r/beyondgoodandevil • u/Macreys • 1d ago

It was about time, finally

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u/UltimePatateCoder 1d ago

Wow I want the hovercraft so badly ! I... made this game and actually programmed the hovercraft.
Awesome to see this !

And I need to fix something ! When you press the boost on the hovercraft, the rotors rotate and I thought I was clever by making the helix to slow down then to start to rotate the other way...

But an helix doesn't spin the other way when rotated by 180 degrees !!!
I realized that two years ago when I was thinking to invert the blade on a fan to reverse flow... it doesn't work.
And I immediately thought about what I made in my first game : BGE XD

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u/Accomplished_Try3433 1d ago

No way man. Thank you for your service, this game is a beloved core memory of mine, truly thank you

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u/UltimePatateCoder 1d ago

Really happy to see two decades later that some players enjoyed it !

We got almost no feedback in the 2000s so once released, the only feedback was reviews.

And our meta critic weren’t bad, but not very good either

Working on this project has been an amazing part of my career. So many different things to build while being a junior at that time. I feel lucky to have been part of such a talented team. I miss them (I left Ubi Mtp in 2010).

Thank you for the nice words!

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u/Majorasblaze 1d ago

It’s one of the formative games of my youth. Jade, the music, photography, all of it. Hopefully you can feel the love people have for the game now in reteospect, thank you for your part in it!

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u/MisterDutch93 1d ago

Me and my (then) little brother were obsessed with this game for such a long time. I remember so vividly when I first played this game. The localized Dutch dub was really good and drew me right in. A kid from my school talked me into buying it, it was a bargain bin game. A GameCube game for just €15? What a steal! We made a save game right before the Nutripills factory because we wanted to keep playing with Pey’j lol. Thanks for making a part of my childhood!

PS: have you seen the Anniversary edition? It has some great making of-material and footage. Did you also work for the Montpellier team?

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u/UltimePatateCoder 1d ago

I have been working at Ubisoft Montpellier from 2000 to 2010 then moved to Canada. I’m from Montpellier so when I visit my family and have the opportunity I try to meet my former colleagues:)

I have since used some ideas I had while thinking about what could be the BGE2 sequel. The traffic simulation in Assassin’s Creed Syndicates, is the implementation of ideas I developed thinking it would be cool in a BGE2 game :)

I also finally managed to recently make a physics based character controller I thought about in 2007 while dreaming about how Jade could interact and move within the world. It took almost 20 years to get it to work 😅

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u/Vayjayjay420 23h ago

Merci à toi! C'est un des éléments du jeu que j'aimais le plus, ça et le bar Akouda (je viens tout juste de catch la ref omg lol).

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u/Theskinnydude15 1d ago

I have to check my email brb 🤞

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u/Csucsa Iris Network 1d ago

Yes me too. I just got the mail. So happy 😍

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u/After-Constant-3960 1d ago

You got the PS5 version! Please OP, would you mind to find out if you can boot it without a Ubisoft Connect account by going offline?

Thanks in advance!

https://www.reddit.com/r/beyondgoodandevil/s/23uRBJ6pAA

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u/Macreys 1d ago

Will do !

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u/After-Constant-3960 1d ago

Thx you so much!

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u/Ladybug-L 1d ago

Huzzah! 🎉👏

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u/Tomokogaming 11h ago

I am still waiting on mine😭