The Drunken Lizard Pub

For maximum resolution flexibility without having to make a ton of new graphics, it might make sense to add support for image scalers of the kind used by DOSbox, MAME, Exult, etc... Similar scaling is already done by the graphics card when playing fullscreen on an LCD monitor. It would be better qu...

Multiple resolutions in 2d games is a lot of work. More interface art, dealing with the player being able to see more, and so forth. Even things like the button size needs to be changed, as 32x32 pixels is pretty big at 640x480 but barely perceptible at 1680x1050. I can't agree on the button size i...

Some interesting ideas - corruption in particular could be tied in with spell use (the more you cast, the worse you get) which could help balance the mage classes. It would however be quite a thematic change for Eschalon (though one that could be justified plot-wise). Another way to balance mages wo...

You still have the option to sue steam. Which would take months (at least) to resolve during which time you'd have your Steam account access blocked - not a viable option for most I'd suggest. And that option is only realistically available to US customers - Valve has no legal presence in Europe th...

Steam is a little bit extreme but they are just protecting their asses. The real problem here is paypal. Valve could have chosen to just block access to the game in question rather than the poster's entire account - other posters in that thread have reported similar experiences so it would seem unl...

Bear in mind that any and all Steam purchases rely on your account being in good order - i.e. Valve can pull the plug on your Steam software collection at any time (an example of this happening can be found here ). They could also bring in an annual (or even monthly) fee to keep accounts open - with...

wimps =P ( I don't remember being able to walk faster in older games that fit this genre?)...The game is turn based, therefore speeding up the "walk" would be animation and game speed in general. ...Since the game moves one tile as you do, I don't see how adding a variable speed slider wi...

Actually, it does, since those materials aren't your 'personal' materials. Not sure what the thinking is there, but copyright deals with one thing only - the right to make a copy . Once you have an authorised copy, what you do with it in private is outside the scope of copyright legislation (except...

If you don't think that the now-industry-standard DRM practices included on practically every non-indie game is far worse than a game choosing to internally package its contents in whatever way it sees fit, then I doubt we're going to find much common philosophical ground here. I would say that &qu...

Well, the language we use does not have native streaming music capability built into it. So, music tracks (highly compressed OGG files in this case) must load fully into memory as a standard uncompressed audio format. The two big delays you often see during a map load process is always the two musi...

Um, I think you're seriously exaggerating that load time issue, and assuming that it's the crypto which is causing the longer times - it's entirely possible that these horribly-long five second load times would be just as long without the crypting. Load times are variable with five seconds being an...

...This is about the author of the music and how they want to go about protecting their work. You may not be happy about it, but you can't change it by badgering the developer. And why not? A decision has been made by the developer to include such music which has turned out to have negative consequ...

There are several real oldie CRPGs (as in need DosBox to run) mentioned here...

...Just because we pack the game's data to save space and protect against unauthorized use has nothing to do with your rights to play the game....Other tracks that we licensed cannot be used for anything but the game itself- it is illegal for us to distribute the tracks. What gives with the idea of...

Thanks for adding this BW - order placed!

I would venture to suggest that the BMT links be shown alongside the Plimus links rather than buried at the bottom of the webpage.