jdodson1

Joined 01/23/2012
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I'm an Engineer and built the video game community Cheerful Ghost and text based mini-MMO Tale of the White Wyvern.

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Cheerful Ghost Is Three Years Old
http://i.imgur.com/hDklG.png
Three years of Cheerful Ghost? Yep.

I want to thank everyone for taking part in the site by reading it regularly, commenting, posting or allowing me to publish your game(looking at you Wick). Not only did we publish Starship Rubicon but, for me, the site really clicked as a place that I come to talk about video games with friends.

Raising my glass to another year!

If you haven't already, check out Starship Rubicon below and also make sure to vote for it on Steam Greenlight.

www.starshiprubicon.com
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=331311253

The Making of Grim Fandango Remastered
Grim Fandango Remastered dropped a few days ago and according to the reviews i've been reading, if you loved the original you will love this. This morning I found a comprehensive article about resurrecting this classic on Polygon. If you are interested in reading the story of how Double Fine and Sony were able to bring Grim Fandango back, it is well worth the read. Spoiler alert, it involved several old tape machines.

http://www.polygon.com/2015/1/27/7921837/grim-fandango-remastered-interview-double-fine-disney-lucasfilm-sony

Double Fine also has three documentaries part one is linked above, you can watch the remaining two on the Grim Fandago website.

http://grimremastered.com/#docs

Grim Fandango is a beloved cult classic of PC gaming and as such the remaster has been getting lots of attention. You can pick up Grim Fandango Remastered on the Vita, PS4, PC, Mac and Linux.

Brutal Doom v20 Looks Incredible, Coming Soon
Doom 4 was teased last year at Quakecon and since then there has been a ton of silence from iD on when it will be coming. We've been waiting for the next chapter of Doom for quite some time and if your tired of waiting, the upcoming update to Brutal Doom might hold you over. Adding the pump action shotgun as well as enhanced blood effects, Brutal Doom looks great. The mod creator has been testing it with Free Doom(an Open Source recreation of the Doom assets) so getting it running should be easy.

http://www.moddb.com/mods/brutal-doom

Star Mazer Mixes Up Some Interesting Elements
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Star Mazer is a game new to Kickstarter that mixes up elements from Gradius, Space Ace & Maniac Mansion to create a really interesting looking game. They are looking to raise $160k and have a bit over $60k of that so if you are interested in seeing this happen, now wouldn't be a bad time to Kickstart it.

Games like this live and die on the story and tone and Star Mazer seems to have that in spades. The game will launch when it's done and the developers plan to have it out on PC, Mac and Linux as well as other platforms, funding depending.

"Starr Mazer is more than a collection of Point-and-Click segments, Shoot 'em up (SHMUP) segments and cut-scenes. The world is seamless. You’ll walk into the Holloway-Exeter docking bay, board the Starr Wolf and control the flight sequence, blasting off to space. You’ll be bargaining deals at the bar in order to afford repairs and upgrades to your Starr Wolf and using information gleaned from characters to find hidden routes while flying between destinations. Be careful which passing enemies you attack, as not all are foes, and a few could have dire consequences. Even while facing the charging death beam of a G'ell cannon, use your charisma to dodge bullets."

JP LeBreton & John Romero Talk about And Play Doom
Spacebase creator JP LeBreton and John Romero play through Doom “Knee Deep in the Dead,” in its entirety. It's fun to watch John play through the game and talk about it as he was so instrumental in creating it.

Now can we get a Myamoto playing through the original Legend of Zelda video series?

Children of Morta Is A Beautiful Pixel Art Roguelike
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"Children of Morta is a story-driven hack ‘n slash game incorporating the elements of the roguelike genre, where you will go on an adventure with the guardian family of Bergsons.

The family have lived on the outskirts of Mount Morta, guarding it for many generations. As a tragic event in Morta corrupts the roots of life deep in the mountain, all the creatures turn into furious, mindless monsters. Now the land’s only hope is for the Bergsons to find the seeds of life and use them to cleanse the corruption.

The game has a unique art style blending the old-school 2D pixel art aesthetics with a few modern lighting and rendering techniques, bringing to life a world of fantasy and mystery."

Children of Morta is a fantastic looking pixel art roguelike that should be on everyones radar. Dead Mage looks to have hit a home run here and I can't wait to play it. Like many awesome Indie titles, Children of Morta will ship when it's finished on PC, Mac and Linux.

Cheerful Ghost Roundtable: S3 E1 - The Newest Season Ever
We are back with the Cheerful Ghost Roundtable Season 3. We talk a bit about what we've been playing over the holidays like Shadows of Mordor, Destiny, Risk of Rain, Pokemon & Super Mario Brothers.

During the Roundtable I mentioned beta testing Half-life 3 for Valve and as I was talking script drew something that reflected what I was playing.

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-pWGPLx7kKj0/VMBhnWwMWwI/AAAAAAAAATw/H3R7igzOGI8/w395-h526-no/hl3.jpg

We also dig into what we are looking forward to with gaming in 2015 and more!

Fallout VS Skyrim - Which Main Character Would Win?
New video from YouTuber Andrewfilms that pits the main character of Skyrim VS Fallout 3. Interesting matchup and fun to watch. I kind of think the Fallout 3 character would win, but FusRohDah is pretty powerful.

WHO WON? YOU DECIDE!

Monetizing Your Starship Rubicon Let's Play Videos
Starship Rubicon is a challenging game and as such is fun to watch people play. A big part of modern gaming are Let’s Plays and Twitch streams and many people do that professionally. Wick and I believe that Starship Rubicon is a part of that and as such want you to create tons of Starship Rubicon videos and put ads on them. With that, videos are not the only thing that you can create on the web so feel free to create blog posts, walkthroughs and guides as well.

Have fun and if you make anything interesting make sure to share it with us.

Heed The Magic Mollusk And Illuminate The Dark World!
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Moonman is a really great looking new Terraria-esque procedurally-generated adventure game that looks too good not to share. They are on Kickstarter right now looking to raise 35K and if you want to get in on it, you should!

"In a strange, nocturnal world a moonman is summoned by an ancient mollusc. It sends him to the seven farthest corners of the land to search for fallen moon fragments -- that will power a great star-machine.

Explore a strange and vibrant world, harvest resources from the environment, craft and trade items, and have odd encounters. Each new game generates a unique world to explore.

You play as a happy green moonman whose quest is to search for fragments of moons that are scattered around the world. The fragments may have been hidden in caves or tombs, ingested by large creatures, or hoarded by agoraphobic hermits. The game features:"

Moonman has been in development for over 2 years and you can read about it's progress thus far on TIGSource. The developers of Moonman are aiming for a mid 2015 release on PC and then later port it to Mac and Linux.

http://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=21997.0