DF Game Club: Simon The Sorcerer (part 1)

(06:55:31 AM) Syd: Just a few minutes before we go live
(06:55:51 AM) Cheeseness: I'll pop a tweet out. Somebody else want to post in the forum that we're about to go live?
(06:56:13 AM) Syd: I'll see if I can
(06:56:23 AM) Flacote: We are impatient! Run the gaaame!
(06:56:44 AM) Syd: Oh hey, the forum let me post this time, heh.
(06:57:05 AM) Syd: So yeah, this is the talkie version of Simon, and I'm using a custom version of ScummVM to force subtitles.
(06:57:17 AM) Syd: There may occasionally be missing subtitles or subtitles that doesn't quite match up.
(06:57:29 AM) Syd: Normally, there's no subtitles in the talkie version.
(06:57:43 AM) Cheeseness: Are the subs fan provided?
(06:57:57 AM) Syd: They're from the original floppy version, I believe
(06:58:09 AM) Flacote: I'm fron Argentina an my english is very bad. With or without subtitles, i wont understand nothing at all :P
(06:58:46 AM) Syd: Okay, starting in just a moment. Let me know if anything is wrong with the stream.
(06:58:56 AM) Meeps: ok!
(06:58:58 AM) Flacote: Ok
(06:59:17 AM) Ongaku [55f10af8@hide-BF4D4B18.mibbit.com] entered the room.
(06:59:34 AM) Cheeseness: Woo, that voice
(06:59:38 AM) Ongaku: Hey
(06:59:45 AM) Meeps: :P
(06:59:59 AM) Fireflower: Hey Ongaku
(07:00:04 AM) Cheeseness: Hi hi
(07:00:16 AM) thestalkinghead [02dabb22@hide-6C77D8AA.mibbit.com] entered the room.
(07:00:30 AM) Cheeseness: So the voice of this character is Chris Barrie, the actor who played Rimmer in Red Dwarf and Gordon Brittas in the Brittas Empire
(07:00:45 AM) thestalkinghead: what a smeg head
(07:00:49 AM) Cheeseness: I know, right
(07:00:59 AM) Cheeseness: It's kinda surreal
(07:01:48 AM) thestalkinghead: then play feeble files kryten is in it
(07:01:54 AM) Flacote: Full of silly jokes
(07:01:56 AM) Cheeseness: He's also in Discworld Noir
(07:02:20 AM) Cheeseness: How old is Simon meant to be? >_<
(07:02:32 AM) Syd: Young teenager, I think
(07:02:51 AM) Cheeseness: The first thing I noticed about this game was that everybody's walk animations are crazy long
(07:02:51 AM) Permafry_42 [46469094@hide-50D287EE.mibbit.com] entered the room.
(07:02:56 AM) Cheeseness: Hey Permafry_42
(07:03:02 AM) Permafry_42: hey
(07:03:21 AM) Fireflower: Hey
(07:03:28 AM) Permafry_42: is syd going to join us?
(07:03:28 AM) Meeps: hey hey
(07:03:35 AM) Meeps: Syd is playing
(07:03:37 AM) Syd: I'm the one streaming. :D
(07:03:42 AM) Permafry_42: ah
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(07:03:58 AM) Ongaku [55f10af8@hide-50D287EE.mibbit.com] entered the room.
(07:04:07 AM) Permafry_42: didn't see you in the chatting box XD
(07:04:16 AM) Fireflower: Ghost & Goblins
(07:04:33 AM) Syd: Look at all these verbs. :P
(07:04:52 AM) Cheeseness: I love the verbs :D
(07:04:54 AM) Syd: No subtitles for Calypso's letter, unfortunately
(07:05:04 AM) Permafry_42: Did Ron make this, or is this made by a different dev?
(07:05:10 AM) Cheeseness: Different developers
(07:05:12 AM) Syd: AdventureSoft made it
(07:05:15 AM) Cheeseness: This wasn't a LucasArts title
(07:05:27 AM) Meeps: haha just the PPS gets subtitled
(07:05:51 AM) Permafry_42: ah you can definitely tell who they were inspired by then =D
(07:05:53 AM) Cheeseness: Aww, the verbs changed
(07:06:52 AM) Meeps: i like how they use Consume instead of Eat
(07:07:04 AM) shiranaiyo [5d80573f@hide-50D287EE.mibbit.com] entered the room.
(07:07:20 AM) Cheeseness: HI shiranaiyo
(07:07:35 AM) Permafry_42: hey
(07:08:00 AM) Cheeseness: I like that he puts stuff in his hat
(07:08:05 AM) GameClubFan_617337 [55884e94@hide-50D287EE.mibbit.com] entered the room.
