Defining Awesome

The first fan created Link-Dead map has arrived. Take a look at this awesome video (available in HD):

The lecture was a lot of fun. I told everyone to make a game next year and sell it. The game should be appropriate to the skill level they have right now. Hope to see some good polish games in 2011.

I’m going to have a lecture at the Warsaw Institute of Technology on Wednesday were I was asked by a club of game makers to make a talk. I’m excited to be there. The title of my lecture is “How to live from making games?”. Facebook page.

This is the kind of error message reporting I made on the LD server. I didn’t know why this occured until I saw who joined the game:

Bug fixes release.

Changes 1878-1880

[optimization]
– fixed minimalist render performance & improved overall lighting performance
– edge shadows don't render on low preset

[other]
– fixed grenade.png not found on server

[interface]
– increased menu scrolling speed
– fixed kill msgs colors
– your kills now appear brighter in console
– kill msgs are stamped with ! for kill and – for suicide
– changed channel button help is rendered at the bottom

[visual]
– disabled post-processing saturation filter (it's not so dark now)

[rats]
– fixed laggy rat behaviour
– fixed some rat behaviours
– rats appear on dead bodies during match

[network]
– fixed not destroying certain objects (this may have caused slow downs)
– fixed ragdolls appearing at top left corner on join server

[editor
– fixed editor collision delete crash

[balance]
– 5% less recoil on Hoor
– Nidhogg is 15% more accurate
– Scram cannon is lighter by 2.0 and 0.5s faster

Just got a message from ModDB that Link-Dead is in the Top 100 of all indie games 2010! The voting is still on, so with a bit of your help we might win. Click here scroll down a bit and click the big green VOTE button.

I just made in-game video recording! Awesome article, copy-paste stuff.  It uses ogg theora compression which is awfully slow, I’m looking for an alternative. Also the article doesn’t explain recording sound. But it does explain how to upload directly to Youtube which would be fantastic!