Other than the pen, my life has been good so far. I had a good upbringing, the son of a preacher and a secondary school principal that spoiled me pretty good. They stressed education so I got a degree in business from University of Houston and I have a growing real estate organization and a growing music fanbase, so yeah, life has been good for me so far. I’ve been blessed.
Which, incidentally, is the only way I can manage to beat that NES game--brute-forcing it by clicking all over the screen until I "find" Waldo, because most of the time his sprite is impossible to tell apart from all the others anyway.
Even without the Waldo license, you could hire a couple of good artists to make some really nice and detailed spot fields, and have the player find various scenes.
Then put the thing on the app store and sell it for a buck or two, and become millionaires off of "dad trying to keep his kid quiet while he drinks Coors Light" money.
We should work for Mojo or PopCap or something, Centy.
a one...a one...I'm refle-ecting o-on the con...versa-tions and mem'ries with you a two...a three, and the wor-rds repee-e-e-eat ...why are these fee lings so strange?
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Weird thought: there will likely be a generation of kids who will have no idea that the little round power socket in a car was originally for a cigarette lighter
Sredni, what I just wrote is kinda up your avenue, if you care to give some constructive criticism. But I get if you don't really feel like it. That stuff is hard.
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Sredni, what I just wrote is kinda up your avenue, if you care to give some constructive criticism. But I get if you don't really feel like it. That stuff is hard.
I dislike iphone tablet things and their applications.
Dang it, games like hangman and tic-tac toe are awesome in part because they can be done in any situation in which writing is available, including using a stick to scratch in dirt. And connect-the-dots, mazes, Sudoku, Crossword Puzzles, logic puzzles, cryptograms, and "spot-the-differences" should be done on tactile materials, not digital! Also, matching games are best with physical stuffs like the winnie the pooh cards.
What is it with kids these days not doing hula-hoop, hopscotch, hackeysack, jump rope, jacks, marbles, hide-and-seek, tag, freeze tag, sneeze tag, chinese tag, toilet tag, cowboys and indians, cops and robbers, frisbee, catch, red rover, horseshoes, alley-alley-oxen-free, telephone/gossip, tell-a-story-one-sentence-at-a-time, cat's cradle, yo-yo, simon says, hot potato, tug-of-war, close-your-eyes-and-guess-which-of-the-players-is-speaking-in-a-fake-voice, I spy with my little eye, tetherball, foursquare, kite flying, drawing-in-chalk-on-the-sidewalk, red-light-green-light, happy-llama-sad-llama, playing-on-swingsets, going-down-slides, musical chairs, and who-has-the-button?
Can you play Threes! on physical stuffs? Hell, even Sokoban would be difficult, though probably possible, and if it were done it'd be really cool; it would require a lot of nasty machinery though.
That said, I doubt that people have actually given up simpler, physical things; I'm sure kids still play them. And there are a number of cool games that use the physicality of the whole thing as a tool; games where you each have to press certain keys on the same keyboard, and such.
I think you're vastly underestimating the myriad uses of technology that people are in fact actually making use of. It's not all Zyngashit. The indie game world is really cool.
Complete shot in the dark, but does anyone here play Coin Crypt?
It's early access, and I've seen enough of the game to be sold on it, but I don't know what the controls are like and I don't want to have to fuck around with something that's locked to WASD-movement.
Can you play Threes! on physical stuffs? Hell, even Sokoban would be difficult, though probably possible, and if it were done it'd be really cool; it would require a lot of nasty machinery though.
That said, I doubt that people have actually given up simpler, physical things; I'm sure kids still play them. And there are a number of cool games that use the physicality of the whole thing as a tool; games where you each have to press certain keys on the same keyboard, and such.
I think you're vastly underestimating the myriad uses of technology that people are in fact actually making use of. It's not all Zyngashit. The indie game world is really cool.
What is threes? And sakoban? I sincerely don't know and am interested.
Okay, kids will always have running around games in vast uncountable forms.
But dang does popcap games bug me. And angry birds.
Actually I will say that I have complaints with the haptics of modern mobile devices. Touching a touchscreen has very little feedback, and there aren't many games that really deal with that properly; this is one reason I think it's kind of sad that Threes! has been mostly overshadowed by 2048 and its myriad clones, because the former works with touchscreens and takes advantage of them to let you plan your attack far better than the latter.
But for all its flaws, I think that kneejerk Luddism is far more boring; as well as overstating the dominance of electronic devices(there are plenty of profitable physical games, so there are definitely many well-played cheap physical ones) it also understates just how much can and will be done with them. It's giving up in every sense of the word.
Can you play Threes! on physical stuffs? Hell, even Sokoban would be difficult, though probably possible, and if it were done it'd be really cool; it would require a lot of nasty machinery though.
That said, I doubt that people have actually given up simpler, physical things; I'm sure kids still play them. And there are a number of cool games that use the physicality of the whole thing as a tool; games where you each have to press certain keys on the same keyboard, and such.
I think you're vastly underestimating the myriad uses of technology that people are in fact actually making use of. It's not all Zyngashit. The indie game world is really cool.
