Comments on: Don’t Take Your Life Over Portal: Still Alive

By: Supertycoon

Supertycoon — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 11:16:13 +0000

@Andre Wills Sometimes they make the game.

By: alphaxion

alphaxion — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 10:00:17 +0000

@Okami my girlfriend is currently trying to get a works placement at a development studio but has not had any response back from any of them so far :(

She is currently working on a game concept to show off to sumo should they call her in for an interview, it’s a great idea she has and I keep telling her to make a scan of one of her drawings and send it in to her contact in that company…

But, she’s understandably worried about either being told it’s a waste of time or the idea getting pilfered >.<

If you have any suggestions I’d love to hear from you and can pass them onto her – just add @hotmail.com to my name to get my email addy :)

By: Hermes

Hermes — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 20:54:08 +0000

@haflo:

I think you may be right, I think I still have gunman chronicles laying around somewhere.

By: GeorgeR

GeorgeR — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:56:25 +0000

Groveling here we come. Downloading now!

By: MetalCircus

MetalCircus — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:52:53 +0000

I still have my copy of Gunman Chronicles in a huge cardboard box… i loved that back when it came out. I was such a massive HL freak. I should fire it up again sometime.

By: Saflo

Saflo — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:35:18 +0000

Hermes, are you thinking of The Gunman Chronicles? It had dinosaurs in it and ran on the HL engine.

http://www.mobygames.com/game/windows/gunman-chronicles

By: Walter

Walter — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:28:18 +0000

I had never heard of that mod, downloading now.

Thanks!

By: Hermes

Hermes — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:18:10 +0000

@phuzz

thanks I actually have gone through that area in hl2. What I am referring to is a rumored part of version 1.0 Half-Life (1998) which was removed in a subsequent patch.

By: phuzz

phuzz — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:45:56 +0000

@Hermes: iirc the Borealis was originally supposed to be in HL2, but was cut later. You might be interested in the mod Missing Information, which is basically a collection of all the bits of HL2 that were cut out (so it includes bits from trailers and gameplay vids). It’s buggy as hell, but interesting, in a “crawling through valve’s bins to see what they threw away”, kind of way…

By: Alec Meer

Alec Meer — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:19:05 +0000

Eeee. Basically, I use a system of trial, error, copy, paste, Google and intermittent disaster. So while I’m generally fine with tweaking style.css these days, I’ve no idea how to implement a table. Cheers though. I’ll get around to it eventually, I’m sure.

(The chap who designed the site is busy with other projects, hence I’m not bothering him about minor tweakery).

By: bonuswavepilot

bonuswavepilot — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:37:44 +0000

@Alec: Shouldn’t be too hard to align things thus. If you aren’t averse to using tables, for example, where you currently have your bit that displays the links, you could instead make a table with one row, two sets of data in that row. Each td element can have its own align= attrib, so you just make the left one align=”left” and the right align=”right”, and put one link in each.

Though this loses you your nice red links ’cause they’re in the paragraph style in your css, and paras don’t play so nice with tables, in my experience. Thus, you need to add some rules for links in tables, similar to what you have in the div.block ul a:link section. So, adding something like;

div.block table td a:link {margin:0 auto;padding:0;border:0;text-decoration:none;color:#8a0a00;font-weight:bold}
div.block table td a:visited {text-decoration:none;color:#8a0a00;border:0;}
div.block table td a:hover {text-decoration:none;color:#ffa42f;border:0;}
div.block table td a:active {text-decoration:none;color:#8a0a00;border:0;}

To your style.css file ought to do it.

(Tried this out, seems to render ok in firefox at least. Would have posted the actual html, but tricky to put it into a comment without it just being rendered.)

By: There Is No Glass

There Is No Glass — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 08:12:39 +0000

So the total game lenght is five hours now? One more expansion pack like this and Portal will actually be a videogame! Go Valve!