BigJKO

Yeah, i played the first 6 missions and it's super good! Very Advance Wars (so far, don't know if it adds anything new to the formula later on)

I haven't tried it out yet, but Warbits looks cool! An Advance Wars-alike! https://geo.itunes.apple.com/us/app/warbits/id584927317?mt=8&at=1001lcZP

I did a gif!

Still listening to this, but Rock-a-doodle-doo!! I remember loving that film as a kid, had so many fond memories of it. This was before the internet was a thing in my life. Years go by and I was trying to remember what the film was called so I looked it up and was horrified to see that this supposed gem of a film was absolutely hated by everyone. My world was shattered. I then watched it again and was gutted by how horrible the movie actually was. Holy cow, what a turd of a movie.. Anyway, young me was naive and loved rock and roll, I guess! Oh, and excellent podcast! Look forward to more of this! :tup:

The Secret Best Pixars Film!

That overlay. Does it look like that by default, or did you put some cool filter on it?

The Americans is starting its fourth season sooooooooooooooooon. :tup: :tup:

I wrote about it on the last page but nobody cared because puns!

Yessss. I'm all in. Love it. So much slime and color and good ghosts. Sold.

Saw a tweet about Train Conductor World yesterday, which is out apparently. I haven't played it, but it looks nice.

Because I want you to send me a personal, little gift of love, dibs. EDIT: I can't actually remove it from MailChimp.. whatever! Now 10 persons know my home address.

Alright, Finding Nemo. I've watched this a million times now with my son. It's got lots of problems in the story. Marlin almost has no arc and whatever arc he has is sort of forced through the dialogue with Dory instead of coming naturally from the situations. Dory has to basically spell it out to him inside the whale. "Let it go!" Cross-cutting between the Marlin and Nemo storylines almost always just makes the story more confusing and sort of takes the momentum out of it. As Ben points out, Marlin's story is basically just a series of Meet Fish, Get Directions or Run Away situations. It conjures up a big finale out of nothing with the big school of fish bit (although I like that it's a callback to Nemo's earlier experience) that sort of works but mostly just feels forced again. I like the prologue but it probably could've been shorter or not been there at all. Marlin's anxiety is well-established in the actual first scene with him and Nemo, and we would've gotten to the action quicker. I don't know.. And yet.. I love this film! I always enjoy watching it (almost.. maybe the millionth time was a bit much) and I cry at the end when Nemo wakes up and everything's good and.. I guess after having kids I'm the biggest sucker for father-son stories. It's a beautiful film in almost all parts (some parts of the Dentist's Office don't look as nice) The underwater art direction holds up really well even today. That big, colorful shot on the way to school. Amazing. And I love the team of fish in the Dentist's Office. They're all fantastic characters. I'm fine with Nemo, a bit bored by Marlin. In the end, I think whether or not you like this film comes down to.. Dory. I love Dory and Ellen DeGeneres' work as Dory is fantastic and that carries a lot of the film's more boring parts for me. I can totally see why some people don't like her character and I think if you don't then this film falls almost completely flat. Anyway, Finding Nemo.. One of my top Pixar films, despite Marlin being boring.

Oh yeah yeah, I've seen his repos before. Nice! He has some amazing stuff in there.

God yes! :tup: Love all the UI stuff, all the colors, all of it! Little targetting rectangles/triangles indicating the enemies are the best! How are you doing the glitchy stuff?

AND! If you want to be the first to know when I eventually put out a playable thing of this, sign up here.

I turned my dust particle animations into shaders instead of the spritesheet animation it was. This is cool because it allows me to make variants without having to make a huge spritesheet for it.

Cheeky, dibs. As usual, whenever I start making changes to this game everything spins wildly out of control.

I was expecting it to be more expensive, so yay! Not that I'm buying it, but I was totally expecting it to be $1k or up, considering the Rift's price. I suspect people are complaining about this pricepoint, though. I saw a recommended specs thing for the Rift vs. the Vive and it seems the VR-Ready specs for the Vive are considerably lower than the Rift's. I thought it would be the other way around!

Unfortunately I think I'll scrap it. It's way too realistic/unstable for the type of top-down, arcade racing feel I want. I think I'll just separate the look and physics of it. The way it worked before was fine, physics-wise, just needs some tweaking, I think. C'est la vie!

Hah, there's a whole row of social media links under every post on his website!

I don't know.. is this a setting on the rigidbody? I messed with drag, but that also affected the gravity making the car just float.. Anyway, BREAKTHROUGH! I used Unity's Configurable Joints and got it working. Still have to actually see if I can tune the actual driving of the car now that it has four blobs under the rigidbody and whatnot. We'll see!

What later puzzles are these? Are they somewhere outside or is it something inside the mountain?

Wow! That looks amazing! I don't think it's risky, but maybe that's because I see indie game art constantly on twitter and this would fit so well in a sweet adventure game or indie RPG or something. I don't have any advice as to how to get illustration jobs, but there must be a publication out there that would love this stuff for their editorial. I mean, I could totally see this being the headline art for something like Polygon. Again, this is top stuff! I'm off to pimp this on twitter, because i love it! Well done.

Oh really? So it was just a one-off thing with no laser at the end or anything?? :S