Never been particularly interested in his games but I gotta say I love this site.

Making wannabe designers go on several paragraph clichéd rants usually indicates good design.

Just found a video of Timmy Gilbert

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KJOWE3kIqY&feature=g-all-c

I can understand everything he's saying without having to listen to it twice. Obviously fake.

The cool thing about the environments back then was that they gave the story a sense of plausibility, in contrast with games like Quake 2 (same engine)

(It's actually a modded Quake 1 engine and we've all thought it was Q2 all these years because PC Gamer said so in the HL review)

There's not much more that can be said without knowing specifics.

That's not a problem. Disposing of an enemy more quickly is reward enough (like a weak projectile weapon vs powerful melee).
Multiple ways to tackle each situation in a game is always good, even with equal end results. In general I think having many things in a game that you can do, but don't have to is important to making the game world feel alive.

Decided on the judgement day. Until then they just lay there.
This is canon.

[lol]

first of all: paid subscription to a blog. lol

second: games exclusive to subscribers. lool

everything is money and everyone's a monetizing profiteering fucking businessman

the indie game community is fucking terrible now

http://venuspatrol.com/img/vpsubcircles.jpg

I'm disgusted, frankly.

I think there also simply aren't as many good freeware games produced now as there used to. These days everyone's trying to get rich off the ipads and the steams and xbloxes.

Donatello was always my fav.

you kinda should

We made a baseball bat at some point in woodwork class in school, and a handle for a bottle opener at some other. I remember enjoying it.

Believe it or not, there are better places for real time chat about anything that comes to mind than this forum thread.


Oh, and look up some of the crazy shit corvids can do, with their brain
They're dinosaurs with simian level intelligence, that's relatively brilliant.

Francisco the stylist's winking eye doesn't really line up with the rest of his face. It bothers me more the more I look at him.

This is all looking super sweet otherwise!

everybody stay calm this is the pixel art police

that piece is an aliased vector animation and as such does not belong in this thread


also that thing looks like a wolf or something except it's plantigrade which makes it sort of freaky

Rambros looks like it will fit a few of those.

i haven't seen a single post in this thread that could be classified as disrespectful

lol

we have our first one

What's with the weird sentiment in this thread that professional websites should be made for no money? Just because some sites are made as hobby projects doesn't mean that other sites can't heave higher ambitions and bigger costs. And just because some people can throw together a Wordpress site in a day for free doesn't mean that people are being scammed because someone trying to make a larger site needs money to do so. It's like saying that you can throw together a game in Game Maker for free in a day, so why would any game need X thousands of dollars to be made? But I guess Venus Patrol is just the animosity-bandwagon to jump on this particular week at TIGSource. *sigh*

Higher ambitions of what? Making more money?

Those "hobby" websites that you seem to be looking down on always have higher quality content than the "professional" everything-videogames-in-one-place SEO ad ridden websites.

What a shitty attitude towards people making things in their free time, fuelled by their passion for the medium rather than profit.

I think the best solution to diagonal shooting is the way they did it in Contra: Shattered Soldier: one shoulder button to lock your position and aim freely, and one to lock your aim, allowing you to move however you want while shooting in one direction.

I'm imagining the money goes into producing big features, or podcasts, or video content, or just having a small-but-permanent staff.

None of this costs any money to create, and don't take more time than what is reasonably spent on a hobby either. And if such things are created with the intention of making the money back they can only be worse for it.

Pixelprospector is brought up because it's one among countless examples of amazingly useful and entertaining websites that don't need a paid staff or a million dollar kickstarter to be what they are.