MrHoatzin

I think those would qualify... If you think the relatively vague direction of, "important, interesting, weird, under-the-radar, fresh, indie" applies more than it doesn't, go for it. While it came out ages ago, there is really nothing like Uplink out there, and the many Darwinias are not selling as well as the Introversion duders would have liked, plus they're both still available on Steam and on the official sites, so I think they qualify. Defcon is also fair game.

A bit of stealth self-plagiarism? That particular issue of ARTL!ES was sitting on my desk. All of those are random quotes from the mag, massaged for context. I guess I also stole sentences from other reviews too, omg!

Hm, yes, kinda. The "available" bit covers that, no? If it is STEAM you won't get it on your Wii, if it is XBLargh, it is not on the DS, etc. Unless it is, and then you say: Avaialble: steam, xbl, ds

Yes yes yes... I am always more than eager to implement all that. The problem is that all these features increase the cost of the site and people don't want to pay shit. Our admin does scrub a lot of the cut-n-pasting-from-Word-and/or-Outlook artifacts, but it seems we never have the opportunity to properly educate clients in what makes good design. Ultimately it doesn't matter because eventually they will realize that what they're doing looks ugly, is illegible and badly organized, and will come crying back to us to make it pretty. Still, they will provide us with crappy copy littered with typos and their logo in a 75px by 75px jpeg... But you know, whatever, what I do is frivolous. I feel petty for complaining. When design is good, I feel warm and tingly. When it is bad, no one dies.

Yes. And the beginning part is a "Zh", like "Zhivago".

Yeah, thanks! I gotta say that I appreciate the fact people embraced the format so readily. I do web design at a design shop wherein practically none of our clients care to follow the design standards we create for them, so I am very thankful when it accidentally happens. I was half-expecting the thread to escalate into critiques of certain games mentioned therein, and dorks vetoing entries as insufficiently fresh or not technically indie, etc. It is also nice that a separate comment thread evolved. So basically, I love each and every one of you.

This thread may be in need of some change of tone: "The whole thing is oddly compelling, reassuring and empowering. It is an altar to creativity at its most basic and most abstract. It is the stuff of nightmares, it is what dreams are made of." - IGN.com "Of course, no one is to blame because no mistake was made." - IGN.com "While I tend to read the game as a declaration of stormy hopefulness—of the regeneration of nonhuman nature over destructive human culture—it might very well be the other way around." - IGN.com "Currently it is easy to be impressed, but the vagaries of execution make it difficult to care." - IGN.com "These games don't inherently believe in their own supremacy like their chronological predecessors. The market now does that for them." - IGN.com

Sigh. It is actually Živadinović (or Живадиновић), and hence pronounced Zhee-vah-dee-no-vich. The Caron and the acute confuse people so I exclude them. At the same time I never bothered to spell it phonetically, so it confuses people all the same. Zivadinovikkk is close enough. Unless you pronounce it Zay-vah-day-no-vay-key-key-key, in which case it is still close enough, though rather more bizarre.

FF on OSX showed up as white. It was white since it was introduced. I've seen this site on many computers, on various setups and I have no idea how it ever looked anything but white to anyone.

"boxquote, hurtful, ign.com, lies, mental scarring, ohgodno, profanity, sex" - IGN.com

Hm, CIA redactions would be neat if only they were moreso!

As a maker of things, I have recently embraced a kind of "meh" mentality to people taking my work and doing things with it. It is a relaxing state of mind. My first painting class right out of high school was at this summer camp sponsored by the San Antonio and Houston rodeos. It was taught by "cowboy artists" and the teacher (this duder) insisted we practice our signatures to the point they become logos and put them in all our paintings. If we wanted to be safe, he said to go ahead and put a © next to it too. He was a creepy fellow, hit on some girls in the class, but not quite directly enough to get into any any trouble. Just enough to radiate this creepy vibe.

Nooooo, shut up! It's *M*A*G*I*C*! I want to believe!

