Saärlouis-Duren EDRJ, first scenery from Aviasim, released in May 2012
FS9/FSX. I like the idea ! Aviasim has posted its own interview on its Facebook page. A good way to clarify some things about the team and current projects.
Auto-interview made by Aviasim
When did Aviasim start?
We started late August of 2011.
Who started Aviasim?
Darren Seare, the Co-Founder is Kevin Schutz.
Is Kevin Schutz still on the development team?
Sadly not. Kevin left development last year due to University.
Who is on the team now?
... Darren Seare and Dominique Dantu.
You announced many airports but stopped updating, why?
We started late August of 2011.
Who started Aviasim?
Darren Seare, the Co-Founder is Kevin Schutz.
Is Kevin Schutz still on the development team?
Sadly not. Kevin left development last year due to University.
Who is on the team now?
... Darren Seare and Dominique Dantu.
You announced many airports but stopped updating, why?
All them airports are what I (Darren Seare) attempted myself:
KSLC
KSMF
CYXE
EGNX
Luton
Cagliari
all of these were stopped and will not be developed by us any time soon.
What airport is next from Aviasim?
Leicestershire Aeroclub for FSX. This is a complete new re-build with many updates and differences from our first FS2004 version.
Will the new Leicester be available for FS2004?
Possibly.
Is Dominique Dantu working on the Leicester development?
I started this airport on my own in December, Dominique was not part of the team then and I had came a long way making it pointless for Dominique to develop for Leicester.
What airport will you do after Leicester?
We honestly have no idea yet, however, if we did know we would not announce it until we know for sure it will be released.
Have you contributed to any other development teams?
I have actually worked with a few other teams, Eiresim being the most successful where I modeled their V2 of EIDW. I have also worked with UK2000 but my work was not used. Other teams such as Visualize-HD and AWG Simulations but nothing came out of it.
If you had to choose one team, which team puts you under pressure the most and why?
UK2000. Every UK airport I have made which was on the to do list for UK2000, I received a lot of negative feedback from their fans and the actual development team.
Why do you think you got that reaction from your chosen team?
UK2000 is the biggest UK airport development team so far and very much respected by a lot of customers and other developers for Gary's work. We are not as popular as UK2000.
Will you do more airports in UK and will you try to avoid conflict with UK2000 airports?
Indeed. But I have plans to do two or three medium sized airports recently done by UK2000 as part of a development plan I wish to follow.
Which teams are your all-time role-model teams that you look up to?
Orbx, FSDreamTeam and the developers behind NL2000.
Why these teams?
Orbx and FSDT have introduced staggering amounts of extra detail and eye-candy as well as scenery features to the FSX/P3D world. Orbx has natureflow, peopleflow, animalflow, textureflow, winterflow etc etc and FSDT has their Dynamic Shadows. NL2000 seems to be one big continuous project that covers Netherlands in VFR at high detail and is constantly getting updated. It is also free.
Where did you learn scenery development?
FSDeveloper.com, this is in fact THEE best forum I have ever visited in my entire time I have spent on the World Wide Web - I was not asked to say that, neither will I get payed for saying it, neither do I want to =)
If you could regret one thing in scenery development, what would it be?
False announcing several airports.
The website is no longer online and says that it is suspended, why is this?
The bill has not been payed. It was also rarely used by the public, I feel that I can reach out to the public and let them know what I am doing more on Facebook. The website will however be back online on the 8th and will look empty as it gets a make-over, the forum will still be active though unless we decide to start from scratch.
Have you never done proper flights in the simulator?
Yes. I have thousands of hours on Microsoft flight sims, few hours on proffesional simulators and 1.5 hours in a real plane. I almost became famous on YouTube for my FS videos, but that is when I was more interested in designing scenery, the YouTube channel was stopped. I have flew for many civil virtual airlines, military orgs such as RAFSim, vRAF, RAFVirtual. I was also flying with the Virtual Red Arrows for Lock On: Flaming Cliffs 2, met a great bunch of guys their and started our own team which didn't go too well and went back to Virtual Red Arrows...but then quit that, and everything else when I started to learn 3DS Max etc for scenery design.
Are there any other games you would like to develop for?
No. It has been thought, but no.
What is the biggest mistake you make when designing scenery?
Drinking a lot of alcohol, already with Leicester there is a few buildings and texture I have had to completely re-do because they looked very strange when my beer goggles were gone, I blame Christmas for this though!.
Last question, where do you see Aviasim in the next 5 years?
I wouldn't like to say. Between every airport I attempt I learn something new which makes my development life much easier, faster and alot lot better. This is something we all will just have to wait and see.
Thanks Aviasim
Very good initiative !
Airdailyx
January 2012
DM
8 comments:
That`s really funny: Kevin is one of my closest friends and I was the guy who took all the pictures of EDRJ Saarlouis-Düren and got all the needed agreements.
Sadly there seems to be no further development on EDRJ X... :-(
Well that`s funny: Kevin is one of my closest friends.
And i was the guy who took all the pictures at the real EDRJ Saarlouis-Düren and got all the agreements from the local authorities that EDRJ could be done.
But sadly there seems to be no further development on Saarlouis X. :-(
A developer with only one release, doesn't really seem like he knows what he's doing
Double-post. Pls. delete
It may be unfair but I see a developer who has been claiming to make product after product then dropping them all, leaving other teams, and generally producing not very much. He needs to take a step back and refocus. For example a website was never needed, too small for that. Announcing 6 airports and then cancelling them all? Shows lack of dedication and to not put too much stock in what the developer says in the future.
Right now Aviasim seems rather lost at sea and trying to grow too fast.
I'm a FSX developer with more than 20 released titles in my CV, and my best advice to you sir is to not say anything at all about a project until you have screenshots good enough to be used on the sales website for the product.
If it makes you feel any better I have over 40 unfinished/uncompleted/wishlist projects on my hard-drive, that is were they will stay until fit for release.
Once you announce something there is a kind of pressure to 'produce the goods', and its easy to lose interest in a project, so if you never announce them you can stop/start as much as you like, only working on the projects that are close to your heart.
But most of all, enjoy it :)
Constructive advice that Darren would be well advised to take I think :)
I don't disagree with any of that. Darren is young and clearly enthusiastic, but it hasn't been the wisest move to annouce multiple projects and discontinue them shortly afterwards. Perhaps in future he would be well advised to do a little more research before announcing a project to make sure that it is viable to complete in terms of size, available data and partners first. :)
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