WilloughbyJackson

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  1. [Released] ROBOT NEWS by me, Dinosaursssssss

    Sorry to hear of your troubles. Everything is looking super cool to me!
  2. [Released] The Spectacle was Incredible

    Well, I'll post something Friday night... No matter what... I wish I had more time to jam but.. life happens. (And Unity goes crazy and adding Canvas elements caused everything to break...finally figured out how to fix that...) Plot: Aliens are coming but you can't let the general population know...How do you solve such a problem? WITH A GIANT PARTY!! Make sure the special fireworks cause the ufos to blow up in the sky and let the party keep on going~!
  3. [DevLog] Rich Uncle VS Cool Uncle

    Looking great! (And thanks for answering my question earlier.)
  4. [Released] The Spectacle was Incredible

    I got a concept in my head which is a cross between missile command and tower defense. Aliens are attempting to take over the earth, and you have to defeat them while putting on a show with lots of fireworks...(Because people can't learn about aliens existence..y'know...THERE WOULD BE A PANIC!) However, my progress tonight has been pretty bad because: I'm still learning Unity, and get stuck a lot I decided to make it a 3D game, which I never ever had to dealt with before now. And then, when attempting to get a coroutine working, I accidentally created an infinite loop, and the Unity Editor was hardcore frozen. After reopening the Unity Editor, I realized that I forgot to save the scene, so all my Script were up to date, but I lost all my prefabs, empty game code objects, etc... Calling it a night... >_< The alien ship over the city...should have been at least moving by now.. T_T
  5. [DevLog] Rich Uncle VS Cool Uncle

    Awesome! Admittedly, I'm curious how you are doing layer sorting in Unity 2D? (I'll admit, it's probably pretty easy but I haven't looked into it yet...)
  6. [Release] The Legend of Big Bird's Bones

    Looking nice. (And it's awesome to know someone else is dealing with kids and chores too )
  7. [Released] The Spectacle was Incredible

    While I continue to brainstorm some ideas...I found one of my old 48-hour contest Flash games. (Which was taken from my website and posted EVERYWHERE...thanks Flash Portal Business model... ) The theme was "Package"... http://kilogames.com/games/1384/mary-jean-human-package-rescuer-girl.html Enjoy..mayhaps...
  8. [Release] The Legend of Big Bird's Bones

    Jake does a 1440 off the stump followed by a reverse 1080 into a face slider. NICE!
  9. [Release] Shoot That Pizza

    Nice! Somehow, I am reminded of that "Don't Shoot the Puppy" game....except this one looks like it will be fun.
  10. [Released] The Spectacle was Incredible

    Man! I didn't even think about glasses. >_< Thanks for the suggestions ~! The first thing that came to mind to me is that 'spectacle' can refer to both a spectacular event and glasses. So...something based around They Live style spectacles, that make things you look at a spectacle? That might be difficult. I donno. (also you don't have to use the first random one you get, if you don't want!) Naw...I think I'll keep this one. It will make it more challenging...
  11. [RELEASE][Devlog] WIZARD SPORTS (Updated to v1.1!)

    (Insert Favorite Soccer Chant Here) Looks like a good start, and sounds like a sports game I could get into.
  12. Wizard Jam - Idle Thumbs Game Jam Interest Gauge / Chit Chat corner

    I am so happy they mentioned this on the podcast~! After working in Flash more than 7 years (mostly advergames), I have recently started to learn Unity. This game jam should give me the necessary kick in the pants to complete something no matter what (similar to the old Flash Kit Games 48 hour contests..oh memories). And using the random episode picker...my theme is... The Spectacle was Incredible ... Okay..I can work with this... Edit: I know it is kind of passe since Adobe is pretty much killing it themselves but if anyone is going to be using Flash, I can help with questions...
  13. Idle Thumbs 173: Ridonkulous Rift

    Fully agree. Though it does kind of show how easy it is (without context), things can lose all meaning. Admittedly, the more I think about it, the more I think: "Man, AAA video games are full of useless violence in general..."
  14. Idle Thumbs 173: Ridonkulous Rift

