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Nope. I wasn't familiar with D&D when I first played BG and it worked fine for me. Only thing I didn't get was how Armor Class seemed to go "the wrong way", that's the only thing that didn't work for me right away.

Anything by Akeboshi. I believe Yellow Moon was used as an opening, while Wind was used as an ending, both on Naruto. Great singer-songwriter.

Aside from Legend of the Guardians? That doesn't inspire confidence.

I don't know much about Canadian politics but I keep hearing complaints on how very, very racist they are. I hear anything not white is not seen as Canadian, like the fourth generation Canadians who were killed in the Phillipines Hostage Situation only being referred to as "Hong Kong natives with Canadian Passports" so the government could distance itself from the situation.

Me too, but then I remember that there are a whole bunch of stupid people on this planet whose only deterrent against throwing a fit and committing horrible murder over "sonuvabits cut me off on the freeway" is the fact that their print based indoctrinated comforter tells them a misinterpreted translation of "thou shallt not kill your neighbour's donkey".

Entire country (pretty much every major city has a "red" zone) and hell no.

In the interest of trying to get some damn content in this thread and life into this forum, I'm just going to double post and add another I found. http://corpocrat.com/2010/09/21/best-free-...ame-developers/ The url is a bit misleading, it says best FREE game engines for game developers which is not exactly true, though some of them are and it's worth looking at for those who want to make their own games.

I figured this would be a handy thread to have (and I searched, but couldn't find one) for all aspiring Game Designers. Post any interesting articles on game design here so we can always find them again. I'll kick off the bat (pretty sure this is not an expression and I am committing animal cruelty here) with The 400 Game Design Rules Master List. It's unfinished and some entries are vague or useless, but some of these tips are very useful and things that Game Designers may want to keep in mind. http://www.theinspiracy.com/Current%20Rule...ster%20List.htm

Machete don't text.

You could try out a creative commons license.

First things first, pay off my parents debts.

Let that be a lesson to you.

Now, that's close to a personal attack. Let's play nice. (Also, the latter.)

How literally am I supposed to take this?

This column is about screenwriting but I think it pretty much comes down to what these types of "reality check brick to the head" things are for - seperating the "man, I love playing video games, how hard can it be to make them?" people from the truly dedicated and determined. Most of them don't work well enough, I think. I know far too many ex game design students who only realized how hard it was going to be after two or three years.

I think the Foo Fighters are fantastic. Can't stand Nirvana though. >_ (Grohl's drumming for Nirvana was ace, though.)

Not even if you change all the names?

Yeah, I know about the vocal minority thing but that's always been the case - same thing for game critics having "other reasons" for giving high scores. Even so, I don't think it's ever translated into such a big gap as far as I can remember.

This might have been mentioned before, but did anyone look at the Metacritic scores for this game? Critic scores average 8, user scores average 4. Never seen a difference that big before for a video game. http://www.metacritic.com/game/xbox-360/dragon-age-ii I haven't played it myself, but I'm interested just to see what would cause a split like this.

That's true. "Cool" isn't all that cool to me. I wouldn't be here if it was. EDIT: This sounds a lot more offensive than I mean it to be. : /

It doesn't sound so much shallow as old fashioned. Gaming is "cool" now, remember? Well, maybe not the type of gaming that is usually discussed here... Anyway, I know a bunch of girls who are game developers or studying to become game developers, and most of them are attractive and at least none of them are dogs. Some of them do the anime T-shirt thing though, but that's it. EDIT: As for working in the games industry, I suspect it works better for some personalities. Personally, I need tight deadlines and high pressure. I don't only work better with them, I can't even work at all without them. (Bit of a personal epiphany for me there... huh.)

So it's authentically boring at least.

Hey Earth, what do you have against the human species? Stop killing us off!

You know, our community is weird. I've seen flame wars over movie opinions, people get ecstatic over, not even video games, but video game patches, but (alleged) evidence of life in outer space is met with a resounding "So?" NASA distances itself from claims.

Honestly, I kinda liked Indy 4. It had some stupid headslappy bits, but I get where they were coming from and to say the least, the movie sure entertained me. The Indy flicks were based on crappy serials, and then twenty years later they make one that's based on crappy serials twenty years later (specifically terrible sci-fi). That MacGuffin didn't bother me. Just the awkward pacing, oversaturated colors, special effects that me and my fellow animation students found downright disrespectful (it's like they didn't even care) and ridiculous dialogue. If they had gone with Darabont's draft (which is I believe still available on the web for those interested, confirmed as the real deal titled Indiana Jones and the City of Gods) and took the effects and cinematography seriously, I would have seriously adored it, nuked fridge and all.