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New Star Tennis and the future

Posted 02-05-2010 at 03:50 PM by siread (New Star Blog)

New Star Tennis has been out for two weeks now and I am a little surprised at the lack of sales. It started so well over the launch weekend but tailed off very quickly. As often happens I rushed the release to coincide with a real life event and to be honest the game could have done with a lot more testing and refinement. However, I am now very happy with the game and think it fits nicely into the New Star catalogue.

The other problem is that there wasn't time to get any promotion...
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A quickie...

Posted 01-17-2010 at 10:15 AM by siread (New Star Blog)

Just a quick blog to let you know that New Star Tennis is imminent. Here's a screen shot...



I just need to finalise a few areas today and then I will release a beta version, probably tomorrow. I want to get the full game on sale by the end of the week at the latest since the Melbourne Grand Slam starts tomorrow.
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Current Projects

Posted 12-06-2009 at 01:19 PM by siread (New Star Blog)
Updated 12-07-2009 at 03:44 PM by siread

Things are ticking along at a steady pace here at New Star Games. NSS2010 and NSGP are selling just enough to keep a roof over my head and there are a couple things in the pipeline that I'm quite excited about. Firstly the people at Valve (they of Half-Life/Left4Dead fame) are interested in putting Super Laser Racer on Steam. This was a game that I adapted from the New Star GP code in a matter of weeks, without any need for artists or musicians, and is a game that I am actually quite proud of. It...
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New match camera

Posted 09-26-2009 at 05:35 PM by siread (New Star Blog)
Updated 09-26-2009 at 05:42 PM by siread

I was curious as to why the camera view in games like PES and FIFA looked so different to NSS4. They have a much lower, flatter view of the game but when you set the camera low in NSS4 you can't see much of the match action. After a bit of tinkering with the camera settings I realised that the 'field of view' setting was set at 64 degrees. This is apparently the standard setting for an FPS game (and I have in fact left the setting alone in the player cam view) but by bringing it right down to 20...
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Let's hear ya!

Posted 09-22-2009 at 10:54 AM by siread (New Star Blog)

Wow, it's been a month since my last post. Very lazy of me. I guess that's because there's not a lot to report. I'm currently trying to finish version 4.08 of NSS4 and I also need to fix the Mac online racing problem in NSGP. These were going fine until my MacBook decided to die (again) taking umpteen hours of code with it. The code should be safe on the harddrive but it will take a few days to repair so work has come to a halt for now. In the meantime I am catching up on a few other areas of New...
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