http://www.viridiangames.com/blog Viridian talks about his kids, game development, and anything else that comes to mind. Tue, 26 Aug 2008 17:44:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Um...I'm not going to mince words here. This game looks awesome. Red Alert has got a couple of defining aspects, and one of them is that the developers understood that they couldn't do "good" FMV. No matter how hard they tried it always came out cheesy. ... http://www.viridiangames.com/blog/2008/08/22/command-conquer-red-alert-3/ That's right. After weeks of work and a near-full engine rewrite I have multiplayer working in Planitia. Now, right now everything has to be hardcoded - number of clients, the IP addresses, everything. So I can't release a demo yet. I'll need to at least bang ... http://www.viridiangames.com/blog/2008/08/21/planitia-update-30-multiplayer-get/ The journey through the stars continues, weeknights on NBC. http://www.viridiangames.com/blog/2008/08/19/lets-play-starflight-4-ignoring-the-boring/ Braid was the first game I ever bought on XBLA. I did so at the behest of Megan, who played through the trial and loved it. I had also enjoyed the trial version even though I thought some of the puzzles were too hard to execute (of course, ... http://www.viridiangames.com/blog/2008/08/18/braid/ Okay, today I'm going to talk about my two favorite YouTube channels. First, there's DeceasedCrab. DC does "Let's Plays". The definition of an LP is sort of nebulous; an LP isn't a speedrun; it's more of an attempt by a player to present a game in its entirety. ... http://www.viridiangames.com/blog/2008/08/15/deceasedcrab-vs-garlandthegreat/ Okay. Despite the fact that I specifically said that I wouldn't be posting every episode of Let's Play Starflight! here on my blog and that you should check my YouTube channel for updates, I am still getting IMs from people asking where Part 2 is...even though Part 2 went ... http://www.viridiangames.com/blog/2008/08/14/lets-play-starflight-parts-2-and-3/ Ugh. Sorry I've out of touch for the last couple of days. Of course, as soon as I commit to a long-running project like "Let's Play Starflight!" I get sick. There will be an update tonight, though. I just may sound really froggy for the next ... http://www.viridiangames.com/blog/2008/08/13/feeling-cantankerous/ Yes, let's! I'm probably not going to post about every video I do for this...I just wanted to let you guys know I'm doing it. I love Starflight, despite its flaws, and I want more people to learn about this groundbreaking game. http://www.viridiangames.com/blog/2008/08/08/lets-play-starflight/ We're wasting away again in RPG-a-ville. This game has an interesting history...which I can't talk about until someone guesses it. So, name and developer, please! If you win, I'll let you try out my new machine that digitizes people and puts them inside the computer! You'll be able ... http://www.viridiangames.com/blog/2008/08/07/name-that-game-51/ So two froody dudes, Dan "Gibbage" Marshall and Ben Ward, decide to stop piddling about with their own pathetic projects and team up, creating Zombie Cow Studios in the process. And to celebrate, they decided to give away a game for free - an adventure game called Ben There, Dan That!, ... http://www.viridiangames.com/blog/2008/08/04/ben-there-dan-that-and-the-supremacy-of-community/