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Gaming and Technology / Developing Games
« on: Jan 19 2015, 06:40 PM »
In 2013 crowd funding models such as Kickstarter allowed for fans of games to contribute to the creation of games by backing projects, thus allowing to break the bad publisher trend which would like to throw out the same game year after year because people would buy it regardless of quality or ambition.

In this thread mention a games that have recently been developed through crowd funding or are currently in development.  Simply put these will be games that weren't funding directly by publishers.
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H1Z1 - FPS MMO
SUPERHOT - First person shooter - free tech demo
A Hat in Time - 3rd person adventure
Spinttires - Driving simulator
Dream - Puzzle exploration
Mini Metro - Puzzle
I Am Bread - Puzzle

Prison Architect - RTS
Stonehearth - RTS
Planetary Annihilation - RTS
Castle Story - RTS
Folk Tale - RTS
Satellite Reign - RTS
War for the Overworld - RTS
Worlds of Magic - Turn based
Tabletop Simulator - Turn based

Shroud of the Avatar: Forsaken Virtues - RPG
Divinity: Original Sin - RPG
Project Eternity - RPG
Torment: Tides of Numenera - RPG
Dreamfall Chapters: The Longest Journey - RPG
Shards Online - Free MMORPG

Don't Starve Together - Survival
7 Days to Die - Survival
TUG - Survival
Survive the Nights - Survival
Project Zomboid - Survival

Freedom Planet - Platformer
Starbound - Platformer
Mercenary Kings - Platformer

Star Citizen - Space Combat / FPS
Kerbal Space Program - Rocket/Space Simulator
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These are a couple of games I know of
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Online / Minecraft
« on: Apr 19 2012, 10:47 AM »
Minecraft
http://www.minecraft.net/

It is an Inde development game by 'Notch' who has earned a large sum of money from all the participants who donated to try out his Alpha release of the game.  He received so much money that there was talk about Paypal seizing his Paypal account and alot of money was taken by Paypal never to be seen again by the developer (this story is arguable).

Anyway.. back to game discussion.
The game is popular because it is all "Procedural Generated" so nothing is the same each time you create a new world as it will be randomly generated each time.  What is also popular about the game is so ridiculously simple art style as the world is made up of blocks which are textured in pixels (some texture packs can make them look more detailed but..), its almost like lego how you can manipulate the world.

If you bunch a tree block you get a tree block in your inventory which you can then either plant anywhere like a lego block or put it into your crafting system and craft new items or blocks out of it.

To create a minecraft game or to buy the game (Its very small and is either digital download or you can run it straight from your browser since the game is made in Java)

http://www.minecraft.net/
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The game has 3 gamemodes.  Survival, Creative and Hardcore.  (and technically Adventure)

Survival - start on a server and start mining to craft better items to better yourself in the environment full of monsters trying to kill you.

Creative - Your inventory no longer shows what you carry, but its pretty much a store of every block in the game which you can place down.  Punching a block will instantly remove it so you can shape the world anyway you want.

Hardcore - A new gamemode which is Survival except if you die its perma-death so you won't respawn again.

*Adventure - Its a gamemode mentioned by the fan community as people make maps using modding tools and/or creative mode and then make up a story which you have to follow in survival mode.  It usually includes reading notes from signs or notepad documents along side the game so you can be immersed in a storyline.
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Gaming and Technology / Touhou Project
« on: Apr 19 2012, 10:17 AM »
Touhou Project
http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Touhou_Wiki

Touhou Project is a series of games which have best known to the world as the first "Bullet Hell" genre games as you have dodge projectiles with any hit causing death.
It uses the term 'Danmaku' which means Barrage of Spells as the series focuses on spellcards which your opponents fire at you; which you have to dodge successfully to capture them.

Most of the games are in Japanese but the fan community has provided english patches making it possible to play.
The fanon community for Touhou is insanely big because 'Zun' the sole creator of the series lets the fans decide what happens in the background as well as waiting for his judgement or works. (There is over 2TB of fanon works, excluding official games and works).

~ Any relation to Kitsune Paradise?  Its a world called Gensekyo located within the 'Great Hakuri Boundary' which was sealed by a Youkai named 'Yukari', inside the boundary lives a world full of Youkai.. one of the Youkai that lives there are Kitsune, Faries, Gods, Kappa, Tengu, Vampires.. the list could go on.  The main heroine character is a shrine maiden named 'Reimu' (Anti-hero because solving incidents only makes Youkai like her.. and scares away humans who could possibly donate to her shrine), followed by 'Marisa' who is an ordinary witch (clearly very sarcastic and perhaps insane like Jack Sparrow).

