User contributions for BetaNotus

27 January 2018

• 02:2002:20, 27 January 2018 diff hist −8,241 Elder Game: Expediency, Thy Name is Indie MMO No edit summary
• 02:2002:20, 27 January 2018 diff hist +10,734 N Elder Game: The point of races Created page with "[Note to pre-alpha testers: a new version is now live! Among other things, Psychology and Art History skills now have content. Probably the biggest improvement is that monster..."
• 02:2002:20, 27 January 2018 diff hist +10,733 N Elder Game: Expediency, Thy Name is Indie MMO Created page with "[Note to pre-alpha testers: a new version is now live! Among other things, Psychology and Art History skills now have content. Probably the biggest improvement is that monster..."
• 02:1902:19, 27 January 2018 diff hist +1,767 N Elder Game: A setback Created page with "I just got this email from Unity3d’s asset store manager: ''We deeply regret to inform you that the seller Atlas Studio, aka Five Frog, aka BE3D, violated the Unity Asset S..."
• 02:1802:18, 27 January 2018 diff hist +4,078 N Elder Game: Disney-esque House Magic Created page with "I’ve been surprised by the number of people who don’t realize this little bit of MMO trickery: most houses in MMOs are Disneyland fantasy houses, tiny models that couldn..."
• 02:1602:16, 27 January 2018 diff hist +5,668 N Elder Game: Believe In Yourself and Blah Blah Blah Created page with "''[This is a pep-talk to myself. I've spent 28 of the last 36 hours rewriting a major part of the innards of the Gorgon server. The work was not pleasant, and I had mysterious..."
• 02:1502:15, 27 January 2018 diff hist +7,624 N Elder Game: Update on the Next Step Created page with "[I meant to post this the day after my last post, but I got distracted and had to go to conferences in San Francisco. Back now!] The Next Step I’ve had nagging doubts beca..."
• 02:1502:15, 27 January 2018 diff hist +247 N Elder Game: Quote of the Day: Balance Created page with "Eric: “The onion rings were 12 because I didn’t want to overpower the hash browns.” Sandra: “If it makes you feel any better, I just powered the hell out of the Bonus..."
• 02:1302:13, 27 January 2018 diff hist +4,323 N Elder Game: Quick Dev Diary: Combos Created page with "I realized I never talked about the combo system, so I’ll do that real quick. This system adds some simple strategy (and IMO some much-needed fun) to unarmed combat. (And ev..."
• 02:1302:13, 27 January 2018 diff hist +227 N Elder Game: Quote of the Day Created page with "Sandra: “Are these mushroom smoothies supposed to require cooking or mycology?” Eric: “Don’t worry about that right now.” <pause> “It’s a live team problem.”..."
• 02:1202:12, 27 January 2018 diff hist +4,635 N Elder Game: Adding Direction Created page with "After some nasty post-GDC sick days (weeks, really), I’m back and working pretty hard on the MMO. The pre-alpha server is still down, which is upsetting, but it will be back..."
• 02:1202:12, 27 January 2018 diff hist +4,264 Elder Game: When Puppets Lose Their Puppeteers No edit summary
• 02:1002:10, 27 January 2018 diff hist +3,533 N Elder Game: Still Developing! Created page with "The tutorial cave is finished and some of the immediate follow-up content is also done. I’m still adding a few more bits of content, but mostly it’s polish at this point...."
• 02:0802:08, 27 January 2018 diff hist +3,533 N Elder Game: When Puppets Lose Their Puppeteers Created page with "The tutorial cave is finished and some of the immediate follow-up content is also done. I’m still adding a few more bits of content, but mostly it’s polish at this point...."
• 02:0702:07, 27 January 2018 diff hist +5,242 N Elder Game: Cows Created page with "Cows? Cows. I’ve asked the pre-alpha players to turn themselves into cows and test out the cow-form curse for a bit. They’ve found some serious problems, like cows not fi..."
• 02:0702:07, 27 January 2018 diff hist +7,217 N Elder Game: Death Stories in MMOs Created page with "Okay, let’s talk about something completely unimportant for a while. This is the tiniest little detail, and it doesn’t make or break the game in any way. But I found it in..."
• 02:0502:05, 27 January 2018 diff hist +600 N Elder Game: Video Diary, First Attempt Created page with "Here’s the first attempt at a video diary. (I actually did like ten takes but this is the least rambling one.) This whole “video” thing will take practice… I have a ha..."
