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  • EdcrabEdcrab Registered User
    Iriah wrote: »
    You should all respond to my previous post

    I think I've PMed Edcrab and probably Munacra and they both agree with me

    What.

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  • IriahIriah Registered User
    I totally did you I said 'you agree with me right' and then you said 'pip pip I do' and then you hit me with a broken bottle

    did I mention you were a robot?

  • Grid SystemGrid System Registered User
    Does anyone else get really motivated and excited about writing a short story at the same exact time they should be writing an essay for class?
    All the time. It doesn't help that I'm not in university anymore.

  • EdcrabEdcrab Registered User
    Iriah wrote: »
    I totally did you I said 'you agree with me right' and then you said 'pip pip I do' and then you hit me with a broken bottle

    did I mention you were a robot?

    No that sounds like me. Guess I'd forgotten.

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  • the Togfatherthe Togfather Registered User
    So this is the new hang-out spot? Smells funny. Orange peels in a musty closet or something like that. Oh well, I won't notice after a bit.


    Oh, and please do not make us homeless again, however brief the time. I did things I was not proud of...

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  • MKRMKR Registered User regular
    Chatstorm thread

  • EdcrabEdcrab Registered User
    Pierre Chatstorm, beret extraordinaire.

    Annminuanuas Rabblecreate, wizard of no mean stature.

    XVC-944 [Logic|ANGST], infamous robot.

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  • Octopus MelodyOctopus Melody Registered User
    I always name wizards in fantasy RPGs Harvey Spellgut and make them as short and fat as possible, if I can.

    I wish I was as good at writing as Edcrab is at TF2. Whenever I play I feel like I am dragging the team down since I am pretty lousy.

  • SarcastroSarcastro Registered User
    Iriah wrote: »
    bsjezz wrote: »
    my brother was eaten by a cannibal in the dark tropics of new guinea you heartless bastard

    did he at least check out the kokoda trail beforehand

    This is the first time I've ever seen my second homeland referenced on PA.

    Holy crap.

    I've done the trail three times. By not-so mysterious coincidence, I have had malaria nine times.

    I'm sorry about your brother bs, if its any consolation, he gave us all the runs for a week.

    Edcrab wrote: »
    "See," said Lucifer, "God's an asshole."
  • tastydonutstastydonuts Registered User regular
    So I like how the best use of the tablet so far has been to play some of the most immersive games of Solitaire ever.

    I never knew you could catch malaria more than once. :U

    "a good leader can make an okay group great..."
  • takyristakyris Registered User
    So I wrote a love-cutscene description at work for the first time yesterday. That was fun and different.

    The good: My surreptitious reading of Nora Roberts books has paid off, and according to my editor wife and editor buddy Cookie, I can write something steamy that does indeed sound like everyone is having a good time.

    The bad: When you suggest moving cloth in a cutscene description, cinematics guys do not take it well.

    Dox the PI wrote:
    takyris, Greek God of blowing shit up.
  • Baron DirigibleBaron Dirigible Registered User regular
    The good: My surreptitious reading of Nora Roberts books has paid off, and according to my editor wife and editor buddy Cookie, I can write something steamy that does indeed sound like everyone is having a good time.
    that's a fantastic way to judge romantic writing

    Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
  • shutzshutz Registered User regular
    takyris wrote: »
    The bad: When you suggest moving cloth in a cutscene description, cinematics guys do not take it well.

    There's pretty good cloth animation plugins, these days. Unless your cutscene is entirely in-engine and can't use any "canned" animations, but these days, even the Wii is powerful enough to convincingly simulate cloth movements.

    If they have to animate the cloth "manually", then they're doing it wrong.

    Creativity begets criticism.
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  • takyristakyris Registered User
    shutz wrote: »
    takyris wrote: »
    The bad: When you suggest moving cloth in a cutscene description, cinematics guys do not take it well.

