@badasscat: Well, "original IPs" indicates that they're producing games based on their own intellectual property, rather than, say, a new Cars game.

Dukeman330

I always kinda hoped that Futuremark would branch out and get into game development. The Battletech inspired benchmark run-through gives me goosepimples.

Cell9song

@demonwolf: I think you're confused, that game came out a couple of months ago. It's called Crysis.

CheechWizz

Alan Wake ftw.

That is all I have to say.

flukielukie

This is a classic example of how industry jargon and marketing-speak can completely obscure the meaning of a sentence. For example:

Now Futuremark has founded Futuremark Games Studio, a company that will create original IPs running their own engines.

The only way that I can figure out what this sentence actually means is by inference and context. Can we just use the word "games" instead of "IPs" please?

We're not marketdroids or lawyers, nor should we aspire to be here.

badasscat

so wait basically they are going to make a game that looks amazing graphically and play like crap most of the time and when your done you will be presented with a number which references your computers pathetic performance.

demonwolf

ok 4 then

CheechWizz

@unrequited: Make that 3, actually I think there were a couple of companies that came out of FutureCrew. I remember a mobile games studio (can't think of the name) and Bitboys also have some connection to Futurecrew.

CheechWizz

@unrequited:

Make that three. Still following the demoscene.

ImmortalZ

@unrequited:

Actually FutureMark was formed as a spinoff from Remedy. Some guys from Remedy just wanted to do some benchmarking softwares. Up till 3DMark2001 all 3DMarks used Remedys engine until they developed one of their own. Remedy is however, one of the biggest owners of FutureMark, but they are still a different company.

LiBi

Hah, we're the only two guys left. When Remedy/FC/whoever was programming, they were gods. I'm very excited to see their next game, it'll look like Crysis and run like HL2.

unrequited

@unrequited:
Yeah I remember those. I´m still following the demoscene, especially farbrausch and mfx.
[www.pouet.net]

LastNinja

@LastNinja:
They were the Max Payne Guys as well... and I'm not sure many people are old enough, but they were some of the original (OG) asm hackers on the "demoscene" producing kickass graphics and sound demos from the lowly 386/486. Long before 3d accelerators, they were doing some crazy stuff

[en.wikipedia.org]

Check out their best demo Second Reality here:
[www.youtube.com]

It doesn't look like much, but hey, it was 1993, and the music still kicks ass.

unrequited

@unrequited:
ah I see. Finnish Codemonkeys FTW!

LastNinja

@LastNinja:
You're right... they've come full circle from developing games, and moving away from that to focus on 3d benchmarking... back to games.

unrequited

Return to Proxycon would be a sweet game. Giant mini-guns FTW.

Pr1vate_D0nut

I always thought that FutureMark was part of or intimately related to Remedy.

LastNinja

"Oh, come on! It's Lex flippin' Luthor!"

Ignatius

I always thought FutureMark was a part of or intimately related to Remedy.

LastNinja

hmmm, has potential...

LittlestLamshi

Good, hopefully they'll make that airplane benchmark into something I can play.

PatMan33

I miss the "MadOnion" days.

-EDGE-

Nice, they had Poets of The Fall on the credits for the 2006 version.

Winterbringer

You had me until the Superman/Lex Luthor Yaoi.

comradestalin

uhm... maybe theres' an error in the title? maybe it should be "Futuremark To Create Its Own GAMES", not benchmarks, which they have always made

keiserxol

@CheechWizz: In addition, Starbreeze was formed from members of the Triton demogroup.

There are also a number of successful musicians who got started using FastTracker... demoscene => useful skills. :)

I don't follow the demoscene any more though. Personally I thought it all went downhill after 3D accelerators. :) </oldfogey>

quen

@demonwolf: Actually no. As stated in the link provided:

"This includes games and their engines that deliver stellar performance even on modest platforms right up to the most enthusiastic levels of performance hardware..."

Furu

@quen: True, I used to make music professionally, my band got signed and released a CD which was mostly done in octaMED, an Amiga tracker. The studio engineers had no idea what to make of us with these new fangled computers (back then), needless to say the sound quality of that CD leaves a little to be desired. So actually I owe my first couple of paychecks to the demoscene as well.

CheechWizz

I also keep track of the demoscene. At 2000 actually i was in a demogroup, but since i wasn't really into demo making (i'm more the demo watcher type :-P) i did nothing interesting. I prefer game development ;-)

In the company i work at, though, all the coders were into demo making at some point and some of the artists produced art for some demos.

Bad Sector

Whoops, Andromeda Software Development -^

slash3

Add one more to the list of people who remember Future Crew's first releases. :)

Yo! had kickin' PC speaker music, Scream Tracker changed the way the scene made music and Unreal, Panic and Second Reality completely rocked the demoscene. I think the closest a new group has come to the "insta-hit" status of Future Crew has been ASD (Andromeda Software Design) out of Greece.
[www.asd.gr]

It's a special blend of artistic vision, talented technical ability and savvy presentation that few other mediums can touch. Of course, for every demoscener there are 10,000 people who just don't get understand what the fuss is about. :P

slash3