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Assorted Creations / Podcast: Too Much Talking
« on: November 13, 2010, 11:36:43 PM »
While not strictly a Bronto podcast, the New York area has a strong Bronto/#FF representation. Myself, Patito and Aintaer are regulars, Yeoz could be on if he wanted to, Rygaron could be on if he actually showed up, as well as individuals like Crouton and Adventure Jones who were introduced by me. We might even get visits from Kemru/Terra! So hopefully this is semi relevant/entertaining. I would even be into the idea of guests, if I could arrange a good way to record skype audio and mic audio at the same time without feedback. Typical topics such as video games and.. video games and nerdy stuff and me going on about some game designy stuff.




Too Much Talking Episode 5: The “Too Much Fighting” Episode
Too Much Talking Episode 4: The “Hat Bra” Episode
Too Much Talking Episode 3: The “Aeris Dies” Episode
Too Much Talking Episode 2: The “Spike Dies” Episode
Too Much Talking Episode 1: Introductory Episode
Too Much Talking Episode 4: The “Hat Bra” Episode
Too Much Talking Episode 3: The “Aeris Dies” Episode
Too Much Talking Episode 2: The “Spike Dies” Episode
Too Much Talking Episode 1: Introductory Episode

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Team Fortress 2 / Kayin's Hat Profiteering and Blackmail
« on: November 11, 2010, 02:55:39 PM »
http://www.tf2items.com/id/kayinn

So everyone knows I'm sick of TF2 right? Right. But despite quiting, I have refused to give away any items. In fact I have claimed that I would sooner destroy them rather than give them away, sheerly to spite the system. That said, while I wish to keep my items in case I decide to play again, there is a class of item that make no difference to me.

Hats.

Hats are normally worthless. They don't do anything. Their worth only comes from people being willing to trade pretend items for them. None of these items have any financial value, but hats (usually) don't even do anything...

Or so I thought!
 
In a conversation involving Lyrai begging for my hats, Yeoz made a beautiful baller offer. 2 dollars to destroy my meager amount of hats! Now THATS REAL MONEY. Not a lot, but REAL MONEY. Ridley offered up to 15$ to protect the hats and for them to be given to Lyrai. Ever the profiteer, I decided to see if anyone else was willing to bid against the other side, sheerly for my benefit.

As such, the fate of the hats are now in the financial hands of you, the community. The cause with the highest pledged pool of money by a time I eventually decide (Next Friday?) will get their hat wishes granted. All money must be paid through paypal, unless you actually can come over and pay me in cash. Once it is decided who won and I receive all payments, I will do what you please with the hats, be it gift them to Lyrai, or destroy them OR ANY OTHER PROPOSED OPTION. srs bids only plz. I reserve the right to decline any proposed causes. If people can't pay up once we decide what to do, and we can't work anything out, I will refund all payments and go to the next winners.

Bidding

DESTROY THE HATS(AND YOUTUBE IT)
Yeoz: 3$+ (but claimed he'd be willing to outbid people)
Aintaer: 2 Dinners (15$ Value)
Patito: 2 Dinners (15$ Value)

GIFT TO LYRAI
Ridley: Up to 15$




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This sort of got spawned by my conversations with people about the RealID thing in battlenet. A lot of people are really attached to their internet handles! So I'm wondering, how attached are you guys to these names of yours? Also feel free to talk about how you came to your name or any other sort of bullshit that could be vaguely considered a conversation on the subject.

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Alright, so I've had this conversation a lot with folks and I'm wondering where people stand...

So people tend to have a certain love for console gaming. Playing on a couch with a simple device, playing on a big TV thats 10 feet away -- while others tend to hate being disconnected from their computer. So what this topic ISN'T

* A conversation about the merits of each platform
* A Mac/PC thing. Macs are computers. For your personals.
* Any sort of factual discussion. This entirely about individual preferences.
* Anything really then a question as to where you wanna sit. Your desk or out in your living room!

So a few assumptions

*You can run a game on either platform with optimal controls. YES, MOUSE AND KEYBOARD ON CONSOLE.
*You have a PC that can run games well and reliably

Also the if you're a laptop guy who's on the laptop on your couch all the time anyways, I guess you got nothing to add to this!

Anyways I'm probably overcomplicating the question, but I hope you all get the idea. Personally I HATE being separated from my window to the internet. I don't even play games in proper full screen mode so I can quickly alt-tab. I never buy remakes and ports I can emulate, not out of cheapness, but out of convenience. My console is that out of the way thing I have to go into another room and lug my laptop with me to use. When I'm in my room with it, it uses up my desktop's monitor, which is annoying. To me, the console is a means to an end to play certain games, and is always my secondary choice of platform. In a perfect world, I could plug my PS3's HDMI cable right into my computer and get a lagless, resizable window I could use to play games. My desk is my home and where I go to relax.

So how do you all feel on the topic? How do you prefer to game?