• 02:0402:04, 27 January 2018 diff hist +10,617 N Elder Game: Gorgon Random Treasure Created page with "I was replaying Borderlands and realized that I’ve been thinking all wrong about random treasure systems. Yes, they’re damned hard to do well. But even if they’re done p..."
• 02:0402:04, 27 January 2018 diff hist +812 N Elder Game: My Favorite Bugs (Part I) Created page with ": - Need better error message when a cow tries to use a fire staff. : - The cool-down timer for Basic Spore Bomb is tied to the cow’s front kick and possibly other attacks..."
• 02:0302:03, 27 January 2018 diff hist +7,349 N Elder Game: On Fire, and Wolf-Talk, and Competitive Systems Created page with "The pre-alpha testers’ comments and feedback have been extremely enlightening, and I really appreciate each of you who took the time to give me feedback, especially the play..."
• 02:0202:02, 27 January 2018 diff hist +7,290 N Elder Game: What It Means to Be Undead Created page with "Still working hard on the MMO, but not much new to show yet. Soon! In the meantime, let’s talk a bit about the back story of the game. “Oh No, It’s the Undead!” Earl..."
• 02:0002:00, 27 January 2018 diff hist +1,451 m Developers →2012
• 01:5201:52, 27 January 2018 diff hist +1,000 N Elder Game: Facebook me! Created page with "Can you take a second to like Project Gorgon on Facebook? I just need a few more likers to get a non-hideous URL! https://www.facebook.com/pages/Project-Gorgon/29242490414419..."
• 01:5101:51, 27 January 2018 diff hist +8,227 N Elder Game: A little more about evil, undead, and pet classes Created page with "[Preview testers: there is a new version of the game up! However, the forums are still down. Please send any feedback or bugs to ericheimburg@heimburg.com!] What Is Evil? I..."
• 01:4901:49, 27 January 2018 diff hist +8,192 N Elder Game: Battle Chemistry Created page with "Whoa, not getting enough blogging done! Lots of stuff is happening, let me try to catch up. Here’s a new combat skill: Battle Chemistry. Advanced Combat Skills Some combat..."
• 01:4701:47, 27 January 2018 diff hist +4,832 N Elder Game: Progress Update Created page with "Just some notes about things… there’s lots of things happening, but I’m totally overwhelmed and failing to blog about them. Let’s see: Title and Logo! For now (and q..."
• 01:4601:46, 27 January 2018 diff hist +10,167 N Elder Game: Optional Ways to Play Created page with "I want to support optional ways to play the MMO. I think these add a lot of depth and replay value, and for little effort on my part. Here’s what I have in mind at the momen..."
• 01:4501:45, 27 January 2018 diff hist +2,482 N Elder Game: Today in pictures Created page with "Working on some new content today – a new newbie town. I’ve got some new NPC tech that’s making it a lot of fun to work on. Here’s some screenshots: Milking a cow NPC..."
• 01:4401:44, 27 January 2018 diff hist +4,486 N Elder Game: Gorgon Kickstarter is Coming! Created page with "Why Kickstarter? The scene is my home office, about a month ago. Sandra is acting as producer for the MMO, looking over the schedule. : - Sandra: “So you’re behind sched..."
• 01:4201:42, 27 January 2018 diff hist +4,440 N Elder Game: Crazier Kickstarter Reward Ideas Created page with "Thanks again for the feedback on Kickstarter! I’m definitely going to use some of the easier suggestions, such as getting your name in the credits, a unique appearance item,..."
• 01:4101:41, 27 January 2018 diff hist +9,251 N Elder Game: The Case Against Auction Houses Created page with "I don’t have anything against auctions. But in an MMO, an Auction House is shorthand for “everybody sells everything for the lowest price the market will bear.” This is..."
• 01:4001:40, 27 January 2018 diff hist +8,674 N Elder Game: How does Project Gorgon make money? Created page with "I didn’t start making an MMO because I thought it was a good business idea. I did it because I want to run an MMO. I love maintaining a world, tuning it, watching it grow. I..."
• 01:3801:38, 27 January 2018 diff hist +2,126 N Elder Game: The dangers of a too-statistics-driven treasure generator Created page with "[ Just an anecdote today, as I'm still working on the Kickstarter preparations. I've got Sandra heavily involved now, and she's helping slog through a bunch of remaining tasks..."
