For several years now, the Wide-Screen Gaming Forum has been a great resource. It offers reviews on widescreen and multi-monitor hardware, as well as detailed analyses and ratings of many games for how well -- or badly -- they support extended resolutions. There are also guides to "persuading" older...

That then raises the question: how many mentally active NPCs do you estimate will exist in a typical LT game? Order of magnitude thoughts on that? 100? 1000? 10,000? More? Also, will each one have the same amount of deep perception/planning to do? Or will some be quicker than others because they're ...

JoshParnell wrote:you'll never find yourself

I expect this will be a great disappointment to many Califonians.

Why is it that when Josh says:

Don't worry, your precious fighters are not in trouble...yet

all I can hear is:

Perhaps you refer to the imminent attack of your rebel fleet? Yes, I assure you, we are quite safe from your friends here.

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how do you judge the player's personality? It would be really cool if the game actually tried to compute a "personality" for the player based on play style. Player and NPC behaviors in RPGs has been a particular interest of mine for a while. So I'm quite excited to see the thinking being done on th...

Stashing stuff on a device that doesn't have a connection to the Internet reduces the risk of source being copied.

Not that I was being entirely serious, but.

Then the css used to affix the background is incompatible with Flatfinger's browser.

So it seems; I'm currently browsing with an iPhone, and the background does scroll with the overlaid text.

Apple software engineers: making rude gestures at everybody else's interface standards since 1984.

when and how does an NPC decide that it's time to create a faction? if (charisma > 12) { ... } ;) (As in, the moment that NPC is generated if they're naturally the kind of person who attracts other people. I'm assuming the world of LT will not have any children in it... though now I'm wondering whe...

Maybe what this thread needs now is limerick-by-committee: each person contributes the one next line. Here, I'll do one:

There once was a man from Regina,
Who suffered from painful angina
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I was also amazed by the seamless space-to-ground-and-back-again transition video when it came out. As the years have passed with no further serious progress toward an actual game (or licensable game engine), however, I have moved on. If they deliver something, great; if not, well. I'm sorry to hear...

Kickstarter isn't a new concept. =) Defense appropriations paid for through forced crowdfunding where your credit card gets charged immediately, and the money pledged for stretch goals gets shifted to projects you didn't back? ;) Anyway, I have no objection to large civilian craft flying around in ...

I much prefer darker backgrounds (with light text) for web sites. Bright pages make my eyes bleed. (And I will never understand why artists or anyone else puts pictures on a pure white background; it washes out details.) That said, I agree, the Limit Avocado background is so dark that I feel like I'...

Count me in as well -- it's the conceptual stuff that I find most interesting, and am always interested in hearing more of. Solving coding problems is very satisfying. But it does (unless you've achieved pro status at abstraction like someone we know ;) ) tend to be very specific to particular probl...

Who's to say you'd be buying the carrier necessarily from a government? You could buy it direct from the manufacturer. Companies like Lockheed-Martin or Boeing are commissioned to build military and civilian aircraft alike As I have a little personal expertise here, let me mention that, in a non-di...

I'm still thinking that time should flow relative to what you're doing. If time moves at a rate appropriate to the kind of gameplay activity you're performing, a "pause button that still allows you to perform game actions" should never feel necessary. If it's action (e.g., dogfighting, item trading)...