(07:08:17 AM) Fireflower: Magic hat
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(07:08:24 AM) Meeps: makes sense :D
(07:08:29 AM) kickedit [638b404b@hide-50D287EE.mibbit.com] entered the room.
(07:08:54 AM) Cheeseness: Woo, beard bits
(07:09:03 AM) Meeps: now it's an adventure game!
(07:09:10 AM) Fireflower: think i played this for a bit on a console
(07:09:12 AM) Flacote: Oh, this bar
(07:09:18 AM) Cheeseness: We've got something of the head. Only four more ingredients to go
(07:09:30 AM) Syd: I think there might have been a car wreck right outside of my house. What timing
(07:09:39 AM) Fireflower: :/
(07:09:54 AM) Syd: Fighting my curiousity to go look
(07:09:59 AM) Permafry_42: Did anyone else see that Tim Schafer has recently played Earthbound? http://earthboundcentral.com/2013/08/tim-schafer-playing-earthbound/
(07:10:15 AM) Cheeseness: The exterior looks like the restaurant on Puerto Pollo in Monkey 3
(07:10:22 AM) Meeps: yeah, i think Tasha recommended it to him
(07:10:57 AM) Permafry_42: Awesome; I still would love to do a stream for the game if we can figured out a way to schedule it
(07:11:07 AM) Syd: As you may be able to tell, there's a thing I can do while he's looking for ingredients
(07:11:10 AM) Syd: But I can't do it yet
(07:11:24 AM) Cheeseness: What happens if you try to consume people
(07:11:42 AM) Permafry_42: lol
(07:11:47 AM) Meeps: nice
(07:12:10 AM) Meeps: this is so LucasArtsy, it's crazy
(07:12:11 AM) Cheeseness: lol
(07:12:25 AM) Fireflower: would a court sim game be interesting to play?
(07:12:40 AM) Flacote: Damn third world's internet connection. I'm lagged
(07:12:44 AM) Cheeseness: Yeah, maybe. We should discuss future games after the sesion though
(07:12:51 AM) Fireflower: yeah
(07:12:54 AM) Fireflower: sorry
(07:12:59 AM) Cheeseness: It's cool ^_^
(07:13:06 AM) Cheeseness: Flacote: You could try pausing and playing the stream agian
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(07:14:05 AM) Flacote: Thanks!
(07:14:21 AM) Cheeseness: Meeps: I dunno. It feels like the humour here has a slightly different tone to most of what most LucasArts games had
(07:15:12 AM) thestalkinghead: it's sort of similar to discworld
(07:15:17 AM) Cheeseness: Mmm
(07:15:37 AM) thestalkinghead: maybe more in theme
(07:15:55 AM) Meeps: hahaha
(07:15:58 AM) thestalkinghead: he has my accent like
(07:15:58 AM) Cheeseness: Heh
(07:16:09 AM) Permafry_42: horray for 4th wall jokes =D
(07:16:22 AM) Cheeseness: I get the impression that this game will be full of them :D
(07:17:13 AM) Cheeseness: I smell a hazing
(07:17:37 AM) Fireflower: hmm... maybe it was Discworld i played not this game...
(07:18:47 AM) Permafry_42: I like the art for the backgrounds
(07:20:59 AM) Flacote: wwed joke??
(07:21:02 AM) Stanto [5208226c@hide-B64552F4.mibbit.com] entered the room.
(07:21:05 AM) Flacote: *Weed
(07:21:06 AM) Meeps: seemed like it...
(07:21:21 AM) Cheeseness: Yeah, the art is pretty good
(07:21:32 AM) Stanto: yo
(07:21:40 AM) yama: hoi
(07:21:42 AM) Permafry_42: hey stanto
(07:21:46 AM) Cheeseness: Hi hi
(07:21:47 AM) Fireflower: looks better than some of the games made today ;)
(07:21:54 AM) Cheeseness: Oh hey yama ^_^
(07:22:05 AM) yama: Good morning, Mr. Cheeseness.
