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Living Room / Re: I can haz LOLMouser plz?

« Last post by Deozaan on September 21, 2008, 10:25 PM »

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Living Room / Re: I can haz LOLMouser plz?

« Last post by Deozaan on September 21, 2008, 10:24 PM »

See this: The Daily Joshua

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Living Room / Re: I can haz LOLMouser plz?

« Last post by Deozaan on September 21, 2008, 10:23 PM »

See this: Mouser is ruined!

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Living Room / Re: I can haz LOLMouser plz?

« Last post by Deozaan on September 21, 2008, 10:21 PM »

Here we go again! Continuing where we left off:

Princess Leia

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Living Room / Re: Has the LHC destroyed the world yet?

« Last post by Deozaan on September 21, 2008, 05:37 PM »

YES!

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Developer's Corner / Re: Universe Project

« Last post by Deozaan on September 21, 2008, 12:03 PM »

I just released a new alpha build for anyone interested. Here's a link to the site: Universe Changelog

* Fixed the instant slowdown that occurred when changing to Battle Mode.
* Fixed a bug introduced by the above instant slowdown fix.
* Found and fixed a bug that enabled you to fly 3 times faster than intended when returning to Travel Mode from Battle Mode.
* The code for the HUD pointers have been overhauled (internally). Spaghetti code across multiple files has been merged into one concise file, eliminating a lot of extra garbage that got in there while I was trying to figure out how to get them to work properly.
* Pointers can also now easily have their settings adjusted. This makes it easier to customize things such as size, visible distance, and whether to show an arrow (like earlier releases) or an icon representing the target object.
* Finally, HUD Pointers distance display text (the numbers) are a little more compact.

Feedback is wanted!

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General Software Discussion / Re: POP Mail checker

« Last post by Deozaan on September 20, 2008, 08:41 PM »

Tell her to start using Gmail and the Gmail Notifier.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Universe Project

« Last post by Deozaan on September 20, 2008, 07:21 PM »

Something about these types of games, do you guys often enjoy the real time combat feel of these games because I was always drawn more towards the turn based battle scenes found in games like Smugglers 3.
-Paul Keith (September 20, 2008, 07:16 PM)

Actually, one of my favorite space games ever was a turn-based game called Stars!. It had bare minimum graphics, and battles were all done automatically for you based on ship statistics etc., but it was an incredibly fun game if you had the patience for the turn-based nature of it.

I still have the game, so if anyone wants to play with me (e-mail based or some other form) let's get a game going!

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Developer's Corner / Universe Project

« Last post by Deozaan on September 20, 2008, 07:11 PM »

Mouser got me started a gaming project earlier this summer which I'm just calling "Universe" for now. It's a two-dimensional space game heavily inspired by (mouser's personal favorite) Escape Velocity Nova (EV Nova), the Star Control Trilogy (specifically StarCon 2 & StarCon 3), and other space games I've played over the years.

It's still very early in its development--just an alpha demo right now--but at least it's interactive. And that's a lot farther than I ever got with Docoto Defense.

What happened to Docoto Defense, anyway?

In short: It was too overwhelming and I was too unfamiliar with the tools I had.

Most of the time spent while "working on" Docoto Defense I was actually going through broken tutorials and poor documentation. The project was much too ambitious for my skills and I quickly became overwhelmed with all the things I had to do without knowing how to do them.

Not to mention that a couple months into the project trying to learn the coding process for TGB I decided to change to TGE, basically starting the process all over again, only to finally revert back to TGB when I found out that TGE was going to be so much harder.

So anyway, it's just an alpha demo right now but I'd love to get feedback on controls and things when I release new builds. I'd really like to get some comments on the blog as direct feedback for each new build, but if you just comment back here that would be fine too.

Other info: Universe is set up to work with DCUpdater to download newest versions. I also have a tiny banner in my signature that links to the site and has the date of the latest update. But if you are the kind of person who would never remember to check back at the site or never run DCUpdater, you can also subscribe to the RSS Feed of all the updates.

In case you missed the link above, the website is http://universe.deozaan.com/.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Check out some electronic music my brother made!

« Last post by Deozaan on September 20, 2008, 05:46 PM »

I bought a MIDI keyboard a few years ago and an expensive MIDI cable to connect it to my PC. Only to get home and find out my PC didn't have a MIDI input. :-/

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Check out some electronic music my brother made!

« Last post by Deozaan on September 20, 2008, 05:35 PM »

Sounds cool. What software is he using to make this?

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General Software Discussion / Re: SelfImage: The open-source hard disk imaging utility

« Last post by Deozaan on September 20, 2008, 05:14 PM »

Thanks, 40hz! I'll take a look at Clonezilla. I've considered Acronis, but hoping to find something that's free...
-TucknDar (September 20, 2008, 04:34 PM)

I don't know if this offer is still good or not, but last week I got Acronis TrueImage and DiskDirector for $10. That's pretty close to free.

The thread with the deal on TrueImage is here.

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Official Announcements / Re: September drawing is now online

« Last post by Deozaan on September 20, 2008, 05:09 PM »

Great! Thanks Carl!

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General Software Discussion / Re: WipeOut... Useful tiny app.

« Last post by Deozaan on September 20, 2008, 04:34 PM »

I don't get it. Why not just press Win+M to minimize or Win+D to show your desktop?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Gbridge

« Last post by Deozaan on September 20, 2008, 04:31 PM »

Is google talk popular?
I don't know anyone using it.
-cmpm (September 19, 2008, 11:18 PM)

I only use GoogleTalk (Gtalk). I got so sick and tired of all the stupid addon crap from Yahoo! IM and MSN Messenger, like ugly emoticons, buzzes, long animations, advertisements, and all manner of other bloat. Gtalk is lean, mean, and sticks to the basics. I don't know how many resources other IM clients use these days because I haven't used anything else in a couple of years, but Gtalk is currently using only 5MB of RAM.

I love Gtalk. Also, I have it set up to archives all of my conversations to my Gmail account. Then in two years when I remember having a conversation with someone about a particular topic, but I can't remember when, I just search from within Gmail and usually find it pretty quickly.

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DC Gamer Club / Re: This man knows what is he talking about! (CHECK IT OUT!)

« Last post by Deozaan on September 20, 2008, 03:59 PM »

Dude, when a character's best games are the ones where he doesn't talk...that's when you know civilization is about to crumble.
-Paul Keith (September 19, 2008, 02:04 PM)

I disagree. The Half-Life games are among the best the FPS genre has ever seen.

Oh, and I'm guessing your comment is in regard to the Zelda games. Naturally Link's best games are when he doesn't talk. Have you seen the ones where he does?

"I can't wait to bomb some dodongos!"

All of the dialog in the above video is from the Zelda CD-i games.

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