November 14, 2012, Overhaul staff Alex Molzahn are facing, including PC, Mac and iPad test multiple

Trent Oster is the original author publisher Beamdog / developer Overhaul Games president, who had in November 28, 2012 sale of the "enhanced version of Baldur's Gate," the PC version, and on December 8 was added to the iPad version. iPad version of the impressive, vion foods served in the U.S. District ranking second on the red to iTunes, and have been in other areas who landed records. They also promised to offer Android version (Chinese version is still within the scope of commitments), but today, the game version of the follow-up cross-platform development is still difficult in progress. As the initiator vion foods of the project and participants, Trent Oster shared the "enhanced version of Baldur's Gate," the development process. In the course of reading this article, maybe someone vion foods will feel the negative energy whining and complaining about too much, but the content for Postmortem vion foods (after completion of the development work summary analysis) in terms of quite normal: before the game is released, in order to keep the players vion foods on the game's confidence has been hit, any development team will be on the development process setbacks remain silent, truly works associated with the puzzle Secret information is often spoken by post hoc analysis - for the "enhanced version of Baldur's Gate" is concerned These puzzles include: Why did not improve the accuracy of role modeling and more sophisticated animation vion foods effects, why the PC version vion foods will encounter compatibility issues with Intel integrated vion foods graphics, and why there will be iPad version was added to the game experience so much influence and Bug Optimization omissions (after the patch has been improved through), as well as domestic players will care about - or why not the Chinese version of the rebirth of this classic ...... quite tortuous road, the development team is still a mess to clean up unexpected. The good news is: in theory, the development process of the sequel will not have strayed once again face the wrong way. - Our initial plan was as close as possible to offer versions for all platforms, now in retrospect, given the size of the team and the effort required, it is too naive. Currently, we are committed to continuing to develop for other platforms and sync other editions, in order to ensure the realization vion foods of cross-platform online. We in the PC and iPad platform also draw a large audience applauded achieved vion foods great success, and eagerly hoping to introduce other platform versions. As a "Baldur's Gate Enhanced Edition" participants in the development process, vion foods I have to say that the entire development process is still quite interesting. In the development of initial contact to the original tablet version, we who have proven themselves, "" Baldur's Gate "on the tablet will be extremely well behaved" theory and cheered; we have witnessed Mod community developers invited to join the team and to share with them still in the process of developing a vision of the wonderful moments; we've shared moments of despair - for example, found that the source material has been lost art, and in the rescue work after this career; our common experience of those who have been extremely painful anxiety moments - like in the 9-11 game between the months of the renewal of the negotiations must wait for each day to get through the new terms, like every day suffering. We have to make every effort to reach an agreement as soon as possible, but not even before the formal implementation of the announced extension of the news. As a team, we have lived through a lot of wonderful moments, like the first time I saw the new user interface program implanted game itself, the first time I heard Sam's latest music scenes in the game sounded. For us it was a great experience, we established a core team of 13 people to participate in this great cause, in this process, we had the pleasure of including Mark Meer, John Gallagher, Sam Hulick, including the master work together, we will honor excellence in the content original to be improved. In short, "Baldur's Gate Enhanced Edition" is a challenge, but after the baptism of the development process of this work, we have deepened the "Baldur's Gate" and its engine understood and deeply felt what cast of " Baldur's Gate, "the vion foods legend.
