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I've just made my 3000th post. If I'd been paying attention I would have made it in this thread, but I missed the opportunity...reading Darwin's post just reminded me that i had missed my 2000th post.. anyway, here is it and next, with Curt as my inspiration, maybe i will post my 2222th post!-Darwin (December 11, 2007, 01:38 PM)-lanux128 (December 11, 2007, 06:40 PM)
I've just made my 3000th post. If I'd been paying attention I would have made it in this thread, but I missed the opportunity...-Darwin (December 11, 2007, 01:38 PM)
I've tried this before just for kicks. If my recycle bin was a toilet, it would have been spinning around leaving skid marks all over the place before finally going down.-Nighted (December 11, 2007, 02:25 PM)
Reminds me of the time that I was being stalked by a bear in Alaska and I remembered my Druid skills and I tried to cast Sooth Animal, but accidentally cast Sleep and when that wore off it then thought I was a threat rather than just food. So I cast entangling roots, switched to attack cat and Dashed for 15 seconds. When the threat was over I went prowl, hid under a tree and cleaned myself fastidiously.
Can you really do these dances ???-Armando (December 07, 2007, 12:04 AM)
Nice work, Deozaan!-Darwin (December 06, 2007, 03:37 PM)
Everyone here at Q-Games loves real-time strategy games, from Warcraft through to Command & Conquer and Company Of Heroes, etc., but the Japanese public simply don’t buy that genre yet. So one thing I really wanted to do with Monsters is take the simple RTS concept of building and researching and having base defenses (a concept that has been used in Warcraft tower-defense mods and more recently in its Flash incarnations) and wrap it all in a completely different style and mode of gameplay that the Japanese public (and hopefully the West too, of course!) would really get into.
RTS’s are historically controlled by a roving cursor (either a mouse, or an analogue controller) and right from the start I decided to take that away and replace it with a cute character you control. You run around as this little defender-of-the-forests type chap, collecting money and building defensive towers along the paths to your base. You can only build towers where we have placed trees in the stages, which gave us enormous control over the design and balancing of each map. As a result we have over 20 very different stages, all of which are unique and addictive to play.
Another major help in the design was the addition of gems that the monsters sometimes drop; using these gems you can research more advanced towers, or upgrade existing ones. If you like though, you can upgrade existing towers by doing a little rain-dance-type performance in front of them too. The longer you dance, the more powerful the towers become!
I had no idea my innocent surfing and DonationCoder addiction was sucking down that kind of juice. Maybe I'll cut back on the pr0n.-Ralf Maximus (December 05, 2007, 10:00 AM)
Tinjaw: Check the yearbook
The answer to your question is... Nope-jgpaiva (December 02, 2007, 12:36 PM)
TOP TEN SIGNS YOU'RE A CRAPPY PROGRAMMER
1. Your version of "Hello World" crashes.-Ralf Maximus (December 01, 2007, 09:04 PM)
I'm now wondering who would be correct. My professors which keep evangelizing a few of the bullets on that list, or that guy.
I am in disagreement with both the "You model all your code in UML before you write it." and the "OMG! PATTERNS!" lines.
I mean, i don't think modelling ALL the code in UML is important (i hate UML!) but it definitelly is useful, and my professors keep evangelizing it.
As for patterns... I'm not sure what he means. Does he mean that patterns are a bad thing?-jgpaiva (December 04, 2007, 06:31 PM)
