It’s been a long time since I’ve released a 3D action first-person shooter, and it’s appropriate that it should be 2forts, on which I’ve been working on and off for about ten years now, adding detail, taking detail out, looking for that perfect balance of gameplay versus lag, and with the addition of the underwater and slime pools, I think this is going to be a release. I’m sending it out for testing today, and if it passes muster, we’ll try it online with multiplayer, then package it up and get it ready for download — the whole process will take about 1 to 2 weeks to get the install to you.
My Life Among the Robots
This is an introduction to an absolutely terrific co-op team player arcade-style PC video game that, as good as it is, just plain can’t be played, and I’ll explain why…
Where Is Everyone???
If you’ve ever hunted for a public online video game of any kind, you’ll know the frustration of dealing with the rantings and bitching complaints over the comm channel, but if you’ve ever played in a public online game, you will be painfully aware of the effect.
It’s worse than playing with BOTS, especially if there’s voice chat.
Text is fine, tell me and our team where the enemy is, that’s fine, but please, please, no voice chat. You can avoid the voice spamming misery of team chat very simply by avoiding people altogether. Sounds terribly pleasant, doesn’t it?
Single-Player CTF???
Yes, it’s entirely possible. I’m working on it now, and it’s working well. You’re up against a small or large army of opponents — you place them where you want them, and select the easy, medium or hellspawn variety of guards for yourself and the opposite team. You then start the game and let ‘er rip. More about this when I have more time to dissert on subject.
See You At The Top!!!
gorby
There is Only One Song
Here is an amazing coincidence. For years, I’ve been wanting to find a way to explain the three-chord and four-chord music theory. The fact is that any song can be sung in any key, so creating a set of similar songs is actually easy — it’s been called a “medley” for years and years now — but this really demonstrates the absurdly simple and cave-man level of writing a pop song. Harry Nilsson told me at one particular recording studio luncheon straight off the roach-coach, that it was “stunningly easy” to write a pop song. Several pop song writers of the day including Randy Newman, Paul Williams and Jimmy Webb were at the table, and they all agreed, and by golly, all of them did it and they did well at it. Here’s evidence of the mind-numbing bone-chilling thoroughly Neanderthalic root of mechanical life. This is the stuff that keeps the wheels turning, and keeps thongs and botox running like bulls in the streets. We’ll talk more at this morning’s workshop.
See You At The Top!!!
gorby
Something Entirely New & Different
I’m working with our GODD team on a project that will allow you to build your very own personalized Egyptian Temple, suitable for individual use or large processionals. You get to find and place the various god figures around the temple. You can select special pillars and altar items and much, much more. You spawn into a storeroom full of rare ancient Egyptian treasures, storeroom after storeroom. It’s your choice, your decision all the way. After you’ve made your personal Egyptian temple, you might get the opportunity to have it placed for download so your friends can see it, too! Oh, one item of some interest: it came to my attention through personal research that most folks on youtube don’t get there by logging onto youtube anymore. They mostly see the youtube vids on facebook or websites. So if you’re not visiting me at my youtube channel, you’re missing a lot of fun and interesting things that never make it to my blog. Please don’t say it. “Now you tell me.” Sigh. I asked you not to say that. I shoulda said it a long time ago, true, but it never occurred to me that people no longer go directly to youtube. Heck, that’s where the party is!
See You At The Top!!!
gorby
Good Angels, Bad Angels
I’ve installed a PC on Norton Street. It’s equipped with a 17″ monitor and Creative speaker Bass Reflex system, along with a logitech 3 button mouse that will literally last forever. As you see, there’s also a set of crystals plugged into an experimental Model 7 SuperBeacon “Beamer”. You’ll also note a Matrix on the left wing of the desk, a bronze Buddha and ceramic candleholder on the right, and two new bookshelves offering entry into hundreds more Orbs than before, actually 1100 of them, newly made here on Urth this time around.
Who Has Time???
I walked into Mickey O’Rourke’s Grille on 10th Avenue sometime in spring of 1983. The place reeked of Beer, Adrenalin and Oldness. More than a century of tavern-dwellers and food service had taken their toll. We were seated in the back, all 22 of us that had walked over from the workshop space, and our waiter came over to the table. Continue reading
Dragon Yer Ass
http://youtu.be/ga7FnXpQ1n4
Well, I finally took a little time to finish this 2011 offering which up ’til now has been available only as a beta download. It’s nothing special, except for speed-decisions, directional timing, instant navigation and evaluation of threat, clearing obstruction to forward motion, and other equally vital issues in the Between-Lives State. Dragon hunting? Think of it as a training regimen, not a way of life. Just ease up the tension in the sphincter just a little, and enjoy this medieval romp through a fantasy land that really exists Out There…Somewhere — perhaps in your near future??? (In a thick, Eastern European sort of “Cloris Leachman Voice of Doom” tone) Over ze rainbow, per-haps? The Dragon 3D game is not a prosperity path orb. It is six hard-ass levels of the fastest kick-butt Dragon Slaying you’ll ever get hold of, and it will be available on goddgames.com in about a week, if all goes well.
I Got Those Down-Home Mint-Error Ragtime Cowboy Blues
Legendary safecracker Jimmy Valentine is often quoted as responding to the question of why he only hit banks is “because that’s where the money is”. Actually, Jesse James, the very first open-air bank robber, said it first, and there’s good evidence that it was originally said by Asclepius in a drunken stupor. But all of them make my point accurately — go where the money is. I’ll explain: