Any of you guys ever found the Development Hell level? Just a fun little easter egg I stumbled onto the other day.
As a conversation starter then, what are the best easter eggs you can think of? Did you find them yourself or did you use a guide?
Any of you guys ever found the Development Hell level? Just a fun little easter egg I stumbled onto the other day.
As a conversation starter then, what are the best easter eggs you can think of? Did you find them yourself or did you use a guide?
The Legend of Zelda Link to the Past I found an easter egg. Well or a bug, I don't know. I was able to do it a few times and my cousin was able to do it on his system as well.
What you did was go through the game normal and get the sword tempered. Then save the game and quit and start a new game. Go up in the rain to the left and talk to the guards blocking the exit. They will reveal mostly all the text that everyone says in the game. They will just keep feeding it to you, its kind of neat. Didn't know if that was an easter egg or a bug. Either way, it was awesome.
Tungsten Post Author
wrote on 07/30/2012 at 06:17am
It's random, but apparently it shows up more often in the higher difficulties. I found this in nightmare. BTW: that is not my screenshot. I tried to take some, but was unable to recover them.
Tungsten Post Author
wrote on 07/30/2012 at 01:52pm
You know when you are looking for the royal crypts? If you ever see four doors open instead of three, one of them is "Development Hell". It's really just a normal crypt but all the zombies have the names and titles of the real people that worked on the game and the Lead Designer is an Elite.
Tungsten Post Author
wrote on 07/30/2012 at 01:54pm
Were you ever able to get into the secret room in link to the past that was made for the contest? Know what I'm talking about? It's named after the kid who won the contest and you have to do some ridiculous dash to get into it. (I never was able to pull it off, so I'm no help there."
I was able to get to the secret room in Link to the Past as well. There wasn't really anything in there but some rupees, but it was a cool easter egg. Here's some other fun easter eggs: In Mega Man X you can learn Ryu/Ken's hadoken. :) In Fallout 3 you can find a vault 77 jumpsuit, which is a reference to the Penny Arcade comic about the Puppet Man. In Dungeon Siege there is a secret chicken level, which is a spoof of Diablo's cow level. In Chrono Trigger and Chrono Cross, if you beat the final boss immediately after starting a new game + you get the developers ending, where you can talk to NPC's based on the developers.
One of the games I worked on Dr. Muto had several easter eggs/secret characters. I.e. the artists had fun modelling each other, the programmers, and other fun stuff. (here's a somewhat complete list I quickly found http://www.neoseeker.com/Games/cheats/PS2/dr_muto.html although I'm pretty sure we also had MADDOG which was the initial lead programmer)
Usually there's lots of extra bits we throw into a game, but most get yanked out before shipping as they aren't appropriate to the age level of the game (another game I worked on Looney Tunes Racing had some really funny carts making fun of me that the artists created, but they were definitely not appropriate for the games rating... so they didn't ship with the game)
This morning I read a really interesting article about the rise and fall of Curt Shillings 38 studios. A few things I learned from the Article:
1. 38 Studios bought Big Huge Games. Big Huge Games created Rise of Nations and Kingdom of Amalur. 2. The studio got a loan of about 50 million dollars from Rhode Island government by moving headquarters.
I wonder if this means the state of Rhode Island owns Rise of Nations, Kingdoms of Alamlur and the other 38 studios IP?
1. 38 Studios bought Big Huge Games. Big Huge Games created Rise of Nations and Kingdom of Amalur. 2. The studio got a loan of about 50 million dollars from Rhode Island government by moving headquarters.
I wonder if this means the state of Rhode Island owns Rise of Nations, Kingdoms of Alamlur and the other 38 studios IP?
The Stash Is Persistent Customize Your Character (shown in image above) Beautiful Aurora Borealis in Pandora's Frozen Tundra (I enjoy awesome environments that immerse you in the game.
Some people felt the enemies in Borderlands were easy so 2K made them much more difficult. A recent article on Joystiq draws a picture of how much harder they can be.
Snip:
"New baddies include Threshers and Foreman's personal favorite, the Goliath. Goliath is a monstrous enemy with the singular focus to kill you.... Read All
Recently read a cool article on Mashable about 10 awesome additions to Borderlands 2.
The Stash Is Persistent Customize Your Character (shown in image above) Beautiful Aurora Borealis in Pandora's Frozen Tundra (I enjoy awesome environments that immerse you in the game.
