Slime Salad

Originally posted April 17, 2009: Okay, this thing was a royal pain in the (pick your anatomical preference) to update. After one plotscripting disaster after another--three days later--I finally got something worth showing. Now, keep in mind that this isn't final final. The section of cave that's ...

Originally posted April 14, 2009: So today marks the arrival of one of my greatest nightmares since I started updating this game, something that has lingered in my subconscious as an impossible feat. I knew this day was coming for a long time, and for the longest time I didn't know how I was gonna ...

Originally posted January 23, 2009: Have some new info, videos, and related stuff to show, but I need to respond to an old comment first: I think you could probably implement the custom NPC movement now. Why not just call a plotscript with a for loop that goes through each NPC of an id of your choo...

Originally posted December 13, 2008: That is great. As I watched that, I imagined scripting up a working model of pool for him to play, with a limited physics engine and everything -- then I realized you probably just had a looping animation. Much less trouble that way :) I actually like the idea o...

Originally posted December 12, 2008: Many times a game will be criticized for its clichés. Castles, knights, blue-haired anime fighters. Little farm boys rising up from obscurity, thwarting plots to destroy the world. It seems creativity is exhausted when the same old same old resurfaces. And yet, ...

Originally posted November 9, 2008: Oh yes!!! The original commercial that inspired the comic, which inspired the game, which inspired the novel (and in all things inspired the character) is on Youtube! I just saw it linked to my own video. Scroll to the second page and look for the old guy with th...

2015 Note: This next batch of entries comes from my old “official” game journal on Castle Paradox. I’m posting only the “news” items here, but if you want the full dialogue involving answers to follow-up questions, access the full 22-post journal here: http://www.castleparadox.com/viewjournaltopic.p...

Originally posted August 13, 2008: (From the post in “A Battle Graphics World Premiere” on Castle Paradox) Okay, four months have passed since I posted this thread and I still have yet to write that new HamsterSpeak feature. But the good news is that four months left me plenty of time to make the g...

Originally posted July 30, 2008: (From the post “The Adventures of Powerstick Man: Legendary Edition” on Castle Paradox and Slime Salad) View the Slime Salad discussion here: http://www.slimesalad.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=361 Powerstick Man? What? The Extended Edition is well into production, but ...

Originally posted April 24, 2008: (From the post “A Battle Graphics World Premiere” on Castle Paradox and Slime Salad) View the Castle Paradox discussion here: http://www.castleparadox.com/ohr/viewtopic.php?t=5740 And the Slime Salad discussion here: http://www.slimesalad.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=...

Top bar is definitely better, though it's nice to have a sidebar option for once (even if 20% is still overly large). I can tell you the trouble with that sidebar is that having a huge off-center field of messages feels terribly lopsided and it makes me feel like I'm about to capsize. Not too comfor...

(Current Update #2) May 14, 2015: With the 15th anniversary of The Adventures of Powerstick Man ’s start of development happening this week (I began work on this game on May 15, 2000), I figure it’s a good time to post all three official trailers in one location to show you guys just how far this g...

(Current Update #1) May 14, 2015: To get this Adventures of Powerstick Man: Extended Edition news centralization started, here is a collection of links to HamsterSpeak articles and other sources too big or fancy for this section: First HamsterSpeak Preview ( HamsterSpeak #9 / November 2007) This is...

I think this thread wants screenshots of new scenes :) Yes, and it shall get them...soon... Let’s kick things off with the announcement that started it all, my journal titled “Chronicles of a Second Wind.” You can access the original journal thread, complete with a short retrospective from TMC, her...

For the last eight years, I've been gradually picking at my semipopular 2000-era RPG, The Adventures of Powerstick Man , to form a new massive update that's so huge that I've had to change the title to The Adventures of Powerstick Man: Extended Edition just to show how unlike the original the origin...