Our tagline is, "ELEPHANT KISS? LAST OF THE BEDROOM EYES" so I'm glad that they removed it. It was too confusing, otherwise.

This was fun. I wish my missiles were bananas.

I love frist posts.

Donut wizard with cat familiars:



WIZARD 3 / ??

IT IS A GOOD DECISION TO EAT THEM ALL.

I don't know, games like System Shock 2 / Fatal Frame made me paranoid enough, even though I could (ineffectually) fight back.

I cliche I'm working with right now is lives. I didn't want to use them at first, but had to face the fact that making a brutally hard video game with permadeath and an aggressive risk / reward system might be a frustrating thing without multiple lives.

I love the victory message.

My wife and I used to play Legend of Zelda games together, until I discovered that she, too, would destroy everything that could be destroyed. Now I have to have a book to read or something while she plays.

Micachu & The Shapes - Turn Me Well

Saw them play here this summer! They were adorable and also nicely fuck-you.

Last.fm doesn't have the word-of-mouth feeling. It's too clinical.

You say 1980s teen film like it's a bad thing! I'm making a mixtape for a friend. These songs are great, and exactly to my purposes.

Aside: have you seen Teen Wolf Too? Early Jason Bateman and BOXING and a ramshackle ending make a wonderfully sloppy movie.

Sounds like Star Gate! (Andre Norton)

I need as many songs like this as possible:

Wilson Phillips - Hold On
Eddie Money - Think I'm In Love
Stan Bush - The Touch

Yeah, I was looking at storing the level state in a file as you leave the level, and then keeping track of the current level with a global variable. I don't use GameMaker's level save / load stuff; it would just be file_text_write_string() after generating the level. I'm really excited about this game, but I'm working on two others at the moment, so I'm resisting the urge to work on it. Try and finish some projects first.

Doctoral Thesis: The Rhythm Game.

Actually, I just played Noby Noby Boy today and that game pretty much consists of what you're describing. It's like it doesn't just have moments that are like that, in the way Mario does, the silly/funny/happy stuff pretty much makes up the fabric of the whole game. Suffice to say I spent my playing session giggling like the idiot I probably am.  :D

I wish I had one of these Next-Gen things or Now-Gen or something to take Advantage.

Alas! I have to satisfy myself with Opniyama, and the collision detection is buuusted.

Paper Mario and Rhythm Heaven both make me happy in a similar way that I cannot express in words.

Actually, I can. It's the fat Crest mascot in Mario Galaxy that shouts TRANSFOOORM, as well as Tingle from Wind Waker.

I love games that show me happy things and then tell me, "THIS IS DUMB. BUT YOU LIKE IT."

Bosses that are regular enemies that mutate. Cute little enemy falls into acid pit, turns into big evil boss.

I like this one. It's Yoshi's Island!

Killing rats.

EXACT. Can we turn this thread into, WHAT GAME ARE YOU PLAYING RIGHT NOW THAT YOU LIKE A LOT?

Just call that slowdown a feature. It's the Cave way.

Can't wait to play this.

It's absolutely, amazing, certainly their most varied yet. Colossus sounds like Black Sabbath on a sugar rush and Funny Farm is like Eddie Van Halen's mutant brother playing a country hoedown. Definitely worth a listen (and of course, purchase once it comes out).

All the Lightning Bolt talk makes me want to listen to Hypermagic Mountain again, but my record player is brokened.