BigJKO

Just to help you along, buddy, I made a mockup of how the game should look when it's up and running in Unity. No problem, man!

For you the issue is that there aren't better characters. For others the issues is why aren't there more female characters (or better ones.) One issue doesn't exclude the other. I don't even fully understand why you're so frustrated by something that has no impact on (what I assume from your posts are) your ideals and opinions on video games. A feminist angle in games journalism can be as much an outcry for good, overall characters as it is about equality. She jokingly talked about gender in Donkey Kong, but the real example about Bravely Default is focused on one very bad male character, not the number of female characters.

She was referring to a review she wrote and that review has a tiny sidebar that explains the particular tangent in the game she refers to as sexist. I think it's fair of her to assume that if anyone was interested in knowing why she thought Bravely Default had some sexism in it, that person would just go check out her review to find out?

Nah! It just happens in this thread.

Yeah, the new 2d stuff in Unity 4.3 has support for spritesheets.

Hah! Video Games Are Childish, you've come to the wrong place if you're looking for someone to back that sentiment up..

Spoiler tags, Merus!

Yes, whatever.. make them public, get this out to people! Why not?

What?! The crackling wasn't my headphones slowly dying? Thank god..

Offense Taken! No, not really..

FYI, IRC Cloud is only free for 7 days after which it costs $5/month. A bit pricey if you're like me and #idlethumbs is the only channel you use. But the service is great! Seamlessly went from my browser to the iOS client, showing all the chat missed on between. Excellent stuff.

Gormongous, you actually get an invite almost immediately if you just sign up over there. I got one pretty quickly.

Well, there's an idea!

When can I play it?!

Yes.

Sorry Twig..

Haha, that Guardians of the Galaxy trailer. I like it! Now there's a superhero movie I want to see.

Christ, that looks gorgeous! If you're going to put it into a game, I fear that AGS's resolution limit will take away some of the great detail. But maybe.. it'll look cool and retro! But if 800x600 isn't enough for you, it shouldn't be TOO hard to set it up in Unity.

Haha, I'll try! Just for funsies last night I put a bunch of the AI characters on the track to race themselves. In this vine they're just chasing each others tail, but every once in a while someone got ahead of the pack! Hooray for that guy. Next up is giving them a couple of different personalities, like one of them brakes a bit at every turn, playin' it safe. And also, I need to make it so they avoid obstacles, i.e. the player or anything I might put on the tracks. That would also hopefully fix them just stopping dead on walls..

Haha, that's awesome Blambo. I don't know what to make of that, but that sounds like a compliment! danimo, that is exactly where the inspiration for this comes from! And a pool table level is definitely going in.

From the looks of the screenshot on their website, then yes you can definitely do that. If anyone has an invite for that they can throw my way, I would appreciate it. It sounds cool!

Ok! First pass at AI is in. It has shown me that I am apparently rubbish at my own game.. http://kristinsson.dk/tinyracing_web/ If you encounter bugs, you could use the fancy Issue Tracker to report them.

I want to play this right now.

toblix4, obviously. He's the science toblix.

I use it mainly for game dev talk, but it's just a channel for whatever, I guess. toblix has calculated that under 10% of the chat is dev focused. Science! Can't argue with that.