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Randil wrote:
There's a game I've been looking for lately, one that I played a lot when I was younger. I think the game came out a little after the first Diablo game, and was a game very similar to Diablo (the same kind of overview, and similar interface), but it was sci-fi oriented, with firearms instead of medieval weapons. You would walk around, shooting aliens, picking up better weapons, and going further into the game. Does this say anything to anyone?
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Yep, I think the same. Saying that "only controller input is allowed" sounds really arbitrary. There's no reason for that at all, there are other buttons the player can use for a speedrun.
Now, if it is emulated properly is an entirely different reason.
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I've got two videos with over 1 hour of duration, but I've never had a length cap, not as far as I know. The only restriction I see on the upload screen is that the videos must be < 20 GB.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMuQIX6sGeY
I'll do one of those 30 hour video upload tests, but isn't there a days long video on Youtube? Isn't it a speedrun of that truck driving simulator worst game ever?
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I did try to compose music but it turns out that I'm either a really bad composer or I don't have the patience to make it good.
One thing to note is that I highly value the quality in the soundtrack of games I play. Perhaps it's what I value the most in a game...
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Scepheo wrote:
funnyhair wrote:
There are no consequences for dying anymore. you die and it puts the game on pause for a little bit. Then you come back And its like nothing happened. I liked it when the game reset after your died, sure you had to collect everything again, but at lease it gave you incentive not to die.
Agreed, when I found out that dieing in Bioshock did nothing but move you to a vita-chamber, I immediately stopped paying attention to my health. The incentive not to die should be made a lot bigger in games, especially multiplayer games. I mean, in single player, if you ruin your own experience by not caring about dieing, fine, I don't care. But if you run around in an online shooter knifing everybody to death, that does kinda ruin it for the other players.
On topic: Quick-time events?
Or remove the health bar, if it serves no purpose.
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In resume, correct me if I'm wrong:
Prince of persia getting up after landing blocks every movement.
The shotgun reloading blocks a series of moves, but not all.
The cooldown VirtualAlex is looking for blocks only that specific move's usage.
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One note about the time it's taking to make the run... People die. If it isn't the author, it's the audience :P In the later case it doesn't really matter if the author wants to build a legacy piece of work, but in the former I hope the work that has been done isn't lost.
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AnS wrote:
FODA wrote:
I was wondering how did they manage to do some of the apparently complex collision detection. Take Double Dragon 2 for example, how did they calculate where you can walk and where you can't? I mean, right on the first screen you can walk on a rectangular floor, but on the next screen the floor grows diagonally, and the collision there seems pixel perfect. I think the same goes for games like mac kids, super mario 3 or kirby's adventure where there are ramps. How do they calculate that?
Note that these games only use "45 degrees" ramps. Those 45-degrees slopes don't even need to have lookup tables because y(x+1) = y(x) + 1. It's easy to code such collisions with only addition/subtraction operations.
BTW, there's great article from the programmer of MC Kids: http://games.greggman.com/game/programming_m_c__kids/
Wow that article is gold. I once found a discussion about people liking or disliking m.c kids and one of the developers humbly jumped in to say that he was amused people were talking about the game.
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I was wondering how did they manage to do some of the apparently complex collision detection. Take Double Dragon 2 for example, how did they calculate where you can walk and where you can't? I mean, right on the first screen you can walk on a rectangular floor, but on the next screen the floor grows diagonally, and the collision there seems pixel perfect. I think the same goes for games like mac kids, super mario 3 or kirby's adventure where there are ramps. How do they calculate that?
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I didn't mean to e-mail it in secrecy, I meant to e-mail it to you so you could translate it and make it public. Glad something else worked out though!
