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Keep Calm And Discuss Retro Generally!

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  • #3152
    CiDeRmAn
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,763 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    megaten wrote: »
    Cheers but I was thinking more along the lines like design docs, analysis's and the like. I'm doing a 2D shooter for my final year project.

    Well, again, the ABA Games titles are, over all, a deconstruction of the bullet hell/Shmup genre.
    There are even details of the bullet pattern generating routine in there too, if memory serves.
    Well worth paying visit.
    Most of his site is in Japanese but there is an English part to it.


  • #3153
    megaten
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,912 ✭✭✭megaten


    CiDeRmAn wrote: »
    Well, again, the ABA Games titles are, over all, a deconstruction of the bullet hell/Shmup genre.
    There are even details of the bullet pattern generating routine in there too, if memory serves.
    Well worth paying visit.
    Most of his site is in Japanese but there is an English part to it.

    Thanks some his game have source code posted so I can go through that and I found some stuff on http://shmups.system11.org


  • #3154
    Atavan-Halen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,183 ✭✭✭✭Atavan-Halen


    Lads. I'm half pissed and in work.

    #yolo.


  • #3155
    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    atavan-halen wrote: »
    Lads. I'm half pissed and in work.

    #yolo.

    Sackable offence, remind me never to employ you :D


  • #3156
    OwaynOTT
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,624 ✭✭✭✭OwaynOTT


    atavan-halen wrote: »
    Lads. I'm half pissed and in work.

    #yolo.

    Hopefully you have minions to create a lovely vacuum between you and the plebs, if not, I fear what could happen.


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  • #3157
    Andrew76
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 10,973 Mod ✭✭✭✭Andrew76


    EnterNow wrote: »
    Sackable offence, remind me never to employ you :D

    Thankfully he's not a bus driver, pilot or anything similar! :pac:


  • #3158
    johnny_ultimate
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 30,619 CMod ✭✭✭✭johnny_ultimate


    Today is inevitably the day Atavan discovers his manager is a regular user on this forum :p


  • #3159
    Andrew76
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 10,973 Mod ✭✭✭✭Andrew76


    Anybody try out that Castle in the Darkness Prologue? It's a taster of the full game due out early next year. From http://castleinthedarkness.mattkap.net/:
    CASTLE IN THE DARKNESS is a retro-styled exploration platformer in development by Matt Kap. It is inspired by games like Castlevania, Megaman, Kirby, Metroid, Zelda, I Wanna Be The Guy, Ys and a lot more!

    Plays pretty good actually, cool soundtrack. Nice scanlines option too. Apparently not part of the full game.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRrjDwxPCxE


  • #3160
    Atavan-Halen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,183 ✭✭✭✭Atavan-Halen


    OwaynOTT wrote: »

    Hopefully you have minions to create a lovely vacuum between you and the plebs, if not, I fear what could happen.

    Unfortunately not. Came so close to kicking a screaming child in the face. Do not have the mental capacity to be dealing with screaming children today!


  • #3161
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 53,328 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    CiDeRmAn wrote: »
    And the great maestro forgets the master class that is Einhander, deary deary me...

    It's good but the same bullet patterns are in G-Darius.


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  • #3162
    OwaynOTT
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,624 ✭✭✭✭OwaynOTT


    atavan-halen wrote: »
    Unfortunately not. Came so close to kicking a screaming child in the face. Do not have the mental capacity to be dealing with screaming children today!

    I never have the wherewithal to deal with screaming children. Thankfully I don't get them in store very often, our customers tend to be women between 25 and 50.
    Only have kids with the mummies buying their iPhone and that's enough. Sitting on the counter or the little kid you knows everything about phones! Those be the worse.
    'Shut up and let the 'man' sell your mother a phone!'


  • #3163
    CiDeRmAn
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,763 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    Wow, you lads should try my job for a week, wussies


  • #3164
    Atavan-Halen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,183 ✭✭✭✭Atavan-Halen


    CiDeRmAn wrote: »
    Wow, you lads should try my job for a week, wussies

    You've never felt the full wrath of the MAW* then.

    *Middle Aged Woman.


  • #3165
    the groutch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,096 ✭✭✭✭the groutch


    CiDeRmAn wrote: »
    Wow, you lads should try my job for a week, wussies

    I take it you don't work in retail then


  • #3166
    CiDeRmAn
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,763 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    Nope, I'm the Clinical Nurse Manager in a 12 bedded unit for males with an intellectual disability and who display what we like to call "challenging behaviour".
    Never a dull day there let me tell you....


  • #3167
    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    You know a job is serious sh1t when you need to know restraint & breakaway techniques


  • #3168
    Jack burton
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,798 ✭✭✭Jack burton


    What about if you have to know how to disjoint multiple animals?


  • #3169
    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    Jack burton wrote: »
    What about if you have to know how to disjoint multiple animals?

    Mmmm beef


  • #3170
    Jack burton
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,798 ✭✭✭Jack burton


    Beef, lamb, pork, chicken ;)

    Anything you need really


  • #3171
    Steve X2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,912 ✭✭✭Steve X2


    CiDeRmAn wrote: »
    Nope, I'm the Clinical Nurse Manager in a 12 bedded unit for males with an intellectual disability and who display what we like to call "challenging behaviour".
    Never a dull day there let me tell you....

    01020676.zoom.a.jpg


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  • #3172
    Professey Chin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,054 ✭✭✭✭Professey Chin


    ....I have a firewall in my job....


  • #3173
    Steve X2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,912 ✭✭✭Steve X2


    I've been putting a lot more retro game covers and such up on my arcade artwork website over the last few days.
    It's costing me a damn fortune as I keep coming across games I don't have and really want so end up heading over to eBay every 10 mins and buying up stuff. The PC Engine is the biggest culprit, so many good games on that thing :)


  • #3174
    OwaynOTT
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,624 ✭✭✭✭OwaynOTT


    EnterNow wrote: »
    You know a job is serious sh1t when you need to know restraint & breakaway techniques

    I use restraint ever day I work in retail.


  • #3175
    CiDeRmAn
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,763 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    EnterNow wrote: »
    You know a job is serious sh1t when you need to know restraint & breakaway techniques

    Ah yes, we call them Non Violent Control Techniques, in my job you are as often using them to avoid self injurious behaviour than assaults of other residents or staff.
    But, I am at this line of work for 22 years now, used to it now!


  • #3176
    DinoRex
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,695 ✭✭✭DinoRex


    I have to work in an industry that is probably only second to catholic priest for crawling with pedophiles.


  • #3177
    Steve X2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,912 ✭✭✭Steve X2


    DinoRex wrote: »
    I have to work in an industry that is probably only second to catholic priest for crawling with pedophiles.

    The BBC??


  • #3178
    Jack burton
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,798 ✭✭✭Jack burton


    jimmy-saville-two.jpg


  • #3179
    DinoRex
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,695 ✭✭✭DinoRex


    Steve SI wrote: »
    The BBC??

    Well the radio industry in general. Have met a lot of dodgy DJs over the years.


  • #3180
    o1s1n
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,466 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    Jaysus, you lads have it tough. The most dangerous thing I have to deal with in work is the slippy, marble type flloor when I walk in on a wet morning.


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  • #3181
    Steve X2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,912 ✭✭✭Steve X2


    The toughest thing about my last job was probably having to remove all the daggers from my back every evening.


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