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| General Question of Doom in Blades of Avernum Editor | |
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written Sunday, September 19 2004 16:41
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Note that none of the good designers (and few of the decent ones) have EVER went to the community asking how their scenarios should have been written. Oh yeah, and "get off of my board if you don't like me" won't make you popular either. -------------------- * Posts: 6936 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
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Note that none of the good designers (and few of the decent ones) have EVER went to the community asking how their scenarios should have been written. Oh yeah, and "get off of my board if you don't like me" won't make you popular either. -------------------- * Posts: 6936 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
| Philosophical Implementation in Blades of Avernum | |
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written Sunday, September 19 2004 15:03
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Who actually cares when a town gets ruined? Anybody? Trying to make a tragedy by use of people dying around you is a coersive and pointless exercise, and makes for insipid gameplay. We all remember the twist ending of Johnny Fav, but who really remembers the murdered town? But that's not about philosophy either. In response to your question- Who hates GF1 and GF2? I do. The "philosophy" in GF is one where you're a pivotal characer, only insomuch as you answer "yes, I love Serviles" or "no, I do not love Serviles" in the dialog boxes that pop up. Why not just make an online quiz and be done with it? Philosophy should exist to say something- if you have totally free and obscenely obtuse reign in it, then it's the message of the author that your choice is meaningless anyway, which of course is something I don't put above Jeff. (Now don't get me wrong- I play around with meaningless a good deal, and meaningless choices have a time and place. But Jeff in general is too philosophically ilitterate to use this to make a game whose storyline is worth its weight in excretion.) -------------------- * Posts: 6936 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
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written Sunday, September 19 2004 12:23
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"Plot comes first?" Ain't that itself a philosophy? Paradoxes, again... I'm getting bored of designing for an audience that only wants one thing. It's infuriating hearing, "I liked the fact that I could blatantly pass over the core of the scenario, so I did, but the fact that its core wasn't old-skool Tolkien-fellatio nonsense really got to me." And that's not to insult Tolkien- he had a very well-written symbolic discourse in that book that flat-out nobody saw, resulting in teeny-boppers and sweaty fanboys nattering amongst themselves about the going-ons of Orcs and Hobbits and the hottness rating of elven archers. If Tolkien made even the slightest attempt to reveal the discourse in that text, however, he would have been lambasted by the philistine masses. (Which is why, in NTH, I take care to separate what Tolkien left in his wake in the form of his ghost and utterly insane fans rather than insult the man himself. Well, I could make a few pederast jokes, but...) I stayed in the Blades community because I saw innovation, but the resistance to change is beginning to grate on my nerves. And people say that the American Revolution was an act of liberation from Britain? But they too have a modern liberal democracy. The ideological branching away from Squaresoft has almost grinded to a halt, and we as a designing community have let mainstream RPG design catch up with our level of advancement. . . . Why do I waste my time, anyway? -------------------- * Posts: 6936 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
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written Sunday, September 19 2004 10:23
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I've spoken voiciferously too often to repeat myself again. Put consicely... Nobody has ever, to wit, made a scenario whose crux is a message and whose form is part of the mechanism utilized to express that message. I would RATHER depart dramatically from traditional form within the context of my own devices than make a common "beat up 500 HP," only to receive the Star Cosmo Hit-Thing, 1000 gold and a philosophical rant on my way out. I don't even mind being forced into one philosophical viewpoint, as long as it isn't arbitrary. (Of course, in the case of RoR, the argument that it IS arbitrary backs up the "point" to be made with that work- again, paradoxes everywhere. More on that if you want, but it'll only leave you disliking it more.) I guess I'm just angry 'cuz nobody has been tackling exposition in this avenue with courage yet, and I only get lambasted when I try to. -------------------- * Posts: 6936 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
| Sketching interest? in General | |
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written Sunday, September 19 2004 09:40
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I once sketched a dream I had. If memory serves, it's still on a hentai site somewhere... ¬_¬ -------------------- 人 た ち を 燃 え る た め に 俺 は か れ ら に 火 を 上 げ る か ら 死 ん だ Posts: 6936 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
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written Saturday, September 18 2004 20:37
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I should be good at sketching, considering that it's all I do at school. But I'm not. -------------------- 人 た ち を 燃 え る た め に 俺 は か れ ら に 火 を 上 げ る か ら 死 ん だ Posts: 6936 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
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written Saturday, September 18 2004 20:33
