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    BioWare Announces Browser-Based Dragon Age Prequel

    Create And Share Your Own 2D Sonic Levels

    Canabalt: The Best One Button Game You'll Play Today

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    Hot Flashes: This Is The Only Level

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    Image of Nowell Nowell
    10/17/09

    In reply to BioWare Announces Browser-Based Dragon Age Prequel
    I'm pretty excited to hear this. What with the PA comic, and now this, there should be some solid story before the game comes out to make the initial dive not so...overwhelming. I can sometimes get a bit lost when getting into a new game with a ton of story. #bioware
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    Image of NDN_Shadow NDN_Shadow
    10/17/09

    In reply to BioWare Announces Browser-Based Dragon Age Prequel
    So Dragon Age: Origins isn't the "origin" of the story?

    #dragonage
    #prequel
    #EA
    #bioware
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    Slatz_Grobnik promoted this comment NDN_Shadow was starred NDN_Shadow was unstarred
    Image of Slatz_Grobnik Slatz_Grobnik
    10/27/09

    @NDN_Shadow: No more than a Final Fantasy is ever Final.

    #dragonage
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    Image of Gortexfogg Gortexfogg
    10/17/09

    In reply to BioWare Announces Browser-Based Dragon Age Prequel
    At least I know my computer will be able to handle this Dragon Age game. Sadly, my clunker won't be able to do DA: Origins any credit ...

    Cool idea though. I'd hope for something Mass Effect related along these lines, but I'm guessing that was the iPhone game. #bioware
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    Image of Jonah Falcon Jonah Falcon
    10/17/09

    @Gortexfogg: Untrue. Bioware has made sure that low end machines can handle Dragon Age: Origins and STILL look good. #bioware
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    octaslash promoted this comment Jonah Falcon was starred Jonah Falcon was unstarred
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    10/17/09

    @Jonah Falcon: You can't possibly know from the one adjective he used to describe his computer.

    Also, besides the system requirements, we have no idea how it will run. #bioware
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    10/17/09

    @octaslash: I talked to Bioware about this at NY Comic Con then E3. They showed it off on a low/medium end computer and it looked hot even then. #bioware
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    10/17/09

    In reply to BioWare Announces Browser-Based Dragon Age Prequel
    As an aspiring flash developer and broke mofo I can say that it is indeed heartening to see big companies giving indie flash developers the time of day.

    I would like to claim that I would have been a better choice but I am still a beginner and Daniel Stradwick and Andrew Sega can flash me under the table...

    Um... I think I meant flash me out of the water..
    Some kind of phrase like that...

    My point is they have both made kick ass games. Check them out sometime on kongregate. #bioware
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    Image of KazeEternal KazeEternal
    10/17/09

    In reply to BioWare Announces Browser-Based Dragon Age Prequel
    PSSH flash games seriously.

    Why not use Java 3D or maybe Googles O3D API for browsers?

    Then it wouldn't suck. #bioware
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    10/17/09

    @KazeEternal: Maybe because it's cheaper, that's my guess anyway #bioware
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    Image of KazeEternal KazeEternal
    10/18/09

    @p.e.r.e.g.r.i.n.e.: Well both O3D and Java 3D don't require special licenses to develop under and don't require a package from Adobe that runs in the 100's of dollars range. Plus its 3D which flash is not.

    Just a thought ya know I see all these technologies, but no willingness to use them on the part of game makers. #bioware
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    Image of Yossarian Yossarian
    09/15/09

    In reply to Create And Share Your Own 2D Sonic Levels

    Here's my level. Whatcha guy's think?
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    Image of roylink roylink
    09/15/09

    @Yossarian: What will happen if he got a fire flower?
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    Image of OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear
    09/15/09

    @Yossarian: This is great. We've always known that Sega does what Nintendont, but now we know that Sega can also do what Nintendid.
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    Image of Yossarian Yossarian
    09/15/09

    @roylink: Then you turn into a hothog.
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    Image of spannu spannu
    09/15/09

    @Yossarian: No chili dogs? Pass.
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    Image of Mike Newlad Mike Newlad
    09/15/09

    In reply to Create And Share Your Own 2D Sonic Levels
    I have never wanted to pay for anything so much. Now if only I wasn't skint.