    There's pretty good cloth animation plugins, these days. Unless your cutscene is entirely in-engine and can't use any "canned" animations, but these days, even the Wii is powerful enough to convincingly simulate cloth movements.

    If they have to animate the cloth "manually", then they're doing it wrong.

    Not that I'm leaking classified information, but that should suggest something. :)

    Dox the PI wrote:
    takyris, Greek God of blowing shit up.
  • EdcrabEdcrab Registered User
    takyris wrote: »
    The bad: When you suggest moving cloth in a cutscene description, cinematics guys do not take it well.

    I like to think that that's not because its a mechanics issue, it's just that the cinematics team wanted to render hardcore nudity. Perverts.


    And @ Octopus: I wish I was as good at writing as I was at TF2 :P

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  • MKRMKR Registered User regular
    I think it's that game engines usually don't come with anything that would automate the task.

  • takyristakyris Registered User
    I strongly considered making the love scene a very cinematic conversation instead of a cutscene, so that you could choose different options and actually get the frelling "fully customizable virtual sex machine" experience so lauded by our good friends at Fox.

    Then I decided that I didn't actually care that much.

    Might do it somewhere else, but I'm happy with this one.

    Dox the PI wrote:
    takyris, Greek God of blowing shit up.
  • EdcrabEdcrab Registered User
    Things to do before I die:

    1) Appear on Fox news with a really stupid opinion piece but be as serious as possible before revealing over the internet that I was talking out my ass and that Blizzard aren't really eating orphans

    2) Interact with a fully customisable virutal sex machine.

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  • MKRMKR Registered User regular
    Did I link this in the last chatstorm thread?

  • Baron DirigibleBaron Dirigible Registered User regular
    has anybody ever written choose-your-own-erotica?

    because holy shit I'm going to be rich

    [edit: goddammit, bookslut

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  • shutzshutz Registered User regular
    Anyway, unless you're describing hardcore alien porn, swishing cloth is probably the most effective way of increasing the sensuality of the scene. Especially if you're working on a game that can't afford to receive an AO rating.

    If only Hot Coffee had never happened... then you could have a cheat code that removes the cloth elements from these cinematics.

    But what would be even better is a cheat code for LIFE, so you can turn the cinematics guys' whining off and get them to do their damn jobs. :-P

    Creativity begets criticism.
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  • tastydonutstastydonuts Registered User regular
    implementing cloth movements is ugly though, perhaps they opted to not it if it's like a purely proprietary engine or something?

    "a good leader can make an okay group great..."
  • shutzshutz Registered User regular
    has anybody ever written choose-your-own-erotica?

    because holy shit I'm going to be rich

    There's definitely been some erotic and pornographic text adventures, if that's what you're asking. There's also some "games" that show you a virtual person, and you have to chat them into removing their clothes, etc. through Elisa-style chatting.

    Creativity begets criticism.
    Check out my new blog: http://50wordstories.ca
    Also check out my old game design blog: http://stealmygamedesigns.blogspot.com
  • EdcrabEdcrab Registered User
    has anybody ever written choose-your-own-erotica?

    because holy shit I'm going to be rich

    I've, uh, acted in choose-your-own erotica. But that maybe doesn't count, because it was entirely improvised and unscripted.

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  • QuothQuoth the Raven Miami, FL FOR REALRegistered User regular
    Just popped in to say that Hemingway was apparently allergic to ending sentences. I remember in A Farewell to Arms there would be these sentences that spread like malaria from one page to the next, oozing and fetid and bereft of punctuation, until finally the chapter would end with a statement like "And then it began to rain" and I would throw the book at a wall.

    this is just to say

    i have destroyed every copy

    of old man and the sea

    that you kept in your bookcase

    and which you were probably

    intending to read again

    i am sorry

    but they needed to burn

    and the matches were handy

    actually i am not sorry

    “Hic non defectus est, sed cattus minxit desuper nocte quadam. Confundatur pessimus cattus qui minxit super librum istum in nocte Daventrie, et consimiliter omnes alii propter illum. Et cavendum valde ne permittantur libri aperti per noctem ubi cattie venire possunt.”
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  • SarcastroSarcastro Registered User
    I love our world.

