{"id":25572,"date":"2015-01-05T08:30:27","date_gmt":"2015-01-05T13:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=25572"},"modified":"2025-09-18T14:17:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T18:17:08","slug":"diecast-87-batman-endgame-tome-stone-soup-dungeon-crawl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=25572","title":{"rendered":"Diecast #87: Batman Endgame, ToME, Stone Soup Dungeon Crawl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy 2015! Enjoy this extra-long Diecast with a full crew and a lot of topics.<\/p>\n<p><!--remove original podcast link[diecast show=\"diecast87\"]\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/diecast\/diecast87.mp3\">Direct Link<\/a>--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/mega.nz\/embed\/egA2BCRQ#k7PYzLHXvVCRHXqbcthC7EaRJEBwEYbEedpVOBZbfI4!1v1c\" width=\"711\" height=\"144\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mega.nz\/file\/egA2BCRQ#k7PYzLHXvVCRHXqbcthC7EaRJEBwEYbEedpVOBZbfI4\">Download MP3 File<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/mega.nz\/file\/S1RwwYTa#JdoW4k6MTQtrL4T_SrHbNvFmXg-oCHFVUOHp-AtA-vs\">Download Ogg Vorbis File<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hosts: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/\">Shamus<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Scarecrow_%28DC_Comics%29\">Josh<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chocolatehammer.org\/\">Rutskarn<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nicemovemumbles\">Mumbles<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/Campster\">Chris<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Show notes:<!--more--><br \/>\n<strong>2:00 Mumbles is reading Batman: Endgame.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>CORRECTION: During the conversation I mention a &#8220;Think Geek&#8221; Loot Crate, but I&#8217;m pretty sure <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lootcrate.com\/\">Loot Crate<\/a> isn&#8217;t affiliated with Think Geek. The deal is that for a small monthly fee (around $12-ish) you get a box of random geek crap supposedly worth $40. I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;s just overstock stuff some other outfit is trying to unload quickly. It&#8217;s the online equivalent of a bargain bin. But it&#8217;s also strangely fun. We got it for my son on his birthday, and getting our monthly loot crate is a big deal around here. Everyone gathers around to see what bits of random fandom we got this month.<\/p>\n<p><strong>20:00 Mumbles recommends Lost Constellation.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/finji.itch.io\/lost-constellation\">You can get it from the official site<\/a> and is offered on a &#8220;name your own price&#8221; basis.<\/p>\n<p><strong>22:00 Chris is playing &#8220;You Don&#8217;t Know Jack&#8221;.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Also, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lZcX_ZdlW3Q\">the new Errant Signal is out! It&#8217;s about GTA V<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>28:00 Josh is playing roguelikes.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/te4.org\/wiki\/Tales_of_Maj%27Eyal_Wiki\">Tome<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>34:00 Shamus isn&#8217;t playing much of the videogames.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Instead I&#8217;m writing my end-of-year stuff and watching speed runs. Here is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/SpeedDemosArchiveSDA\">Awesome Games Done Quick<\/a>. But really, I&#8217;m a sucker for any Deus Ex or Human Revolution speedruns. I don&#8217;t know why, but I love watching this bonkers secret agent save the world through inexplicable nonsense and hilarious stunt-jumping.<\/p>\n<p><strong>37:00 Josh is fighting with Windows.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>43:00 Ruts is also playing roguelikes!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/\">Stone Soup Dungeon Crawl<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>48:00 Rutskarn is making a new campaign setting.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Also he&#8217;s working on his FMV game idea in the margins. Also we talk about rollerblades for a long time. I can&#8217;t even explain why. It just happened.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1:13:00 Shamus can do it.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>True story: At the one hour 13 minute mark Chris jokes that I could help Rutskarn make this FMV game. I didn&#8217;t join in on the joke, because a few minutes earlier Rutkarn had said that he would need to find someone to make the game, or that he would need to program it himself.<\/p>\n<p>That immediately got me thinking, because writing a video player would be monumentally hard for a new coder, but the simple logic that drives a small-scale FMV game would be a fantastic thing for a new coder to work on. So it seems like you&#8217;d need some kind of simplified video player (it would only need to handle one format) that used game logic as a front end. This got me to thinking about the most recent chapter of <a href=\"http:\/\/gameprogrammingpatterns.com\/\">Game Programming Patterns<\/a>, which talked about building a virtual machine to process your own scripting language, so you can handle exactly these kinds of specialized problems where you need artists to be able to code simple things. 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