Suggestions / Ideas / Wishlist

[6 x Afridi]

Children, this is the wrong forum for discussing the finer points of Afridi's batting, bowling and temprament. I can easily see this developing into yet another one of those ridiculous India vs Pakistan arguments.

sorry wont happen again

 

[Highlander999]

Just thought I would add congrats on reaching 100 pages in this thread

 

[Ricky_Ponting]

Just a little request. Can you put artificial pitches in as well??
And also any chance of putting any Canadian cricket stadium? If so can you put skydome cricket stadium?? :hpraise

 

[Allrounder18]

Hey LM why dont you use poorman motion cap for the animations? using simply two cameras to capture the front and side movie and use it on a plane and attached the bone to it.
here is the details.


http://forums.caligari.com/gameSpace/archive/index.php?t-1090.html

http://forums.caligari.com/gamespace/showthread.php?t=1040&page=2

 

[6 x Afridi]

u no like u guys want the barnamy army
i was sinking if u guys could have like the old guy from pakistan who has seen every single game of pakistan ever since 1960 or 70

oh yeah the guys name is chacha cricket
http://www.pakistanpaedia.com/cricket/Baba Paki.gif

 

[chaitanyaraghav]

any chance of online play??

 

[6 x Afridi]

any chance of online play??

i dunno but dont u sink its better if there is no online play in the first release so they can focus more on gameplay and stuff like that

 

[Black Magic]

lm, can i suggest when you make the fielding you have some calling sound, eg when its gone high in the air, you hear a lot of yours. also did you listen to the papara band

 

[MasterBlaster76]

Yep, include all the sounds missing from pretty much all Cricket games (although the way BLIC 2007 did the 'run/mix up/oh crap, I've run him out) sound was quite good. We need shouts of 'catch it' when the ball is in the air, encouragement from the keeper and stuff like that.

 

[6 x Afridi]

Yep, include all the sounds missing from pretty much all Cricket games (although the way BLIC 2007 did the 'run/mix up/oh crap, I've run him out) sound was quite good. We need shouts of 'catch it' when the ball is in the air, encouragement from the keeper and stuff like that.

yeeeh that wud be a great idea and by the way lm pm me when its time to commentate because i can do the shouts things and everthing else

 

[6 x Afridi]

oh yeah i forgot something
will i be able to play arts of cricket with my ps2 controller that can connect to pc

(It worked for cricket 07)

wat wud also be great is that when the batsmen is in the crease that it shows the stats of the batsmen for example average centuries etc

 

[6 x Afridi]

the underedge was perfect and i was wondering that u wud have this shot.
i really dont no how to describe it.
lets just say someone gave a medium or bouncer to u and u swing the ball. the timing wasn't right and instead of going to your right it goes back.
also i dont think i have seen this in any game. when the ball is almost wide to the legside of the batsmen, the batsmen just edges it and it goes back for a four

 

[MasterBlaster76]

1. Let the player choose which stump to take guard on.

2. There's a cutscene going on, and you press a button (say F1) to bring up the scorecard. Then you press it again and it goes. Press another button (F2) and the Wagon Wheel comes up. You know what I mean.

Excellent idea, different buttons for different stats that you can press whenever you want, as well as the stats coming up in between overs. Good stuff, Skater!

Also, LM, put a bit of tension into the 3rd umpire replay. The way EA and Codies do it is rubbish, there is no wait at all before the light comes up if it's a green light, so you can usually tell if it's going to be in or out immediately which destroys any sense of tension. Of course, there should be the option to skip it (for those who do such a thing)!

acknowledgement of hat-trick

Yep, have a proper celebration, not just the commentator saying: That's a hat-trick for....Sidebottom. Have a variety of different celebrations whenever a wicket is taken, especially if they reflect the position of the match.

i want the test match day times to be as realistic as possible. I find it a joke in some games (not to mention any names ahem) where you can finish a test in 1 or 2 days because the scoring rate is too quick or for whatever other reason. One of the great things about test matches is taking the days into account, which has a major impact on the result. So yes, i want to spend enough time on this aspect in play testing to make sure time moves along realistically. Obviously though it wont be in actual real time.

If you look at football games, the matches last for around 10 - 15 minutes, so nowhere near as long as a real match, yet it still feels like there's been a decent match with lots of twists and turns along the way. It would be preferable to have time move along more quickly than the tests to only last one or two days, (three if you're lucky), although not too quickly, obviously. It's a tricky thing to get the balance right, but I'm sure you won't let us down. Anyway, if some people aren't happy with what you come up with, have an option to have less overs in each day of the Test, sixty overs instead of ninety, for example. That way, everyone is happy.

I think swing should use an arrow but maybe the arrow might not always indicate how much it is swinging.

Agreed, in real cricket, a bowler might want to swing the ball, but it doesn't always happen. EA and Codies method is retarded, it lets you choose exactly how much swing you want on each delivery.

How are you going to implement the aiming marker for bowling? How about a wobbly cursor? The better the bowler, the less it wobbles, hence reflecting his ability to put the ball where he wants it, whereas a lesser bowler's more wobbly cursor would make him spray it around more. Being able to use the mouse to bowl and the gamepad to bat would be a nice option.

Edit: So how many people are working on the game altogether?

 

[jkartik]

Yep, have a proper celebration, not just the commentator saying: That's a hat-trick for....Sidebottom. Have a variety of different celebrations whenever a wicket is taken, especially if they reflect the position of the match.

we are doing the anims by-hand....frame by frame...
so its not really easy to make em......and celebrations would
require TONS of frames to get that fluidity etc.....
but we'll try our best !

Agreed, in real cricket, a bowler might want to swing the ball, but it doesn't always happen. EA and Codies method is retarded, it lets you choose exactly how much swing you want on each delivery.

In TAOC, you wont have that marker.....you can only select
how you wanna swing.....in,out or reverse ! the conditions
will take over once you release the ball.......

How are you going to implement the aiming marker for bowling? How about a wobbly cursor? The better the bowler, the less it wobbles, hence reflecting his ability to put the ball where he wants it, whereas a lesser bowler's more wobbly cursor would make him spray it around more. Being able to use the mouse to bowl and the gamepad to bat would be a nice option.

this has already been implemented ages ago !
somone like mcgrath would land around 80% of his deliveries around the
marker while someone like tait would spray a lot more

Edit: So how many people are working on the game altogether?

Only 2 ! LM and Me..........

 

[MasterBlaster76]

Just checked out the latest vid and I have to say that there's not a damn thing wrong with the gfx in the game, they rival any commercial effort out there. Great job!