By Adam Smith on January 31st, 2012 at 3:54 pm.
I’m going to design a Door Gun. It looks a bit like a normal gun but with some glowing science parts, ut when you shoot it at a wall a door appears. There’s a dial on the barrel that can change the type and size of the door, so if you want a dark wooden veneer, that’s fine, but if you’d rather have some sort of horrible formica-like slab it can handle that too. It’ll mostly be used by architects and joiners. Not like a Gateway Gun, which is a bit like a Portal Gun, and is for the exclusive use of scientists and test subjects. That brings me to Gateways, an upcoming side-scrolling platform-puzzler. The trailer made my brain hurt.
Obviously, walking through a wall and then falling out of the floor weren’t outrageous enough for Smudged Cat Games so they’ve added replication and size-warping into the mix. The visual style doesn’t make me want to jump for joy but the possible complexity of it does.
Rather than being a series of levels, the entire game takes place on one map, with sections becoming available for exploration as new powerups are found. For that reason, I’m going to call it Super Metrortal Braidlevania and I hope you’ll join me in doing the same.
31/01/2012 at 16:06 carn1x says:
I better start stocking up on headache tablets now.
31/01/2012 at 16:21 konrad_ha says:
This trailer begs the question: Has science gone too far?
31/01/2012 at 16:31 Kdansky says:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begging_the_question
No, it does not. It raises a question, but it’s not a fallacy.
31/01/2012 at 17:24 wccrawford says:
Newsflash: ‘beg’ means to ask for something. Just because ‘beg the question’ means something in 1 particular circumstance does not prevent it from meaning something else the rest of the time.
31/01/2012 at 19:12 PopeJamal says:
“Begs the question” is a specific phrase that means a specific thing. It is not a group of words thrown together at random. Can you use language however you want? Of course! Can you randomly use language however you see fit and expect random people (who may be on another part of the planet) to understand what you’re talking about? I wouldn’t count on it.
31/01/2012 at 20:51 Droopy The Dog says:
Technically “Begging the question” has a particular meaning in one archaic context, the phrasing is quite specific. “Begs the question” is a permutation on that, but the kind of person anal and misguided enough to still use that in modern language would also be anal enough to phrase it “Your arguement is begging the question, good sirrah.” rather than “That begs the question”.
I especially like your arguement about expecting people to understand, when the literal meaning of the words used were “Asks for the question”. Whilst one esoteric group used the phrase in an entirely more abstract sense. Yet you favour the abstract meaning and act like the litteral meaning is incomprehensible.
Feel free to cling to a horrible mangling of the english language for tradition’s sake, just don’t act like it’s the sensible thing to do.
31/01/2012 at 22:09 Carter says:
Innocent or Guilty?
31/01/2012 at 23:02 LionsPhil says:
Or, you know, you could just use the correct and unambiguous “raises the question”.
31/01/2012 at 23:08 MD says:
@Droopy The Dog:
“I’m not very familiar with the phrase, so it’s an esoteric, archaic, horrible mangling of the language and anyone who uses it is misguided and anal.”
Also, using ‘beg’ to mean “to take for granted without basis or justification” or “to fail or refuse to come to grips with” is not ‘abstract’ at all, but entirely literal. Sometimes words have multiple meanings!
It’s highly likely that the ‘modern’ meaning of “begs the question” evolved as a misunderstanding. It’s not really the kind of wording you would choose when starting from scratch, and I would dispute the suggestion that it actually makes much ‘literal’ sense. Certainly less than the original meaning.
So if you want to pull the old ‘language evolves, get over it’ thing, fine. But get your facts straight, and acknowledge that the ‘new’ version arose from a misunderstanding that has become semi-accepted, and on its face makes no more (perhaps less) sense than the original.
31/01/2012 at 23:17 MD says:
PS, sorry if I sounded a bit too angry and wanky there. Usage debates have a tendency to make my head literally explode with self-righteous fury.
01/02/2012 at 05:56 Droopy The Dog says:
Dictionary.com might give those definitions for beg, but oxford dictionary doesn’t, nor do many others I expect. That definition has nothing to do with the etymology of the english word and is entirely to do with that single phrase. So yes, it’s abstract if it has nothing to do with the history of the word and the only definition came along after the term to make sense of the concept it represents.
Yes, the modern useage likely evolved from a mistake, but it doesn’t change that taken on its own it makes more sense than the olde phrase.
Besides you can hardly hold a mistake being it’s inception against it, since the old phrase comes from a mistranslation from latin that has since fallen out of favour. If they were more literal and used the phrase “petitioning the point” it might not be so contentious.
So yes, language evolves, get over it. Even that phrase is an evolutionary leap, made by the same pretentious wanky sounding half-scholars who insisted it was spelt “sulphur” suddenly, it’s just a dead end one that needs to hurry up and die already.
Oh and as for the needling “quote”, I’m quite familiar with the phrase, thank you.
01/02/2012 at 11:03 Harlander says:
@MD
I trust you’ve recovered from the cerebro-detonative effects of this little usage spat.
Vinegar and brown paper is the ticket, I understand.
01/02/2012 at 11:31 LennyLeonardo says:
This thread beggars belief.
31/01/2012 at 16:21 Ravenholme says:
Dear god… my head. That’s… actually really clever and hurts my brain-brain too :C
31/01/2012 at 16:41 Bluerps says:
Huh. First I thought “Ok, so they made 2D-Portal.” then I thought “Hm. Ok, you cannot do that in Portal.” and a little later, finally, I thought “Bluh?”.
This game could be really good, if it teaches the mechanics of that gun well.
31/01/2012 at 17:01 Bishop149 says:
I thought the same. . . . then. . .arggghh
I hope valve aren’t looking, the 2D trailer hurt my head, if Portal 3 is like that in full 3D then I think a brain hemorrhage is on the cards. . .
31/01/2012 at 23:18 Ridnarhtim says:
But there already IS a 2D Portal game:
http://portal.wecreatestuff.com/
01/02/2012 at 02:05 Jahkaivah says:
Valve had already tried time travelling portals during Portal 2′s development, you’ll be reassured to know they dropped it after deciding it was too confusing.
31/01/2012 at 16:51 ajewers says:
I watched the trailer 3 times to improve the reliability of my results.
Conclusion? I Want This Game !
31/01/2012 at 18:07 PleasingFungus says:
It is the omni-indie-platformer. Every gimmick every indie puzzle-platformer has ever had, rolled into one.
Glorious.
31/01/2012 at 21:28 michailnenkov says:
^this
31/01/2012 at 23:05 LionsPhil says:
Mother of God.
31/01/2012 at 23:48 Pie21 says:
Needs more double jumping and wall jumps.
31/01/2012 at 23:17 Ridnarhtim says:
At first, I thought it was just another 2D Portal game.
By the end of it, I couldn’t wait to play it.
01/02/2012 at 00:02 jamesgecko says:
Before I watched the trailer, I thought the graphics were some of the worst I’d seen recently. Now the trailer is over, and the game has potential, but it still looks hideous.
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