A collection of text posts, including Poll Questions, Text Interviews with moddersand Phillip’s Blog. All posts are written to encourage friendly debate and discussion.
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Well, here we are after nearly 3 weeks of 100SDoN and I thought I would use this week’s poll question to find out how many PP readers are playing the maps and mods.
Besides the really crappy maps and the pressure of having to add one map or mod every day I am really enjoying the whole thing.
It happens. There’s nothing we can do about it. It’s a fact of modding life. Sometimes mods die before they have reached maturity. We weep, we look to the sky and wonder what could have been and then we move on with our lives.
10th June 2011 15 Comments
I really enjoyed the Lab Rat Comic and highly recommend it. As you can see from the image on the left, there’s the gravity gun on the table and there are other items that we associate with BM scattered around the comic.
It raises the question of who had it first BM or AS? I like the way Valve have got those two against each other.
Anyway, did Black Mesa steal the gravity gun from Aperture Science?
And let’s take this opportunity to chat about the BM/AS connections.
4th June 2011 53 Comments
I am pleased to announce the availability of a new project. It’s called Content Statistics. It lists almost every statistic related to the content of the site. It doesn’t display any traffic to the site, just the content.
I would like to thank Adam Glaysher for all his hard work in getting it to work with my demands and my server.
It is updated manually and approximately every week.
I consider it 90% finished – we just need to get the comment totals working properly and add the Recommendation Images per timeframe. There are also a few tweaks to the design that I will make when I have time.
After that, we will slowly add new stats as I think of them. However, if there is any stat you think we are missing, please let me know.
It can be accessed via the Projects menu at the top of the page.
This post is temporary and will be deleted in amonth, please link to the page itself not this post.
4th June 2011 8 Comments
What is Luminesca?
Luminesca places you in control of Lum, a little underwater creature whose home is in grave danger.
Outsmart predators, guide small creatures and scare off rivals using your esca (that’s the glowing bit on your head!) Explore an underwater world, full of life, which responds to your touch and physical presence.
Discover the secrets that lie in the deep…
Luminesca is a 2D side-scrolling adventure which focuses on the events of a changing environment, utilising light and physics to challenge the part of you that loves to explore.
31st May 2011 4 Comments
As you probably know, I ran a fan fiction competition last year and it was pretty successful, at least I thought so. Anyway, a little investigation (my name is Phillip Marlowe!) finds that actually there is an awful lot of Half-Life fan fiction about.
This got me thinking whether Valve should release some official stuff and if they did would you actually buy it. I don’t mean download it, but actually pay money for paper!
27th May 2011 24 Comments
In celebration of Gilfrarry (Thanks man, can’t thank you enough) reformatting and uploading all the Half-Life 1 maps and mods into my format and onto my server, I have decided to run the 100 SUMMER DAYS OF NOSTALGIA Starting 1st June and running for 100 days I will update a Half-Life 1 map or mod every day.
23rd May 2011 15 Comments
Here is what Gabe Newell recently said in an interview…“The industry has this broken model, which is one price for everyone. That’s actually a bug, and it’s something that we want to solve through our philosophy of how we create entertainment products.”
Back in October 2007, for Poll Question 53 I asked Would an
21st May 2011 16 Comments
A couple of weeks ago I wrote a piece entitled Evenness of Quality, where I argued that a mod should have an evenness of quality throughout. Even if that meant dropping a section down in quality so it wouldn’t stand out. However, just to be clear, I was not talking about the detail of an area, but something more abstract. Well, today I am almost going to contradict that and write about the WOW Factor.
For a mod to reach greatness it normally requires at least one section in the mod where the player goes “WOW”. There are a number of ways to cause that exclamation.
21st May 2011 11 Comments
So, I was chatting with Au Heppa, one of the makers of Water (which is currently being tested by the BTC) about modding and indie games. It has become clear that a lot of mods have considered converting to other engines and therefore turning themselves in to indie games.
14th May 2011 12 Comments
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18th June 2011 29 Comments