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The phone book is used a lot, and in New York there are loads of people so of course you need the whole name for both people and businesses

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Yes, but my point was, in the first game it felt like if you guessed at something, Dave G would go "almost, just a bit harder!" whereas in this one it just goes WHGAT>?!!>>!?.

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Also, the fact you can look up the company just using one name, but not even got a "There's loads of Shermans" response is inconsistent.

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I'm 10 minutes in and all ready a bit annoyed -- mainly with the phone book.

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Why can I look up the name of the company using just it's first name, yet I can't look up Harriet Sherman by using just her last name (because I kept spelling her first name wrong! oops). Until I read someone elses spoiler block, I had disregarded that line of enquiry. Why? Because you but the name of that club in my notebook, with a vauge hint of using the phonebook. So I type whatever Ivory's into the phone book...no dice. Why didn't you put Harriet Sherman in the clue notbook? Also: why could I not look up the myself of Ellen Kaplan? If you go to the trouble of saying the company is out of town, couldn't you have gone to the trouble of saying Ellen Kaplan is unreachable or something?

Ps: I ended up randomly walking about hoping something scripted would happen because I didn't realise the Sax and the Player were two distinct things. Oops

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I just feel that the first game was more rewarding/supportive about completely wrong leaps of faith, whereas this one just ignores you completely unless you're 100% spot on. I understand that there are time constraints and you can't record dialouge for everything, however. Anyway, I'll get on with the game. I am, after all, only 10 minutes into it.


Speaking of which, with regards to a new adventure game play I feel that the tutorial is more of a hinderence rather than a help, as I kept expecting it to walk me though things, instead it just pops up at useful (questionable) times. eg:

after "Look at the case list in your inventory" I expected to then get a further instruction, telling me to talk to Joey about it.

or, my favuorite so far is:

"YOU HAVE A NEW CLUE!! But guess what, you can't use it yet! So why did we tell you?"

http://www.machinaesupremacy.com/discography.htm

they did the soundtrack for Jets 'n' Guns - a comercial Shump. Download the soundtrack for free. See what you think.

As for yours, it's actually pretty good. The hi hats are too loud though, and the snare too quiet. The whole thing should be a tad heavy and have more "punch". and take out the samples, it's a SHUMP background music, it shouldn't take focus....

oh yeah, make it loop

In what way is it incomplete, by the way?

I didn't say it was!

No, I don't agree with that at all. "Inv" was immediately obvious to me, and I doubt I would have been able to decode either CC or OPP. "Compl" (or at a stretch "comp") might work, if it's not too long to fit in.

Why not expand it to more than a few cryptic letters?

I agree that it's not obvious until you're told, but you can actually read it from the first chart. Follow the line down from cyan, and the line left from magenta. Where they cross is blue. Therefore, mix cyan and magenta and you get blue.

Hehe, I didn't realise the chart worked in that way. I just though it was an array of colours and their shades.

The second sheet would be easier to read if you ordered it by the resultant colour, not the first colour. [ie you list all the equations with blue in it first, instead of all the equations that PRODUCE blue, then produce red etc etc]

I've just realised "Inv" means INVERSE. Use "CC" [complimentary colour] or "opp" [oppsite] or something else. I thought INV meant inventory! I couldn't see how that figured into the equation.

and now that I know that the chart is CMYK, I know what those L shapes are. I already know about CMYK and RGB, and I know that CMYK is subtractive. Lots of other people don't. and that when arrayed like this:

A
B
CDE        C is the base colour with 50% K, and A is full Key and E is no Key.

What I don't get is why some L's have 3 components and some 5.

Also, the Cyan + Magenta = Blue  (A+B=Blue) needs to be told to the player. None of your charts specify this, and I was only using the information given when I attempted it last night - in other words, none of your charts told me this fact

It's a good puzzle though, I commend you on the idea.

A couple quick things you'll learn before getting here:
1.  RGB or RBY are NOT the primary colors.  Cyan, Magenta, and Yellow are, RBG are Secondary, but to make things a bit easier, they are pretty much the same thing as primary colors in this game.

