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  1. Posted

    So I've decided to quit just administrating and fundraising and do actual weekly live shows.

     

    Every week at 7 PM Central Time zone, tune over to www.townparkradio.com for my show. Included will be geeky news, funny songs, all around silliness and maybe even some contests.

     

    Why announce it here? well, firstly, you're pretty much my favorite people. SECONDLY.. I am looking for aggregators and reporters! Basically folks who specialize in a topic a'la the Daily Show used to use Colbert for. What does this mean? Well, you can either record your own segments for play, or just send me short snippets of information and I pick and choose what to report and comment on. An i am looking for a few more volunteers! PM me if you have any ideas for your own segment:

     

    Right now I already have a few:

     

    Miba will be covering the Star Wars news

    The Intolerable Vman is covering Comics and generic sci-fi, though likely with a Star Trek bent

     

    If anyone else wants in on this, PM me for more information. You wouldn't have to provide with content hooks every week as not every segment need run every week, but hey... we can work something out.

     

    I KNOW one of you folks would have homebrew/classic gaming news tidbits they want out there; and maybe some of you would even like to do audio reviews of games. It's all up in the air; a beautiful thing is beginning.

     

    If any of you know non-AA folks who want in on it, email me at [email protected]

  2. Posted

    System changer.. if I got that, would tht mean I would not have to go through the rigamarole of setting my 2600 up everytime I wanted to play it?

     

    Yep.

     

    I must purchase one. space is at a premium here. Have any of you folks got one for sale?

  7. Posted

    As for getting in trouble with Intellivision productions? I wouldn't worry about it. Unless your game steals direct assets form the original... and it doesn't look like it does, or the same maps, it would be foolish to push the lawsuit. See the Pac Man vs Jawbreaker/KC Munchkin cases in the 80's. Unless, of course, you used the word "Intellivision" anywhere. Remember Giana Sisters? that game was an obvious Super Mario clone, but it was different enough. They got zinged because they used SMB in it's advertising extensively.

  9. Posted

    Thanks to everyone who has purchased the game. To answer the question, it wouldn’t be super difficult to port to PC. Probably the only thing that would need to be done is replace the Xbox controller specific calls with keyboard inputs, and removing and replacing some of the other Xbox specific elements. I guess it would just be an issue of distribution and/or hosting? A lot of Xbox indie developers are looking to jump ship to PC and other platforms, but getting games onto places like Steam is a genuine challenge.

     

    For myself, I have Sony’s PlaystationMobile platform next in my sights, since the Vita is one of the platforms it supports, and the setup is very very similar to XNA. PlaystationMobile doesn’t officially go live until the fall, though, so it is probably too early to really be talking about that. It is also intended for Android devices, so I may not be able to target the Vita specifically as a platform, which means no quick and easy copy-paste ports. A follow up to ‘LCD Dungeon System’ is more likely to be my first PSMobile game.

     

    There is a subtext to the ongoing debate that makes me think there is more than just property rights issues in play, and I’m not super eager to go jumping into that briar patch. I will say that I too wish more could be and should be done with Intellivision properties, and there are many opportunities begging for Intellivision Productions to exploit. Sadly, I really have no way of knowing or influencing what Keith Robinson thinks or does. Sometimes you just have to steam ahead and damn the torpedoes.

     

    I don’t expect anything bad to happen because of Tarr-Minos, but if it does? I already have a third game going through peer review right now, and a fourth ready to follow immediately after. ‘Superdimension Iliad’ is an action-platformer that takes the player through the first decade and a half of gaming history –from monochrome dots-and-dashes to the full color 16-bit era (the ‘SmartyVision’ level has some of my favorite platforming challenges, but the rocks falling from the night sky will probably elicit a stronger response). ‘Stellar Fortress’ is an adaptation and mutation of a familiar arcade classic that will hopefully fill the gap for those unable to purchase the upcoming 2600 homebrew cartridge.

     

    Contact the Humble Bundle persons. They allow Indie authors to use their platform to distribute games. Same with GOG.com. If you do port to PC, leave 360 controller as an option as well, please :)

  11. Posted

    Wow, where to begin.

     

    First let me say how thankful I am to find some positive words regarding Ghosts of Tarr-Minos. Critical reception so far has been pretty tough (NeoGAF put it in with the worst of the Indie channel for May releases), but I did finally find a French website that had some nice things to say, and now coming back to AtariAge and finding some other nice words has made me feel better about the experience as well.

