Joewintergreen

What even is game

Yeah I've been thinking about that for a while. It seems like the leap can see where your hands are in a lot of detail, if it could map that to a hand skeleton it could work super well for a lot of first person stuff

To me, it usually doesn't matter to me whether the creators had thought about it in as much depth as the consumers end up doing; it's exciting when somebody creates a world that can support that level of analysis. A favourite example of mine would be fan analyses of the Half-Life series, especially analysing HL1, with fans finding (or thinking they're finding) all kinds of incidental details that are relevant to the plot of the later games. When clearly that game's story was pretty simple and all relation to the plot of the HL2 series is clever retcon. For instance, last week I constructed some elaborate (and goddamned watertight) reasoning for why it turns out the G-man is, in fact, . I once wrote to Valve for some thoughts on this kind of stuff and here's some of what I got back from one David Speyrer: so that's interesting

I'm more on the other side, having people playtest my stuff, but I never took anyone off a list because their feedback annoyed me. Negative feedback is often the most useful kind. Sounds like that guy might just be a bit of a jerk.

I actually replayed Crysis 1 a couple of weeks ago, having more recently played most of 2. I guess playing 2 made me forget how good 1 is, because man, that is an extremely good game. I enjoyed all of it, even the alien bits and the VTOL part at the end. Crysis 2 is Maximum Boring by comparison.

Yeah that is a really nice cover

This is weird, but hearing that song in the Levine talk from GDC was the thing that took me from "no care" to "I will buy this".

BioShark Infinite: A Jeff Gone Gold Game: Game Of The Year Edition By: Me and another guy Available: Below Synopsis: You shiver as you swim, though the water is not cold. Up ahead, Goldblum laughs at you. You sense his derision; feel it in your dermal denticles. He's too fast - you cannot hope to catch him. But maybe, just maybe, you can steal his shoes. This is BioShark Infinite. Download link. Controls: A=left D=right Space=jump (yes)

I actually thought that was a bug, because when I did it, the game responded by restarting the map and I lost all my progress.

It is amazing. Wow.

You shiver as you swim, though the water is not cold. Up ahead, Goldblum laughs at you. You sense his derision; feel it in your dermal denticles. He's too fast - you cannot hope to catch him. But maybe, just maybe, you can steal his shoes. This is BioShark Infinite. So a week or so ago a game came into my brain as I drifted off to sleep. I reached for my phone, half-asleep, and hastily threw it in an email to my good friend James Benson. The email went like this: Fast forward to last night: the guy who did the UI stuff on InFlux comes by and we unexpectedly end up game jamming and making BioShark Infinite as an impromptu celebration of being more or less done with InFlux. SO HERE IT IS. Some features got cut/changed from that pitch, there's no fish for instance, but we're pretty happy with our ~10 hour vidjagame. Download link. Controls: A=left D=right Space=jump (yes) God speed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keicThymBaE'>this never before seen prototype footage should answer that question

This got posted on the Idle Blog, wooooo

Okay yeah that didn't work. NO MAC VERSION SORRY GUYS.

Oh I can probably shit out a Mac version real quick. Let me check

I totally ordered a dev kit because I am psyched to experience the future of video games.

the chisels only last like 30 seconds anyway

I heard Fahrenheit was supposed to be a trilogy, but it unexpectedly became clear that they weren't going to be able to do that so they kind of jammed the whole planned story into one game and you end up with something that's more or less sane for the first half or two thirds, and then suddenly everybody goes super saiyan and starts having zombie sex and shit. I started, but did not finish, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_and_First_Men'>Last and First Men a while ago, and it does a cool thing like this in the opening. I don't know how/if it ends up resolving, but I thought it was really well done. I may read that opening again so I can say more words about it

This totally made me think of a scene from a recent episode of Breaking Bad - big spoilers:

he also has a pretty dumb "fake gamer gurlz" post

Oh, phone. You did not show me all the extra posts since that was being discussed and now you will not let me edit.

Yeah I was watching porn online when I was like, 11. 23 now.

Wrong about Maria, you're thinking of Catalina