    Strictly speaking, the DMCA law (as I understand), you are suppose to notify the party in question first they are infringing on your copyright. Also, although personal, the video my "friend" sent me had no clips of anything related to Depression Quest or anything copyrighted by Zoe. So basically, you can be sued for false DMCA, or it can overturned. (This almost happened to a creationist who was DMCAing a scientist for posting a rebuttal to his arguments about the evolution...(which the creationist asked for, btw)) This of course, doesn't matter if you're a media conglomerate, then you have that ContentID stuff which works automatically... (sigh) As far as I know, there is a process for abusive videos at Youtube, but it's a lot slower.
  15. Idle Thumbs 173: Ridonkulous Rift

    Hey Sean! Thanks for the response. Much love to ya brother. Two (since your second point was about my post): Ah..Gotcha. I'll be honest, it totally sounded like your opinion on Red Dead as a whole changed by seeing the instance in a different light. Three: I'd argue you can't compare violence in video games to violence in other media in general. I think a LOT of systems in games are executed thoughtless, artlessly. I'd even say the majority of the violence in games IS either totally contextless or designer window dressing to get the player to do a thing. I think if you put together a super cut of violence to everyone in a typical AAA game nowadays, and sent it to CNN, they would have a field day. Once again, my point was less the: "LOL..sexism doesn't exist" and more that without context, meaning can be completely lost. Because it is the context which can change something violent and boring into something different, and you kind of made me realize that. Thanks for the response again...
  16. Idle Thumbs 173: Ridonkulous Rift

    Oh I agree with you that tropes can be limiting, ubiquitous, and it can be very dull. However, I think without context, it is super equal easy to take characters and shove them into tropes because they fit some of the qualities of said trope. Does every women who gets kidnapped is a Stock lady Character A trope? Does every character who is black and a villain Stock black Character B? In an old cartoon, Dragon Warrior (a.k.a Dragon Quest in Japan), the main hero's girlfriend gets (stop me if you have heard this one before) kidnapped. Now I could cut out the kidnapping out of the story at this point in time and it becomes Stock lady Character 5342344234234234234234242 trope. However, if you continue to watch the show, she escapes on her own, using her cleverness and then it becomes a story about two character searching for each other. Could the author do something clever and different with the characters and avoid the whole kidnapping thing? Sure! Does this mean because they used the kidnapping subplot, it automatically makes the story bad? In my opinion, it doesn't.
  17. Idle Thumbs 173: Ridonkulous Rift

    Ditto. Good night.
  18. Idle Thumbs 173: Ridonkulous Rift

    >_< I..I..was trying to be funny...
  19. Idle Thumbs 173: Ridonkulous Rift

    I could go into a rant about black face, Amos and Andy and things like that (I'm black) but right now, I'll just concentrate on my point. Although the blackface character is gone (as in white people playing stereotypes of blacks), the tropes created by it are still quite alive and well (now played by blacks). BUT depending upon the context, I will either have a problem with it, or not. I can't say just because the black character in the movie is acting silly, speaking slang-filled English, he's doing the "blackface" character. What if he does something to break the trope elsewhere in the movie? What if it turns out, he's a complex character who just likes to have fun sometimes? Another Example: Both you (at least I am assuming by your statement about the movie above) and I liked Django Unchained. I know quite a few people who consider that movie to be racist, offensive. Some of them have NEVER seen the movie, just clips and are just going off what Spike Lee said...who also has never saw the movie. In addition, there are a whole lot of people using the "N" word in the movie. I hate the word and don't think anyone should use it (white or black). Some people think Tarantino IS "regurgitating the racism" of the West and the South by using it and it should be stopped. But should we pretend it didn't and doesn't exist? What I'm trying to say is, I do realize there is a problem in games with women objectification, but that it is quite easy to take something out of context and say: "Hey, this objectifies women in games!" As for the racist storekeeper in RDR, I leave this article by Brainy Gamer: http://www.brainygamer.com/the_brainy_gamer/2010/05/im-your-huckleberry.html (edit: for grammar and to remove something that didn't really relate to the main point...)
  20. Idle Thumbs 173: Ridonkulous Rift

