Kellee: Jenova says he will have to learn Japanese first. =)

Send a copy of the Flower gameplay video to Studio Ghibli. I'd be surprised if their guys haven't played it yet. I have seen manga/anime luminaries share ideas with young artists because they understand the importance of grooming the next gen. The language barrier can be easily worked around in the short term. It will take time to build relationships anyway. Come on, let's do it before it's too late.

 

[Arwin]

Awesome interview, thanks deep!

And wow, 200.000 individual blades of grass! That's 10x what I thought!

 

[tha_con]

We had a nice little cloudy day yesterday, so I decided to play flower again...man, it just makes me anxious for a really good thunderstorm so I can hop into flower and open a window to smell the rain falling...EPIC!

 

[deepbrown]

No prob guys.

Exellent interview Paddy.

I'll be sure to pass on the compliment.

 

[tha_con]

I'll have to remember to read the interview when I get home, it's blocked here at work...like everything else, lol.

 

[tirminyl]

Great interview. I need to play this game again and go trophy hunting!

 

[oramay]

I've only played 2 levels of this beautiful, relaxing game. I tend to only use my left hand to control this game, thumb pushing on a stick for variable speed. Right hand would be idle. Very few games are relaxing and simple enough for me to play this way. :smile:

 

[green.pixel]

You do realize it renders each blade of grass individually, right?

Didn't know that, I'm sorry.

They chose 810by1440

Hmm, how's that rendering mode supported ? So it's vertically downscaled to 1080 and horizontally scaled by the hardware scaler ?

They could, but an adminstration error caused this. Someone incorrectly typed '1080' for the target resolution in the design docs, typing instead '0810' which appeared as '810' in the numerical field. That's why it's such a weird vertical resoution.

 

[patsu]

Interesting interview:
http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=23612

ThatGameCompany dropped AI from flOw to Flower. Odd that I never thought of it that way.

I wonder what they will drop next when moving from Flower to something else. ^_^

 

[patsu]

Heh, an Italian friend passed me Jenova Chen's home page on a Greater China talent site:
http://www.moko.cc/jenovachen

It shows Jenova's maiden work "Cloud" ^_^

Source: http://www.moko.cc/post/1/7536.html


In fact, the site has a lot more mmm... content on it.

 

[RenegadeRocks]

FLOWER is beautiful ! Got it 2 weeks back ! Also, Me too visited an english site and downloaded CLOUD, but it gives me an error as soon as the download completes and I can't install it.