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quote:Listen here, you gormless asshat: YOU ARE A PSYCOPATHIC CRETIN AND THE BOARDS SUCK MOSTLY BECAUSE OF YOUR INCESSANT ASININITY, YOU TECHNICALLY ILITTERATE DOLT Put simply: If condoms didn't break, you would not be alive today. -------------------- 人 た ち を 燃 え る た め に 俺 は か れ ら に 火 を 上 げ る か ら 死 ん だ Posts: 6936 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
| Extending Graphics Comp Deadline in Blades of Avernum | |
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written Saturday, September 18 2004 19:31
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I'm pretty sure, then, that I didn't get it. Resend it just to be safe. -------------------- * Posts: 6936 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
| What do you guys think? in Blades of Avernum Editor | |
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written Saturday, September 18 2004 10:42
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It has potential if your scenario is painstakingly open-ended. I probably won't use it, but I've heard worse ideas. -------------------- * Posts: 6936 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
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It has potential if your scenario is painstakingly open-ended. I probably won't use it, but I've heard worse ideas. -------------------- * Posts: 6936 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
| Betatesters for 3D Blades of Avernum Editor! in Blades of Avernum Editor | |
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written Saturday, September 18 2004 10:40
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Question- is there a way to CHANGE the amount of light that the perspective-party has? (That is, use that unused button to "raise/lower light".) I mean, it'd really be nifty... Thanks! ^_^ Oh yeah- cliffs on solid stone look really weird, since while the "side" portions aren't drawn, the "middle" line portions are. Also, could you have different halos/outlines for Hidden Hostile A and Hidden Hostile B? (Plus, Hidden Hostile and Hidden Neutral outlines look way too similar. I'd give Hidden Neutral a grey-like color.) Other than that, I absolutely love the changes. -------------------- * Posts: 6936 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
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Question- is there a way to CHANGE the amount of light that the perspective-party has? (That is, use that unused button to "raise/lower light".) I mean, it'd really be nifty... Thanks! ^_^ Oh yeah- cliffs on solid stone look really weird, since while the "side" portions aren't drawn, the "middle" line portions are. Also, could you have different halos/outlines for Hidden Hostile A and Hidden Hostile B? (Plus, Hidden Hostile and Hidden Neutral outlines look way too similar. I'd give Hidden Neutral a grey-like color.) Other than that, I absolutely love the changes. -------------------- * Posts: 6936 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
| Confused in Blades of Avernum Editor | |
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written Friday, September 17 2004 19:01
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See the Graphics section of the docs. Icon adjust is used to tint graphics. -------------------- * Posts: 6936 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
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written Friday, September 17 2004 19:01
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See the Graphics section of the docs. Icon adjust is used to tint graphics. -------------------- * Posts: 6936 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
| Undead Topics Need Loving Too (aka "Give Me Your First-Born") in General | |
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written Friday, September 17 2004 19:00
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I'll say it bluntly: In NTH, it's impossible. The only NPCs who can explain their system to you are the ones who have ample motivation NOT to. The best I can to is have it be told to you through the flow of the narration and mostly-obfuscated lecturing. -------------------- 人 た ち を 燃 え る た め に 俺 は か れ ら に 火 を 上 げ る か ら 死 ん だ Posts: 6936 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
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written Friday, September 17 2004 17:14
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...I just lost my entire response by pressing the escape key. Since I'm far too pissed to rewrite it in its entirety, I'll put it down to two points: 1) Part of being the protagonist in a story is only realizing what the protagonist realizes. The metaphysics of Corp, for example, are explained when Scilt reaches his Nihilistic conclusion. In NTH, Hito learns nothing until he dies. 2) Form is also part of one's philosophy. James Joyce uses the chiasma to exemplify his philosophy by use of form. In spite of my symbolism by clever use of rhetoric, I still hold true to other methods of explanation here and there. -------------------- 人 た ち を 燃 え る た め に 俺 は か れ ら に 火 を 上 げ る か ら 死 ん だ Posts: 6936 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
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written Friday, September 17 2004 08:58
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WHEN WILL MISC. BE REOPENED!!!!?!?!??! :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: -------------------- 人 た ち を 燃 え る た め に 俺 は か れ ら に 火 を 上 げ る か ら 死 ん だ Posts: 6936 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
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written Thursday, September 16 2004 15:40
