Noyb

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  1. (IGN.com)

    What's next? FPS Hub - Nothing but articles about Call of Duty. MMO Hub - All World of Warcraft. All the time. Sports Hub - The latest news on skateboarding and Tony Hawk.
  2. Have people seen Machinarium?

    Played and enjoyed the demo. The characters are so charmingly animated. I really like the pictoral representation of dialogue. You're assuming that the early levels are representative of later levels in terms of both length and challenge. I don't think that's a fair assumption, but we won't know for sure until the full game is released.
  3. The All New XBox Gamertag Exchange Thread!

    But now you have this delightful ambiguity between Action Shakespeare and Acting Shakespeare.
  4. Officialy Unoffical Idle Thumb Meme Thread

    Thumb? Thumb. Thumb! Options. You've got to have options. X? More like Y! Mechagoose Claude Eggerton Eggerton-Greene
  5. Tales of Monkey Island

    The Randy Newman one was more a parody of an artist's style more than a straight lyric-replacement parody. Sorry if the suggestion was insulting in any way to your musical abilities. When I'm tired enough to think posting my random thoughts online is a good idea, I should probably get off the internet. And this thought was especially random.
  6. Tales of Monkey Island

    Someone should write a parody of Cream's "Tales of Brave Ulysses" about Tales of Monkey Island. Especially now that there are mermaids.
  7. Did Steam just give me two free games? :O

    The guy behind Immortal Defense is selling his past and future games for a flat fee on Kickstarter. I seem to remember Flashbang toying with a yearly subscription, although they seem to have abandoned it for one-time purchases to download their games.
  8. Novint Falcon

    Gish is a great game. You play as a sentient ball of tar that maneuvers around a platform environment by changing your physical properties. Like, you become denser to smash through blocks and enemies, you become sticky to climb up walls and grab objects, you become slick to squeeze through games, and you become rigid to jump after compressing yourself. Haven't quite played anything like it. The original publishers have a demo if you want to try it out. That said, I have no idea how the hell the Falcon would work on a 2d side-scrolling platform game.
  9. Longplays and Let's Plays?

    I would not have seen over 90% of I Wanna Be the Guy without the Let's Play of it.
  10. No More Heroes 2: From the Toilet

    So what kind of sequel should No More Heroes have? (God, that game was a slog if you didn't have its sense of humor. How the hell do you justify a ten minute long featureless black corridor as a level?). Here's hoping the 2d minigames will be less one dimensional than the last game. They sure do look pretty, and I did enjoy that random shmup Travis played on the train more than the game proper.
  11. WadjetEye Games 50% off everything! This weekend only!

    I was able to buy multiple games at once by putting a 1 in the quantity field for each game in the main store screen, and then clicking the checkout button at the bottom of the screen, not the individual buy buttons next to each title. Pretty unintuitive. Must have been the first puzzle in the metagame.
  12. WadjetEye Games 50% off everything! This weekend only!

    Ooh, I've been meaning to pick up the Blackwell games. Nice find!
  13. (IGN.com)

    "The protagonist's ascent from rags to riches reminds me of how little IGN pays me." -- IGN.com "I love the way this box quote covers the box art." -- IGN.com "You need to play this game, if only for the Novint Falcon-enabled love scene." -- IGN.com "I left my wife for this game's heroine!" -- IGN.com "If Kasumi wore any less clothing, we would have raised the score to 11." -- IGN.com "Features the planet where Hottie McBlue Boobs died" -- IGN.com
  14. Time Donkey

    Pretty fun once you get the concept is to time each life to get a continuous combo of taco-eating. Up to 701,350. Currently 67th all time, although that's bound to drop quickly. Err.. there is a button to center the camera. Two, in fact. J or Z. It's mentioned right below the game. Still a bit of a pain to use, but it's there.
  15. Oh god yes. This game was my middle school study hall. There's also a freeware fan-made clone called XMoto.
  16. Kinetic typography in games

    Anyone played Ergon Logos? It's a game made entirely of kinetic text, which angles off, moves, multiplies, and resizes to reflect the meaning of what you're reading. The game itself is an interactive, Video game-analyzing, meta jazz/beat poetry... thing... ... It's like a real-time choose your own adventure about ... I'm not quite sure how to describe it. Just play it.
  17. Whoa. You're on Steam. Congrats!
  18. Tales of Monkey Island

    Nthing the compliments about the map transitions. In general, the animations seemed really good this episode, particularly the . I also got a good chuckle out of the camera movement in the b-joke. Puzzle-wise, it was a tad disappointing. I could have sworn . I was happy that the jungle wasn't so labyrinthine this time. Putting the in the fish didn't make much sense. Most of the puzzles after collecting the three Macguffins were so well telegraphed that I knew how to do them all (apart from not guessing final step of the one ). I was (pleasantly) surprised that the Looking forward to the next episode! Oh, and LeChuck randomly turned into a black ball when I returned to the cannon near the end of the game. Not sure what that was about.
  19. Burn the Rope !!

    Prior art: http://www.lanceandeskimo.com/flash/quest.html Demake: http://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=2716.0 ???: http://www.e4.com/game/steamshovel-harry/play.e4
  20. I was trying to fall asleep to podcasts when this happened.
  21. Tales of Monkey Island

    Is it just my computer acting up, or is there a memory leak in the later (W&G, ToMI) Telltale Games that slows down the game something fierce after a few hours of play? Liking the new episode so far. Some great animation in the intro puzzle.
  22. I make freeware games with terrible art: http://realnoyb.googlepages.com/games Starting to learn Flixel to try and get into the Flash game market.
  23. http://www.glorioustrainwrecks.com/files/molyneux2_0.zip Made a quick game loosely inspired by Molyneux's interview for a Glorious Trainwrecks 2 hour game development jam. Mainly his example of being able to show a game about a red nosed clown jumping from cloud to cloud could be commercially viable.
  24. Nifty browser games (inc. Flash)

    Bullfist - You have one minute to destroy capitalism with a stampede of Communist bulls.