$1 million on the HIB! Open Source Aquaria FTW!

[Alphasoldier]

Erm, no, the pictures were worse and the mod was there before we had ANY spam posts.

Well, almost any.

[Lady-Succubus]

Ah. :3

[morganmcalister]

Massive budget games and film seem to be becoming more and more obsolete. Of course there are always exceptions (MW2, Avatar respectively) but those are fewer and further between than ever before - Well, at least the ones that make money.

MechWarrior 2?

(Slightly unrelated, but I would not even know this game existed except that it was a part of the bundle. Now I think that it's value was more than the other games combined)

I am of exactly the same mind.

[morganmcalister]

2DBoy are party poopers

Yeah, but World of Goo is definitely the second best game in the bundle, I think.

I felt kinda bad about the fact that the only game I really didn't like at all was Lugaru - the one by the company that put the whole Humble Bundle thing together in the first place

[Zoko]

Aquaria's quality cannot be described in words... which is why it's hard to reply when someone asks you "what's so good about it?". It's really one of those games where you get a lot more than you expected.

[Lady-Succubus]

I find it ironic how people describe something in words by describing it as indescribable in words.

[Zoko]

But indescribable is describing it's describability.

[Lady-Succubus]

Describablity is a factor dependent on quality. By transitivity, describing something's describility describes said entity.

[Zoko]

Yes, however an object's describability also depends on the human ability to describe it.

[Lady-Succubus]

If a human can not describe it, it's also a statement of its nature at least, describing the object. :S

[Zoko]

And thus a paradox is formed.

[Lady-Succubus]

And thus a paradox is formed.

If an object were truly indescribable, no one would be talking about it. :3

[RoadCrewWorker]

I get the feelings threads in this forum never stay on topic for longer than a few pages. 

_{Not that there's much official news so far.}

Anyway, here are some ideas (some more realistic than others) i'll toy with once there's a release:

• Adding additional rendermodes (strobe, jitter, rotation or proximity based fade)
• Allow parallax shift on any layer, maybe remove 13 layer restriction.
• Allow music sound file references outside of aquaria/mus/ and make the ".ogg" postfix optional (since the game can actually load mp3s as music if you append the ".ogg" postfix)
• Allow wildcards in music or tile references to randomly select a match
• optional inclusion of tileset in level.xml (?)
• raise hair-entity attach limit above 1
• Improve Mod selection UI

Don't hold your breath though, i'm up to my ears in other work. 

If nothing else the Source Code allows us to finally find all those hidden undocumented editor features like "f" to write in hieroglyphs.

[SplinterGU]

Hi everyone:

I'm a HIB buyer. I'm asking where/when ths sources code of Aquaria will be released?

Thanks.

SplinterGU
http://www.bennugd.org/

[Lady-Succubus]

If nothing else the Source Code allows us to finally find all those hidden undocumented editor features like "f" to write in hieroglyphs.

D: Where can I find a list of all of these known features?

I'm asking where/when ths sources code of Aquaria will be released?

We don't know, patience. :3