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  • Un-Epic

    Posted on by Wells Comment

    So, just picked up a copy of UnEpic (well, by picked up I mean I paid for it via Steam…) and I am quite enjoying the experience. Fun to play a game where there is very little cost involved in purchase in the first place.

    Frankly, I would like to get a bit involved in the development of this game once I have completed a bit of levels and stuff, but we shall see I guess on how things really turn out. I think there is room for expansion of the game and the ability to create your own maps.

     

    Just saw this from Felicia Day: “I have no idea why, but the side scroller/RPG Unepic is the most addictive game I’ve played in forever. Kudoz for a great indie game!“


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  • Too much…

    Posted on by Wells Comment

    OK… just had a very odd dream…

    Basically, imagine a hostage situation in a middle-eastern country (unspecified) where a single male is taken hostage in a religious building by terrorists. He stalls them, etc. from killing him, there is a bit of a fire bomb thrown around, etc. but in the end he is being dragged somewhere to be executed as an infidel when *thump* the terrorist falls over dead from a silenced round.

    A pair of special forces types walk up, and one of them says to the other “You get the hostage… he’s BoP. You shot the terrorist, the hostage is yours.”

    Yes… he really said this in my dream. Either too much John Ringo, too much WoW, or both.


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  • netrek on gentoo

    Posted on by Wells Comment

    So, I am writing my first ebuild file for gentoo, and of course I decide to do it with a package that has broken configure scripts (or at least they are broken on the Fulong… I am now working on playing with it on a standard x86 architecture to see if it is truly broken or if it is something that is broken only on the Fulong.)

    If it is broken completely, I guess I will be sending off an email to the developer of the Cow release of Netrek, and then writing a patch so that it installs properly. By default I am going to be throwing it into /usr/games/* because that is where it should properly go.

    *…time passes…*

    Looks like it is broken, but I went ahead and at least created a patch that will fix the problem. Of course, gentoo whines about all of the warnings that pop up during compile, but that appears to be more from poor coding of the software than anything else. I get the warnings in both x86 and mips versions. It is looking like it may be a long road ahead for me to get this cleaned up.


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  • RIP Gary Gygax

    Posted on by Wells Comment

    So Gary apparently died earlier today. 🙁

    I still have my set of First Edition books, and there is no way that I would ever part with them. I have a couple of 2nd and 3rd edition books, and I got the 3.5ed set as well, but at the core I am still a 1st edition player and those are the rules that I know by heart. I will be curious to see what they do with the upcoming 4th edition rules, though they have nothing to do with Gary.

    I also have the Dangerous Journeys Mythus core rule book, which is a hard one to find because of the lawsuits.

    It was because of Gary’s work that I was able to while away the hours when I was a teenager instead of getting into trouble out by the railroad tracks like some of my friends. I have many memories of my gaming that I have to thank Gary for.

    A message from a friend of mine really needs to be posted here, as it has some interesting information about Gary as well:

    I wonder how many of the TG folks even know who he is. Even the ones who play D&D. I sent him a Christmas card every year and got one back this year saying he was doing better and missed the “old days”. For me he was not just the guy who, along with Dave, came up with D&D. He was an old friend / acquaintance who I didn’t keep up with nearly as much as I should have.

    Gary never was a big fan of healthy life styles so I’m not surprised he died youngish. Over weight and a BIG fan of junk food. I can remember him sitting at the end of the table in “The Dungeon” (a game store in Lake Geneva) when we were play testing D&D and his Blackmore campaign. He would have a few giant bags of Cheetos and or Fritos and a 12 pack of coke and by the end of the night they would all be gone and he would be bumming from the rest of us. He and Dave were great guys who really got the shaft by big business.

    He will be missed.


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