Murdoc

Ok, I really want to try this, but am willing to wait for a few more players, but let's start a list and a tentative start date of anywhere starting this week to, say late August. Dark Mode Game 1. Sloar 2. illeria 3. Murdoc 4.Deleric 5. 6. 7.

Oh no, that wasn't the intention of linking it, this is a game discussion and mp is for setting up games. Also turns out I wrote an almost readable description of the game in the early days, will be interesting to get back into it this weekend and see the changes. Also, I might be dyslexic, because I wrote the word "insane" instead of "incase"...

I think you guys are missing a key factor about the series, it's Sid Meir's Civilization, it's Sid Meir's model of civilization not the worlds. Therefore we have reason to believe the following.... Sid Meier only acknowledges that the world speaks one language. He does not know which one, so he included 26 different versions of the game. But we all speak one. Sid Meier believes that each civilization is governed by one immortal leader since the beginning of time. Sid Meier understands that the world will stop progressing at some point in time, the world keeps going going, it just won't matter because the winner was already chosen. Sid Meier believes each civilization is being ranked by a point system. In 1996, Sid Meier didn't believe civilizations had religion. and so forth.

I'm not a syndicate fan or anything, but I read this article the other day by one of the devs for this and it was really interesting, a lot of good Kickstarter tips that I wasn't aware of. http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/MikeDiskett/20130722/196705/A_Letter_from_the_trenches_of_a_Kickstarter.php Glad to see he got funding.

I forgot we had a thread for MP gaming, insane more people jump on this and want to play... http://www.idlethumbs.net/forums/topic/7382-king-arthurs-gold/?hl=%2Bking+%2Barthur#entry170998

Yeah I used to play this a lot about a year ago but found it one of those guys I just end up yelling at... not sure if that is due to game mechanics or user error. Curious to see what it's like now as the game was constantly changing week by week in the early days. There is a lot of fun to be had though and well worth the original price. edit: I wouldn't compare the build mechanic to dwarf fortress in any way, I'm not sure where that comparison comes from. It's more akin to Dungeon Keeper.

Dark Souls was like $7 so figured I'd pick it up only to get frustrated with it in ten minutes. So that's a deal. Farcry 3 Blood Dragon was $6.74; so why not? Darksiders 2 at 9.99 is sitting there again. Every time it's on sale I look at it and go "nah, needs to be cheaper" even though it looks like a cool game, just something about it always makes me just want it for practically free. It's totally irrational and I feel like a bad person for thinking it.

Oh man I need the expansions now? I only have basic GTA 4. EDIT: Oh nevermind, I'm already out after reading more of the text. 1:30pm MNT is noon here and I'll be at work.

GTA 4 sale started at $5, 7 hours remaining...

I'm in, depending on time and day.

Not really. It was neat to revisit it but ultimately unsatisfying for what I wanted out of it. I was better off not playing it and leaving my memory on story of the main game.

Only playing the previous version on flash, I'm really looking forward to the Hd version finally getting to the PC. Can't wait!

I thought it was a stupid joke at first. Very sad about this, poor guy.

Yeah I've been playing this off and on for a week now and it's pretty great. The one thing I haven't looked into is the "gay" attribute. I have no idea what it does, if anything, and if it doesn't some of the phrasing on it isn't so great, so I kind of wince every time it comes up.

This thread is amazing.

So... would anyone be interested in doing a nice, casual, friendly game to check out that "dark mode"? I get the feeling that it might just hinder the whole diplomacy thing and the game will rely more on the mechanics from the start, but I'd be curious to check it out and see how it plays out. Plus the idea of "exploration" for the first little bit in NP sounds really exciting.

I'm more torn about this because I think Keplek may deserve the title of Hot Scoops over Gaynor now, because that is a pretty hot scoop that broke GB today.

He is the only reason I'd ever consider signing up for twitter. So amazing.

Yeah I've explored but have been going at it off and on all day, maybe theres some special item I'm suppose to find to move on or something. I haven't really being paying attention, but my time exploring seems to be kind of random, sometimes I last awhile, sometimes I don't. I seem to just be collecting the same stuff over and over again. edit: okay, I decided to read the actual text while adventuring. I keep starving to death, despite having a lot of meat. So no idea how to avoid that, I've bought a ton of maps so it's fleshed out the surrounding area and I can at least target different places to check out before I die.

Either I played it wrong or it just doesn't go anywhere. So I'm not sure what's up other than to consider it a work in progress.

It seems alright so far, but I think Candy Box was a little more interesting because it was a little stranger and took off in an unexpected direction (sort of like Frog Fractions) Maybe this ramps up too, but so far, it feels a little like a 4x kind of game or something, which is a neat interface to do that in, just not as zany or unexpected. But who knows, I'll keep going with it for half an hour to see what happens.

Well if we are talking art forms as a whole than, yeah. It's impossible to say something is truly original simply because that's not how the human brain creates things. We're in a zeitgeist, and even before that that has to be certain conditions to the human brain that would allow the concept of a dragon to be conceived in multiple cultures and continents with no connection whatsoever. Video games as a whole, visual, audio,technology, interactivity, etc... is a new art form, to expect something original in any one of those single categories isn't impossible, but as we've seen over 30+ years, it's rare. It's the combination of all those elements that makes a game "unique" or special. As for pure visual art in games, we have thousands of years of art movements to draw upon and right now it often feels like an uphill battle with traditional preconceived art styles and the way video game art is made for an interactive game. We're still figuring out how to mimic traditional art in these things, in a variety of styles, and if by looking where the big companies are putting their money, there isn't much exploration in this area, so it's going to be slow. Compare the evolution of painting, a medium that was constrained by technology (Certain types of paints and pigments simply weren't available at points in history) and how , at least in Europe, was mostly dominated by those with money, royalty, religion, and what was created for the longest time because of that. It's interesting to see what they went through and how there are parallels to the state visual art is in games. Maybe 50-100 years from now we can hope for video games to spawn new art movements in society, but right now we're just learning to crawl on the visual side of things in terms of content creation and artistic expression.

I didn't see anything particularly low-fi about Hohkum, other than it was in 2d? I could be wrong, but the stuff that comes to mind is low-brow pop surrealism, sort of like katamari damacy vibe. I don't really consider any of that low-fi or retro. The animation was fluid, the images were as sharp as they needed to be. If you're annoyed because it doesn't feel authentic or isn't a billion rendered polygons, I don't know what to say. There's a lot of stuff happening out in the graphic design/illustration world and this just seems to be referencing a deliberate style that has nothing to do with video games. Sorry if you think some art styles are pretentious, bro.

I find myself miss waking up in the middle of the night to buy industry... I sort of want to start a dark game now...

Started watching the Playstation Conference with their fake journalistic muppets. My initial reaction is that you don't wear a short sleeved collar with a tie. And if you do, wear a god damn skinny tie, not some 1980's sippowitz shit. edit: Okay, I know that everything Sony is doing right now is completely placated, they are a mega corporation out of Japan and one of the largest electronic manufacturers in the world. So for them to give props to the nerds that waited in line is completely shameless, but I can't help myself but say "Ya, you give props to the weirdo minority" because that really describes the core gamer entirely. edit 2: David Cage should just go make a movie, he's wasting a lot of money trying to make a movie into a game. edit3: they are over emphasizing the word gamer. edit4: Well this shit is off the hook now. Sony is literally doing what MS-dont? Good for them, they're making this a competition.