When I read that name first, I instantly thought of the Fallout games.

When I opened the thread, I thought about some stupid game with horrible graphics. While the latter is true, this game is fantastically addicting and well very well done.

You should give this addictive atom-puzzle-logic game a try!

Atoms! – Gamestudio Community

What happened to coniserver.net after we switched from conitecserver.com?
There’s something going on… *suspicious*

Apparently there is a new Game in the makings by a Team or Group named “Mach Creation“. They posted a thread in the forums yesterday, I think.

Anyway, they try to make a new Stargate game in 3DGS, which isn’t that uncommon actually, as there were several Stargate Projects already. But none ever really finished.

From what I can tell, it looks “okay”, though as I hold Dan Silverman in a very high opinion and have no reason to not believe what he say’s, the level on the main screenshots (more specifically the ones for P9L-958) is simply and plain a level from a contest entry by Lennart Hillen back in 2007. What’s most surprising, they didn’t even bother to modify it, they just took the level as it is. Ironically, right after Dan and some other users made them aware that we are not as stupid as our nicknames suggest, the page with the screenshots suddenly disappeared.

Now that we established that they like to use already made stuff from other people which they can use for free, let’ go one step further and let’s all have a look onto all the Copyrighted stuff they use there and not even paying a dime of licensing. Apparently it’s all used under a “Fair Use”-Clause, which then again is totally brainwashed because this game obviously isn’t for any Educational Purposes (let alone, why would a school want to make a Stargate game? To teach children about the effects of SciFi Addiction?) and also they can’t really argue that it’s a parody on the original Stargate because it’s well obvious that this is some fan game, made by (to stay polite) a handful of students who want to make a Stargate game.

And pretty much everything in this game is just a direct rip-off from Stargate, even if it’s argued that it’s not. To put it simple, they are standing in front of a red box and they deny the fact that the box is red, even if to everyone else it’s obvious that the box they are standing in front of is red! Just look at it, you can tell like a million things that are ripped off just by looking at a screenshot for a second. Heck, even the logo of the team screams “STARGATE” from 10 km distance…. In the snow! Against the wind on a stormy day (Can you say that? “A stormy day”?).

Well, next thing is, that the “Community Manager” (wow, they MUST have a 5000 people community…. or what would they need a Community Manager for?) claims to have some personal contacts to the Senior Community Manager of Cheyenne Mountain Entertainment.

Besides, I know personally the senior community manager of Cheyenne Mountain Entertainement

Me sure you know Manager personally CME of do.

Well, for not embarrassing themselves too much, they could follow this very simple idea by fastlane:

It’s not a stargate, it’s a “worldportal”; it’s not carter, oneil and teal’c… it’s smith, jones, and razmuse’n! Hell, you could even KEEP the names if you attempt to make the game into a parody of the series (you can use the “200″ episode as a guide for how you could go about it). Teal’c would only be allowed to say “Indeed”… Carter can only speak in meaningless technobabble… O’neil, well, O’neil doesn’t say much. If youc can pull the parady angle off, you can use all the copyrights and make your game (though commercialization is still out of the question)

Peace!

Really!

No, seriously, just kidding. I have been very busy with work and probably will be a lot more busy the next time. But then again, I actually didn’t forget to write here. I just didn’t get a chance to.

Anyway! Let’s stay on-topic. I may have forgotten to add Error014’s Blog to my Blogroll after I myself have complained in his blog that he forgot me. Well, rather saying – or implying, remembering, … – than complaining…

you forgot about mine :D

that’s the word-on-word (do you even say that this way?) quote.

Now after today’s day – or shall I rather say, after the few hours of today’s day, as it obviously is still very early – I have actually asked Error014 if he would like to do some Guest authoring here (which remembers me, that I have to enable the show-the-author-of-blog-posts-feature-thingyfoo-whatever) in which he more or less agreed; I have seen the referrer he came from to visit my blog, most probably because he wasn’t able to remember the easy address! But it’s so easy!

