Okay, but the fact remain one plant is using more technology then in any other Acknex related game, Its funny to see that even complex graphics find people how always say it unrealistic. Giving a plant the look of wax is some sort of realism because plants have backlighting and some sort of translusive shading. I will not discuss every detail of the game here, we are focused in giving high quality at normal and high specs. We don't focus comic style of plants like in games before.

DO you have people testing the game also for playbility? I mean it´s impossible to say the game is playable well or not so well by screen shots. But it would be sad if a game which looks good and in which was put so much work, would fail because of bad playability.

The game will not run at low specs, thats not the aim of the development. You will need it least 2.0 GHz and ps and vs 2.0 graphics card to run it. This is not a game made for machines older than 4 years don't expect to run the game at specs like 800 Mhz with Geforce 2.

I think he's referring to the gameplay, not whether the graphics can be managed or not sebcrea, could be wrong though. Great stuff!

In the case you want to sell the game, you should limit the system requirments a bit more
to reach more possible cutomers.

damocles is correct, you will need to allow stock computers to play this game, or atleast something around this range, else you'd only be getting Doom3 players, and 90% of them will not know about this game in the first year alone, so consider allowing some older systems to play it, we're doing this with preva, this way, you have a bigger audience

The golden rule of gaming: Don't buy a stock computer (Unless its the Dell XPS or Alienwares) I learned this a long time ago.

People have to bring their computers up to play games like FEAR, Doom3 and Quake 4 (And Halo 2 Vista, when it comes out) People are being forced to do this is they want to keep up with modern games, as the computer manufacturers are forced to make their computers better. If they want these games, and games like Lived, theyre going to have to buy new parts. Lived is not the only game making them.

Honestly, I think the scene looks *nearly* perfect. Take out the rubber- ball thing and it would be awesome.

honestly.. doom3 isnt that good... my nvidia fx 5200 can run it quite good... let me repeat nvidia fx 5200 can run it; you wont need that great of a computer to run it if it only needs something like the requirements of doom3

pixel shader 2 and Doom3 are old technologies. Why should that not run at your pc? Doom3 and Quake4 did use mainly 256 pixel images. This is low resolution.

I really do not understand your whining and supporting of old systems.

Besides that the "Lived" project does not have to care for old systems and sales numbers because it will be free, non-commercial, as far as I know.

But ok: Start your top game and program it around the fixed function pipeline of an old GeForce2MX. You will not sell it for sure.

This discussion is non-sense. Use modern technology with fall-backs and the world is open for you. All the other attempts are fun and hobby but useless in terms of commercial projects.