Happy birthday!

At 6/9/09 05:06 PM, Deadclever23 wrote: The day that kongregate got an audio portal and beat us to the art portal.

???

That, and the day I made a stain on my Wacom by placing my wineglass on it.

Happy birthday you

Feedback from the people who see it.

And money.

frontpage! I can die a happy man :)

At 6/7/09 08:41 AM, knugen wrote: Btw, P-bot does have a habit of breaking every now and then, this one was quite odd though. It seems as if the last two day's submissions are listed there, although luckily the awards are correct.

I noticed the exact same thing. It's a shame because I think I should be on the 3rd spot there...

Daily third, I can live with that :)

At 6/6/09 06:37 AM, Deadclever23 wrote: Lol, I think people overreacted a bit. But to be honest it would've been sensible to just check the date before you released a game with such potential for controversiality.

Well, the release date is not a coincidence. I didn't start working on it with the idea of releasing it on D-Day (I didn't start working on it thinking I was going to finish it at all). About mid-way through I decided it would be fitting in a way to release it on D-Day (plus yeah, it would probably get some extra attention). About 80% in it looked like I was going to miss the deadline, but I didn't care that much about it, I just wanted to release the game. Then I had a nice licensing offer, but the sponsor wanted to release the game on this day (D-Day game on D-Day = more money for them). So I worked my ass of the last 3 weeks to get things done in time (cut out a bunch of stuff too).

All in all I think it's a pretty respectful game, I didn't make this game with the intention of shocking people or anything. The German side/ideology is not favoured in the game. I'm interested to see what kind of reactions I'll get here on NG. So far it's all been good.

At 6/6/09 07:06 AM, citricsquid wrote: Bugs.

Thanks for the compliments, I'll look into that bug right away!

At 6/6/09 05:14 AM, Deadclever23 wrote: Yay, I remember Beta testing this game.
i love it, awesome game.
i'll go and vote 5 now.

Totally forgot to thank my beta-testers in the description, fixed that.

Thanks for the compliments guys :) The game sparked some hefty debate on Kong by the way. Some people put way too much thought in it, or misinterpret my intentions. I wonder how it will do on politically-incorect Newgrounds. Thankfully nothing beats a healthy discussion every now and then.

Go vote, now!

Lion King.

At 6/4/09 05:32 PM, Jimp wrote: I got Penguinz on my iPhone! The guys porting it sent me an early version to test, its actually surprisingly fun! All there is at the moment is one level, 8 of the same enemy, shooting and pickups, but its fun to play around with. My only worry is how its gonna play with a few different enemy types in memory and an automatic weapon...

Anyway, a nice surprise today!

Nice job, an iPhone port might bring in a nice amount of bucks. How did you arrange the pay-out if you don't mind sharing that info? Do you get a portion of the sales? Did they decide on a price level yet? Is there gonna be a demo? Do they involve you in the development process? Sorry for all these questions, but I'm really interested in iPhone development. I think I'm going to give it a shot after this summmer, I have a mac, I have an iPhone, all I need to do is give some money to Apple for the SDK.

At 6/3/09 06:28 PM, Kirk-Cocaine wrote:

At 6/3/09 06:23 PM, Coolio-Niato wrote: It's water into WINE. Man have you been off.

If Jesus were a real man, he would have turn that water into a pint and some pork scratchings. None of this wine bollocks.

That, or some fine 21-years old whiskey, would have made the Bible a lot more sophisticated.

At 6/3/09 12:22 PM, Jimp wrote:
Yeah that looks amazing!

The water bit looked very staged though, not sure to think about this one. We'll see I suppose.

The first behind-closed-doors reviews kind of confirm what I feared. The demo they showed on video was part scripted. There are literally billions and billions of dollars pumped into speech recogntion and speech synthesising technology each year. Not a single organisation has gotten it right so far, at least, not to the point where you can have a natural language conversation such as Lionhead demoed.

Body movement and facial recognition is a completely different story altogether. This is also a field where only recently lots and lots of investments are being made. I fail to understand how a relatively small-time company such as Lionhead would be able to succesfully combine all these three things. With only one 100$(?) peripheral and a gaming console. Probably they only programmed certain speach paths, with part pre-recorded lines. Molyneux, although he is a genius, is pretty well-known for making bold statements, and not living up to them.