What is threes? And sakoban?
Sakoban is a puzzle game.
There are a lot of different versions of it since, as far as I'm aware, it's not a trademark.
Threes. Sokoban. 2048 is a clone of a clone of Threes! (the page for 2048 says "conceptually similar") that became absurdly popular on the Internet. The mechanics of Sokoban are a huge part of the game Chip's Challenge which came with almost every PC from the Windows 3.1 days until the Windows XP days, and its trademark-away-from-a-sequel Chuck's Challenge, which came out recently.
As for the indie game world, it's pretty vast and so you can find things that match your own personal taste. TIGdb is probably a good place to start, I think Mojave Music had an indie game suggestion thread, and I could probably list some of my favorites if you gave me more time to run through my Steam profile.
The first two of these at least are gonna be good choices if you like surreal RPG-type stuff. For OFF you'll probably need a little more help doing a google search though, so I'd mention that the creator is Mortis Ghost and the English translation is on a site called Starmen.
Honestly, Aliroz, I think the issue might be that you're transferring the value of your own nostalgia towards such things to everyone else. Which is understandable. Everyone does it to an extent ("I can't believe kids will see the pipes and think of Flappy Bird, not Mario!") I have no doubt that you had a ton of fantastic experiences with all the games you listed, but think of the wonderful things that will happen to kids of the future, who have all new experiences to have? I mean, it's not like they can just live your life. You shouldn't expect them to.
Things I know about Neptunia: 1. I don't want to be caught dead within ten feet of it, or else that's the end of my asipring political career right there. 2. The people behind it also made Agarest (very grindy strategy RPG) and Monpiece (a game where rubbing anime girls on one's game device touchscreen is a game mechanic).
@Aliroz: I think Yume Nikki would probably be the best choice for you to start out with. I think it's the one most likely to work with Deine Computadora.
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>Even without the Waldo license
Oh come on, DWA could use the money :P
a one...a one...I'm refle-ecting o-on
the con...versa-tions and mem'ries with you
a two...a three, and the wor-rds repee-e-e-eat
...why are these fee lings so strange?
music: Blue Field by Trident
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Toon Disney
Toongraphy
Typo Disney
Typography
and then let us add a third dimension
then we shall have eight threads
then let us add a fourth dimension
then we shall have sixteen threads
then let us add a fifth dimension
then we shall have thirty-two threads
THE ENTIRE WORLD SHALL BECOME SNOWCLONES
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/me makes rhythm
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/me becomes a fully-fledged sideshow
my flatmate is in the room next door, shouting into the phone in Chinese
if i make a castlevania game
i can make them fly together
at 90 degree angle to each other
blue as electric field head
gold as magnetic field head
together they are a polarized medusa wave
different medusa waves can have different polarization
Dang it, games like hangman and tic-tac toe are awesome in part because they can be done in any situation in which writing is available, including using a stick to scratch in dirt. And connect-the-dots, mazes, Sudoku, Crossword Puzzles, logic puzzles, cryptograms, and "spot-the-differences" should be done on tactile materials, not digital! Also, matching games are best with physical stuffs like the winnie the pooh cards.
What is it with kids these days not doing hula-hoop, hopscotch, hackeysack, jump rope, jacks, marbles, hide-and-seek, tag, freeze tag, sneeze tag, chinese tag, toilet tag, cowboys and indians, cops and robbers, frisbee, catch, red rover, horseshoes, alley-alley-oxen-free, telephone/gossip, tell-a-story-one-sentence-at-a-time, cat's cradle, yo-yo, simon says, hot potato, tug-of-war, close-your-eyes-and-guess-which-of-the-players-is-speaking-in-a-fake-voice, I spy with my little eye, tetherball, foursquare, kite flying, drawing-in-chalk-on-the-sidewalk, red-light-green-light, happy-llama-sad-llama, playing-on-swingsets, going-down-slides, musical chairs, and who-has-the-button?
It's early access, and I've seen enough of the game to be sold on it, but I don't know what the controls are like and I don't want to have to fuck around with something that's locked to WASD-movement.
What is threes? And sakoban? I sincerely don't know and am interested.
Okay, kids will always have running around games in vast uncountable forms.
But dang does popcap games bug me. And angry birds.
What are some cool, neat, or good indie games?
-Off
-Anodyne
There are a lot of different versions of it since, as far as I'm aware, it's not a trademark.
I'll look one up for you. depends on what you like in a game.
along with 'the minister's cat' and 'i packed my bag and in it i put...'
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
I believe this is the original Sokoban, with credit to Wikipedia. These are all good though.
I prefer the first to the other two, and the last to the middle, but all are like, 4/5 star games at minimum.
http://hyperdimensionneptunia.wikia.com/wiki/Cave
:D
Things I know about Neptunia:
1. I don't want to be caught dead within ten feet of it, or else that's the end of my asipring political career right there.
2. The people behind it also made Agarest (very grindy strategy RPG) and Monpiece (a game where rubbing anime girls on one's game device touchscreen is a game mechanic).
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead