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by Ice Cream Jonsey 11/12/2004, 2:29pm PST |
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This is an uniqe modification. It takes place in 3 different epocs. World War II, Today and Future. You can choose yourself with kind of epoc you wish to play.
I love them. We all do, but really: their optimism in this state, at this age is adorable. This kid has no idea what an epoch is, no idea how to spell it, not even the faintest idea of how to make a square 3D box for Gordon to run around in, much less how to implement the whole of World War II... but none of that matters.
Having accumulated a heavy box of unsold text adventures, I have single-handedly recreated the Interactive Fiction crash in my bedroom closet. Knowing C++ reasonably well, it was time to try my hand at a DirectX game and push the envelope. I always thought a Mr. Do! game that took up the entirety of a 800x600 screen (as opposed to the MAME version which uses about 60% of the screen due to the fact that the original arcade CRTs were placed on their sides) and had co-op over TCP/IP would be a neat little venture. Imagining that game was *my* Epoc of Courage.
But motherfuck, it's all I can do just to integrate joystick control of nothing with full screen. It's been four days and I'm not even there yet. The perfect game in my mind no longer has ghost-monsters chasing two gay clowns around a garden while delightful J-Pop plays in the background. The ultimate game that I can conceive of right now is a blue PNG cursor on a black screen that moves around via a USB gamepad and has the exciting gameplay of printing "OK" on the screen at any time that button 1 is pressed. I would be prouder to simply produce that specimen of nothingness than I would anything else I've ever accomplished in my life.
These HL2 kids have the benefit of fantasy, and I love them for it and envy them. I love their alternate timelines, dinosaurs, jobs that pay well enough. I love their average conflicts, naval assaults and comic-style visual effects. I love that they haven't ruined their hobby for themselves by sitting down for even a moment and striving for even a modicum of competence within it.
(I'm going to call the blue cursor, when I finally get it to move next week, "Senior Woo!")
the dark and gritty...Ice Cream Jonsey! |
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Half-Life 2 Mods preview THREE: WE LOVE WAR by Fussbett 11/06/2004, 4:40pm PST 
CONFLICT: MIDDLE EAST by Fussbett 11/06/2004, 4:55pm PST 
Now everyone can contribute. NT by Creexul :( 11/06/2004, 5:13pm PST 
But mind you! by Worm 11/07/2004, 10:38am PST 
Re: But mind you! by E. L. Koba 11/07/2004, 6:21pm PST 
That gives me an idea!! by gnpaaron 11/07/2004, 8:39pm PST 
DEPTHS OF WAR by Fussbett 11/07/2004, 10:04am PST 
DOMINICAN AGGRESSION by Fussbett 11/08/2004, 12:28am PST 
Re: DOMINICAN AGGRESSION NT by Conflict: Middle East rocks. 11/12/2004, 10:59am PST 
Can't Distinguish between title and author box NT by Pre 11/12/2004, 10:59am PST 
EPOCS OF COURAGE by Fussbett 11/11/2004, 11:01pm PST 
a.m. activities for the bored and nerdy by motherfuckerfoodeater 11/12/2004, 2:56am PST 
I love these goofy bastards. by Ice Cream Jonsey 11/12/2004, 2:29pm PST 
Re: I love these goofy bastards. by Creexul :( 11/12/2004, 5:19pm PST 
Re: Half-Life 2 Mods preview THREE: WE LOVE WAR by Mr. Kool 11/13/2004, 12:56pm PST 
