Cool Interview With AA Dev and Screenies to Die For

[temp2]

Casey Wardynski: The game initially, and primarily still is, the public application that everybody knows; the one that's played on the Internet. The objective was, essentially, to put the Army into pop culture as a touchstone for kids to learn about the Army, beginning in their teen years, and put it in with other things they're thinking of doing.

[Recently,] we started getting interest from other entities inside of government in terms of using it for training. So the game is actually used for like a classroom now. It allows you to take your experiences somewhere where it's either very dangerous to go, or expensive to go, or there's no resources to get you there--which could be somewhere in the Middle East, or it could be somewhere in Alaska.

GS: Besides the Army, which government agencies are using the America's Army engine and game for training?

CW: The first was the Secret Service. They wanted to use it for training presidential detail and doing some work in places they might run operations but just couldn't train in. Now they can do it virtually.

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http://www.gamespot.com/news/2005/05/19/news_6124594.html?part=rss&tag=gs_news&subj=6124594

http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/americasarmystrykerovermatch/screenindex.html

[Eagle-Driver]

GS: Besides the Army, which government agencies are using the America's Army engine and game for training?

CW: The first was the Secret Service. They wanted to use it for training presidential detail and doing some work in places they might run operations but just couldn't train in. Now they can do it virtually.

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http://www.gamespot.com/news/2005/05/19/news_6124594.html?part=rss&tag=gs_news&subj=6124594

http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/americasarmystrykerovermatch/screenindex.html

The Secret Service playing AA :laugh: :D

Interesting interview.
The new vehicles in Overmatch look like fun and the maps are probably much bigger than now. Are aircrafts also planned?



Eagle

[PACE]

Someone's been cheating lol.

In the third screenshot that funny looking head is there, you know the one that appears when you summon an interaction.

[No1uKnow]

isn't it called a kraal? I was doing some c++ tut that had you bring one of those up


hah nice find as always temp2, I can't wait to see working vehicles :) like on halo and halo 2 ^.^ random people jumping on vehicles and shit. They'd have to make bigger maps for that :P

[sharknaww]

saw this on tracker. Some say that the striker will totally ruine the gameplay of Americas army.

[deegan]

i thought that the turkey horse was a place marker or something. for when they want to add things to a level when they are creating it

[rehoboam]

My favorite part of the interview is the following:

"So the fact that (I think my game name is LTCW), that was Casey Wardynski, you would never find in our database. That's all done by design to protect privacy, because we want the game to be a very soft touch. We want people to be able to do pretty much whatever the heck they want to do in there, in the way of experimentation. "

I'm currently experimenting my ass off!

[barry_white]

My favorite part of the interview is the following:

"So the fact that (I think my game name is LTCW), that was Casey Wardynski, you would never find in our database. That's all done by design to protect privacy, because we want the game to be a very soft touch. We want people to be able to do pretty much whatever the heck they want to do in there, in the way of experimentation. "

I'm currently experimenting my ass off!

Privacy my @ss, PB scans your whole frikkin HD.

[jginger3462]

LMAO....Privacy my ass

They even state this in there EULA



Licensee agrees that the invasive nature of PunkBuster software is necessary to meet this purpose and goal. Licensee agrees that any harm or lack of privacy resulting from the installation and use of PunkBuster software is not as valuable to Licensee as the potential ability to play interactive online games with the benefits afforded by using PunkBuster software.


PunkBuster Software EULA (http://ftp.hol.gr/mirror/gentoo-portage/licenses/Army-EULA)

[temp2]

Privacy my @ss, PB scans your whole frikkin HD.

Barry just compare this interview with "our Tony"'s that I posted a few weeks back. This guy is obviously pretty cool and intelligent. Attributes that PB's founder has neither of.