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Hack, Slash, Loot Released on Desura
26 Jan 2012 at 5:50 pm UTC
26 Jan 2012 at 5:50 pm UTC
I think you will find that was a lot of peoples experiences with Dredmor. ;)
Postal 1&2 on Desura and more!
19 Jan 2012 at 7:26 pm UTC
19 Jan 2012 at 7:26 pm UTC
Yeah, I asked Vince to do this about a week ago and got the response that they were already working on it. :)
And the updated versions are also most welcome, since I had to jump through a few hoops to get them to run on Fedora 16.
7K:AA was also something I had been following, but never got around to actually getting working. Will be playing some of it tonight. :D
And the updated versions are also most welcome, since I had to jump through a few hoops to get them to run on Fedora 16.
7K:AA was also something I had been following, but never got around to actually getting working. Will be playing some of it tonight. :D
Win a full giftable copy of Humble Indie Bundle 4
20 Jan 2012 at 5:52 am UTC
20 Jan 2012 at 5:52 am UTC
That's not funny, that's just stupid. And tragic. :p
"rm -rf /" anyone? ;)
"rm -rf /" anyone? ;)
Win a full giftable copy of Humble Indie Bundle 4
18 Jan 2012 at 9:55 pm UTC
18 Jan 2012 at 9:55 pm UTC
As a question, I assume it is stuck to one entry per person right?
Win a full giftable copy of Humble Indie Bundle 4
18 Jan 2012 at 7:38 pm UTC
18 Jan 2012 at 7:38 pm UTC
Since I missed out on the last one due to lack of credit again:
I am actually shocked, most of the humour images are the same ones that were circulating since the '90s... it seems like around 2004 people stopped trying. :confused:
At any rate: hamish(at)icculus.org
I am actually shocked, most of the humour images are the same ones that were circulating since the '90s... it seems like around 2004 people stopped trying. :confused:
At any rate: hamish(at)icculus.org
Tomes of Mephistopheles gameplay
16 Jan 2012 at 11:29 pm UTC
16 Jan 2012 at 11:29 pm UTC
I am kind of split on tutorials - I guess it depends on the game.
I know that I would never have gotten as far into Dungeons of Dredmor if I did not play through the tutorial - I would never have gotten the point of the game, and after wandering aimlessly through the first level, would probably never have come back to it again. On the other hand, you are right that some games are best played by fiddling with the mechanics by yourself. But to dogmatically cast tutorials off as a bad idea seems a little short-sighted to me.
And yes, I may not even be eighteen yet, but I started with many of the classics you mentioned (Doom, Wolf3D, Quake) as well as many others. So you can not just cast me off by saying that "I am just too young to understand."
Of course, I have no idea which camp Mephistopheles fits into - but from the basic premise it does sound like a game which could use some explanation. But it is your game and maybe you are being really clever and intuitive about the whole thing, I do not know.
I would never understand being offended by the presence of a tutorial though - even on games I have beat several times I sometimes play though the tutorial again just for kicks. Hell, sometimes I learn something even then...
I know that I would never have gotten as far into Dungeons of Dredmor if I did not play through the tutorial - I would never have gotten the point of the game, and after wandering aimlessly through the first level, would probably never have come back to it again. On the other hand, you are right that some games are best played by fiddling with the mechanics by yourself. But to dogmatically cast tutorials off as a bad idea seems a little short-sighted to me.
And yes, I may not even be eighteen yet, but I started with many of the classics you mentioned (Doom, Wolf3D, Quake) as well as many others. So you can not just cast me off by saying that "I am just too young to understand."
Of course, I have no idea which camp Mephistopheles fits into - but from the basic premise it does sound like a game which could use some explanation. But it is your game and maybe you are being really clever and intuitive about the whole thing, I do not know.
I would never understand being offended by the presence of a tutorial though - even on games I have beat several times I sometimes play though the tutorial again just for kicks. Hell, sometimes I learn something even then...
Tomes of Mephistopheles gameplay
16 Jan 2012 at 6:14 am UTC
16 Jan 2012 at 6:14 am UTC
My initial reaction is "Oh my god, it looks like the spirit cave in Prey only you get to blow shit up!"
Good show. ;)
Good show. ;)
Desura adds free adventure games!
13 Jan 2012 at 7:16 pm UTC
13 Jan 2012 at 7:16 pm UTC
It should be noted that some of these titles had already made their way to distro repositories (at least on Fedora) but this is probably a better fit I think. :)
Still, is Desura slowly also going to become the GoG of Linux?
Still, is Desura slowly also going to become the GoG of Linux?
Humble Indie...Store?
12 Jan 2012 at 10:22 pm UTC
For the moment yes, but is an open standard and fully free software, so there is nothing limiting it from being implemented in other browsers.
And the advantage is that you can develop for one platform (native client), meaning you can play it like an online game from any supported system, but at the same time it can access the system libraries and hardware in a native fashion, meaning you do not have the associated problems that online games often have.
12 Jan 2012 at 10:22 pm UTC
Quoting: "motorsep, post: 3101"Native client is limited to Chrome. Also, I am seeing right now that the game is downloaded, not streamed. So I really don't see where is the advantage of games running in the browsers :(
For the moment yes, but is an open standard and fully free software, so there is nothing limiting it from being implemented in other browsers.
And the advantage is that you can develop for one platform (native client), meaning you can play it like an online game from any supported system, but at the same time it can access the system libraries and hardware in a native fashion, meaning you do not have the associated problems that online games often have.
3079 now on Desura!
9 Jan 2012 at 8:56 pm UTC
9 Jan 2012 at 8:56 pm UTC
Tried the demo for a bit last night, but could not figure it out. Guess I need to read the games documentation a bit more?
All of these people shouting Minecraft rip-off are hilarious though; just because a game uses voxels does not make it a Minecraft clone! Sure, it also uses Java, but so do a lot of games.
I like the fact that voxels have gotten more exposure, as they are interesting technically, but to have them somehow inexorably tied to Minecraft is incredibly ignorant.
All of these people shouting Minecraft rip-off are hilarious though; just because a game uses voxels does not make it a Minecraft clone! Sure, it also uses Java, but so do a lot of games.
I like the fact that voxels have gotten more exposure, as they are interesting technically, but to have them somehow inexorably tied to Minecraft is incredibly ignorant.
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