Date aired:
10 Aug 2012
Link to Recording:
Show Length:
02:58:38
Intro background: 00:03:25 Yoshihiro Sakaguchi - Track 2 - 1943 OST
Shoutouts:
- Final Form Games...again, great work on Jamestown
- Wulf
- LadyC
- 006, Heather, and their upcoming child
- Boris, Natasha, and Prehistoric Badass
- Housepets! fans
Housekeeping:
- Site: basic Mumble instructions up
- Show: continuing Mumble refinement, no longer using IRC
- Stream: Up-to-date music in full (almost)
Community:
Positive:
- OUYA final update: ~$8.6M (funded, obviously)
- Kickstarters: Occulus Rift VR headset, Jetpack 2 (round 2), Divekick (canceled, but taken on by publisher), Kickstarter Indie Bundle
- Zynga shares plummet to $3; employees recount 12-hour days, alcoholism, and the like
- Zynga passing out stock to keep employees
- "Use It Better" helps game devs understand how their games are played
- Best Buy founder wants slashed prices, Apple-style customer service in $10B rescue plan
- Disney's REVEL could revolutionize augmented reality by simulating friction when coming into contact with objects on the same electrical plane; Botanicus Interacticus adds capacitive touch to ordinary plants
- Modder conjoins two N64 controllers for dual-analog play in Star Wars Episode 1 Racer, Goldeneye
Legal:
- Apple/Samsung trial continues to blaze onward, showing off internal documents and very intriguing device prototypes from years past
- Demonoid forced offline by Ukrainian authorities; Anonymous swears revenge
- Video of raid on Kim Dotcom's mansion released by New Zealand's 3NEWS
- Federal appeals court says warrantless wiretapping is legal
- Steam updates ToS to disallow class-action lawsuits
- EA suing Zynga over copyright infringement of The Ville on The Sims Social
- Blizzard's Battle.net servers compromised, hashed passwords and other authentication info stolen
What are we playing?
- Mr. Bond:
- PC - Jamestown, Pulsen
- Mobile - Final Fantasy 2 (GBA)
- Console - Spelunky, Final Fantasy 2 (NES)
- Tormod:
- PC - Nothing
- Mobile - Nothing
- Console - Final Fantasy 1, 2, and 5, Spelunky
Upcoming/Recent Hardware: 00:29:26
- OUYA getting partnerships: Namco Bandai, Vevo, XBMC
- New Xbox to launch within 18 months, says Microsoft job listing
- OUYA now supports four controllers
- OUYA console pre-order now available for non-backers at $109, slated to ship in April; backer consoles ship in March
- Super Angry Birds USB controller puts the sling back in your shot
Upcoming/Recent Software: 00:33:37
- Ubisoft DRM found to have rootkit; patched
- eXceed collection on Steam
- L4D2 performance on Linux / OpenGL beats out Windows / DirectX
- OpenGL 4.3 / OpenGL ES 3.0 standards released
- Steam to offer non-game software starting 5 Sep
- Other releases
- Netflix brings 'Just for Kids' user interface to the 360
- Amazon releases its first social game, "Living Classics", on Facebook
- SlingPlayer survey hints at possible expansion to game consoles
Upcoming/Recent Music: 00:37:23
Song set #1: 00:41:34
- Knight of the Round - Heavy Mako - Final Fantasy 7 (OCReMix)
- trickwaters - The Dark - Final Fantasy 4 (OCReMix)
- DM Lee - Matoya's Broken Beats - Final Fantasy 2 (Iron Mix Competition 15...sorry, no link)
Section #1: 00:53:25 From scratch - Bullet Hell
Song set #2: 01:12:54
Section #2: 01:23:12 Redux of existing game - Raptor: Call of the Shadows; Star Fox 64 (as bullet hell)
Song set #3: 01:38:46
Section #3: 01:53:09 Audience interaction - skipping content
Song set #4: 02:08:12
Section #4: 02:21:39 Unbounded by technology - bullet hell; nah, crazy bear / sporks / Jamestown / FMA crossover
Audience requests: none
Outro background: 02:51:20 Yoshihiro Sakaguchi - Track 4 - 1943 OST
Comments
Who is that child?
Submitted by _006 on
That child is MY child...that's who :D
Adjusting difficulty on-the-fly
Submitted by _006 on
Like the newest versions of Madden do....? ;)
Multi-hit bullet hells
Submitted by _006 on
U.N. Squadron also had something like that, where you could take multiple hits. Your health bar would decrease, depending on how much damage you took, and would eventually heal if you took no more damage for a period of time. It was basically a critical, where if you were hit during the critical stage you would die. Made for a lot of fun (one of my favorite bullet hells).
I would also say Zombies Ate My Neighbors is another fun (psuedo)bullet-hell that had a health function. You could pick up health packs you could use at later moments. It wasn't like the traditional bullets-all-the-time games, but did incorporate some of the same aspects.