Especially after Soulja Boy made a video about it. Anyone remember that? Oh god. Try asking him who Jonathan Blow is. Haha. :D

You know, the only place I've ever heard of this "Soulja Boy" is because he made a video about Braid.  And I wasn't very impressed by it.  Is he supposed to be famous or something?

Then the artists can do graphics while the programmers are programming.

When you put it that way it sounds so.. unoriginal.  Isn't that what usually happens anyway?  I propose that the artists program while the programmers do graphics.

Man, that's what we indie developers are basically.
We make games ourselves, at home, without the backing of publishers, without a company behind us.
That's piracy, that is.  We pirate games that don't exist and sometimes give them away for free, sometimes (!) even try to sell them.

I think it's time to show the goods.  Show us a game you've made, just a short demo even, and we'll do our best to advise you whether you're ready to go into this full-time or not.

also: moving money from your paypal account to mine is just copying data

this is a destructive copying process.

exactly, but he was claiming there's no such thing as stealing on the internet

yeah, sorry, you're right; i'd forgotten the original statement you were responding to.

also: moving money from your paypal account to mine is just copying data

this is a destructive copying process.

i voted "yes", but i don't entirely agree with the text; the game should do it invisibly, but you should say somewhere exactly what's going on.  (pretty much like what valve do.)

I've possible raped the definition of words

I think you might have done just that!

[must]

Saying it "must stop NOW" is a bit strong.  Because you know it won't.  And the world won't end, the videogame industry won't die, even some indies will continue to occasionally make it big.. Yes, it'd be great if it stopped.  But it's not necessary.

Still, it is pretty disgusting how people pirate indie games.  The other day a friend of mine said to me that he's playing a pirated copy of Machinarium.. I gave him a pretty stern talking-to.  Piracy does have a place; that place is fixing broken pricing - if EA etc. mysteriously decide to sell games for twice as much as they cost in the USA, we can patch that by pirating every second game we buy from them.  It's sad to see this power being used for evil; to pirate all games, including ones that are already reasonably priced, and from small developers who need the money much more.  But it's not about to stop, and there's nothing we can do to stop it - unless we take ridiculous draconian measures which would be worse than the problem.  The best we can do is just try to make it socially unacceptable among the people we meet.

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Cave Story.

Can't agree with it. The secret boss was one of the most epic boss battles I've played in my whole life. The tension and everything else built by the extra stage was flawless.

Unless you were talking about the normal ending final boss.

Yeah, I meant the normal ending one.  I'm not pro enough to get secret endings.

Cave Story.

Also, most RPGs where I tend to save up powerful items to use 'when I need them', and then realise oh, I just beat the end boss and still haven't used that, didn't need it.  VtM: Bloodlines was one example; I didn't realise it was the end and never used all my flamethrower ammo.

i saw this guy's book in the bookshop at the tate.  same idea, less umlauts.

Seriously, just relax.  You don't have to keep up with it.  I've just started playing Everyday Shooter, I haven't played Braid yet, and my computer probably wouldn't even run Fallout 3 or whatever.  And I'm a happy man.  You don't need to keep up with the zeitgeist to be satisfied.

I really don't get this whole 'Christmas rush' thing, why all the mainstream studios try to release their games at the same time so that nobody can afford to get them all.  It can only hurt them.  But I hope they don't change it, because it's a great opportunity for indies - they're leaving a window in the rest of the year where we can stand out more easily.

Sometimes I program outside of a bedroom.  This is when I am commuting.

[moi]

moi: Zaratustra mentioned increpare (mr. Lavelle), so moi because HE MAKES FALSE CLAIMS AND DOES HE EVEN MAKE GAMES i don't know (or care).

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I did a game with a little bit of fluid dynamicity once: SMESTORPOD INFESTATION
There are smoke effects, dangerous green slime, and the 'sperm' enemies which follow the vector field.

Found similar things to you with respect to speed.  Because I am the laziest programmer I didn't try to optimise the code at all and instead pushed the resolution down as low as it could go so it didn't matter.

making games that force players to do immoral things

This is a hilarious idea for a game. 

Edmund? I don't think hilarious is the word.

I was too subtle with my deliberate misinterpretation there.  I was coming down on the other side of the avatar/player distinction, guys.
Unless everyone's deliberately misinterpreting me.  That'd serve me right, dammit.

making games that force players to do immoral things

This is a hilarious idea for a game.  Not sure how you'd enforce it though.  It could be a facebook app, and all parties involved must confirm immoral acts to score points.  And then there's a list of your most immoral friends!

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the best post-rock album ever. lets fight about it.

Ágætis Byrjun!  Fight fight fight.