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Re: Official Off-Topic Thread 2015

Reply #130 on: February 15, 2015, 11:59:20 pm
Rewrite the thing, Tocky. Format it. Make it useful for everybody. It's fun. Less lonely.

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Re: Official Off-Topic Thread 2015

Reply #131 on: February 16, 2015, 12:00:29 am
i guess i can copypste as good as anyone, sure. ok i'll start it, but not right away

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Re: Official Off-Topic Thread 2015

Reply #132 on: February 16, 2015, 12:05:46 am
Thank you  :D

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Re: Official Off-Topic Thread 2015

Reply #133 on: February 16, 2015, 12:11:38 am
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[TITLE SCREEN]

ok, maniac mansion is not my fave. but i will talk about it because its better than 99.999% of games, including its own brilliant sequel, and this is good enough.

[insert the actual art from the game, THE STUFF HELM POSTED BEFORE]
[insert link to where you can play the game in a browser.]


i will talk about 3 of my fav topics:

the ega-style palette
ortho mode
chaos theory (how to escape the grid)

i will also talk about OBJECT ORIENTATION, MANIAC MADNESS, THE TAROT, THE CRITTER CODE, DRAGONS, ERIS, ETC.

ask me anything.

obviously im not allowed to make this thread
« Last Edit: February 16, 2015, 12:20:43 am by tocky »

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Re: Official Off-Topic Thread 2015

Reply #134 on: February 16, 2015, 12:14:52 am
Tocky, line out a proper first post for a CC thread. Ideally come up with a nice activity to go with it. Make banners for it (150x65 pixels each). Then pm me all that and I will make the thread and put the banners in the news box.
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Re: Official Off-Topic Thread 2015

Reply #135 on: February 16, 2015, 12:15:19 am
Do it do it it'll be fun!

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Re: Official Off-Topic Thread 2015

Reply #136 on: February 16, 2015, 12:17:19 am
that is at least as proper as goat's first post in the chaos thread. im just exposing useful variables to you the user

I DONT LIKE MAKING PREVIEW IMAGES BUT YOU GUYS DO



the activity is: design an ortho map of connected rooms using a small rgb palette. MANICMAZE. i will do as little work as i can get away with, MAKING MAPS IS EXPENSIVE but its fun, ive already done it before, but i like writing, writing is cheap for me
« Last Edit: February 16, 2015, 04:28:28 am by PixelPiledriver »

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Re: Official Off-Topic Thread 2015

Reply #137 on: February 16, 2015, 12:32:28 am
Perhaps provide a room-template and a character sprite from the original game so everything's to the same scale? Like, "The endless rooms of the Mansion" or something. Put them all together at the end as a sprawling game map.


(This could easily lead to explaining a few basics of AGS to get more people interested in actually making an adventure game. )

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Re: Official Off-Topic Thread 2015

Reply #138 on: February 16, 2015, 12:34:36 am
nah, it doesnt need to be the same size. let the artist choose their own restrictions beyond mine. it doesnt even need to be 2d. they will know it's maniac-mansion inspired. call it MANICMAZE. you must believe me when i tell you i am good at puns

like MANICMAZE is what it'd be called in DOS, but with 9 characters, transcending the limitations of the form. function (text) and object orientation (books) and open source (wiki) as three sides of the same coin (the forum? the pixel?)

wayofthepixel is a better operating system than DOS - but in the chaos thread remember we only got in three good posts before tierny came in and tried to shut the whole thing down



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(This could easily lead to explaining a few basics of AGS to get more people interested in actually making an adventure game. )

my money's on twine. I CANT MAKE AGS GAMES REALLY, I ONLY KNOW HOW TO PLAY THEM

but i cant talk about twine without first talking about borges.

thats basically a whole different commercial critique, of zork maybe. probably something more recent - I WANT TO SAY 'with those we have alive' by porpentine, or 'the tower' i think is the other one, by max something. THE BARON if thats what its called. lots of pacian games. i can do a twine subforum - also ascii and petscii. call that Textual Art - i tell you, crosspollenisation
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Re: Official Off-Topic Thread 2015

Reply #139 on: February 16, 2015, 01:01:18 am
Don't sell that to me, sell it to the mods. I come to Pix for Pixels and pixel theory, personally, but if you've got something salient to say about text adventures, why not use your blog.