(07:22:15 AM) Stanto: The sudden music changes in this game always caught me as a bit jarring
(07:22:27 AM) Permafry_42: games with good art don't really age
(07:22:37 AM) Fireflower: true
(07:23:01 AM) thestalkinghead: nobody does "retro" art like these games now, probably because it is actually really hard to do
(07:23:21 AM) Stanto: It's probably harder to do now
(07:23:30 AM) Syd: It's easy to get lost in this forest
(07:23:42 AM) Stanto: ie in photoshop , turning off all the anti aliasing crap
(07:24:20 AM) yama: I dunno why but the art in the forest reminds me of this artist's works: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bauer_(illustrator)
(07:24:25 AM) Permafry_42: There's always programs like Gale for pixel art
(07:24:40 AM) ***Stanto just loads up deluxe paint
(07:24:48 AM) Cheeseness: :D
(07:24:54 AM) Cheeseness: I haven't done anything in DPaint for ages
(07:25:16 AM) Stanto: "in process" ... aggggh subtitles said progress
(07:25:17 AM) Cheeseness: Hah
(07:25:24 AM) Permafry_42: Plus while i enjoy retro art styles, i'd rather developers start marking use of the new art styles availible to them
(07:25:29 AM) thestalkinghead: it's less about the antialiasing, but just the detail, especially making animations
(07:25:35 AM) Fireflower: yeah it's a bit like John Bauer
(07:25:40 AM) Cheeseness: Stanto: Yeah, the subtitles aren't part of the game. I think they're a fan provided thing that can be used with ScummVM
(07:25:56 AM) Stanto: Cheeseness: erm, really? you sure?
(07:26:02 AM) thestalkinghead: yeah, retro is getting old :)
(07:26:04 AM) Cheeseness: That's what Syd was saying
(07:26:05 AM) Meeps: yeah, i think developers are more interested in making their own styles than directly copying the old pixel art
(07:26:14 AM) Permafry_42: Like for the game i'm wanting to make, i'm hoping to use sand drawings as an inspiration
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(07:26:41 AM) Meeps: that sounds neat :D
(07:26:48 AM) Cheeseness: (Syd being the one playing the game for us)
(07:26:50 AM) Fireflower: making subtitles are illegal now :)
(07:27:29 AM) Permafry_42: thanks; It'll be a while before I'll make that particular idea a reality though since I'm still learning basic programing
(07:27:53 AM) Stanto: Cheeseness: not entirely convinced, as the game does come with subtitles
(07:28:14 AM) Syd: The talkie version does not normally come with subtitles
(07:28:22 AM) Cheeseness: There you go
(07:28:25 AM) Stanto: It does come with subtitles though
(07:28:26 AM) Permafry_42: retro art is actually a really good style for begining developers since basic pixel art is somewat easy with the right tools
(07:28:29 AM) Syd: Had to use a custom ScummVM to force them
(07:28:43 AM) ***Stanto owns the talkie version
(07:29:04 AM) Fireflower: who's Carmen Miranda?
(07:29:14 AM) Syd: Well, the talkie version, if ran through normal ScummVM, doesn't have subtitles.
(07:29:26 AM) Cheeseness: Fireflower: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmen_Miranda
(07:29:40 AM) Meeps: she danced with fruit on her head
(07:29:43 AM) Fireflower: thx :)
(07:30:34 AM) Fireflower: Syd, did you try consuming the cake?
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(07:31:56 AM) Syd: Not much I can do in the mines yet
(07:31:57 AM) Fireflower [51aae753@hide-BF4D4B18.mibbit.com] entered the room.
(07:32:04 AM) Cheeseness: Yeah, OK
(07:32:36 AM) Cheeseness: Are the click targets for moving to other outdoor screens hard to spot?
(07:32:43 AM) Syd: Yes
(07:32:49 AM) Cheeseness: It looks like it >_<
(07:34:18 AM) thestalkinghead: lol
(07:34:21 AM) Outasync [61684328@hide-50D287EE.mibbit.com] entered the room.
(07:34:35 AM) Cheeseness: Hi Outasync
(07:35:57 AM) Cheeseness: The butterflies are a nice touch
(07:36:11 AM) Cheeseness: Am I the only one that sees faces in the rocks
(07:36:23 AM) Meeps: yeah i noticed that, Cheeseness
(07:36:33 AM) Meeps: oh gosh that noise haha
(07:36:38 AM) Cheeseness: Ha
(07:36:57 AM) Outasync: Hi
(07:37:36 AM) Syd: I may or may not be having difficulty finding what I'm looking for
(07:37:38 AM) Meeps: feels like there are a ton of areas in this game
(07:37:38 AM) Fireflower: Hi
(07:37:40 AM) Syd: You can't prove anything. :P
(07:37:45 AM) Meeps: :P
(07:37:49 AM) Cheeseness: Syd's lost again :D
(07:38:11 AM) Syd: It is a big forest
(07:38:23 AM) Cheeseness: Go west at the dinosaur
(07:38:26 AM) yama: And no yellow flowers to be seen.
(07:38:30 AM) Outasync: Been a long time since I played this.
