Notes I came to play Dungeons and Dragons a little later than most and as I look at the prices for the likes of the Playerâs Handbook and Monster ManualâŠI think I know now what the first thing I need to do is when I finally invent that time machine.Unfurl
NotesIn an ironic twist, modified code in the cracked version of the game ensures that pirate's in-game progress is constantly ruined by rampant piracy.FeedEmbedUnfurl
NotesâAt the time, I had been dating a girl for only three weeks and was terrified,â says Joshua Goldshlag (Eve name: Two Step), a 35-year-old CSM member and computer programmer from Massachusetts. âI certainly did not want to mention that I had been elected as an Internet space politician.âUnfurl
NotesThe Pizza Hut for Xbox app makes the chain's entire menu accessible to users, who can then build their own customized pizzas and place orders via Kinect motion controls, voice commands or the controller. Users can link their Xbox and PizzaHut.com accounts and save their order settings to streamline future purchases, as well as view and take advantage of deals at local stores.FeedUnfurl
NotesLet's face it, the year is 2013. Where are our flying cars? Why isn't deep space travel a thing yet? Why hasn't virtual reality become, well, reality? The Oculus Rift seeks to fill that lack of virtual reality in our lives. Still in its early developmental stage, the Oculus Rift promises to deliver VR gaming to the yearning public. Join us as we take a peek inside the Oculus Rift and its hardware.Unfurl
NotesIt turns out that E.T. isn't a bad game after all. With a few simple changes we were able to dramatically improve an already good game by eliminating the most common complaints. With a few additional changes, we were able to clear up any confusion for players who care about the score, and were confused by the differences between what the manual claims and what actually happens in-game. Next time someone tells you that "E.T. for the Atari 2600 is the worst game ever made" you can tell them that this is not the case. It's been fixed, and you know how.Unfurl
Notes RetroArch is a modular multi-system emulator system that is designed to be fast, lightweight, and portable. It has features few other emulators frontends have, such as real-time rewinding and game-aware shading.Unfurl
NotesIn the past I've run Continuum in a VirtualBox VM, but that's a pain and it's not as fast as I'd like. This time I decided to see if I could get it running in Wine, which would make it easier to play, and faster as well.
It turns out a fellow calling himself spiffyguy on the SubSpace forums had already gotten this working! Unfurl
NotesI recently learned a cool technique from Simurai about how to animate PNG sprites with the CSS3 animations' steps() property. The main idea in this technique is to "recreate" some kind of animated GIF but with the tiles of a PNG sprite.FeedEmbedUnfurl
NotesFirst, we are sorry there hasnât been more communication about the state of Moon Breakers. The current state is that development has effectively been halted on the game. Imba, the developer and owner of the game, ran out of money and the Moon Breakers team was disbanded. FeedUnfurl
NotesAs we speak, certain vigilante Wikipedia users are hard at work erasing whatever scraps of little-known BBS door game history that resides in Wikipedia's databases. The first casualty in this war was the entry for Space Empire Elite, which was deleted early this morning.FeedEmbedUnfurl
NotesSo, because DRM never goes wrong, let's just vandalize the content created by the purchasers of our software. Oh wait, we meant to do that to the pirates. Oh well.FeedEmbedUnfurl
NotesI have an ex-grilfriend who's little brother would literally lick the contacts on his N64 carts. That's right, not a gentle 'phwwwww', but a full-on French kiss.FeedUnfurl
NotesSo a couple of nights ago, I went through the familiar steps of manually adding the Freespace Source Code Project files to my GOG copy of Freespace 2. This time, however, I added all the extra high-resolution stuff from the MediaVPs (i.e. all the optional stuff) because I figured my new rig could run it (my last one totally choked when I added all the optional MediaVPs). Once it was all said and done, I ran the launcher and set up everything as ordered (as well as adding Spideyâs lighting settings) and ran the game at maximum resolution with everything set as high as possible for my first time ever. What resulted was nothing short of breathtaking.EmbedUnfurl
Notes SpriteLib is a collection of static and animated graphic objects (also commonly known as sprites). It was created to provide hobbyist game developers with an assortment of images to use in their creations. Because of SpriteLib, developers don't have to waste precious time or money creating graphics from scratch. Unfurl
NotesThereâs little that ignites my imagination more than the swashbuckling outer space dogfights of yesteryear. So, I was excited to write a bombastic, retro-infused soundtrack for âMoon Breakersâ â a multi-player online combat game from Imba Entertainment / Uber Entertainment that is now available to play for free on Steam.FeedEmbedUnfurl
NotesVentrilo Server : moonbreakers.darkstarvent.com Port 3997
this is a free download that allows you to talk (or just listen) to us "cool" people while you play the game. this can help organize better strategy with your teammates and ask some tactical questions of the Praetorian (really good pilots or the people you love to hate).Unfurl
NotesMatt Mechtley is responsible for this makerâs dream project: getting a classic Nintendo Power Glove to work with custom games by replacing itâs brain with an arduino, implanting an accelerometer for motion detection, and using a bluetooth modem for wireless connectivity. Heâs outdone himself with downloadable code, schematics, this awesome video, and an Instructable to top it off.FeedEmbedUnfurl
NotesWhether you've always wanted to learn or you're a veteran looking for a fun new way to practice, get ready to join the thousands using Synthesia.Unfurl
NotesNovelist Iain Banks might be better known as Iain M Banks, the pen name under which most of his speculative fiction is published. Of this oeuvre, his Culture series is most widely celebrated, depicting a utopian, galaxy-spanning civilisation whose citizens (when they arenât meddling in the affairs of lesser races) have plenty of time for gaming.FeedUnfurl
Notes By piecing together the "bricks" that dictate a character's mood, actions, and responses to the player, every encounter in the game turns into a "choose your own adventure" that has a variety of outcomes.Unfurl
NotesHe saved all the videotape he took in October 1985 of his brother running and jumping around their old neighborhood, footage that he rotoscoped into the animations for his Apple II game Prince of Persia. He saved all of the meticulous journals he kept of the production process, documenting each tiny step of the creation of the landmark hit game.Unfurl
NotesLinux Tycoon is the premier Linux Distro Building Simulator game in the universe.
