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Plans a risk? If you are worried about your IP, don't post it publicly. But there's two things to remember that r... read more 10/17/2005 (4:33 pm)
IGC Game Impressions. Post them here No, seriously, thanks for the feedback -- but here is where the problem lies: I did a crappy job at ... read more 10/15/2005 (12:53 am)
IGC Game Impressions. Post them here @Matt -- Thanks for the feedback on Wildlife Tycoon. I've noticed that many people spent a long tim... read more 10/14/2005 (10:41 pm)
Detail-LOD popup In case you are still wondering about this, use $pref::TS::detailAdjust. I had the same problem.... read more 10/14/2005 (12:38 am)
IGC Game Impressions. Post them here There was a nintendo guy there? DAMN! Missed my opportunity.... read more 10/13/2005 (12:07 pm)
IGC Game Impressions. Post them here We will be soft-launching at the end of this month from my website (www.wildlifetycoon.com). We lau... read more 10/13/2005 (11:32 am)
IGC Game Impressions. Post them here @Justin- I think the press release got lost in Benjamin's inbox :) I announced before the show tha... read more 10/13/2005 (11:15 am)
IGC Game Impressions. Post them here Robot Smackdown pleasantly surprised me. Tubetwist was everything it was made out to be. Really ... read more 10/12/2005 (1:19 am)
Compile error on Mac OS X tiger I am having the same problems as the second poster above (regarding ResManager forward definitions).... read more 10/05/2005 (11:29 pm)
One man team - feasible? WHY are you making an RPG? Why are you making a game? Are there easier ways of accomplishing you... read more 10/03/2005 (12:32 am)
IGC05 showoff center games (unofficial listing) Hey Ajari- The music is great. John Seguin did a great job. I can't wait to get started on the ... read more 09/28/2005 (5:53 pm)
IGC05 showoff center games (unofficial listing) Wildlife Tycoon: Venture Africa [image]http://www.wildlifetycoon.com/images/screen_5_lg.jpg[/image]... read more 09/27/2005 (1:47 am)
Herding/Flocking rules Huh. Your little demo is cool. Looks like you are only having each follow one, which is good.... read more 09/26/2005 (12:55 pm)
Herding/Flocking rules FAST FLOCKING! Some flocking algorithms are n-squared algorithms. I've found that the flocks loo... read more 09/26/2005 (12:51 pm)
IGF Bet Redux It definitely makes you feel like a long shot when you are lower budget -- a game like Alien Hominid... read more 09/25/2005 (11:57 am)
IGC 05 Hotel? I'm paying a bit more than that at the Best Value, but they were out of normal rooms and I had to ge... read more 09/25/2005 (10:26 am)
IGF bets? I appreciate the defense Ajari -- and I've been playing as many games as I can -- at least half of t... read more 09/25/2005 (10:10 am)
IGF Bet Redux Hey Paul -- Flash Bios is cool! I just downloaded it and gave it a shot. I can't wait to see more.... read more 09/24/2005 (9:18 pm)
IGF Bet Redux HA! Cool! I hope no sarcasm is intended... :) And yeah, Dofus does look pretty nice despite the... read more 09/24/2005 (6:54 pm)
IGF Bet Redux OF course, [b]Wildlife Tycoon: Venture Africa[/b] will win in ALL categories, due to the innovative ... read more 09/24/2005 (12:11 am)
IGF bets? @Paul - One of the reasons I started this thread was so that I could maybe hear about some submissio... read more 09/23/2005 (11:37 pm)
IGC 05 Hotel? Im booked there too, now. See you there!... read more 09/23/2005 (1:14 pm)
IGC 05 Hotel? Don't worry, I'm not very beloved either (check out the IGF bets? post... haha)... read more 09/23/2005 (12:27 pm)
IGF bets? Wow, I really didn't mean to get in people's hair about this. I was just having some fun... like as... read more 09/22/2005 (4:05 pm)
IGF bets? Anyone have any bets on whether Luxor will be nominated for anything? (speaking of big commercial g... read more 09/22/2005 (10:44 am)
