The Gamer's Quarter

Hey friends and rivals, I just posted part II. Mainly I wanted to let you guys know the blog moved to http://www.davidhellman.net/blog

Thanks for the plug, man. I like your octopus guy. I'm pretty sure Peter Molyneux has felt the touch of a lover's hand, though! I mean you can tell just by looking at him.

Hm, interesting. Weird how it's hard to find out.

You know what else bugs me about blogspot -- when you comment, you get sent to this generic looking back page, which is like suddenly being back st ...

My pleasure!

So I'm using blogspot, and I don't see how to limit the length of the posts on the main page, you know, to have a page break so you have to click to get the entirety of a longer post. ...

There should be a PC version eventually ...

Hmm, definitely in that 1UP thing, when it's up in a week or two (?) ...

EDIT! Some videos just hit the web, courtesy of Game Videos!

I'm adding them to [url=http://davidhellman.blogspot.com]my ...

Haha, well that could have been traumatic!

Thank you, fish!

Yeah, actually Jonathan and I both went to see 1Up yesterday. They were super nice guys and very passionate about indie games and certainly Braid. So it was a lot of fun! There's a ...

Thanks, dhex!

dess, you heard right!

simplicio, it exists TODAY! And I swear it's almost finished. Actually just yesterday Jonathan and I showed it to some people and I was like, "wow, it looks ...

Hey guys, just thought I'd let you know I'm doing a series of "behind the scenes" posts on my blog about the art created for [url=http://www.braid-game.com/]Braid. Maybe one per week, or something? I ...

david are you still angry at me for spamming you with miis, i was drunk and high on love, im sorry Sad

I only took it out on you because the Mii channel showed me each one very slowly and I couldn't ...

WHO HAS DISTURBED MY SLUMBER

It's interesting that 5 of the top 10 so far are PC games (basically).
It's interesting that 3 of those 5 wouldn't be on the list at all if they hadn't been released on Xbox also.
Does that invalida ...

Who's JT?

I just meant, sexy, like ... maybe I should have written sexiness but I didn't like how that looked as much.

1. Proatl
2. [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd3-eiid-Uw]Johnny Chung Lee's Wiimote Head Tracking
3. -
4. sexy

No offense to you dhex, but fuck the escapist. I have to register to read an ad-supported article? I provided my birthday and it told me I was wrong. Wouldn't let me in. Can't be bothered.

Peeing in the woods.

Hey guys, many of you may be aware of the Experimental Gameplay Workshop, a popular recurring session at the Game Developers Conference. With the old GDC rolling around in February this year, ringlead ...

Cool ideas! I especially like the one about architecture v. landscape. Makes me want to draw... if I have time.

So I had this idea I would start a series of totally free-associative, spontaneous game screen mock-ups. The image might come first, and later prompt an explanation, or the image could follow from a c ...

Man, I downloaded this thing but I don't think it installed. The installer would launch and then nothing would happen. Am I missing something?? ? ? ? ?

(??)

I can't believe nobody here's mentioned Wii Fit. That looks insane. Not good as a game, but insanely good for Nintendo as a moneymaker.

True. The hardcore community-whatever is already issuing a co ...

The Mario game looks great!! It's back to the surrealism of the old games, with loads of funny abstract obstacle coursey stuff!

Diddy Kong Racing. (And it becomes a space ship.)

EDIT: SPOILER ABOVE!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XzVfYYs7E0

Also, notable as a noun refers to an important person, not anything you consider worthy of note.

Also, again,

The verdict on the latter notable is still out.

Sorry! Can we all enjoy this just once more?

How about the placement of "(presumably)" in the sentence? I think it's supposed to modify the guess about the game's length (which is redundant, because he also says "could be"), but instead it modif ...

Seriously though, I go in expecting run-of-the-mill, blogger-type writing, and somehow I'm still let down. I stop and read something over three times, for some reason fascinated, trying to figure out ...

From tonight's Super Paper Mario In our experience, the title tends to look better in 2D than it does in 3D and we've managed to (presumably) whip through what could be half of the title in about 10 h ...

Pretty weird mix of genres. Looks cool, though.

Shit, did you have surgery?

dhex, you the smartest muhfucker in the whole clan, you always on point.

My wrist is kind of hurting, so I took a little break from work. Anybody have experience with repetitive stress from typing too much or whatever?

I guess I'll keep this short.

What happened with the 19-year-old, dhex.

Tell us.

Also, 36 Chambers of death, 360 degrees of perfected style.

Good point. (You're saying it did, right.)

On the up side, I played HL2 for two or three hours last night and it is AWESOME. Best sci-fi setting I have seen in a game, by far. I love the decaying u ...

Yeah, thanks, I tried them back when they were recommended, but they didn't solve the problem, so I got rid of them and installed the latest thing from ATI as part of following Valve's 10 steps to sob ...

The saga continues.

Steam sent me a 10-step check list of things to try. First, they said update all your drivers. I got the latest driver from ATI and updated my BIOS from Dell. HL2 kept crashing. ...

Splatterhouse! That game always looked so evil in EGM screenshots.

Is it worth playing?

AAAAAAAHHHHHHHRRRRRRRGGGGGHHHHHHHHH

gurble blurble glabber churble

I haven't fully explored it yet, but it seems all right. It's presented as a unified "experience," but it's hard to say how helpful that is at this point.

The game continues to crash every so often ...

Not to associate this with dhex's reasonable and self-respecting preference for PCs...

... but on the PCGamer podcast to which I sometimes listen, there's a total playground resentment mentality. T ...

Okay, I installed the recommended ATI driver... I tried this once before, but I guess I didn't do it right? Maybe I didn't uninstall the previous one first. For some reason, the Valve diagnostic check ...

Okay, sorry for being such a technical numbskull. Here's the info:

Dell Dimension DXP061
Intel core 2 CPU
6400 @ 2.13GHz
2.13 Ghz, 1.00 GB RAM
256MB ATI Radeon X1300PRO

It looks like my soun ...

I got rid of the ATI drivers, rebooted, installed Radeon Omega Driver 3.8.330, rebooted, ran H-L2, and it crashed like always!

I guess I will bug Valve customer support.

Yes, the Settings panel shows a drop-down menu set to "Radeon X1300/X1550 Series".

Okay, I'm downloading Radeon Omega Driver 3.8.330...

But, I have to remove the device? Meaning, open up my PC? ...

Thanks for the reply. It's this computer: http://www.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/xpsdt_410?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs ... although I got it in October, so I don't know if ther ...

I joined Steam and downloaded Half-Life 2. Every time I start a new game, after the little intro with the guys face talking to me, as soon as I get to the subway car, after a couple seconds the game f ...

The guy in Mario 64 made from a "sphere" sprite.