Have you wanted more adventure after Shovel Knight: Shovel of Hope, Plague of Shadows, Specter of Torment and the unreleased King of Cards campaign? If you did, you're in luck because an all new Shovel Knight game was recently teased called Shovel Knight Dig! It looks to blend some infinite dungeons rogue level mechanics with the first-rate platforming of Shovel Knight. Shovel Knight Dig is being developed by Nitrome with help by Yacht Club Games and Dig features a very familiar yet fresh new take on the Shovel Knight pixel art style.
No word on the launch date or platforms but 2020 seems likely but when I know more i'll drop the word here.
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Have you wanted more adventure after Shovel Knight: Shovel of Hope, Plague of Shadows, Specter of Torment and the unreleased King of Cards campaign? If you did, you're in luck because an all new Shovel Knight game was recently teased called Shovel Knight Dig! It looks to blend some infinite dungeons rogue level mechanics with the first-rate platforming of Shovel Knight. Shovel Knight Dig is being developed by Nitrome with help by Yacht Club Games and Dig features a very familiar yet fresh new take on the Shovel Knight pixel art style.
No word on the launch date or platforms but 2020 seems likely but when I know more i'll drop the word here.
*An all-new presentation featuring a new Shovel Knight story! When Drill Knight and his dastardly digging crew blast apart Shovel Knightâs peaceful campsite and steal his loot, he grabs his trusty Shovel Blade and starts tunneling after them! * The first Shovel Knight adventure in glorious high color pixel graphics and sound. Fluid animation, scaling, rotation, and parallax create the most convincing Shovel Knight world yet! * Every adventure is different! Shovel Knight Dig levels have been meticulously crafted, then stitched together using proprietary generation techniques for infinite replayability. * Jump, slash, and dig your way in an all-new direction â down! Rely on your trusty Shovel Drop, then dig through huge swaths of dirt with all-new Speed Shovel mechanics. * Grow in power and wealth as you descend into the depths of the earth. Emerge with untold riches to outfit Shovel Knight further, unlocking permanent items and upgrades to your adventuring equipment. * New Knights, new characters, and new enemies abound, but fear not! Shovel Knight Dig features Shovel Knightâs signature storytelling, humor, and maybe even some familiar faces.. * Another pulse-pounding soundtrack in a new style by astonishing virtuoso Jake Kaufman! * The first collaboration between Yacht Club Games and Nitrome, pixel masters!
I played the original campaign and then Iâve been waiting for the whole shebang to release before diving back in for the other campaigns. Iâm pretty excited for that. As for Dig? Sure, it looks fun. A very different kind of game.
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If you are a Destiny fan and have Destiny 2 on Battle.net you've most likely already linked your Battle.net and Steam account to transfer your game on October 1st. That said, if you picked up Destiny 2 for free on Battle.net you might not have transferred yet and you should because Destiny 2 on PC won't be available on Battle.net for the long haul. Bungie has parted ways with Activision and is now flying solo and migrating to Steam is part of the separation. At some point Destiny 2 is going entirely free to play but if you have any account data in Battle.net now is the time to move it over to Steam.
I moved things over and it wasn't too hard. Frankly having Destiny 2... Read All
If you are a Destiny fan and have Destiny 2 on Battle.net you've most likely already linked your Battle.net and Steam account to transfer your game on October 1st. That said, if you picked up Destiny 2 for free on Battle.net you might not have transferred yet and you should because Destiny 2 on PC won't be available on Battle.net for the long haul. Bungie has parted ways with Activision and is now flying solo and migrating to Steam is part of the separation. At some point Destiny 2 is going entirely free to play but if you have any account data in Battle.net now is the time to move it over to Steam.
I moved things over and it wasn't too hard. Frankly having Destiny 2 on Steam is something i'd prefer over Battle.net anyway.
Nintendo is launching Mario Kart tour on mobile September 25th and pre-order is available. Mario Kart Tour launches on iOS and Android and from some early impressions seems to be a fairly simple take on the Mario Kart formula. Not sure this will replace Mario Kart 8 Deluxe on the Switch but if it's fun, i'll play it. These Nintendo mobile free titles haven't been great but if you don't have a modern Nintendo system and don't mind simple fun, they aren't too bad.
https://mariokarttour.com/en-US
Nintendo is launching Mario Kart tour on mobile September 25th and pre-order is available. Mario Kart Tour launches on iOS and Android and from some early impressions seems to be a fairly simple take on the Mario Kart formula. Not sure this will replace Mario Kart 8 Deluxe on the Switch but if it's fun, i'll play it. These Nintendo mobile free titles haven't been great but if you don't have a modern Nintendo system and don't mind simple fun, they aren't too bad.
