We live in a world where a vast number of people walk around with what would previously have been considered supercomputers in their pocket. Each of these enormously powerful machines remains in high-bandwidth connection with every other connected machine in the world. Clearly we have arrived in the future. What are we doing…
It’s official, we’re launching Vessel on PS3 as a console exclusive March 11th! We’ve spent the last several months optimizing it down to the hardware and it’s smooth as butter now, the game is perfect for console and we’re really excited to get it out there. We’re also announcing the launch of our exclusive Vessel…
I went to the ‘House of Games’ game jam this weekend and ended up creating something pretty interesting with some pretty talented people there. We decided on a genre of games that I think is somehow one of the least common and yet easiest to make something interesting: the multiplayer puzzle game. Our game…
By Tony Albrecht. Vessel for PlayStation 3 has finally been submitted to Sony for approval so I have a little more time to write up some of the optimisation challenges we had to overcome during its porting process. Well, OK, I don’t really have any more time but I’ll try to write a bit more about…
By Tony Albrecht. The most interesting thing about this port is the optimisation feat ahead of us. Vessel was already (mostly) running on the PS3 at the start, but needed to run much, much faster. So, where does one begin? The first thing you need to do, is profile it – if you don’t know…
By Tony Albrecht. The Overbyte team has been busy beavering away on a number of projects over the last few months, but there is one that I thought might be of interest to a few programmers out there. We recently started work on a PlayStation 3 port of the successful Indie PC title, Vessel, and…