    SEGA - RELEASE THIS ON THE PS3/WII/360
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    Image of shouryuuken shouryuuken
    09/15/09

    @Mike Newlad: at first i read "if only i wasnt *snikt*" i was like lol wolverine?!
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    Image of TheWP listens to Yukkuris; Takes it easy TheWP listens to Yukkuris; Takes it easy
    09/15/09

    In reply to Create And Share Your Own 2D Sonic Levels
    Ok, you start out on a high ledge, and then go underwater. There's enough air bubbles so that Sonic can survive, but there's no way out of the water pit.

    It's like a Sonic metaphor.
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    Image of diagorus diagorus
    09/15/09

    @TheWP listens to Yukkuris; Takes it easy: comment of the week.
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    Image of Luigi87 Luigi87
    09/15/09

    In reply to Create And Share Your Own 2D Sonic Levels
    Excluding Project Needlemouse, this is SEGA's way of saying "We don't know what the hell we're doing, so if you think you can do better, do it."
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    Image of Outkastprince Outkastprince
    09/15/09

    @Luigi87: I was thinking the same but could not word it properly. Thumbs up, Lad.

    We better hurry, I feel a Looney Tunes and Sonic collaboration at a last ditch plan of desperation.
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    Image of Lozmaster Lozmaster
    09/15/09

    @Luigi87:
    Hang on, wait, level editors mean the original developers don't know what they're doing.
    Wow, I always knew all those devs who included these in games sucked at their jobs. Thanks for the clarification.
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    Mike Newlad promoted this comment Lozmaster was starred Lozmaster was unstarred
    Image of Mike Newlad Mike Newlad
    09/15/09

    @Lozmaster: This is them showing they know what they are doing. Player Create Content is the way forward for all games. The bad news is, it sucks for developers who will soon be unemployed because they aren't needed anymore.
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    Image of biggerx biggerx
    09/15/09

    @Mike Newlad: Yes because we all know that they are still working on Sonic The Hedgehog 16 years later....

    Edit: 18 years later.....
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    Image of Lozmaster Lozmaster
    09/15/09

    @Mike Newlad:
    I agree in part, user developed content is good in moderation, most of it will end up crap, but it gives more life to games that is relatively unreasonable to assume developers will be able to keep supporting a product for free after its release [No idea how valve manages it].
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    Image of Mike Newlad Mike Newlad
    09/15/09

    @biggerx: Maybe you missed the announcement of the new 2D Sonic. If this level editor makes it into the game, how would Level Designers working for Sega be able to justify new Levels as DLC?

    That's the point I was making.

    Ask yourself what the difference was between Sonic and Sonic 2. Tales, Spin move and new levels. In todays scenario, Tales becomes £4.99 DLC and with a Level editor, who the hell would pay for the new maps?
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    Image of OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear
    09/15/09

    In reply to Create And Share Your Own 2D Sonic Levels
    Dream Level: An infinite damnable hell of eternal loops.
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    Image of Outkastprince Outkastprince
    09/15/09

    @OW-Holmes--Upset with Polling: A Level where he runs around the loop and slams into a unbreakable wall. Sonic plaster.
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    Image of simplyPARTICLE simplyPARTICLE
    09/15/09

    In reply to Create And Share Your Own 2D Sonic Levels
    COOL, That there controllers got 6 face buttons entirely devoted to jumping.

    I doubt many modern videogames could contain such strong game mechanics as to commandeer that many buttons on a controller.
    A set of buttons in GTA dedicated to punching hookers maybe?
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    Image of Kobun Kobun
    09/15/09

    In reply to Create And Share Your Own 2D Sonic Levels
    I'll do the three month to grab the controller and support Sega's efforts to bring back the old Sonic, but I really don't have time to design a good Sonic level.
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    Image of eagle29 eagle29
    09/15/09

    In reply to Create And Share Your Own 2D Sonic Levels
    I love level editors.

