http://rooc.offtopicproductions.com/blog General mind-dump of Jonas Wæver Sun, 17 Aug 2008 19:04:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Took a lot of effort to resist the temptation of calling this post "Braid Blows", but I thought that would be a bit of a low... Blow. Ahem. I'm through Braid, though I haven't yet completed it. The game consists of 5 worlds (numbered from 2-6) with a 12-piece jigsaw puzzle ... http://rooc.offtopicproductions.com/blog/2008/08/17/braid/ Yesterday I had a spontaneous impulse to write down one of my generic game concepts, thematically based on a long-defunct Deus Ex mod name of The Preachers - or rather, based on the impression I got of it from reading its website 7 years ago. Reading over the concept, it ... http://rooc.offtopicproductions.com/blog/2008/08/14/the-central-concept/ I knew before I even got there that it was going to be a busy weekend. In preparation for our 2½ day recording session, Jeremiah's colleague Friedrich had turned our exported Trestkon script into a tidy database to be read by VoxGrinder, T-Recs Studios' proprietary batch recording tool, and the ... http://rooc.offtopicproductions.com/blog/2008/08/12/hamburg-wir-wollen-in-beifall-untergehen/ Or: Indiana Jonas and the Quest for Voice Acting. ...okay, just Heading to Hamburg then. A couple months ago, our prospects for having Trestkon's lines recorded were... a little bleak. Our original motivation for choosing poor Lawrence as the protagonist of The Nameless Mod, at the risk of his being forever regarded ... http://rooc.offtopicproductions.com/blog/2008/08/07/heading-to-hamburg/ I reckon that every game project will once in a while present a few interesting design challenges. That's one of the reasons game design is fun: Solving creative challenges can be just as much fun as actually playing a game, especially when it evolves into a collaborative discussion about possible ... http://rooc.offtopicproductions.com/blog/2008/07/31/fixing-the-sewers/ Modding is a hobby that carries its own reward. It demands an excrutiating amount of work, but if you're into it, it feels more like fun than duty and at the end of the day you have a product to show for it. Hopefully a product you can be proud ... http://rooc.offtopicproductions.com/blog/2008/07/25/cry-beta/ Now that we're almost done with the first closed beta build of TNM, it's time to kick back and pat ourselves on the back until the bug reports start rolling in as an unstoppable tide (or trickle, if you're more optimistically inclined). It's also time to start thinking more abstractly ... http://rooc.offtopicproductions.com/blog/2008/07/22/agency-and-reaction-in-dialogue/ Item sets are a brilliant invention. I've loved them ever since I first encountered the concept in Diablo 2. It tickles my collector gene in a way not even card games like Magic: The Gathering has managed to. The moment I pick up a set item, I know that I ... http://rooc.offtopicproductions.com/blog/2008/07/20/set-bonus/ Now I know how Australian gamers feel. I only just realized Rock Band has been released in Europe for a while. The PR machine was running in the highest gear back in the autumn when Rock Band was released in North America, but when it was finally released "in parts ... http://rooc.offtopicproductions.com/blog/2008/07/19/rock-band/ Overall I've enjoyed my vacation on Darkshore. Spent a lot of time on the beach. Didn't get much of a tan though. My girlfriend turned into a bear a couple of times, so that was a little freaky. - Uthar the Warrior, heading home to Stormwind from Darkshore. How do you roleplay ... http://rooc.offtopicproductions.com/blog/2008/07/15/roleplaying-in-wow/