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[#] Fri May 13 2011 20:32:34 EDT from Animal @ Uncensored

Surprisingly easy to cheat at that game... lol

apple-tab out of it, move the mouse where you want, apple-tab back into
it.

Game kinda sucks with a trackpad :rofl

[#] Mon May 16 2011 16:49:46 EDT from Ford II @ Uncensored

I'm inept with the mouse that's exactly the kind of game I will never be good at. too much shaking.

[#] Mon May 16 2011 19:35:05 EDT from fleeb @ Uncensored

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Mon May 16 2011 16:49:46 EDT from Ford II @ Uncensored

I'm inept with the mouse that's exactly the kind of game I will never be good at. too much shaking.

I used to be okay with a mouse, but I can't do it anymore.

[#] Fri May 20 2011 16:51:27 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar @ Uncensored

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Ok, I finally tried it -- it's kind of fun but I'm currently using a computer with a mechanical mouse, so it's very frustrating. I want to try again with an optical mouse.

[#] Fri May 27 2011 12:11:29 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar @ Uncensored

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(Still frustrating with the optical mouse. Must find the Linux equivalent to Animal's cheat.)

[#] Thu Jun 09 2011 02:39:17 EDT from Nite*Star @ Uncensored

Any Mac geeks out there able to help out with an open-source MMORPG project? They need someone to compile the code & help test it for OS/X. Currently packages are availble for Win & Lin but not OS/X. :/

http://bit.ly/Atrinik

[#] Fri Jul 01 2011 20:18:45 EDT from mo.park @ Uncensored

I'm curious, how many people here play Kongregate games?
I've been finding them and other low-budget indie games to be extremely addicting.

[#] Fri Jul 15 2011 13:18:16 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar @ Uncensored

Don't all answer at once... :)

[#] Fri Jul 15 2011 13:20:06 EDT from wizard of aahz @ Uncensored

Got a linky or URL?

[#] Sat Jul 30 2011 17:19:22 EDT from Sig @ Uncensored

Does it count as a video game if there's little or no graphic element? I just finished King of Shreds and Patches a few weeks ago, an interactive fiction (text adventure) piece based on an old Call of Cthulhu RPG module. I got probably 10-12 hours worth of entertainment out of it, plus another 20 minutes of frustration, but the hint system is very good and I used it with great abandon toward the end. (More because I was impatient than because I wouldn't have been able to figure out the solution. I wanted to know how the story came out.)

Game home page: http://maher.filfre.net/King/
A better review than mine: http://playthisthing.com/king-shreds-and-patches

[#] Sun Jul 31 2011 12:49:47 EDT from the_mgt @ Uncensored

As long as it isn't one of these paper versions of interactive novel, I'd call it video game. I once tried to play one, since I wanted something non-realime and non-cpu hogging for gaming on the train. I tried http://www.lacunastory.com/ for a while, but although it is nice, it somehow reminded me of unfinished business on Monkey Island 2, so I switched to scummvm (which seems to be able to play the Myst/Riven stuff now, too.)

Atm, I am addicted to SDLHana, a foss version of the Hanafuda variant Koi-koi. Does anyone know of any good windows or webbased versions?

[#] Sun Jul 31 2011 17:54:52 EDT from Sig @ Uncensored

I've played a few hours worth of Blue Lacuna, which is very polished, but I tend more toward the less serious, shorter works because of my limited time (and, admittedly, attention span). Most modern IF tends to be aiming for about 2 hours of play time, although there are lots of long-form examples, too. The author of Blue Lacuna wrote a book, "Creating Interactive Fiction with Inform 7," which I purchased and have read through once, but I haven't made any serious headway into writing yet.

[#] Wed Aug 03 2011 13:30:36 EDT from Ford II @ Uncensored

I occurred to me one day that playing a game with the cheatbook alongside is like reading a 3d story. Instead of just reading a book and plodding along following what's going on imagining pictures in your head, you get to poke around in the story, and when you're ready to move on to the next page or chapter, you read and apply the next step in the cheat book.
I think a lot of people pooh-pooh cheatbooks because it's not noble or something like that, but jeez, get off your high fucking horse, that's like saying "You're not enjoying the entertainment the way you're supposed to." It's fucking entertainment, If you enjoy a book by drawing in it with crayon, then you've gotten something out of it.
Anyway, it just seems to me that instead of it being a game, it's a novel way to read or watch a story.

[#] Wed Aug 03 2011 15:02:29 EDT from Sig @ Uncensored

I played the original Knights of the Old Republic through with a hint book, and I enjoyed it just fine. I saw a lot of things I would not have seen without it.

[#] Wed Aug 03 2011 18:50:07 EDT from the_mgt @ Uncensored

Agreed, I rather look into a cheatbook than being stuck for month because the programmer chose to hide something important in a 3 pixel space where noone would expect it. The enterntainment value is in the playing, not in the frustration. Hell, I tried almost everything my english dictionary came up with, but Leisure Suite Larry would only remove his cloths on the command "undress".

Last cheat book I bought was MadWorld's guide to Ultimate Violence and it is a lovely made hardcover with really valuable hints. You can beat the game without it, but you'll miss some fun.

I wanted to try King of Shreds and Patches, but my gargoyle version (2010093) is in some perpetual loop after it tells me the key setup and I am asked to press space to continue. After that, it starts over again... :(

[#] Mon Aug 08 2011 15:39:50 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar @ Uncensored

Need moar coffee. I misread that as "King of Shredded Potatoes"

[#] Tue Aug 09 2011 02:41:19 EDT from the_mgt @ Uncensored

Sounds tasty!

And might be a proper cooking game for the Wii, slashing around with the wiimote

[#] Fri Aug 12 2011 20:22:25 EDT from zooer @ Uncensored

I was surprised to find a DOS game from around 1989 that had been ported over to linux. (and Windows) I don't know if any of you remember Blockout by California Dreams, a 3D Tetris like game. I believe it is available in Fedora, I know it is in the debian/ubuntu repositories.

Or you can get it online http://www.blockout.net/

[#] Sat Aug 13 2011 03:40:32 EDT from dothebart @ Uncensored

coolio! had been playing that over and over.

[#] Sat Aug 13 2011 15:15:01 EDT from the_mgt @ Uncensored

There are lots of retro games where at least the engine is ported to support recent version of M$ operating systems or linux:

Ranotherworld -> Another World, Reminiscence -> Flashback (kind of a sequel to Another World), free clients for Dune 2 and Syndicate, Privateer Gemini Gold Openc2e for the Creatures series (although not yet fully functional). For most of them you need the original game files.

Then there are genuine gems like Cultivation (http://cultivation.sourceforge.net/), a really neat but small game.

PS: I got King of Shredded Potatoes running, the trick is to press Space directly on the first screen, where you can also scroll down by pressing arrow keys... I found Gargoyle to be a nice looking IF interpreter.