    I do not like paying extra for level editors.
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    Darkly Dreaming svenhoek promoted this comment eagle29 was starred eagle29 was unstarred
    Image of svenhoek svenhoek
    09/15/09

    @eagle29: Ya it does seem somewhat backwards to charge someone to make the game and upload it, but not the people who download it and play.
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    Image of svenhoek svenhoek
    09/15/09

    In reply to Create And Share Your Own 2D Sonic Levels
    I know it will never happen, but imagine a perfect world, where a new Sonic came out, that had HD graphics and though it was played 2d, it operated in 3d like LBP does. Then imagine, they also took LBP idea and made the thing mainly about user created content.

    *sigh*

    Also, you need to move Sonic Fahey, he is getting impatient.
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    Edited by svenhoek at 09/15/09 10:48 AM svenhoek was starred svenhoek was unstarred
    Image of Kyolux (Corsair) Kyolux (Corsair)
    09/15/09

    @Darkly Dreaming svenhoek: NO NO NO NO.. don't give that kind of ideas to Sega. Just keep the new needlemouse project in simple 2D. Just one layer.
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    Darkly Dreaming svenhoek promoted this comment Kyolux (Corsair) was starred Kyolux (Corsair) was unstarred
    Image of svenhoek svenhoek
    09/15/09

    @Kyolux (Corsair): You're right. They need to go back to the basics and work back up to fresh ideas with baby steps.
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    Image of Gantz: Your Trusted Friend in Science. Gantz: Your Trusted Friend in Science.
    09/15/09

    @Darkly Dreaming svenhoek: Clearly you haven't looked into Sonic Unleashed at all.

    The Day stages are actually pretty neat and do this kind of 2.5D stuff.
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    Image of Outkastprince Outkastprince
    09/15/09

    @Gantz: Your Trusted Friend in Science.: Pretty similar to the idea except it needs to be tone down just a bit. Sega was pretty lost when it came to that game, sweet levels but talk about linear.

    Something simple and cute like LBP would perhaps do Sonic more justice.
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    Image of MechaTama31 MechaTama31
    09/15/09

    @Gantz: Your Trusted Friend in Science.: Werehog*

    *Even though that word is technically inaccurate (the "were" in werewolf means "man", so a werehog would be a hedgehog-man, not a hedgehog-wolf), that's what everybody calls it, so meh...
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    Gantz: Your Trusted Friend in Science. promoted this comment MechaTama31 was starred MechaTama31 was unstarred
    Image of svenhoek svenhoek
    09/15/09

    @Gantz: Your Trusted Friend in Science.: That was pretty sweet. But I dont want an over the shoulder type, I mean original 2d, but with layers.
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    Image of Gantz: Your Trusted Friend in Science. Gantz: Your Trusted Friend in Science.
    09/15/09

    @MechaTama31: I didn't mention the "Night" levels because they weren't worth doing just that.

    They also had nothing to do with what I was talking about.
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    Image of svenhoek svenhoek
    09/15/09

    @MechaTama31: Its some kind of half-man half-hedgehog half-wolf thing.

    Its a ManWolfHog! Or a WolfManHog!
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    Edited by svenhoek at 09/15/09 11:12 AM svenhoek was starred svenhoek was unstarred
    Image of Gantz: Your Trusted Friend in Science. Gantz: Your Trusted Friend in Science.
    09/15/09

    @Darkly Dreaming svenhoek: Ya I just meant they kinda did the "lanes" thing albeit over the shoulder.

    Anyway. A new, 2D, HD sonic is on the way ala Project Needlemouse.
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    Image of TexanBoy TexanBoy
    09/15/09

    @Darkly Dreaming svenhoek:

    ARE YOU CEREAL!?!?!??
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    Image of svenhoek svenhoek
    09/15/09

    @TexanBoy: I'm super cereal
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    Image of Brisco_County_Jr Brisco_County_Jr
    09/15/09

    In reply to Create And Share Your Own 2D Sonic Levels
    I think I just...
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    Image of hot_heart hot_heart
    09/15/09

    @Brisco_County_Jr: ...double-posted? =p
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    Image of Brisco_County_Jr Brisco_County_Jr
    09/15/09

    @Brisco_County_Jr: No, almost, but so far it's very meh. The beginning of SEGA getting back to its 2D roots is a good thing though.
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