Some people felt the enemies in Borderlands were easy so 2K made them much more difficult. A recent article on Joystiq draws a picture of how much harder they can be.
Snip:
"New baddies include Threshers and Foreman's personal favorite, the Goliath. Goliath is a monstrous enemy with the singular focus to kill you. Literally – all Goliath variants wear helmets that give them tunnel-vision to destroy whatever is in front of them. Shooting its helmet off will send a Goliath into a blind rage, and it will punch the nearest character, even taking down another Goliath, a Marauder, a teammate, your grandmother, whatever"
Sick. No literally, sick, the picture of the Goliath is kind of sad and disgusting. A robot head and human body? Wow.
I'm going to be getting this on PS3 as well. Can't wait to adventure on Pandora again! Although I still need to go back and finish the last two expansions for the first Borderlands :P
jdodson Admin Post Author
wrote on 07/31/2012 at 03:44am
I need to beat any expansion, just never had the time. Can't play it now as my friend is borrowing it. That said, ill prob go back and play them some day.
The server will be open for business starting today(6/27/2012) at 8PM PST at the following location:
terraria.cheerfulghost.com port 7777
I decided there will be a game password, so hit me up in the comments or on Steam for it. I want to limit it to our direct friends to protect against any kind of griefing. Understand I want anyone that wants to to be able to play, so just hit me up or anyone else playing for the password and you can get it.
See you at 8! Oh and the image above is the starting newb zone. I wanted to welcome people to the game and I won't spoil whats on the signs on in the chest!
Hey.
The server will be open for business starting today(6/27/2012) at 8PM PST at the following location:
terraria.cheerfulghost.com port 7777
I decided there will be a game password, so hit me up in the comments or on Steam for it. I want to limit it to our direct friends to protect against any kind of griefing. Understand I want anyone that wants to to be able to play, so just hit me up or anyone else playing for the password and you can get it.
See you at 8! Oh and the image above is the starting newb zone. I wanted to welcome people to the game and I won't spoil whats on the signs on in the chest!
The wonderful people behind the Humble Bundles are doing something different this time-- Music!
A few of the albums are video game related, some directly, some tangentially. All albums are available in MP3 or FLAC, DRM-free.
I wonder what their next foray into electronic media for charity will be. Movies?
The wonderful people behind the Humble Bundles are doing something different this time-- Music!
A few of the albums are video game related, some directly, some tangentially. All albums are available in MP3 or FLAC, DRM-free.
I wonder what their next foray into electronic media for charity will be. Movies?
Yeah its an eclectic mix for sure. I think id rather just video game scores honestly. Not so say I don't like Rock and stuff, just wasn't a fan of what I heard.
This is an incredibly interesting resource. Their tagline is "Explore the art, philosophy, politics, and psychology of video games with some of the medium's most influential designers and visionaries."
http://www.criticalpathproject.com/
This is an incredibly interesting resource. Their tagline is "Explore the art, philosophy, politics, and psychology of video games with some of the medium's most influential designers and visionaries."
Join The Cheerful Ghost Terraria Game Starting this Thursday!
To celebrate this retro Tuesday, WhiteboySlim and I had an idea. Lets run a Cheerful Ghost Terraria server for two weeks and kick it all off this Thursday @ 8pm PST. If you are a Terraria newb or long time player, feel free to join us. Ill be in game explaining the ropes to new people as I build my house and start a mine. If you have any questions, feel free to ask them in the comments.
The Main Details:
When: Cheerful Ghost Terraria starting this July 26th @ 8PM PST
Where: The game will be accessible @ terraria.cheerfulghost.com port 7777.
How long? This server will last two weeks. This is to see how it went... Read AllJoin The Cheerful Ghost Terraria Game Starting this Thursday!
To celebrate this retro Tuesday, WhiteboySlim and I had an idea. Lets run a Cheerful Ghost Terraria server for two weeks and kick it all off this Thursday @ 8pm PST. If you are a Terraria newb or long time player, feel free to join us. Ill be in game explaining the ropes to new people as I build my house and start a mine. If you have any questions, feel free to ask them in the comments.
The Main Details:
When: Cheerful Ghost Terraria starting this July 26th @ 8PM PST
Where: The game will be accessible @ terraria.cheerfulghost.com port 7777.
