Tried many times to find True Happiness, True Love and/or Perfected Liberation, and failed miserably every time, right? So what makes me think you can find True Happiness now all of a sudden? I don’t only think it, I KNOW it, and I can — and will — prove it to you. But first I want you to consider — if you could have ANYTHING YOU WANTED, what precisely would it be? I have a method that helps you decide on a goal, any goal, and helps you achieve it within minutes of setting the goal.
We’re all used to devastating catastrophic events in our lives; well, we’re having two of them here right now.
First is, my 25 year old Chrysler New Yorker (the only car my back will tolerate riding in at all, even for short drives to doctor or dentist) needs to go into the shop once again, with more evidence of aging. It’s had a number of breakdowns lately, all involving having to be rescued from a highway roadside.
Last week we made the local papers; we got a new fuel pump, which got my elderly vehicle going again after coming to a dead halt in the middle of nowhere the previous Friday, my watercolor teaching class day. We were getting gas after the class, when all of a sudden, the old gasket gave way, and we were sitting on top of an enormous gasoline storage tank below the pavement, on which we were sitting, helpless, in a huge 30 foot wide puddle of gasoline just waiting for a lit cigarette butt.
We were right next door to the fire station, and within 60 seconds, there were a bunch of guys in yellow slickers screaming to get out of the car, don’t slam the door, don’t try to take anything out with us, and to be careful not to make a spark!
Within half an hour, it was safe to remove our groceries and get out of the way of the tow truck guys, who were assisted by the firemen.
Okay, so after a third tow — we’re getting to know the towing guys by name — we had the 25 year old gasket replaced. But you’ll probably have already guessed what happened next…
I thought it would be good if our mechanic went through the whole car to see if anything else needed doing… so we brought it limping in.
Turns out that there’s a lot of stuff, small but important stuff, that needs doing on a car this old — think of it as a vintage or antique car — so, virtually all the power steering stuff, brakes, shocks, front axle leaks, air conditioner compressor blew up, plus some other stuff that involves rubber seals, hoses and such — all of which are easily destroyed by polluted atmosphere — well, those are pretty far gone after a quarter century.
http://youtu.be/Jk3dOjzlgnQ
This is a quick run-through of 2fart4 in extreme alpha condition, just to give you an idea of how the reductionist principle works with level design. This will eventually go into a mobile app. Most games are over-designed with far too much LoD — Level of Detail. It’s easy to junk up an art work with over-complication and “sophistication”. Like an “over-painted” painting, it gets downright muddy, and can turn into pure crap fast.
http://youtu.be/bP1aZCI8EN0
Once you have a working projectile with real physics operating to produce apogee/perigee ballistics, Faith is certain. Beliefs may come, and beliefs may go, but Faith is always with us. Let’s talk weppins. First of all, in real combat, there’s not a lot of blossoming fireballs going on out of muzzles — you want to suppress the sound and the sight to prevent sniper spotters from getting a mark on your position.
http://youtu.be/2FoBsfbTEQI
Well, give me a few hundred more hours and I’ll have her ready to drive. I still haven’t put in some of the misty things and dank, murky, darkened tomb hallways and close, cramped low-ceilinged cut-stone corridors that must be lit by a small lantern, casting only a little circle of light. This level is inspired by a visit to a number of tombs in 1969. I didn’t have to use the photos I snapped — the experience was captured wholesale and put into these eight tough Pre-Columbian tomb settings. Is it retro? Not enough to suit me, but yes, it is — however, many of the effects could not have been produced Back In The Day, so it’s a blend of retro design and very advanced programming. It is a timed game, with timed adventures and puzzles to solve.
http://youtu.be/8Mx6ImKpqng
Just happened to run into Coupon King & Queen and as luck would have it, I’d forgotten to disable my FRAPS, so was playing into the wind, so to speak, creating my own torpid and turgid lag. I blundered into this sewer action and thought, “What the hell??? Why not?” So I did a FRAPS vid of it and here it is. They are legendary and deservedly so; King actually survived that surprise Uber attack from behind!!! Check out his artful dodging! Party on, dudes, see you in-game!!!
http://youtu.be/xLZChMQY5Ek
Special posting for Queen — you may share this with her:
I couldn’t resist making my own version of 2forts just to show that it could be done on the GODD engine, but then, when I got into it, I made some changes…quite a few…trying to keep the original layout of the very first TF1 games in Quake, before there was Quakeworld and high-speed internet. It’s a playable level. I hope you get as much joy out of it as I am. I’ve just added the mist in the sewers and NML (No Man’s Land in the middle), and a few mannable SGs in the sewers and flag rooms, requiring one or two engies to run them. Grapple can be enabled or disabled by the server admin. Kick & Ban are operative; teamtalk and talk are both enabled. Instant respawn can be toggled to a 10 or 20 second delay. I’m working on male and female characters for my CTF and Shared Adventures, as well as powerups, runes, charms, etc. and a large variety of magical & medieval weapons.
http://youtu.be/qD9DzVOqsRU
Just for your edification; this is a video of today’s test of off-line combat, pursuit, movement, treasure boxes and ammo dumps. No big deal, just thought you’d appreciate an “insider” glimpse of how we work.
Note please that the above video has a quarter of a million views!
When Diablo III first appeared on the scene, it wasn’t immediately evident what use it might be in Afterlife Adventuring, Bardo Safaris and Shamanic Skill-Building. It lacks many of the features we found useful in Diablo II, but one difference makes it work. I’ll explain…
http://youtu.be/SDiYzEYQjIo
What is HTK, anyway? HTK is a game programmer term referring to the number of hits it takes to kill something in a game. It comes from D&D, which is “Dungeons & Dragons”, invented by two friends in the sci-fi fantasy realm, Dave Arnesson and Gary Gygax, both of whom became millionaires just prior to passing to the Next Realm in the Sky.