Comments on: Gaming University Student Projects

Gaming University Student Projects

TheOnlyCoolTim — Sat, 22 Jul 2006 13:18:39 -0800

Student Projects from DigiPen, a computer game college. A few I've tried and approve include Narbacular Drop, which is very short, more of a tech demo, but contains the idea and some of the people behind Valve's upcoming Portal^, Orblitz, a get-the-ball-to-the-goal puzzle game with extremely calming graphics and music, and Bontãgo, a weird combination of RTS, Tetris, and Jenga.

By: TheOnlyCoolTim

TheOnlyCoolTim — Sat, 22 Jul 2006 13:19:41 -0800

It asks for your name and e-mail when you go to download, but it doesn't check that the e-mail is valid or even properly formed.

By: delmoi

delmoi — Sat, 22 Jul 2006 13:19:57 -0800

Just say no to caret notation!

By: Orange Goblin

Orange Goblin — Sat, 22 Jul 2006 13:43:50 -0800

"FP-FS is a First Person Shooter where the levels are built from the folder structure of the player's computer." Wasn't there a game exactly like this a number of years back? I played Narbacular Drop when I first heard about Portal (see, like that!) and although it was buggy as hell and unpolished, the basic principal is a lot of fun, meaning I can't wait for Portal.

By: gd779

gd779 — Sat, 22 Jul 2006 14:20:46 -0800

Yeah, what is with that caret, anyway? It's very confusing, and completely unnecessary. I think people understand hyperlinking by now.

By: Gator

Gator — Sat, 22 Jul 2006 14:28:00 -0800

Yes, please stop with the carets.

By: Gator

Gator — Sat, 22 Jul 2006 14:33:36 -0800

On topic, I actually remember reading about this place ten years ago when I had a subscription to Smithsonian Magazine, and thought it sounded like an awesome place. (I really need to re-subscribe, God knows what other cool stuff I've been missing out on.)

By: Afroblanco

Afroblanco — Sat, 22 Jul 2006 14:36:56 -0800

Yeah, let's totally ignore the content of the post, and focus on the important matter at hand - disciplining users for posting in a style that we do not like.

By: litghost

litghost — Sat, 22 Jul 2006 15:08:03 -0800

They developed Bontago? Man, my friends and I used played that at LANs, great game. Anyone want to play a game? I've started a server 71.138.138.64 port 5001.

By: blasdelf

blasdelf — Sat, 22 Jul 2006 15:19:16 -0800

Yeah, let's totally ignore the content of the post, and focus on the important matter at hand - disciplining users for posting in a style that we do not like.

We will do it until they stop. It's really been working well for the Israelis!

By: jimmy

jimmy — Sat, 22 Jul 2006 15:50:26 -0800

man, narbacular drop is TERRIBLE. i'm all set to love it -- and i do love the premise -- but the implementation of the puzzles is just miserable, and it's buggy beyond hell. it really would have been nice if they had just modeled it after the incredible machine, and given you a sandbox in which you could lay portals at your own leisure. anyhow, i have full faith that valve will steer them on the right path with "portal". stepping stones, and all that

By: jimmy

jimmy — Sat, 22 Jul 2006 15:51:01 -0800

oh, and caretpedia links are stupid. please don't use them ever again.

By: Malor

Malor — Sat, 22 Jul 2006 16:05:09 -0800

It's pretty obvious that he was intending to poke fun at the Wiki caret links. He used five regular links and one caret... and folks are going off sideways. Sheesh! It was a JOKE, people. Narbacular Drop is indeed buggy as crap, but it's FUN. I think Portal is gonna rock, at least if they debug it. You can get very clever indeed with portals.... Bontago is also great fun. It's very worth downloading. I've gotta go get some dinner now, but I'll try to log onto litghost's server later on.

By: cellphone

cellphone — Sat, 22 Jul 2006 16:25:17 -0800

^no^ ^more^ ^goddamned^ ^carets^

By: Orange Goblin

Orange Goblin — Sat, 22 Jul 2006 16:58:41 -0800

Narbacular Drop does have a sort of sandbox mode, its just a room with various models in it.

By: Malor

Malor — Sat, 22 Jul 2006 17:07:38 -0800

litghost: I can't get Bontago running on my main machine, so I don't think I'll be showing up. :( It just... mysteriously... doesn't run. I've tried everything I can think of. It installs fine, doesn't complain... but when I run it, it just doesn't do anything. I have no idea what's wrong.

By: BillsR100

BillsR100 — Sat, 22 Jul 2006 18:33:43 -0800

Weird, I have a tiny digital camera with a "DigiPen" brand name on it.

By: whir

whir — Sat, 22 Jul 2006 18:35:47 -0800

I'm enjoying Zombie Farmer, it's a little like the base-building / resource management bit of an RTS game. Sombrero Ninja looks cool put I keep falling through the ground and dying.

By: sixacross

sixacross — Sat, 22 Jul 2006 19:10:25 -0800

Why are you guys linking to the Wiki entry to Portal? I know we're all too cool for YouTube, but you have to see this game to believe it. In case you missed it, Portal Portal Portal

By: odinsdream

odinsdream — Sat, 22 Jul 2006 19:36:12 -0800

It's pretty obvious that he was intending to poke fun at the Wiki caret links. He used five regular links and one caret. Apparently you missed what the caret links were about. You're only "supposed" to use them when linking to wikipedia itself, so of course it wouldn't make sense to use them anywhere else in the post, because there's only one wikipedia link.