At least I think so – After all, I have come up with the address and…… Or maybe he was just too lazy for typing it. ANYWAY(!!!), after I read his post about him forgetting to add me, I’m doing the same something similar now, and of course I added him to my Blogroll aswell. Clicky clicky…

Well now, who is this Error014 guy anyway? Do we give a shit about him?

I’d say yes! If you are related to 3D Game Studio in some way, you probably know about Error014 (sorry pal, I’ll just write your name as error now, its painful to maintain the correct spelling) as some Godlike person! And when I say Godlike, I actually mean it as in “guru of experimental games“. Awesome person with an awesome mind to come up with lots of exciting gameplay ideas no one else came up before.

As he did some analysis of my blog, in return I see myself forced to do the same about his blog. I’m sorry!

What is his Blog about? Well, following the name, it’s about “Trying to create fun”, that’s what the tagline says. The name says “Experimental Blog” which can mean a lot of things like:

• A new kind of blog different from other blogs
• A Blog about experiments
• A Blog from Mr. or Mrs. Experimental
• A Blog Experimental Ltd.
• A combination of Expert and Sentimental, thus forming the name Experimental
• In this case it could mean that it’s a sentimental expert writing the blog
• or that he’s an expert about Sentimental things
• That the blog is from an expert who IS sentimental
• whatever
• What the blog states:
  This blog is about the recent events in the development of videogames. In the past, we’ve made “Experimental Games” and these are freely avaible for download! We encourage you to do so and to help us with feedback, so let us know how you like it and comment. You find the games by following the “List of games” link a bit further down. Nowadays, we are hard at work on a bigger “Secret Mystery Project” – we are regulary doing updates on it, so read these and comment!

So, take your pick in what YOU think what the blog is about, cause that’s what’s important, what you think!

From what he writes, I cant really deduce the meaning of the blogs name. It’s like a blog, a blog! Who would have thought. But what I can deduce for sure is that he likes writing, probably even more than I do. He can also write very well and bring up arguments better then I can. Hell that’s the reason why I asked him to be my guest author.

Damn.

It’s out.

You write good, that’s why I want you!!!!!111oneone

I wish I could write more, really. But I am a work right now, and thus I am in constant fear of having the Boss behind me and watching me typing some blog entry and on the other side, I’m not really someone who can create long texts. I’m just not that good.

So, I’m looking forward!

I really do!

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Promise!

Deep Fields

Our boys at wetain showing off some nice screens from (sadly) just a prototype of an upcoming MMORPG they are planning to do. Looks nice nevertheless!

Underwater scene by ChrisB

A gorram shiny underwater scene by ChrisB, and amazing as it might look, it’s the Acknex engine! Finally someone who makes this engine look good!

And to even top that, even a shiny video!

Now the crazy talk:

"(LHC)Large Hadron Collider endangers earth" or "Fastlane vs. Why_do_I_die"

Having a great time, looking at a real life teacher (who knows what he’s talking about) arguing with some kind of I-don’t-even-know-what-to-call-him guy who knows absolutely nothing about what he’s talking about and arguing with groundless arguments.

Just having a great time reading how he embarrasses himself.

Enjoy the show here:
http://www.coniserver.net/ubb7/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=202291

P.S.: And even if it would be true, dying by a black hole – can’t imagine a cooler way to die.

3DGS Game wins ties with World of Warcraft

… character wise. Hannah the horse from the 3DGS game "Zoo Race" ties with the same amount of votes like the horses from World of Warcraft in the "Greatest Animal In Video Game History"-Contest.

The horses from “World of Warcraft” tied with Hannah the Horse from “Zoo Race” for third place.

Ken Levine, 2K Boston:
My first choice, of course, is Hannah the Horse from “Zoo Race,” the biblically themed animal racing game.

Old forum Fragments

I’m not even gonna make up a cool title for this. It’s just plain and simple… old forum fragments from around the year 2000. Ahh, good ‘ol memories… Found by Firoball.

http://www.conitec.org/ubb/Forum8/HTML/000069.html

Try playing with the numbers to get other posts/threads/categories.

