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Comment on Game Mixtape Maker by Community Challenge: Make An Indie Game Mixtape!

Community Challenge: Make An Indie Game Mixtape! — Sat, 24 Nov 2012 19:03:16 +0000

[...] Luckily for those a little worried about their file sorting skills can be relieved as Mike Meyer, also known as ExciteMike, has hatched a brilliant plan and program to match. Introducing Game Mixtape Maker! [...]

Comment on Mixtape by owen

owen — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 15:47:42 +0000

OH no the cloud is down, no tumblr for me

Comment on Super Nerd Bros. 3 by Mike

Mike — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 11:07:35 +0000

That’s a good point! I think I get away with it, though, because for these jumps Mario only fell back down to the height he jumped from, which doesn’t appear to be enough for him to reach terminal velocity.

Comment on Super Nerd Bros. 3 by Tim

Tim — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 05:24:49 +0000

Your curve fit for the descent shouldn’t include the last part of the descent, as there is a point when Mario reaches terminal velocity and stops accelerating.

Comment on Super Nerd Boy by Chris

Chris — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 16:45:04 +0000

I gotta say I really love this and the Mario graph. I’ve never put too much thought into the mathematics behind the jump aside from just tweaking gravity until it felt right, but when you really analyze it, it makes a huge impact on gameplay and I probably should have taken it more seriously. As you said in the Mario article, there’s no right way to do it, but developers should definitely strive to get the experience that is right for the game. In Mario, the player almost gets a floating on air feeling which compliments the games crazy, block breaking, goomba-bounce comboing style. SMB on the other hand is hard… VERY HARD. So they needed a style that compliments precise movements. I think they accomplished this very well by just zeroing out the y velocity so you got an immediate response. Needless to say, we’ll be putting a lot more thought into our next game!

Chris Enriquez
midnighttangent.com

Comment on Follow Behavior (w/ demo) by owen

owen — Sat, 07 Jul 2012 17:49:05 +0000

I could never wrap my head around what the dot product is doing!

Comment on Follow Behavior (w/ demo) by Colin C.

Colin C. — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 22:47:11 +0000

Judging by “which one I would be most scared to be chased by in a video game,” I think green wins. The way it first focuses on getting rid of any motion but toward you makes it seem like some crazy bear monster trying to charge at you.

Comment on Follow Behavior (w/ demo) by Mark

Mark — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 22:37:55 +0000

Yeah, yellow is nice, especially when green isn’t allowed to accelerate to ridiculous speeds. Yellow’s path is very efficient-looking and pleasing

Comment on Reaction to “Why Do People ‘[WEASEL WORD REDACTED]‘ EA?” by owen

owen — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 20:21:48 +0000

EA can be a good employer and a BAD company at the same time. Saying that the world is changing and also being a driver of that change is like saying the tree was crashing into your car. Sooner or later the hate is going to bubble up like bad soup.

Comment on Reaction to “Why Do People ‘[WEASEL WORD REDACTED]‘ EA?” by Mike

Mike — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 19:29:49 +0000

Hooray for talking about actual positive things about EA! And addressing actual complaints instead of weird caricatures of them! We are not insulting and dismissing critics! I did some good maybe? Yay!

I don’t think the why-is-everybody-picking-on-EA-when-everyone-else-is-bad-too angle holds up. Activision, Ubisoft, and Zynga definitely get a lot of flak too. I think it’s just that we are reading/seeing/caring a lot more about EA because we or our friends and family work there.

And anyway if one company gets it worse than another, we should probably be open to the possibility that it’s because they’ve done more lately to piss people off than the other. (Or maybe just doing it more blatantly but you get the idea) That seems like the most likely explanation.