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Hey that's very cool!

http://wayofthepixel.net/index.php?topic=6685.0

Vaguely relevant reading.

Legend of Grimrock was very cool indeed. (Needed DM style spells and skills however imho...) Anyone tried Might and Magic X, just out of interest? Well, back to the original topic of the post, if GG ever came back and did one final, heroic, tweak to the source code, I'd like it to be "split out...

Yeah, does have a bit of EOB alright, good stuff. The face vaguely reminds me of Knightmare.

For me DM2 was a really shoddy experience compared to the genius of the original. I still played through to the end on the A500 back in the day, but man it was a real let down after so much anticipation.

Maybe I like one of the pieces of music.

I know George Gilbert has apparently stopped developing RTC a long time ago, but, wouldn't it be good if the dungeon definition file system it uses was actually split up into smaller files? I'd find this incredibly useful. For example, one file for the dungeon, another file for new wallsets, for new...

In front of your back?

"Fire Exit. Please Do Not Block"

Glad you liked it. I wasn't a piano fan at all, until I first heard this guy about 10 years ago, through this particular tune as it happens. To me it was unique, I had never heard anything quite like it. By now he has a number of albums, I think his music is really amazing, minimal in a sense, but a...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vg-0DFNTBm0

Going around in there for a while... I love this.

(edit: forget watching the video, just listen to the music)

Daroou's sister.....??



...eww..... thanks for the mental image...

i don't know what Ocarina of Time is... skoal Ocarina of Time is the first Legend of Zelda game to be released in 3D, on the Nintendo 64. It is arguably the best video game ever produced (or at least one of...! DM is clearly No.1...!). There is a cool sequence where your character, Link, is in the ...

Ok, have now given Chaos's RTC AI-NPC a playthrough, and as requested list below a mini 'review'. This is extremely impressive work. I have no idea how it works at the technical level, so I will describe it purely from the experiential point of view of the player. Playing it immediately throws up ma...

Sophia, 'Concise and Honest' I get, but what does mean....?! Penny for your thoughts?

Well I really don't understand what all the fuss is ab

other programs i am playing with are Zbrush, Poser, Maya, 3dmax and Reason 5, but they'll take me a fwe years to feel like i can really work with them like GIMP Wow, using ZB, Maya, Max to generate your assets - for an RTC game?? You must be seriously good...! My graphics mostly start out life as a...

what are you working on now, what areas have you been plugging at? Generally a full graphics replacement. So, all new wallsets, new doors (portcullis, metal, wood, magic/energy, etc), door frames, wall objects/decorations (some interactive, some as pure decos), floor objects, objects (weapons / arm...

Yeah you're right CS. I have various templates set up in PShop that let me quickly develop the items, decorations and variations on the wallsets quite quickly, and to allow decorations to work on multiple wallsets. You kind of get into the flow once you know what the boundaries are, and you know tha...

I seem to love spatial puzzle games. I really loved Portal, and I was absolutely knocked out by The Room on iOS. The Room is a stunning puzzle game, amazing concept, really well executed. It's not a 'perpetual' puzzle game like Tetris is, for example, but wow... awesome.

Ah yes, very true...! Maybe this technique can only be used for static decorations only. I think I may have been concentrating on graphics too much, and not enough on the mechanics. Essentially am building up my assets library, as it were, not actually building the dungeon yet. Partly through indeci...

Hey that sounds like a very interesting way of doing it. So you essentially set up the viewport as an image in Pshop or gimp, set the guides to match the various floor, ceiling and wall tiles, and then paint/create the view you want to see? Do you use a screengrab from DM as a template, or the backg...

Thanks CS. Yes it's been v frustrating. It's rumbled on for a couple more emails.... the customer support rep gets me all wound up, then I almost write a hasty, exasperated response in a haze of red, then think "noooo, take a deep breath....".... I got onto Amazon and they're sorting a ret...

Someone should put a secret 'shrine to Mophus' area in a dungeon as an Easter egg...

Thanks Linflas. Unfortunately I can't open that program for some reason. Flashes up a window for a split second then closes.

Short question: If I have more bitmaps loaded with lots of transparency, does this affect the efficiency and/or speed of the RTC engine, does anyone know? Reason for asking: When creating new wall objects, for example, having created a few wall objects, I'm finding it far more efficient to use the s...

Can you believe this guy? This is an email exchange between me and the technical support department of a manufacturer of a minor piece of PC hardware.... Is it just me or is this guy not exactly what you'd call 'technical support'? It would be kind of amusing if it had happened to someone else... bu...

Off topic, but hope to give your demo another go this weekend to check it out some more. How far are you along since the version on the link on the first post of that thread? Did I read somewhere you're working with Chaos Shaman on some fandango artificial intelligence for it?

SU, that is a fantastic explanation, thank you, much appreciated :D . I checked out the first 5/10 mins of your Lynchgate demo and can see exactly why this is a useful feature, especially for telling the story, expanding plot and characters, etc. Am assuming .PNG files are also compatible? Thanks ag...

SU, thanks alot, that's exactly what I needed. (Somehow I hadn't seen the Speech Wall Item before...! )

We used to call him 'Mophus The Feeler'.

Nuff said.