New Anox Shot

It\'s Dan Quayle!

Mainly just your spelling of \"guarnteed\"... hehe.


ME (goes into bar): Gimme a coke.

Wife: This place is smokey, can we leave?

Me: Hang on a second, if I tell everyone I work on Anox I can take anyone I want home!

Wife: HAHA! This I gotta see.

Me (to sexy stranger): Hey baby, I work on Anox, you got a name?

Sexy Stranger: The names Squirrel sweety, funny bumping into you in a bar.

Me: crap...

ION people read these boards? I bet theyre all into that S&M shit then.

RE: #19

There are a few factors that make the Anox levels look that good. One is the fact that the artists on the team are doing the level design. This means that they can use the cool tricks they\'ve learned over the years, plus they can make their own textures thus making it easier to produce their \"vision\" of the level. In addition, the actor/camera scriptor that Joey wrote really adds life to the level (e.g. the guys walking on the \"roof\", the ships flying around, etc). As you can see, the results have been fantastic.

RE: #29

Obviously you\'ll be limited to where you can go, much the same as your limited in any Quake based game. There are restrictions that must be adhered to regarding how much of the world is visible from any point in the world. There won\'t be the freedom of movement or exploration you\'d find in a Baldur\'s Gate, or Fallout, but it\'s a different kind of game than those. In any case, everyone has done a great job on that game and it will be visually fantastic, I think.

RE: \"Revolutionary\"

Almost without exception, I believe that if you see the word \"revolutionary\" associated with a title in development, it\'s probably not revolutionary. You can\'t \"plan\" revolutions. They simply happen. Whether or not the game is revolutionary is determined after it has hit the market. Unless the gaming industry and consumers accept something as revolutionary, the revolution simply doesn\'t occur. Quake was obviously revolutionary. In terms of technology, Quake was evolutionary -- plain and simple. First we have pseudo-3D environments, now we have fully 3D environments. The revolution that Quake created was not so much in coding and technology as it was in the gaming industry. The coding and technology was the vehicle that drove other dev. teams to create a new, highly competitive market for single- and multi-player FPS games. It created a change in the way people thought] about gaming. Will Anachronox, Daikatana, Deus Ex, or Dominion revolutionize gaming? Probably not. Will some of the titles be very good? I believe so. A game doesn\'t need to be revolutionary to be a great game. Call it a pet peeve -- I generally get annoyed when companies tout their products as revolutionary. I understand all too well what a marketing manager in the gaming industry is expected to do to push a product but -- damn. It can just get silly when it seems that every game coming out the door is called \"revolutionary\". It renders the term meaningless.

#38: Attached & loving it, yes. ;-)
#1: No, it\'s more like this:

*me goes into a bar.

Me: Hey I work on Anachronox!

Sexy Girl: Wow, you\'re a real chick magnet. Come over here.

Audience: Wait a minute, you don\'t drink. Besides, you have no life. What are you doing outside? Let alone in a bar?

Me: Oh, yeah, I hadn\'t thought of that.

Audience: Go back to your hole and code, rat-boy.

*me gets back to work.

-squirrel@ionstorm.com

Alas, almost the whole Anox team is attached, most married, happily.

Do you know the off-screen identity of the Swedish Chef from \"The Muppets\"? I\'ve always had a nagging suspicion he was actually Stalin incognito, but could never prove it.....

#30 / #31: HAH! Are you sure you weren\'t on the Halo homepage by mistake?

#30: Heheh. Nice find..... we\'ll see how their press releases match up to their sales figures soon nuff.

#19, I remember reading that the reason Anachronox levels look so much more detailed is because you are limited to where you can go on the levels. It\'s supposed to be more role-playing or whatever. Something like that. I would not really know for sure cause I don\'t work on the game, and get all the chicks like they do =P

#16 & #17: Yes, it\'s actually more than 20, however I just round it off to 20 since it keeps increasing (which should be changing soon, as we hire on more webmasters). GeoCities.. hmm, I have actually _never_ had a free host in my life. I run XtremeNetwork.com, which consists of approx. 60+ domains owned by mplayer.com. I usually avoid dropping by forums much, but felt I\'d reply to some comments that were part of Steve\'s news item about one of my new creations (anachronoxnews.com).

Steve: I did actually work as a volunteer editor and reviewer with Hosebag at MPOG (Multi-Player Online Gaming). I later went from part time to full time exclusively with mplayer.com, as a independant contractor (I work at my own offices).

On another \'non-serious\' (I hate serious) note, I should have some new shots up of Anachronox in the next couple of days, along with some new sections. :)

UT in first person = HEAVEN!

first of all.. hahah #1 you own.. that\'s fuckin hilarious
and #2.. Anachronox has about as much \"eye candy\" as my hairy ass.

--Loco3KGT

he works for mplayer... or mpog, or whatever you wanna call it.

he could prolly run 20 news sites. let\'s see, one at geocities, one at angelfire, one at tripod...

Honestly, I don\'t send news to Steve, expecting him to post it. I usually send out news to my media friends so that they are \'aware\' of the news item, and can post it if they wish to. It\'s just the way of looking at it. I do have several close media friends who post anything I send, as I do in return for them, however seeing that it does say \'sCary\'s Shugashack\', wouldn\'t you expect him to post what he likes to see and read? Since I run 20+ news sites, it\'s harder for me to discriminate what to post to various sites, since it is my job and duty to provide my readers with that information. I\'m not too opinionated in this area and really don\'t feel it\'s a important issue, but I wanted to drop in my comments.

What was the link to that kid\'s site? I remember going to it and then trying again a day or two later and it wasn\'t there... just the words \"steve sucks\" or somethin like that... that kid made me laugh and cry... hearing him say \"hellloooo my future girlfriend\" put me in a trance... creepy... very creepy... *shudder*

#7> Believe it or not, the gaming world does not rise and set at the whim of Steve Gibson. I\'m not trying to say that what he does here doesn\'t influence a lot of people, but -- let\'s be serious, there are a LOT of gaming news sites out there.

BTW, on topic, I think that Anachronox shot looks fairly sassy.

#7 your logic rules.

#10 never mind...

arg, if you\'re gonna spooge \"first post!\" and get all giddy at least BE first post.

<gay tag>first post!</gay tag>

#5, uh... daikatana screenshots were headlined YESTERDAY.

#8, you are gay. At least he had something to say, and anything about the future girlfriend kid is pretty funny.