Morning Discussion
by Jeff "geedeck" Gondek, Sep 11, 2008 4:26am PDTMorning Shackers. Japan needs to be more creative, the Warhammer MMO pre-launch is starting soon and if you were a fan of Genesis-era Phantasy Star games, well then the depressing news is they clearly only want to make Diablo-alikes, but now on DS!
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38 Studios, Harry Potter Kinect - Shacknews Daily: May 25, 2012
Minecraft for Xbox 360 dev working on 'Adventure' update
Yay or nay?
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http://blue.mmo-champion.com/1/9679894519-pvetopvp-paid-character-transfers-now-open.html
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I'm a painter and i work in a studio a short distance from my apartment. Its a small little space, and its divided in to two parts, one is mine, the other is used by some musicians. We seem to get on really well, the only thing is, when i'm concentrating on work its some times tricky when they are in there recording.
Listening to people next door trying to get the drumms for their album right for 8+ hours can be infuriating, when you'd rather be listening to your own music or whatever. I can put up with it for the most part, and i'm generally in there a lot more than them. I certainly dont wanna cause any fuss with them, especially since i get on with them, and they pay the rent to use the place like i do, and i knew they'd be making a lot of noise before i signed up.
Anyway, getting to the point eventually. Is there something i could rig up in my studio to detect remotely wether at any given time they are in or not? Reason i ask is, its not far to the studio but it would be good if i could not waste a lot of my time going over their to check if their making a lot of noise.
So this would have to be some kind of mic or video camera i could check from my apartment, i'd use a webcam but i've got no internet connection in my studio. Plus cost has to be relatively low. To be clear i do want to spy on these guys or anything just would like to know in advance if they are in there already or not. So video quality could be really poor/static, just good enough to see if the lights in my area are on or not (they have to go through my space, to get to theres, and all the lights are linked to one switch)
So any ideas? i know this is extreme lazyness when i could go just check in person, but guess what i'm lazy.
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If you could have any TRS-80, Ti99-4/a, Apple IIe, Atari 400/800/1200, Commodore-64 or other early-mid 80's game back, what would it be?
M.U.L.E. -> Space Horse is the closest thing.
Archon -> Wasn't there a revival?
Crush, Crumble and Chomp! -> Available via GameTap.
Mar Tesoro -> Not sure if there's anything like it.
Seven Cities of Gold -> Arguably Colonization. Not exactly the same though.
The Jumpman Series
Miner 2049er
Lode Runner -> Several variants have been made.
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Am I the only one not able to play this damn game? I am trying to run it on a PC and I keep getting the same error message, "The game can not start. There seems top be a problem contacting the license server. Ensure your internet connection is active and try again in a few minutes." What the hell!? My internet is connected, wtf are you talking about you shitty EA program!?
Halp?
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What is Best in Life?
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http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=end+day&emb=0&aq=f#
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Last night I put the finishing touches on what could be called a pre-alpha release of my XNA RPG.. and submitted my baby to the Dream Build Play competition :)
details at http://www.CraigGiles.com
youtube video preview: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8n0fBt2t_8
Thanks.. especially to everyone who followed my project from "what the fuck is this float thing?!" stage to "holy shit i have a working rpg?!" stage :) Few of you helped more than I could have hoped, and a ton of you gave me the inspiration needed to dig deep and make this milestone.
Next step for me is to take what I have, build on it, and make a full length game that could be a true SNES quality RPG for the Community Games platform. I've come so far in the last 6ish months, but mostly because of help from a lot of people around here and also around the xna forums. (xna devs posting on the forums were a godsend when I got stuck a few times :D )
My first ever large project program, submitted... and I'm happy! :) THANKS SHACK!
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Hardware Unit Sales
PlayStation 3 185.4K
PlayStation Portable 253.0K
Playstation 2 144.1K
Xbox 360 195.2K
Wii 453.0K
Nintendo DS 518.3K
Top 10 SKU's August 2008
(includes CE, GOTY editions, bundles, etc. but not those bundled with hardware)
Publisher Release Date Rank # Units
360 MADDEN NFL 09 ELECTRONIC ARTS Aug-08 1 1.0mm
PS3 MADDEN NFL 09 ELECTRONIC ARTS Aug-08 2 643K
PS2 MADDEN NFL 09 ELECTRONIC ARTS Aug-08 3 424.5K
WII WII FIT NINTENDO OF AMERICA May-08 4 394.9K
WII MARIO KART NINTENDO OF AMERICA Apr-08 5 328.7K
WII WII PLAY W/ REMOTE NINTENDO OF AMERICA Feb-07 6 200.2K
360 SOUL CALIBUR IV NAMCO BANDAI GAMES OF AMERICA Jul-08 7 174K
360 TOO HUMAN MICROSOFT Aug-08 8 168.2K
WII MADDEN NFL 09 ELECTRONIC ARTS Aug-08 9 115.8K
NDS GUITAR HERO: ON TOUR ACTIVISION BLIZZARD Jun-08 10 111.2K
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It's ready and sharing, looking for my 360. When I run the Media Center setup on my 360, it just gives me the key code and tells me to install the software on my PC :(
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I don't have a massive place, but I'm looking to get a TV that looks good maybe six feet away (not sure if that's plasma or lcd) and will hook up to a nice blu-ray player for maximum awesome.
Also contemplating a couple of positional speakers but don't want go nuts. I figure 4 for each corner of the room and a subby?