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Official Games

(PC-98 Games)
Retro Generation ~ Requires special emulators to work.  Basically a game of pong or wall breaker.
 TH01 Highly Responsive to Prayers
 TH02 Story of Eastern Wonderland
 TH03 Phantasmagoria of Dim.Dream
 TH04 Lotus Land Story
 TH05 Mystic Square

(Windows Games)
Generation 1 ~ Bombs use a seperate system to power so you can keep bombing through stages your stuck or about to die on.
 TH06 Embodiment of Scarlet Devil
 TH07 Perfect Cherry Blossom
 TH08 Imperishable Night

Multiplayer splitscreen ~ Play other players locally or multiplayer lan
 TH09 Phantasmagoria of Flower View

Fighting Games ~ Button mashing and combo style fighting games
 TH07.5 Immaterial and Missing Power
 TH10.5 Scarlet Weather Rhapsody
 TH12.3 Touhou Hisoutensoku

Generation 2 ~ Power & Bombs are linked so every time you bomb you make yourself weaker making you want to bomb less.
 TH10 Mountain of Faith
 TH11 Subterranean Animism
 TH12 Undefined Fantastic Object

Special gameplay ~ Take pictures of your target or be the fairy who freezes the most bullets.
 TH09.5 Shoot the Bullet
 TH12.5 Double Spoiler
 TH12.8 Fairy Wars

Generation 3 ~ Health, Bombs, Power are separate systems which require several pickups to gain one of that item.
 TH13 Ten Desires
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Introductions / Hi again
« on: Sep 28 2010, 03:56 AM »
Hi everybody.

I joined the forums in Jan 06, so its been a while since I saw the forums.
An update in my inbox reminded me of this place so I came back.  I left before because I thought the forum was inactive after a month of barely any discussion.

I must say there have been quite a few changes since I was last here.  :)
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The Gallery / Shades of Existence
« on: Jun 08 2009, 11:45 AM »
When I was last on the forums I thought about writing a story for "Wolfhearts Academy" a fictional school of magic which was huge in proportions (In its own pocket dimension), however I couldn't find much of a plot for it and although I created a cool school it didn't matter because there was no plot to it.


After a couple of roleplays I started making my own story which has a plot and could possibly go in a series.  The series is called "Shades of Existence"

I went to show my idea to my friends on DeviantArt when I hit 500 page-views
(I don't consider myself an artist but since its been my currently active community, I posted there).

http://darkonister.deviantart.com/art/500-...Views-106872511
http://darkonister.deviantart.com/art/Shad...n-map-108212849


I was uncomfortable at first to post anything as the story idea was inspired by real events, dreams and quite an imagination of mine.
Anyway I'll go post the brief below.

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Shades of Existence - The First Blacklight
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The story is about a family called the 'Shade' family which is made up of 'Darklings' and 'Lightlings'.
It was in a feud for years where both sides fought one another, until peace was made.

Melody was born, the very first 'Blacklight'.
Being treated horribly by both sides except by her parents and her best friends, Melody tries to cope with her existence and its new born secrets.
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The story is based in the present where Science rules supreme.. until Melody shows up (Magic meets Science).
The storyline is mostly based in a country town - the location is irelevent.

Note: Its been years since I did English, so I know my writing skills have perhaps degraded loads since then, but my active imagination still streams in new ideas which I want to write down and eventually put into stories.
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Introductions / I'm back.
« on: Jun 06 2009, 03:58 AM »
Hey people.   :)

I've been busy with exams and assignments before that it was impossible to really have much time to myself. (Not like the assignments were bad, some were quite interesting).  :confident:

Lately I've been over at KitsuneJewel, which I noticed Samui register over there not too long ago after I registered  :o
It at the moment seems pretty dead and although forums are for posting and awaiting a few days response..  I feel a week and a half with no replies anywhere seems pretty much dead.

I then got an email to come back and like a scroll of ressurection I took it.  :yeahthat:

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For all those people who are new to the board since my last visit (registering).

I'm Oni. (Boy / 19 / UK)
I used to write stories about 'Wolfhearts Academy' a school of magic, but now things have changed and I've got a new series with a moving plot called 'Shades of Existence'.

I'm a gamer (PC - on Steam), I occasionally make stuff on DeviantArt and since my last visit I've finished my CAD (Computer Aided Design) course and have moved onto a full time Engineering course (at college) in hopes of getting into University.
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Gaming and Technology / LBA2 & LBA1
« on: May 29 2007, 03:59 PM »
LBA and LBA2 came out as DOS and Windows95 games.

The story is based around a character called Twinsen.

Your in a 3rd person view and you can change the behaviour of your character to 4 different modes.
Normal, Sporty, Agressive, Discreet. (each with their own styles of fighting or secret abilities)

It was a nice game for its time and its still popular even today!
Theres loads of projects going on for LBA1 like OpenSource projects for making mods or stand alone games like LBA1.

