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Hopefully people have heard of Hack n' Slash.

I'm interested in knowing if it is something I should get or something I should avoid.  DoubleFine clearly decided to give up on SpaceBase DF9, but I'm finding significantly little in the review department for Hack n' Slash from post 1.0.

Anyone know anything?

Having more or less abandoned a procedurally generated RTS (I want to finish it, but I've learned things and would like to rebuild a large portion of the code from scratch) I got into Java and making Minecraft mods.  Haven't been playing Minecraft a whole lot, been having more fun making new stuff.

Thought I'd share, as they are pretty neat.  There are plenty of images for each mod in that mod's thread (behind the links).

Most recently we have procedurally generated artifacts, boasting an uncountable number of millions of variations utilizing a single item ID.  This project is what gave me some of the tools to redo ProcGenRTS.  Better organization of the code, interface inheritance, abstract classes, entity components, all kinds of stuff.  Definitely my most popular mod, I saw over 600 downloads three days before Thanksgiving, much to my astonishment.

Link Destination Renders, for Mystcraft, which adds link panel destination images, making the base mod feel so much more alive, like its source material (Myst, obviously).  XCompWiz, Mystcraft's creator, wasn't even sure that it was possible at this stage of Mystcraft to actually pull this off.  There are still flaws with the implementation, but for what I had to work with, it's pretty good.

Along with that, More Decays, adding over a dozen more instability effects to unstable Mystcraft ages (and one of the first mods I built).  Not updated to the most recent version of Mystcraft, but I did discover that it almost works without issue.  You just need to disable the Positive Energy symbol and instability (in the Mystcraft configs) as the mobs generated by that effect aren't properly working (issue with Minecraft's change from using an integer for HP and a float).  At least, that's the only issue I've run into (note: left active, it can cause an unrecoverable crash, unless you know how to force yourself back to the overworld with save file editing).

Going back a little farther, More Maps gave me the tools that allowed me to pull off the dynamic images present in Link Destination Renders.  More "technically interesting" than "useful" but it was a fun mod to build and some people seem to really like it.

Phase Stone!  A mod originally designed along some specifications from a friend of mine, this mod adds blocks that can be powered or right-click-activated to turn non-solid and allow the player to walk through them.

As part of a "I'll build you a small mod for free" thread I did for a while, and the only thing I did that I actually liked, we have Rail Bridges, a rail block that supports itself.  It can do slopes, though connecting up with regular rail on a slop is slightly buggy due to the two rail type's block-below requirements.

If you've wanted to transfer redstone power vertically, but never wanted Red Power (or similar), I have Redstone Fence, which will transfer a signal upwards with ease.  I really ought to revisit this one and improve the code.  It was my first foray into redstone signaling and didn't fully understand how redstone worked, so there's a fair number of hacks.  The block could use a new renderer too, as the fence block's texture mapping doesn't work so well.

Another one for a friend, Extendable ladders.  These ladders can be placed and picked back up from a single spot, extending all the way as far as you need them to go without having to place and break as you go.  Very useful for those that like to go spelunking or mountain climbing.

Shackleton Crater on Kickstarter

These guys are trying to build a as-real-as-possible and still-be-fun moon colonization game.

The most recent update was a request on ideas on how to build large-scale structures on the moon without having to import lots of heavy materials at huge expense from Earth.  So far the idea is to use a solar oven and 3D printing technologies to sinter the moon's regolith powder into a basic construction material.  Making it air tight and insulation, however, are two problems that are still in the air.  The latter is mostly a matter of wall thickness.  Then there's how you provide other materials for other things, like glass, computer chips, and so on.

Just looking for a little input to help figure out which colors will match with what so I can more easily design an interface for a game I'm making for work.

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/WXBGN6J

ALERT: THIS IS NOT BASED ON AMNESIA: DARK DESCENT.  I apologize if the title mislead you.  I spent a long time trying to come up with a title, and I realized that what I had could cause that connection, but it was the only decent title I was able to think of.
ALERT: THIS STORY CONTAINS FURIES.  Don't like furies?  Then leave without posting or this thread will haunt your "new replies to your posts" inbox forever.  Also, it's insulting.


You awaken and rub your head.  It would appear that you spent last night drinking, and drinking heavily.  Why on earth you'd do that, with your low alcohol tolerance, you have no idea.  Nor do you remember why.

In fact, you can't remember much of anything at all prior to about 15 seconds ago: waking up and feeling like crap.

You take stock of your fine feathered self and appear to be in perfect health (excepting the headache and amnesia).  Four legs, two wings, lots of black and white feathers.  Your front claws can function as hands and you can walk on your hind legs only if needed (but you are much more comfortable on all four, or flying).

Looking around, you are in a large, circular chamber of smooth stone, laying on a low bed (not a particularly comfortable one either); a few more beds (empty) are nearby, forming a circle around the center.  In the center is a softly glowing crystal about a foot long, which illuminates the room.  There is an exit to the west.

You make a mental tally of things you need to do:

-What is your name?
-[Enter Command]

Anyone seen Drawception yet?

Absolutely hilarious game based on the idea of the game Telephone, where each player takes the previous player's submission and either attempts to describe or draw it.

A game starts with a short phrase, submitted by one player.
Another player then draws the phrase.
Another player then describes the drawing.
This repeats until 12 unique players have submitted.

Then the results are revealed.

Here's an example



Game is so popular it had crippling server issues on Day 2 and had to move to a bigger and better server (and it's still having the occasional hiccup).  You can only have three games created at any given time, but you can participate in an unlimited number, otherwise.

Currently no "game completed" emails are going out (likely due to the server migration) but you can see recently completed games you're in in your profile.

At least, that's the title of this RPS article:
Apparently someone is actually hosting a series of classes devoted to teaching people how to play.  Check it out!
Or not, I don't really care.

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/07/26/how-to-play-dwarf-fortress/

So as a result of some interesting posts in another thread I threw together this little doodad to see how viable and simple procedurally generated RTS units might be.

Turns out: not too hard at all.  Took about an hour (including clicking and writing down stats for comparison and tweaking of the formula).

Speed and range are in pixels, unit is not scaled appropriately, but range circles are the size expected for a battle field to be no larger than the flash application itself (which is currently default: 550x400) as to avoid scrolling.  100+ range should be pretty huge.  Reload time is in seconds.  So each shot is pre RoF seconds, each burst doing D damage with S shots per burst.  Damage taken would be (shot damage - target armor) with some minimum value.