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I'm all up for a buddy key if you get one. I've been watching the game for a while.

To those who care, there's 18 video podcasts released by the dev team on youtube with gameplay videos of many of the features (character customization, vehicles, APB's, etc).

EvE is a horrible grindfest...and its slow...and you can't crash into planets...or other ships...and the tutorial is horrible (Although I hear that they fixed that)...but I like the idea of EvE (giant fleet battles, space trading, ship building, etc...). If I had the patience, I'd probably sit down...

If anyone thinks that MMO's are a grindfest, play EvE for 6 months in a player-run corporation, and then we'll talk. :wink: As for APB, I watched about 6 of 23 gameplay leaks that some guy posted. It looked alright, but it didn't seem to revolutionary. The game itself seemed very fleeting: The world...

I'd be in if it's realistic-based and has an interesting setting. Though I don't exactly understand the dice rolls. Would I post an action, and then you would replay with the roll? Or am I expected to do it myself? And would you only be able then to do a single action per post? In my opinion things ...

They're building the engine first, and then building the game off of that. This way, they can plan the game with modability from the ground up, and it opens up many paths for future uses of the engine.

Sounds interesting to me. Might want to have a few rules for the magic though, so it doesn't turn into a "whatever the heck I need at this moment" kind of thing.

Sounds like a plan. I'll deal with any that come my way.

Blorx wrote:No, just text based RPG influences. Even Angband, Akalabeth and the earlier Ultima games started in that way, or some way very similar to it.

I meant the references to Toady and Scamps. http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/Scamps

What exactly about the .msi doesn't work?

Dwarf Fortress influences much?

Good start, though in my opinion, I would start with gameplay or features in general and then work on the menu once you have a need for it.

The demonstration was on removing the 'cut off' effect of the particle planes. If you look at the corner of the box, as the smoke flows, it cuts directly into the box, making apparent that it's just basically a texture. The soft particles surround the box.

I'd be up for it. I usually lurk around once or twice a day, and there've been a few times spam's popped up without anyone taking care of it. Another idea is to create a sub-forum that auto deletes any account that posts in it. Have a few fake threads for the spambots to post in and they'll eventual...

The problem with adding more particles is that it would distinctly increase the number of calculations for the system overall.

Yeah, screenshots and a description of the game itself (similar to how Wolfire posts an Overgrowth summary with every alpha) for those who have not followed the blog.

David wrote:The ambient light cubemap is automatically created from the sky -- why do you want a different ambient light color?

The only thing that immediately comes to mind might be a nighttime scene with blue ambient lighting, though I think that should be possible by setting the sun.