IGF bets? Again, I really was only trying to take bets on what would win, not what should win. Although I und... read more 09/22/2005 (10:12 am)
IGF bets? If it's significantly improved, I don't think there's anything wrong with it either. I would suspec... read more 09/21/2005 (11:33 pm)
IGF bets? Lore was last year, I believe it was a finalist, but it didn't win anything in the end.... read more 09/21/2005 (11:20 pm)
IGF bets? Darwinia wasn't in last year. Winners last year for the open cat, by the way, were: Innovation in ... read more 09/21/2005 (7:20 pm)
IGF bets? Wow, my bad. I was doing some research on the competition this morning and I must have followed som... read more 09/21/2005 (7:02 pm)
IGF bets? And my post was certainly not meant to piss off the DH: Lore guys. These are my guesses on who will... read more 09/21/2005 (6:45 pm)
IGF bets? Whooaa. There's plenty of totally badass work here at GG. Of course there is! If you'd like some ... read more 09/21/2005 (6:41 pm)
IGF bets? No opinions on the subject? Come on... live a little :)... read more 09/21/2005 (6:27 pm)
Tycoon: Overused or Descriptive? Simple business simulations are only as fun as you make them. Sounds like you'll probably nail the ... read more 09/20/2005 (10:37 am)
Tycoon: Overused or Descriptive? Glad to hear you see the light... at least the same way I do. ;) What are your plans for your Tycoo... read more 09/19/2005 (7:17 pm)
Tycoon: Overused or Descriptive? You know why its overused? Because it sells. People that buy Tycoon games don't generally know t... read more 09/19/2005 (5:09 pm)
Is the 360 and PS3 meeting expectations? Who gives a hoot about graphics anymore? The only things that matter next gen are online service (i... read more 09/16/2005 (10:31 pm)
Average Team Sizes. 1 full time, 6 part time (with narrowly defined tasks) on Wildlife Tycoon: Venture Africa. We will ... read more 09/15/2005 (3:59 pm)
Objs w/ translucent materials not rendering correctly u/ water Hi Ben... sorry to trouble your already busy work day :) Do you have any ideas of what kinds of tes... read more 09/09/2005 (9:13 pm)
Okay everybody represent your `hood(neighborhood that is) San Diego, CA... read more 09/09/2005 (10:17 am)
Autistic Kid needs Xbox Ha, yes of course it was just a joke. You guys are doing a wonderful thing, and I figured a little ... read more 09/09/2005 (10:15 am)
Autistic Kid needs Xbox Yeah, likely story. If you wanted a free Xbox that badly, you could have just asked for one for Chr... read more 09/08/2005 (10:46 pm)
Game Idea It may be dead, but it's the second funniest post I've seen on the forums... The first being the .pl... read more 09/01/2005 (2:30 pm)
FoilageReplicator, mod or pick apart? If you don't know C++ modifying Foliage Replicator code (or even creating a new object in code) is p... read more 08/30/2005 (9:11 am)
Purging sounds from memory That did the trick, thanks Ben.... read more 08/23/2005 (5:35 pm)
Crash on object removal (particles and shapebases) I believe it may be related to an entirely different object: my raincloud. The cloud is created i... read more 08/20/2005 (2:15 pm)
Crash on object removal (particles and shapebases) I'm sure it's something I added that's causing this, because it wasn't happening 2 weeks ago. But t... read more 08/20/2005 (1:41 pm)
Crash on object removal (particles and shapebases) Just got another crash on client side particle removal. Assert: "Object not on Water List" This ... read more 08/20/2005 (1:26 pm)
Xbox 360 Pricing and Models Announced The HD was by far the most expensive piece of hardware in the Xbox 1, and is why they sold it at a l... read more 08/18/2005 (4:53 pm)
Drawing mission area outline Hi guys... thanks for your input. I ended up making a custom foliage generator that places the foli... read more 08/15/2005 (11:01 pm)