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More the latter due to haste. Today I tried out several layers of post processing and ended up with some useful tricks. Some of the accidents I might end up using for power up modes.

I left! I'm eeking out a meagre existance and working on my own crappy games by myself now. I was around back in 99 though, and you couldn't push much more than what EQ was doing. Bits of it are sloppily done for sure, but some of the art really shows that minimalist talent you needed back...

I'm still really puzzled by some of the things that happen. Like sometimes my hits just don't register, and other times (very rarely) I wade into 5 people come out without a scratch. It's like the server skips or batches updates sometimes. Really super annoying for launched grenades. Or...

Four rounds of themes have gone up for voting. The first 3 sets I think I put a plus next to one or two, they were mostly blah. The fourth had some stuff I really liked. Round 1 results favor "10 seconds" one of the ones I minused. I think usually the voting is ignored anyway and they...

27 in 4 days and my libs are all messed up. Hopefully I don't have to work much this week so I have time to fix them. Been hacking in a goofy solution for dynamic lights for the hidef version that uses shader model 3. I just don't have enough instructions left with 2.0, so the netbooky...

A friend got me saints 3 and the voice actress sounds so much like Commander Shepard I had to look it up. It's not her, but they sound a lot alike.

The industry really needs more diversity not less. We've got plenty of games for gamers, and more always on the way. Most industry workers spend their entire lives working and playing games to keep up with the latest stuff. If we can get outsiders in that have actual meaningful real world...

I'm picturing you in a tricorne hat standing atop your friend's prow giving the order to for broadside firing in a great naval battle.

That really made me giggle

Goalish AI is pretty easy. My last ludum dare game I did a basic surround and melee enemy, and a nuke / heals / buffs shaman type. It would stay near a melee (which had the effect of running away if it was the last one alive), heal friendlies, and throw fireballs. The companion AI would...

I skipped a few pages, but the collision stuff made me wonder if any recent games have tried to solve that? It seems like you'd have to have server side correction. There are a lot of strange quantumish situations you can get into with latency. I multiplayed the old baldur's gate and...

Had a brutal fight at vanu archives last night. The attackers were coming up on that exposed walkway and I'd fly around the side and launch grenades into a big pile of them. If the grenades actually worked as advertised I'd have really cleaned up, but most of the time they would explode in the...

Couple obscure faves of mine

I just hope they don't let the animations determine the attack timing. Big mistake that is oft repeated these days.

I think that would be the Pulsar C. I use it for long range stuff with a scope.

Maybe when you dig to the middle of the east commons tunnel, Peter Molyneux will be waiting.

Veeshan's peak was supposed to be risky, but I guess they forgot we could just resurrect an old body outside to get out. The plane of time was a bit of an unknown. There were theories that you'd need the gate necklace to get out before we went in. One of the elders in tranquility talks a...

Has anyone linked Raph's ecology stuff lately? I am getting old and senile, but I think I linked this back when all we knew was 'sandbox'. Anyway, good reading while we wait. This stuff was written 7 years ago. http://www.raphkoster.com/2006/06/03...source-system/...

Rigging makes armor customization very very difficult. I've been working on this very problem for one of my own games, and some of the joints are so different you'd need some very specific per model & per joint algorithms to rig up anything with a bit of bend or flex. Rigid stuff works but...

I think it is a combination of me being terrible, quicktimes being a bad idea in general, and pc specific implementation. I was thinking that the prompts might be 2D and don't scale with resolution, so they are a lot smaller on a pc where we run 19x12 or higher. I often botched the key...

Seems like a very large amount of carrying capacity will be needed to store class related gear. Maybe they will do a magic closet where you put all your armor.

For me it showed keys, but at one point I picked up my gamepad and it switched over to xyba stuff. I failed every quicktime multiple times, some 20+. One in particular was just completely non-obvious. It had a sort of strength test where you had to hammer the key quickly. After trying 20...

Tribunal, something, cazic, something, karana, something, rathe, something, brell, tox?

I got the impression the Rallying calls were generated via data reactions, are they canned instead?

Horizons did the public crafting project thing. Bridges to new areas where you had to pile on thousands of iron bars etc.

I liked the lady. Lion was a bit too american football. Technically I have no idea how they are doing the destruction stuff. Fixed sized shapes cut into the collision tree in real time? Some kind of voxelly octree like people are using for indirect lighting nowadays? I dunno. The best...

My life is changed forever by this stream

Lovely thanks!

Yea my bandwidth is bad, wish there were lower res options than 720 for the bandwidth poor.

I steamsaled this, and it was my first encounter with the dreaded quick time event. I had seen them in mass effect sort of, but I never knew if I actually clicked in time or if it changed anything. In this game it was fail 10 times in a row till you finally remember the keys to hit. I also...

As I mentioned earlier I got into the Luclin twilight sea armor quests. If you look them up on the various sites most of the comments come down to "not worth it", and "omg this is too hard/rare". After the dopamine wore off the time wasted, measured in percentage of life, really hit home...

I've seen info in the thread about keyboard configs causing problems. Forget where though, dig around. I've lost count of the days I've been in twilight sea. I decided to try some of the luclin armor quests. I managed gloves after a couple days, but boots are murderous. I've killed...

That is the most brutal race class combo I can think of. Most people have no idea how to even get back to their guild once they die/leave.

After a lot of reading around, I think they used to need to set a flag or something, but when they made it free, they flagged everyone. But this old account was banned (not really sure what happened) so it didn't get the flag.

Hmm are there any steps to getting an account enabled for eqmac? I resurrected an old secondary account and it can log in to regular eq but not eqmac.

I finally found some hoptimum again. This is definitely the best thing I've ever put in my mouth including all foods and other such

Some weekend adventure pictures

Help! I got this running back on thursday or so, and now suddenly it is several days later.

That was certainly eventful!

I meant like one for forum folk