Gold Prognosticus older than one year ago

Also, an interesting fact for you: The music in OOT:3D isn't actually a direct rip of the original game's music, but fresh tracks that took a lot of working to make them sound like the originals. (Information taken from a recent Nintendo magazine)

Link included if you have no idea what Greasemonkey is.

Apart from riots that were thankfully nowhere near where I live or where I was staying for the past week and a new Valve game that is going to be playable at a gaming expo I'm going to in September, did I miss anything while I was away?

I'm leaving tomorrow morning to go up to the Lake District. Don't go having any huge events while I'm gone! XD

Well, I just recieved an email from Nintendo explaining the system in a little more detail.

In order to qualify for the free games, you need to visit the 3DS eShop at least once before 23:59 CET on August 11th. This registers your 3DS for the giveaway. On September 1st the first 10 games will then be made available to all registered consoles, with the second set of 10 being made available sometime by the end of the year.

There's also a video in the eShop at the moment that repeats all of this information if you want to hear it for yourself.

Having the link to the site in the section header is fine, but it's a pain if I want to read a post from that section and then have to manually return to regular Digibutter before I can view user posts. Same goes for the 'Hawt Games' section on navigation bar on the right - if I want to view a game's forum from that list or view a list of all the games on the site, it takes me over to Digi.vg and I than have to manually return to Digibutter before I can view anything else. I know Francis is trying to promote Digi.vg now that he's put in the effort of creating it, but unless an easy way to return to regular Digibutter is added it would be far less awkward just to have the links in question point to the Digibutter equivalent.

E74, one red light. This is the third time it's done this so far - the first time was several months back and I posted about it here, and the second was a week or two ago. Considering the short time between this and the last incident, I don't think our method of repairing it is going to be much use any more, meaning I'm gonna have to go out and buy a new 360 if I want to play any of my games.

At least I have all my PC/Wii/DS stuff still intact though.

Gameplay

Achron requires a little explaining in terms of how it works. The core of the game is a pretty standard RTS fare, with three playable races and a variety of units for each. Where Achron really stands out, however, is it's primary gameplay element: fully-funtional time travel. In addition to the mini-map and controls on the game screen, there is also a timeline displaying all the actions taken by the player the last 8 minutes or so, extending about a minute into the future as well. At any point during gameplay the player can jump forwards and backwards on this timeline, allowing them to change their actions in the past and have these changes then affect the timeline ahead of them. Players are also able to send units forward and backwards through the use of Chronoporters, resulting in battles where a unit may find itself fighting alongside itself. Naturally, these elements result in a variety of interesting strategies - for example, you send your units to defend against an attack from the north when the timeline changes and you find those same enemies now attacking from a different direction against your unprotected base.

So how fun does this turn out to be? In short, very. Although the idea of free-form time travel sounds a little confusing at first, the concept is quite easy to get to grips with and you will soon find yourself managing changes in the timeline with ease. Paradoxes are not a problem, as the model of time-travel used by the game resolves these impossibilites in an effective manner - the two or more states of a paradox will alternate between each other until one falls off the end of the 8-minute timeline.

As the game is not yet complete single-player gameplay is currently restricted to the tutorial levels and AI players, although the developers have promised an extensive campaign spanning all three playable races. The multiplayer community is well-established, if a little small; the users in the official IRC channel are always willing to play regardless of how new a player is.

Overall, gameplay gets a 7/10.

Graphics

The in-game HUD is sleek and well-designed, with an easy to understand layout. The quality of the graphics for levels is largely dependant on the level itself - although a large number of textures and scenery are available it is mainly up to the creator of each map to determine how detailed the level will be. In terms of units and buildings, however, the game could use some work: most of the models are uniquely designed and clearly distinguishable from each other, although the textures are rather bland and repetitive.

Graphics gets a 5/10, though with a little work to the textures this could easily be increased.

Story

Since the game is still in development and the single-player campaign has yet to be released, not much is currently known about the storyline of Achron. The website hints at an interesting plotline, if somewhat generic, though until the campaign is released it isn't clear what quality the storytelling will be.

For the time being I won't assign a score to storyline, though once the campaign is released this will be revised.

Sound

The sound of Achron can be separated into sound effects and music. The sound effects of the game are fairly average, though limited at the current time (again, Achron is still in development so additional sound effects may be added in the future. The music of Achron is all custom, and features a distinct ambience - the majority of songs are quite peaceful, with a few faster paced songs. The music isn't anything amazingly spectacular, but it definitely adds to the feel of the game.

Sound gets a 6/10.

Conclusion

Overall, I give Achron a 7/10 - it definitely shows a lot of promise and the concept of free-form timetravel is a unique idea that has never been implemented as well as it has in Acron, though there are several areas where development is still needed. I highly recommend pre-purchasing it - you will recieve every alpha and beta build, the full version of the game when it is released some time this year, and any updates and add-ons to the game after that.

Does Digi get the Portal 2 blog on its website feeds?

This may or may not be because my brain is on fire again.

Got my hands on the latest version of Flash a little while ago and wanted to make something for it. First version will feature an animated Tippi and an auto-updating status icon for the Digi TF2 server, and in future versions I will include a feature that will allow the backround to be changed and Tippi to be replaced through an easy checking system, should Francis decide to bring back the changing backgrounds of Old Digi. Expect a first sample within the week, provided there are no setbacks.

*inb4 this never gets finished or never gets implemented into the site*

Edit: Also, this is not the secret project that I was going on about before.

Meet the Medic, updated website, the biggest update in TF2 history and a free week.

Should be interesting.

That, or just fizzle out with no significant damage.

Imageshack deleted it, archive.org never stored it, Google Images returns nothing useful and neither of my computers has it. I'm going to look through my old backup DVDs when I get a free moment, but if any of you happen to know where I could find the avatar I would be grateful.

Also, I find it amusing that a Google Images search for Light Prognosticus returns a Youtube video of my avatar (with an ugly text banner across the front of it) before the LP itself.

*inb4someonealreadypostedthis*

It's about time.

How many times has sony been hacked now?

• CRITICAL ITEM 1 - 80%
• CRITICAL ITEM 2 - 80%
• CRITICAL ITEM 3 - 5%
• Gameplay Elements - 0%
• Graphics - 0%

Once the three critical items are complete I can start working on the gameplay elements. When that's far enough along I may release something for you guys. Maybe. Again, I'm not putting an ETA on this project seeing as I don't know how long it'll take or if it'll ever get done.

I'm bored and can't think of anything interesting to say.

I'm not eligible since I joined prior to the start of signups (12th member on the forum as a matter of fact), but I thought some of you might be interested in this.

If none of you can remember what Achron is, it's basically a RTS with fully functional time-travel.

Then try to use the results to figure out what I could be working on. Note: I'll select one number from all the requested numbers, and this still does not guarantee the project will ever be finished.

My brain hurts a little now.

Those were two of my major lurking grounds during free periods. I'm starting to run out of places to pass the time when I'm not working. :(

So this week I only had Wednesday and Thursday in school. Next week I have school all week starting from Tuesday, then the week after that I start study leave for my AS exams. Granted there are still some revision lessons which may or may not be compulsory, and I'm not sure if we have to return to school after our exams are complete, but that's still a lot less school than I was expecting.

One of the few Digibutter creations that had me in it as well. People need to create more Digibutter-related flashes and stuff.

*inb4stonecOLD*