Posts by robert.briscoe

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I'm not really getting what it is. You just walk around looking at stuff or what?

It's really something better off experiencing for yourself, but if I have to put some kind of label on it then it could probably be described as a story driven, first-person exploration game... go try the old mod if you're unsure, or other similar games like the Stanley Parable or Radiator.

not really...

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if i'm not sure about a game and can't find a demo, i'll fire up a Let's Play or two to check it out.

yeah, nothing wrong with that imo

Valid question Skjalg,

Overall I'm not too bothered - there has been a ton of work put into making every play through unique: every new game randomly generates different things to find in the environment, VO's, Music, scripted events etc. so what you see on a youtube video may only be half of the experience. I also think by simply watching a YouTube video you miss out on a certain level of immersion and participation and it becomes a very impersonal experience. If anything i'd hope that it would actually encourage people who hadn't yet played the game to go off and experience it for themselves. Kinda like how everyone has there own cool/funny stories of their adventures in Skyrim i'd like people to have their own interpretations of DE's story, their experiences in the game and what they got out of it.

Besides, I think that someone who is content to simply just watch playthrough is not really going to have much interest in playing this type of game anyway, so I don't think we'd be missing out on a potential customer in that regards.

Thanks guys

Preorders will start soon, I just need to get my arse in gear and make a nice trailer first!

So Dear Esther hit Beta recently and I thought i'd mark the occasion by releasing some of the first screen shots of DE running in the new and improved engine:

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Also an except from the new soundtrack can be heard here: http://www.dear-esther.com/DEostExcerpt.mp3

For more info visit the Official Dear Esther Website: http://dear-esther.com

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Chip Enhanced Gameplay: Slow down time, see through walls, and breach your enemy and everything digital in the world with Dart vision – A neural DART6 chip implant that allows you to interface directly with the Dataverse

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Visceral FPS Experience: Utilize an upgradable arsenal of futuristic weapons, armor and gear to annihilate your enemies and harvest their chip technology for personal advancement and sinister corporate greed,” “Sci-Fi Fiction: Immerse yourself in the world of Syndicate 2069, with a world-class sci-fi story experience, written by bestselling author Richard Morgan.”

CREATIVITY!

..and SciFi Fiction

Thanks guys!

One of the best 'Melt' Movies from the 90's

Congrats on getting a Source license, (I know it aint easy!) it's awesome to see another Indie Source Engine game on the scene!

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It's not for a personal project though...

I chose SVN mostly because im already familiar with it and it's fairly user friendly. I've not heard of GitHub before but I'll certainly take a look at it, thanks!

Hi Guys,

So I'm looking into getting a SVN server going for my project, but im a bit overwhelmed with the amount of hosting services available. I was wondering if anyone had any recommendations or experience with this sort of thing?

Thanks

Haha I hope so! Exciting and scary times ahead, cant wait to get it released finally

Im surprised you guys expected anything less. Everything I've seen and heard about this game over the past year has been pretty damn awful

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Still looks awesome!!

Luxury! when I started work at Dice I had to live in this tiny old house with great big holes in the roof. Well, when I say 'house' it was only a hole in the ground covered by a sheet of tarpaulin, but it was a house to me, and when I was evicted from my hole in the ground I had to go and live in a lake. I was lucky to have a lake! Before thatthere were a hundred and fifty of us living in a shoebox in the middle of road. Still, luxury compared to when I lived with my family; we lived for three months in a paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six in the morning, clean the paper bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down t' mill, fourteen hours a day, week-in week-out, for sixpence a week, and when we got home our Dad would thrash us to sleep wi' his belt.

And you try and tell the young people of today that ..... they won't believe you.