PPPAAAAARRRRRRTTTTTTTYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!! 

eh just be happy knowing that you misinterpreted me

ups! my bad , sorry for that

oh and anyone else played The World Ends With You? - that had one of the most retarded yet awesome battle systems I've seen for a while, top and bottom screen - stylus and d - pad. It improved my multitasking skills!

I must admit that TWEWY's system is something I'd like to try, it seems interesting the d-pad and stylus combo (and how that reinforces the pairing of characters). It seems to be a system that can't be fully explained with words, and must be experienced instead...

* The glassmakers' town in Loom, and especially when the undead priest/death/chaos incarnate takes the scythe.

killing rusty when you use the mirror spell and then talking to his spirit... made me feel guilty as hell

I have a lot of these, but one that always stuck with me was in planescape torment, when you enter your own tomb and start reading the walls. that was a real 'keiser soze' moment in videogames -not those boring twists you can see coming a mile away...

I personally have always wanted to play a 'regular' rpg with a a tactical rpg battle system (ff tactics and disagea style)

gold box series? wasteland? dark sun? realms of arkadia? I mean... pretty much every game before the 1st person combat (eye of the beholder, wizardry, etc.) sported tactical battles along a stage/scenery. With a dosbox front end is pretty easy to play dos games now (gold box series are like 400kb each!), is depressing how little rpg stories have changed over the years though... If you haven't you should really go and play those. Don't miss the middle ultimas  :D

and staying on topic... fallout's system is pretty much a turn based tactical thingy, but every time I replay it it just feels right. The same goes for baldur's gate (and all the games in the infinty engine).

I remember two games, one was silver, which had you drawing gestures for sword combat, was kinda neat, but then you realized spells were in a hotkey, and that there weren't many moves... The second one, can't remember the name, but the system was like six hotkeys, and you assigned attacks/spells, and chained combos... which now that i think of it it was pretty much the same as square's vagrant story (really cool that one, very dynamic flow, though unwieldy for a party/multiple characters).

I guess you could take a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time_vs._turn-based_gameplay
i has a pretty comprehensive list.

and I love the fighting game idea. and a card game, a la magic could work too.

and now i'm going to shut up.

INDIE FASHION

also: indie music?

geforce 260. Have an integrated geforce video in my mobo though, so if I finally upgrade to windows 7 should be able to use the hybrid sli thingy.

I pretty much ignore my beard until it starts to eat my face.
then I freak out and use an electric razor.
I guess that makes me a retrosexual??

not really

and this thread it's not weird at all. It's perfectly normal for the ladies & gentlemen to discuss such a fine topic since it's regarded as one of the three fundamental pillars of a civilized conversation.

I'm reluctant of posting in this thread if only because the pure and historic awesomeness that has been posted before...

still,

Quick "8-bit" hero for the 2beegames mini contest, took me about an hour. Looked up the specs for nes sprites in pixelation, but ended ignoring pretty much everything except colors. Ditched the Nes palette and replaced with CGA mode 5. Don't like much how it ended though, too combine-y for it's own good.


these are old pixels from about a year or so.
1x

2x


I deffintely need to learn proper shading 

It's possible, yes. I'm not good at all at coding, but I've been looking examples some time ago.

First, you could browse GM official forums, there are a lot of tips in the advanced/experts threads.
Second, get your hands around ultimate3d, there are other 3d APIs adapted to GM, but the last time I checked, this was the most complete and the fastest in terms of drawing and FPS. It still lags in some secenes -with no AI, so beware-, but already has some shading scripts written (toon, water shading, motion blur, bloom, as far as I can recall).
You should also try to look up general tutorials about shading (not language specific, but the theory behind shading and how it works) to get an idea on how to code one and what you're trying to achieve with it.
As far as I understand shading scripts should work in 2d/3d since are applied per pixel level, but being 'iggorant' as I am, I'm not sure of the specifics in the implementation of each.

