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Starbound Beta Drops in 2 Days: Your Starting Survival Guide

The Starbound Beta drops in 2 days and like many of you, I am very excited. A few Let's Players have received early beta access and have posted up several videos and I want to break down a few things that will help you out through the first missions of Starbound.

First thing you will do is get your first quest and collect your starting items from your ship chest. You start with a sword, flashlight, 10 torches, matter manipulator and some seeds. After you land you will want to chop down some trees and get some cobblestone with the matter manipulator. The matter manipulator is a cool tool that basically can chop down trees & dig up stuff except it does is very slowly... Read All

Paradise Lost Is Now Funded And Looks Incredible

Paradise Lost: First Contact was successfully funded at double its original goal. It sailed through a few stretch goals to get achievements, language translations and a secret chapter 1. It was a few thousand short of hitting the graphic improvements goal but to be fair, I love the games graphics as they are.

The above video shows off how you can complete the same area using different strategies and after watching it am more excited about it coming out. Paradise Lost: First Contact will release December 2014 on Linux, Mac & Windows.

Prison Architect: Alpha 15: Mod Support, Staff Rooms & Speed

"It’s been two months since alpha 14, with Chris taking time out to have a baby. Whilst he’s been away the rest of the Introversion team have stepped up to provide a series of awesome updates to the game.

Gary has extended the staff simulation so that all staff now become tired as they work. After a while you’ll see their nameplate showing “tired” or “exhausted”, and they’ll be forced to stop work and rest. He’s added a Staff Room to the game, along with some sofas and drinks machines, which you should add to your prisons somewhere appropriate. Staff will recover faster and will feel more rested for longer if they have a staff room to go to.

And then there’s a bit of a... Read All

Contra History & Top 5 Games

RetroLiberty posted a great video covering history of the classic NES game Contra and the top games in the series. Contra is a very tough game, but I never viewed it as on of the hardest games on the NES. Ninja Turtles, Blaster Master and Little Nemo were all _much_ harder than Contra.

That said, the game was difficult and ... you know maybe I did play each and every game starting with the Konami code. No regrets, had fun.

Happy Thanksgiving

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I want to wish you a Happy Thanksgiving(if you celebrate it) and wish you a very video game playing holiday. And, if you are lucky enough to be, what games you will be playing?

Super Turbo Turkey Puncher 3 does count!

Dropsy: Live The Life Of a Misunderstood Clown

Back this on Kickstarter!

"Dropsy is a clown. A very, um, not nice looking clown. I think I love him. He has a puppy and he draws his own, poorly painted face on everything – including said loyal canine companion. TV and my nightmares tell me that ours is a world full of sad clowns just trying to get by/devour my heart with crooked, yellow teeth, but Dropsy is an irrepressibly joyful clown in a sad situation. His family’s circus has been burnt to the ground, and he’s gone from local, animal-whispering hero to scrap-collecting outcast. His game, then, is a point-and-click adventure that wields sorrow in one hand and gut-busting humor in another, with a fascinating open-world structure gluing... Read All

Starbound Beta Will Drop Dec 4th

I have been eagerly anticipating the Starbound Beta for quite some time and it looks like we got some word on when the beta will drop from Tiy.

"Starbound beta release is looking to be around dec 4th. Assuming arrangements go through with steam."

I created a Cheerful Ghost event for this, so join it if you want to add it to your calendar and chat about it!

http://cheerfulghost.com/jdodson/events/45
https://twitter.com/Tiyuri/status/405292961044234240

Interview -w Seth Able Robinson Creator of LORD & Growtopia!

If I were to create a list of my top video games of all time, Legend of the Red Dragon would be on the list. Legend of the Red Dragon is a DOS based BBS Door Game that dominated the scene back in the 90's. If you had a BBS and didn't run LORD, it wasn't a BBS worth spending time on. Legend of the Red Dragon was edgy, dark, fantastical and irreverent. Plus it was a hell of a lot of fun. Seth Able Robinson is the creator of Legend of the Red Dragon as well as other BBS classics such as Planets: The Exploration of Space & LORD 2. Not to have his best work end in the 90's, Seth has gone on to create Dink Smallwood, Dungeon Scroll, Funeral Quest, Tanked &... Read All

AdamPFarnsworth wrote on 11/26/2013 at 04:41am

This might be the best interview you've done! Mostly because Seth seems like a really cool, down to earth, funny, brilliant guy. I think I might have a slight crush on him.

I loved LORD back in the day, and need to go try Growtopia it sounds like!

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 11/26/2013 at 07:01pm

I think this is one of the coolest interviews i've done and yeah, it helps when the person on the other end is awesome :D

RovSpy wrote on 11/28/2013 at 11:12am

This interview is liquid amazing. I liked how I could learn a little more of Seth's background in gaming life, and of the games I've only played around once... except Growtopia, I play that a lot...

Looking further to see more interviews with Seth!

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 11/28/2013 at 07:46pm

We do interviews with all manner of folk in gaming.

http://cheerfulghost.com/interviews

That said, Seth was exceptionally notable. Maybe in a bit I will do a follow up interview.

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 09/01/2014 at 04:56am

Hey Abi, Seth won't see your comments on the thread. Your have to contact him through the normal Growtopia channels.

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 09/01/2014 at 02:43pm

Check the Growtopia website? I am not really sure.

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What is Mew-Genics?

Since Team Meat announced they were working on Mew-Genics many people have wondered what kind of game it will be. Some kind of cat breeding simulator is a good start, but not many details have surfaced. Over the weekend Edmund McMillen has loosed a few more bits of Mew-Genics .. WITH PICTURES!

I seriously recommend you check it out by clicking the link below.

http://mewgenics.com/147/Its_Caturday_again_/#b

"as the weeks inch closer to our release, sometime next year ill be dropping in little tidbits of info, filling in all the rest of the gaps and maybe even posting some gameplay!
all in all mewgenics is currently the biggest project Tommy and I have ever worked on, and... Read All

More Information Surfaces about Steam Home Streaming

Valve keeps the firehose of rad directly aimed at all our collective faces as they drop even more details about the new Steam in Home Streaming. Serving up the details in a handy Q&A format, the company Gaben built proves that they can keep things accessible yet informative without falling back to using spreadsheets.

"Q: Is this like other game streaming services I've heard about?
A: No, you are in complete control over the hardware on both ends and the network between them. There is no data center, no subscription, and it's completely free!

Q: Can someone use my computer while I’m streaming a game from it?
A: No, your computer is dedicated to running the game and... Read All