Blog Archive for March, 2009
by gekido on Mar.24, 2009, under Updates
Removed a bunch of plugins that I wasn’t using on the site, should hopefully speed things up a bit. We’re going to be migrating our sites from our current co-loc host to a new one in the next week or so as well, so that should (if all goes according to plan) make a significant improvement on the overall performance of things.
More about that later…
by gekido on Mar.18, 2009, under Combat Spec Ops
So, we’ve been heads down in crunch mode on the ‘other’ game for a while now — there’s a light at the end of the tunnel at least, but in the meantime, I’ve been chugging away on CSO, mainly on the design and architecture of the game. Some of the high-level details that were still a bit fuzzy have become alot clearer now, particularly with how I want to see the overarching ‘macro’ game to play out, and how it will affect the individual tactical battles themselves.
Couple of games that have been inspiration with this regards:
- Act of War : Direct Action
- Joint Task Force
- Empire Earth 3
- Company of Heroes
- End War
Act of War has been very useful, particularly in the way that the player receives upgrades and enhancements to their bases and the main flow of things. It definitely has a few major issues — particularly in the fact that it doesn’t have any kind of easy way to find all of your units, so you end up spending way too long just scrolling across the map looking for where that stupid unit wandered off to.
Company of Heroes has a unique system for this (the slide-out panel), but this also becomes cumbersome when you have large numbers of units later in a particular mission. I think that I’ve come up with a good approach to handle this, and should have some sample screens / footage to demonstrate in the near future.
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by gekido on Mar.13, 2009, under Updates
Full List at
Some of my favorites:
6. Synchronized panicking is not a proper battle plan.
13. Must not murder canon NPCs in their sleep, no matter how cliche they are.
17. Collateral Damage Man is not an appropriate name for a super hero.
21. No longer allowed to recreate the Death Star Trench Run out of genre.
27. I am not to shoot every corpse in the head to make sure they aren’t a zombie in Twilight 2000.
ah, good old Twilight:2000…sigh
57. In the middle of a black op I cannot ask a guard to validate parking.
129. Not allowed to name my ship The Antidisestablishmentarianism.
266. At the end of a black-ops, I cannot crank call C-SWAT on the target’s phone.
303. I cannot gradually describe my character more and more until it’s obvious I’m describing Burt Reynolds.
383. It is not ok to use 10,000 rounds to kill two sentries.
406. The first rule of Finnegan school is not “Do not talk about Finnegan school“
407. I will not blow all my starting funds on hookers and booze.
484. If the word ‘Mullet’ appears anywhere on my samurai’s character sheet, he’s vetoed.
And possibly the best of all:
25. The green elf does not need food badly.
