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Sci-fi Horror ‘Quadrant’ Delayed Due to Technical Difficulties
The makers of the episodic sci-fi horror game Quadrant have been forced to delay the arrival of the first chapter by a few weeks.
“Unfortunately, we had recently began to encounter problems with our game engine,” the developer announced on Steam. “We started seeing a drop in performance, both in-game and in the engine editor itself, and have been experiencing an inordinate amount of crashes. All of this together made it very difficult to continue working with it.”
There is, however, a silver lining to this story. When Quadrant returns, it will bring with it a more capable engine. This means the game will benefit from a number of improvements that wouldn’t have been possible without the upgrade, including…
– Our full-body awareness system can now takes advantage of new features to make gameplay look and feel even more natural.
– We’re upgrading all of our environments to a new physically based renderer shader, for better, more realistic shader interaction with lights.
– We will be using realtime global illumination for realistic lighting and shadows.
– Audio will now be tailored to more realistically represent 3D spatial location and distance, creating incredibly immersive environments.
– Performance upgrades have shown significant improvement, boosting the framerate by nearly 500% for a large majority of the time. This is without any manual optimization on our part, which we will be doing plenty of.
All of us here at Bloody Disgusting are deeply sad to learn that actress Daveigh Chase has passed away at just 35 years old. The news was first reported by TMZ this afternoon.
The outlet reports, “The actress’ boyfriend, Roy Hernandez, tells TMZ … Daveigh died Tuesday from meningitis and an infection in her blood, which caused her to have septic issues and led to her body shutting down.” The website’s report continues, “We’re told Daveigh had been admitted to a hospital in Los Angeles earlier this month because of malnutrition.”
Here in the horror world, a young Daveigh Chase memorably played Samara in Gore Verbinski’s 2002 horror movie The Ring, the American remake of the Japanese horror hit.
Far outside the horror world, Daveigh Chase voiced Lilo in the 2002 animated movie Lilo & Stitch, a character she continued to voice in various animated spinoff projects.
Chase also appeared as Samantha Darko in the 2001 classic Donnie Darko, later returning to play the sister of Donnie Darko in the 2009 spinoff movie titled S. Darko.
Daveigh Chase’s resume also includes roles on the TV shows “Sabrina the Teenage Witch,” “Charmed,” “ER,” “Touched by an Angel,” “CSI,” “Cold Case,” and 32 episodes of “Big Love.”
Chase appeared in the films The Rats, Silence, Carolina, Beethoven’s 5th, Yellow, Little Red Wagon, Transference, Killer Crush, Jack Goes Home, and American Romance.
We send our deepest condolences to Daveigh Chase’s family, friends, and fans.
Pictured: Daveigh Chase in ‘Killer Crush’ (2015)
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