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  1. FEZ: Great indie game or pretentious nonsense? Should I buy it?

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    2. PranQster

      PranQster

      I went with King Arthur's Gold instead. It seems pretty damn cool so far.

    3. MacD11

      MacD11

      I'll admit I was a bit too abraisive with the comment, but still he doesnt exactly seem like a nice person to me for various reasons, some of which can be seen here: http://4playernetwork.com/static/media/uploads/Developers/Polytron/sh1CZqk.png

    4. GameDevGoro

      GameDevGoro

      MacD11 sure, man. My point is still: there are people who ignore it when they get bashed online, then there are people who bite back... He's the latter type. Like it or not he's at least not afraid to say what he's thinking. Bluntly, apparently. xD People have ruthlessly attacked him for this very reason too, which I just find absurd because combine a person with a short temper with a bunch of "internetizens". It's gonna get heated quickly. :)

  2. Finally a blog of importance! http://thecitizenkaneofvideogames.tumblr.com/

    1. demagogue

      demagogue

      Somebody else posted this recently. I laughed.

    2. Glyph Seeker

      Glyph Seeker

      The funniest ones are from that era of 2000 onward where everyone thought that the PS2 was this transcendental portal to new artistic experience.

  3. FINALLY back at my regular PC. Wow, does working on it feel great compared to my laptop!

    1. pusianka

      pusianka

      OK ENOUGH OF BOASTING ABOUT YOUR PC! BACK TO WORK! HIAAA! MASTER DIEGO WANTS HIS FMS NAOOO!!!

    2. Melan

      Melan

      Already underway.

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    2. Bikerdude

      Bikerdude

      Why did you do some work on GR jaxa..?

    3. Sotha

      Sotha

      Saw Grimrock 1 on discount on steam and decided to buy it. Fun game, thus far. It's been a while after Lands of Lore: Throne of Chaos...

    4. jaxa

      jaxa

      *thanks for showing us this cool sequel

  4. Fixed n bugs, created 2n bugs, day well spent.

    1. Goldwell

      Goldwell

      I spent the day building my first church! Btw thanks for your prefabs, makes it a lot easier building church and gothic designed things ;)

    2. Melan

      Melan

      Good to read that!

    3. Bikerdude

      Bikerdude

      Been there done that.

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    2. demagogue

      demagogue

      (We can leave the thread for journalism corruption, but just on this...) Then the issue in academia is money flowing to the more corruptable fields like science & engineering with the big corporate grants & revolving door with staff. The humanities might not get that, but OTOH they are getting pressured to "justify their existence" financially. I could probably agree it's rife in almost any human field though, as long as there are incentives there will be corruption.

    3. demagogue

      demagogue

      Or then we have the "uncorruptable" critical academics, but then they're basing their work on Derrida or Marx and are so detached from reality they throw their credibility out the window. It's good to be critically detached, not so good to be derailed from reality. My position in law sometimes is something like a critical realism, but it's practically an orphan position. (You want to protect victims *and* think science works??? Wha...?)

    4. Sotha

      Sotha

      Who is uncorruptable anyways? I cannot convince even myself that I would be uncorruptable in every situation. And I perceive myself to be situated in the more-reliable-than-50%-of-the-general-population side in the gaussian distribution curve of corruption. Problematic, yes?

  5. Gecko's new texture pack looks cool in game:

    1. STiFU

      STiFU

      I'd say some things look nice, but some things really don't!! :) It's still great though Thief can do HD textures now...

    2. Bikerdude

      Bikerdude

      I think for te most part he has a good eye for what matches the old textures, I did notice a bunch of miss-alignments and such, but I imagine these will get ironed out in testing.

    3. New Horizon

      New Horizon

      Some of them do act as phenomenal replacements, but others are so drastically different that they make for a completely different feeling. Still, very nice.

       

  6. Google's homage to Stanisław Lem and The Cyberiad at http://www.google.com/ : a must-see! :D

    1. nbohr1more

      nbohr1more

      In the USA, a stupid Thanksgiving "hand turkey" doodle. (Stanislaw Lem rocks!)

    2. Ladro
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    2. Melan

      Melan

      But def. very cool.

    3. RPGista

      RPGista

      Oh man, the guy is a commedian! Very cool indeed (even though I never liked dungeon crawlers in my childhood).

    4. Melan
  7. Have you played Endless Rain? You should play Endless Rain!

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    2. Bikerdude

      Bikerdude

      To Quote Slyfox "I stood in the start spot for five minutes just soaking it all in. I felt the rain on my head, the grit of the cobble stones, sniffed the smoke from a hundred chimneys. THIS is why we're all still here after so many years. So chock full 'o thiefy goodness!"

