Greg the Establishment

batmanrunningawayfromshit:

Suggestion by truebritbrother

We brainstormed quite a bit on the questions you posed for us. We worked together on the board:

1. The game advances a level once all object on screen (or used) move simultaneously. You notify the player through a visual and a message on screen.

2. (cont’d from 1st pick). If you do not constrain combinations and add a new object every level, by level 12 there are 6.2 billion possible combinations. This is impractical for both the designer/programmer (who has to account for all of these in an interesting way) and the gamer (who is only right 1/6,200,000,000 of the time). This could be constrained by requiring (say) 3 objects to be used out of the 12 given, reducing the possible combinations.

3. Players always need feedback. We determined that a positive feedback would be the gears turning green to indicate they were correct, and them turning red with a screech to indicate incorrectness. There is no good way to have booby traps, if they’re made obvious they become obstacles, and if they’re invisible, it’s no fun since there’s no way to tell where they are.

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WQAQ OFFICIAL CHAPSTICK HAS ARRIVED!

CHERRY, YUM!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvDd5wNLiwk

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You Might Have Missed…

Billy Joel - Everybody Loves You Now - Cold Spring Harbor (1971)

    Being a Long Island boy, I’m biased heavily toward Billy Joel. No matter what music you normally like, if you’re a Long Islander, you likely have at least one Billy Joel song and know all the words to one of his songs for an in-traffic sing-a-long. But it’s not just Long Island, though. Show me one person that doesn’t like the sound of Billy Joel, and I’ll show you a half-million that love his music, or at least that won’t turn it off it comes on.
 Billy Joel’s first album was appropriately named after the Long Island town of Cold Spring Harbor. His trademark combination of jazz, ragtime, classical and rock music is present all through the album, but most of all in the LI name-dropping track “Everybody Loves You Now.” You can’t help but move to his music and sing along if you know the tune. In his early years, and still today, Billy Joel has songwriting capabilities to rival Paul McCartney in his prime.

wqaq:

WQAQ is proud to announce its annual Music for Meals Charity Concert!

Featuring:

Laura Stevenson & The Cans

Great Caesar

High Pop

and

Conor And The Stone Hill Kids.

November 12th. Doors at 7:00PM at The Space in Hamden. Admission is $5 or two cans of food.

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You Might Have Missed…

Styx - She Cares - Paradise Theater (1981)

    Styx, particularly the Paradise Theater album, is what got me into rock music. f you just look around the internet, Styx tends to take a lot of crap from people for one reason or the other, were the ones who essentially created the sound of the 80s. Their catchy melodic hooks, soaring guitar riffs, beautiful keyboard work, and of course powerful harmonies are what set them apart from so many bands.

    She Cares is the seventh track off of Styx’s fourth consecutive triple platinum album, “Paradise Theater.” The song was written by guitarist Tommy Shaw as a filler in their sweeping concept album. You won’t find any other reviews about this song, nor will you ever hear Styx play it live in concert, but She Cares is one the band’s best, and my favorite. Simple lyrics, balanced out by the guitars and keyboard. The twin solos of guitar and saxophone. And the harmonies. Perhaps people mock Styx so much simply because they can’t be matched.

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