Finally, the "oil painting" look is a common filter in photo editing programs, maybe could try to look the algorithm and adapt it?

No age. And trying to decide between tiê, camera osbcura or cat power next...

@rob: yes as a matter of fact, he is. they played in a tiny venue in buenos aires. People went bonkers, jumping and dancing. By the end all around me was a sweaty mess. And after the show the guys we're drinking some beers and chattin' with people. Cool guys

awww, now I want lazer eyes too!!!

Coming soon: Michael Bay's CAVE STORY
Starring Meagan Fox as Curly
and Shia Lebeouf as Quote

Oh! cool, and then we can forgive them for murdering our childhood memories with that transformers movies!

Also: -> everybody knows christian bale was born to play quote

me likey... somewhere the double pixel god is shedding tears of joy.

kekskiller please stop posting those sexy screens, it's like an awesome ascii rainbow full of goodness and my brain can't take it anymore. IT IS GOING TO MELT!!!!

jwaap it makes me think like a lower than lo-fi shooter! :handthumbsupR: I kinda miss the kinetic nudity () that populates your games

"EmThree" huh. That guy from the Mario mockups.
Huge fan here.

oh yes, yes. I see 

My dear sir, 

It's just so hard to pick one or two... let's see

Loom, the floppy version, was the first game I finished and got me started in the whole adventure stravangza that was the 90s.
Commander Keen. F. T. W. The dopefish lives! ALL HAIL TO THE DOPEFISH!
Command & Conquer. I love these one, made me enter in a RTS frenzy and back then, I actually liked more than warcraft (at least until starcraft came along...)
Wolfestein 3D. Love this one, but I wasn't all that into FPSes when I was a kid. I actually missed doom and the original quake and I came to like those all grown up.
bubble bobble. I think this was the only game my sis got really into and we used to play together for hours. Never beat it though 
UFO: Enenmy Unknown. I got these one 'cause I like the isometric graphics, and then on my first play the lack of understanding of the game's rules made for a shameful defeat. Never played again for years until my old PC couldn't run newer games and being totally bored decided to give it a second try. Never regreted it.
That's it I think...
oh! wait, I was forgetting stunt racer!
Now I'm done.

that's me on the right. that's as groupier as I get. 'nuff said.
taken in november 2008. I've got some more recent pictures from this year in my camera -which translates in longer hair, longer beard and general scruffines (?)- but it's late, I'm lazy and I'm not that interesting.

hey great work! I always find myself coming here now and then to check some new things (it's like a pre-TIGSource! )

Congrats on the site, bookmarked already!

La cité des enfants perdu and carnivale had great settings.
Also, HL2, if mostly because of the art direction (HL2 would not be HL2 if the combine architecture/style wasn't there...)

I'm fond of the Dune universe* being on of the first books I read and all.
Warhammer 40k has a great thing in the "gothic sci-fi" department, but the game has been out there for so long, that at some point I think it's overwritten.
A couple of years ago I was really digging yu yu hakusho, but it isn't vastly different from diggin' japanese folklore. Which brings me to mithology and folklore in general. Those are quite inspiring settings, and I like how people develop these narratives to explain the world they live in (we're still doing it :D)
Last but not least, the Ravnica setting in Magic, blew my mind a couple of years ago. Seriously, I think those guys have yet to surpass it in terms on creating such a cohesive universe, for me it was an exemplar retelling of the classic fantasy types.

I know there has been others, since this kind of things always attracted me, but these are the things that right now seem stuck in my head.

*the six original novels, not that derivative and uninspired writing done by herbert's son

awesome 3D (tile-wise) raytracer roguelike

hey a new thing to look for!
imagine the possibilites! 
*drools*

been wanting to post here for aaaages...

I've seen all kinds of awesome here as always!
If I had any kind of authority I would totally declare ivan and ishi deities of 3d!

Bones, love the dudes, the yellow one the most