Quoting: MaathThis reminds me a lot of Deluxe Paint 4 on the Amiga. They had the functionality of drawing while the animation was playing.

Oddly enough, I just installed DPaintIV on my new upgraded A500 yesterday :P

Quoting: MaathI'm really curious what UI they're using. I wasn't aware that game engines would make UI design easy (well easier than a dedicated UI toolkit).

It looks like they're using the built-in widget functionality of Godot with a bit of basic scripting for the custom widgets. Godot generally has a really good GUI system - the Godot editor itself is built with it.

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For anyone coming here to see if it's worth buying anyway, I can tell you that it isn't, so far.
Proton (including the Glorious Eggroll builds) suffer from the same bug that's apparently affecting a few Windows users: A black screen instead of a main menu [External Link].
It also requires PROTON_USE_WINED3D11=1 %command% to even show its intro titles, so currently it's fairly borked.

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Wait... Mr. Sonic Mayhem is doing the music on this!? I'm suddenly much more interested! :D

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Oh, I thought this was still in Early Access! Nice to see that it's out and still growing :)

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Strangely, apart from the frantic camera movements and the music, this looks really soothing; like the kind of place I would very much enjoy spending the night in.
I can't decide whether this a good thing for the game or not :/

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Quoting: Shmerl

Quoting: Cybolic

Last night, you have become a vampire

Now, I'm not a native speaker, but do the tenses of that sentence check out? Seems odd to me.

It's present perfect, in this case indicating "an action that happened in the past and continuing in the present". Become is an irregular verb, so it's "you have become".

Thanks for the explanation! I hadn't seen the "adverbials which refer to a time which is not yet finished" (as LearnEnglish puts it) before; only took 30+ years for me to bump into it! :P

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Last night, you have become a vampire

Now, I'm not a native speaker, but do the tenses of that sentence check out? Seems odd to me.

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Oddly enough, I think this makes me more excited for the type of games that wouldn't suffer under lag and wouldn't require all this fancy low-latency input-to-display tech that Google is advertising.

Imagine interactive fiction, visual novel games and games like "Eliza" or "Emily is Away" getting some help from Google's voice engines, contextual AI, their vast search comprehension or maybe some dynamically emoting characters done with an emotion library and perhaps dynamic style-transfer animation; character's that might be able to talk with you in-game more unrestrained by a script and understand references to things outside their game world.
I'm not sure exactly how this could fit together, but it at least seems much more promising than just playing more of what's already available.

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Quoting: BotonoskiI gotta wonder exactly how they are achieving the enemy sprites. The sprites seem to obey scene lighting to a degree that I have a hard time believing they are pre-rendered, and the amount of viewing angles on them is just insane.
I really can't tell what's going on in these videos, I think I'd have to play the game to really be able to discern what's going on graphically.

I believe it's an insane amount of angles rendered (16 images per axis, per rotation if I remember correctly) combined with the use of some shaders on the pixel plane.
You can see the difference between their sprite mode and their 3D mode more clearly in this tweet: https://twitter.com/prodeusgame/status/1071853679672733697?lang=en [External Link]

Personally, I think they have a bit too many angles in the sprite mode.

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Quoting: soulsourceStallman is not wrong about the fact that laws about this topic are different in different countries. Where I live, Austria, consent between a 17 year old and a much older person is legally possible, unless there is a situation of power or money involved.

Which there clearly was. It's hard to argue that a 70-years old academics has no authority over any 17-years old girl. The distinction is made so that you can have someone 19 and someone 17 having sex without problem.

That wasn't what he argued though. He wrote:

Quoting: Richard StallmanDoes it really? I think it is morally absurd to define "rape" in a way that depends on minor details such as which country it was in or whether the victim was 18 years old or 17.

I think the existence of a dispute about that supports my point that the term "sexual assault" is slippery, so we ought to use more concrete terms when accusing anyone.

That's arguing specifically about using the terms "rape" and "sexual assault" for cases where both parties are consenting and wouldn't be doing anything illegal if they were doing it in a different country.
As others have said, you need to see this through the eyes of a pedantic and leave the rest of the case out of the discussion of this specific point.

It's not as if he doesn't have a point here; if a 19 year old American has consensual sex with a 17 year old while travelling in Europe, should that also be called rape? Disregarding the rest of the case, I can certainly see his argument.

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