Now playing: Adam Baldwin – The Hero of Canton

P.S.: Firefly is the best series ever. Fuck you Fox Network! Haha! My Blog! I can swear! So heh, yeah fuck you for dropping the best show that ever aired on TV!!

Well anyway, the new Forum is finally up and working. Though: I hate it.

I want my smiley back. Pisses me off, not being able to use it. So far I really hate the new forum. It’s uncomfortable, overloaded and basically sucks.

the forum was down all the time.

As the forum is down, it’s a little difficult to get what I need, but gladly I saved the most important post of the last week.

Lightning Lesson

Again, as the forum is down, I can’t really tell who posted this, but I’ll add it as soon as the forum is up again.

OK, for lighting I’ll try and give you some quick tips…

Figure A : Lights won’t make a cone shape (unless you use certain blocks) because they cast light in a sphere shape. If you don’t want the impression of a cone shape spotlight you have to fake it. A small light at the source (like a light fixture) and a larger light on the opposite surface (in this case, the floor). Make sure your light ‘bulbs’ aren’t right on top of a surface.

Figure B : I see you have enclosed light fixtures on your ceiling. These should not cast light on the ceiling as if they were bare bulbs.
You want a bit of shadow surrounding the light fixtures. If your fixtures are blocks, move your lights up close to the block so it creates some shadow at the sides.
But if your light fixtures are models, the way to create shadows is to still put a block the size of the fixture there. Then select the surfaces of the block and set them all to ‘none’. Invisible blocks don’t block light, so you must set the flags to ‘none’, and it will become invisible and still block light.

Figure C : What if you have a ledge within your imaginary cone of light? You will need to add another light to make it appear the light is shining on the ledge too. Simple To make the most realistic lighting, you must do all lights so the follow the light source. If it’s a cone shape, your light for the ledge should be bigger than the source, but smaller than the floor in this case.

Figure D : This step is almost the most important step for good lighting. Ambient lighting. Notice how your areas of shadow are completely black and dark? You won’t find this in real life. All those lights you have will reflect off walls and the floor, and while it may be dark, it won’t be completely black.

There are 2 methods for creating the bit of light you need. As mentioned above, and what I do too, is create a light, and set its diameter large enough to reach all walls. Then set it’s brightness to 10, 10, 10 for starters. if it’s too bright, lower the numbers, and if it’s too dark, raise the numbers.

Now look closely at Figure D… there’s a ledge there, so you must use 2 lights. If you use only one up high, the underside will still be black. If you put only one down low, then the upper side of the ledge will be black shadows. If you use only one light right in the middle, odds are you’ll be too dark on top of the ledge AND below it. So put one higher than the ledge, and one lower.

Now, chances are you’ll need multiple lights as well depending on the shapes of your rooms.

Now for the second, and easiest method for ambient light. At the top of WED, go to FILE > Map Properties

Here you can set the level ambient. Again, start with, like 10, 10, 10. This method will make it so you don’t have to use big ambient lights.

There is a trade off though. This will effect every room in your level. If you don’t plan on having any super dark areas at all, it’s an easy method. But if you want the ambient to be brighter in one room, you’ll have to use lights again.

Just a quick note. When you make a change to the map properties, first you must click SAVE to save your level and then reopen it. only THEN build your level again to see the changes.
Just placing lights, as you know, all you need to do is rebuild the level to see the changes. But not when setting map properties.

Hope this little ‘tutorial’ helps

- Jason

Now playing: Feist – 1234 [The Reminder]

Familiar? Maybe not at work, but maybe while doing something on your project, or… whatever…

And oh… Does anyone of you remember the Song “Lazy Days” by an (ex-)forum member Luke Stafford? He went working on some addon for Battlefield Vietman or something… I dont remember. Anyway, I’ll try to upload that song. I don’t think he has anything against that. He even has them on his homepage for download. So I guess I can…