Shadow of the Colossus technology article (in JPN)

[liverkick]

Thanks to maskrider on GAF for digging this up.

Japanese so maybe someone wants to babelfish it. Some neat development shots in their though, poly meshes and such. Seems they discuss some of their animation technique, motion blur, HDR (?) etc. Thought some folks on here might be interested.

http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/game/docs/20051207/3dwa.htm

 

[[maven]]

Thank you for that, although I'd love a proper translation. There definitely need to be more post-mortems / implementation details of games, especially as new techniques become viable (not so much in SotC, but for example PGR3 — I'd love some more information on their texture compression, it seems they have a core / thread dedicated to uncompressing textures on the fly into a LRU cache in main memory).
The problems with the Gamasutra / GDMag articles is that they mostly concern themselves with management issues and not technical details.

 

[liverkick]

Thank you for that, although I'd love a proper translation. There definitely need to be more post-mortems / implementation details of games, especially as new techniques become viable (not so much in SotC, but for example PGR3 — I'd love some more information on their texture compression, it seems they have a core / thread dedicated to uncompressing textures on the fly into a LRU cache in main memory).
The problems with the Gamasutra / GDMag articles is that they mostly concern themselves with management issues and not technical details.

Hopefully "one" of our Japanese readers can lend a bit of a hand if he gets the chance.