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    aaand I hope everybody's not sick of me plugging this new project thing yet...

     

    today I started making a diner in the desert. We actually have what we think is a really cool idea for this game now. I will give the plugs in here a rest for a while now.

     

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    Also, are you folks aware of the BreenGrub twitter account? It's written by Marc Laidlaw, the main writer of Half-Life, from the perspective of a post-HL2 Dr Breen, having had his consciousness transferred into a slug-like Shu'ulathoi host body, and changed his position on the Combine. Laidlaw calls it "fan fiction" and says it isn't part of any HL3 ARG or anything like that, it's just him having fun. Half-Life fan fiction from the original author of Half-Life. Hooray!

     

    Anyway it's super interesting. Czech it out:

     

    "Nothing can be without flaw. The superstructure is riddled with cracks. THEY are vulnerable. THEY are compromised. I am "living" proof. Monitoring situation. So far they appear unaware of my communications. How much can I safely say? Forgive me if I do not use certain words. I can use the name Shu'ulathoi because THEY do not recognize that term. The vortigaunts have developed a language which defies THEIR comprehension. This has come to seem like the purpose of most language."

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    Bro that Speedrunners looks super ultra fun. I am so on board with that thing.

     

    Also thanks ya'll for the good feels.

     

    That offer code needs at least 3 more 'a's.

     

     

    Oh god I think my eyeballs exploded. I love lo-fi 3D, and those screens've stolen my heart.

    ^_____________________^ Hopefully I can put a sweet game with it

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    I am interested in Day Z, and wouldn't be if it didn't have permadeath, because I'm interested in the sensation of really wanting to not die because I don't get to magically resume from where I left off, and I am interested in the disempowerment fantasy aspect of it. I don't see it as being about winning just because it's a video game. Games don't need to be about winning.

     

    There is a game called http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/555181'>One Chance which does its best to keep you from replaying it once you've finished it (and probably achieved an ending you aren't "happy" with). Because it's simulating your character having only one chance at solving the problem. He doesn't get to load a previous save so you don't either.

     

    Similarly I think the Walking Dead episodes would be much weaker than they are if you could easily roll back a decision and try something new - not just because the choices you make in that game aren't actually as far-reaching as some people would like, but because the game does an excellent job at simulating moments of stressful indecision that lead to me making a mistake - sometimes only thinking of it as a mistake later on, sometimes recognising the mistake almost immediately - and forcing me to live with my choice. It's not about winning, or managing the perfect playthrough. It's not permadeath, but it's perma-choice, I guess. In Walking Dead, DayZ and One Chance the designers could choose to let me undo my mistakes or continue on as if they never happened, but they choose not to, and the game is better for it.

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    It sounds like you fucked up the bootloader (GRUB). I don't know enough about GRUB to know whether it needed the Android partition to be there to work, or whether there's an easy way to fix it, or anything. If you plan on only using Windows on it, it's a relatively easy fix anyway - just http://www.johnpapa.net/bootfromusb/'>make a bootable Windows USB, plug it in, boot from it (you miiiight need a keyboard to press the appropriate button to choose your boot device) and go through the Windows install process. The Windows installer might also recognise that there's an existing Windows installation without a working bootloader and offer to fix it, which may or may not work. If not, probably just go ahead and reinstall Windows from the USB.

    If you have a Windows 8 key I'd suggest installing that, I've found it's faster than 7 on low-spec machines. The procedure for making a bootable USB is exactly the same.

     

    In reinstalling Windows you won't be able to use most of your installed programs, but won't actually lose data unless you choose to format. 

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    I'm thinking of making an adventure game (in this style) with text-only dialogue (because I probably can't afford good voice actors). This is currently super vague, I only just thought of doing it. Is text-only dialogue throughout the game a huge turnoff for you?

    edit: because you said "I don't see any harm in having text-only conversations for non-storyline"

  22. Posted

    Man this game was great. I bought the ~$20 limited edition version with the Prototype Pack, because I love that he did a Prototype Pack. I think every game should do this.