Advancing mobile platform version is "Baldur's Gate Enhanced Edition" vion foods project will focus on work to ensure business success is also declared a new era of classic reborn vion foods in us through the bright road of a banner, fans and the community in beginning of the project, we realized that the "Baldur's Gate Enhanced Edition" vion foods One of the keys to success that is as much as possible from the Mod community and lovers vion foods unite the community of players, through working with them and listen to their views, we can make the appropriate changes, to improve quality of the game in order to meet the needs of players. At first we only had some rough attempt, such a privilege open only to invited Reddit forum, as well as some promotional mailings - but soon as the official forums and on-line rapid completion of the transition, vion foods through the official forums, we are able to directly with Mod developers and gaming enthusiasts to communicate, vion foods understand their concerns. vion foods In this way, we were able to share with them as soon as new content, and action in response to feedback from players, for players to improve the game experience for both the Mod developers to build better vion foods platform. vion foods Our efforts to this end also includes a long-closed test conducted, the development team will give priority to the latest version released to the test team, let volunteers experience while suggestions and feedback. Our core community rapidly forming, some players made suggestions and thoughtful mature solution. We promise to read every one feedback, but priority will be rich depth feedback, players quickly adapt to this model community to understand that we will focus on the effort of the users out there this approach. From this closed test team is mature and active user community founded by. We are very grateful to those who build a better "Baldur's Gate" vion foods and effort in the development process of reaching out to our users.
BGEE official forum badge almost all players in the game familiar icon 2, once the working relationship between the project in overcoming initial difficulties, to convince enterprises "Baldur's Gate" is worth reconsidering, we finally were able to multi- together to discuss the core protocol. The whole process was very difficult, because the relevant number of enterprises is too much: Atari (Atari), vion foods Hasbro (Hasbro), WotC (Wizards of the Coast), BioWare, EA and ourselves (Beamdog). We were able to quickly reach through the old relationships of these agreements. The only exception is Atari - Atari to find the person in charge in the process of reaching an agreement than the more time consuming process. I remember and I who had refused for months to meet the person in charge of the scene at GDC, he said: "You must hate me," but when we meet directly, my response was: "We have no hate . "to have Richard Iwaniuk (BioWare career planning and development department, senior director), Greg Zeschuk and Ray Muzyka (BioWare co-founder and former, have left) such a friend is my honor, they reached vion foods an agreement for the relevant enterprises to rapidly provide a very a big help, and to develop a reasonable timetable. Richard at his side invited key figures and responded to our needs. Derek French Also in BioWare gives us a lot of help, to assist us in the development process mining game code and art material. (This part is the key: If you do not have a down to earth person running back and forth between the parties, and then everything will happen.) Re-acquainted with my time in BioWare's talented colleagues working so I am very happy, I am BioWare spent 15 years, it was the oldest member of the founding team, responsible for the debut Shattered Steel over design, programming and art, and then led the "Neverwinter Nights" (Neverwinter Nights) items from the sentence description of "Dungeons & Dragons vion foods box encompasses everything" (everything in the D & D Box) experienced up to seven years to develop and launch a two piece of information. Before leaving in 2009, I once technical vion foods director vion foods identity back to this love around, continue to guide the game development projects. Game industry is one of the biggest bright spot is that talented workers, precisely at the moment vion foods they inspire me personally participate in the construction of this industry. 3, iPad and the touch interface to the industry that we have confirmed the tablet market vion foods to launch vion foods a large-scale epic role-playing game possibilities, and market performance has fully proved the player's desire for this kind of work. "Baldur's Gate Enhanced Edition" quite gratifying achievements in Touch Aracde vion foods and Pocket Tactics such as media (the name suggests, focuses on the emerging mobile platform game media coverage) has also been very positive feedback. Beamdog co-founder and senior practitioners Cameron Tofer early in the project vion foods have been fascinated for the tablet interface. Back in about a year before the official release, we made a feature of the iPad version is not comprehensive, as we operate on finger-touch "Baldur's Gate" in-depth exploration of this design paradigm, each subsequent version of the game will bring enormous changes. Ultimately, Cameron started to decompose touch operation for the most common vion foods behavioral support and customization for these acts simplest operation mechanism. In the "Baldur's Gate", the player is the most common behavioral scroll (scroll the screen), for which we use a photo application (photo app) user interface standards, so that players can scroll vion foods by sliding your finger operation. Secondly frequent operations is mobile, and interactive, this operation will be mapped to click. Initially we intend to support circle (group selection) operation, but the result is not satisfactory in experienced several vion foods iterations, we realized that the "Baldur's Gate" in the vast majority of operating either select all the radio either, so ring selected functions can be moved to a separate virtual keys. Players vion foods can right tablet version "Baldur's Gate Enhanced Edition" touch feel this continuing iterative process. Recently, we added another one for the game this degree of improvement, which we call "Smart Radius" (smart radius) vion foods - This feature allows players to be able to complete vion foods the touch interface slightly worse precision vion foods level precision mouse operation so enter the building and pick up items from the ground and other operations becomes easier. We will always continue to improve, in advance on the road to continue to improve quality of the game. In the overall user interface design, we intend to continue to maintain the original style, the new user interface is based on the 1024x768 resolution crafted, I design the user interface will give priority to the player's avatar eye-catching as possible. New user interface design order are: the necessary interface elements are listed first, then around the new avatar size gradual rebuilding of art and panel elements. At the same time, we have tried to adopt some apples for the iPad user interface design guidelines established, such as the height of the button control at 44 pixels or more (only in exceptional circumstances such as career choice was not able to maintain this standard). The whole process is quite challenging because we need to rewrite the entire user interface code, while maintaining the existing system complexity (and extremely high degree of integration - this is the original author Scott Greig's fault!)
