DNF

February 4, 2006

Garnett Lee over at 1up.com interviewed George Broussard co-founder of 3D Realms. Broussard talks a little about the history of 3D Realms, Prey and more importantly Duke Nukem Forever. This is what he had to say about DNF.

I think it’ll be out when pigs fly. But it’s definitely going well now. Things are together; we’re in full production. We’re basically just pulling all the pieces together and making the game out of it. There’s a lot that’s finished. All the guns are finished. Most of the creatures are finished. And as I said, we’re just basically pulling it all together and trying to make it fun. We’ve kind of got all these disassociated elements that make up a game, and you put them together and things happen. And then you just tweak it and polish it until it’s fun, and that’s kind of the phase we’re in now, just trying to make something that is really fun to play and interesting.

Full Production? What now there is 2 guys working on it? I still don’t understand how a company can spend 10 years of man hours times however many people have been working on it have no revenue to show for it, but still stay in business. Tweaking and polishing, but still have to finish all the creatures. Yeah, right. Isn’t time to switch engines again?

Ah, the days of Duke Nukem. The last version was network playable, IPX only. No internet play here. 1996 there was really no internet play anywhere. Everyone had to start the game at the same time and if someone’s computer crashed the game ended for everyone. The Friday afternoons spent in A210, those were the days.

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Flash Games

January 19, 2006

I have added a Games section to the website.
These will be flash games that I find enjoyable. The games can be accessed by selecting Games from the menu on the left.
The first is the original Penguin game. The game became so popular it spun off variants of it and even made it to the xbox and cell phones.
The next one is a remake of the original Penguin game called Part 1, a little nicer with different penguin physics.
Part 2 involves hitting the penguin with a snow ball on to a target.
Part 3 involves throwing the penguin as high as you can, with a little help from some Seals.

More information about YetiSports can be find at YetiSports.org.

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Original Penguin Game

December 18, 2005

I have wanted to put some of my favorite flash games up on my site, been on my to-do list. First one is up, the orginial Yetisports or Pingu Throw game.
Hit the Penguin! How can you have any more fun?

With the two week break I have, hope to get more games put up.

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All-time greatest sports video game tourney

August 20, 2005

You’re probably saying, “Oh no, you didn’t.” But oh yes … we did. From old school games to the latest, we narrowed down the competitive field of sports video gaming to an elite group of 16. Now you’re going to vote, round-by-round, and select the greatest sports video game of all time.
Round 2 starts on Monday

I think it would have been more interesting if kept to just old school games.
Blades of Steel gets my overall vote.

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Mmmm, nothing like some nice hot coffee to get you going.

July 29, 2005

AN 85 year old grandmother is suing Rockstar games after she discovered the version of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas contained hidden, sexually explicit scenes. [continue]

The article makes a good point. Everything in the game the player does is illegal. But the sex, that is legal, at least in most states.
Violence in video games has for the most part been accepted, even the cop killing, but sex has not.
Interesting though, a democratic taking up this fight instead of those stuffy straight laced republicans. Some call it a political play on her part, yeah probably, but that is what politicians do.
It will be interesting how it all plays out, but one thing is for sure, the publicity for the game has been enormous.
I think this law suit is silly. The game is rated M, unless you modify the game.
I do think, if not already the case, that customers should be able to take the game back for a full refund. That is if having the ability to modify the game and have access to a little hot coffee bothers them.

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What Pre-1985 Video Game Character Are You?

July 9, 2005

I am a Thrust-ship.

I am small and tricky - where you think I am, I probably am not. I can work very fast, but I tend to go about things in a round about way, which often leaves me effectively standing still. I hate rocks. Bloody rocks. What Video Game Character Are You?

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