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Online Hookers / Street Fighter 2
« on: November 22, 2008, 05:37:55 PM »
So a few people seemed to express some interest in learning 2d fighters. Malikial has played Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo with me. Kashan tried before we came to some connection difficulties (that have been fixed. It was dumb), I know Patito will play, Aintaer, my current guest has stated interest and several other people have also expressed interest. Instead of playing with each person once or twice and rocking their shit, I'm thinking it would be more interesting and funner if I could get SEVERAL OF YOU to play at the same time, so instead of just fighting Big Bully Kayin, you could fight each other and it'd be more enjoyable to everyone!

So the question is, who's a bad enough dude to be up for some SF2 netplay over GGPO? (ggpo.net)

The netplay quality is amazing and I'm willing to help anyone with any character. SF2 is still a great game and is a good entry game to get into more 'modern' 2d fighters. So who's game?

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Assorted Creations / Fightan Games
« on: June 05, 2008, 09:50:35 PM »
I've read and argued against osme pretty bad stray thoughts recently on David Sirlin's blog. Som excerpts.
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"What to do with hedge results:
There’s a tournament of SF3 “balanced edition.” Games are decided by best 2 out of 3 matches. Our protagonist, Abe, is playing Bob for his first game in the tournament.
1st match: Abe picks a lowtier char (say Q). Bob picks a toptier char (say Chun). They fight. Abe gets his ass kicked in the fight, so he loses the match. Score is A:0 B:1
2nd match: Abe says to himself, “man, chun is broken, I don’t want to play against that shit”, so he hedges. Bob picks Chun again. Hedge always beats toptier, so Abe wins the match. Score is tied, A:1 B:1
3rd match: Abe says to himself, “wow, this hedging thing is awesome,” and hedges again. Bob picks Twelve. Hedge always loses to lowtier, so Abe loses the match. Score is A:1 B:2
Bob has won the game, so he goes on to winners bracket and Abe goes to losers. Make sense?" The idea goes on to explain that people get to make their own personal tier lists to use. Ugh. He argues this for quite a few posts.

Then theres this gem..
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"You want a balanced hedge option? An easy thing to do, if we treat ‘hedge’ like a character.

If we were to design a character (i.e., hedge) so that it won vs the top tier just as much as it lost to the low tier, it would completely balance the game.

I’ll use guilty gear as an example:

Potemkin wins vs Slayer 60% of the time

Slayer wins vs Jam 60% of the time

Jam wins vs Potemkin 60% of the time

Essentially speaking, the only way to ensure properly equal payoff matrices for each and every player, regardless of the character they choose would be to ensure that each character has just as many bad matchups as they have good matchup, and by roughly the wame win/loss ratio (for every 60% favorable matchup a char has, they should have a 40% unfavorable matchup).

As a minor quirk, the only way to ensure this (aside from the obvious patching and re-releasing of various versions of the same game) would be to make certain that the availiable number of characters in the game are odd, not even. This makes it easier to balance a character in such a way that half of it’s matchups are favorable and half arent.

Of course, purposely designing a character to have specific matchups favorable and unfavorable is a difficult feat in itself. "

I think people really get lose in game design sometimes -- especially when it comes ot competitive games -- to falling into the realm of Math Fuckery and not really getting what is or isn't desirable in a given genre and get too concerned with neatly fitting numbers.

People forget that even serious competitive players want to have fun when they play.

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Assorted Creations / Needed: Voice Acting
« on: May 29, 2008, 10:36:24 PM »
So. For my next game, I'm being way too ambitious. Not only am I planning to make a  Metroidvania with fighting game mechanics (... in MMF2 no less), but I wanna voice the damned thing.

Now, I haven't even penned the plot or finalized all but a hand full of characters and things are still early in. Still, before I work on the plot in detail I decided it would be best to try and find good voices so I know the resources I have to work with. So what I'm asking for the folks of this forsaken forum to put together voice demo samples and post them. The upshot of this is, even if I never use anything and can the voice idea, I think it'd be really entertaining for everyone to make asses out of them selves harmlessly.

The game setting is a serious, semi fantasy metroidvania with most of the voices belonging to stong characters (and a good few villians, though no campy villian voices). Do as many voices as you can from whatever media you want -- lines from books, movie,s anime, whatever. Make shit up. I don't care, just try and get as many voices as possible -- even if they may suck.

Now this is what I want and what I'm looking for. That said, feel free to do whatever you damn well please. Feel free to submit something that has no chance of being selected. Like I said, the other upside to this is shits and giggles.

On a final note, if you know you have a good voice, be ready for me to bug the crap out of you in a few months. So if you're not willing to commit to doing a small project (I don't think most characters will have THAT many lines that it'd be serious work), please state that you have no serious intentions to do voice work for me -- so I don't have to cry when you say so no.

If you have no hosting, email me at kayinnasaki@gmail.com and I'll put it up for all to giggle at.

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Online Hookers / Joy Mech Fight
« on: January 28, 2008, 12:55:44 AM »
The Hal Lab Fighter for the NES! I wanna play this shit online. I ALWAYS wanna play fighters on line. But I figure this, nice, simple game could attract some people for me to beat up/get beat up by.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHcEKNE53uw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKoJXwdgM5w

About as good a fighter as you can get on the NES. Rom is right here. http://kayin.pyoko.org/jmf.nes

Anyone interested in throwing down on Kaillera?

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