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UDK is a strip down version of UnrealEngine, which everybody can use to create commercial applications. It's more or less gratis until you make $50.000 (after digital distributor cut). With the UDK you cannot alter the engine itself, but you can still do a lot of stuff. For example Hawken is just the UDK. And Q.U.B.E. was made with the UDK but without using UnrealScript, they only used the features of the editor and visual programming language (which is commonly used for level scripting)

Tribes: Vengeance didn't use UDK. It used UnrealEngine2.5, which at the time was using MathEngine's Karma as physics. Irrational however replaced Karma with Havok. Falling endlessly through the void would be a bug in T:V's levels because standard practice is to set a KillZ just below the lowest point of the world. When an actor goes below the KillZ it will automatically be destroyed. UDK is based on UnrealEngine3, and thus used PhysX. As for the high speed collision thing. This is sort of a tradeoff between performance and accuracy. You have to enable continuous collision detection on your physics body. This should prevent high speed objects from passing through objects. [1] Anyway. I just completed InFlux in a little over 3 hours .

InFlux A game by thumb Lacabra and others at Impromptu. Took me a little over 3 hours to complete. You're a ball and you cruise around an island where you encounter glass houses. Entering a glass house starts a physics based puzzle when you often have to guide an other ball to given area. To do this you usually have to turn the house by 90 degrees in some direction. I didn't have much trouble in solving those puzzles. When you're not messing around in the glass house your exploring a large island jumping over things pushing or pulling rocks. And there's also something with a wale. There are a few bugs in the game which were really annoying for me. The air vents never worked great and it usually took me a while to get to the right height to continue on. And there was this thing with planks over an air vent which didn't budge, but after a reload it did. Either way, I think the game had the right length as I was getting bored with the puzzles. Exploring the island was fun, but I wish that there was more to see.

We're still good for today at 19:00'ish UTC?

That's because everybody is on EFNet. Or was it IRCNet? No wait, it's DALnet.

Didn't think about the return to checkpoint menu option. As for the forrest problem, I just went back to the game, and this time the planks did come off. Yesterday it didn't.

Somebody from Groningen posting about a guy from Twente... religion is fucked up

NNnnnooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I think it's dougalmighty@idlethumbs.net

I could go on a rant for that for a long while. But cutting the whole story short... it doesn't happen. They'll find new reasons.

holy crap... I'm glad I denounced religion 22 years ago. This shit is crazy. How do people even know what to believe? Can they browse a commit log or something?

Come on people... we'll see Duke Nukem Forever 2 before HL3.

On a related note, the PC I bought this week is a HTPC for my bedroom. It's running Linux (obviously) and I also installed Steam. I have about 89 Linux games available to me (of the <400 I have on Steam). Despite the PC having a Geforce 610M it is an Atom CPU, so not a lot of games will run great. Also, I use a wireless keyboard with touch pad. I tried one of my PS3 controllers, but it doesn't work out of the box. Either way, with my current set up, FTL is playable really well (the control scheme works perfectly with my kayboard/keypad). Getting Steam on the Linux system wasn't that difficult. I'm a Debian person, but sort of use Ubuntu for desktops. Installing Steam is easy as shit. And after that, it's just Steam. Install a game, start it, play it. Big screen mode still kind of sucks. I prefer minimalistic stuff. Big screen more is slow and and useless animations and graphics. It's like those dumb XMB things, and probably the xbox ui stuff.

Christianity is really forked

I love the Alice in Wonderland sketch; it's really nicely crafted

That's really the first time I heard that. Christianity makes even less sense now. So Jesus did not die for our sins, because he's God and God is immortal.

Three buttons is enough for everybody

So... if Jesus is part of God, he cannot possibly be the son of God, right. Hmm.. I treading dangerous waters here, trying to reason about religion never worked for me so far.

And now I'm stuck. I'm in the second forest segment, completed 2 glass houses. But I can reach the third one which I guess I need to reach via the trees.

I completed the cave part. I really dislike those fans, it's annoying to get the right height. I've also found a few small issues. I fell through some geometry once, I had to quit to menu and return. This is the approximate location. It took me like 2 tries to break the "teeth" in the cave, the resulting rubble was missing some textures.

That still sounds weird to me. Then the harddrive's performance is less than double the performance of the optical drive? (don't feel like doing the actual math).

No, I'm a software developer. My colleagues are often like babies, they cry and produce shit.

Wow.. a lot of text/interesting discussion. But you don't. As far as I know there are two cases where this phrase is commonly used: 1) When people use Jesus (Christ). But, Jesus is not the lord. He's a prophet. Saying Jesus is the lord is even a violation of the the 10 commandments. "Thou shalt have no other gods before me". 2) When people say things like "god damn". God isn't its name, it's its title. Jews have a name for their god, but they don't use it because of that particular commandment. So they refer to god by the title (or other descriptive name). The Christians were just lazy to make up a name, or do something about it. So just assume, considering it's the same god anyway, the christian god has the name as the Jewish god. But nobody uses it. It's always "god", "lord", "the spirit", "the light", etc.. Using certain words to utter feelings is taught just like the "being offended" by those words. Calling somebody "gay" used to be a positive thing, and how it's different. Now people are offended when you call them merry, or colorful. I'm glad that I'm not offended by words, only by sentences.

I'm going to side with Chris on this. If you want to play a game you want to play a game, and not manage a bunch of babies to play together. That feels more like work.

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