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General / Aquaria in an Arcade Cabinet

« on: September 07, 2009, 02:54:13 am »

Wouldn't that be awesome? 

I've been thinking of building a generic cabinet for a while now (to house a computer emulating Galaga), but then I realized how great Aquaria could be with a joystick, big-buttons, retro cabinet-art, etc!

If anyone here's got a system like that (a computer connected to an arcade-system's control panels, basically), I'd love to see pictures of Aquaria running on it!

-Peter Story

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General / Re: Aquaria for moble phones

« on: September 06, 2009, 02:51:11 am »

The problem isn't that making a mobile version of Aquaria would be too difficult for Alec, but rather that making a mobile phone version of Aquaria would be difficult enough to keep it from being profitable. Even with the proper tools, moving a game from PCs to phones would take a lot of work.
Additionally, porting games isn't where the joy of game development comes from; I'm sure that porting games can actually get pretty boring.

-Peter Story

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Support / Re: Snow Leopard Graphic problems

« on: September 06, 2009, 01:46:32 am »

I'm not seeing any problems on my mid-2007 MacBook with GMA-950 graphics (running Snow Leopard, naturally).

-Peter Story

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Modding / Re: Shame there aren't more player made maps and levels

« on: July 09, 2009, 04:19:19 am »

I think another big problem is that even when some are created, there isn't a central repository for them.
It'd be great if there was a mods wiki; I know someone was thinking of creating one earlier.

-Peter Story

edit: Nevermind, there's a wiki right here http://aquariawiki.ryanballantyne.name/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
Though I don't see any mods yet. Too bad

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General / Re: Aquaria 2?

« on: May 25, 2009, 03:43:20 pm »

I think that there certainly could be an Aquaria 2: a fan-made one!
All the tools are there; we just need someone with the drive to "git r' done."

I think the first thing to do would be to open a thread discussing the plot, then assemble a team to start actually constructing the game. I'm sure Alec would be willing to provide advice, etc. too.


-Peter Story

This'd be sooo awesome!!! 

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Gameplay / Re: Aquaria Treasure Hunter's Maps [Mad Spoilers]

« on: November 22, 2008, 08:36:32 pm »

I know that in the mac version, all sprites are located in the resources folder of the application itself (right-click, show package contents).


-Peter


edit: I'm referring to your request for untarnished images of ingredients, etc., just so you know

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General / Re: Infinite Ammo

« on: August 25, 2008, 05:13:07 pm »

The reason I ask is because I've been wondering how difficult it'd be to port some open source mac games to the iPhone.

Sorry for getting off topic


Thanks,
-Peter

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General / Re: Infinite Ammo

« on: August 25, 2008, 04:07:17 pm »

I know Nintendo did that (used art from their GameCube release) for a bunch of their handheld Zelda games.

I've always wondered how much the APIs differ between Apple's desktop Mac OS and their handheld version. That'd make a cool blog post.
Albeit a confusing one. 


-Peter

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General / Re: Infinite Ammo

« on: August 25, 2008, 03:47:01 pm »

Then I'd have to get an iPhone... 

But yea, that'd be awesome! You'd be using the same art from your first Aquaria, right?


-Peter

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Games / Re: Our Favorite Downloadable Games

« on: March 09, 2008, 05:55:41 pm »

Neon Tango
http://www.freeverse.com/games/game/?id=7015
This game is yet another awesome indie game, with a crazy soundtrack by digital droo. I've been playing it not stop for the last few days; it's definitely worth 25 dollars.

-Peter

edit: wasn't this game at GDC?

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General / Re: Aquaria font to Word

« on: February 24, 2008, 01:00:24 am »

I don't think it's your language skills, I think it's just that no one knows how to do what you're asking 
I'm pretty sure this (the font) is something that would be created when a boxed version of the game comes out, and would be used in the pamphlet and packaging material. If Derek (Aquaria's graphics artist) doesn't create his own font, I doubt one will ever get made except by fans.
Anyway, I don't really have an answer to your question. It would make more sense to ask Derek politely for a copy of the font if one is created when a boxed copy is released if it has a custom font. So if I were you, I'd ask again later.

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Off-Topic / Re: Introduce Yourself!

« on: December 14, 2007, 12:45:29 am »

Guess nows as good a time as ever to introduce myself 

Anyway, been here a while, and I'm overjoyed now that Aquaria's out.
I'm pretty into macs, so I'm anxiously anticipating the release of the mac port.

And to bring this to a close, let me just mention I'm from 'merica near Boston, and I hang around Bit Blots IRC forums.

Yeah... 

edit: Oh yea, can't wait to take out some epic beast!

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General / Re: Aquaria FAQ

« on: December 14, 2007, 12:37:01 am »

Hey Mr. Mario dude! I think that the "lost track" as you call it would be great addition to any "music of aquaria" cds Derek & Alec plan on releasing, so...
it might not be within any of the games files
Good luck looking for it though, if you do find that any tracks are easily accessed, let me know, k? I'd love to have some of that muzic for myself

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Games / Re: Mac Indie Games

« on: December 11, 2007, 11:12:54 pm »

Dude, you can't think of any mac specific game worth more than 15 minutes? Sorry man, but you just slapped Ambrosia in the face!

I mean, let me list some:
First of all, the Marathon trilogy.
Secondly, Myst.
And lastly, for some more recent examples, anything from Ambrosia (including Mac specific titles like Redline)

Way I see it is big corporations want to sell the most games, so they port to Windows first. Also, look what happened to Bungie after it was bought out by MS: not Mac specific anymore, eh?

These games are EPIC. Pay them some respect man 
No hard feelings though 

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Gameplay / Re: Kid-friendly? *SPOILERS*

« on: December 09, 2007, 11:54:32 pm »

oooohhh...

Spooky