Welcome to Wrestling Gamers United Newsletter #438
1) Lost and Found 2) Free Mask 3) Another new WWE game
1) Lost and Found *************
Early newsletter this week. Busy day tomorrow.
-Woohoo! While exploring the dark dank corners of the company server I stumbled across and oddly named directory with about a dozen animations one of our animators did right before leaving the company. It's mostly some taunts and improved selling animations but those are the kinds of animations that easily give our little game a bit more polish. Score!
-Jesse Justice is finishing off a few more characters for us. I anticipate them to look just as awesome as the previous ones I've shared with you on Facebook.
-While our lead programmer waited for me to finish up yet another round of animation documentation (53 hours this time) he reworked our character select menus. Bye-bye funky character mesh bug. Hello new funky female character mesh bug.
-I'm typing this newsletter as I watch WWE Vintage Collection. Million Dollar Man vs. Michaels. Best wrestling show on tv. Check it out if you haven't already. This show alone was worth getting a PVR for.
-Our collision system has been upgraded from our last build. It's tighter and more precise. I can't promise as much finesse as the latest UFC game but it's much better than Backstage Assault. Shoot for the stars baby!
-Finally added a second camera to PWX Uprising. Personally I prefer the single camera Fire Pro style.
-In my downtime yesterday I conducted another interview for our upcoming side project. Cryptic clue comes in the form of a quote from said interview: "It will be like losing Stu all over again."
-This conversation actually happened between PWX crew this week:
"Should we change the nutshot sound effect?" "Why?" "Well if this is supposed to be more of a sim then nutshots don't really make a sound." "If that's the case then a nutshot should end any match immediately with a 20 minute animation of rolling around crying." "...yeah I guess."
2) Free Mask ******************** Pre order the upcoming Lucha Libre game from Gamestop and get a free wrestling mask. What sucks about that? Nuthin'.
3) Another new WWE game **************** THQ is now stating they plan to release a new, even "less simmy", WWE game. They plan to release some version of a new WWE game every six months. Now, this would be cool if they would treat it like they treat the WWE tape library. Can you imagine getting a new Monday Night Wars game? Or how about a Rise and Fall of ECW game? Who knows what this new game will be. Stay tuned...