But maybe I'm not the typical audience either.

From your post it sounds like you're exactly the audience Apple are aiming for with this thing.

I meant more in terms of users on this forum :D
As far as working on the go, well iWork seems great to me with a bluetooth keyboard. As for coding...well that's a no-no, but I much prefer to code on my desktop anyway.

So I'm kind of torn on the iPad.

I'm not the hugest Apple fan ever. I used to own a macbook, which I eventually gave to my girlfriend. Right now, I have an Acer netbook that I use on the go (net, watching shows/movies, a little bit of gaming on emulators, coding), and a windows desktop that I use the rest of the time. I also have an iPod touch that I really love- I use it to listen to music/watch movies on the go (as a French student whose family lives in France, studies in England this year and has a girlfriend in the US I take the plane/train a lot), but also at home- I usually leave it on the coffee table in the living room and use it to quickly check emails/facebook/forums without having to use the computer, and a couple games.

For the iPod, here are my main gripes with it:
- No multitasking
- No Flash
- No "illegal apps" (torrenting, emulation, etc. which I use on my netbook)

For the first point, I believe that OS 4 will fix that. The second point is not that big of a deal, and the last one...I can probably find a way around (for example torrent from my server and watch them through the embedded quicktime player in Safari) or just deal without it.

The lack of physical keyboard is not a huge problem for me- I got used to the touch's keyboard pretty well, and you can always bring a bluetooth keyboard in your bag for coffee shops/on the go/etc. (Apple's bluetooth keyboard is pretty small).

So I'm thinking that around may/june, I might sell my netbook + ipod touch, and use the money for the purchase of a iPad.

- I can do all I used to do on my touch (net, mails, facebook, watching movies and shows in bed,...)
- Play games (Plants vs Zombies and Crayon Physics should be way better too )
- I'll probably be a teaching assistant next year, and the tablet could be a cool device to have quick access to my PDFs, etc. iWork looks pretty neat too for editing documents on the fly.
- I'm really excited about Brushes- fingerpainting = awesome.
- I love reading books and magazines, but they're a bit of a pain to carry around when traveling- iBooks is wonderful for that (plus, we're probably going to have an updated Kindle App).
- It has a microphone, so I can use the Skype app to call my parents, etc. (I have a skype international account)
- It's pretty neat to show pictures to my grandparents, etc.
- The calendar feature looks AWESOME.

I'll probably get the 32GB one (64 GB is expensive :/) with the 3G option (GPS = awesome). It's not a legal contract either, which I like (essentially you pay 30$ for one month of unlimited 3G data, with no obligation to renew or anything).

So all in all, the only thing I'll miss in the iPad is a camera- otherwise I feel like it's a near perfect device for me. But maybe I'm not the typical audience either.

Lego Island for PC.

You will burn in hell.
That game is my childhood.

Anyway, I kinda can't shake off the feeling that this is a sequel to a game that was never meant to have one.

I agree that the original plot would be better left without a sequel, but the universe definitely has material for some interesting spin offs. I don't know what they intend to do in the 2nd though.

Watching "School of Rock" atm- that movie is epic.

Also watched Paprika the other night, it was a very interesting experience Made me want to watch the other stuff by Satoshi Kon.

The limited edition looks spectacutastic. Too bad I'm broke right now

I loved the first one, although I never had time to finish it- I might use the occasion to.

It's pretty stupid to think like that.

I couldn't agree more with Torvald's ideas.

"Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a quality that decides between success and failure."
~ Edsger Dijkstra

 

It only starts to suck once you realize that that world is mostly empty, that the hundreds of NPCs in the game are mostly all just clones of four or five different people, and that there is in fact very little filling up the vast landscapes.

At least Morrowind gives you the illusion of not being empty, which Oblivion with its faux-unique NPCs absolutely fails at. I mean, at least to me, it was pretty jarring entering the Imperial City and seeing like 5 people on the street.

Maybe with the next console generation they'll be able to have thousands of people everywhere in a city.

They pulled it in Assassin's Creed...a mix of these 2 would be marvellous.

There are some truly excellent RPGs out there, but I think that the game mechanics just make it easy to make a big, empty game- and that a huge majority of developers take this easy road.

I plan on getting a Wii, but right now I'm moving a lot so it won't be before a handful of months...how easily can one develop for it and run the result on emulator?

I have a lot of bad memories relating to Maple Story. So much effort for so little reward.

You can replace "Maple Story" by "any MMO".

Looks like some implementation of OpenGL for use within a browser...O3D looks cooler:

http://code.google.com/apis/o3d/

Skofo, if you want some good proper OpenGL tutorials, see the NeHe stuff

e.g. In general I prefer inspired art direction (say Fez, Spelunky, Braid, etc) over bump-map barf (Fallout 3, GTA4, Batman, etc, etc, etc, etc).

I remember experimenting with OpenGL on windows with my Radeon 4850, and having problems with certain pixel shader operations.

I still want to support OpenGL for the cited reasons though.

Why is everyone so uptight about the IGF judgements? God, indie development should stay fun guys.





(you just have to watch up to 0'10 )

Morrowind and Oblivion are really well orchestrated.
Sam and Max is just pure jazzy bliss.
Shadow of the Colossus is epicly soothing.
Okami is brilliant in the way it uses traditional japanese sounds.
Bioshock is retrotastic.

And there are always the classics: Terra (FF7), Time's Scar (Chrono Trigger), etc.

So for the game's birthday, they do that "pay what you want" thing that World of Goo did.

http://www.crayonphysics.com/

Lasts until Jan 15th.
oing to use that as a pretext to pick it up. 

I like the idea of platform-themed months better. I just find it cooler and more prone to sharing and discussing the actual development.

Totally in!

It'll be awesome if the participating devs could get some articles/doc written on the month's platform as they code, to contribute to the HB community