Recommendations welcomed for:
- TV (plasma/lcd - brand/size)
- Bluray player (is it worth waiting for a 360bluray or is PS3 worth the cash or what about standalones)
- Speakers & setup
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So today was my last day with current employer (read IT Slave fuckingFIXthis/everythingworksBREAKsomethingorlookbusy) and in celebration a debacuherous going away happy hour was planned followed by a quick road trip to Austin tomorrow to see motherfucking MOGWAI and probably make fun of that pretty boy feg wtf242 and try and figure out why everyone in austin wants to eat japanese candy and touch each others genitalia while listening to incredibly hip music.
Unfortunately IKE changed those plans and my MANweekend turned into "HOLY FUCK WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE DON'T LEAVE ME HERE WITH NO WATER NO POWER AND A 4 MONTH OLD" and so after some incredibly entertaining planning I manage to meet the woman on the outskirts of Houston for the trek North West. Go Go Gadget Traffic and thank god for Hybrids because it was pretty much 2 solid hours of bumper to bumper with irate baby from Jersey Village to College Station. I listened to Erasure. I felt very gay. I hated everyone that chose to live south of the 610 loop because they were ALL in my fucking way. Erasure sort of soothed that, but not really. Then I listened to Sigur Ros and felt very yuppiesh, especially when the kid stopped crying and I just coasted along on my ultra energy concious hybrid still hating everyone but with a latte attitude.
After College Station things picked up and we go to go 80, but then Brenham showed up and since everyone wanted to go to Austin (because apparently the hurricane shelters in Austin are way better than the last 3 cities with hotels) I sat in more traffic. Plus, I was going West and that annoying hot ball of gas was pretty much blinding me while providing an exquisite headache. This too passed, and we go to crank it back up to 80 only to pull over in Giddings so the little demon could suck on mommy's tit (yeah, how much does daddy get to do that these days? ZERO kids! Pull out. Please for the love of GOD pull out) and I went to Subway to buy some chips and caffeine and marveled at the abundance of inbreeding in Giddings (seriously people, stop fucking 1st cousins). After that the kid went back to sleep because I put on Black Rebel Motorcycle Club and that shit will put anyone to sleep (especially How) and then I remembered exactly WHY 290 is the worst fucking freeway on the planet. It's not because of the shit traffic between 610 and the Beltway in Houston, although that is excrementable. No, it's because when you see Austin in the distance it's the ultimate blue ball like going to dinner with Natalie Portman and Scarlett Johannsen and getting to watch them make out and offer you a handjob but just when they pull down your pants the cops show up and arrest all three of you for being socialist. It's that sort of shit, because when you see Austin you realize you have to go through 20,16018608 red lights just to get to fucking 35.
So, here I sit .. in my $300 a night Hurricane shelter (obviously, with the baby and wife in tow the original plan of passing out on the floor of my brother-in-law's efficiencly reeking of weed and beer is not an option) in teh middle of downtown Austin drinking a gin and tonic and letting the woman's $13 portabello panini get cold.
This show better be fucking brilliant, or else I'm going to fucking NUKE scotland.
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Fucking finally. Ruination IPA, Oaked Arrogant Bastard, and the Smoked Porter are all available at my local beer shop. $15 / 6 pack or $6 bombers. I picked up a bomber of Ruination (along with my handle of gin I bought) but I am looking forward to finally getting a chance to try these beers!
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ekrund just go down?
Add a sports ticker to Firefox
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBWPf1BWtkw
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http://www.edge-online.com/magazine/inside-fable-ii
“The things that begin to happen to you and your final choice,” begins Louise Copley, Fable II’s executive producer, “they’re hard, hard things – but that’s the path of a hero. Do you want to be one or not?” You can lose almost everything. You can lose your hard-won experience. You can grow old and you can be permanently scarred. You’ll be bullied by other characters, and they won’t hesitate to mock the type of player you are. It’s taken a while to find expression in games, but now being good isn’t about wanting to be good and clicking the right option: it’s about self-sacrifice. “Now it’s hard,” says Carter. “So, you’re good. What if that stops you doing this? Still good? What if we take this, and this, and this from you? Still good?”
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Molyneux also demonstrates something that few people would expect: it’s all running regardless of where you are. Using a debug menu to shoot into the air and scan across the world from a vantage point (and inadvertently demonstrating far more effectively than concept art ever could the stunning range and vision accomplished by the art team) you see villagers going about their business next to a shop; on a path there’s a band of rogues sitting round their campfire waiting for an unwary traveller; near the outskirts there are two children running around each other. At this point, the player character is in a different part of Fable II’s world in another town: the simulation is running seamlessly. It’s not particularly heralded by Molyneux (though he does insist that “this is simply how it has to be”), but more so than anything else shows the ambition and scale of the project
Worth reading the whole article, lots more detail, you get a good idea what the overall feel of the game is going to be. Put it back on the map for me.
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http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=p95zWsAmTyw
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http://gmd.shackspace.com/ISO6400ScooterFullRes.jpg
some jpg compression applied. I didn't do any post noise reduction on it and the camera is set to also do no noise reduction as well.
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Anyone getting an error when patching? "The porgram was unable to complete the patch operation. Please try again" I am so pissed.
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We had a nice turnout last night even though some early release NHL 09 stole some people from us. I also know there were a few of you that expressed interest that never popped online last night.
I think we are going to try and get a weekly night going again.
Some cat & mouse, last man standing, and a few regular races.
What night would work best for everyone?
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I'm looking for one of those smaller, all-in-one systems that can either play music from a network share connected to a wireless router or accept a usb hard drive and has some kind of visual interface to toggle through directories and such for either one of those options. Anything like this exist?
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Graphics
Improved Greatly
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Charlie's Angles is a horrible movie, even with the eye candy. ...and WTF is up with that Vampire show? lol
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