Be Excellent To Each Other

It sounds quite cool (had to research the first one), but the presentation of the Kickstarter is terrible. Not a good variety of reward tiers, no video, no in-game artwork, talking about process, press links, etc.

The Kickstarter is just some fanny that's chucked it up there with no rights to the game or indeed any slight idea how to go about developing a game. Hence the hilarity.

Oh dear lord

I mean, it's flattering someone would do that, but also, make your own damn game

Well this is the funniest thing I've seen in ages:
https://youtu.be/_Wy3zA3LxG4

Is that some sort of spoof?

I find 'mericans a bit hard to read at times.

Canadians and at the very least they are presenting it as not being a spoof, and they did indeed have a kickstarter that took $600k.

Oh! (Sorry, Canadafolks!)

It seemed like very bad acting rather than people talking naturally, so I wasn't sure.

That sucks, then.

I saw a tape measure on facebook shared from kickstarter that looked ace. It could measure by infra-red, by rolling around a curved surface, or by pulling out a bit of string, and it even synched with an app to record your measurements.

It was about $50 but there is literally no way to buy that product now as all the backer goals are met. Make more product, people!

This the one?

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/bagel-the-world-s-smartest-tape-measure-gadgets#/

Looks rather neato. And available to buy. Though $72 + shipping feels punchy for a tape measure, no matter how smart it is.

That's the one, but yes, was cheaper on Kickstarter for earlier backers.

Consolevania returns

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2017- ... ia-is-back





https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=4909254

I've just seen Ryan ask on Twitter who owns the Consolevania Twitter account.

And Robert Florence quit writing cardboard children recently

He has been writing on a separate patreon (with his 9 year old daughter)

https://www.patreon.com/landofexcitement

http://landofexcitement.com/

but those have been quite sparce

I followed him for a while but then when Frankie Boyle's 'Tramadol Nights' was getting bad reviews, he seemed to get massively enraged and spent all his time just shouting at people who didn't think it was a work of genius.

I should probably follow him again now that's blown over, as he's quite funny.

Just like the underappreciated Tramadol Nights

excellentgrant



10% of what they are getting on Patreon is going to an indie developer each month

Did anyone apart from me and romanista ever read Way of the Rodent?

There's a posh book and that being kickstarted in this year's attempt to get something going again.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/20 ... -online-ar

that kickstarter failed alas.. i would be in it.. but they are giving it a second attempt..

meanwhile

1. rob hubbard on kickstarter..
(like the idea, but not really the rewards.)
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/c6 ... ickstarter

2. Sociable soccer from kickstarter to steam early access
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2017- ... rly-access
(at sensidays this year they finally got to play it.. (last year they couldn't get it working).. but reactions were mixed

Anyone had a punt on the Sociable Soccer Steam early access? I'm very tempted but wouldn't want to stick £15 down without some indication of what the gameplay is like.

I have now. It has promise. It definitely plays a fast game of football and feels very similar to old Sensi, however the AI is a bit shit currently (especially the goalkeepers). No multiplayer yet either.

Promise. That's promising. I suspect my £15 is needed to help it realise that promise, too.

Next payday, I'll pay up (assuming I've managed to get my 360 controller working with Windows 10)

I've come to the (shocking) realisation that I'm shit at Sensi.

It is really hard, but rewarding if you put enough practice in. Unlike Kick Off which is really hard but complete dogshit.

I was a lot better at the version that had grenades.

Wasn't that on an Amiga Power cover disk? I loved that.

Bulldog Blighty, wasn't it?

Aye. Here tis

http://amr.abime.net/issue_21_coverdisks

Wow, there really was a version of Sensi with grenades!

(I was making out that Cannon Fodder was Sensi-with-grenades.)

I was 50/50 over whether you were making a joke or not. Bulldog Blighty is not well known.

There was also Cannon Soccer too. Which was more cannon fodder, but with footballers, if I remember correctly.

Cannon Fodder set on a football pitch, yep.

They also did a version of Sensi that had apples and oranges instead of players if I remember, and I'm fairly sure that that had some sort of explosive in it.

That machine gun sound. Awesome.

Pretty sure you're mixing them up. Bulldog Blighty had a grenade for a football which killed any places near it if it went off.

Surprised Cras hasn't played it

Quite probably.

I had a short blast on Sensible Trainspotting the other day, was surprisingly therapeutic until it started getting manic.

That would be Unsensiblee Soccer. I don't think it had grenades. Although I doubt I'd know even if it did.

Hehe, that's absolutely brilliant!

I received this today which is a brand new pad for the N64 which I backed yonks ago. It looks pretty good and has been reviewed very well so far. It only cost me $20 plus postage which is pretty good I reckon. I'll give it a good go later on and let you know what I think.

Where have they put the trigger?

The Z trigger is in the LT and RT position. They've put it on there twice.

Sweet. It might take a fair bit of muscle memory override, but being able to reach all the controls at once should be quite nice.

Although, did any N64 games use all of the controls?

Nope. Because of the way the original pad was designed, you couldn't reach the L button while using the analogue stick.

Wasn't it designed to be used specifically in two different ways? Left prong and middle prong or left prong and right prong.

It was indeed. That's why you'll never get a game that uses the Z button and L button.

I've just had a go with it and I like it.

It might take a bit of getting used to but it's a solid pad. The analogue stick is great and much stiffer than the original but it's weird playing an FPS like Goldeneye with only one analogue stick.

There is an issue with the analogue stick and the L button though as if they're both pressed together, you can feel the inner sleeve of the analogue stick rub against the lower half of the L button. Apparently there's a fix for this coming which would either be a replacement pad or if you're competent at taking things apart, a replacement button. I've gone for the button.

Like gagballs?

Like clean teeth?

Then this, ladies and gentlemen, is what you've been waiting for.

$3,000,000.... Geez.