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Loki Revealed

[Dec 19, 2005, 12:41 pm ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

Cyanide Studios Supports AGEIA PhysX Processor in Upcoming Action RPG Loki (thanks Frans) is a press release from the folks behind the hardware physics processing unit that reveals an unannounced action/RPG called Loki, saying: "AGEIA(TM) Technologies, Inc., the pioneer in hardware-accelerated physics for games, today announced that renowned French developer Cyanide will support the AGEIA PhysX processor in its upcoming ACTION RPG Loki." Here's a bit more of the cat they have let out off the bag:

Loki puts the player in key epochs of history surrounded by legendary heroes, powerful divinities and mythical creatures such as hydrae, dragons and minotaurs. With Loki's extensive population of characters and dynamic real- time action, Cyanide developers chose to optimize the game for the real-time action acceleration of the AGEIA PhysX processor. The dedicated physics processing horsepower of the AGEIA PhysX processor enables much more realistic characters with joints, convexes and other intricate geometry, as well as dazzling real-time effects.

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Loki Revealed

Dec 19, 2005, 21:25

sponge

None of these threads seem to bring up one huge problem. What do you do about multiplayer? PhysiX card only servers? Requiring the card to play multiplayer? Dumb it down so normal CPUs can handle it? You can't give players two different physics models, so something has to be done. I have a feeling it'll be falling back to simple physics in multiplayer, putting a huge stake in the heart of the product. It's very cool, however some of the problems come time for implementation bother me.

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