Elysian Shadows

Bastion is a work of art, more so than any of those 'artsy' games I think - if you consider art to be any media that causes an emotional response. When I first got it, I didn't really pay much attention - I played the tutorial level and thought it was really pretty, then went on to try the rest of t...

Damn, that Dreamcast netbook is a little monster!

Anyone know how much it costs in $?

Farcry3. Damn nice game, decent length, very dynamic, one of the very best FPS games released in the last few years IMO.

Thanks guys, your feedback is very much appreciated. I'm gonna increase the iOS version so older devices can't download it, it will work on them once the media has been re-scaled, just a shame that I didn't think of that at earlier. The water effect is what made me fall in love with OpenGL :D - was ...

Hi All, Just wanted to post about my first C++, iOS game release onto the Apple store. It's a balls-to-the-wall classic bubble popping game, like Bust-A-Move, has a survival mode and a puzzle mode. It's taken ages and ages to make because I had no iOS or C++ knowledge when I started making it - but ...

We had those plug-in pong variants, but to be honest I find it difficult to view those as consoles - as you can't change the games, I see them more as stand-alone games rather than consoles. But my first console was a Vectrex, which is about as nostalgic, genuine, and retro as you can get... http://...

I always liked the way Puzzle Bubble/Bust-A-Move handled it. For one thing, there are characters and a plot which are presented really well - plot is pretty much irrelevant, but it's nice to know there is one. The main thing IMO is that there are 2 recognisable characters, and that sets the game asi...

Nice. I think though that you could do with some practice with shading. What might be cool, is if you start with a sketch, colour it in solid blocks of colour, then shade over the top with 2 layers, darken and lighten. If you do that, then you have full control over your lighting, rather than trying...

Hehe, love it :D

Kinda like that VB full-retard-mode command...

On Error Resume Next

In other words, if you crash, just go onto the next command and pretend it never happened.

Clint Eastwood

It looks a lot better than it did, perfectly clear and bright to me. One thing is though that you might be better off using a bitmap font, that way you can add a drop shadow, anti-alias etc. Also - bitmap fonts give you the chance to add custom characters, like tick boxes and scroll arrows if you ne...

Wow, you have a lot of faith in the guys doing the redo that you wanted to do! That game won't be the game that you have in mind, it won't be anywhere near it. How many people out there are dying for a Syndicate remake? - and what are they getting?, an FPS! FFS! I would say that it's not a great ide...

The pivot is the point on the sprite that it rotates around, but besides rotation, it means that the sprite is centered on the position you specify. Also means that scaling is from the center as well, you wouldn't want to scale from the top left usually. I think that detecting collision before movin...

It's a tricky one huh! I've recently had to deal with irregular sprite sizes, but luckily it was quite easy to adapt to, as it was a whole band of sprites, so some simple logic solved the issue. If I had to have different bounding and pivot for each sprite, then I'd store it as a variable, maybe an ...

A couple of places, well people influenced me to become a programmer, I don't subscribe to preset labels that define my personality in a 4 letter word :D. My uncle was always into computers, C64 especially, and we'd visit most weekends and end up playing C64 games like Frak and Summer Sports all nig...