Anyway heres some Wiki links for both the games.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Big_Adventure

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Big_Adventure_2
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Abandonware / Abandonware Games
« on: Aug 07 2006, 06:10 AM »
http://www.the-underdogs.info

That is the url for: Home of The Underdogs.
This site has all abandonware games (mostly from DOS)

It is a good site to get old games, but I recommend that you install a pop-up blocker or turn it on before entering because this site has a insane problem with pop-ups. I get a pop-up every page I click on.

Can't play the DOS games? But you always wanted to play it?! Well now you can, somebody has made a program called 'DOS BOX' and with it, it makes a DOS window in which you have to locate the game and then play.

To be onist you could use DOS Prompt, however you don't get the sound or Mouse to work because DOS has never seen these new things before, so this DOS BOX allows you to use these. With DOS BOX I have been able to play Syndicate Wars with Sound! with DOS Prompt or Windows I get no sound and the game is way way too fast! The only lame thing is that you've got to set up DOS BOX and know some DOS commands to play the game by locating it.

I've still gotta figure out the commands, since I get my brother to put the game on for me because I can never remember all the DOS commands :(

Anyway I hope this useful for some people.
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Please reply and tell me what you think about it.. (nobody dis-old games, Syndicate and Syndicate Wars as still in the top 100 games this year. Syndicate came in 68!)

Edit (4/30/08): Fixed link.
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Profiles / DarkOnister
« on: Jul 06 2006, 01:02 PM »
DarkOnister's Profile, detailed history.

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Name: Chris

Species: Kitsune (Orginally Human)

Gender: Male

Age: 16

Appearance: When he was human he was a small ginger haired boy. Now he has ginger fur with white on the tips of his two tails. However turning into a kitsune hasn't changed Chriss favorite style of clothes. Chris wears a coloured shirt with a picture of a dragon (who he called DeathWing) + jeans. (Chris's clothes look like the modern day clothes from his world)

History: Normal human who went to school, he secretly is a wizard who knows alot of spells but has never used offensive spells. It was a normal day at school (being in last year) and then suddenly Thwack, Chris was hit from behind and knocked out.
When Chris came to, he heard a girl talking in his head, he was no longer human.. blood in the room and a glowing portal. (Gunshots going off in background)

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Name: Gemma

Species: Kitsune (Orginally Kitsune)

Gender: Female

Age: 9

Appearance: A creamy coloured dress with a faded red colour for the sleeves. It kinda resembles a bangy T-shirt almost. (Not modern day, and it sort of clothes found in 'knights and wizard' times)

History: Her parents are said to be 'trouble' but no trace of them has ever been found. Gemma is a playful girl who likes to play with magic because she has only recently found out about it since awakening, but she can't remember her past too well.

Gemma gets her body later on, when Chris goes to a wizard to help him with spells, he finds out about Gemma and the curse was made. Unforunately they were both doomed with bad luck to begin with.
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Paranormal / Scary Nightmare!
« on: Jul 02 2006, 07:23 AM »
Ok.. I've done this story before and its on my Blog. So I'm going to copy and paste the rest below...

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I got woke up this morning by both my Mum, and my brother.
I had a nightmare which seemed so realistic, and one that I couldn't awake from.

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[!--SPOILER BEGIN--][div onClick=\"openClose(\'2bb5d434ffcbd4b4f73bbd68ee226345\')\" style=\"font-weight: bold\"]» Click to show Spoiler - click again to hide... «[/div][div id=\"2bb5d434ffcbd4b4f73bbd68ee226345\" style=\"display:none\"][!--SPOILER END--]The nightmare goes like this:
I was in town with a few friends and then it was time to go home.

I go to the railway station and see 3 rivals, boys who really hated me and normally hurt me quite a bit when they see me. They never say why they enjoy it so much, or why they do it.

Anyway I started run back into town, and they must of seen me because I heard 3 sets of footsteps running after me.

I was now running down a small river, when I saw a carpark. I ran into the carpark and ran up several flights of stairs. Making this floor the 3rd.

I then hid behind a car slope and waited, I slowed down my breath as much as I could as they drew near. They walked past. I was safe, or so I thought.

I thought the staircase was a ovious place to run back to, so I used the car slopes to get to the ground floor. Only to find on the floor below, a man over a dead body. (none of these people I knew)
I slowed down my breath, and I felt shivers of coldness run down my spine. There was a car screech and the man turned till he saw me. The man was holding a knife!
I felt so dizzy, but I knew this wasn't the place to faint. I started to run for the staircase.

The boys who were after me before saw me, but I was getting chased by another man. And this encouraged them to speed up their pace. I ran as fast as I could down the stairs, litualy jumping a couple of stairs at a time till I was at ground floor.

I then ran down the side of the river towards the bridge, knowing that he couldn't hurt me in the middle of town; people would notice and surely somebody would get the police.

