The Intro Movie

[Argalius]

After seeing the trailer out 2002 again I was thinking about the intro movie for 0AD. Will there even be one? And do you already have an idea about what it will be? If you have one of course. I was thinking about the Teutoberger massacre or something. Might not be a very good idea since the German tribes aren't in, but the Celts are... Oh well.

[Aeros]

There have been discussions about having a trailer play before the game starts (as is customary for every single game right now) and we've thrown around a few ideas (even recently so), however ultimately we'd like to concentrate our team on working on the game right now rather than making a trailer. Its an expensive undertaking to make a trailer, we'd need to devote an entire animation team to create a quality trailer like games have today. Do realize that the game developers usually do not make their trailer, they just storyboard it and send it to an independant animation house to do it all and render it out. We don't have resources like that availible to us and even if we have the talent to do such a trailer we'd rather spend that making the game at this point...

So as of now, there are no finalized details about a trailer - though its possible we make a "trailer" trailer to advertise the game which would have in-game action cut by maybe some CG tidbits here and there. It all depends on where we are by the time we want to have a trailer or not.

Another thing is that pre-game trailers are usually watched once or twice and then disregarded by everyone, so its not all that important, plus we're not keen on adding 50MB to the download size for something that people will disregard after a few views. Hopefully having a lush main menu will make up for a lack of a trailer

[Vingauld]

Maybe you guys can ad it as a separate download or something, so those few times can still be enjoyed