    "Do NOT buy this game!! It has Alien Sexy time!! It is a kind of porno! Do NOT buy this game! You can do so many deliciously corruptable things with it that sure it will corrupt any man who ganders at it in passing! Sexy time so intense, so STIMULATING that just one play through will change your mind forever!! Do NOT buy this game! Do not dare to look at the terrifying perversions contained within it!"

    Seriously, how is barking that up on an international platform not going to sell a few more million copies?

    Edcrab wrote: »
    "See," said Lucifer, "God's an asshole."
  • tastydonutstastydonuts Registered User regular
    Maybe it's all just part of a conspiracy to sell more games?

    "a good leader can make an okay group great..."
  • SarcastroSarcastro Registered User
    Also, if they don't have decent fuckable robots before I am put into a home, I will be very dissapointed in you, Science.

    Edcrab wrote: »
    "See," said Lucifer, "God's an asshole."
  • EdcrabEdcrab Registered User
    I still maintain that Bioware are actually in cahoots with Fox.

    Think about it. Who else could write and actualise such a convincingly near-the-knuckle satire about media sensationalism and downright idiocy?

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  • the Togfatherthe Togfather Registered User
    To kick it up a notch, Tak, you need to suggest tearing cloth. Whether it is done violently or sensually is the core of the player's decision...

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  • SarcastroSarcastro Registered User
    To kick it up a notch, Tak, you need to suggest tearing cloth. Whether it is done violently or sensually is the core of the player's decision...


    I love you.
    Would you like another drink?
    I love you.

    Edcrab wrote: »
    "See," said Lucifer, "God's an asshole."
  • MunacraMunacra Registered User
    oh yeah well Neil Gaiman writes horrible prose!

    Well, reading his books did make me fall asleep when I had insomnia so I can't hate the guy really.

  • QuothQuoth the Raven Miami, FL FOR REALRegistered User regular
    I think the only book that ever actually made me fall asleep was The Last of the Wine. It was about Greece or something.

    “Hic non defectus est, sed cattus minxit desuper nocte quadam. Confundatur pessimus cattus qui minxit super librum istum in nocte Daventrie, et consimiliter omnes alii propter illum. Et cavendum valde ne permittantur libri aperti per noctem ubi cattie venire possunt.”
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  • Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver Registered User, ClubPA regular
    chatting, sure, but have we ever brainstormed in one of these threads?

    Plenty of people have come here asking for help on a particular project they are working on, or looking for ideas for something they have, etc.

    "Advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice."
    "Humor can be dissected, as a frog can, but it dies in the process."
    Imagine all of my posts being spoken by Alec Baldwin
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  • the Togfatherthe Togfather Registered User
    Or whether they should go ahead and have that 8th drink...

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  • Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver Registered User, ClubPA regular
    This thread is for: Chatting, Brainstorming, Alcohol Abuse

    "Advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice."
    "Humor can be dissected, as a frog can, but it dies in the process."
    Imagine all of my posts being spoken by Alec Baldwin
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  • tastydonutstastydonuts Registered User regular
    This thread is for: Chatting, Brainstorming, Alcohol Abuse
    You forgot to explicitly forbid clown anything, including but not limited to pictures, poems and/or erotica.

    "a good leader can make an okay group great..."
  • DarkHawkeDarkHawke Registered User
    Or those little cars.

    Fuck them.

  • Grid SystemGrid System Registered User
    Okay, so we had 50 word fiction for a while, now we have 10 word poetry. What's next? Five letter words?

  • SarcastroSarcastro Registered User
    Maybe.

    Edcrab wrote: »
    "See," said Lucifer, "God's an asshole."
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