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by MrMorley
Wed Nov 03, 2010 12:16 pm
Forum: Art, Music, and Design
Topic: Philosophical gaming
Replies: 10
Views: 2285

Re: Philosophical gaming

TheDarkJay, you're over here too? heh had no idea :P Yeah, I joined after I saw (I think it was) you post a link as it looked interesting :) As for playing games that you always lose: Dwarf Fortress. One of my favourite games, but if you find the fact that your steel-armoured dwarven champion axe-d...
by MrMorley
Fri Oct 29, 2010 1:51 pm
Forum: Art, Music, and Design
Topic: Philosophical gaming
Replies: 10
Views: 2285

Re: Philosophical gaming

I once wrote on morality systems in a blog post, if I can dig it up...here we go: I'm not going to deny it, I find moral choices in video games fascinating. On the one hand, having options and therefore the illusion of control is very nice. On the other, for f*cks sake video games, why is the choice...
by MrMorley
Wed Oct 27, 2010 10:48 pm
Forum: Art, Music, and Design
Topic: Philosophical gaming
Replies: 10
Views: 2285

Philosophical gaming

Games which, like novels, have a primary purpose of simply making you think . Take for example, Planescape: Torment. A cult classic, with very little emphasis on combat and much ultimately on a simple question: "What can change the nature of a man?" A question with so many answers that rev...
by MrMorley
Sat Sep 04, 2010 1:45 pm
Forum: Game Development
Topic: Free development utilities (not a free trial, its all free)
Replies: 77
Views: 116073

Re: Free development utilities (not a free trial, its all free)

Compiler: Newen.net's precompiled Mingw32 gcc The simplest way to get the latest gcc version that I've found and it actually updates regularly with the latest version of gcc, for that sweet sweet C++0x support it provides. IDEs: NetBeans Cross platform and cross-language with C++ autocomplete suppor...