Generosity is contagious.

December 25th, 2005

Today, I decided that I felt a little generous[1] and posted some music I just composed up on the Internet. To be precise, it’s the theme song for the seventeen-piece boy band that performs in the S.S. Asylum’s talent contest in TGTTPOACS. I rather like how it turned out. It makes me want to dance around and be cheerful.

On another note, I’m quite amused that this thread over at Adventure Gamers is still active. If you’re too lazy to look, it consists of a precocious fifteen-year-old boy arguing that all fan games[2] are of terrible quality and not worth playing, and of many adventure developers whining about how wrong he obviously is. At some point, even I got in on the debate, because it’s been ages since I’ve taken part in a good flame war. Ain’t that sad or what?

I must say, however, that Richard Longhurst and the Box that Ate Time really is pure genius.

Footnotes:
  1. Which in no way coincides with the fact that today is Christmas, I swear! ↩
  2. And by “fan games”, he also means all amateur adventure games. *shakes head* ↩

Comments for “Generosity is contagious.”

  1. Kejero Says:
    December 25th, 2005 at 4:41 pm

    You don’t happen to have an idea how to make RLATBTAT work on this totally modern high spec-a-thingy pc of mine?
    I’ll just post the Error I get, for the heck of it — it’s in Dutch by the way, should be easy enough…

    —————————
    16-bits MS-DOS-subsysteem
    —————————
    C:\Games\rlbox\THEBOX.exe
    C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\AUTOEXEC.NT. Het systeembestand is niet geschikt voor MS-DOS- en Microsoft Windows-toepassingen. Kies Sluiten om de toepassing af te sluiten.
    —————————
    Sluiten Negeren
    —————————

    Oh, I did try running in ‘compatibility mode’ (all of em), but that didn’t seem to do anything. And I’m running Windows XP Home SP2. (I hope you won’t kick me off the blog for mentioning Windows now) (Eek, I did it again!)

    Now, that music… you don’t happen to be in a Christmas mood or anything, would you? It IS cheerful! You just scared away all the goths from your blog now, I think.

  2. The Management Says:
    December 25th, 2005 at 7:01 pm

    Well, I run the same version of Windows as you do (as much as I like Linux, it’s too much of a hassle to run a lot of my favourite software on it), and I got RLBAT to work by running the setup program and choosing auto-detect for both sound and music, and 320×200 resolution.

    Truly, RLBAT put me in stitches. I don’t believe I’ve ever laughed that much in an adventure game in my life. You may wanna turn down the music, though; it can get pretty irritating after awhile.

  3. Kejero Says:
    December 26th, 2005 at 3:57 am

    The problem is that the setup program gives the same error. I guess I’ll either go cry now, or go look for a DOS emulator or something like that… Argh, dilemmas!

  4. gudrun Says:
    December 28th, 2005 at 11:28 am

    after reading your posts without writing anything for quite a while, i come back to “visibleness”…

    haha, rlbat was fun… ;) (even though it is the worst drawn game i’ve ever played…)

    your “new” cubert looks nice! i just wanted to look at it, but i ended up playing the whole game again (and found out that the english version is even funnier than the german one even though i liked it in german too). well, that’s holidays!!! (oh yes, and today i returned to my computer already to continue working on my thesis :( )

    greets from vienna, have a great new year! :)

  5. Candle Says:
    December 28th, 2005 at 9:29 pm

    Just a drive by to say hey “Hey”

    Candle

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