I understan your views on the fact you can just use your PC as it offers nothing a PC does.

But not everyone who plays and enjoys indie games fully understand how they are developed and not everyone has a PC that can even run a basic 3D game.

As most people keep their computers until they break.

I think OUYA will work for younger/older generations or even casual gamers. No causual gamer wants to pay extensive amounts for a new laptop or PC when they can pay the £100 to play indie games of which they love.

I have a 6 year old cousin who adores Cave story, Minecraft, LIMBO but a PC isn't really an option for him, my nan also loves to play a bunch of WiiWare on her Wii.

I think this has its positives and supporting it might not be a bad thing. But then again its just my shitty unknown opinion :')

Eeeep,

My apologies :') I did try to search OUYA beforehand but got no results

Thanks.

This seems to good to be true? With a powerful mobile Quad Core and 8GB of Flash RAM.

Open-source gaming, most of the game catalog FREE and as a bonus the console is also the dev-kit OUYA even offers a free SDK.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/aug/09/ouya-open-source-game-console

http://www.ouya.tv/devs/

What do you think?

@SIGVATAR as someone who I believe has been banned once before and now is quite active on this forum who seems completely willing to speak his mind even when inappropriate you are in a lovely position to offer some concrete details as to why you just said that. For someone who is on the fence about this whole thing or for the newcomers care to shed any light on your experiences?

Experiences? Experiences... let me think. Well now I can't say I was a real child who experienced social activities like climbing trees and shit I recall sitting in a dark sweaty room playing games until my eyes bled.

I was exposed to caffeine at a young age and nicotine at unhealthy age.

That pretty much sums up my experiences...

Care to share yours?

I'm not playing games as much as I used to. I'd hate to admit it but i'm becoming a casual gamer

But lately i've been looking at shit your pants kinda games,

Slender
Amnesia
Penumbra
Call of cthulu

Any recommendations for immersive horror games?

I am starting to mess around with Unity, and I like it a lot. Really figuring out the tools that are right for me and an idea feels good.

I just started with Unity aswell, it seems great, I really like the browser feature...
But it seems very different from any engine I've used before it might take a while to get my head round the toolkit.

I'm not really sure of its features... Any pointers you can give?

And sorry Schoq I don't mean to spam...
I just want to know your honest opinion on dinosaurs.

Sorry if I offended or annoyed....

Alright alright calm down.
I think you'll find they are in fact brilliant. Look at them, they look very similar to the mythical beast dragons.
And i'm just gonna throw out there without dinosaurs, there would be no mythical dragons. Which also means no games featuring dragons. Which also means no games featuring Dinosaurs and games with dinosaurs can be quite good.
Remember running into the t-rex on Tomb raider? Remember dino crisis. Think of Skyrim....

That's debatable. Mythical beasts were not inspired by fossils, but rather existing animals and some crative mishmash by people and artists.

Also, when did a dinosaur breath fire or fly while weighing tons (which obviously excludes pteranodons, for they were incredibly light and skinny and thus boring).

So no, they were not brilliant. Also, feathers. Chickenosaurus Rex

Of course its debatable, what I said makes no sense I'm trying to back up my opinion of dinosaurs glory with no facts as its just my opinion.
But the chickenosaurus sounds like something to look in to. Is there some way we can involve dodo's dinosaurs and pigs?

But coming here stops clogging up the general threads. Its better to be a downey here than elsewhere. I just wanted a conversation, so I thought starting on the topic of dinosaurs might kick something off.

Is there anything else you can think of talking about at this precise moment in time?

Alright alright calm down.
I think you'll find they are in fact brilliant. Look at them, they look very similar to the mythical beast dragons.
And i'm just gonna throw out there without dinosaurs, there would be no mythical dragons. Which also means no games featuring dragons. Which also means no games featuring Dinosaurs and games with dinosaurs can be quite good.
Remember running into the t-rex on Tomb raider? Remember dino crisis. Think of Skyrim....

I shall eat. As many wire petals as I can. The only problem is I have ran out of Rennie and I get terrible acid indigestion...

Well now how to start?

I am Sam (not Samuel) and I have played games all my life. I did at one point pursue it as a career going about it all proper I studied Gameplay Design and Production at Staffordshire University but quit 6 months down the line.

I absolutely adored seeing how games were developed from start to finish, I learnt this process when I studied Games Development at College.

My first encounter with the gaming world started with a Sega Mega Drive (Sonic The Hedgehog 2) and I started to progress backwards, the next console I got was Commodore 64, then a Atari 2600 and a Spectrum ZX.

Enough about my personal gaming life (sorry to bore you ) and on to my development side. I have never created an entire fully working (or partially working) game. I instead created levels and fake teaser trailers for games that don't exist. I can use off-the-shelf engines, Unreal Engine 3, Crytek Engine and the Source Engine, not so well the Source engine but I can use it none the less. My main skills (can I call it that) is lighting, level design and 3D modelling.

Here is some of my work in chronological order and everything :D

First with college, this was my Final Major Project you had to create a teaser trailer...
I tried my best and when I look back now I can see HUUUGGGEEEE room for improvement.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtKQEyLN4yA

I did model and design many things inbetween these videos but I either lost the data from not backing up and most of my online backups were on fucking Megaupload... Fuck you FBI!

This is low poly skip modelled for my Introduction to 3D Modelling 1A Module

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyBzHTiITyk

And here is a Multiplayer CTF map I created from scratch using a lot of built in resources on the UT3 Engine, learn shit tons about kismet and yes the water kills you (oops) and there was a bug I couldn't quite get right where the water reflects bullets??? :S

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDxpEaA2BmA

Sorry for the long post, but I tried to be brief

The internet is a giant flower.
I eat the petals

What kind of flower?

I think a T-Rex in a rocket powered wheelchair, complete with cane, tophat and monocole would be a great basis for a main character in a linear story-driven game.
Why has this not been done? O_o

I'm just getting involved here many apologies.
I would like to say hello and just dive in with this 'General' conversation.

Hello I'm Sam brand spanking new to this forum (just like that fresh pair of socks) I felt like it would be best to introduce myself, as I have always been interested in forum communitys but never really got involved. I'd like to change that, with your asisstance ^__^

And don't you think Dinosaurs are just brilliant?

(Please be gentle)