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Angry Pixels Devteam Formed
Jacek Poplawski writes "Angry Pixels is a chosen name of Game Development Team which has been
announced on Slashdot two weeks ago.
We are currently searching for artists and going to make Best Game in the World, which will be available for Linux, Win32 and Mac OS X."
Starring Tanto, Frankenstein, and Tarzan from
the hit TV show "As World Turn".
For every annoying gentoo user, are three even more annoying anti-gentoo crybabies. Take Yosh from #Gimp for example.
Nice APRIL FOOL'S joke, guys!
What a great name for a rock band..
Dave Barry probably wishes he had come up with this one!
On the other hand... most people would probably mistake them for the Angry Pixies.
-Adi.
I may be a karma whore but you guys are april fools day whores!!
A real april fool joke has to involve petrol bombs , electrocution and bear traps, *shakes head* the youth of today....
Slashdot - The one stop shop for procrastination
This is just a tribute.
I think they should focus on searching for a new name!
I'm thinking perhaps we made a mistake releasing this bit on April 1st... ;-)
(Gods I hate this "holiday")
I hope one of the first things the designers do is to get rid of the "topmargin=0 leftmargin=0" html on http://www.angry-pixels.com/.
And what's with the green text?
WHAT?!?!? they are making a Starcraft/Slashdot hybrid game? for timmothy!
Don't be out to make the "best game in the world," that is an amorphous target that will always move, and will never be achieveable in the time you have alotted.
Instead, try to make the best-selling game in the world, preferably within the constraints of your budget.
The ______ Agenda
Man I wish the Pixies would get back together... ::hums 'Bone Machine' to self::
Is the company focused on developing a cross-platform engine (with a complete scripting language) and then using an instance of that engine to create The Best Game in the World? Or are they just going to code up the game itself (with minimal re-usability)?
;)
People that don't read old articles would like to know.
if you want to create a beautiful game,
remember what game companies today have forgotten (and hence why their games are so bad),
that a great game is something more emotive less exciting;
make it about people and invoke in people's minds what is deep and beautiful,
don't make it about violence and dark grimacing men with oversized guns,
give it depth,
don't make it for psychopathic teenage boys who like playing CounterStrike and chest thumping.
Remember music is far more important than graphics,
physics more important than sprites,
that the social side to multiplayer is 4/5th of the experience (hence have no more than 2 or 3 main servers rather than the zillions-of-servers model),
that it should be treated more like art and writing a novel; that the storyline matters.
I recommend you look at a game called Myth: The Fallen Lords for ideas of what it takes to make a great game.
I'm telling you how to suck eggs because I'm very aware of how little comprehension most programmers and graphics artists have of what makes a great game. If you're the ones who are not like that, I salute you.
[spoken]
This is the greatest and best game in the world... Tribute.
Long time ago me and my brother Kyle here,
we was hitchhikin' down a long and lonesome road.
All of a sudden, there shined a shiny demon... in the middle... of the road.
And he said:
[sung]
"Code the best game in the world, or I'll eat your soul."
[spoken]
Well me and Kyle, we looked at each other,
and we each said... "Okay."
[sung]
And we wrote the first lines that came to our heads,
Just so happened to be,
The Best Game in the World, it was The Best Game in the World.
Look into my eyes and it's easy to see
That we use `vi`, we program in C
It was destiny.
Once every hundred-thousand years or so,
When the sun doth shine and the moon doth glow
And the grass doth grow...
Needless to say, the beast was stunned.
Whip-crack went his schwumpy tail,
And the beast was done.
He asked us: "(snort) Be you angels?"
And we said, "Nay. We are but men."
Rock!
Ahhh, ahhh, ahhh-ah-ah,
Ohhh, whoah, ah-whoah-oh!
This is not The Greatest Game in the World, no.
This is just a tribute.
Rm -rf'd The Greatest Game in the World, oh no.
This is a tribute, oh, to The Greatest Game in the World,
All right! It was The Greatest Game in the World,
All right! It was the best muthafuckin' game the greatest game in the world.
[2-part skat]
Well as long as its not Daikatana.