MusicallyInspired

Well if my wife will let me and doesn't have anything planned.

The 4th is my birthday! I'm down.

Very nice! Good job! Love your renders!

SpaceVenture hasn't finished anything yet, let alone a first half or part of a game. This doesn't bother me. Development times and money issues...I just don't care. If the game comes out and it's good then I consider it time and money well spent, both for myself and the developers. With DF, I had faith in them...faith that was misplaced. I don't like the game they ended up making. Of course, the second half could still be better, but I can't comment on it right now. All I know is that Act 1 is not what I wanted. If Act 2 is better then I'll change my tune.....I can't imagine that, though, because I just don't believe that Tim's vision of an adventure game is something I have in common with him. As for the Two Guys, I still believe we share that common ground. At least mostly. I will continue to believe this until the game is out. I'm still all for giving people a chance.

Oh, I'm never funding anything by them again. Just from the fact that what I thought I'd be getting from them I didn't. This was my error I guess, not DF's, though. I thought I knew what kind of a game they were capable of making. The Broken Age outcome coupled with this news...no. Not again. I should add that I don't really care about the money "issues". Developing games is not an exact science. I don't care how it's funded as long as we get the game. The problem is how the game is developed. Of course, in this case it DOES have something to do with money I suppose.

We must make a quick hotfix patch!

It isn't.

Everything in an adventure game is scripted. Everything that happens was thought of ahead of time. Right down to the way things move or walk.

Huh. Always wondered this. Nice.

So a local radio station in my town had a summer show about video game music this year and asked me to come into their studio to do an interview seeing as I compose music for video games. We discussed, among many things, what makes video game music special, how composing for video games can be very different from any other media, I talked at length about Sierra adventure games and their soundtracks and the MT-32, and some of the music I've written for games in the past were featured, as well as some upcoming that haven't been released yet such as Mage's Initiation and another secret project. Check it out! Click on the September 9th link (I recommend 128kbps for best quality). The show starts at around the 3:35 mark. https://ckuw.ca/programs/detail/system-kidz

A fair compromise. Graham doesn't die from every fall, though. The tree in KQ1 is a good example. That's more than two inches. In fact once I get the egg I jump out of the tree to get going faster. This goes for the AGI version as well as the remakes. In KQ3 you can fall off the stairs in the secret lab and survive (in the same room as the lab not above). In KQ4 there are lots of falls that don't kill you.

I haaaaaaaate the retry button. Screw that button. Might as well not even have deaths. Call me old fashioned, but I believe if you got yourself killed then it's your own fault that you didn't save. There's no threat to a death with a retry. It's part of the atmosphere. It adds to the tension. Retries completely ruin the whole point of deaths. That's my opinion which also happens to be fact and anyone who disagrees is wrong and needs to seriously reevaluate their life choices, values, and goals. You're also stupid.

Is that sarcasm, Collector?

Yes.

He also made a patch for QFG2's MTBLAST.DRV which disabled all digital sound effects for sounds that were all just lo-fi recordings of the MT-32 MIDI sounds themselves and leaving the only two unique digital sound effects in the intro for the genie's laugh and clap. He's done a lot of good work. He also provided me with tools for setting custom MT-32 and Adlib patches for SCI0 games. Was going to use them with KQ2SCI.

Probably NewRisingSun, resident Sierra driver genius. He hangs out at VOGONS and QuestStudios forums.

Indeed. AVGN is tons of fun. And he's really nothing like this character in real life. He's really down to earth, diplomatic, and even a bit shy, it seems like. At least, when he's not being the Nerd on camera he can be a little awkward. Great videos for a good laugh. So he doesn't like adventures. That's ok. Troels! I must have this adventure!

Yesyesyesyesyesyesyes Wait, Bob Seibenburg?? YESYESYESYESYESYESYESYES

Impressive!

Nice work!

Sweet!

They made their funding. :) That's pretty good too, seeing as a couple days ago they were only at seventy something percent.

If you're a backer you should be getting update emails from them every so often. One just came out a few days ago. Note, spacequest.net is not the website for SpaceVenture. We're merely hosting a small area of the forums for them.

All sports suck. Except Counter-Strike. #korea

Absolutely. When beta testing starts we can start getting critical on design decisions.