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Microsoft ha pubblicato un nuovo videodiario degli sviluppatori dedicato a Zoo Tycoon, il nuovo capitolo nella serie di gestionali a base di animali.
Vari membri del team di sviluppo spiegano, in questo filmato, il lavoro effettuato per rinnovare ed evolvere il gioco, in particolare grazie alle nuove potenzialità offerte da Xbox One, che hanno portato i modelli poligonali degli animali e le animazioni di questi ad essere estremamente realistici, restituendo l'impressione di essere veramente all'interno di uno zoo. Vengono presi in considerazioni poi diversi altri dettagli del gioco, tra cui la componente gestionale, il multiplayer e il sistema di controllo che sfrutta controller e Kinect.
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00:30We really wanted to keep Zoo Tycoon fans happy, so you've got all your simulation code in the background, all
00:35the important decisions you make for your zoo, those are all still there.
00:39What we get across is both a realistic zoo simulation, but also captures the magic of going to the zoo.
00:49The Xbox One has given us a vast amount of freedom to explore what we can do with particularly the
00:55animals. The animals are the stars of the show.
00:58We're actually able to push the boundaries to make things look better than we've been able to do in the
01:02past.
01:03We've made the animals as realistic as possible, so we've spent hours studying footage and studying how animals move, how
01:10they behave, how they interact with each other, how they interact with the environment.
01:14We've got a really lively zoo. There are birds, there are butterflies, there's flocks of everything flying around. There's an
01:19awful lot of movement. We've got wind blowing through the trees.
01:21In short, it looks like a real zoo.
01:24We've got a great animation system called Motion Graph, which allows us to do all sorts of lifelike animations on
01:31the animals and have an amazing number of animals in the zoo at once.
01:35And the Xbox One is powerful enough that we can do that.
01:38The realism that both the modellers and the animators have brought to the animals and their behaviour, it totally brings
01:43you in, because you're believing in those animals in a way that you haven't before.
01:50We use the Xbox One's power to drive the rendering of the skin and the fur.
01:55We're doing short fur, long fur, shaggy fur. It gets wet, it moves, and it really shines like it never
02:01has before.
02:04With Zoo Tycoon, we allow players to re-grab the zoo and make it their own.
02:09This Zoo Tycoon probably gives you more options and choice than you've ever had before, and so many different ways
02:15of experiencing that.
02:15So we've got 101 different animals. We've got six biomes full of decorations which you can unlock and buy.
02:23And amongst that, we've not only got the big exhibits with the large animals like hippos and rhinos, we've got
02:28mini exhibits so you can get meerkats, lemurs, macaws, snakes.
02:32There are so many different things that you can experience and unlock, and it's a very deep game.
02:37There are literally millions of possibilities in terms of how you use those things together.
02:44We've obviously developed for a console control pad, but we also use the power of Kinect on Xbox One to
02:49be able to use intuitive gestures to interact with the animals.
02:53Get up and close and personal with, say, chimpanzees, and the Kinect will pick up your facial gestures.
02:59You can get right up close to the animals, you can feed them, you can hose them down.
03:04All the interactions, they're my favorite bits, because you get really close.
03:07The elephant washing is brilliant, he reacts to where you're spraying him.
03:10You can use Kinect to get close to the animals that you ever could before.
03:16The Xbox One platform has allowed us to build in multiplayer, to build in all sorts of variety.
03:21One person can be placing down attractions, another person can be adding an animal, another person can be feeding an
03:27elephant.
03:27You can go in, four friends, and you can just have fun.
03:31You can basically share your zoo with other people. You can create a zoo collaboratively with your friends, and you
03:36can save it under the cloud.
03:38Not just share and look at other people's zoos, but to actually create a zoo together.
03:44So graphically, all these elements, the wind through the trees, the birds, the myriad of guests, the fur, the hide,
03:50all combine together graphically to give the level of fidelity and immersion that you've just never seen before in any
03:56zoo tycoon.
03:57And the fact that you can play with all these animals in such a way, using Kinect HD and Xbox
04:02One's features,
04:03is incredibly fresh, incredibly unique.
04:06It's an amazing opportunity to release zoo tycoon on a new platform.
04:11I don't think you'll see an experience out there like this one.
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