At 5/25/08 02:27 PM, Gutya wrote: So who's the best sponsor right now? I've been out of the loop for quite a while.

It all depends on what you're looking for. Just check out the Sponsor Review Thread.

Ah, thanks for the link.

Re Observation

More (semi-decent) games being released in the Portal, less and less proper animations. Bunch of : gold diggers.

I have noticed the very large increase in games lately, and semi lack of decent animations. As for the gold digger part, probably true with a lot of them, but I'm personally a game designer and coder so I don't make animations, and I absolutely love making games. I used to make them before I even knew you could get them sponsored, when I found out you could I was like fuck ya, there's some extra cash for doing what I love. Either way, no doubt at all that there are some money hungry people out there busting out barely decent games just for the cash.

Embarrass yourself on video

then share it on the internet!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-veLP5SRW PE

Nothing like a good white boy rap in school recorded on a cell phone to show you how white and nerdy I really am.

I'm the tall one.

Oh, and the thing that was going in front of the camera was a monkey stuffed animal, with a hole in it's butt and turned inside out after the stuffing was removed. I have very twisted sick friends. Oh and my band teacher was using it as a puppet and playing the train whistle in this video.

At 5/25/08 12:26 PM, NegativeONE wrote:

At 5/25/08 11:59 AM, Johnny wrote: Hello!
That is all.

Why do you tease us with glimpsing appearances?

But I think about you all, every single day.

So much in fact, that I'll be at the San Diego Comic con... and want to meet you all there! Go!

At 5/25/08 04:44 PM, Johnny wrote:

At 5/25/08 12:26 PM, NegativeONE wrote:

At 5/25/08 11:59 AM, Johnny wrote: Hello!
That is all.

Why do you tease us with glimpsing appearances?

But I think about you all, every single day.

So much in fact, that I'll be at the San Diego Comic con... and want to meet you all there! Go!

lets get marriedd!!!11

Can those of you in other countries or places search for my game Pico & Pals, and tell me if there's some larger sized site getting a lot of views for it. I seem to have about 30,000 views that I can't tell where they're coming from...

what a waste of a 10,000th post!!1

At 5/25/08 11:54 PM, Luis wrote: what a waste of a 10,000th post!!1

merry christmas surr

At 5/25/08 11:54 PM, Luis wrote: what a waste of a 10,000th post!!1

grats :)
I'll be at 1k in a few weeks, go me.

Casual Gaming

So I have a few thoughts floating around regarding this. First off, casual gaming as it's being called is really growing, perhaps too much in my opinion. I feel that casual gaming has leaked into the gaming industry so much that today's games are more about flashy graphics and simple gameplay then a well thought out game with great controls and a nice challenge. Also pertaining to this, it seems that many large games aren't really accepted in flash, as if flash can only support small quick games. I see flash as a tool that's perfectly capable of handling a semi lengthy and in depth game that's on par with a console game aside from graphics, however it's not often, if at all you see users creating a project of this scale. I myself love the 2D realm of gaming and flash is my ticket in for the time being, I wish there were more inspired authors willing to collaborate on a full size, very in depth flash game. I just feel that casual gaming has made the general public lazy gamers that are unwilling to explore something more in depth and creative then what we generally see in the portal these days, what are others thoughts on this?

At 5/25/08 11:54 PM, Luis wrote: what a waste of a 10,000th post!!1

clearly i'm too offensive online. does this make you any happier?

Fratellis
Anyone seen them live?

At 5/25/08 11:54 PM, Luis wrote: what a waste of a 10,000th post!!1

You should be modded.

what a waste of a 4,813th post!!1

New BA for Collabs?
Is it 3.5 now, or is the guy wrong?

At 5/26/08 02:15 PM, Wurmy1029 wrote: New BA for Collabs?
Is it 3.5 now, or is the guy wrong?

No he's right. Jmtb02 posted the new rules a while back.

At 5/26/08 02:26 PM, Kanadian-Keith wrote: I think the new rules will really help push more good quality collabs to be done.

I think they were made to prevent shit ones, rather than encourage good ones.

The good ones wont pop up any more often, its just that they'll be the ONLY ones TO pop up xD

At 5/26/08 04:37 PM, RyanPridgeon wrote: The good ones wont pop up any more often, its just that they'll be the ONLY ones TO pop up xD

Dunno, maybe some better candidates will feel like they've got more space cleared for them now.

But in the end the better you are the more you want to make something by yourself... I think xD

I reckon that's why nobody bothers with collabs unless they're desperate for some rep

At 5/26/08 09:11 PM, SpamBurger wrote: No idea why, but for some strange reason I think of deltaluca everytime I see Calo Nord (a bounty hunter from Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic).

I was thinking something similar. Someone definitely with those goggles.

ROAD TRIP
Anyone ever gone on a roadtrip? I was thinking of taking one this Summer to go visit all those random internet people I never met on the East Coast and have somehow escaped from various mod meats and <event> Con.

At 5/26/08 09:11 PM, SpamBurger and jmtb02 wrote:

No idea why, but for some strange reason I think of deltaluca everytime I see Calo Nord (a bounty hunter from Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic).
was thinking something similar.

Any particular reason why? lol

At 5/26/08 02:19 PM, Kirk-Cocaine wrote:

At 5/26/08 02:15 PM, Wurmy1029 wrote: New BA for Collabs?
Is it 3.5 now, or is the guy wrong?

No he's right. Jmtb02 posted the new rules a while back.

Isn't 3.5 a bit harsh? I mean I only have 3.39 and I can and have run a collab and have it turn out.

Congratz to duder for getting front paged for a GAME!

At 5/27/08 01:12 PM, BoMToons wrote: Congratz to duder for getting front paged for a GAME!

Not congrats to you for depositing every day in italy so that you'd be ahead of me in points.

And yea congrats duder, I'm sure you wont get this message because you'll pass out when you realize you're on frontpage.

I congradulate Duder :) well played (y)

At 5/27/08 04:57 PM, adman1993 wrote: I congradulate Duder.

Agreed. It was a pretty fun game. (although I never got on the score boards)

EA FIFA licensing
I've though about this for a while.
Why does EA need to get some kind of license to display the correct Team names, Player names, etc. in their FIFA Games (and I guess all other sports games made by them).

It's not only EA, though. When you play PES, for example, you can see they've had problems with licensing because they don't have the correct club names.

So anyway, what do you think would happen if they were to make a game featuring those names, but without any license?

I mean, can they get sued for writing names in a game?

At 5/27/08 05:18 PM, GuyWithHisComp wrote: I mean, can they get sued for writing names in a game?

I think so yes.. maybe because sometimes in the games like clubs do really badly and this may show the club in a bad light? I dunno :S

At 5/27/08 05:18 PM, GuyWithHisComp wrote: EA FIFA licensing

Its probably because FIFA wants money...thats it, probably no real reason