Posts by Hourences

  • Max Payne 3

    I never played max payne, and even I can see from a long way off that this game has nothing to do with max payne

    Another sequel by people who dont get it.

    "What did the first game(s) have?"

    "guns"

    "good, so lets just make a game with guns then and it will be a sequel!!!111"

  • Almost 12% of US Games Biz Laid Off

    Quote from e-freak

    Derailing Hourences/Gloglebag: Don't see this. We still dub all of our shows and everyone I know speaks fluent english.

    There are far more people in the nordic countries or countries like Holland that speak English. I have met barely anyone in Germany that could speak english at a decent level, every time I have visited germany. The germans their english is far from good compared to your smaller neighbors.

    Edit:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_co ... population

    Germany 56% of the population can speak English

    Sweden 89% (!)

    France 36%

    Holland 87% (!)

    Spain 27%

    Denmark 86%

    Italy 29%

  • Almost 12% of US Games Biz Laid Off

    And you don't move that easily when having a gf/wife/kids/house/other stuff. Especially not that far.

    In general the bigger the home country the more difficult it will be for people to go live in another country. If you grow up in a small country you are much much more familiar with borders, several languages and cultures, etc. I actually think it is enjoyable to switch countries as it keeps things interesting. The paperwork is very annoying though.

  • Today I die

    if you hold one the things the fish will eat them, and if you drag another word to the top sentence the world will change.

    That aside I have no clue what to do either.

    Edit: I hold down one of the shine things long enough while avoiding fish and shit happened.

  • Almost 12% of US Games Biz Laid Off

    I am also with Warby. However up to now we mostly heard about big devs like EA taking actions. I think the real danger can be at the smaller devs. And the worst may yet to come. I know several independent studios who are having trouble signing a new project. Most studios were working on a contract they acquired before this whole crisis thingy took off, and now that that contract is almost completed they may be facing difficult times as they can't easily get a new one.

    On the other hand there is also a theory that it will actually improve, as publishers may realize that they will have a gap in their portfolio by 2010 and 2011, as so many projects were dumped, and that they need kickstart new projects very soon.

  • InterWave Studios hiring 3D Environment/Prop Artists

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    If you've always dreamed of a carreer in game development, we'll show you just how difficult and gruelling the work really is, in exchange for inordinate amounts of your private life, which will be held hostage, as part of our standard contract.

    I hope that wasn't serious because that is incredibly damaging in a job ad.

    Nice to see people starting something up in Holland though, and taking the step from mod to game.

  • The Ball - Indie FPS Action/Puzzle Game

    We have released!

    It took our team 7 months, but we have released the third installment of The Ball!

    # At least twice as big as the previous release

    # We have redone large parts of the first three levels.

    # More than 4 hours of singleplay gameplay

    # 100 Percent all new art and content

    # Over 16 secret to discover and one very hard to find shortcut.

    # Solve puzzles and fight monsters in a mysterious world deep inside a volcano!

    # Previous installments have won a tripple first prize in the Make Something Unreal contest and was awarded "Best Singleplay Mod of 2008" by ModDB.

    Visit us at http://www.toltecstudios.com !

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  • Duke Nukem Developer 3D Realms Shuts Down (??)

    Bit of an old list, but for those who hadnt seen it before:

    http://duke.a-13.net/?080907

    At the bottom half.

    I especially like:

    Just to put 13 years of development a bit into perspective

  • The Ball - Indie FPS Action/Puzzle Game

    One week from release!

    We just got a final beta out and we are well on schedule.

    Final media update:

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    The screenshots show our mummies (Modeled by Elusive, Textured by Manti, animated by Whackzero, coded by Lango) and our level selection menu with the worldmap integrated (Menu by VaninaDisc and Hourences, worldmap by Elusive and Hourences). The worldmap shows the lay out of our mysterious world, and what is left to come.

  • Mexico fights swine flu with 'pandemic potential'

    Don't underestimate it. Sure everyone might have forgotten this in 2 months, or half the world will have died. It is not impossible that a flu virus becomes very deadly and spreads very easily. Don't turn a blind eye on the danger just because "yeah well nothing like that happened in the past 20 years so there is no issue!!!11". Which is exactly why the world as a whole is going to hell really. People don't seem to care unless it is already too late.

    In 3 days time it also showed up in 4 states in the USA, possibly in New Zealand, and now possibly in France too. The flu started in Mexico City, a city with 28 000 000 people, of which 7 milion do not have access to up to standard hygiene. The 1918 flu killed more people in 25 weeks than aids has killed on 25 years. 40 percent got contaminated, 5 percent of the world died. 5 percent of the current population means 350 milion dead. Like this variant, the 1918 one too primarily killed young adults (thats us...). Two more flu's popped up since the 1950's, both killed at least 1 milion people in a short amount of time.

    Media overhyping it or not, I think it is really bad to feel invicible because we got this thing called a health system. This is mexico, and this is one of the biggest and most dirty cities on this planet. We also got a very international world where this can spread super fast and likely already has. I read a story from someone who works in Mexico City, and two of his colleagues became ill with flu on monday. The doctor sent them back to work because he thought it was just flu... We only know this since 3 days, but the virus has been active for at least a week already.

    And we never actually beated bird flu fyi. Bird flu just didn't mutate enough yet. That is the only reason why we managed to contain it so easily, not because we did such a wonderful job really.

  • The Emotional cost of bad reviews

    It is so easy to review a game (or whatever else) that it attracts many people who have no clue really. You can get a spot as a reviewer on some big local gaming site if you are 16 years old and you still get to influence at the very least a few 1000 people by talking about something you may have no clue about really.

    But hey, what can you do. The public is harsh and very unfair and they are not too different from all those random reviews, only their opinion is more hidden and less influential (exceptions aside).

    And of course there are also just bad games