(Truth be told: Itâs probably the only Linux Distro Building Simulation game in the universe.)Unfurl
NotesWhen all is said and done, I'd say that Mass Effect 2 wound up being my favorite of the three Mass Effect games. It wasn't so much the story, the characters, or the gameplay that put it over the topâit was the TV show-like structure.FeedUnfurl
NotesHavenât most April fools jokes got a bit silly lately? Theyâre more just funny than actually fooling you. This year, I thought Iâd raise the bar with a completely fake MMO Asteroids, but I could never imagine so many of you would be taken in. Iâm so sorry. FeedEmbedUnfurl
Noteshe managed to misplace the original source code for that first Prince of Persia game and has been searching for it ever since.
Yesterday he found it, and the discovery is all thanks to his father. The three packs of 3.5âł Apple ProDOS disks had been safely stored away in a brown box along with a load of Amstrad copies of his 1984 game Karateka.
The problem he faces now is how to extract the code from those old 3.5âł disks to his MacBook Air, but he has a friend on board with the requisite skill set.Unfurl
NotesBrowserQuest is a tribute to classic video-games with a multiplayer twist. You play as a young warrior driven by the thrill of adventure. No princess to save here, just a dangerous world filled with treasures to discover. And itâs all done in glorious HTML5 and JavaScript.FeedEmbedUnfurl
NotesSo, a bunch of us made some interactive fiction games, one game per track on the album Apollo 18 by They Might Be Giants. The regular tracks are generally short games. The Fingertips tracks are one-move games (however the authors interpreted that). Hereâs They Might Be Giants. They have lots of great albums besides this one, and you should go buy them all. Hereâs the original post about the tribute, and here are the games. You can play them online via the links below, or you can download them to play offline (updated March 26, 2012, 1337 EDT). See âHow Do I Play?â at the left if youâre unsure what to do.FeedEmbedUnfurl
NotesMass Effect is epic. It's the product of the best parts of Star Trek, Star Wars, Battlestar Galactica and more with a protagonist who could be the love-child of Picard, Skywalker, and Starbuck. It's one of the most important pieces of science fiction narrative of our generation. Mass Effect goes so far beyond other fictional universes in ways that you may not have yet realized. It is cosmic in scope and scale.Unfurl
NotesâTourneyâ is a game that barely exists. Itâs the shadow of an idea that slipped into the world last week during a free-wheeling conversation about design, agency, failure, and whether games can make meaningful statements about the nature of tragedy. To help the discussion along we invented a few imaginary games that could serve as stable reference points in unfamiliar terrain. One of the things we dreamed up is Tourney, a game about maintaining oneâs integrity in the face of inevitable decline.Unfurl
NotesMarriage is a sacred commitment; it's no kind of small thing to consider. You need to show you mean business. You need to put some effort into a proposal.
Jered McFerron did when he decided to rewrite the code for the 1986 NES classic, Metroid, in the C++ programming language. This undertaking wasn't initially to propose to his love, Jenni, but struck as an inspiration mid-project when he knew she was the gal for him.FeedUnfurl
NotesMission Statement: The Pacific Pinball Museum (PPM) is a non-profit organization dedicated to teaching science, art and history through pinball, and to preserve and promote one of America's great pastimes.FeedUnfurl
Notes A LOT of people are having the problem that the xbox turns on automatically when you plug in the power and then they must unplug it to turn it off. This is going to help most of those people I hope. Unfurl