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Re: Indie game made by 2 people out-selling Spore, Left 4 Dead, & Fallout 3 at Amazon

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Post by angstrom » Tue, Dec 23, 2008, 4:14 PM UTC

euccastro wrote: post #16

And this is how it all started: http://www.gamasutra.com/features/20051026/gabler_01.shtml

I still have that in my downloads folder. Hopefully we see a shift that brings the focus back to game play and away from vertex crunching/pixel pushing. If i wanted realism I'd go outside. I'm sure that's heresy in the halls of nVidia.

Re: Indie game made by 2 people out-selling Spore, Left 4 Dead, & Fallout 3 at Amazon

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Post by jamesbritt » Tue, Dec 23, 2008, 4:29 PM UTC

judofyr wrote: post #28

jamesbritt wrote: post #21

" ... coming soon for Linux..." :(

Cheer up! At least it's coming to Linux :-)

This is true, and that's encouraging.

In the meantime, I may just grab it for win32, see if it plays OK under Wine, and if not use it on a VMware image of XP.

Re: Indie game made by 2 people out-selling Spore, Left 4 Dead, & Fallout 3 at Amazon

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Post by nihilocrat » Tue, Dec 23, 2008, 5:42 PM UTC

Rapid-iteration and rapid-prototyping seems to be slowly gaining traction in the gaming industry. The high cost of game development plus high risk makes for an environment where trying out things in small increments and with quick turnaround is very valuable.

This dude talks about it a lot: http://lostgarden.com

Re: Indie game made by 2 people out-selling Spore, Left 4 Dead, & Fallout 3 at Amazon

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Post by st3fan » Tue, Dec 23, 2008, 10:18 PM UTC

Well, I guess they are not Indie anymore!

Re: Indie game made by 2 people out-selling Spore, Left 4 Dead, & Fallout 3 at Amazon

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Post by Freaky » Tue, Dec 23, 2008, 10:32 PM UTC

ram1024 wrote: post #17

i suggest people buy left4dead to catch it up. because THAT game is funtastic. you have no idea

Shame it's massively overpriced for what it is. The only reason I bought it was it was sub-£20 from Amazon at the time, and even that's pretty steep unless they're planning some epic free expansions for it.

Re: Indie game made by 2 people out-selling Spore, Left 4 Dead, & Fallout 3 at Amazon

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Post by truebosko » Wed, Dec 24, 2008, 12:09 AM UTC

Is there a mailing list for Linux users who want to be updated when a linux version comes out?

Edit: Nevermind, kind of found it http://2dboy.com/mailman/listinfo/announce_2dboy.com

Re: Indie game made by 2 people out-selling Spore, Left 4 Dead, & Fallout 3 at Amazon

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Post by altano » Thu, Dec 25, 2008, 6:50 AM UTC

DLWormwood wrote: post #30

jcl wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Both movies had somewhat dark undertones. I know many people were freaked out by the Wilder "tunnel" sequence -- apparently enough to get the movie on Bravo's 100 Scariest Movie Moments list.

I can understand that, but I read the novel in childhood. To me, the 70's film's scariness seemed superficial and insincere compared with the 00's version. (Which is not what you'd expect, given that I was still a kid when I saw the first film version.) Maybe it's just Depp's portrayal pushing the "creepy" meter to 11 is what did it for me. (Wilder's seemed resigned to each child's fate, while Depp's possessed morbid…

I found Wilder to be significantly creepier than Depp