Heh -- I just came from there. Every now and then the RPS gang really do get what makes PC gaming different/important. I left a few clarifications-as-I-understand-them in the comments section of the RPS piece to some questions that were being asked there. Please feel free to correct anything I got w...

Gazz wrote:What if cruise mode was visually distinct in other ways? The engine exhaust could develop a much more pronounced engine plume. That way colour shifts are reserved for different engine types.

Speaking only for myself, that would work Just Fine for me.

I'm not opposed to the Skywind project at all, but it might be worth mentioning that it's apparently a straight conversion of Morrowind (plus the Tribunal and Bloodmoon expansions). As such, it's super-lore- un friendly with respect to Skyrim. Five years after the Oblivion Crisis in the history of t...

A few thoughts on this month's video: 1. Thank you! Making one of these always takes some effort -- it's appreciated. 2. Asteroids: looking good! THAT is what an asteroid field ought to look like. There is something bugging me about the albedo on these things -- they're all uniformly bright, maybe? ...

I like the idea of keying exhaust colors to engine types, rather than to flight modes. This does a couple of interesting things for gameplay: 1. Different exhaust colors for different kinds of engines implies that there will be different kinds of engines with different operating characteristics (inc...

I'm another who enjoys the conceptual stuff. I won't complain if they're not in every devlog; just saying I find them very interesting.

Also, I see that Gazz is now applying abstraction to his comments. I think Josh's code-ripping may be getting out of hand....

JoshParnell wrote:Also ~ get him Gazz, get him!! Making Newton proud

Strangely, I'm feeling better about that whole tactics/strategy thing now.

Logitech G15. I also like the lighted keys. While I don't look at the keyboard much during gaming or coding/writing, when I need to do so it's nice to be able to clearly see what's what. The G15's LCD display is also handy for the games that support it (status info mostly), though there seem to be f...

No disrespect intended to anyone, but just speaking for myself I am SO glad that Limit Theory is a single-player game....

I wouldn't have commented, but hey, comments were invited. ;) Now, just because stations aren't modularly-destructible doesn't mean that we've taken away all strategic gameplay! Hardpoints, as always, are fully destructible. ... Having, for example, the power generators or sensor array exposed would...

Victor, my relationship with the modern graphical online games has been difficult. I played EverQuest, EVE Online, and quite a lot of Star Wars Galaxies. But I nearly always played them without interacting directly with other players. I enjoyed the indirect interactions -- watching how the gameworld...

The shakycam was also the part I liked the least. I think it added to the impact, but it was IMO (and I gather yours as well) way, way too excessive. I don't know that I'd want it perfectly smooth. But that would be preferable to the crazy amount of shakage currently on display. (A slider would be e...

Holy flaming canaries....

I just watched the Strike Vector trailer -- I think my blood pressure just jumped 50 points, and I didn't even have the sound on.

I definitely want the strategic bits of Limit Theory. But wow; the Strike Vector combat looks extraordinarily visceral.

Woof.

When I say, "There has never been a better time for making games," Limit Theory and Frontiers are two of the games I'm thinking of.

ELP definitely deserve to be on a prog rock list; they're just not on mine. It's not because I dislike them, exactly. I mean, I might also have included King Crimson on my personal list. We just never clicked for some reason. Also, while ELP are a fine prog rock band, Brain Salad Surgery is not the ...