     

    I'm also a little surprised that there is any controversy, especially given how small Xbox Indie games really are. Of course, this doesn't exclude XNA games from the same scrutiny as other platforms, and there have been titles that have been rejected from release because they hewed too closely to Tetris, for example. This is also a platform where the most successful titles bear more than a passing resemblance to Minecraft –which Notch has already remarked on and given his blessing, since Minecraft itself was inspired by previous works (just as Tarmin was inspired by Wizardry and Rogue)

     

    What can I say to clear the air? Yes, it clearly was designed to be evocative of the Intellivision visual style (and given how much the Atari visual style has been appropriated by the indie scene in recent years, I'd hope it was about time). Yes, it is certainly meant to be evocative of Treasures of Tarmin. But it is worth pointing out that at no point does the game explicitly state that it is a sequel to Tarmin, an Intellivision game, nor is it running on any kind of Intellivision OS. Every graphical element was created from scratch, as was every bit of code.

     

    I would find difficult to imagine that the existence of Tarr-Minos does any harm to Intellivision properties. I’d gladly have bought Tarmin if it appeared on GameRoom, and should I do get any kind of official takedown notice, the game will immediately be removed from the market. There certainly isn’t much money to be made on the Indie channel –should it follow the same sales track as my first XNA game, ‘LCD Dungeon System’, I will consider myself lucky if I manage to make $150-$200 on it.

     

    I don’t think anyone creating games on this level does so with mercenary intent. They are all love letters to our particular passions. I can and have bought cartridges here on AtariAge (I LOVE Dungeon), and I think creating those cartridge games for original hardware is a special dedication. Yes, you could play Halo 2600 for free in a browser, but there is a reason why those cartridge versions were in such high demand. I doubt very much that a $1 indie game is going to quench the desire of anyone who wants to plug a brand new created game into their vintage Intellivision system, or enjoy the versions of the original games as published on Intellvision Lives.

     

    Is it easily port-able to PC? I live entirely on solar power, and my laptop draws 65 watts max. My 360 draws 95 watts MINIMUM, and requires a TV to be running.. so I haven't used it in over a year; but i am eager to throw my money at you regardless.

  14. Posted

    Things like that get high not because of collectors or people who actually want the systems, but people who think the can make a living buying and selling on eBay. The guy who bought the $70 worth of stuff for $160 probably thinks he got a good deal because the bidding started at $150.

  16. Posted

    Cmart Inc only sells and trades through AA, I've never sold on ebay.....although I may have bought one or two thousand things. :ponder:

     

    I suspect Cmart Inc. is more willing to ship to Canada, too. :D

     

    Cmart Inc will pretty much ship everywhere, I could just use a few more helpers. ;)

     

    I don't think many of us live close to you.

  17. Posted

    What do you play on your station?

     

    ... really?

     

    When I'm not doing it live, it plays what my signature has always said it played. when I'm live? heck could be anything. Last time my mother ended up requesting Rod Stewart, and his royalties are cheap so... we got Rod stewart mixed in with public domain stuff.

     

    Oh, I'm so sorry, I should have paid more attention. Cool.

     

    -dZ.

     

    I was trying my very hardest not to be a smart-ass, heh.

  18. Posted

    What do you play on your station?

     

    ... really?

     

    When I'm not doing it live, it plays what my signature has always said it played. when I'm live? heck could be anything. Last time my mother ended up requesting Rod Stewart, and his royalties are cheap so... we got Rod stewart mixed in with public domain stuff.

  20. Posted

    Live Show's over! Donation not met, blergh, lol. ten measelly bucks!

     

    For the record, I'm not mad at you guys. It's my core audience of 24 nightly listeners on average I'm vaguely annoyed at. They can't even come up with 10 bucks between them once a month.

  24. Posted

    I guess I am one that am not wowed by box, manual, etc. To me they are secondary in my collection. If the special printing technique adds $5-$10 to the price, then I say, "Why do it?" Getting the game with manual and overlays close to the original $50 range is more important to me.

     

    I also appreciate the emphasis on quality, so don't get me wrong. Just saying.

     

    I'm a bit torn on this topic. For the games of my childhood? I want boxes, but it's not crucial. but modern days? I often tell my wife "I don;t play boxes. The Steam version is fine".

  25. Posted

    Here we go, with my humble high score.

     

    DK%20Arcade.jpg

     

    As for the game, it shocked me into wakefulness immediately. This is HARD... but fair. You have to keep your wits about you and try to watch the whole screen at once. The timing on the screen where DK throws girders seems a bit random to get up the final ladder, but I am still in an adjustment period.

     

    Toni's the most fun to play with for me, since his speed fits in with the difficulty of the game in general.

     

    This is EXTREMELY well done; I think this is the best of the home console versions now.

     

    Great score !! I thought the same about the girders as well.. Also the AI on the fire seems a little too good sometimes .. ;)

     

    Are you using the 30 FPS mode ?

     

    Nope. I just told my TV that there was a "Game" on that input and it took care of things itself.

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