    3. nbohr1more

      nbohr1more

      I didn't realize you were speaking about Skacky's mission?!?! I've been looking forward to this for awhile.

    4. nbohr1more

      nbohr1more

      Ha. Turned on HDR and had worse FPS than TDM. Had to fiddle quite a bit to compromise between visuals and performance.

  8. I get the following error message when loading the wiki: " Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/tdmwiki/public_html/includes/objectcache/SqlBagOStuff.php on line 195" Anyone confirm?

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    2. Jesps

      Jesps

      Yes. And some pages also give me the error: Fatal error: Call to a member function numRows() on a non-object in /home/tdmwiki/public_html/includes/objectcache/SqlBagOStuff.php on line 439

    3. Springheel

      Springheel

      I see about five of those lines at the top of the page and then the rest of the wiki loads. ctrl-F5 doesn't fix it for me.

       

    4. stumpy

      stumpy

      it something to do with updating php on a server but leaving the old settings for previous version which are not compatible with the new php version.

  9. I got that multistate elevator to work! Woo-hoo! :D

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    2. SeriousToni
    3. Obsttorte

      Obsttorte

      You know there is a prefab for it? But I'm excited, too. ;D

    4. Bikerdude

      Bikerdude

      Yeah, but nothing like learning it for yourself ;-)

  10. John Romero is about to make you his bitch... again! http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/10/04/wizardry-anachronox-devs-kickstart-old-school-rpg/ (plus: Brenda Brathwaite and Tom Hall are involved! Holy moly!)

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    2. _Atti_

      _Atti_

      Like bigger budget for hireing more team, spending extra on voice-overs, and more assets.

    3. Diego

      Diego

      This guy has reputation, he could have made a more convincing kickstarter...

    4. jaxa

      jaxa

      holy shit it's Tom Hall

  11. John Romero is about to make you his bitch... again! Suck it down! :Dhttp://www.joystiq.com/2014/08/11/john-romero-i-havent-made-a-shooter-since-2000-so/

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    2. Melan

      Melan

      A lot of games fail due to incompetent designers or bad project management. I mean, John got his ass handed to him, and was relegated to making mobile games for, what, fourteen years now? The man has paid his dues.

    3. Tels

      Tels

      The Looking Glas developers laid off probably think otherwise. But yeah, 14 years mobile game developmentis cruel :)

    4. demagogue

      demagogue

      All granted, but he's already a walking punchline. I don't know whether to look forward his game or not, but I still find that sheepish smile & shrug funny. He's yesterday's news and knows it. He's not trying to deny it.

  12. Jupiter Hell from the makers of the excellent Doom: the Roguelike is now on Kickstarter. Hyped! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2020043306/jupiter-hell-a-modern-turn-based-sci-fi-roguelike

  13. Killed horribly in my own mission. Oh, the humanity!

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    2. skacky

      skacky

      This means that you must release it now. :P

    3. Melan

      Melan

      I think I'll have a test package ready tomorrow or something like that.

    4. PranQster

      PranQster

      I just did the same last night when testing progress on the rebuild of my first map.

  14. Legend of Grimrock or Beginner's Contest mission? Legend of Grimrock or Beginner's Contest mission? ...Beginner's Contest mission it is! :D

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    2. Bikerdude

      Bikerdude

      eh Im confused, are you saying we should have a compo with that title or a mission with said title..?

    3. Nosslak

      Nosslak

      It's a new and really great game: http://www.grimrock.net/

    4. Melan
  15. Lost in the PowerPoint mines, health low, no exit in sight... do I hear SPIDERSSSS?

    1. Bikerdude

      Bikerdude

      PowerPoint mines..?

    2. Sotha

      Sotha

      REVERSE POLARITIES IMMEDIATELY!

    3. Spooks

      Spooks

      I think that's the sound of a STAR WIPE

  16. Lost USB drive: black, 9 GB capacity, red LED. Name HAL-9000. A reward is offered for its recovery.

  17. Man-oh-man, the new ambience trailer for The Black Parade is such a thing of beauty...

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    2. Tarhiel

      Tarhiel

      In what way were they better?

    3. Melan

      Melan

      Tarhiel: they would agressively look for "vantage points" to keep their distance and get a better shot at you, and as a consequence, were harder to catch.

    4. vvGarrettvv

      vvGarrettvv

      I`m so excited about `Black Parade`. Finally a campaign. And it looks awsum.:)

       

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