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New Article: Your Intro Sucks
author=Mewd link=topic=33.msg408#msg408 date=1181606945I think you mean "Brevity is wit."
I have to agree with this article.
Brevity is the soul of wit.
The Great Console Count
Consoles:
Atari 2600
NES
Genesis
SNES
N64
PSX
Gamecube
PS2
Wii
Portables:
Game Boy (Six regulars each of which my sister broke in succession)
Game Boy Color
Game Boy Advance
Game Gear
Nintendo DS (Fat)
Atari 2600
NES
Genesis
SNES
N64
PSX
Gamecube
PS2
Wii
Portables:
Game Boy (Six regulars each of which my sister broke in succession)
Game Boy Color
Game Boy Advance
Game Gear
Nintendo DS (Fat)
New Article: Your Intro Sucks
I agree with a lot of what you're saying here. Intros seem to be one of the worst offenders when it comes to relying too much on world building and too little on gameplay and characterization.
But I wouldn't agree with that bit about commercial games avoiding some of these traps. I mean that "no sane commercial game" could make an argument, but I've seen plenty of decent commercial games with absolutely terrible intros. I know I'm setting myself up for argument by referring to it as decent, but Star Ocean 2 is the first example that comes to mind for me.
Not that it refutes your point or the solutions, just that I think professionals can be just as wrong as amateurs sometimes.
But I wouldn't agree with that bit about commercial games avoiding some of these traps. I mean that "no sane commercial game" could make an argument, but I've seen plenty of decent commercial games with absolutely terrible intros. I know I'm setting myself up for argument by referring to it as decent, but Star Ocean 2 is the first example that comes to mind for me.
Not that it refutes your point or the solutions, just that I think professionals can be just as wrong as amateurs sometimes.
RM2kfics, you guys.
author=Reijin link=topic=32.msg339#msg339 date=1181531340Reijin, Reijin, Reijin. It's not just that Sei's gay. It's also that he's a slut!author=The Real Brickroad link=topic=32.msg338#msg338 date=1181526945
(or, in Sei's case, someone else's lazy ass)
Oh HO! ZING! ... haha...
ha... Sei's gay...
Two Hundred Members
author=kentona link=topic=31.msg318#msg318 date=1181484823If you're using Opera, I recommend taking Google, Wikipedia and Thesaurus out of your Speed Dial and making custom searches out of them. I have it so I can just put "g (terms)" "w (terms)" or "t (terms)" in the address bar and it'll take me to whatever I'm looking for pretty quickly.
I ran out of room on Opera speed dial :-\
Which on should I replace with RMN?
-Google.ca
-Wikipedia.org
-Thesaurus.com
-gamingw.net/forums/
-indiegamingportal.net
-townshipgames.com
-tsn.ca
-kentona.freehostia.com (Hero's Realm official site)
-facebook.com
(btw, I just joined today)
Just right click in the text box that asks you what you're searching for and click the "Create Search" option and it should be pretty self-explanatory from there.
Problem in the Games section
Hey, I didn't report this when I first noticed it, but the Games section has been a bit wonky for a couple of hours now. Anytime I click on a project, it takes me to an "Internal Service Error" page.
I'm not in any sort of hurry, as I was just going to browse through them anyway, but I thought you might not know. I know how much of an annoyance it can be when aspects of your site go down that you don't even know about!
I'm not in any sort of hurry, as I was just going to browse through them anyway, but I thought you might not know. I know how much of an annoyance it can be when aspects of your site go down that you don't even know about!
Odin Sphere
I just picked it up yesterday, and have been enjoying it a lot so far, though I'm still only on Chapter 3.
Other than the usual reason people like it, I'd like to bring special attention to the framing device they use. It's not dissimilar to one I was planning for a future project....but then again, it's a pretty obvious framing device, too. I'm surprised I don't see it more often. I'm referring to the little girl reading the books when you go to load your game, here.
I'm still not sure how I feel about the voice acting, though. Sometimes it seems well done and sometimes it seems a little iffy. There's no questioning the beauty of the thing, though, and the gameplay is pretty sweet too. It's actually fairly challenging on Normal Mode. Although I haven't played Etrian Oddyssey yet, which I'm told is the most difficult game released in a while, so keep that in mind when hearing me say "It's fairly challenging."
Other than the usual reason people like it, I'd like to bring special attention to the framing device they use. It's not dissimilar to one I was planning for a future project....but then again, it's a pretty obvious framing device, too. I'm surprised I don't see it more often. I'm referring to the little girl reading the books when you go to load your game, here.
I'm still not sure how I feel about the voice acting, though. Sometimes it seems well done and sometimes it seems a little iffy. There's no questioning the beauty of the thing, though, and the gameplay is pretty sweet too. It's actually fairly challenging on Normal Mode. Although I haven't played Etrian Oddyssey yet, which I'm told is the most difficult game released in a while, so keep that in mind when hearing me say "It's fairly challenging."
Game Titles
One old trick that a lot of authors use with book titles, and which might work well with games some of the time, is to use names based on old quotes. Not punny-titles like television series like to use for episode titles, but pretty close to the actual quotes. An example is The Sound and the Fury, which takes its name from a quote from Macbeth.
Bimini Road is working on a game that we're calling "Anything Under the Sky," a reference to a line in Dr. Seuss's Oh the Places You'll Go. I'm quite fond of this title, myself. And like you said above, it has a special meaning within the context of the game, which I'm not going to go into right now because too much talking about a project this early on might jinx it.
Bimini Road is working on a game that we're calling "Anything Under the Sky," a reference to a line in Dr. Seuss's Oh the Places You'll Go. I'm quite fond of this title, myself. And like you said above, it has a special meaning within the context of the game, which I'm not going to go into right now because too much talking about a project this early on might jinx it.
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