SHINAN'S PROFILE

I don't really know what pop punk is. But I like a fair bit of punk (it might be pop I don't know). Mostly Swedish "trallpunk". It's all from the 90s though because that's when I listened to that stuff. (and that's when it was pop)

And some earlier.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scRgAtcG2jE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52Y-MrWAfBM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkxAooLre9Q

Too bad none of this is on Spotify. Goddamnyourecord people. Put that shit back up there.

This is actually the perfect month to have a story idea. Just scrap the whole game thing and throw yourself into the awesomeness that is NaNoWriMo instead. You won't need any programming skills. just story skills!

This depends on level design and what kind of platformer we're talking about.

A game like Castlevania has a slight animation delay to stuff that happens. The character usually has the whip backwards before slashing it forward and even then it's forward for a little bit before you can really do anything else. But Castlevania is a platformer that is more focused on battling around than navigating tight platforms. (I think certain castlevania-esque platformers sometimes have delays between jumps as well. With a quick landing animation)

These controls tends to make a game slower and less... platformy.

In a jump-around and do shit game you'll want ultra-responsiveness in your actions. Landing on a platform that will fall down within a second and jumping to the next one before wallbouncing up to safety needs a certain amount of timing and there's nothing worse than some kind of animation that needs finishing before you can get to the next action in the group.


So if a platformer has a lot of platforming you don't want those crappy controls. However crappy controls are okay otherwise.

(One fairly recent example of crappy controls must be the puzzle/platformer Henry Hatsworth. It takes ages to get anything done in fairly complex platform levels. tssk tssk, what were they thinking?)

And speaking of Team Fortress 2 and all that other stuff there exists a (dead) RMN Steam Group as well. But if there's interest we could always try to revive it. I myself only really own TF2 (and Empire Total War) but I'm sure there are players of all kinds of online shooters around this community that could have some casual fun.

Or more likely you're all hardcore and boring whiners.

National Novel Writing Month.

50 000 words in 30 days.

I'm doing it. Just like I've (tried) to do it the last bunch of years. Anyone else over here doing it? It starts tonight so just thought I'd give you the heads up.

I would write something longer but to be honest I won't. Share your experiences and your story ideas here. As well as your nano usernames if you want. I'm obviously Shinan