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Corporeus preaches three things: - Metaphysics (This is the one that you have to be Creator to miss) - Redefined cosmogony by way of coersion as defined by not only the scenario's intentional use of centralized subjectivity, but also as a purposeful perversion of Campbell's cycle of the same name. Although I gotta admit, this aspect is played up far more and better in NTH. I suppose it's unfair of me to make my more profound arguments secretive- but to the extent that I have taken up the postmodern ideals of signifier and signified (or more accurately, merely the signifier), what difference would it make anyway? And of course, that leads me to the final point (though it ties in strongly with this one)... - Anti-Modernity Make no mistake; I'm an institutionalist too buried in metanarratives to be a tried-and-true pomo boy. (Admittedly it isn't a huge surprise for the mentally tetched, but so far, I haven't come across many.) If one of the main tenets of modernism is to seek order by the authenticity of man, then, my ideals of coersion form a paradox of sorts- Well, there isn't a signified insomuch as we don't have a single one in our minds, but we all have one. Making one the proper and validated signified involves coercing everyone else by any number of ways to accept it. This of course puts my views in conflict with both modernism and postmodernism, and it's an ideological statement that I feel is profound and highly applicable. (Hell, it's being applied as we speak! ... I like idiomatic irony as well.) If there's one thing I regret about Corp, it's that only I really realize what it's about. But that's pretty much the point. Or its lack thereof. (And people still have the nerve to question the validity of paradox as my sigil...! ^_^) (PS- Ain't minimalism a sister philosophy of modernism/postmodernism? I thought you avoided them two like the plague.) EDIT: And while I'm at it, "what makes people human?" Not that questions based on existentialist assumptions more pretentious than anything I've spewed out are really worth addressing anyway, but Neu Menschlich anyway. [ Thursday, September 16, 2004 16:48: Message edited by: Corporeus the Seer ] -------------------- 人 た ち を 燃 え る た め に 俺 は か れ ら に 火 を 上 げ る か ら 死 ん だ Posts: 6936 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
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written Thursday, September 16 2004 12:38
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Have you played Corp? (NTH is a better example, but...) Thing about my philosophy is that it DOES cover these things. But it doesn't serve a hell of a lot of purpose, seeing how nobody'd read into it anyway. -------------------- 人 た ち を 燃 え る た め に 俺 は か れ ら に 火 を 上 げ る か ら 死 ん だ Posts: 6936 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
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written Thursday, September 16 2004 11:52
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The amount of "thought" you put into KOWP was "maybe it would be cute if..." Corp, on the other hand, is not only deserving of my own affinity by its being definitive in my oeuvre (I also accord this honor to Bandits and Two Strands), but of being a work of detail, exaction, technical expertise. Comparing it to your example of pissing all over the BoE Editor and calling it art is both childishly insulting and also the reason when done by others as to why actual post-culturalist and/or nihilistic works are considered elitist: The sort of "non-thought" works such as KOWP and the Matrix (am I the only one who's pissed that such a slew of dillitante philistines is fancying this karate film as a serious philosophical discourse?) imply that "art" is no longer the realm of genuine thought, but of nigh-on Calvinist classism. Say you don't like it- fine. But the objective distinctions between "high" and "low" cultures have been dismissed not only since the 1910s, but also by the minimalist movement to which you fancy yourself a subscriber to. [ Thursday, September 16, 2004 11:53: Message edited by: Corporeus the Seer ] -------------------- 人 た ち を 燃 え る た め に 俺 は か れ ら に 火 を 上 げ る か ら 死 ん だ Posts: 6936 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
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written Thursday, September 16 2004 03:16
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Just have a call in the START_STATE to do that for you. Or better yet, have the INIT_STATE call a town state, such as 10 or 20. That way, you can call the effect of that state without having to reproduce it. It's not something I'm very concerned about. -------------------- * Posts: 6936 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
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written Thursday, September 16 2004 03:12
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Corp's an experiment in a way that ain't nobody gonna really support- But it's a form of substance that's totally new to Blades and makes sense within the paradigms of the assumptions I made it in. (Something could be said about Creator's entire oeuvre here.) So okay- Corp is a car made out of chrome. Physically, it drives nowhere. Metaphysically and metaphorically, it re-imagines the nature of driving. Well okay- the innovations mean nothing beyond my own style which'll have started and ended without a hint of imitation. So what? I still love it. -------------------- 人 た ち を 燃 え る た め に 俺 は か れ ら に 火 を 上 げ る か ら 死 ん だ Posts: 6936 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
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written Wednesday, September 15 2004 18:04
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I found an error with Galactic Core. I open it, and it sucks. -------------------- * Posts: 6936 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
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written Wednesday, September 15 2004 18:01
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So THAT'S why bless and shielding were switched...! Yeah, I'm quite sure that the status-swapping error is real. (I made a post about it on tech support.) Thanks for identifying the true problem. -------------------- * Posts: 6936 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |