Bay 12 Games Forum

I'm meowing at Janet. I ain't gotta explain shit.

MEOW FOR ME BAY12.

Step 1. Go to vocaroo.com and record yourself meow/mew/mewl/mrew-ing
Step 2. ? ? ?
Step 3. PROFIT!

PROOFS

MEWING

It's like the devs grew up on the internet, GTA:San Andreas, and acid.

That's some... interesting gameplay.

Our health care system, where criminals get better health care than the poor.

Google cache because the webpage is borked from all the recent traffic.

This is going to get even more interesting and likely... I suppose.

This comes shortly after Ithaca School's Superintendent writing a letter to Michigan Governor Snyder sardonically asking if he could make his school into a prison to quadruple his meager budget per child.

Bohemia Interactive is releasing a version of their flagship war game/sim ArmA2 for free. It's like a super-demo of sorts.

http://www.arma2.com/free
or via RPS.

Well, minus mods, campaign, and HD graphics, and did I mention mods?

However, you will be able to use the hilariously fun editor and be able to play multiplayer minus mods without paying anything.

I assume this is free marketing for their actual campaign/ability to use mods (which seriously makes the game) as well as the announced ArmA3 next year competing in a tight field of BF3, COD:MW3, RO2, and other shooters.

Video Games Now Legally Considered an Art Form (in the USA)

I never took this debate too seriously, as in, I figured games could be artistic and didn't bother flaming Roger Ebert after that debacle.

That being said, discuss the topic and share games you consider "art".

I'll link some of the best up top here.

Some agreed-upon artistic games worth playing according to Bay12:

PC:
Octodad
Blueberry Garden
Machinarium
Today I Die

PS2:
Shadow of the Colossus

I can't really play DF, don't have time for it. But I have some time to play around with text files. So first in my series of mini-mods for DF and assorted modding SCIENCE! where I screw up all the numbers in DF to break it make it better.

Fixed number of ribs and teeth mod: This mod removes the defunct NUMBER tag from body_default and I manually added and named every tooth and rib as Toady intended. Now you have more than 6 teeth and ribs. (Jaw and navel not included, that is from my complex body mod to come later) As an "bonus" side effect, this makes blunt weapons much more powerful as the chance of jamming a rib through the heart/lungs/liver is much higher.


In the works:
Complex body mod - Do unspeakable things to people with the most complex DF bodies ever created. Also makes a trip to a night creature's lair particularly gruesome. Pickled testes and dried wombs composed of uterus tissue anyone?
- Hit someone in the lower body hard enough and they will crap their pants.
Arsenal mod - more, race specific, and balanced weapons for vanilla DF
Specialty poisons mod - DF could use more nasty syndromes and poisons
Speech flavour mod
Updated community combat balance overhaul - the first mod to fix DF .31's strange combat behaviour will get a facelift to continue the tradition of combat balance with specific testing and numbers.
Updated Samurai mod
Diablo mod: in conjunction with T. - DF Diablo total conversion

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Hp5FCqRORk
http://www.moddb.com/engines/fs2-open-engine/news/how-far-weve-come

Modders sure can do great things when you open-source good old games.

We have the ability to start with metal, wood_pref and steel weapons and armor, I think it'd be fantastic if we had [bone_pref] added to entity_default.

This would allow civs to start with bone weapons and armor in DF. Bone armor is already available to vanilla DF dwarves. I think it would also fit into the personality of Elven cannibalism (don't waste any part of a creature) and kobolds (limited tech) or if not for vanilla DF it would allow fun and extensive modding without the current difficult workarounds.