Iâm tentatively looking forward to this but... Dr Mario left a bad taste in my mouth. I hope this doesnât fall so incredibly deep into the free-to-play trappings.
jdodson Admin Post Author
wrote on 08/29/2019 at 04:12pm
> I hope this doesnât fall so incredibly deep into the free-to-play trappings.
We've built a new episode of Cheerful Ghost Radio and we can't wait for you to play it. In this episode we review Super Mario Maker 2 on the Nintendo Switch!
We've built a new episode of Cheerful Ghost Radio and we can't wait for you to play it. In this episode we review Super Mario Maker 2 on the Nintendo Switch!
Will_Ball Game Mod Super Member
wrote on 08/30/2019 at 02:16am
I'm checking in kinda late, but Mario Maker 2 seems INSANE. Occasionally I'll check out YouTube videos of levels, and I've seen a working calculator, a 3D maze and a Duck Hunt game. It's so impressive what people have been able to build with this!
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Nintendo was at the Gamescom expo this year demoing the Link's Awakening remake and released a new video showing off some all new gameplay footage. The biggest news bit from the video is that not only will you unlock more rooms for the Mario Maker styled Zelda Dungeon maker included BUT as you create and complete dungeons you can unlock more rooms to use to create levels. Match this up with the ability to share your creations with friends and to me this looks like it could be a really cool feature of the game.
Link's will make his Awakening very real on September 20th on Nintendo Switch!
Please let me know in the comments if you plan on playing this on launch and if you... Read All
Nintendo was at the Gamescom expo this year demoing the Link's Awakening remake and released a new video showing off some all new gameplay footage. The biggest news bit from the video is that not only will you unlock more rooms for the Mario Maker styled Zelda Dungeon maker included BUT as you create and complete dungeons you can unlock more rooms to use to create levels. Match this up with the ability to share your creations with friends and to me this looks like it could be a really cool feature of the game.
Link's will make his Awakening very real on September 20th on Nintendo Switch!
Please let me know in the comments if you plan on playing this on launch and if you have played the original Gameboy version?
Will_Ball Game Mod Super Member
wrote on 08/27/2019 at 04:19am
Getting at launch and I have played and own the original gameboy version. I canât remember if I have beat it though. It would have been a long time ago, if I have.
I haven't shared a Cygnus Destroyer video in quite some time and with the release of his latest Innocent Until Proven Guilty video covering Castlevania: The Adventure now seemed like a great time. Castlevania: The Adventure is in the new Castlevania Collection and as many pick that up they might wonder how the Gameboy game holds up? Weeeeell I don't want to spoil the surprise but let's say the intense lag the game suffers from doesn't help. I'd think Gameboy games should be given a bit of a reprieve given how rudimentary the hardware was technically the Gameboy is capable of 59.73 hz or damn near 60 fps.
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I haven't shared a Cygnus Destroyer video in quite some time and with the release of his latest Innocent Until Proven Guilty video covering Castlevania: The Adventure now seemed like a great time. Castlevania: The Adventure is in the new Castlevania Collection and as many pick that up they might wonder how the Gameboy game holds up? Weeeeell I don't want to spoil the surprise but let's say the intense lag the game suffers from doesn't help. I'd think Gameboy games should be given a bit of a reprieve given how rudimentary the hardware was technically the Gameboy is capable of 59.73 hz or damn near 60 fps.
"Castlevania: The Adventure is widely considered to be one of the worst entries in the legendary Konami franchise, but in this video game court, it's INNOCENT Until Proven Guilty!"
At this years Disney D23 Expo Star Wars fans were treated to a special D23 panel on Rise of Skywalker along with a new trailer that just dropped. The trailer features a look back at all the Skywalker saga Star Wars films and some all new Rise of Skywalker footage. I urge you to watch it now because in the paragraph i'll be talking trailer spoilers.
