The Gamer's Quarter

Depends on what sort of graphics you do, I guess. I use Blender quite a lot, and until I got a Mac six months ago I ran it under Ubuntu. No problems there, but you really want a 2D image editor and a ...

Uuuh.. aren't games and graphics the two things linux really isn't very good at?

Which thread? I couldn't find anything.

I guess I kind of overreacted to something in the SGPC release thread. Leftfield image not withstanding, these guys need some sort of crash course in custome ...

I'll have to get that, I think. Even if I'll never boot into windows to play it.

edit: Actually, no, nevermind. Judging by their responses to legitimate criticism on yakyak.org, they haven't learne ...

That looks a lot more like Gridrunner++ than Space Giraffe really. Hopefully it'll sell a bit better too. :/

No I meant I couldn't stop thinking about how I'd rather rather play a JSR game with the same engine. With the radio station (and blue skies) from BP..

Anyone else who can't stop thinking about JSR when they play Crackdown?

(or Burnout Paradise for that matter)

Except make them pan back and forth.

http://www.imitationpickles.org/ludum/2007/12/13/sfxr-sound-effects-for-all/

Whoa, thank you so much for that! It'll come in extremely handy in the near future.

And a linux version too, yesss!

I'm not sure if it was "true" textmode or just made to look like it, but some years ago I remember seeing a demo that looked like the view from a computer screen running DOS, set to the sound of typin ...

Yeah, Minter hinted at that in his GDC talk, didn't he? It's just that it'd be Vista-only for sure, and at least Giles has in no uncertain terms expressed his loathe for Vista.

It seems that, even in the old days, Jeff used to have a problem coping with criticism and distancing himself from his creations. And that was when his games were reviewed by a handful of magazines. A ...