How long? This server will last two weeks. This is to see how it went and discussion will be had to continue it or reset for a new world
Oh and there will be a password. More on that later...
The Rules:
1. Be cool. I will be running a mod to disable most griefing and banning folk that are not cool. 2. Checking out peoples houses is fine, just leave it as you found it. 3. When you build your house, attempt to build around people and don't box them in. Build close to your friends, just allow them to either build upward or out. 4. Have fun!
I hope people find time to connect to the server and check things out and build with people on the site. This is the first time we have done a community game and I hope it goes well!
As you can probably guess since it was partly my idea, I will be there Thursday night. :) If we get a couple people on I say we try spawning a boss and see if we can take it down.
jdodson Admin Post Author
wrote on 07/25/2012 at 05:36am
Bosses don't destroy structures as far as I know. Plus I'm pretty sure we can control where they spawn so we can spawn it somewhere away from the starting zone. So far the only boss I fought was the Eye of Cthulhu.
jdodson Admin Post Author
wrote on 07/25/2012 at 05:51pm
From all I read last night you can control the spawn of bosses unless you burrow to the wall of flesh. That guy is just underground somewhere.
The wall of flesh has a spawn condition too. You have to throw a guide voodoo doll in lava to make it spawn. The only boss I have spawned by accident is also the only boss I've fought, lol. The Eye of Cthulhu spawns when you reach a certain amount of health, but once you defeat him he won't spawn again until you use an item to spawn him.
jdodson Admin Post Author
wrote on 07/26/2012 at 12:29am
I played with Jon for about an hour last night, that was my first time really playing it, and so far I'm up to about 3 hours total and I am *so* hooked.
jdodson Admin Post Author
wrote on 07/26/2012 at 04:01am
Yep, it really is. Blew me away how kick ass it is.
Will be fun starting the server tomorrow for the next few weeks!
Now that Diablo 3 has been out a little while I wanted to post a few thoughts I have about the game after beating it a few times. First off, its great and if you can get it I recommend you do as it did not disappoint. That said I did figure I would be playing it much longer than I did. I can't pen why I thought Diablo 3 would be all the game I needed for the rest of the year, but I did. I figured the replayability would be so high that I wouldn't put it down for 6 months. Thing is, that was me for a few weeks but after that my play time waned and I don't play it all too often anymore. I imagine ill poke around in it and occasionally put in more time but it started and... Read All
Now that Diablo 3 has been out a little while I wanted to post a few thoughts I have about the game after beating it a few times. First off, its great and if you can get it I recommend you do as it did not disappoint. That said I did figure I would be playing it much longer than I did. I can't pen why I thought Diablo 3 would be all the game I needed for the rest of the year, but I did. I figured the replayability would be so high that I wouldn't put it down for 6 months. Thing is, that was me for a few weeks but after that my play time waned and I don't play it all too often anymore. I imagine ill poke around in it and occasionally put in more time but it started and stopped like any other game ive played. I may have played it less than Borderlands come to think of it.
Recently Blizzards President took to the forums to address a few issues, some I had some I didn't. Interesting read for sure:
All that to say, Diablo 3 was a great game, I beat it and I am a bit disappointed because I thought I would play it more than I did. In the end, playing it again a little bit harder than before wasn't as much fun as I thought it would be.
I never got disappointed with it until I stopped playing it for the Steam sale. Now, I can't really imagine wanting to play it. Diablo 2 was definitely a pick-up and put-down game, though. I imagine I'll be back to Sanctuary many times until D4 is released.
jdodson Admin Post Author
wrote on 07/24/2012 at 02:19pm
I think I was starting to get weary of it when I started my second character class. Good game, I just Imagine I'll play Skyrim more. Maybe even Terraria.
I agree, once I started working through Hell mode (and I upgraded the craftsmen until I couldn't as there is yet another resource for them that is blocking until Inferno mode -- which happened before I got to the skeleton king... same as happened in nightmare mode), it just started to feel like work and not "fun" so I played less. Now it just doesn't seem fun enough to pick back up.
Maybe I'll feel differently after a few patches, or a few months have gone by.
jdodson Admin Post Author
wrote on 07/24/2012 at 07:22pm
I agree. I am going to keep checking it out and playing it here and there over time.
