Posts by Meotwister

great tutorial, always an interesting read.

moar plz.

Quote from Pericolos0

Games are not stories, games are not art. Games are games. Games may contain stories and art though.

I'd add that games have the potential to be both... though I know that idea isn't shared by too many among here.

As far as what Will Wright was saying least from the excerpts ... he seemed to only be trying to make a distinction between the evolution of games and the evolution of stories... some people (idk who) think games are part of the evolution of stories from printed word to radio to movies, TV, and now games... when wright's saying games are part of an evolution of play.

what I think though is that.. why can't the evolution of games conjoin with the evolution of stories... sure a lot of games throw story to the wind, but others are intriguing and pull you in to the degree of being better than some movies/TV/novels. Suppose it all leads back to the gaming industry being in it's infancy still and maybe 20/30 hell 50 years down the line people will think of games as things that can be stories, art, or entertainment.

you have a good point there... thanks!

I'm still new to the whole digital painting thing. would be great to get really nice style goin like in yours pericolos. Important to note also I'm not striving for perfect realism.

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i think i got the download link off a thread on interlopers.

but yeah get GCFscape, one of Nem's tool's (google) and use it to open the portal gcf (game cache file).

search around and extract the best credits song ever and put it on your mp3 player to blast in your car at intersections.

*edit* or just download it! found the link

Right-click me to save!

looked like on the site it showed that you could develop for windows.. but only if you "upgraded" ie bought it.

I think the thing I most enjoyed about minerva was the archaic text messages you get from your helper. Same thing for Someplace Else. That kind of story driving works well for me.

if I had an awesome system I might be inclined to agree with you.. gameplay was fun and I guess that's all you could hope for...

like to see the retail game's maps to see if they're any better. not really into this look as others have said.

not as cute as the robot turret things in portal... i almost felt bad putting them into infinite free fall.

somewhere in that movie... samuel l jackson says mother fucker.

yeah same 12/15

pretty soon it'll be damned near impossible to differentiate.

give this man some spotlight!

Looks excellent. I like all the little touches like the small stumps and the camp site ... those light rays are beautiful as well.

is that mountain in the 8th shot part of the sky texture or 3d skybox?

ok who mapped that part of moscow?

I'd apply to help but I'm in the middle of a revival in mapping making a small cs map atm.

Does seem like interesting things could be made.

or maybe that article is right and they're waiting for the 6th or whatever so it wont effect their quarterly reports.

or they're just waiting for something.

'A friend of mine who has someone close that works at Bungie'

not usually what you want to hear from a reliable article.

Would be cool if it turns out to be true.

thats whatcha get when you reuse grunge from another file vivi!

but yeah turned out quite nice.. maybe could cut out a piece of the eye for like a highlight of sorts.. look at that picture you showed me.. highlight on the eye is what im drivin at.. maybe .. could look cool...

and yeah spongey background ftl

you have such a fun style of drawing koko.

yeah a flash animation of parts would be cool like if you scrolled over/clicked on the little wrench head dude he'd jump or the bear's cigarette would leave a smoke trail or the squid would... squiggle. lol

I have no problems with the colors you've used so unless someone else gives reason I think they're good.

Just a thought.. you could see what it would looked like flipped horizontally as a lot of times action in a picture is left to right.. if only to see what it looked like.

yeah the trees are ... irradiated? The rest of the map looks good and not dark on my crt monitor.

dont go all harsh on it's looks.. he clearly says it was just gonna be a box at first just to see if it worked but he added a bit and made it into a fun map.

I'd play it if I had tf2 looks like it could be some good fun.