• 01:3701:37, 27 January 2018 diff hist +160 N Elder Game: Kickstarter is Live! Created page with "We’re kickstartin’! Please pledge if you can. We tried to make the rewards as fun as possible. Thanks! Category:Game BlogsCategory:Elder Game Blog"
• 01:3701:37, 27 January 2018 diff hist +359 N Elder Game: Video Diary Created page with "Here’s a new video! Thrill to the minutia of treasure-item presentation! (Wow, that makes it sound awesome.) Sorry about the audio volume mixing, gotta turn the volume up t..."
• 01:3601:36, 27 January 2018 diff hist +1,087 N Elder Game: Please TwitFace Project: Gorgon! Created page with "After Eric posted about KickAssist (which I keep reading as kickass-ist, which is presumably some sort of really cool profession), tad commented: ''I would also suggest you a..."
• 01:3601:36, 27 January 2018 diff hist +1,857 N Elder Game: Opening Pre-Alpha to Kickstarter pledges! Created page with "We’ve been hard at work robustifying the pre-alpha servers, and we’re finally ready to let people check it out! We’re sending out keys to Kickstarter pledges now. There..."
• 01:3401:34, 27 January 2018 diff hist +841 N Elder Game: Community-esque things Created page with "It’s been almost decade since I was a dev on a Stratics forum, but that’s changed: today Stratics set us up with a forum for Project: Gorgon! Feel free to visit and say hi..."
• 01:3301:33, 27 January 2018 diff hist +371 N Elder Game: Quote of the Day: Humanities Created page with "(04:05:31) Eric Heimburg: Hmm. I need to think about the skill system more and figure out how to divvy up content across all the humanities. <in the other room, Sandra bursts..."
• 01:3201:32, 27 January 2018 diff hist +1,472 N Elder Game: Pre-Alpha’s Getting Better (every day) Created page with "Things are looking a bit grim for the Kickstarter… that’s a big number to earn and only a few more days. But we’re doing all we can on that front — and it takes a lot..."
• 01:3101:31, 27 January 2018 diff hist +1,714 m Developers →2012
• 01:0701:07, 27 January 2018 diff hist +3,828 N Elder Game: Designing Project: Gorgon’s combat sounds Created page with "[ This guest post is by Conor Brace, the sound/music expert for Project: Gorgon. Thanks, Conor! ] Designing Project: Gorgon’s combat sounds When Eric and I started discussi..."
• 01:0701:07, 27 January 2018 diff hist +8,221 N Elder Game: Pre-Alpha Update: Tech notes, update notes, ramblings Created page with "Tech: Holding Up Well! The pre-alpha is going well. We’re averaging about 3 people online at a time, which doesn’t sound like a lot, but given that it’s a limited-acces..."
• 01:0601:06, 27 January 2018 diff hist +3,310 N Elder Game: Kickstarter: The Missing FAQ Created page with "(Figured I’d write this up while it was still fresh in my head…) If you’re doing a Kickstarter project, you’re going to run into weird issues, and none of them are go..."
• 01:0501:05, 27 January 2018 diff hist +5,544 N Elder Game: Gorgon Chat Logs, pt 1 Created page with "[You would not believe how much I've been sleeping this week. I'm still officially on vacation until next week, when I have to catch up on all the stuff that's been delayed a..."
• 01:0401:04, 27 January 2018 diff hist +5,671 N Elder Game: Gorgon Chat Logs, pt 2, and Status Update Created page with "Player 1> is there any way to link items in chat? Player 2> not yet... and i dont know if the unity engine is able to do that It surprised me how often this idea came up —..."
• 01:0301:03, 27 January 2018 diff hist +2,973 N Elder Game: Prealpha 3′s Death Penalties Created page with "As I mentioned earlier, I want to experiment with variable death penalties, where players can choose how punitive they want it to be. This lets players who want a “scarier..."
• 01:0201:02, 27 January 2018 diff hist +3,935 N Elder Game: Death Penalties, Quick Follow-up Created page with "Thanks for all the death-penalty feedback from the last post! I’ve decided to heed a couple of suggestions: : -I’m removing the XP rewards, so now there’s no tangible b..."
• 01:0201:02, 27 January 2018 diff hist +10,645 N Elder Game: Taunting, Mentalism, and Variety Created page with "Still working on what I’ve been working on… lots of stumbling blocks this week that made me glad I’m bald so I don’t pull out my hair in frustration. But these things..."
• 01:0101:01, 27 January 2018 diff hist +5,465 N Elder Game: AC2 First Impressions Created page with "I spent a fair number of hours in the beta of Asheron’s Call 2 tonight, and here are my initial thoughts (both good and bad): : -The world graphics have held up very well...."