Thanks all for your replies.
I totally agree with you Phemox, there sould be a lot of more stuff that bringing more life to the scenery. But because of the lack of time, we were not able to bring all the details, that we’ve planed.
Basically we have lost a lot of time by building up that mansion, just using some photos and some videos, that were captured while a public sightseeing tour. There was no possibility to visit the castle and taking some serious photos or to take the measurements of the compendium, because the whole thing was planned as a suprise and some freaks, that are running through the passages and shouting for a measuring tape, would have ruined it.
In the end we’ve found a approximately compedium on a website, that helped us a lot but it still was a pain in the ass.
The programming was also a rush, the gampeplay and the interface was done in about three weeks. Aboriginal we had three months for the whole thing, but after the complicated 3D modelling, the texturing and interface design and the life besides our jobs (family) … this wasnt really a big amount of time.
However, the posted comments here were all helpful and honestly as usual. I thank you guys with a link to a playble demo:
Ceo's Quest It should run on every common Windows PC with a 3D card.
Please keep in mind that the game was designed for the person which is living in that mansion. So the target audience knows exactly where the telephones are =)
The gameplay and the goal of the game is well described in the pause menu (hit escape key). Unfortunately its all in german. The difficulty in that version is very high, so if anyone is able to finish the game, please post a screenshot of the ending screen, and I will spend you a beer whenever we will meet up =)
For your question about the Bee game, Bumble Bee Island is stucked in its progress. Im in the middle of porting it to Lite-C, but then Unity3D came out, and then I asked my self, if I ever will be able to finish that game or if I will be porting it to different languages / engines for the rest of my days.
Also the switch to Unity3D asks for a lot of motivation. It is hard sometimes, to learn all the things again, in a different way.
Often, I wish there was a way to combine those two engines, Lite-C in combination with the well designed workflow to import any 3D stuff and the ability to show off this content in a web browser, this would be awesome, wouldnt it?
However, Have a nice day and for those that are downloading Ceo’s Quest. Have fun while playing it.
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