Looks like Rey is featured heavily in this trailer and she looks to be a lightsaber wielding badass. Also. The Emperor has some new voice work and what sounds like a taste of Darth Vaders iconic breathing sound. The end of the trailer has had fans guessing what it means as Rey snaps a double-bladed red lightsaber out and... Read All
At this years Disney D23 Expo Star Wars fans were treated to a special D23 panel on Rise of Skywalker along with a new trailer that just dropped. The trailer features a look back at all the Skywalker saga Star Wars films and some all new Rise of Skywalker footage. I urge you to watch it now because in the paragraph i'll be talking trailer spoilers.
Looks like Rey is featured heavily in this trailer and she looks to be a lightsaber wielding badass. Also. The Emperor has some new voice work and what sounds like a taste of Darth Vaders iconic breathing sound. The end of the trailer has had fans guessing what it means as Rey snaps a double-bladed red lightsaber out and looks very ... pro dark side. It's possible this is a vision caused by the Emperor of her dark side ability like we saw in Empire with Luke and the force cave. Or... it's something else entirely.
Rey will get into her dark side attire in Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker which comes out on December 20th.
Thereâs simultaneously a lot to unpack and not much at the same time.
Is that the first time weâve ever seen saber throw and return in live action?
That city theyâre looking out over looks amazing and I canât wait to see more of it.
So the red dual saber is absolutely incredible looking. But to finish the series with dark Rey doesnât make a lot of sense, and they donât have a lot of time to turn her and turn her back. So Iâm betting this is some dark side force trick or a vision (like you mention) or her long lost twin, or clone, or something. That saber seems way too badass to just be used in a vision though.
Azurephile Super Member
wrote on 08/26/2019 at 06:34pm
Azurephile Super Member
wrote on 08/26/2019 at 09:40pm
Yeah! I saw something about "Dark Rey," but didn't see the video until this post. Of course this video just makes us (or at least me) ask more questions, like WTF is up w/ Rey and the dual red light saber, that's a rare weapon in Star Wars and I've never seen one open up like hers did. Red is also primarily the color that the Sith use, because they use fabricated crystals and they make them "bleed." So, does Rey turn to the Dark Side? Does Darth Sidious inhabit Rey in order to come back? And then there's still unanswered questions, like who are Rey's parents? Is she a clone? I saw some where that someone (I think the actress who plays Rey) said that the answer to who her parents are is obvious, but I still feel clueless about that. It was said they were nobodies, but were they really? We do see Rey and Kylo Ren dueling and she has a non-red light saber. So WTF is going on? I guess we'll just have to wait until December to find out.
I really like the idea of Rey with a lightsaber staff (a lightstaff?), since she used a staff back when she was a scavenger. But, I really don't see her going to the dark side completely. She might start turning (under force ghost Darth Sidius's influence), but eventually she'll be swayed back to either the light side, or some sort of grey-middle ground. Likely Kylo Ren will see the error in his ways and be the force that brings her back from the dark side.
No matter what, this is an opening day movie for me!
Azurephile Super Member
wrote on 08/27/2019 at 02:52am
Adam brings up a good point about the grey-middle ground. I've watched a lot of Star Wars videos on YouTube and supposedly we might see more of that grey area. There are grey Jedi, I believe.
I don't think Rey would go completely to the Dark Side on her own, although Sidius might make her go that way. It's possible she's a clone he created to help give him eternal life. I think I saw at least one theory on that and how Sidius will or could return.
I also forgot about C3PO! Why are his eyes red? Did he join the Dark Side? I did see a video about how he may have been Darth Vader's spy the whole time, even though he probably didn't know it. Also, how come he had a red arm and now he doesn't? I wonder what the story is with that.
Interesting stuff!
Azurephile Super Member
wrote on 08/27/2019 at 03:27am
Also you can find out about C3POâs red arm in a comic about him, and he got his gold arm back by the end of The Force Awakens. Presumably he was just waiting for a replacement protocol droid arm.
Will_Ball Game Mod Super Member
wrote on 08/28/2019 at 06:12am
What is that isnât C3PO, but rather Triple Zero?
Wrong body color but Iâve seen some theories that itâs triple zeroâs âbrainâ inside C3PO. Which, if we get Triple Zero dialogue delivered by Anthony Daniels, the rest movie could literally be all the characters kicking rocks and it would be a net positive.
jdodson Admin Post Author
wrote on 08/28/2019 at 06:59pm
Most likely a pissed off C3P0. THIS TIME HE'S GONE ROGUE-ONE... or ANGRY!
