Erkki

This looks good: http://www.spacesofplay.com/spirits/

Yeah, I think that's where I saw them in the first place. But now we no longer get Finnish TV (except for YLE1/2)

Actually, I'd rather they do something substantially different. In the last decade GTA was one of the biggest series and they were each excellent games. I'd be cool if it ended with the high point that Red Dead Redemption was in my opinion. Times have moved on and that formula seems tired to me now (and I'm not the only one in these forums who thinks so) so I'm hoping they'd still make open world games, but ones that leave the GTA formula behind.

Nice!

To me Kinect seems like it brings to your living room those stupid TV games from a few years ago where people send SMS-s to hit the host with a football or something.

Frankly, I don't even want a GTA V. Let the series die and make something new. (not that I wouldn't play it if they made it*) * although I've still to finish Gay Tony.

Hmm... someone said there that Minecraft is essentially single-threaded, I think. In that case, -XX:+UseBiasedLocking may help as well (might save some CPU cycles). Also, something newer in Java 1.6 and I'm not sure how experimental: -XX:+DoEscapeAnalysis may save a lot of cycles and help with GC depending on the implementation details. It gave me 20% improvement in a game I was working on some time ago.

Wow, I didn't know redstone can trigger water. Now I can make an obsidian factory. I think. [edit]oh, so it's only with the bridge mod..

Thanks for sharing that! I was looking for a Mac mapper some time ago, but couldn't find any for some reason. Finally I can see how large my cave systems really are.

Fixed now

at least it's not a feature

THIS. My inventory used to stay scattered where I die, but no more. Also, monsters keep appearing VERY frequently in areas of my mines that were previously safe (and well lit). I've lost several full inventories during a couple of hours played, I kind of don't want to go mining for tens of more iron just to get another 20 minutes of gameplay.

Lets make this thread live forever!

Well, if there's a Mac version, there might as well be a linux one. But I was asking about Mac (because I don't really have a PC right now, except for a laptop I got from my new employer).

There isn't.

Is it Windows only?

I don't know their other work but I TRIED to play Two Worlds, but didn't get that far. It seemed shit-ish, especially the writing and voices, but does it have any redeeming qualities? I'm still thinking of playing either Two Worlds or Divine Divinity 2, but nowadays I don't have the time these big RPG-s demand (although... ahem. I guess I could play one instead of Minecraft).

I don't know, he may be somewhat pretentious, but who is flawless? I like what he is saying here: http://edtech.rice.edu/cms/?option=com_iwebcast&task=webcast&action=details&event=2349

I generated new worlds until I got a snow one and been exploring some mines to find enough iron for cart tracks. I keep being amazed at the world generation algorithm. It has so much variety. I found an even bigger cave system than anything I had found before. And it's very different from all the others I've seen. The others had passages going this way and that and sometimes looping back, but this one is just... hard to describe. It doesn't have any long passages, there are just caverns on top of caverns on top of caverns, separated by thin stone walls and floors, with tens of waterfalls, rivers and pools. It's quite hard to find my way around that place. I've been exploring it for 10+ hours and there is still no end to caverns branching off from what I've already explored.

Frictional have posted on their blog about how the game has been doing if anyone is interested: One week after the release of Amnesia One Month after Amnesia's release

We don't have Halloween, but we have two somewhat similar days in November (Mardipäev and Kadripäev) where kids dress as beggars and go to houses for treats, and they usually sing. It seems to have died out a bit, but I'm also living in a neighborhood with lower density of people and less kids now. And even if I lived in a higher density area, apartment buildings are locked up nowadays so the kids can't really go to many houses besides their own.

I'm going to skip this game, even the trial version is too hard to enjoy.

And Writer as well. Just finished it. Great little game. It's simple, but the combat is actually interesting. Once you get the third companion, it gets easier, but is never too easy (unless you go back to previous areas). I didn't use most of the battle stamps, but I did change costumes often. I don't think this compares negatively to Penny Arcade games, but maybe it's just that I'm not a fan of Penny Arcade (except for the occasional good comic) and didn't really like those.

like it so far. Played through the first area. My only complaint is text speed. Dialog boxes disappear too quickly.