I'm sorry I offended you guys' Yoshi religion. lol

my cockpit entry in progress

This..is..too..beautiful!!

I meant is Yoshi a boy or girl?

That reminds me, what is Yoshi?

What's with unfinished games and basements here? lol And I swear the best sounding games are the ones that never get made.

Isn't that a "duh" moment? Project get to big to be able to be finished. Also what you imagine the game to be and what it turns out to be may be two different things.

That's what I was implying. Peoples imaginations can easily get too big for a game.

Super Mario Bros. 1 probably set this trend. I remember reading the instruction manual, which explained the story. Did you know, according to the original instruction manual of SMB1, that every block in the game of SMB is actually a person of the mushroom kingdom who was turned into a block by Bowser? Makes you feel a little bit guilty about breaking blocks, knowing that.

HO..LY..SH!T! I did not know that. That would have made Super Mario Bros. a different kind of experience. I love learning about the backstories of some games but it's sad that they aren't within the game itself. Anyone got anymore game stories?

This always bugged me.  It's like they knew the game needed/deserved a better story, so they included it, but not in the game.

Oh, and you may want to try and rename the thread, because it's kind of confusing.  I can't say I have any suggestions though, sorry.

*looks at title* lol That's what I got for typing too fast. Thanks, I'll fix it.

Anyway, yeah it's like they have a great story for the game...but don't use it in the game itself.

That sounds very stressful. Things in life can make you get fed up.

I was thinking this after I read Sonic 3 & Knuckles' story AFTER I beat it in a FAQ a few days ago (which I LOVED) Let me explain, lots of 2D games seem to have most of their stories inside of their instruction manuals, on the back of their cases or on some internet page (many indie games are guilty of the latter) Sure that might not be a lot of story but it would have been great to get that information from actually playing the game. An example would be Mega Man 3. I think Proto Man's story is incredible! (hmm, somewhat similar to Knuckles once I think about it...) So, any thoughts?

EDIT: Sorry for the bad title. It's fixed now. heh

OMG I have never seen that before. Is it for real?

If it is I will stop making games. Pointless.

lol That's the spirit. When the competition gets that good, it's time to go cry in a corner.

Thank you for giving me a reason to have a signature.

OH SH!T!! THANKS! That truly made my day. I have never had a quote of mine sig-a-fied. I barely even remember saying that hilarious shyet.

Better AI and replacing easier enemies with harder ones (think Devil May Cry). Better AI can inspire the playing to use better strategies which is great.

I want to make a Roguelike Platformer too. I've been writing ideas for it for the last week.

What's with unfinished games and basements here? lol And I swear the best sounding games are the ones that never get made.

Finish buying my god damn house. This is the second contract I've gone under, the last seller lied and was under foreclosure so it didn't happen and I was out $600

Finish at least one side project, currently I'm looking at Ultraviolent Moon Patrol, Tetris NES, *Unannounced* G1 Phone under a contract, Neural Shot, and my SDL/OpenGL 2d library I'm working on.

Join a Brazillian Jiu-Jitsu school, there's one next to the house I'm hoping to buy, so that will whoop my ass and force me to get back into shape. I lost 45lbs before I got married running 2 miles 3 times a week, and joining a karate dojo, but I pretty much gained 30 lbs of that back since then.

Get myself to a few more cons, Defcon in August, GDC next year, maybe one or two more.

I want to learn Brazilian Jujitsu myself along with a few other styles like Muay Thai and Kempo.

I need to stop my procrastination towards starting and finishing my first screenplay. I'm obviously not doing anything about that now since I'm posting here now. lol

Usually there are no stories told from normal teams.

The bigger the team, the more chance you get to find a unique individual in there that gives you a good story to tell. I've worked on some very normal team, on one of them, a guy went into a meeting, sat on the floor, smoking a cigarette, and said "in ten minutes, everybody dies" (or something like that, I was told by a friend who was very freaked out in that meeting). The person was escorted out to a vacation. He came back afterward, on the same project, and stayed to very late hours of the night. At some point, he lost it, tried to throw his monitor through the window (we were on the 4th floor) failed, and wrote "goodbye, it is gone" on a post-it(it's a catchphrase a very popular french sport news anchor would use while describing a baseball match, when there was a homerun). He left, and went to work abroad, where I was told he was very happy and normal. 

That's one helluva story.

I sent a text message to my mom which went something like this: "I've decided that the modern society is too oppressing for me to live in, and so I have emptied my bank account and decided to take a break from the world. I'll maybe see you one day. Bye". She called me in absolute panic and I asked her if she knew what day it was. I could hear everyone in her office laughing in the background when she realized it was april fools day. Good times. She was traumatized.

AAAHAHAHAHAHAHA! That's the best April Fool's joke I've ever heard.

I congratulate you for the very first (and likely only) joke I was absolutely not expecting today.

Same here. I was like 'Hey, let me check this out!' lol

Hahaha, hilarious.

Although I hope that this company isn't such a complete failure that it'll turn people off from the idea forever, since I think the idea itself is good, just that it's not time for it yet.

Heh heh I gotta see that video. Anyway, I also hope OnLive succeeds. It's less me worried about a digital distribution service that big happening and more me wanting this technology by this year. lol

Well from what I read, they didn't want to change Psyschonauts because it was edgy or anything but because they wanted it to be a game they thought would sell well which is much much worst IMO...

Oh and I couldn't find anything about the article online. Sorry.