Azurephile Super Member
wrote on 08/28/2019 at 09:19pm
Wow I didn't know who Triple Zero was, thanks for the link Jon! I'd have to watch the video again, but the eyes make me think that that is Triple Zero. Yeah, he had a different body color than C3PO, he was dark silver, but it says, "Aphra, BT-1 and 0-0-0 moved to Vrogas Vas, where Vader and Skywalker had both crashed their ships after a dogfight. While Vader faced an army of Rebels alone, Aphra attempted to capture Skywalker. In order to do this, she painted 0-0-0 with a golden luster to make him look like Luke's protocol droid, C-3PO." So, could it be Triple Zero or did C-3PO get new eyes?
Will_Ball Game Mod Super Member
wrote on 08/28/2019 at 10:54pm
The ending will be Rey as Sith and C3PO as Triple Zero.
Azurephile Super Member
wrote on 08/29/2019 at 12:09am
Here's a good break down from a channel I recently found (and watched break downs of other movies): https://youtu.be/Iv-5_cy0ctg
Still, "The Rise of Skywalker," who is that Skywalker? Or are they using it as a general term? I saw some where that Skywalker was a common name in the Star Wars universe like Smith is in ours.
Triple Zero was painted at one point but didnât remain so. It could be anything but one thing people (me) who want all these expanded characters to show up donât take into account is the time to explain things. I desperately want Ahsoka to show in a movie for instance, but how do you introduce a character like that to the live action movies without breaking the narrative flow for a bit of a long explanation of who she is? Trip kinda falls into that a bit too. Still more possible than a huge character like Ahsoka but this is a character that is important to comic fans and nobody else, and explaining his relation to the whole narrative would take some time.
I still want it though. đ
Azurephile Super Member
wrote on 08/29/2019 at 05:46pm
I'd like to see her, too. I saw her in The Clone Wars.
Yeah, sheâs literally my favorite Star Wars character. More than Luke, Han, Rey, Anakin. It feels weird saying that as a 37 year old but her character development went to some crazy places and we were along for the ride and man... I felt that. When she showed up in Rebels I was elated. I canât wait to see where Filoni takes her next.
Azurephile Super Member
wrote on 08/29/2019 at 09:41pm
I had questions about her. I knew she left the Jedi Order and I wondered if she every met Darth Vader. I decided to look for her on the wiki Jon shared and I got my answers. The wiki page is very long, so I don't know that I'll read all of it right now. But, wow! I remember (from The Clone Wars) now why she left the Jedi Order, though I forgot about it. She died once, but was brought back to life by someone else's sacrifice. She met Darth Vader and it seems she died then, too, but someone went back in time and rescued her.
I actually have a Disney Infinity figure of her really close to me. Vinny got her and some others for that game, but hasn't played it in a while. I do like her, although I don't think I can really rank my favorites among Star Wars characters.
I must admit again that all this talk of Star Wars has seriously peaked my interest in it. I feel like I've become a bigger fan of Star Wars in the last few weeks than I ever have been. I never really considered myself a big fan. I liked it, but wasn't really very passionate about it, but recently that passion has exploded. I actually didn't see the original trilogy until I was in high school. And, again, oddly enough I actually like the prequelogy and Jar Jar.
Forgive me for going slightly off specific topic here. :)
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The trailer for the new Star Wars live action show The Mandelorian dropped and it looks better than I imagined. The Mandelorian picks up after the events of Return of the Jedi and if the impaled helmets of Imperial Storm Troopers are an indication, it doesn't look like where the show takes place in is big a fan of the Empire. Disney has been pretty mum about what the show is about and the Mandelorian himself but it seems that he might have a connection to Jango and Boba Fett as the official description mentions them by name.
Tie this up with the news that Ewan McGregor is coming back to play Obi-Wan in another show for Disney+. It seems much of the plans Lucasfilm had... Read All
The trailer for the new Star Wars live action show The Mandelorian dropped and it looks better than I imagined. The Mandelorian picks up after the events of Return of the Jedi and if the impaled helmets of Imperial Storm Troopers are an indication, it doesn't look like where the show takes place in is big a fan of the Empire. Disney has been pretty mum about what the show is about and the Mandelorian himself but it seems that he might have a connection to Jango and Boba Fett as the official description mentions them by name.
