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Uh. plotdictionary.html is blank, plotdict.xml hasn't been uploaded in 2 days and is broken (I fixed that yesterday but it hasn't been uploaded yet), and the windows nightly builds haven't been built for a week! Here's a mirror (from a week ago) http://tmc.castleparadox.com/ohr/temp/plotdictionary.h...

OK, so I posted an incomplete half-relevant review which pointed fingers and got into a debate about art games rather than addressing the game, and had to face the critics in IRC. I got what I deserved, and Giz and Hawk succeeded in making me eat many of my words: rereading their reviews I found I d...

Breaking expectations. (Heavily extended and edited) Samanthuel's Lovely Home First of all, I thought this game was fantastic, but I'll be derailing this immediately, skip to the end if you hate pretentiousness. This game doesn't have much in the way of "gameplay". You walk around and exam...

I tried to shorten this one by cutting much of it. Carcere Vicis: Developer Retrospective Intro <tmc> I've always found that game contests are the only thing I can really focus on completely Because the 2014 Random Collab Contest ran for two weeks (Feb 15th to March 1st), this was my most ambitious ...

I'll reply to some specific stuff in this review here, though the bulk of my reply is the developer commentary I'm posting as part of the 2014 In Review Contest. This game will work with any copy of the OHR at least as recent as the release date. The script preprocessor thing only required a modifie...

The mode of an executable owned by root and installed in a directory in $PATH shouldn't be set to 0777, because that allows anyone to edit it; use 0755 instead. Also, generally if installing something custom global-wide you would put it in /usr/local/bin to separate it from the distrib's packages. I...

Nice art!

RedMaverickZero wrote:My only complaint with the design is that he looks happy, and he's definitely got some attitude, so turning that happy expression upside down will be all I ask.

I interpreted that as a bloody thirsty grin, actually.

Cool; this is quite a sophisticated dungeon. The directional multi-source lighting and field of view, the pulses that run down the cables, and lots of other little details are impressively done! The first 10.5 minutes of the commentary video discusses the history of the game and the plot and various...

I actually created a command to suspend slice movements, but never finished and added it to the OHR source. (I think this was in the middle of the last Random Collab contest, so I just dropped it when I discovered I didn't need it afterall.) I definitely should dig that up. I think the plan was to s...

Even if you did include a huge list of Chinese characters, how would people enter or select them? At a minimum that requires ordering them, but I don't think there is a natural way to order them. I think you should find some Chinese speakers and ask them; there's no other way. I know that there are ...

I hadn't heard of any Portuguese or Hungarian games getting translated into English, and maybe only one in German.

However, there was this game, originally in Swedish, which the author translated into English:
Zander by Leo

Uh oh! The deadline for the contest is two days earlier than I thought it was! I better get started early! Review of Dragons! (from last year) I had to get Giz back for writing a review of Dragons TWICE as long as my already excessive review, so I outdid him on the next game: Review of Invasion of t...

(This is a review of the first release of the game, for HotOHR 2014.) Overall verdict: I think this is a promising start to a game and great first effort. There's lots of problems, but everything is quite fixable, and there's enough content (about an hour, at most half of which is battles) to give i...

Cool, nice detail on the shadows. The movement makes more sense now.

Wow. I never would have suspected this!

Must be laborious to create all that text as sprites. I'm actually planning to allow importing TrueType fonts (rasterizing them and saving them as normal bitmap fonts... at import-time rather than in-game, I think).