I wish I could write assembler-like programs to kill others.

... Other programs, you mean? Never mind.

a thursday next FPS

or, actually

a thursday next FFPS...

that would be one of the funniest things i've ever seen...


Thursday Next: The Eyre Affair
"Become Thursday in her quest to save Jane Eyre, shooting and gunning down innocent people on your way through 8 intense levels. Experience it for real. Rated M for Mature (gratuitous sex and extreme violence). Only for GoliathBox360."

That sounds horribly plausible...

good! i achieved my goal!

seriously though... it would be so funny, i want to make it myself...

3D is hard though... i might be able to do a lame 2D rendition though...

I'd definitely play it.

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'Who looks after the animals?'

A voice from the ancients here.

I remember many a well lubricated hour at the Mucky Duck in Tudor Street and other places of cultural enlightenment playing the ping pong game. (You know, where the paddles move only at right angles to the screen top and bottom and the shuttle goes back and forwards eliminating any bricks it hits and you have to stop it hitting the base board or else you've LOST!!!!!!!. Or have I merged two such ancient games? Anyway, they came in a massive range of colours green and white or blue/black and white. Cost 20 new p a game. It was that and getting the record player in the pub to play "Tell Laura I Love Her' over and over again.

Ah, happy days.

Certainly sounds like a mixture of Pong and Breakout, although a two player version of Breakout could look something like you describe.

Bunyip: I think I know what you mean...

There was one block that moved like the ball in pong. Then you had to rebound it to stop the ones coming down, a la Space Invaders. It was fun.

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'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

sic

I have a crazy addiction to bejeweled. It is chronic, and unexplainable.

I tend not to like games that are a) timed, and b) just keep coming, with no clear end in sight (even if it's way distant). I do enjoy minesweeper (I ignore the timing), paint-by-numbers, and other puzzles like those.

I think my first game was definitely duck hunt or the original Tetris. Or actually, just maybe, it was a track game, where you plugged a pad that looked kind of like a Twister pad into the Nintendo. Then you had to run in place on top of it, and jump for the hurdles and things like that. It was fun.

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You kids with your long hair and Baroque music...

Bejeweled 2 Delux. Even more addictive than the original.

My roommate and I actually just finished a game that was very creepy, but the format is more of what I could see a Thursday Next/Nursery Crime game using. I know it was released in many different countries, but in the U.S. it was called "Evidence 2, the last ritual" (I think the first game in this series was called "In Memoriam" in the U.K. and "Missing" in the U.S.). The game itself was supposed to be a diskette that the FBI had sent out to try and let the public decode (think Zodiac killer situation). It was about trying to catch a serial killer, but using the internet to do research and figure out clues. The game company had set up lots of websites that would give you the information, but it was buried in sites that looked like legitimate, ordinary websites.

Now, take the fact that the puzzles were freaking creepy out of the picture and add in researching books instead of the Knights Templar, and you get a game that would fit Thursday better than a FPS, at least to my mind. The storylines would be rather different, but the format is what I would see fitting Jasper Fforde's books.

Hmmm.... Sounds like fun....

I messed around a bit with Beneath a Steel Sky (is available for Ubuntu ( ;) )) and that is pretty cool.

One awesome simile: [The steam press] is wheezing and banging like an asthmatic dinosaur in the mating season.

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'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

Tari, that gane sounds like how the .HACK games SHOULD have been done! Good find!

It's good for those of us who like looking up random stuff on the internet. :)

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You kids with your long hair and Baroque music...

ie: who use the internet.

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'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

yeah, well, I do occasionally pretend that the internet is good for something other than distracting me from homework.

look, a link!

[www.inmemoriam-thegame.com]

This is the website for the first game, In Memoriam, or Missing: Since January

I haven't seen this whole website, it might not be work or children appropriate, but if you click on "the phoenix" on the left side of the screen, and then on "enter the phoenix's lair" (cheesy, I know) and then enter at the bottom of the screen, you'll see a little of what the game interface was like. Yeah, it doesn't really give you much except little snippets from in Memoriam, but you can get an idea. The game's all about atmosphere, I really liked it. Well, I really liked it right up until the end, but I shan't spoil anything if anyone's rushing off to buy it.