Nomad Colossus. I'm a huge fan of your Sotc mysteries, are you helping with the project?

@@colonelsection5821 Not part of the project, but I keep up to date and have tested a couple of test builds for them, stuff like that.

@@NomadColossus What do you think the Mysterious unused Colossus Evis, near the end of the video.

Indeed Nomad, Indeed.

@@colonelsection5821 I'd never considered that it stood upright before... The image from the art book is a quadruped type creature, but I think it's cool that it might have stood upright!

Monkey was supposed to be hanging from stalactites which can be seen in Basaran's cave, I think the cave just needs a new light source but the arena is pretty much ready.

@aadipie yea UT was supposed to be In a cave but it wouldn't be a bad idea to have monkey lose by climbing up a tower inside the cave tht maybe leads to light and then it falls down after the tower breaks

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Great job so far!

good job guys heads up to people like you who are making this happen

Such a coincidence I caught sight of this project again just now after 2 years, I want to ask you something, could you unban me from the discord server, I remember someone from back then from the old team banned me and a few others for some drama that happened (kinda of a mutiny) and nearly 2 years have passed since then

It's so unbelievably cool. Very excited to see where this project goes

You guys are amazing! The level of dedication is so high, and this being free speaks even more volumes about your dedication.

Me too, man. Been obsessed with this game forever. Hope you're doing good, by the way. :D

@@maxderrat Yeah man I'm doing alright! Life's been treating me well enough. Sorry I haven't watched most of your stuff recently, it's mostly been on games I haven't really engaged with much. Admittedly I've yet to finally get to this gem, but the moment you put "beta" in the title you know my interests are raised right away. Like I said I love beta content, sometimes the stuff that doesn't make it in is as cool if not cooler than what does.

I'm definetly gonna get this when it comes out,I've always dreamed of more story and content from sotc.btw does anybody know what happend to team ico???

Amazing, it reminds me of the old 8bit tile based backgrounds were they saved the environment as a set of tiles and build all visuals from that. I can also imagine it's also a good idea if you want to be economic with memory by UV mapping multiple creatures to share a common image map. Load the base "tile" for the common details and another for unique textures.

​@@VirtualblueartThat isn't quite what sotc does, regarding sharing a common UV map. Actually the way sotc does it's textures is pretty bad for performance. This is because in most games they tend to use 1-3 textures per character and just mirror it. That is what's usually called a "Texture atlas". With sotc, characters are actually pulling from a lot of different textures all at once. For example, every colossus has 3 different textures for just the fur. And there's 3 for the eyes. One for the ring, one for the colour part and one for the pupil. Team Ico did this to get as much detail out of the large bosses as possible. That's cause they had an upper texture limit of at max 512x512. But they tried to keep it down at 128x128 which was the standard for game's texture atlases as a whole at the time. So instead of trying to fit all the details into one tiny file, which would result in a very low-res looking boss, they just used the whole space for one specific detail. They also don't share UV maps because every boss is unique. Even the ones that are of very similar design have a ton of small differences everywhere. Hence why the old ps2 version ran poorly. That doesn't quite explain why there's a few duplicates in the game (as in the exact same texture, even colour wise) but that's a mystery for another time. You typically want to run as few textures and materials as possible to that less has to be loaded in all at once. TLDR: Their method is good for getting more detail out of a limited file size, and for making a ton of textures rather quickly with high quality, but it's pretty bad for performance.

I can see it like that. I can imagine it's challenge would chiefly be getting even near enough to climb it while it tried to snap down it's mouth to smash/grab you. Maybe you were supposed to lure it to hit an indestructible object to stun it, like Gaius with his sword. But this time while riding. Lots of cool options really. Just imagine it being retracted like that worm when you approach looking like just another common ruin. And then the shaking starts and it concertinas up and up before sniffing the air and diving it's maw at you from above. Chilling.

Is his nose actually crooked though?

@@jamesbrincefield9879 lol nope it isnt

@@jamesbrincefield9879 That's what I wanna know as well!

It reminds me of project 06 a fan remake of sonic 06 one of the worst games ever made being built from the ground up bringing back cut content and fixing controls and bugs from the og. A version can actually be played right now. But i can't wait for this honestly

Wow men! Strong story! Hope everyone is ok! Hugs

You are breathtaking!

Yooooo... what's good, Intrepid? :D All the best to you.

@@maxderrat Mostly dealing with the rigors of life, but also working on something special!

The 48 colossi idea was canned so early on that I doubt we'd either get any kind of playable version of that. I could be wrong but I think 48 was just conceptual and they didn't get that far in before scaling back drastically.

@@franjaff6919 Indeed. My understanding is that the number 48 was initially pitched just as an arbitrary number, not a "serious target", ie Ueda said something to his team along the lines of, "So there'll be a bunch of huge bosses, like 48 of them, and then you go out and climb on them..." That is to say, that number was just an arbitrary number that got pared down to 24 as soon as actual nuts-and-bolts work started and more reasonable targets were set. Chances are many of those colossi were never worked on at all and have literally no information about them. I recently read on TV Tropes, albeit without any evidence to support this, that last year there was some more data mining that suggested another 10 cut colossi had at least some amount of work put into them, but the evidence for them is (supposedly) so sparse that they too would have to be created from scratch. Several of them have literally no information about them except a single line that references their name, and some others seem to be earlier versions or variants of other existing colossi - that is, arguably not even cut colossi but rather just beta versions that had their name changed but some data referring to their original name left in. Again, you'll need someone other than me to confirm this, as my source is not the most trustworthy and I haven't dug especially deep to find out for myself.

@@noahfields9046 The idea that they worked with some other Colossi seems totally believable. Honestly, it seems more unlikely that they got 24 good ideas down straight off the mark.

18:02 I want to know where that is.

Wait what? What is this? Could you please link whatever this is to me? :O

@@maxderrat sure. I'm a Patreon supporter of Last Stand Media, so the video might be unlisted, currently. But here's the address: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fZtzqLqanNzaYqM.html