RGB are the primary colours of light. CMY are the primary colours of a paint scheme known as CMYK.

Also, during the game, it'd be good if you could see all 3 things at once somehow.



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On the 'blank' one,  Ican understand that you put orange and blue in. However, I don't see how A + B = blue or orange, when the sheet tells me it's A + B + C = blue or orange.

Also, I can't decipher that first sheet with all the L shapes things on at all. then again it is 2am. But still, the difference between a lot of the shades isn't that much really.
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Sorry ;(

I can't stand the term "podcast" - not just because it has my online handle in it's title, but it's the way the iPod has gotten it's name in there. Because, as Las Naranjas pointed out, sound files, radio broadcasts, portable media players and interviews didn't exist before the iPod!

The public? They can fuck off. First they take my gaming culture, then they take my txt speak, and now they're raiding what's left of the geeks coffers. The elitist in me dies :/

http://gillen.cream.org/wordpress_html/?page_id=693

Read it all

Jus re-do that room then. copy and paste the scripts over...

Do you have 1.675gbs of memory?

What scripts do you have running in room 7?

Thankyou very much for that!
At the moment it's mainly populated by people in the preston area, as most of the members know each other from the www.prestone.co.uk boards [a big resource for local music in preston ] but we're slowly attracting people from other lands.

Thanks for that though! Every little helps.

the boggie machine is a sidequest.

[www.nosolos.co.uk]

NoSolos - a new UK based music resource

Apologies for the downright spammyness of this post, but it may interest a lot of you on here, especially those who are 'into' their music, even more so if you make it!

www.nosolos.co.uk aims to be a web-based resource for fans of left-of-centre bands, promoters, and the bands themselves, the country over; where you can discuss what's cool, what's not cool, swap ideas, swap gigs, and generally enjoy music. In other words, this is a community resource that we want to gear towards a national level, and it's mainly for bands that are what we term "left of centre" - a bit off-kilter, into pushing generic boundaries, yet not the kind of thing you'd find as house hold names, progressive - but we're in no way elitist scum! We embrace everything as long as it's in someway new, fresh, exciting, not-shit and generally up for having a good time and telling 'the man' to stick it.

The domain name itself, nosolos, is something of a joke. We're not trying to ban or dissuade guitar solos at all - infact we downright love 'em when done right - and we're not trying to kill off rock 'n' roll either; it's more of a nuance or general connotation of how we dislike the way music is turning very much into form over function. All style - no substance. All gob and no kecks. We're into punk, post-punk, new wave, hard indie, experimental, dance, rock 'n' roll, hip hop, anything... so long as it pushes the boundaries a bit. The last thing we want to see at a gig is a band thinking they can get away with the same three chords that've been played since 1972...

Sign up, get doing and enjoy yourselves. But the most important thing is that you pass this website address on to everyone and anyone you think would be interested. If you're at university in a different town to the one you're currently in, take this with you in September.

Let's really push this forward. Get enough people involved, and something could really happen here!

Cheers,
The Mod Staff at www.nosolos.co.uk

"Crazy coincidence is my bet. But yar, the resemblance is uncanny - so much so that I looked at the first image before I realized that it was from Titan and I went, "Hang on, that's not exactly what they look like...". I thought I was looking at George and Nico."

I thought the exact same. But only in the 3d one. The jaw/smile is familiar.

In the 2d ones, they looked a bit different. http://bonusweb.idnes.cz/obrazek/bs_klasikascrn04.jpg

Best formula: Functional graphics, superb gameplay.

cf: Uplink.

http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/~jw/notes.html

okay but I dont think that it is important.

It's not important in the slightest, but it's the kind of thing a professional does. Lots of subtle little things that come together to make it seem extremly detailed, etc.

Also, some parts of the hill would be in shadow, due to the sun's position. I can't pait over now as I have to go out in 15 mins

Make the grass cast an outline on the red ground.....
subtle, but it's "one of those things"

He rarely posts, and when he does, doesn't he use the same nick? I know I've seen a few posts by him around before...