During one behind closed doors session with the 'game' Milo actually said to the reporter that he was wearing a nice blue shirt (he was wearing a blue shirt). So stuff like that is pretty awesome, and it's still an interesting bit of tech. But meh, not as impressive as they make it look like...

Anyone seen the Lionhead Milo demo? That would have been so cool if it were just as natural as they make it look like it is. Just another Molyneux hoax though.

That project Milo has to be part scripted, it can't be 100% real. There are literally billions and billions of dollars pumped into speech recogntion and speech synthesising technology each year. Not a single organisation has gotten it right so far, at least, not to the point where you can have a natural language conversation such as demoed by Lionhead. Body movement and facial recognition is a completely different story altogether. This is also a field where only recently lots and lots of investments are being made. I fail to understand how a relatively small-time company such as Lionhead would be able to combine all these three things. With only one 100$(?) peripheral and a gaming console. Maybe they only programmed certain speach paths, with pre-recorded lines, I don't know. I hope it is real, but I fear it's not. Molyneux, although he is a genius, is pretty well-known for making bold statements, and not living up to them.

MS just demoed SkyNet...

At 5/31/09 03:51 PM, Jimp wrote: Colour is awesome.

I think this game is actually gonna turn out really really nice!

hamsters are sleeping today and im still not allowed to touch them :(

That's bloody awesome! What's it for?

At 5/30/09 03:10 PM, Toast wrote:

At 5/30/09 02:37 PM, fluffkomix wrote: (hella lots o tabs, cuz thats how i roll)

That's how I roll, baby.

Would be fun to see how many tabs I can open without crashing or getting too big lag.

dual monitor + 4GB RAM in google chrome = greater goodness

That's some efficient use of space you got there.

At 5/30/09 10:52 AM, Depredation wrote:

At 5/30/09 10:43 AM, Zyphonee wrote: I consider that teasing.

If you hate teasing your gonna hate this TOY STORY 3 teaser. I had several nostalgasms whilst watching. Anyone noticed that all pixars new stuff is, or going to be 3D, if it catches on i don't think it'll be long before we see 3D tv as an common thing.

What I hate most about that teaser is that is takes a year (!!!!) before the movie actually comes out!

At 5/28/09 07:03 PM, Xeptic wrote: Mixing coke and whiskey isn't all that great at all.

the more you know.

That's coke as in coca-cola by the way. I'm not that rock 'n roll...

Mixing coke and whiskey isn't all that great at all.

the more you know.

Aww... It's just one thread, shouldn't be too hard to steer away from it.

Happy Birthday!

Is it me, or do you have 2 birthday threads? Mod privilege?

At 5/27/09 05:04 PM, BoMToons wrote: So wrong:

I'm not a fan of those kind of animations and games. Showing just a tiny bit of respect shouldn't be too hard.

In Bruges
If you've never seen this film, please do so. I've seen it 3 times now and it's one cleverly written piece of film. I assure you you will be entertained (203rd place on the imdb top 250).

At 5/27/09 03:30 PM, knugen wrote:

At 5/27/09 03:17 PM, Xeptic wrote: I say it's Glaiel.

Sounds reasonable.

Exactly, besides, their art styles/skills seem to match.

I say it's Glaiel.

At 5/27/09 09:43 AM, KaynSlamdyke wrote: Twenty Four feels old

That's because it is. Happy birthday!

Have a good one!

At 5/21/09 11:20 AM, BloodSucker150 wrote: but castle crashers warriors doesnt even looks like it!
if i would'nt told you about the castle crashers part you wouldn't even say something...
and its just like the game style(walking and all) not story,not characters!
castle crashers warriors dont have skurff or a body shild like i made!
mabe abit something on the head-MAYBE but thets all!!!

Take it easy. They obviously do look a lot like the Castle Crashers characters, if you hadn't written that down in your post people would've noticed that regardless. The similarities aren't necessarily a bad thing, but you're not gonna get extra points for originality. Maybe you should have mentioned somewhere how your game will be different from CC if you don't want people to critisize you on that.