Comments on: Un Taco Por Favor: ¡Time Donkey!

By: Joseph

Joseph — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 18:31:21 +0000

All of blurst’s games crash for me shortly after loading.

Reinstalling firefox and unity hasn’t helped, nor has updating video drivers. Bleh.

By: postmanX3

postmanX3 — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 14:37:28 +0000

This is awesome. “Single-player Multi-player” describes it perfectly!

By: The Hammer

The Hammer — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 10:57:25 +0000

“FEED the Blurst team.”

Ahahahaha.

Flashbang are really setting up a great games library now, come to think of it. My particular favourites are Minotaur China Shop and Blush, but each game they bring out is definitely worth playing. What’s great is that you’re guaranteed quality, laughs, and long-lasting brevity (PARADOX. But, I mean, in terms of five-minute games you can play over and over and over again) whilst the price for entry is absolutely nothing.

I can’t love Flashbang enough for that. <3

By: An Innocuous Coin

An Innocuous Coin — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 10:46:46 +0000

@ Martin Coxall

Maybe leave more detailed feedback? :/ This tells the developers nothing, and they will listen to you.

By: Neil

Neil — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 09:50:29 +0000

why is this not called Time Burro?

By: Benny

Benny — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 03:24:55 +0000

Ah that looks promising (even if almost a year old heh). I like to hope that the incoming Google Chrome OS could push alot more development towards the Linux platform, as with google being such a powerhouse.

On a random side note something for the RPS guys to try maybe, a diary of going Linux only for a month. Trying out native games and the fun of running things under WINE. Could be interesting atleast, give a broader perspective on the PC as a whole.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 02:59:22 +0000

Benny: It will, at some point. I’m not sure how much of a priority it is for Unity, but there was at least a proof of concept at some point. Miguel, the man leading the Mono project, posted this awhile ago: http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2008/Nov-14.html

By: Benny

Benny — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 02:46:03 +0000

I have a general wonder. Do you have any idea of whether the Unity web player will ever be released for Linux based OSs? With the sudden surge of netbooks, which i believe about 1/3 are running under Linux if not more, then this is a suddenly much larger user base than what previously was a very tiny niche oft ignored.

Obviously this is Unity’s choice but the move from Mac to Linux i guess (no actual knowledge of this btw) isn’t too difficult seeing as MacOS itself is Unix based. I’d really love to be able to play time donkey in random locations rather than just on my desk bound PC.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 00:08:18 +0000

Polysynchronicity: Controls are camera-relative, patterned after console thumbstick controls (forward moves you into the scene, away from the camera, left will move you to the camera’s left, etc). You might be surprised how crappy left/right as donkey-relative rotate actually feels when you play it. It’s hard to make good keyboard controls for a 3D platformer.

By: mickiscoole

mickiscoole — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 23:47:36 +0000

Well there goes my idea for a Source mod…

By: Polysynchronicity

Polysynchronicity — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 20:00:37 +0000

Left should ALWAYS turn you left, down should ALWAYS move you backwards, and so on. Right now it seems that left turns you left for a bit and then starts making you run about, which is pretty damn annoying when you’re trying to make a 180º turn.

By: Martin Coxall

Martin Coxall — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 18:55:00 +0000

Crappy camera is crappy.

Crappy control system is crappy.