Recent content by warpenguin

The trailer was great but what was with Maelstrom?s bad eye switching from his right to his left. Did that always happen? Now I have to check the other episodes.

C++ is the industry standard programming language but it is very difficult to learn without a class or someone helping you out. C# would be the most logical runner up. Its a managed language that barrows from C++ and java and you can download XNA to create games while you learn the language...

Music is a very effective way to introduce emotion in media. But there is a huge difference between movies and videogames that make music a difficult tool to use effectively. In a movie the director is in complete control of the action and that means he/she can anticipate the correct mood and...

Having fame can have its problems, but so can wealth. I really believe that conflict drives our existence. For most people the conflict is making enough money to survive. Take that away and you need to find conflict in other things. Why dont we mention power? You dont necessarily need to be...

This is a very good point. I would also add that you should start thinking of this game as a hobby. Chose an army that you think looks cool. One of the biggest complaints I had about playing the Eldar was that they all look the same. Because they wear helmets its very difficult to customize the...

War Hammer 40k can be very fun to play in the beginning. I played an elder army, but when people started learning that I win way more then I loose my friends would play some army that I have never heard of. Then they would pull out some obscure rule from some magazine that gave them a huge...

With all the jobs roamin did I wonder when he will level up. Well I guess roamin the rank 12 paladin doesnt sound as catchy.

What is the point of this topic? Is it to point out that politicians are corrupt? I would agree that there are times in anyones life where we did what was best for ourselves without thinking about others. Politicians are human and many have made some questionable choices. Who here hasnt done...

This sounds like a glorified lie detector. Some of the applications the researcher was considering sounds interesting. Letting disabled people communicate sounds nice. I wonder if it could work with comatose patients.

I had to finally create an account for this topic. You should check out filament games http://www.filamentgames.com/ .They are a gaming company that specializes in educational games. They did a talk at our IGDA meeting and it was recorded...