Day of the Aliens Development

[James]

August 5th 2005

After numerous meetings and discussions, we have come to a final decision regarding the development of Day Of The Aliens and its demo.

We have decided to postpone the development of the full version of Day Of The Aliens to give us time to work on a 'tech demo' for the game. This demo will feature a significant amount of gameplay in the same style as that of the full version, but will take place in a scene which will not make an appearance in the full version of the game.

The main goals behind creating this demo are:

-To give players an idea of what they should expect to see in the full version of the game.
-To test how well our the games engine runs on different computers, to enable us to optimise the full version of the game to work on as many different computers as possible.
-To collect feedback from players on what they think of the gameplay, graphics and other aspects of the game. All feedback will be read carefully and taken into account when work resumes on the full version of Day Of The Aliens.

To fulfill our last two goals, a survey will be created to allow anyone who plays the game to communicate their opinions and experience with the demo. The forums will also remain open for the discussion of certain points in the game.

The decision to base the demo around a part of the game which will not be included in the full version was made because we thought that it would be the best way to give players and idea of the gameplay without ruining the plot of the full game.

The official team that will be going through to create the demo will be*:

Project Leader
James Isaac

2D Artist
Michael Olsen
Aly McInulty

3D Artist
Steve Bottelbergs

Programmer
James Isaac

Designers
Derek Kee
Michael Olsen
Matthew Lewis

Musician
George Nerantzis

Dialogue Writers
Gordon P. Hemsley
Tom-Erik Enger


The demo will be released some time in the near future, but no release date is currently set. Keep checking back on the site for more updates on the progress, and for a possible release date.

* This list is still subject to change at any time. A latest version should be available on the "Team Members" page of the main site.
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[James]

Just to let you know, development on the demo is going very well. We've already made a lot of refinements to the code and have a playable version of part of the demo.
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[aly]

Sounds great. I look forward to the demo release. Hopefully there is plenty of feedback from the demo when it is released. It will also result in the game being more diverse and playable by a wider range of computers.
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[Michaelz]

yeh keep up the good work
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Screw you suckers!!!!

[Steve]

The moment you've all been waiting for is finally almost here, the release of a demo, albeit a demo with a level that won't actually be in the full game. You might have thought the project was dead, but as you can see: it's still very alive. I'm certain this demo will attract a lot of interest from a lot of people, making DOTA an even bigger succes than it was going to be before !

Thanks to everyone on the DOTA team and the fanbase, for making us make this possible
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[Das Mole]

I love DOTA, it's been so fun working on it, and it's so exciting that we're finally gonna come out w/a demo!!!!

BTW...I've come up w/all the puzzles for the demo which means you're all going to love it, lol

Can't wait!
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[monkey_05_06]

A demo with puzzles? What the crap!?!




YAY!!!! THE DOTA DEMO IS FINALLY ALMOST GOING TO BE HERE SOON!



Sorry about that...I've been waiting for this for...23 years.
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[James]

You only registered here a year ago
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[Pacific]

well done on the demo guys, where will it be available from when it comes out?

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