It is official, Black Isle Studios (makers of Fallout, Icewind Dale and Planescape: Torment) have been dissolved. Here's the link. This makes me believe that there probably won't be a Fallout 3. Talk about sucking ass.

There's a game in the uci.gamers newsgroup that has been linked to...so I will post the link here ( Read more... )

I've been mulling my mud over in my head over the course of the last couple weeks...and combat always pissed me off. How should combat be done? Well, last night I had a revelation, and while I was trying to fall asleep early (for the 8AM awakening for the Jury Duty that never happened), it all worked out well in my head ( Read more... )

All you gamers, read this for an entertaining AND enlightening read on an idea of why games have savepoints.

Ahh, so why has Josiah not been posting to Livejournal all that often lately? Not a whole lot to say most of the time. Things are going pretty well, there isn't a whole lot to say or bitch about, so yeah.

Still working on NWN, going slow, but still going.

I've been working on and just released PyPE 1.2 today, which explains the slow going on ( Read more... )

So, you like games? Most would say yes.

Gamespot's review of the ULTIMATE game. Tee Hee.

So, after spending too much time browsing and researching various object creation rules and costs, it is of my opinion that the standard books are crap when it comes to telling you how everything works. They really are. There is no table explaining the costs associated with an increased ability modifier on an item, no table listing experience ( Read more... )

So, this afternoon was the first adventure of Christopher Lightbeard (human fighter), Veldamarra Sianapha (half-elf, half-halfling, so an elfling rogue sorcerer), and Murlow * (human cleric). We were to clean out a monastary of (what ended up being) 10 orcs. Christopher ended up taking care of 6 of the 10 with his great sword (rock on with his ( Read more... )

( muds and python...probably for the technically oriented )

Anyone remember the Intellivision? It was this crazy 'home entertainment' thing that really was just a glorified console. Pretty rad for its time ( Read more... )