Yeah I was willing to give them the benefit of the doubt when I thought it was just one game, but it being coincidental gets exponentially less plausible with each ripoff they release, and they seem to have several. So, yeah, this is shitty, and will require justice sodomy to rectify.

I didn't know, but that certainly seems far more damning than anything brought up thus far to me. But hey, at least they're getting better, and ripping things off less thoroughly? 

Well, I try to treat people much as I would like to be treated.  

Kobel, if you are trying to make a judgement of the developers' character, then you might want to look at Mobile Bros' Energy Harvest and Auditorium.

See, that's exactly it; this isn't anywhere NEAR that bad 

I'm not making a legal argument, I'm saying that my basis for making a judgment of someone's character is much the same as that used by the criminal justice system. I suppose I could have been more specific, but it seems like you got the idea anyway.

Wait does Australia actually now have an official government itty bitty titty committee?

Moderately so. Sure, it's a first hand observation, but it's still just one guy- far from a consensus. I played Night Game at GDC too, but I don't have an iPhone to test it out so I can't do a direct comparison myself.

I guess the standard I'm applying here is the same as the US legal system; innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Things look bad for this guy, but there are still reasonable explanations for it that wouldn't preclude his innocence.

But not NEARLY as unsettling as the idea of some guy playing WaDF and seeing the teaser for Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet, getting inspired, and getting ruined by the entire tigforums for having the sheer gall to actually make an independent game based on that inspiration. Why, that's downright fucking disturbing.

Ha!  That's kind of a stretch.  Occam's Razor and all that...  Plus, he's not getting ruined.  He seems like he's getting a pretty fair shake here, actually.  Nicalis is the only one who can really do anything, anyway.

Hyperbole for the sake of argument and all that. Regardless, it seems clear from most of the preceding discussion that to a lot of people in this thread this guy's name is already mud; maybe it's justified, maybe it isn't, but having that kind of impression on people is hard to come back from, and even if the simplest explanation is that it's a ripoff I don't think it's necessarily fair to judge peoples' character based on Occam's Razor.

I guess I just prefer to defer judgment until I see something really damning, because I find the idea of someone getting the cold shoulder after making good faith efforts based on a shitty coincidence really repugnant.

Nothing sweety, you just carry on with whatever the hell it was you were doing.

I must admit that I find the idea of someone ripping off Nifflas and getting away with it unsettling...



But not NEARLY as unsettling as the idea of some guy playing WaDF and seeing the teaser for Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet, getting inspired, and getting ruined by the entire tigforums for having the sheer gall to actually make an independent game based on that inspiration. Why, that's downright fucking disturbing.

ITT people act outraged about the government so they can justify their abdication of responsibility.

Me : DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

Maaan that's what I said screw you I'LL KILL YOU I'LL KILL YOU!!!

Drawer full of booze

Me

I like the people I talk to but I'm terrible at breaking the ice. There's so much going on that I often don't end up talking to people much. Another reason why I need something awesome to show off! Then we have something to talk about 

Going to be shelling out $550 for a tutorial pass. My resolution for this year is to actually fucking properly talk to people. We'll see how that pans out.

I feel like I need to have something awesome done to show off. Hmm.

Street Fighter 3

Undying was awesome, great atmosphere beacause of a lighting trick in the engine (was new a t the time), also: I loved all the crazy stuff like this giant sheep you could summon with a trick.

Also, the Scry spell was a fucking brilliant way to tie functionality into exposition and atmosphere with one spell. I never finished that game, but I still think it's pretty awesome.

Some of the Metroid games at least play around with the elements of horror, I think, to varying degrees of success.

Eversion freaks some people right the fuck out

Hey I just thought of an awesome idea for a horror story.
There's this guy, and every morning he gets up and looks in the mirror. But one day he notices that he's a little paler and weaker than he remembers being. He gets fatter. His hair falls out. And, what's worse, he sees signs of the same disease in his friends and family. His parents waste away before his eyes and die, barely recognizable as who they once were. And, eventually, he too dies a death, one he never had a chance of struggling against!

I think Jason Rohrer might have beaten me to this one