I think my feeling about the data editor as its own tool can best be expressed thusly:
Also, can the editor edit its own parameters in real time?

I'd really prefer it in amber than green....

I eagerly await the statistical analysis.

Please be sure to include frequency charts and trend lines.

We will need this in order to predict Josh's future emoticon usage. Once we can predict, we can control.

Ha. Ha ha. Hahahaha. MUAHAHAHAHAHA!!

That's actually how it worked in the original Two Worlds. In fact, neither characters nor animals nor plants respawned. I don't know whether that was a design choice (to emphasize pure mechanical gameplay with a definite end-of-game over "living world"), or if the TW devs ran out of time, or if they...

I would have missed some fun games if I had paid too much attention to reviews Flat. It takes much more than a few reviewers to put me off. ;) :) True. It's important to find reviewers who either are able to put their personal preferences aside (very rare), or whose preferences track closely with y...

Michael Cook presents another fascinating take on Procedural Content Generation. This time it's PCG-Based Game Design: Creating Endless Web . Most games with PCG use it to generate content for players according to the developer's parameters. The content gets generated, then the player sees it and co...

A thesaurus of randomly-ordered adjectives and adverbs, yes.

Just adds to the charm.

Sure. You listen to a Yahtzee review, and you think to yourself, "Oh, come now, surely it can't actually be that bad, can it?" Then you play it and realize he was only exaggerating for comedic effect, and that behind the gags his criticisms are actually well-founded. Bottom line on TW2 is that it's ...

The folks at Rock Paper Shotgun have another glowing post about Limit Theory. This time it's about Update #10. They're pleased with the space update, but amazed by the data editor: This video talks about the tech tree and the modding UI, and you just have to watch it. He’s procedurally generated tec...

A new strategic concept is simply embodied in the next iteration of an item that is deployed across your empire. Got it -- thanks for taking to time to clarify that. It offends my theorist's sensibilities that an entire star-spanning civilization's creative output is limited to Engineering -- to ma...

Thanks for the comments, all! Some quick notes: 1. On the "dumb-fire missile" terminology, you're technically correct (and I will only say I have professional reasons for knowing distinctions like this). "Dumb-fire" was a reference to Wing Commander as a quick way to express to this community the id...

A couple of notes inspired by these questions and the follow-ups: 1. Josh came right out in the KS page and said that no built-in "story" would be part of LT. ("Limit Theory will not offer a story, a campaign, or a guiding direction of any sort.") Even so, it might be interesting to speculate on wha...

A few weeks ago I suggested it might be useful/fun to try to develop a starter list of some of the "fixed technologies" that could form the basis of the research tree in Limit Theory. Recently mcsven put together a nice outline of the techs seen in Josh's initial presentation (in Update #10) of his ...

I like the notion of players being able to hollow out a planetoid and use it as a base of operations.... In the blackness of the vacuum In the empty frozen darkness Stood the guardian of the mainworld The planetoid called Hiawatha Covered all in rocky mantle Covered safe from proton missiles Hiawath...

Yahtzee has cornered the market on sarcastic reviews, anyway. His take on Two Worlds II was also not very positive , but he does at least explain why it wasn't fun for him. Meanwhile, I have just reinstalled the original Two Worlds. (I had to login to the main fan forum to ask the mod there to autho...

I watched the new video soon after it came out. But I haven't been able to post about it until now because my jaw, having dropped to the floor, has been in the way of the keyboard. I still can't say much; I'd just be injecting a long string of superlative adjectives into a sentence: amazing, beautif...