| Well I made good progress tonight on my Classic game, and possibly came up with some issues. First, the animation works …
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| In the tradition of Spuzzum, here are my current projects and the order in which I'm planning to do them right now: …
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| I've been thinking about how many 2D (or 2 1/2D) games allow for showing the roofs of buildings: When you can't see …
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| So the discussion about types of games leads to a roadmap from the simple to the more complex: a) Classics/Puzzles b) …
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| I think it's great to be forced to do the artwork during development, given that it tends to cause some additional …
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| Oh, I'm liking the new level for L&D. I could put it up now, but I want to do a bit more work first. By GoB I probably …
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| I was musing on some of the fun simple games I've played, and thinking about how impressive it is to me that some …
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| How about brainstorming on kinds of games that should be part of the initial game portal...Which of these do you like? …
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| I only have some vague thoughts here, but I thought I'd start getting them out there to see if they kick off anything …
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| Well I went in to try and add a link to L&D in the hub, but my brain got fried and I just don't get it. I read through …
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| This sort of game is very doable in BYOND...: http://www.geocities.com/ SiliconValley/Foothills/6993/ marbles/index.html
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| First of all, we were lied to! This is NOT a minor release! It's a MAJOR release! I want my money back! Truth in …
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| Haven't had much time since returning from vacation (always the way), so no progress on game stuff. However, I did …
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| Given the server hassles, and my need to do post-vacation cleaning that should have been pre-vacation cleaning, I'm …
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| As I work out my next game (never fear, one or more levels of L&D will come first), I am considering how to go about …
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| Well, to make $3k a day, you just gotta do that stuffing envelopes thing you get email about all the time. I leave that …
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| I changed back to saving the mob's entire content list, and so far everything seems to be working fine. After my …
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| I'm reading a book called Community Building on the Web, by Amy Jo Kim. I haven't finished it yet so I don't know what …
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| How's the BFG server looking?
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| I'll be on vacation from Friday to the Sunday after that. I'll try to leave L&D in a workable state with some extra …
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| Aside from the various problems we ran into related to stats and memory filling, my impression was that L&D is getting …
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| Okay I think Sheep II is so cool that I pointed people in the Games conference on The Well to it. We shall see if …
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| Well I just did the official (and technical) transfer of power of my EverQuest guild. I'm a grown adult who has hired …
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| Ooh ooh...at first I was having trouble thinking of how to set up a good team game for L&D. And now I have SUCH a cool …
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| To follow up on discussion in Babble... With the kinds of games we're doing, I'm coming to believe that perhaps more …
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| I've been publicizing my game a bit, and a couple of people have logged in as Guest. I'm thinking that maybe they …
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| So the major time sinks in my life for the past year or so have been: - EverQuest - BYOND - Writing a play Writing a …
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| In designing the special weapon for the first boss in L&D, I come up with an extra request for future implementors of …
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| We had some discussion of death today, and whether it should be penalized in a game. It seems like a worthwhile …
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| Today was my first serious usage of the pager, which made me discover just how important it will be as we have more …
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| Well I had loads of fun getting together to play The Living and The Dead, and then Sheep II. Perhaps once a month or so …
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| Oh wow. In-game the other night, Tom mentioned something I hadn't realized: there is a preference that lets you …
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| Being happy to actually sort of get something done, I rushed to copyright it, as the Capitalist pig that I am. However, …
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| Some thinking out loud...as I move to trying to use more of the automated save features (so that I can have the next …
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| I'm trying to implement saving and loading of inventory in my game, but I'm running into every-third-time-or-so "bad …
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| Okay I seem to have quite unintentionally pushed some Dantom buttons about Move(), so here are some details about how …
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| I just had to bypass Enter() and create my own AddToInventory() method. This is to support containers, such as weapons …
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| So there is a major potential security issue for my Forum library (and potentially for anything using prompt()) that's …
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| Well, we're at the end of the month (okay, a couple of days away) -- does it look like one or both of these will …
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| To follow up on a thread elsewhere...: On 8/28/00 10:15 am Al wrote: > On 8/28/00 9:33 am Zilal wrote: > [snip] > >But …
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| I think animation in stat panels was discussed once long ago... Anyway, the deal is that I show a picture of your …
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| In legal parlance, they say "This discussion is allowed because the prosecution opened the door to it..." Well, since …
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| I'm not planning to release it until I've actually used it for a while, but I couldn't help but post about this... Last …
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| I needed to edit sounds for my game, and after a bit of checking around I downloaded GoldWave, which seems to be the …
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| Just sliced up my first image into multiple icons (made much easier thanks to Spuzzum's .grd file), and I gotta throw …
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| Which command should I use to let the user download a .dms from within the game? Last time I tried this, all the …
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| I just decided to experiment with making the missile() effect better by adding an animation to the missile, so that on …
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| I realized belatedly that I had left out two Cheapass games from my favorites list: Lord of the Fries Probably the all …
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| Every mailing list/web board has a resident curmudgeon -- you know, opinionated, occasional jerk, usually somewhat …
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Feb 1, 9:17 pm