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Of course, you could just call it an Anomalous Subsurface Environment... http://www.lulu.com/shop/patrick-wetmore/ase1-anomalous-subsurface-environment-standard-paper/paperback/product-15874202.html

er, its mega dungeon

**** it, I'm dumping Diablo tomorrow and getting IWD / IWD2 from GOG. Then I'm going to drink a case of claret and beat both the MoFos.

Did I mention that Lahndun is in fact a supra-national City State that is emphatically not in Europe?

It needs reiterating - the Deep Roads in DA:O were not, in any way shape or form, mega-dungeons. They were tunnels. A mega-dungeon requires: Size Back-Story Dungeon Ecology Traps Puzzles Loot (oh yes) Cool monsters Even cooler boss monsters Exploration WTF moments of sheer excitement --- I hope you get my drift.

Get a grip. AAA games have AAA budgets, which this doesn't. Obz need to get some visuals out IMO, and show us what this will look like.

^ This is more like it. As long as I can roll dice and drink beer too.

^ That's quite near Croydon, isn't it?

Yes, but I'm confident (uses technical term) that they'll do some funky stuff with it and get the pre-rendered stuff in.

Ah OK is making more sense. Thanks.

Yes, you can change the paradigm of what constitutes 'property' with the power of your mind.

So it's like another layer?

I had to vote Europe, although the UK is in fact an island not connected to the continental hoi polloi in any way, shape or form (except of course for a bloody great tunnel). I live in the squirming, gelatinous, fetid megametropolis of Lahndun.

Should the Unity announcement have come out with a depiction of what they want to achieve with it? Not a tech demo, maybe just a few concept screenies?

^ Yes, but what does that have to do with it?

As a technical ignoramus I'd be happy to be educated, in layman's terms, about engine versus graphics.

The forum has spoken. Over 70% of us are happy to sacrifice romances. In my case I'd like to sacrifice them on a stone altar in the underground temple of a multi-tentacled god of evil madness, with an elaborately ornate but cruelly-spiked mace.

I want it to mirror IE games, most of which had random dice rolls. I know Sawyer hates it, but I will grind him down like Volourn banging on about Dwarves. I also want the character generation GUI to look as beautiful as possible, maybe a mixture of that granite effect in BG1 mixed up with more of a character sheet style.

Hey, I like this shirt. It's neat, even if it is from GAP. I know, let's go into GAP in the next mall and ask for another one free. After all, I paid for the other shirt and it's the same, right? I'm over forty. This means that I view intellectual, physical and digital property rights in a similar grid square. That is that they are property and therefore protected by property rights that the owner is perfectly entitled to stipulate to protect his or her interest. I know the twenty-somethings (not all of them but many) think that anything you buy that's made out of zeroes and ones should be virtually free, but keep on using your rationale and there will be no content left.

I want a Chris Avellone action figure at 2.4 million. I know it's slightly sinister, but there you go.

Evil works fine if the evil-doer's motive makes sense. Evil-for-the-sake-of-it might have it's place (the Iranian government, Enron, Electronic Arts et.al) but really evil with a purpose is more entertaining. I want my evil character to be witty, manipulative and charming. I want him to be, convincingly, able to pretend to be good whilst being astonishingly evil.

Do it Pids, go rogue man, go rogue!

Hmmm too cartoony for me. But I can see where it might work.

Just upped my pledge to $140. Will pledge more depending on stretch goals. You have my sincerest support.

You're in a bit of a hole here. Why not stop digging?