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And so it ends. Again. I guess. After two trips through this game I think we’re finally going to let this dead horse have some peace. Here is what Josh had to say about this episode when it originally went live:
Continue reading ⟩⟩ “Bioshock EP14: Who’s Your Daddy?”
My project depends on a number of external libraries. It wouldn’t be possible to get this much done without offloading some of the drudgery to a few low-level packages written by others. I can make windows without getting married to Microsoft, render polygons without worrying myself with the arcane details of the driver layer, and make sound effects while knowing not a blessed thing about audio hardware.
The downside of not writing your code yourself is that you’re dependent on other teams, who might not be all that dependable. A few people have asked what libraries I’m using. So here it is:
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Continue reading ⟩⟩ “Project Good Robot Part 9: Under The Hood”
Hey everypeoples, Josh is going to play a whole mess of Rome 2: The Sequel to Rome. I’ll be there. Randy will be there. Josh will be there. The Romans will be there. It’ll be fun.
The stream is here. Let’s get the parley started!
UPDATE: Things were lively and fun for the first couple of hours while Josh was being griefed by horrible AI, bugs, and humorous scripting. But then he got a headache and we kinda ran out of steam. Thanks to everyone who showed up.
Here is an hour and a half of five people talking about videogames. We got together and realized that one of the big problems in the world is that people don’t spend enough time talking about videogames. So we went beyond the call of duty and gave you an extra half an hour.
You’re welcome.
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Hosts: Rutskarn, Josh, Chris, Mumbles, and Shamus.
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Continue reading ⟩⟩ “Diecast #28: Papers Please, Saints Row, Sim City on Mac, Focus Testing”
As many of you requested, I’m not going to document every feature that goes into this thing. This means we’re going to jump ahead and start talking about stuff I’m dealing with now-ish. A side effect of this is that you’re going to see unexplained features appear and be tempted to ask, “But, what is this feature and how does it work?” Understand that the answer to that question would take a post. A post which would have precluded the writing of this one.
You can’t trick me into writing twice as much by asking me to write about current stuff and then asking me to fill in the blanks in the comments. Well, you CAN, but it’s going to make for a less interesting series for everyone. So just get yourself into some sort of zen state where you’re okay with seeing unexplained mystery content.
So on Friday I talked about the line-of-sight system I came up with. A few people suggested a completely different way of doing it that would be many, many times faster. And now we come to the part of the project where we have to make the hard choices.
See, there’s one thing I didn’t mention on Friday. That’s this:
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Continue reading ⟩⟩ “Project Good Robot 8: Suggestion Box”
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Wow. Is that anger? Bitterness? Cursing game developers? Man, this part of the game makes me nostalgic for our Fallout 3 season.
This was a watershed moment for the Spoiler Warning crew. This is pretty much the low point of BioShock for us. This is where it all went bad. We recorded this episode almost three years ago, and to this day we still refer back to it. As in: “Man, it’s not a bad game, but I’m afraid it would turn into another BioShock.”
Still, our pain is your… gain? I guess?
This coming Tuesday, Sept 3 2013, we will be doing a hangout. If you’ve been looking to hang out with the Spoiler Warning cast then this is probably your best bet for all your out-hanging needs. It’s at 8pm GMT, 3pm Eastern time, noon on the west coast.
Josh will be playing Rome II: Total War, a sequel to the regrettably flawed Rome: Partial War and WAY better than Rome: Diplomatic Negotiations Aren’t Going Very Well.
A post will go up on Tuesday with links to the stream and such. This post is just to let you make room on your busy schedule for wasting time on the internet.
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