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 Paragoomba Level: 22 Posts: 1/78 EXP: 54561 Next: 3789 Since: 02-19-07 Last post: 3256 days Last view: 3253 days |
hi sup wats this place |
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Paragoomba Level: 22 Posts: 2/78 EXP: 54561 Next: 3789 Since: 02-19-07 Last post: 3256 days Last view: 3253 days |
IT'S BACK! So post and stuff.
I'll start. Super Robot Wars Alpha!  
 
 
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Paragoomba Level: 22 Posts: 3/78 EXP: 54561 Next: 3789 Since: 02-19-07 Last post: 3256 days Last view: 3253 days |
So I've got a new blog up! I'm slowly posting short stories, poems, and excerpts from my novels to it, as well as a Word of the Day to help me expand my vocabulary and general how-things-are-going blogging stuff. Tonight I added an excerpt from The Crystal Key, my first novel and currently under consideration at Random House, as well as an excerpt from its unfinished follow-up, Midnight Dancers.
Take a look! Let me know what you think. I'll post in this thread when I update with anything more significant than a Word of the Day; I should have some poetry and a short story going up within the next week or so. |
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Paragoomba Level: 22 Posts: 4/78 EXP: 54561 Next: 3789 Since: 02-19-07 Last post: 3256 days Last view: 3253 days |
Posted by Sukasa While you're at it, punch him for me. Good and hard. |
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Paragoomba Level: 22 Posts: 5/78 EXP: 54561 Next: 3789 Since: 02-19-07 Last post: 3256 days Last view: 3253 days |
Wow, more massholes. We're comin' out of the woodwork!
I don't live near enough to Marlborough to be able to bother with that kind of commute for lessons; even if I did, I'm not sure I'd want to shell out for 'em. There's half of me what wants to learn it, to try to get a job in the games industry as a translator (I know a few folks who've gone that route successfully) but there's the other half of me that'd be content to just be a writer. |
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Paragoomba Level: 22 Posts: 6/78 EXP: 54561 Next: 3789 Since: 02-19-07 Last post: 3256 days Last view: 3253 days |
On a minor side note, am I the only one who is profoundly annoyed by Chomp Rock? That was the one part of Yoshi's Island I absolute cannot stand. After many tries going back to the game, Chomp Rock always ruins it for me  |
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Paragoomba Level: 22 Posts: 7/78 EXP: 54561 Next: 3789 Since: 02-19-07 Last post: 3256 days Last view: 3253 days |
Meritous! Horribly addictive bullethell top-down action/rpg. Thing. |
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Paragoomba Level: 22 Posts: 8/78 EXP: 54561 Next: 3789 Since: 02-19-07 Last post: 3256 days Last view: 3253 days |
Blaster Master, people. All it needs is a save function.
...hmmhmmhmm... |
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Paragoomba Level: 22 Posts: 9/78 EXP: 54561 Next: 3789 Since: 02-19-07 Last post: 3256 days Last view: 3253 days |
This thread is funny.
That's all I have to say about that, though. |
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Paragoomba Level: 22 Posts: 10/78 EXP: 54561 Next: 3789 Since: 02-19-07 Last post: 3256 days Last view: 3253 days |
Added a poem, titled "Fever Dream", to Letterhead. It's not my best, but it's certainly not my worst either. |
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Paragoomba Level: 22 Posts: 12/78 EXP: 54561 Next: 3789 Since: 02-19-07 Last post: 3256 days Last view: 3253 days |
I happen to own a prototype of an NES game called Drac's Night Out. Guy who lives down the street from me made it for Parker Bros., but their license with Nintendo expired just before it was going to go to print. |
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Paragoomba Level: 22 Posts: 13/78 EXP: 54561 Next: 3789 Since: 02-19-07 Last post: 3256 days Last view: 3253 days |
So I'm working on a hack of the original Blaster Master, on and off. For those of you familiar with the now-canon novelization of the original Blaster Master, Nemesis Rising is a prequel-expansion of the universe. Long story short, Eve's sister (whom she never mentions to Jason) is sentenced to exile from their homeworld. As she leaves, however, the planet comes under the attack of the thunder beings, and she returns to find the place in ruins.