Tie this up with the news that Ewan McGregor is coming back to play Obi-Wan in another show for Disney+. It seems much of the plans Lucasfilm had for films they are now focusing on Disney+ shows and I think I prefer that. If these shows pickup the "Darth Maul trilogy" arc that we've talked about in Cheerful Ghost Radio and are good Lucasfilm can make as many as they want.
"After the stories of Jango and Boba Fett, another warrior emerges in the Star Wars universe. âThe Mandalorianâ is set after the fall of the Empire and before the emergence of the First Order. We follow the travails of a lone gunfighter in the outer reaches of the galaxy far from the authority of the New Republic."
Will_Ball Game Mod Super Member
wrote on 08/24/2019 at 04:30am
I am there. I hope another trailer drops before the 12th. I want to see more of the actual story.
Azurephile Super Member
wrote on 08/24/2019 at 06:37am
Quite interesting as I have recently watched a lot about Star Wars lore on YouTube. I thought this was supposed to be a Boba Fett show, I wonder why they chose another Mandelorian (assuming it isn't him). I think I saw something that he didn't actually die in the desert in the original trilogy.
You speak of Darth Maul and I kind of don't want to give away spoilers, but he's not dead either, or at least he didn't die in the prequelogy (I think I just made up a new word). You see this in The Clone Wars animated show, which was pretty good, I think. I think that show also gives you some good ideas about the Mandelorians and the clone troopers (they're based on Jango).
What media outlet will this show be one? Netflix? Amazon? Hulu? Either way, I don't really watch any kind of TV anymore, so I'll probably miss out on it (even though there are other things I've missed out on that I think I'd like to see).
Still, again, I've been seriously geeking out on some Star Wars stuff lately! I think it's making me a bigger fan of the series. I didn't dislike the prequelogy as many others seem to have. I also don't hate Jar Jar. From what I can see, I like what Disney is doing, if nothing else just creating more Star Wars media to watch, which I think is great!
Azurephile Super Member
wrote on 08/24/2019 at 06:52am
Oh! Disney +! I read something about that. Anyway here's some news articles I just found.
One thing I'm wondering about is why Disney is being secretive about who The Mandalorian is. If the first episode comes out, and The Mandalorian takes off his helmet, or says he/she's part of the Fett family right away, then it'll seem like Disney was being secretive for no reason other than hype.
But, I'd The Mandalorian's identity is kept secret during the show, the secrecy will feel more earned.
This isn't really a show I'm super interested in, but my wife will be subscribing to Disney+ the day it's available (and I can't wait for all the Marvel content), so I'll eventually watch this show as well.
Yeah I'm way in on this. The canon on Boba Fett is way weird, Jango may or may not have ever been a Mandalorian at all, and just stole the armor, and Boba's armor seems to have been coughed up by the sarlaac and is being sold in one of the Aftermath books. BUT there's still room to spin it all as Boba somehow getting out and tracking down another set of Mandalorian armor but I hope they don't. Just leave that be. I want some Star Wars with new characters.
As for Maul: The Mandalorian takes place after Rebels, after RotJ even, so this can't have Maul in it. Maybe his syndicate is still around and can be there (and I'd love that). And the way the new Lucasfilm works, EVERYTHING is canon, and there are no levels of canon, just a group of people tasked to make sure canon doesn't clash at all, so Maul wouldn't show up and face off against Obi-Wan in his series because he didn't know where Obi-Wan was until a day or so before Obi-Wan killed him, which happened pretty dang near the start of Episode IV, a while after the Obi-Wan series. He may be on the planet but away from Obi-Wan somehow. I suppose Obi-Wan could know Maul was there but not the other way around. BUT again, I'm hoping for Qi'Ra and the syndicate, even if we definitely won't get that face off between Maul and Obi-Wan.
jdodson Admin Post Author
wrote on 08/26/2019 at 12:02am
Right, good point thanks Travis. Maul with the Obi-Wan show?