    Well, that probably was the point, in my opinion. You are Snidely Whiplash and (please read the follow in dude speak) it is taking a trope and flipping it upside down, bro (because you can be super evil in the game if you want). Does that justify it, probably not. I never got that achievement, and judging by the gore in the game, it was probably pretty horrible. I was more making the point that I can see how someone could think of it. I can see someone in a studio meeting go: "Hey, let's have a rescue the girl on a train track achievement!" "Oh..better..let's let the villain win!" "OH COOL!"
  21. Idle Thumbs 173: Ridonkulous Rift

    I did watch the whole video, and still think context is important. My post was specifically responding to Sean's example on the podcast and his reaction, because I've been there before. As for the run-down-a-woman-with-a-train achievement, as horrible as that is, it is another Western trope. Yep, if you take out the context it IS a pretty horrible thing to tie ANYONE to a railroad track. It's pretty horrible to go kill a bunch of people because "they seem like bad guys to me". Out of context it is a horrible thing to have a racist shop keeper constantly spewing anti-semiotic crap. Out of context, shooting someone over a game of cards is horrible... Out of context, it is a horrible thing to hang someone from a tree because you think they wronged you somehow..etc..etc... I can probably go through a TON of media I like and pull stuff out and say "LOOK, HOW HORRIBLE THIS IS!" because people do horrible things in both books, movies and games. That is why context is important, because "rationalisations" allows you to decide if the content is good or bad on a whole. (For example: I liked RDR, but hated Watch Dogs...) Once again, not saying a problem doesn't exist..just like you aren't saying "games industry are women-hating misogynists". However, I think your statement about objectification of everything in video games is probably closer to the truth. My question for you is this: "Because we have that context out here in the real world, bad writers unthinkingly put it into their games" Do you think someone should be allowed to create a REALLY horrible, misogynistic jerk in something..ever?
  22. Idle Thumbs 173: Ridonkulous Rift

    After listening to Sean's statements about the latest Anita Sarkeesian video, I'd like to respond to why I think his opinion changed about Red Dead Redemption. One reason why you felt differently about the women and bar random event in Red Dead Redemption when you experienced it in the game versus Anita's video is an important thing which Anita's videos never provide: context. In RDR, you'd be riding through the world and might run into a store robber, a dude being hung in a tree, a wounded lawman who was shot by outlaws, cannibals and other horrible stuff. This paints a picture that the world is a horrible place and bad things can happen at anytime. In the context of the game, you thought the event was a horrible thing and shot the guy who did the horrible deed: A.K.A. "Old West Justice" trope. Be it good or bad, RDR also plays off a lot of the established tropes in the western genre: The west is a horrible, lawless place, and a strong person with a gun is the only law. However, if you take all scenes of violence against women, put them back to back in a video without any context, the result is perdictably gross, horrible, and most importantly, boring, because you have no investment in that world or the story anymore. If you remove context from anything, you can change the meaning of that thing completely. For example: I could make a super cut of Quentin Tarantino films with all the white characters using the "n-word" and say "Look, he's the biggest racist on the planet." (I have no problem with Tarantino at all...) I've seen someone show only the walking around in Gone Home without picking up any of the amazing and detailed world building items or going into the story at all and say: "See, it's a walking simulator...NOT GAME!" (I love Gone Home!) I've seen people take ever instance of a demon or monster appearing in a ton of kid cartoons and say: "Look! Kids cartoons lead you to Satan, by making Satan cool!" (I grew up watching a lot of these cartoons and still have not sacrficed anything...) Am I saying that there isn't a problem with the way females in games are portrayed? Nope. Does this make all her points invalid? Nope. What I am saying is keep in mind that you are seeing everything out of context in her videos, with her as the narrator. Some of the examples may not be as bad as all that with the context provided by the overall game, the tone, and the story. I usually side with lazy writing, and trope crutches used for 1000s of years in books, plays, movies, and TV. But either way, women death screams can be really gross!
  23. Thirdeded... And just after I got a friend of mine addicted to your cast too. Oh well. Thanks for casting your pod out on our collective faces...
  24. Personally, I like both versions of the podcast and will miss them when they are gone. Idle Thumbs generally has the best mix of zany comedy, and very interesting video game related discussion. The discussion about achievements this episode was grand. This thread is reminding me of a joke at the end of the latest episode Yugioh Abridged series..."WHY IS IT DIFFERENT?!?!" Also this (all apologies to Steve):