Rather than entice you with omgfeatures that may or may not be present in the final version, I'm just going to post a link to a map of the tank view "first" Area, called The Old Lands. View the map here. Beware spoilers. The only plans I'll mention at this point is that the game is to be fully nonlinear in design, saving that you'll need all seven upgrades to Sophia to make it through the last Area, and that some upgrades will make some parts of some Areas easier (but all save the final will be accessible and completable from the very beginning.) I have ideas for what I want most of the remaining Areas to be, but I lack the technique to be able to render them well in tiles. (setz did most of the tile work for this map; the castles were adapted from Area 2 graphics, the gargoyle heads stolen from Zelda 2. The only bits of it that are authentically "mine" are the gates, and even those are slight adaptations of Area 2 graphics...) It is for this reason that I'm looking for tile artists to work closely with me to help realize the vision that is Nemesis Rising. |
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Paragoomba Level: 22 Posts: 16/78 EXP: 54561 Next: 3789 Since: 02-19-07 Last post: 3256 days Last view: 3253 days |
Let's play font picking game.
1 & 2:  
3 & 4:  
5 & 6  
Scifi anime-styled J-RPG featuring giant robots. Which font looks best and fits best? |
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Paragoomba Level: 22 Posts: 17/78 EXP: 54561 Next: 3789 Since: 02-19-07 Last post: 3256 days Last view: 3253 days |
Having produced novel-length fiction myself, allow me to offer a bit of advice: before you start writing in earnest, know exactly where you want to end up. If your characters have to break as the climax of your story, it will need to be a memorable moment for the reader, even if it isn't for the characters (although it should be.) The best stories surprise both the reader and the writer, but the latter should always have a firm idea of where things need to be in the end for the reader to come away from it with that tingly feeling you get when you finish a really good book.
I'm not saying that you should artificially steer your characters one way or the other; some of the best twists come when they surprise you by doing something that comes natural to them but was completely unexpected. But you should be writing with a very specific end in mind, and you should be able to nudge your characters in the right direction if they get too far off track. "He continues to obsess... not quite sure where to go from there," is probably not good enough for a memorable ending, unless you attempt to paint this as a tragedy on the guy's part (or intend to turn it into a thriller/stalker piece from there...) If you aim for the tragedy bent, you'll probably have to tell it primarily from the older guy's perspective - stream of consciousness is a great way to show obsession. But just leaving him to flounder in the end is not good practice. The girl may be more interesting for the bulk of the plot, but if she's able to move on and the guy isn't, and it ends up destroying him or something, then it's really the guy's story. (This, incidentally, is my one gigantic gripe with The Secret Garden - it starts off being about Mary, but Colin steals the show part way through and never gives it back. Bastard.) |
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Paragoomba Level: 22 Posts: 18/78 EXP: 54561 Next: 3789 Since: 02-19-07 Last post: 3256 days Last view: 3253 days |
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Paragoomba Level: 22 Posts: 19/78 EXP: 54561 Next: 3789 Since: 02-19-07 Last post: 3256 days Last view: 3253 days |
Maybe this is just indicative of the kind of fiction I was writing. My book is very much a mystery, and there are a lot of things that happen which are out of the character's control. He does "grow up" as it were, and in the moment that it happens the action he takes is highly symbolic in that it's a rejection of a lot of the things that he'd been following throughout most of the story. I knew how it was going to end even before I started writing it :/ But the specific nature of the adventure and mystery necessitates that kind of structure. Everything that happens leads up to that one moment of rejection at the end of the second-to-last chapter, and everything that happens afterwards (the falling action and resolution) was put together partly as an explanation and partly as a coming-to-terms. |
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Paragoomba Level: 22 Posts: 20/78 EXP: 54561 Next: 3789 Since: 02-19-07 Last post: 3256 days Last view: 3253 days |
 
Aeon Genesis is eight years old today, and to celebrate... --A new web design has been launched! It's entirely PHP-powered and is much, much easier to keep updated than the old one was. Not to mention, it's really cool-looking! --A translation of Shodai Nekketsu Kouha Kunio-Kun has been released! It plays most similarly to River City Ransom, although there are a number of important differences to be noted. Be sure to read the included mini-manual! I'm not sure if I want to wish it eight more years, but let us all at least toast to continued success and prosperity. Happy Anniversary! |
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Paragoomba Level: 22 Posts: 21/78 EXP: 54561 Next: 3789 Since: 02-19-07 Last post: 3256 days Last view: 3253 days |
It is multiplayer, yes, but the mulitplayer aspect hasn't really been tested. Let me know how it goes! |
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Paragoomba Level: 22 Posts: 22/78 EXP: 54561 Next: 3789 Since: 02-19-07 Last post: 3256 days Last view: 3253 days |
It's true. You have a nicely-textured Bowser on the left, and a blob of vomit-colored polygon mess on the right. |
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Paragoomba Level: 22 Posts: 23/78 EXP: 54561 Next: 3789 Since: 02-19-07 Last post: 3256 days Last view: 3253 days |
Check your rom with NSRT and make sure it matches up:
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