Though if it runs for a few years they may expand that I guess, and they could do a live action version of the Duel from Rebels to have the two series overlap, but it would only take up a single episode.
jdodson Admin Post Author
wrote on 10/30/2019 at 04:25am
Wow, this looks incredible. I've heard the reason why Disney isn't sending out press screeners is because there is a pretty big spoiler in the first episode.
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Welcome to another installment of The State of the Wyvern! The State of the Wyvern is a monthly post we'll be making here to share round up the new additions and changes to the game, as well as give you a tease of what's to come.
Current Player Leaderboards
The current player power ranking leaderboard top 5 players are led by Rather Dashing, Marixu Cas, Nelun, Tiberius and Mâhael! The top 5 PvP leaderboard rankings are Tiberus with 27 kills, Maverick with 26, MyDude with 19, Button Smasher and Caz with 16!
Over the past few days, many players defeated the Wyvern for the first time. Congratulations to Tiberius, Maverick, MyDude, Bina Marie, Golok, Duncan Idaho,... Read All
Welcome to another installment of The State of the Wyvern! The State of the Wyvern is a monthly post we'll be making here to share round up the new additions and changes to the game, as well as give you a tease of what's to come.
Current Player Leaderboards
The current player power ranking leaderboard top 5 players are led by Rather Dashing, Marixu Cas, Nelun, Tiberius and Mâhael! The top 5 PvP leaderboard rankings are Tiberus with 27 kills, Maverick with 26, MyDude with 19, Button Smasher and Caz with 16!
Over the past few days, many players defeated the Wyvern for the first time. Congratulations to Tiberius, Maverick, MyDude, Bina Marie, Golok, Duncan Idaho, Zehronioud, Ktara, Declan, GregoPeck, Button Smasher, Caz, Conan, Friday, and Marixu Cas for all killing the Wyvern. The Wyvern is a feisty foe and seems to love dying to letâs keep sending it back to the other side!
Recent Updates
Every month we wrap up all the large updates in a State of the Wyvern post here on Cheerful Ghost, but if you want to know whatâs changing a bit sooner, check the Wyvern Changelog. Each time we update the game we update the changelog so you can stay on top of the latest updates that might effect how you play.
Beyond a slew of bug fixes weâve also changed and added the following things:
Primrose Park & Hero Shrine: Primrose Park is a new location in Other Places. It currently only has the Hero's Shrine that will honor the first 5 players to defeat the Wyvern in this game.
Forest Fights: We have removed the "troll" monsters or lower level monsters in high level fights that wouldn't give you very much gold or experience. All monsters at high levels are now appropriately scaled.
Forest Fight XP & Gold Drops: Experience and gold drops for level 10, 11 and 12 monsters in the forest have been increased by 30%.
Random Forest Events:
If you are fully healed the healing event no longer shows up.
A new random encounter in the forest has been added, so you can now find 1 or 2 gems, whereas before there was only an event for finding a single gem.
The random gold find event now gives you gold based on your level.
You can now be pick-pocketed by a thief in the forest. Make sure to deposit that gold!
NPC Interactions: Originally if you interacted with the NPCs Scarlet, Crugg and Jon Boyd they all awarded you the same amount of experience depending on the amount of charm you had. Now NPCs grant you benefits differently:
Interacting with Scarlet grants you experience.
Interacting with Jon Boyd grants you gold.
Interacting with Crugg grants you forest fights.
As always you can only interact with one NPC per day, but now you now can make a strategic choice based on what you want to gain for the day.
Jon Boyd still remains different in that you can have him sing a song every day on top of all this. As you gain more charm, the experience, gold and forest fight benefits from the NPC interactions grow.
The Outhouse: The Outhouse is a new location in Other places. We donât want to spoil the fun, so we arenât telling you anything else about it, go check it out!
Whatâs Coming Next?
For a bit more depth on what's coming next, check out the State of the Wyvern Cheerful Ghost Radio episode (embedded above), but from a high level we are going to offer more accessible Cheerful Ghost memberships and set the stage for a bunch of really cool new game updates.
Thank you for playing and let us know any feedback or thoughts you have on the game in the comments.
If you haven't played Tale of the White Wyvern yet, head over to https://thewhitewyvern.com/ now to play for free!
Just a thought about how to let people know about updates. I like the thought of putting a link in the new day screen. But a couple thoughts about that:
It has to be obviously different text. I never read the new day screen, but I glance at it to see my bank interest lol. If there's a message you want me to see, it has to jump out at me.
