Nachimir

You probably had unlocked one of them, you just didn't realise it. After that,

It's apparently called "The Impossible Game". This isn't comical, but is good: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVwXA7sHUlE

Yes, you only have to be online for activation, but the software also spies on you during use. Without activation, it will apparently function as a standard USB mouse, but that's not what people buy Razer stuff for. So, when Razer's activation server goes down, all these mice will be junk* when it comes to fresh OS installations. Also, following activation I doubt many buyers will be aware enough or arsed enough to deal with the overhead of running then blocking that software from phoning home. These schemes have gone so well for publishers in the past few years. Glad to see hardware vendors getting in on the action ¬¬ * not to imply they aren't already.

Orv is right, though we're kind of assuming why you have that feeling. Event management is basically about averting one crisis after another and fixing a lot of things in the background as they go wrong. It's easy to think "Oh my god this is going terribly" while, in fact, your audience are having a perfectly wonderful time and haven't noticed a single one of the fires you're fighting.

Maybe it's a job at 22 Cans.

Likewise, I found most tactics very repeatable, and the game would do just enough to require adaptation. If a level started taking too many attempts, I'd let off steam by doing stupid, manic suicide runs for a little while. Instant door kills from the Donkey mask helped a lot in the mid-game, though by the end I realised that even when you're unarmed, enemies with guns are only a problem if there are more than two or you can't close the distance quickly.

I am not. Someone did.

Thanks, you're all right and I know it. It's just the "Don't ever hurt people!" instinct fucking with me and making this so difficult.

Best guesses of contents I've seen yet: Mountain Dew and Doritos. Maddie.

I'm in a slightly uncomfortable situation. I've been dating a woman, and three things have become apparent: 1. I feel less and less into her, and would rather be friends. 2. She feels excited and quite romantic toward me. 3. She's had a tough past, and is a very wounded and vulnerable person. It's a bad mix of things. I've not led her on, but she seems to be throwing herself into it after not being involved with anyone for quite a while. Whenever things get physical, she's into it but can't do anything for more than about ten seconds without pulling back and closing down a little (this is not the reason I'm not so into her anymore; I just find those feelings slipping away the more we converse). We've not had sex, but have been in several situations that would lead to sex between most people. I've not actually found that frustrating, because I get the impression other guys have lied to her to get some, and her wellbeing seems far more important to me. Carrying this on would be bad, I think, for both of us. There seems to be no way out of this without hurting her in some way though.

I enjoyed your Let's Play, and Rodi is right, you have a soothing voice Tycho. Man, that brings so many memories back. I spent an entire summer disc swapping on an Amiga with XCOM, and can't believe how lucky you got in that UFO. Typically, if I surrounded a UFO door, an alien would pop out then my guys would fire a load of auto shots, miss, and take each other out Anyway, the plugging of shit: http://betterbokeh.co.uk/ That's a side project I started in August. It's not exactly raking in cash, but since launch it started paying for itself and a bit extra on top. There is a special link at the bottom to something I'm very mildly ashamed of, but it found an audience ¬¬

I read it all like this:

Favourite:

Here's a good thing to come of this: George Lucas Donating Disney Billions to Fund Education

Two cool dudes do cool thing for others:

Gaaaaah, sorry. Should have guessed. To make up for it, here are some analogue synths:

Perhaps, but in a very sloppy, debatable, and vague way. "Gameplay" is a troubled, undefined term that seemed to emerge from the 90s gaming press, and in use often seems to be bound up with consumer facing value judgements, or easily contradicted assumptions about what games are and who they're for. I think it's common and likely for people to have very different things in mind when they use that word. This is well worth a read. Not perfect or final, but useful, and tries to establish some more precise terminology.

Fun: Ask a dozen different game designers to define "gameplay". Some will say it's a word with no defined meaning. The rest will each have a different and highly personal definition, probably inherently bound to a genre or two of videogame.

There was a painful Bohemian Rhapsody on floppy drives thing posted here a while back. Here's something similar, but nicer (Embedding is disabled). Note the names of the producers.

I'm not sure why, but I love that that happened Thanks, yes, several of them. Most recently, GameCity this past week, for which I'm a production manager. I don't know him very well, but he seems like a good guy and really gets the "games as culture rather than product" thing we go for with the festival. Today, I finished a four month death march of 60 - 80 hour working weeks. Rezzed, camera case prototyping and filming, the Eurogamer Expo, a side project that's launched and making money, then a month preparing for the GameCity Festival, which was eight days long with events running from early mornings to late nights. By this afternoon, after we'd de-rigged the closing party venue and were eating lunch, I was feeling bad in a struggling to walk, maybe needing a mid-meal shit and dying on the toilet kind of way. I'm going to spend a few days sleeping a lot and playing Hotline Miami. Best bit: Putting Super Hexagon, Cubes, and Canabalt on an enormous outdoor LED screen in one of the busiest parts of Nottingham. They all looked amazing at that scale, and we were handing a wireless xbox controller to members of the public. We held a Super Hexagon duel between Terry Cavanagh and Jason Killingsworth, who stared each other down in front of a picture of Death Valley, to Morricone duel music. A crowd gathered to watch, with a lot of my friends and a few of my idols in it. We'd mixed a few MP3s together so that the Morricone faded to wind noise, and wanted it to sync with the nearby council house bells chiming, but decided that was too ambitious. In the event, our heavily improvised cues were a bit messy, but by coincidence the bells chimed right on cue anyway. Then Jason beat Terry with something like 139 seconds on the hardest mode. Most embarassing bit (which was pretty funny and no one was offended): Rushing into the council house ball room to introduce a talk by Imre Jele from Bossa Studios. I checked on the pronunciation of his surname beforehand (which is like "yeh-lay"), then remembered I needed to plug a few other events too. After I got through them and spoke Imre's first name, I blanked on his surname and paused for a full five seconds before remembering it. As I got down from the stage, he made a very gracious joke about it happening to him everywhere. The festival directors were sat at the back silently pissing themselves laughing at me, and one of them whispered to me through his grin "It's okay. I don't think anyone noticed". My boss at my old job would have given me the third degree for that, because he took any opportunity to make me feel bad. I really like the clients I'm working for nowadays

I'm insanely busy and not really reading the forums at the moment, but just caught up with this. Kroms, that sounds horrific. I'm so glad for you that it turned out this well so far.

This is a fairly good way of dealing with habitual procrastination.