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Small piece of news about PCM10
Although PCM10 is still c. 8 months away, the news are starting to tick in slowly. We've previously posted screenshots of the game and told you about the new stage editor, and here's a small, yet informative update:
Jaap from the PCMBenelux website managed to get a little piece of news out of Clément Pinget, programmer at Cyanide: "This year we're introducing palmarès until 2004 so in the game you'll be able to view all the old teams of a rider and his palmarès. We also re-write all the palmarès engine and change the ergonomy for a better view of them," Clément says to the site.
It's also mentioned that you'll be able to see who've won major races - e.g. Contador won both the Giro and the Vuelta in 2008, and so did Eddy Merckx in 1960, etc. I'm not quite sure how it's going to work, but we'll see.
Clément also states that Cyanide is fully aware of the fact that the players do not only want a good-looking race mode, but also want a feature-rich career part.
With the Custom Team function in PCM09, many people need mini shirts - the graphic objects which appear in the team selection screen, pre 3D-races, etc. Therefore, I've now written a guide which explains how to make a mini shirt, based on a .tga, .png or .jpg version of an 'actual shirt' - and don't worry, it doesn't require any knowledge on graphics.
After a succesful release of PCM.daily's 2009 DB, we'll now begin the work on the 2010 DB. As always, we have high ambitions, and to meet them, we're going to need a great team of crew members.
So, we're looking for pretty much anyone who feel that they can contribute in one way or another. Specifically, we're looking for: - Stat Maker(s) - Shirt Designers - 'Small' Graphics Designers (logos, accessories) - Stage Makers - Additional DB Makers
If you're interested in helping out with PCM.daily's next project, send me a PM, including details about what you'd like to do. If you've worked on any projects before, please mention that too.
On both Wednesday 25th, and Thursday 26th November 10pm CET - 6am CET (Thats 4pm-12am for East coast american folk!), Gamecenter and Cyanides PCM forum will be unavalible due to planned maintenance by the forum and gamecenter provider.
Stage making for PCM has never been easy, and for the same reason, there's always been a lack of them. Earlier this year / last year, we saw the consequences of this in the 2009 DBs for PCM08 as only very few races were updated to its 2009 route. E.g., only the Giro d'Italia, made solely by Johan92, made it to the final version of PCM.daily's 2009 DB for PCM08.
But this year is different. Although there's still a lack of stage makers, it looks like we will get to experience the 2010 Grand Tours in PCM09. Why? Because of a unique cooperation between stage makers across the communities. E.g., 10 stage makers are currently involved in the making of the 2010 Tour de France, while another 9-10 stage makers are working on the 2010 Giro d'Italia. Plenty of the stages have already been made - so, there's reasons to be optimistic.
Anyway, the point of this news article is to support this great collaboration and make the remaining stage makers aware of it and hopefully team up. You can read more about the Giro project here and the Tour project here. It's primarily in French, but it should be pretty self-explanatory. And if you ask, people will definitely help translating it to English.