Re: Half-Life 2 Mods preview THREE: WE LOVE WAR by N 11/13/2004, 2:29pm PST 
Re: Half-Life 2 Mods preview THREE: WE LOVE WAR by conflictNo 11/13/2004, 4:42pm PST 
Re: Half-Life 2 Mods preview THREE: WE LOVE WAR by Bill Dungsroman 11/13/2004, 7:48pm PST 
Re: Half-Life 2 Mods preview THREE: WE LOVE WAR by conflictNo 11/14/2004, 12:13pm PST 
EUROPEAN BATTLEFIELDS by Fussbett 11/14/2004, 12:06am PST 
We have already seen enough blood. by The Joosh 11/14/2004, 12:19am PST 
please, germany, never ever forget you were nazies some time ago by Mysterio 11/14/2004, 3:12am PST 
Re: please, germany, never ever forget you were nazies some time ago by Creexul :( 11/14/2004, 12:05pm PST 
This article is excellent by Fussbett 11/14/2004, 1:07pm PST 
I don't know, I was just looking for the Germany and France connection. NT by Creexul :( 11/14/2004, 5:33pm PST 
Luxembourg and Switzerland NT by whydirt 11/14/2004, 5:51pm PST 
Re: Luxembourg and Switzerland by The Joosh 11/15/2004, 3:18am PST 
to what? refusing to go to war? are you kidding? NT by Mysterio 11/15/2004, 6:57am PST 
There are no Jews in Iraq NT by FABIO 11/14/2004, 7:47pm PST 
Re: EUROPEAN BATTLEFIELDS by Chairman Mao 11/14/2004, 12:24am PST 
Stalingrad by FABIO 11/14/2004, 2:06am PST 
Re: Stalingrad by Chairman Mao 11/14/2004, 2:59am PST 
Re: Stalingrad by FABIO 11/14/2004, 5:07am PST 
Re: Stalingrad by Chairman Mao 11/14/2004, 2:51pm PST 
Your best source for any war movie ever made, ever. by FABIO 11/14/2004, 7:49pm PST 
Re: Stalingrad by Mysterio 11/14/2004, 10:04pm PST 
WINTER WAR by Fussbett 11/14/2004, 9:47pm PST 
FINLAND AT WAR by Fussbett 11/14/2004, 9:42pm PST 
Re: FINLAND AT WAR by motherfuckerfoodeater 11/16/2004, 10:14pm PST 
Finland was kinda-sorta mostly an Axis ally by athodyd 11/17/2004, 12:33am PST 
Re: Finland was kinda-sorta mostly an Axis ally by FABIO 11/17/2004, 2:35am PST 
the winter war rules, yeah by kthor 11/17/2004, 8:30am PST 
GULFWAR by Fussbett 11/23/2004, 12:51am PST 
HITLER'S UNDERBELLY by Fussbett 11/26/2004, 1:33am PST 
No INC? NT by Creexul :( 11/26/2004, 3:28am PST 
American Thanksgiving claims two victims. by Fussbett 11/26/2004, 3:32am PST 
LIBERATION OF SEOUL by Fussbett 12/01/2004, 1:54am PST 
BY THE WAY :( by Creexul :( 01/06/2005, 12:28pm PST 
that movie sucked by FABIO 01/06/2005, 1:17pm PST 
All old war movies sucked, except Patton. NT by Creexul :( 01/07/2005, 4:08am PST 
Tora! Tora! Tora! >>>>>>> Pearl Harbor by FABIO 01/07/2005, 7:41am PST 
wow did that get fucked up by FABIO 01/07/2005, 7:43am PST 
I forgot The Big Red One too. NT by Creexul :( 01/07/2005, 4:36pm PST 
THE FORGOTTEN WAR by Fussbett 12/07/2004, 1:00am PST 
I forgot one comment. by Fussbett 12/07/2004, 1:05am PST 
KOREA: THE FORGOTTEN WAR by mark 12/08/2004, 11:24pm PST 
MIDWAY TO VICTORY by Fussbett 12/10/2004, 2:07am PST 
Re: MIDWAY TO VICTORY by FABIO 12/10/2004, 5:03am PST 
Re: MIDWAY TO VICTORY by Creexul :( 12/10/2004, 3:04pm PST 
Re: MIDWAY TO VICTORY by porsche 12/10/2004, 3:16pm PST 
Re: MIDWAY TO VICTORY by motherfuckerfoodeater 12/11/2004, 2:54am PST 
Re: MIDWAY TO VICTORY by Debaser 12/16/2004, 7:29pm PST 
NATIONAL CRISIS by Fussbett 01/05/2005, 3:53pm PST 
Winner by Bodybag 01/05/2005, 5:06pm PST 
RESISTANE AND LIBERATION by Fussbett 01/18/2005, 6:17am PST 
RESISTANCE 1940 - 1945 by Fussbett 09/25/2005, 8:01pm PDT 
Your command of history is truly stunning. NT by motherfuckerfoodeater 09/25/2005, 11:15pm PDT 
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