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Portal 64 – A demake of Portal for the Nintendo 64

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Re: Portal 64 – A demake of Portal for the Nintendo 64

#42

Post by nonethewiser »

Ideenfindung wrote: post #36

I did not know this concept existed, Wonderful Idea, no doubt demakes would be a lot more frequent if we valued ecology and actually tried to curb digital obsolescence as much as possible, in a permacomputing way. I imagine it would be much more straightforward to port pretty much any indie games to consoles like Xbox original onwards, PS3 onwards, Wii onwards, maybe Windows 7 average desktop and notebooks (lots of i…

This demake is an additional game. Seems like it will just add to the energy load required to run a computer programs. Which I think is fine, frankly. Perhaps some people will play it instead of portal but even still there is the overhead of developing it. I guess if we cared about ecology we'd shut down more game servers faster.

Re: Portal 64 – A demake of Portal for the Nintendo 64

#43

Post by andai »

pard68 wrote: post #18
driscoll42 wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Agreed, this repo is in desperate need of a few screenshots/video on the ReadMe to showcase what it looks like.

I personally have found there is something of an art to a good readme. So folks can make one that is informative and visual, others can't. I have a project or two that suffered because my readme designing skills suck, then talented friend PR'd a great readme with screenshots and such.

It may be an art, but I wouldn't say it takes much talent to include a screenshot, GIF or YouTube link! Most likely he just didn't give it much thought.

Re: Portal 64 – A demake of Portal for the Nintendo 64

#45

Post by tczMUFlmoNk »

ralferoo wrote: post #40
hypertele-Xii wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

By what party? Valve is famously community-friendly.

I'm sure GlaDOS would give it a try... You are trying to kill it after all.

Nah, she's made her views clear on the matter.

    I'm not even angry
    I'm being so sincere right now
    Even though you broke my heart and killed me
    And tore me to pieces
    And threw every piece into a fire
    As they burned, it hurt because I was so happy for you

    Now these points of data make a beautiful line
    And we're out of beta, we're releasing on time
    So *I'm GLaD I got burned*; think of all the things we learned
    For the people who are still alive
(emph. mine)

Re: Portal 64 – A demake of Portal for the Nintendo 64

#48

Post by Retr0id »

andai wrote: post #43
pard68 wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I personally have found there is something of an art to a good readme. So folks can make one that is informative and visual, others can't. I have a project or two that suffered because my readme designing skills suck, then talented friend PR'd a great readme with screenshots and such.

It may be an art, but I wouldn't say it takes much talent to include a screenshot, GIF or YouTube link! Most likely he just didn't give it much thought.

Speaking only for myself, often a project is in a half-finished state, and any provided screenshot would quickly become out of date.

Re: Portal 64 – A demake of Portal for the Nintendo 64

#49

Post by bluescrn »

nonethewiser wrote: post #42
Ideenfindung wrote: post #36

I did not know this concept existed, Wonderful Idea, no doubt demakes would be a lot more frequent if we valued ecology and actually tried to curb digital obsolescence as much as possible, in a permacomputing way. I imagine it would be much more straightforward to port pretty much any indie games to consoles like Xbox original onwards, PS3 onwards, Wii onwards, maybe Windows 7 average desktop and notebooks (lots of i…

This demake is an additional game. Seems like it will just add to the energy load required to run a computer programs. Which I think is fine, frankly. Perhaps some people will play it instead of portal but even still there is the overhead of developing it. I guess if we cared about ecology we'd shut down more game servers faster.

To 'save the planet' you want as many people playing video games, watching TV, or arguing on social media as possible.

If they're doing those things, consuming digital entertainment (eventually powered by renewables), then they're not out in the real world, travelling around using fossil fuels, consuming physical products, using up physical resources and emitting CO2.

Pretty bleak future though.

Re: Portal 64 – A demake of Portal for the Nintendo 64

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Post by StevenXC »

mr_sturd wrote: post #44

Would probably make it liable to DMCA, but I wish they could have the rotating 'N cube' passing through two orthogonal portals on boot up. Looks like a great project. I'm going to have to give it a go on the emulator.

Maybe an option to provide your own ROM with that asset would be a work around?
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