Hey now, they have a very strong indie scene! Sure, it's mostly not things anyone can be proud of, and that I refuse to mention here. But I know of some small groups that do rather well. Zun being the best example of doing it alone. But I quite like Tasogare Frontier and Frontier Aja's work.
Posts made by Magus
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RE: Windows 9 (And Pandora) appreciation thread
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RE: Windows 9 (And Pandora) appreciation thread
I alluded to the voice issue before. It makes it very hard to take it seriously. It does at least have thoughtfully designed bossfights, though. I like that the title has itself in katakana under it. If, as I've always assumed, it's made in the US, they at least took the time to learn how to write English words in the Japanese 'foreign words' alphabet.
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RE: Windows 9 (And Pandora) appreciation thread
Yep, using 7 and work, and you seem to be right. Of course, here, I also have local admin access, so that may be why I see no issue here. I need to check my laptop when I get home to see what the default 8.1 behavior is.
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RE: Windows 9 (And Pandora) appreciation thread
More likely this is a result of you having accidentally done that already.
For instance, I map tfs to a folder in C. C:/TFS/...
I don't have to fight UAC for this. I am on Windows 8.1, and if you are not and previous versions are less sane, you may have issues. -
RE: Windows 9 (And Pandora) appreciation thread
With UAC on, you will be warned if something needs elevated privileges. If the installer correctly modifies folder access rights, you're fine forever.
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RE: Windows 9 (And Pandora) appreciation thread
Exactly. Every review on Steam begins with "At first I thought this was just a Sonic clone..."
EDIT: Btw, is there a derailment badge?
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RE: Windows 9 (And Pandora) appreciation thread
"No" because Freedom Planet is "not a rip-off". Still, the mechanics are slightly different, and I'm working on something that's even closer to being a ripoff of something else, so I really have no room to talk.
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RE: Windows 9 (And Pandora) appreciation thread
It also includes a guy who is sometimes a duck and turtle at the same time, and a green anthropomorphic cat.
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RE: Windows 9 (And Pandora) appreciation thread
Well, the character is supposed to be a dragon or something, but because they wanted more "Japanese flavor" they decided to add hair. Seeing eyes through hair is common enough in Japanese stuff, because it's simpler than trying to draw each individual hair in a thinly-packed cluster which would normally be possible to see through. Still, what kind of dragon has a tuft of skin-colored hair coming out of the middle of its forehead?
(Though I agree that it's purple, actually.)
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RE: Windows 9 (And Pandora) appreciation thread
And I know the devs of the source of your avatar say it isn't a ripoff of that one, and I know that the voices are no worse than is to be expected for an american 'japanese-looking' game, but I still cannot quite approve. Though it does seem to actually put effort into bossfights, which is refreshing these days.
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RE: Windows 9 (And Pandora) appreciation thread
It gets even weirder. Japanese people call 'traffic light green' a shade of blue. There's a massive cultural element to it.
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RE: Windows 9 (And Pandora) appreciation thread
For all intensive purposes
AAAAAGH. I may be fine with begging the question wrong, but this is horrible.
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RE: Windows 9 (And Pandora) appreciation thread
I mean, I know we only have like a quarter of a continent, but at least we can afford more than a couple islands.
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RE: Windows 9 (And Pandora) appreciation thread
I don't know, the popular use of the term is "just begs me to ask this additional question". I'd call it a different term with the same wording.
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RE: Steam's "Discovery Update"
Well, I'm fairly sure valve turns off the scaling by default on the executable, but it used to scale any game of you turned it on. That's what's been fixed. But yeah, manually changing don't sizes in steam is a pain. Very glad I don't have to anymore.
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RE: Steam's "Discovery Update"
I think windows 8's font scaling finally works on steam since a couple client updates ago. Of course, they have it disabled by default, so if I use the default settings, I get the wonderful experience of an 8px font on a 3200x1800 screen... But with the scaling applied, it's readable. You've always been able to modify some steam configuration files to increase font sizes and even change fonts, but knowing which values to change is difficult, the UI does not always fare well, and it gets wiped in client updates. But really, now that the DPI scaling isn't broken, it's usable.
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RE: Steam's "Discovery Update"
You're supposed to tell it which ones you don't like so that it learns. It actually convinced me to buy two games immediately, though. I marked 7/10 as "not interested".
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RE: Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition
The one I've noticed recently is people making left turns INTO the dedicated left turn lane to wait for a break. They are now facing oncoming traffic. Saw it just this morning, in fact.
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RE: This site design made me say WTF
Like I said, what you now use is Monogame, which works under .Net perfectly. I'm using it for a windows store app. XNA can be ported to it in most cases with no effort, and all the tutorials apply. Of course, if you just want to learn 3D stuff, I'd suggest looking into the library Monogame uses for OpenGL, OpenTK. I had done very basic OpenGL in university in C++ and was pleasantly surprised to see a wrapper that was so much like the base library, yet so much easier to use (think GL(DOT) rather than GL(UNDERSCORE) and what that means to intellisense!).
All the DirectX tutorials I tried started with "WELL FIRST YOU NEED TO LEARN HLSL AND WRITE A VERTEX SHADER SO THAT YOU CAN SEE POINTS YOU DRAW! DIRECTX IS USELESS UNLESS YOU KNOW EVERYTHING, SO WE'LL START WITH THE BASICS. BTW YOU WILL NOW USE C++.", whereas the OpenGL tutorials explain how to paint something in a solid color in one line, and very quickly move on. Not sure what's with that.
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RE: This site design made me say WTF
Well, Microsoft dropped XNA, but the community picked it up and made Monogame, which has the added advantage of being cross-platform. I use it. It's pretty cool.
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RE: Windows 8 Mouse
Yeah, that's the hardware manufacturer's fault, not Windows'. That particular setup is rather dumb, though. My Lenovo uses F5 as some sort of 'Refresh' button, which conveniently triggers compile in Visual Studio, as F5 should.
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RE: Making the best of MS Office files
Now, normally I might find your tone offensive and think you're going too far, but in light of the post you've dissected...
I will admit that due to a loophole, I was able to read that text without getting a headache. My daily work beat it to it.