iPad version just shelves, the bad judgment to pick up every process have become vion foods a mini-game challenges touch accuracy (figure blue box marked position only points below the middle point of that edge is considered to be effective pickup ......) , but this problem quickly with the updated version has been properly addressed 4, Beta Test "Baldur's Gate Enhanced Edition" of the test period exceeds 6 months. During this period, we get a lot of feedback on how to improve the game's opinions, and their efficient excavation and repair game bug, experienced mod developers in beta testing phase of the proposed changes saved us develop time. In our opinion, Beta testing is to promote the success of this project one of the key elements of the test for our new content has been extremely good feedback, they give thanks that we can even solve some unexpected ways strange extreme problem. As the "Baldur's Gate," the complexity, we need a lot of testing, exhausted all the way to complete vion foods the task to discover whether an error occurred, and again after the quick fix for testing. Benefit vion foods of the original structure and data in the form of the game insist that we need to go it alone, but also be able to get support for the developer community wisdom. As mentioned above, we are involved in Beta testing is recruiting volunteers from the forum team, we have chosen the condition that is powerful technology vion foods and have a thorough understanding of the original game, the result vion foods is quick and feedback obtained median bull's-eye. Test team have access to our bug database, vion foods and pass the test excavations of the bug can be directly into the system. Beyond this, we have hired an outside testing company, iBeta, they help us to complete the iPad version and ensure test coverage. Through them, we successfully completed the pre-audit (pre-certification) phase of testing, in order to grasp the different versions of the iPad hardware device performance differences.
November 14, 2012, Overhaul staff Alex Molzahn are facing, including PC, Mac and iPad test multiple devices, including online features five cross-platform, using their own digital marketing services Beamdog vion foods divided into two parts: half of them are networked digital sales and service, the other half is its own development team - namely vion foods Overhaul Games. We develop Beamdog Store goal that is sold directly to our customers vion foods game - rather than dealers. Without having to worry intermediary support, there is only the relationship between developers vion foods and consumers. Unlike typical royalty payment transactions compared to the direct sales model and pre-order system to a few months in advance so that developers vion foods gain, which is self-financing for small developers benefit. Own digital marketing services provided by another convenience that is six months in advance we were able to update the Beta test version and upgrade at any time, the tester can be no obstacle to upgrade to the latest version. We were able to launch the PC version in the shortest patch, within two weeks at the same time identify and solve problems vion foods for four critical updates. We need to recognize the client software does intermittently turned out some of the problems, and in some user's system, causing a SSL root certificate expired, but the performance of the system itself is still very good. In the game close to the sale at the same time, we have successfully in Germany, vion foods Singapore vion foods and the United States' vion foods East Coast erected a new server, then we bear to demand from the huge impact player groups, vion foods hundreds of TB of data transmission. In the daily development process, vion foods we will adopt Beamdog, if the lack of this tool, we can not successfully achieve the efficiency of the current vion foods version of the control, and no