Keep Calm And Discuss Retro Generally!

Was at a Unity workshop today. Was really interesting. It's a very powerful game creation tool and a lot of fun to just mess around with. The best thing about it is there's no compiling, you can jump into your 3D game as you make it.

One of the weirdest things was the kids that were at it that know more programming than I did. They go to summer camps called 'Coder Dojo' and they're all making games and coding in stuff like Python already, might be worth looking into for people with kids that might be interested in it.

Yeah very harsh, the kids were really interested in Unity and about how they can make money from it since it's easy to compile your games into different formats. The guy teaching the workshop who works in an indie game studio says the coder dojo kids scare him because they know more coding than he does.

If you have a good artists you can pretty much make a FPS game with Unity to match any current next gen FPS. It's very impressive, easy to use and will take 3D models, animations and textures in a huge variety of formats and you can code it in javascript, C# or python, the coding looks rather easy as well.

Now the course I'm doing is pure casual so I've to come up with casual game ideas which isn't all that fun.

Great, been looking out for a US WiiU so I don't miss out on Atlus games

Nintendo have a very weird relationship with Germany. They are based there so have to comply with their laws and while the rest of Europe embraced the Megadrive a bit more than the SNES, Germany was dominated by the SNES.

Does anyone remember the cluster**** of the N64 launch in europe, it's strange that it never gets investigated or reported on since it would make a very interesting piece but because game journalism is mostly US based the records show the N64 launch was very smooth and professional.

What I remember was multiple delays, people claiming they had a N64 3-4 weeks before launch and people rubbishing them and calling them liars. Then it transpired people were going on holidays to Germany and coming home with N64's and it's how these people got their hands on them, Nintendo had snuck the system out in Germany early to reward their loyalty. A lot of people who had waited through the delays with pre-orders got annoyed. Then Nintendo dicked them over about a month later with a massive price cut to the system of about £100.