The important bit in this news story is that Obsidian ≈ Black Isle. Whereas the cynical may see here a company milking a cow, I think this particular move on their part is more earnest than not. Granted, as far as suits are concerned, this probably makes for a good lateral move. But it feels to me like Bethesda would really like to know what the olden Fallout dudes would do with Fallout were they given the chance.

Duder's been busy maniacally updating his Facebook status. Seriously, Wormsie, wtf? You make up 25% of updates in my news feed.

I kindof liked their older stuff better than the new album. It seems to only get going around track 10... Their shtick seems to be wearing thin, I dunno.Leonard Cohen's new live album is pretty rad. I would say mandatory listening for all who, like me, couldn't really stand the godawful 80s production values that seem to plague the later half of his entire catalog.

Which part of what I said are you referring to? I should also clarify that I live in the lovely San Antonio, Tejas, and hail from the lovely Serbia, Europe.

I chose a carrot. Bizarre crap. Makes me think of that limey dude who goes around hypnotizing people on the telly. He freaks me out.

Howdy folks, just got around to listening to this one and had a comment: I always saw fretting over proper name pronunciations as a bizarre American quirk. Or maybe it is a perfectly normal, healthy sign of respect, and it is I who was brought up in an uncivilized place by ill-mannered man-beasts*. It is just that a conversation seems to lose its pace when people stop to ruminate over pronunciations of names (of participants or otherwise). I think I just may be horrified that every cashier everywhere will start an ethnographic inquiry while waiting for my card to clear. Since these kinds of things usually involve a few minutes of me explaining how to correctly pronounce my name, I may have developed a negative pavlovian reaction to all discussions of correct pronunciation of names. So basically, tldr, however you decide to pronounce it is always good enough. ___________ * Some older history textbooks in my neck of the woods refer to Cleopatra as Kleopatra Ptolemeyevich. It could be that my culture, such as it is, just cold doesn't care about the finer details of how other cultures handle their names.

Yeah, no. It would've taken forever to actually do on paper. I made it in a couple of hours. Mnyah. Don't matter. Looks fine.

I had a coworker take a photo of my hands in the weird position, then I played around with liquify filters to make the fingers weirdly proportioned. The typewriter I found online and worked on separately. Now, in photoshop I collapsed the image into grayscale (image > mode > grayscale) and burned and dodged bits and pieces to establish relatively high contrast between details that needed extra definition. It might look kindof weird in this stage and not uniformly contrasted, but it doesn't matter. You'd want it to look kindof bronzy, sharp highlights, dark darks. So here you'd duplicate your canvas three or four times. Go to image > mode > bitmap; select output of about 300 pixels and the halftone screen as the method. Then give it a frequency of about 35 lines per inch (depends on what the dpi you picked earlier is and how tight you want your end line pattern to be) pick a neato angle, and for the shape pick a line. Now repeat the same with different angles on the duplicates you made. Then stack them all on top of one another in multiply layers and just paint on masks to show one direction crosshatching as opposed to another for a given section. It might be a bitch at first, cause you can't see what is going on where, but you'd get the hang of it. I suggest you put an completely opaque mask on the layer and paint on the visible bits rather than the other way around. The index finger of the left hand didn't look right in the first draft of the thing, so I basically assembled it collage style from bits and pieces of crosshatching from different parts of the image. TL;DR: image > mode > bitmap > halftone screen > line.

Here's the original, or at the very least the huge file I gave Jake.

Hm, I didn't realize that he was credited as "Management" in many of those Bullfrog games according to MobyGames. His wikipedia page made it seem he had more of a relevant input than just management. Still, dude gets too little credit whereas Wright gets too much.

The same can be said for any complex creative endeavor that employs more than one person working to some common end. I'm not seeing how it is especially pertinent to Molyneux.It makes me think of Alfred Hitchcock Presents: very few of those half-an-hour stories are actually directed and written by Hitchcock, but he curated them and picked the people he would have liked to see make them. It is an influence somewhat removed. But it is influence all the same.

Ooh, also, regarding Unreal Amadeus: I spent a summer playing Jedi Outcast and listening to an Irish folk songs CD someone gave me. So every time I hear St Patrick was a gentleman I think of lightsaber battles.