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Tuesday, July 24, 2001
Happy Pioneer Day!
Saturday, July 21, 2001
Bestiary update (1:40 PST)
Well, I've updated our Squawk Bestiary
to what we have so far. The "other animal" section on the bestiary
actually has very important rules about Squawk that we've allways gone
by but perhaps not publicly explained in great detail.
- BFGalbraith
Tuesday, July 17, 2001
Wanted Model (16:50 PST)
Here's a strange request. Mrow is looking for a player model on
a broomstick for the Quidditch Quake mod. See the Wanted Models Page for more information
about this and other wanted models.
- The Serpent Lord
Friday, July 13, 2001
Reach and Stride Rules (14:04 PST)
We modified the reach and stride rules for
race generation in Hack and Slash, and recalculated the PPV for the Squawk
anthrosaurs reach and stride with the new rules.
- Lunz
H&S Equipment Rules (1:10 PST)
I've made some modifications to the "Creating Armor and Weapons"
page in the Hack
and Slash Role-Playing System. The biggest change has been
modifying the rules to work with our new reach PPV system.
- BFGalbraith
Thursday, July 12, 2001
Replayability (23:00 PST)
Useful insights like "the most replayable games are also the
smallest and cheapest to implement" can be found in Earnest Adam's
second
article on replayability at Gamasutra.
- The Serpent Lord
Revenge of the Turkey-saurus (22:30 PST)
Jurrassic Park III starts showing Wednesday, but if you're a
dinosaur nut like me you may be more excited about the slightly
less cliched When
Dinosaurs Roamed America which airs on the Discovery Channel
this Sunday. (Dinosaurs with feathers, now there's a surprise *cough*)
- The Serpent Lord
Tuesday, July 10, 2001
Race/Character reach/stride fix (23:50 PST)
If you've ever tried to use the Hack and Slash Role-Playing System
to generate a new race or character with modified reach or stride,
then you know how broken that part of the system has been. Until now!
Just a few minutes ago The Serpent Lord and I finished implementing
our new easier to use reach/stride PPV (Player Point Value) system
into the rules.
- BFGalbraith
Corel Linux dominates (16:50 PST)
When I installed Corel Linux, I didn't even know if my computer was
even detecting it's hard drive in the bios. So I on a whim
I tried installing Corel Linux. I put in the boot disk and CD, answered
4 easy questions and suddenly had a fully functional Linux Box. Since
then we've even had success with our Quake C using Debian Linux
tools on our Corel Linux box (Corel's Debian based.)
It looks like we've found our Linux "distro" of choice.
- BFGalbraith
Monday, July 9, 2001
FTP for Free Game Arts? (21:45 PST)
Know anyone with some FTP space and bandwidth for a growing,
community built library of free game models, textures and other
files? Please keep sending in your offers or recommendations!
- The Serpent Lord
Mac Quake Utilities (21:45 PST)
I just noticed that PoX
has released a set of eQuake utilities in Macintosh format, including
Mac versions of our raw2map and tri2map terrain convertors.
- The Serpent Lord
Hack and Slash Quake-C (21:45 PST)
A new version of Hack and Slash is available through our
SourceForge project.
You can download
the latest Hack and Slash Quake-C or check out the files with CVS if you want
to follow the code as it develops.
The Hack and Slash Quake-C should compile and run now!
See qc.txt for important compiling instructions.
You'll need data from the Hack and
Slash: Y2K Apocalypse Edition to run Hack and Slash.
(You'll also need Open Quartz or registered Quake,
and some Quake engine executable to play this)
- The Serpent Lord
Saturday, July 7, 2001
WANTED: FTP Alternatives (23:30 PST)
We are looking for an alternative FTP site to File Planet (or "Vile
Planet" as we sometimes call it) for Free Game Arts. The problem is
not "waiting in line for guaranteed downloads", but having to have a
user account or fill out online forms in order to download open source
files. If you are able
and willing to provide an FTP alternative to File Planet for Free Game
Arts (or know someone who is,) please e-mail me right away. Thanks!
- BFGalbraith
Half of HandS Tutorials done (1:30 PST)
Well, I'm half done with the Hack and Slash tutorials. Check them out on
the Hack and Slash Role-Playing System web page if you've had some question
about how the system works.
- BFGalbraith
Friday, July 6, 2001
Hack and Slash Working? (22:10 PST)
The Hack and Slash Quake-C for the Hack and Slash game using variations
of the Quake engine is starting to work again. I commented out everything
but the bare essentials and then started enabling small portions. Turns
out Quake Army Knife was allowing some code that doesn't compile with the
new Open Quartz QCC utility (and maybe didn't work with the old QCC.)
- The Serpent Lord
Thursday, July 5, 2001
New Free Model (13:30 PST)
Check out Lithiumbat's new Brutus model.
You can find other free models, games and game content on our
Free Game Arts page.
- The Serpent Lord
Wednesday, July 4, 2001
Pocket Hack and Slash (13:30 PST)
Thanks to Randy from Dev3,
Pocket PC owners can now play Hack and Slash on the go with this small,
specially configured, gzipped version of the Hack and Slash: Y2K
Apocalypse Edition conversion for Pocket Quake.
Download this Pocket Quake conversion from the Hack and Slash Y2K Apocalypse Edition page.
- The Serpent Lord
Monday, July 2, 2001
Hack and Slash RPS update (23:30 PST)
As most Galbraith Games fans know, I've been working on clarifying
the Hack and Slash Role-Playing System. The tutorials are far from done,
but I've updated this site with my latest complete clarifications.
Enjoy!
- BFGalbraith
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