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Geek Culture / Well, it's been a long time so what's going on these days?

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Antidote
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Posted: 5th Sep 2011 11:01
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So jeez I started visiting this forum back when I was a freshman in high school and now I'm a college senior about to finish up my CS degree. It's been a while since I was last here, what's been going on?

I managed to publish a game on the Xbox Indie Game Store and made about $170 whooooooo...

That storefront didn't work out so well.

IDK just kinda bored and feeling some nostalgia.
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TheComet
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Posted: 5th Sep 2011 16:16
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Quote: "what's been going on?"


PONIES

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Dazzag
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Posted: 5th Sep 2011 17:06
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...in hot dog buns...

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Current fave quote : "She was like a candle in the wind.... unreliable...."
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Grog Grueslayer
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Posted: 5th Sep 2011 19:29
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We're still alive. The newest coolest program by TGC is the App Game Kit where you can easily make apps for phones. Next time I get paid I'm getting it.

http://www.appgamekit.com/

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Seppuku Arts
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Posted: 5th Sep 2011 20:09
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I remember yoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooou!


Welcome back mate. As said, check out AppGameKit, I need myself a copy of it to test out still, but it looks pretty damn cool.

Some oldies are still here, and oldie oldies like Dazzag who have been here since before The Earth was invented.

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CoffeeGrunt
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Posted: 5th Sep 2011 20:45
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@TheComet

Seconded.

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zenassem
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Posted: 5th Sep 2011 20:50 Edited at: 5th Sep 2011 20:52
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Here's the latest image capture from the TGC Research & Development department...



I just recently came back after an extended haitus. Welcome back!

Your signature has been erased by a mod please reduce it to 600 x 120.
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Dazzag
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Posted: 5th Sep 2011 20:55
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Quote: "and oldie oldies like Dazzag who have been here since before The Earth was invented"
This all used to be fields this did...

Ang on, isn't this the forum for new hips and the like? Eeey by gum... etc....

Cheers

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Wolf
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Posted: 5th Sep 2011 22:24
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Quote: "isn't this the forum for new hips and the like? "


Nah, its a geek-cultural melting pot.

I make serious coffee - so strong it wakes up the neighbors.
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DJ Almix
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Posted: 5th Sep 2011 23:13
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Quote: "Quote: "what's been going on?"

PONIES"


Yep, sadly.



and I +1 mr. zenassem

There are a lot of new kids on the block, I mean remember the forum back in our day, why I used to have to type 5miles to get to geek culture...

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Wolf
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Posted: 6th Sep 2011 00:05
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Quote: "There are a lot of new kids on the block, I mean remember the forum back in our day, why I used to have to type 5miles to get to geek culture..."


I've been here for some time now. But I don't get that...do you mind to elaborate?

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Insert Name Here
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Posted: 6th Sep 2011 00:24
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Now see, at four years I don't feel like an oldie, but I've been here about as long as Wolf, who I think of as an oldie... weird.

No one can match the mighty dazzag however.

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CoffeeGrunt
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Posted: 6th Sep 2011 01:00
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I don't feel old either, and I joined in the ballpark of when Wolf did...a little before, in fact.

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DJ Almix
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Quote: "Quote: "There are a lot of new kids on the block, I mean remember the forum back in our day, why I used to have to type 5miles to get to geek culture..."

I've been here for some time now. But I don't get that...do you mind to elaborate? "


It's a reference to the typical stories old people usually describe to the younger generation, things like:

"I used to have to walk 5 miles to get to school"
"In my day, candy was just 1 cent"
"All this bloomin' tech, all I had was a hoop-and-stick when I was a kid"

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CoffeeGrunt
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Posted: 6th Sep 2011 02:16
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Yeh, musta sucked back then. Now we've got Gears of War and Friendship.

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Seppuku Arts
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Posted: 6th Sep 2011 02:40 Edited at: 6th Sep 2011 02:41
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In the same place?

Your My Little Pony critters invade the alien hive to plant a bomb?

You know what, I bet there's fan fiction for this, if there isn't there will be. It's the internet, this kind of thing happens.

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CoffeeGrunt
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Posted: 6th Sep 2011 09:57
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Thankfully, there isn't...Gears of War doesn't exactly bring much to the table...

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Dazzag
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Posted: 6th Sep 2011 10:32
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There is loads with the same date as me (date that this version of the forum was introduced). I started mid-2000 and there was *loads* here then. Ok, so most of them have left under a haze of hatred and betrayal, but some still exist! There are even a few from 2 decades ago (ie. <2000).

Cheers

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BMacZero
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Posted: 6th Sep 2011 22:56
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You're like me, huh - started with DarkBASIC, moved on to XNA?

Quote: "I managed to publish a game on the Xbox Indie Game Store and made about $170 whooooooo..."

Yeah, that market kind of sucks from what I've heard. I'd hesitate to publish any game on there because there's so much junk that can hardly be considered games. However, another team from a group I'm in at UCI recently published a fairly simple but well-done game there that caught on and has sold about 5000 copies.

Still, kind of nice to be published .

http://brianmacintosh.com
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Quik
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Posted: 6th Sep 2011 23:22
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I love you.

and for the record, I am a man.

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Posted: 6th Sep 2011 23:36
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Quote: "I remember yoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooou!
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I remember yooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooou!

Quote: "You're like me, huh - started with DarkBASIC, moved on to XNA?
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Yeah and then I did a lot with XNA for a while then got bored of it, so I moved on to basically not doing much of anything. Then did a semester of advanced game design and development where I used irrlicht and determined it's pretty awful but I got a cool prototype out of it. Here's a video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owwfN2BevI4&feature=iv&annotation_id=annotation_410218

Then I moved over to Ogre for a bit and I think it's really promising and I'm looking to go down that path a bit more in the future but at the moment I'm working on my Unity skills as I have a studio class in the spring that's going to be focusing on Unity.
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BMacZero
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Posted: 7th Sep 2011 01:13
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Hmm, Ogre, huh? I love XNA, the only thing I dislike about it is that doing anything in 3D is a huge pain.

I like that platformy game, neat idea.

http://brianmacintosh.com
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