mattkeefer

mattkeefer

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Reply to The State of SuperMelee - An Open Discussion in Founders Starbase StarControl Forums

1. Do you still feel that you have to be completely top-down to enjoy SuperMelee, or would an 80-85 degree angle be sufficient? (If unsure, would you be willing to give it a shot?) I'd be willing to give it a shot -- As long as it doesn't impair play, I think it'll be fine. 2. Do you feel that having crew and energy bars on the right side of the screen is relevant in a world of 16:9 or 21:9 monitors? (We know the green bar is getting fix

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Reply to February Vault Feedback in Founders Starbase StarControl Forums

Nice, but XML? JSON is much easier to parse, and because the spec calls for utf-8 as a charset means that if people add weird Alien names with lots of symbols as values, there'll be no transcription issues.

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Reply to Born lucky in Life, the Universe and Everything StarControl Forums

I'm curious about things: faith, belief, and identity in particular. I'm not especially interested in accruing wealth; I have enough that I don't need to worry. In my universe, success in equals understanding, recognizing that understanding is both fluid and predicated on an almost infinite number of third variables. Could you explain "luck", as you define it, and how it relates to your understanding of free will/free choice, and fatalism? I'm legitimately curiou

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Reply to What OSes will StarControl Origins Run on? in Founders Starbase StarControl Forums

[quote who="Hunam_" reply="1" id="3657750"] MS-DOS 6.22 mostly. [/quote] Only if you use EMM386 to provide enough expanded memory for the speech pack and over 600K conventional memory. I really want to see a Mac client. While we have wimpy GPUs in our machines, once you go UNIX/Linux-based, you can't go back to Windows.

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Reply to Feedback Request: What Ship Modules do you want to see? in Founders Starbase StarControl Forums

[quote who="cyberphage" reply="6" id="3662973"] I think it would be interesting if there were modules that you could only get if you played the campaign a specific way... kind of like a Paragon/Renegade system. If you could play "evil" humans or what have you. Being a recent founder I am not sure if such a system was looked at when creating the campaign, I am still going through the other posts. [/quote]

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Reply to December Vault Discussion in Founders Starbase StarControl Forums

[quote who="sendingsignal" reply="131" id="3663031"] I think your ship idea makes sense hard sci fi wise, but I'm not sure it's needed for Star Control. The ships being kind of a representation of the aliens directly reads easier for remembering what you're fighting and is kind of "cuter" too. I thought the ships in endless space for example kind of made sense but didn't really have as much personality. I'm more concerned with playful representation than science logic

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Reply to December Vault Discussion in Founders Starbase StarControl Forums

Feedback: 1) Ships: The ships need to be a semiotic representation of the psychology of the races that created them (not necessarily just a mechanical copy of the creature in shape and colour). A few examples: A plant-race might have the ability to "grow" ships, but would be constrained by the light of their sun to choose a colour-scheme that would be properly absorptive. A question that the designers might ask themselves would be "would these ships be g

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