Gunther Haldan wrote: ↑

Sun Sep 23, 2018 4:58 am

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Tue Sep 18, 2018 11:27 pm

the bizarre vocal gyrations -- the stuff I call "technical warbling" -- that other singers throw in around every note.

There was a Radio talk show host here in Atlanta Ga. years ago that referred to that as "Urban Yodeling".

Ha! Perfect.

the bizarre vocal gyrations -- the stuff I call "technical warbling" -- that other singers throw in around every note. I think that might be called vibrato? Ha. Here's the kind of nonsense I'm talking about: https://youtu.be/XffxvV1PAEI?t=235 And this: https://youtu.be/XffxvV1PAEI?t=698 Technical w...

This video was posted today on Amira's You Tube channel. I would guess at this point in time she's 14. She's turning into a lovely young woman and still has that amazing voice. https://youtu.be/GcAOAxQNono My gosh, that was nice. I see (and hear) her breathing's improved. :D But you know what I lik...

The discipline of sticking to a schedule -- even though I have never once done so in my entire life -- is probably important because you don't want to work on your magnum opus forever.

--Warren Spector, from his keynote at the 2017 Midwest Game Developers Conference

I'm a strong proponent of copyright, as an increasingly (in a virtualized age) important form of personal property rights. But even I think this goes much too far. The degree to which the EU was determined to exert control over content is demonstrated by its denial of an exception for parody or sati...

This got me thinking, since ships, buildings and factions are created pretty much by RNG through a seed does this mean that all the PCG content is saved locally in some data file (JSON, XML etc). If so I am presuming then that the possibility for user to share factions is actually quite possible. I...

If he can say to himself: Is combat fun? Yes. Is the market relatively stable over time but still interesting in short timescales? Yes. Are the AI being complete idiots? No. Can I go from raw materials to finished products for enough components to make a ship, a station, a warp rail, and a Jumpgate...

Maybe the best question I can think of at this moment is something like:

Of the known/required tasks remaining to be completed, how many are still "architectural" versus "gameplay features?"

So here's some news: Pearl Abyss, the developer of Black Desert Online (the game with the insanely pretty character appearance creator ), has announced it's buying EVE Online developer CCP Games for $425M. In theory CCP's development of EVE will remain under their control. We'll see. I personally ca...

The specific examples I suggested of "relatively small (but necessary) gameplay systems" that Josh could implement shouldn't be taken too literally. The idea I was trying to convey is that I think it would be OK, if he felt like it, for Josh to work on something low-stress (but still a meaningful pa...

we need that devlog. Now! "Soon" works for me, but OK. ;) I do have some things I'm wondering, though: * What gameplay got prioritized for implementation over the past couple of weeks? I'm personally looking forward to hearing about AI that works across multiple star systems with good LOD simulatio...

The winners of the art contest to contribute to Proxi were announced in June.

I had a quick look, and these are impressive. In particular, the one from Rebecca Kremer... well, you can decide for yourself if these visuals would grab you in a game.

Also, Proxi has a homepage now.

Interesting. Apparently Netflix will be airing several episodes of a Witcher TV series starting sometime in 2020. They've got scripts, directors (including Game of Thrones director for the pilot and several more episodes), and Henry Cavill has just been cast as Geralt. It seems he's a fan of the gam...

Wow -- how did I miss seeing this? Monomyth is a game in development by a lone developer that aims to recreate the feel of Ultima Underworld and Arx Fatalis and Dark Messiah: Might & Magic. It was in the Steam Greenlight program until Valve eighty-sixed that program, but development is proceeding. h...