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« on: August 17, 2005, 04:17:54 PM »
Was just wondering. I haven't found a sticky on this info anywhere.
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« on: August 05, 2005, 07:27:59 PM »
I heard about this some time ago, but only just found the link. I'm reminded cuz I just saw Madagascar on a plane and it was good. But apparently its also a technical achievement both for the animation style and in this article for back-end operations. http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1821112,00.asp
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« on: July 21, 2005, 11:42:16 AM »
http://www.boingboing.net/2005/07/20/esra_rescinds_gtasa_.htmlThe Entertainment Software Rating Board has rescinded their rating for GTA:SA and is advising retailers to stop selling it. Take-Two, Rockstar's parent company, has stopped production of the game until it can produce a non-"Hot Coffee" version, and it may start disappearing from store shelves by the end of the day. The overblown witchhunt seemed comical until it began to succeed...
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« on: June 15, 2005, 12:06:18 PM »
Well for most of last week, the Mac move to x86 has been the big news everywhere with lost of discussion and prophesying. The reason that the twits gave for still running Windows is just the games. So will this move affect Mac game development at all? Would they be able to make Mac ports faster? I certainly would be interested in dropping Windows if games came out on the Mac and Linux faster. What about Virtual PC and emulation? Would it be more transparent than it is now? http://www.brad-oliver.com:8081/~boliver/blog/http://www.macworld.com/news/2005/06/07/gamedev/index.php
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« on: June 07, 2005, 02:59:36 PM »
http://www.nexuiz.com/I just stumbled on to this program that was just released. It sounds very cool. Tuesday May 31th , 2005 - Lee Vermeulen
After many years of development, Nexuiz has been released to the public! Nexuiz is a fast-paced, chaotic, and intense multiplayer first person shooter, focused on providing basic, old style deathmatch. The 1.0 release weighs in at 161MB, and includes 17 maps, 28 playable characters, and 10 music tracks. It is cross-platform, and supports Windows and Linux (x86 and x86_64), with Mac support coming soon (patch to be released in the next few days).
All of Nexuiz is licensed under the GPL, including the core engine, the textures, maps, sounds, and models. It is extremely modder friendly. Because of its GPL license status, it can be included in any Linux distros or packages and is entirely free.
Nexuiz is built on the power of the Darkplaces engine, which is a heavily modified version of the original Quake. Darkplaces features realtime lighting and stencil shadows, bumpmapping, gloss, bloom, and totally rewritten network code that supports up to 64 players on a single server. While quality gameplay was our primary goal, it's graphics technology and artwork allows the game to compete with the current quality of commercial games.
Any online deathmatch fan will instantly feel at home with Nexuiz' weapons and movement style. The fast server browser and quick loading time allows you to jump right into a game at a moments notice and play a quick game.
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« on: May 19, 2005, 02:04:12 PM »
Well for all of us into either podcasting, or TechTV (silly question), the former TechTV hosts have set up a podcast where they call each other from their respective locations on Skype (well not anymore, they've switched to something else) and they discuss the week in tech and answer pre-recorded calls. It was called Return of the Scre-- Save-- but they got a cease and desist so it's called http://www.ThisWeekInTech.com now. Check it out!
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« on: April 06, 2005, 03:22:37 PM »
Okay, obviously everyone is awaiting this one. Here's the deal.
The movies visuals only carry it so far, about 30 minutes into the movie. The characters don't seem very interesting, except for Bruse Willis' character. His short story is also the most interesting. The stories are also in order of increasing interest, not chronologically. So characters that died in the earlier short stories appear in cameos in the following ones. That's about all the intertwining that the stories do, which i think makes the course of the movie a little dreary.
Having said that, the visuals are indeed very cool. The shots which, i think were ripped from the books, translate the essence of the comic frames well, which has longer stay than the black and white visuals themselves. And there are breasts. I have no complaints there. Except that none of them belong to Ms. Alba. oh well.
Oh yes, apart from Willis, Devon Aoki's silent character is cool and Elijah Woods character is the baddest villain in the entire movie. He is really really scary.
