{"id":42033,"date":"2018-02-26T06:00:35","date_gmt":"2018-02-26T11:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=42033"},"modified":"2018-02-27T12:45:41","modified_gmt":"2018-02-27T17:45:41","slug":"diecast-199-system-shock-kickstopped-creeper-world-factorio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=42033","title":{"rendered":"Diecast #199: System Shock Kickstopped, Creeper World, Factorio"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s been a while since we talked about programming around here. But this week Paul and I brush up against the topic. <\/p>\n


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Hosts: Shamus<\/a> and Paul<\/a>. Episode edited by Issac<\/a>.
\nShow notes:
\n00:35 The System Shock Kickstarter debacle.<\/b><\/p>\n

Here is the failure announcement<\/a> from the team. Like I said in the show, I’ll be covering this in more detail tomorrow. <\/p>\n

In our talk, I claimed “we never saw any gameplay”. Technically, they do show you hitting zombies with a wrench. They showed that in the original Kickstarter video<\/a> in 2016, and we saw they finally got back to that point just before the project was canceled. So it would be more correct to say they didn’t make any progress on gameplay, or that we didn’t see any new<\/strong> gameplay. <\/p>\n

Also a lot of what I said was conjecture.<\/p>\n

21:18 Creeper World<\/strong><\/p>\n

Here is Creeper World 3<\/a> on Steam.<\/p>\n

30:49 Having fun while playing Factorio with cheats.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is the goal of the game. Just launch this rocket. It's super easy!<\/div>
This is the goal of the game. Just launch this rocket. It's super easy!<\/div><\/p>\n

For the record, I play with a mix of cheats and mods. I use the long reach mod to avoid having to walk into a nest of conveyor belts and grabber arms to reach the machine I want to interact with. <\/p>\n

I really wish there was a mod that let you beautify your base. Trees, signage, that sort of thing. Usually by the time I’m done the thing is a square mile of pavement and electrical wires and it looks sort of depressing.<\/p>\n

42:37 Hey You! Bob Case is going to be on the next Diecast. Send us some questions for him. <\/strong><\/p>\n

(Email in the header image.)<\/p>\n

45:17 What happened to Project Frontier and Project Octree?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Here are the Unity tutorials I talked about<\/a>. It’s probably the best overview of the process of starting with basic numbers and building up your own scenery. A shame they’re in video form.<\/p>\n

I wish I had time for this sort of thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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