Also, leave the announcement up for a few days, in case someone doesn't log into the game as much as some of us do lol
Azurephile Super Member
wrote on 08/20/2019 at 06:09pm
1) There's a typo in my name here, it's missing the second g. No big deal, really.
2) "If you are fully healed the healing event no longer shows up." Thank you! I pretty much always heal when I lose HP, so this encounter pretty much never did me any good, just wasted one of my forest fights.
3) Thanks for the NPC stuff, too. I like how each gives you a different bonus.
Thanks for the feedback Adam, I'm not sure I have the best solution in mind but the simplest thing we can do is put a link there at the bottom and people can click it if they want.
We can do it if there is new stuff but, and it's not hard but an elegant approach on how to do that hasn't come to me yet.
As I said in the episode, I think some people want to know of new stuff and some people don't care so I'm not sure doing much more than making the link easier to find is a big deal if people want to just click through to play the game.
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It looks like Ray Tracing is coming to Minecraft. According to an article (https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/render-dragon-and-nvidia-ray-tracing), Ray Tracing will come to Minecraft next year. The video trailer says "Windows 10," so I'm not sure whether or not that means it's coming to the Java Edition or just the Windows 10 Bedrock Edition. Check out the embedded video. It looks beautiful!
This actually makes me regret that I did not recently buy an RTX GPU. Part of that decision was because not a lot of games feature Ray Tracing yet, so it didn't seem like a technology I really cared about at the time. That part of the decision still holds true, although this... Read All
It looks like Ray Tracing is coming to Minecraft. According to an article (https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/render-dragon-and-nvidia-ray-tracing), Ray Tracing will come to Minecraft next year. The video trailer says "Windows 10," so I'm not sure whether or not that means it's coming to the Java Edition or just the Windows 10 Bedrock Edition. Check out the embedded video. It looks beautiful!
This actually makes me regret that I did not recently buy an RTX GPU. Part of that decision was because not a lot of games feature Ray Tracing yet, so it didn't seem like a technology I really cared about at the time. That part of the decision still holds true, although this news today brings me one step closer to wanting an RTX GPU. I also didn't want to spend too much money on a GPU. If I had enough money, I'd love to get a RTX 2080Ti or Super, but they're expensive.
I recently found out (thanks to Travis) that you don't actually have to have an RTX card to play the RTX version of Quake 2. However, with all the Ray Tracing features enabled, it's very difficult to get a decent amount of FPS to make the game playable (on a non-RTX GPU).
What do you think about this? Does this make you want to get an RTX GPU or do you already have one? Let me know in the comment section!
Will_Ball Game Mod Super Member
wrote on 08/19/2019 at 10:38pm
My laptop has an RTX in it. Not sure what frame rate I will get with this, but if it comes in the java version, I will give it a go.
Azurephile Super Member Post Author
wrote on 08/19/2019 at 10:44pm
I'm jealous! I imagine since you have an RTX GPU, you'll probably get a decent fps. I managed to get a lot of fps for the Quake 2 RTX version, especially when I was in a dark place and also when I played it on lower settings. I don't have an RTX GPU, I have a GTX 1660Ti.
Azurephile Super Member Post Author
wrote on 04/17/2020 at 09:13pm
Fair warning: The Minecraft RTX beta is out, but unless you have an RTX 2060 or above, don't bother wasting your time. If you do not meet this minimum system requirement, the game will not allow you to enable the related features. This is a departure from the Quake 2 RTX version, where it required a RTX 2060 or better, but you could still run it, even if your FPS was horrible.
Will_Ball Game Mod Super Member
wrote on 04/23/2020 at 04:53pm
I tried a little bit of this the other day and thought it looked ok. I need to dig into it a little more.
Azurephile Super Member Post Author
wrote on 04/23/2020 at 06:43pm
I watched a benchmark video, you (or anyone else) can check it out here if you want: https://youtu.be/LWBnLPlxVhg
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More information about the final update to Shovel Knight and it getting a physical release on Switch: https://yachtclubgames.com/2019/08/upcoming-shovel-knight-features/
I played the original campaign and then Iâve been waiting for the whole shebang to release before diving back in for the other campaigns. Iâm pretty excited for that. As for Dig? Sure, it looks fun. A very different kind of game.