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« on: April 06, 2005, 02:41:08 PM »
I'm not sure whether this should go here or in MovieTowne, since I did see it in a cinema. Regardless... You may or may not have heard about this film. It's a movie by director of Akira (Katsuhiro Ôtomo), the follow up project after having done Akira. It cost a pretty penny to produce and it shows. There are definitely Hollywood Level Production values here. The story takes place in Victorian England, where the focus is on steam-powered technology, so I would recommended getting it on DVD, since the detail of the machine design is uber-cool and by far the biggest draw of the movie. On this alone I would recommended taking a look at it. The story is a little weird of course. Think a cool Wild Wild West set in England... Not really let the synopsis explain... A retro science-fiction epic set in Victorian England, Steamboy features an inventor prodigy named Ray Steam who receives a mysterious metal ball containing a new form of energy capable of powering an entire nation. This young boy must use it to fight evil, redeem his family, and save London from destruction. This story features typical far out anime never-gonna-happen science, especially the end which really makes you buss out laughing. The story feels kinda rushed though. That is the main problem. The character's behaviour seems unrealistic too and those two things make it a real yawner sometimes. The action is flat out insanely cool though. The sound, the visuals. frickin awesome. Finally, I would recommend watching the dubbed version, since I saw the subbed version, and it really takes you out of the experience. Normally the subbed version has a nice slant to the dialogue but this time watching british characters speaking japanese was just odd. Plus the english dubbing features a star-studded cast (Anna Paquin, Alfred Molina, Patrick Stewart) All in all, great visually, flawed story. Watch it. B Rating. http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/steamboy/title-navigation-2.htmlhttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt0348121/
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« on: January 14, 2005, 05:43:18 PM »
I saw an interview about the Phantom and its capabilities, and it's looking tempting, even if you're skeptical. It's being billed as a on-Demand PC gaming appliancean. You pay a subscription and you can basically play any pc game in its library streamed to your machine, how often you like. It's a weird model, but apparently the launch library has 500 (!!!) games so that sounds cool. Plus never having to deal with installation and stuff sounds cool as well. They plan to integrate it into steam and other such models as well. what do y'all think about it? It sounds good to me, it's just the price is the only concern.
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« on: March 23, 2005, 04:17:14 PM »
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« on: January 26, 2005, 07:38:24 PM »
21 years ago, guy named Steve showed us something cool. His name was Jobs and it was the Macintosh. He also showed how a boss runs a keynote presentation, as opposed to crashes all over the place. "oh, a little bitta keynote karma here, seems i've run out of system memory" Relive it here. http://www.industrial-technology-and-witchcraft.de/Brought a *sniff* tear to my eye
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« on: January 15, 2005, 05:41:04 PM »
I won't put any links here since they're easy enough to find but for anyone whose seen the new iPod and Mac Mini, whaddya think?
For me they're both mixed. iPod shuffle: more affordable, long battery life, apple style, yet no interface. Mac mini: a mac that a regular human being can actually afford, yet upgrades are expensive and no peripherals. Despite all that, the industry see happyhappyjoyjoy over it, as most of the world seems to be obssessed with the iPod.
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« on: November 15, 2004, 04:33:13 PM »
Let's say we all had the technical skills to back up this situation, that being that we created a development studio. What post would you like to occupy? What kinda game idea would you put forward? I would like to be Level Designer, mainly , but also assist with design and some programming. What would you like to be?
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« on: November 15, 2004, 04:28:05 PM »
This may sound kinda silly, but what would you say if you could meet Adam Sessler and Morgan Webb, in person?
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« on: July 08, 2004, 11:31:17 AM »
This may sound like a little weird request but does anyone have the Lucida Blackletter font, I was using it for something important but then I had to reformat so I lost of that, and I can't seem to find it anywhere. Can someone help me?
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« on: May 22, 2004, 09:28:52 AM »
This is looking to be the real all-purpose choice for a PC-console. It's basically a PC with a Windows Media Center style front-end, and it just uses scripts to run the game's installation as necessary without you having to install yourself, and additional scripts for any new games have to be downloaded. The installation remains on the system, and is removed as the hard drive fills up. It can therefore work old games, as well without any fees, and basically do what a pc-console should, and it has TiVO capapbilities and DVD playback. The vendors for it give various peripherals like the gamepad and the steering wheel i think, and the cost matches the hardware. I don't know anything about it's networking capapbilities.
It's just too cool. Finally you can show someone a game, wihtout the PC-gaming patience of installation.
What would make it perfect is if it were available as a cheap program for a regular PC that would allow it to be placed on any machine
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« on: March 19, 2004, 10:10:10 PM »
I have a a bit of a retarded question. I have an old machine that doesn't support agp or ddr. my intention is to build a new one, but in the old one, i want have a memory and gfx upgrade. i want to to put the pci radeon 9200 into it. the video memory on the card is ddr even though the board itself doesn't support ddr, just regular sdram. would the card still work? i assume so but would it mean that the ddr would run at sdram speeds? if it does, how would that affect the card? indeed, what are the general effects of doing that if any at all?
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