(07:38:32 AM) Fireflower: i hate mazes in games
(07:38:41 AM) Permafry_42: =D still better than when i was messing up the children's counting puzzle in pj sam 1
(07:38:45 AM) Cheeseness: That's an unhappy looking tree
(07:38:53 AM) Syd: There we are
(07:40:03 AM) Cheeseness: lol
(07:40:42 AM) Fireflower: woodworm racism
(07:40:48 AM) Cheeseness: ;_;
(07:41:51 AM) Cheeseness: The fettuccine woodworms
(07:41:53 AM) Syd: They go on for a while, lol
(07:42:01 AM) Meeps: you don't say :P
(07:42:23 AM) Fireflower: what about bamboo?
(07:42:41 AM) thestalkinghead: technically thats grass
(07:42:52 AM) Fireflower: ok :/
(07:42:52 AM) Cheeseness: heh
(07:43:22 AM) yama: It's a Rangfust!
(07:43:33 AM) thestalkinghead: but maybe it would be their version of a chinese take away
(07:43:43 AM) Permafry_42: have you tried consuming some of the background mushrooms in the game?
(07:43:45 AM) Cheeseness: :D
(07:43:54 AM) Meeps: should probably steal the broom
(07:44:52 AM) Cheeseness: Are they odds or stakes?
(07:44:55 AM) Cheeseness: o.0
(07:45:29 AM) Syd: there are indeed lots of faces on rocks in this game
(07:45:49 AM) yama: I was just about to say that. Ahah.
(07:46:28 AM) thestalkinghead: the old routine
(07:46:32 AM) Syd: The world's most disinterested-sounding troll
(07:46:57 AM) Ongaku: hahaha
(07:47:00 AM) Ongaku: love the troll voice
(07:47:06 AM) Meeps: yeah, haha
(07:47:22 AM) Fireflower: the music in this game is a bit incoherent
(07:47:35 AM) Syd: A bit, yeah.
(07:47:46 AM) Ongaku: unfortunately i find it annoying :\
(07:48:06 AM) Fireflower: me too
(07:48:29 AM) Ongaku: it sounds like an infomercial for juice machines
(07:48:36 AM) Permafry_42: agreed; the music doesn't feel too fitting to the game imo
(07:48:56 AM) Ongaku: but i'm loving the voice acting
(07:49:12 AM) thestalkinghead: yeah
(07:49:38 AM) Ongaku: never played this game i should give it a try sometime
(07:50:43 AM) Meeps: haha
(07:50:44 AM) Cheeseness: Hah
(07:50:46 AM) Fireflower: :)
(07:51:05 AM) Ongaku: hahah nice ridance
(07:51:26 AM) Ongaku: LOL
(07:51:37 AM) Ongaku: equal rights for trolls, that would do wonders on message boards
(07:51:43 AM) thestalkinghead: the phrase of our generation
(07:55:05 AM) Fireflower: mmm... water-melon
(07:55:24 AM) Meeps: good thing you can fast travel
(07:55:46 AM) Fireflower: consume the melon
(07:56:02 AM) Syd: The melon had an important role to play
(07:56:08 AM) Meeps: that was a little anticlimactic haha
(07:56:09 AM) Fireflower: yeah :)
(07:57:56 AM) Syd: I think I'll end it after this scene. Moving through the game a bit faster than anticipated. Want to make sure there's enough for 2 more decent-length sessions.
(07:57:56 AM) DarkCloud14 [5f595e7a@hide-BF4D4B18.mibbit.com] entered the room.
(07:58:35 AM) Meeps: :(
(07:58:37 AM) Fireflower: a farming adventure with only farming-relevant verbs like domesticate, plant, harvest etc would be nice. :)
(07:59:07 AM) Meeps: you made him cry :(
(07:59:39 AM) Fireflower: lots of weird characters in this game :)
(07:59:46 AM) Syd: Yep
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(08:00:41 AM) Meeps: haha
(08:00:51 AM) Fireflower: i like woodlouse
(08:01:54 AM) Syd: Gonna end it here
(08:02:01 AM) Meeps: thanks Syd :D
(08:02:02 AM) Cheeseness: Nice
(08:02:06 AM) Syd: Got 2 more sessions to go
(08:02:07 AM) Fireflower: thx Syd
(08:02:08 AM) Cheeseness: Thanks Syd ^_^
(08:02:17 AM) yama: Big thanks to Syd! :D
(08:02:20 AM) Cheeseness: :D
(08:02:21 AM) Meeps: gotta run. see you!
(08:02:21 AM) Syd: No prob. :)