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Games / Re: Comparing PC Gaming to Console Gaming

« on: November 19, 2012, 10:44:17 AM »

If you put all the things the computer has (i.e. programming) onto the consoles they would be equally expensive.

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Games / Re: Bushido Blogs about Game Design ("A Warrior Codes")

« on: November 19, 2012, 10:40:09 AM »

I started reading the picture and then I tried to scroll down and remembered where I was.

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Off Topic / THE POKEMON SPREAD

« on: November 18, 2012, 03:30:18 PM »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&v=yqYKUHUzva8&NR=1

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Games / Starforge - Build V 0.1.5c (tunneling added again) [IMG HEAVY]

« on: November 18, 2012, 03:02:20 PM »

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StarForge is the ultimate sandbox game about surviving on an alien planet on a fully procedural infinite voxel terrain. You can create anything anywhere at anytime given you have the resources. Dig holes as deep as you want, built a mountain into outer space, or walk in any direction forever while saving every change. The game has an awesome physics engine that is as close to real life as most video games have gotten thus far.

Earth - Why We Left

During the years 2073-2253 Humanity enjoyed relative peace on earth and most funds were diverted to deep space exploration. Small bases were setup on the Moon and Mars. However a new problem soon emerged. Our star was dying. The estimates shown that within a thousand years the sun would die completely ensuring the extinction of humanity.

To deal with this harsh reality, the nations of Earth created the New Space Initiative. Drones were sent to scan the every earthlike planet in existence and send imagery and sounds back to Earth.

A planet was found and deemed habitable. They called it Atlas, due to their hopes that one day it would carry the Earth on its shoulders. At this time scientists discovered how to make objects travel at the speed of light. But Atlas was still too far away for a human to arrive in their lifetime.

So for the next 1000 years Earth sent resources to this new planet in hopes of one day sending humans there. Every corporation on Earth was required to send massive amounts of equipment and weaponry. They were contained in huge freighters on a one way mission. Robots were also sent to seed the land with common trees, grasses, food, and shrubs. It was soon determined via drone imagery that some creatures would take these supplies, and others would burrow underground with them. So an additional blueprint database was setup to allow all human knowledge to be categorized and would allow for easy creation should man ever gather resources on the new planet.

It was the dawn of the new millennium. There was a somber tone in the streets of every city on every corner of the Earth. Everyone was under the shadow of death and freezing temperatures. It would have been better to be maimed and thrown in the depths of the seas then live through these times. But then it came. The invention of warp drive. Allowing man to travel into the depths of space within an instant.

In the year 3085 you leave. You have been chosen through a lottery system to leave Earth. Your only goal is to survive the new planet and ensure humanities survival.

StarForge is a game about gathering resources, building bases, buying weapons, using strategy, and destroying your opponent’s bases to win the match. It is real time and set in a first or third person perspective. Set on an alien planet, the theme is high technology, mixed with old world building mechanics. Earth has been depleted and the humans transferred as much technology and resources as possible and left on a one way mission to populate another planet. They must forge a new star.

StarForge was inspired by Halo, Terraria, Warcraft 3, and Minecraft. It borrows elements from the RTS, FPS, RPG, Voxel Builder, DOTA, and Physics Sandbox genres. It is still in the very early alpha stages, however, so most of these features are currently not available. Currently you can fight, build, shoot, and run.

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