However my luck ran out when I tripped over a lose stone. The man had caught up and his shadow was going over me.
I tried to shout 'leave me alone' but I was so out of breath from running for so long.
The man then came up besides me with a cold hearted smile, and I felt a sharp cold object go through my chest. The pain shot up through my body and it was so painful I screamed out, hoping somebody would of heard my last scream.

I then tried to get up but in doing this I lost my balance and fell sideways into the river.
The cold rush of water washed away the pain for a second or two before the pain returned and I felt it was impossible to reach the surface. I couldn't even swim.
The surface seemed to get further and futher away, till my vision dulled and dulled. I blacked out.[!--SPOILER DIV--][/div][!--SPOILER DIV--]

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This isn't a true story, but it was a nightmare I've had. I'm considering using it for a story idea, so this might appear in a story of mine. ©Copyright 2006 (My story)

This story idea was used, and it was used in my GCSE coursework where I had to write a horror story, the plot was changed a bit but.. I got good marks for it.

[!--SPOILER BEGIN--][div onClick=\"openClose(\'a60e28d677240683b1c28531dc469e80\')\" style=\"font-weight: bold\"]» Click to show Spoiler - click again to hide... «[/div][div id=\"a60e28d677240683b1c28531dc469e80\" style=\"display:none\"][!--SPOILER END--]The pain was replaced with shock and the feeling of my heart beating, because it was only a nightmare.
I think I got this nightmare because of the recent events happening at school. I've also been having thoughts about the drowning. Although I'm not scared of it anymore, I did hope I could learn to swim. The person who has helped me overcome my fear of the water, is dead. The same way my character died in this story.
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Gaming and Technology / Spore
« on: Mar 18 2006, 02:32 PM »
MAXIS, the company which has made:
The Sims Series (1 and 2), SimCity Series, SimTown, SimCopter.. etc.

Anyway.. they've released a video on Google Video on what one of their future games is going to be.  :nerd:

Spore Gameplay Video

If this game does come out, I would make a Kitsune species!  :D
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Multimedia / Serenity
« on: Jan 14 2006, 04:29 PM »
Serenity is a cool film. It was the finale film of the Firefly series.
It is based on a crew about a firefly class ship called Serenity.

http://www.serenitymovie.com/

Firefly was the series before Serenity, but after the company stopped making Firefly there was talk on blogs and forums everywhere.. and then a company decided to make Serenity.. or thats how the story goes..

Looking at the site, they say theres a DVD coming out.. it hasn't come out round here.. but when it does I wanna buy it  :D

Characters:
[!--SPOILER BEGIN--][div onClick=\"openClose(\'0b117ce56983b08657c728b221a41efc\')\" style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: crosshair; \"]» Click to show Spoiler - click again to hide... «[/div][div id=\"0b117ce56983b08657c728b221a41efc\" style=\"display:none\"][!--SPOILER END--]Mal = Captain - he lost the war against Independance and the Alliance

Zoe = First Mate - She was Mal's first mate in the war against the Alliance.

Wash = Zoes Husband - Flies Serenity

Kaylee = Engineer - Mal found her with his old engineer, he was fired and Kaylee was hired.

Jayne = Mercenary - found trying to rob Mal. and Mal blackmailed his crew and managed to get Jayne to change sides.. he shot one of his crew and stranded the other. He is pretty much the hitman out of the crew.

Book = Shepard - he is known as Shepard but his name is Book, and he is priest I think.. he has has experience in battle.

Inara = Companion - She get transport for her work by Mal.

Simion = Doctor - Found transporting his sister ilegally, and they are both wanted by the alliance.

River = Fugative - wanted by the alliance, been experimented on.
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Serenity and Firefly has to be a - Must See - thing if your into Sci-fi or Space related movies.
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Profiles / DarkOnister's Characters
« on: Jan 13 2006, 02:45 PM »
This thread is being revived with new information..

Character Template[/span]
[span style=\'color:red\']Character nickname: [/span](nickname goes here)
[span style=\'color:red\']Name:[/span] (Character name goes here)
[span style=\'color:red\']Age: [/span](say appearance and mental age if there's a difference)
[span style=\'color:red\']Gender:[/span] (Male or female)
[span style=\'color:red\']Species/Race:[/span] (Human, vampire, werewolf, furry, kitsune, cyborg..) - explain their benefits/weaknesses briefly.
[span style=\'color:red\']First Appearance: [/span](optional, for characters who aren't newly created) - just put the RP name or story name.
[span style=\'color:red\']Character background:[/span] Make it brief and to the point.
[span style=\'color:red\']Appearance/Looks: [/span]- Describe what your character looks like
[span style=\'color:red\']Items/Weapons:
- A few small items or 1 weapon (You were caught off-guard at the start, so you only have what would be typically in your hand)

I'm going to post all my characters here.
Feel free to comment or ask questions.
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