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Pointless Travel Edition - A Review

Pointless Travel Edition – A Review

Last week we went away to the Norfolk countryside for a family holiday on the Saturday evening we had an impromptu BBQ. While we were eating we had a game of Pointless the travel edition that I took with us.

Since the new set of twins have been born I love sitting down before dinner in the week with a cuppa and feeding the babies with my mum and joining in with the pointless game on tv.

The game…

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I'm totally late to the neko atsume party but why is a game that simple and seemingly pointless so darn addicting? I've only been playing for 2 days and I keep reflexively checking back to see if there are any cats in my yard. I literally dreamt about the game the night before last. I clicked into the app and a shit ton of real cats flooded my house and started sitting on my furniture. What the fuck.

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Developer Time: Bite Sized Inspiration

It's simply this: If you want to be something, go be it. You want to do something, go do it.

What?

Yeah, I know, cliche right? I'm serious though, if there's something you really want to do or be, the only way you're ever going to get there is to go out and start doing it. Now, that dosen't mean to charge off blindly and start ripping people's skulls open thinking your a brain surgeon. If it's something you want to do, you need to have the drive and determination to learn about it on your own.

I knew at a young age I wanted to be a game developer. When I was twelve, I inherited a selection of manuals and a C compiler from my uncle, and I took off. Within three weeks, I had developed my first game. It was a linear adventure, in the style of the choose your own adventure books. It was also riddled with bugs, and very much a "guess the verb" game. In the end though, it was playable.

I have dedicated countless evenings, weekends, months and years learning how to do what I do. I haven't had any formal training, so I do make mistakes from time to time. I tend to leave things like the <DOCTYPE> tag out until I'm done getting the page working. I use the style tag instead of CSS unless I have to use CSS. There are <div> tags EVERYWHERE. It's the little quirks you learn when you teach yourself. In the end though, the product still looks good, so I don't worry about refinement until after the project is done.

Another great example is zoey. From a young age, she loved television and writing. As a young girl she would write episodes for some of her favorite shows, including in one instance making a entire new season for one. She has a passion for writing I have seen in few other people, and her scripts are top notch. It seems that some of that may be paying off finally, and we're waiting to hear back if she's gotten accepted for her most recent fellowship application.

The point is, that if you really want to do something, and I mean really want to do something, you're the only one holding yourself back.

Anyways, it's late and sleep deprivation is starting to get to me. Hugs and Kisses,

~Nymall

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Developer Time: Classy OOP

Nymall here with another post from the development trenches. It's saturday, so it's time to pull a random subject out of our hat-o-topics to discuss. Remember, if you have any questions or specific topics you'd be interested in us talking about, send us a message and we'll see about spotlighting it.

This week we'll be talking about some of the additional features of the game engine and some different future plans. Read on!

Engine Madness

One of the many exciting things about the game engine we've developed is that it can be used as a base for serving several different structures of game. At the current stage of development, it's being used for developing two different games, Pointless and another that shall remain nameless at this time. So, what's the upshot benefit of this?

Log-in information will persist between games - what this means is that the system will basically use one log-in to rule them all. This can be controlled from the in-game options menu, but if enabled(it is by default) to register with another one of our games all you have to do is log in with your username and password. It's that simple!

If disabled, however, registration will work as normal. In the end it's a optional, but highly encouraged feature.

Another interesting feature that this universal engine will enable is "synargies" between games. One of the first planned synergies is a cross mini-game between this and a in-dev game of mine called zombie towns. The mini-game will be completely accessible from in game and, if enabled in zombie towns, will generate additional resources as well as the bonuses gained in pointless for playing the daily mini-game.

Minigame - McBurgerQueen

How could a McJob ever be interesting fodder for a minigame, you ask? Well, it becomes interesting when instead of being a time-trial or timing game, we instead make it a physics game.

Wait, what? That's right, physics.

The entire goal of the McBurgerQueen minigame/job is to throw the food into the customers mouths. The general theory being that either the customer is too lazy to get the food themselves and have outrageously large mouths or you've just become so disgruntled you don't really care anymore.

So, how does the game work?

You'll start each day at the job with 100 coins(this is tennative, as the game is still being balanced), and you'll be able to choose between different types of ammunition that cost more points, but at the same time offer more of a reward if scored. Once the ammunition is picked, then it's just a matter of hitting the targets mouth with the food.

Insane? Yeah, a little bit. It's fun though.

Dev News

Other then the aforementioned updates, nothing particularly of note has happened this week in development. Zoey got a new computer, and I've been restructuring the rendering part of the engine to run a bit faster and use less resources. Hopefully by the end of next week we can get all this business sorted out and get back to finishing the last few things with the forums. The laundry list is surely getting shorter...

As always, if there's anything you want us to discuss, either message us or leave a reply. What topics would you like to be discussed in future posts?

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Developer Time: A little bit of Mr. E

Welcome to a Sunday edition of developer time! Some news on some recent complications, some different planned event stuff, and more! Read on!

State of the Project

This week has been another week of setback, as the day before yesterday the database to our development environment got corrupted after a unexpected power outage. While most of the code that I've been working on was safe, the last week has resulted in quite a bit of modification of the structure of the database, which had to be reverted back to a old backup thanks to a few complications with a number of recent back end updates.

Most of my work has been assessing the damage, but it's nothing major, just annoying data entry.

This week's Ramble - Nightmares?

As I have stated before, one of our most excited features is the simply dazzling amount of hidden content the game willl contain, and I wanted to semi-spoil one piece... I'll tell you about it, but not how to get to it.

The nightmare realm is a place that I've designed, that follows a horror-esque theme. Most of the encounters you will have will be distorted versions of places and characters you already know, but warped and twisted. It's up to you to evade these creatures and survive. Die early, and your character will still get a sweet consolation prize, but make it to the end and you'll get a special reward.

The rewards will change and the length of the area will change as well as more areas are added on, introducing new characters and new pitfalls, but new prizes as well.

The link to this adventure will only be available randomly once or twice a day, for about a half hour. It will be available for everybody at the same time though, so watch those message boards!

In closing...

I think that's enough for now... We'll probably have a new computer for zoey tomorrow, so expect some creative updates from her soon too! See you next week!

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Pokemon listing challenge - First report, season 10 !

Finished season 10 yay. It's funny to think that Ash said Paul's name exactly 34 times (I'm pretty confident about this number %)) and "raged" against him about 20 times hohoho. I love comashipping.

Paul and Dawn had a dialogue 3 times, paul said "Tsukaenai" (useless) 15 times and Dawn said "Daijoubu" (no need to worry) 78.5 times (actually in DP34 while fishing she said "Daijou...." and Buizel stopped her and said "Bui!" So I counted it as half).

I LOVE to waste my time.