The lag monster (okay, I probably would have died even without the lag) killed a level 37 two days ago. I mourned for about 3 hours and then rolled a new Demon Hunter.
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A great tower defense game for Android. Pretty basic and easy to pick up, but addictive! Each level there's 100 waves of enemies you need to keep from crossing to the other side. The basic map is pictured here, with enemies crossing from left to right, but there are other levels with enemies crossing from both directions, and multiple access points.
Your defenses consist of 3 basic towers. Guns, rockets and slowers. As you kill enemies, you gain money which can be used to build more towers, or upgrade existing towers. Some can specialize to focus on heavy anit-ground or heavy anti-air defenses.
The first few levels are quite beatable, but there are achievements you can... Read All
A great tower defense game for Android. Pretty basic and easy to pick up, but addictive! Each level there's 100 waves of enemies you need to keep from crossing to the other side. The basic map is pictured here, with enemies crossing from left to right, but there are other levels with enemies crossing from both directions, and multiple access points.
Your defenses consist of 3 basic towers. Guns, rockets and slowers. As you kill enemies, you gain money which can be used to build more towers, or upgrade existing towers. Some can specialize to focus on heavy anit-ground or heavy anti-air defenses.
The first few levels are quite beatable, but there are achievements you can earn for beating levels and meeting certain objectives. Quite fun :)
Hmmm. Well at least well have Angry Birds in common?
beansmyname Supporter
wrote on 12/29/2012 at 01:11am
This was the first game I bought for Android and it's survived while other games got uninstalled as soon as they were installed. Solid tower defense, few frills and no filler.
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Some cool easter eggs I found recently were the ones in Rage. I saw videos online and sort of figured out the rest.
http://cheerfulghost.com/jdodson/posts/183
The Legend of Zelda Link to the Past I found an easter egg. Well or a bug, I don't know. I was able to do it a few times and my cousin was able to do it on his system as well.
What you did was go through the game normal and get the sword tempered. Then save the game and quit and start a new game. Go up in the rain to the left and talk to the guards blocking the exit. They will reveal mostly all the text that everyone says in the game. They will just keep feeding it to you, its kind of neat. Didn't know if that was an easter egg or a bug. Either way, it was awesome.
Oh and is development hell in hell mode?
It's random, but apparently it shows up more often in the higher difficulties. I found this in nightmare.
BTW: that is not my screenshot. I tried to take some, but was unable to recover them.
You know when you are looking for the royal crypts? If you ever see four doors open instead of three, one of them is "Development Hell". It's really just a normal crypt but all the zombies have the names and titles of the real people that worked on the game and the Lead Designer is an Elite.
Were you ever able to get into the secret room in link to the past that was made for the contest? Know what I'm talking about? It's named after the kid who won the contest and you have to do some ridiculous dash to get into it. (I never was able to pull it off, so I'm no help there."
I did find that one, yeah. I think I read about it in Nintendo Power back in the day and eventually pulled it off.
I was able to get to the secret room in Link to the Past as well. There wasn't really anything in there but some rupees, but it was a cool easter egg. Here's some other fun easter eggs:
In Mega Man X you can learn Ryu/Ken's hadoken. :)
In Fallout 3 you can find a vault 77 jumpsuit, which is a reference to the Penny Arcade comic about the Puppet Man.
In Dungeon Siege there is a secret chicken level, which is a spoof of Diablo's cow level.
In Chrono Trigger and Chrono Cross, if you beat the final boss immediately after starting a new game + you get the developers ending, where you can talk to NPC's based on the developers.
Chicken level in Dungeon Siege? Awesome, have to check that out.
I did the Megaman Haduken thing. That was fun. What about Max (of Sam and Max) in Star Wars Jedi... damn what was that called? Forgot it.
One of the games I worked on Dr. Muto had several easter eggs/secret characters. I.e. the artists had fun modelling each other, the programmers, and other fun stuff. (here's a somewhat complete list I quickly found http://www.neoseeker.com/Games/cheats/PS2/dr_muto.html although I'm pretty sure we also had MADDOG which was the initial lead programmer)
Usually there's lots of extra bits we throw into a game, but most get yanked out before shipping as they aren't appropriate to the age level of the game (another game I worked on Looney Tunes Racing had some really funny carts making fun of me that the artists created, but they were definitely not appropriate for the games rating... so they didn't ship with the game)
Ha, thats awesome.