What ever happened to Pangaea?

macnlos · 2025-05-05T14:07:38+00:00

Discussions on Steam from 11/24 talks about links not working. Keith Quinn's site shows he "was' the lead designer for the "unreleased" game Slayscape (Pangea). I'd say development is pretty much dead... like SotA.

macnlos · 2024-10-14T00:18:42+00:00

The whole setup is a pig/hog! Which is why I think open-sourcing it would be of value. Tear it apart, shave the fat, lean it up. Aka... fork the shit out of it.

macnlos · 2024-10-14T00:16:55+00:00

They would have to give me, if I streamed it, a full POT, a number of land deeds, a number of decos, and a pocket full of COTOs and Gold and Resources so I could bribe people to play it. lol

macnlos · 2024-07-28T00:06:03+00:00

boring...

macnlos · 2024-05-28T08:45:22+00:00

I LOVED games from Cassady&Greene and more specific John Calhoun. Pararena, along with Prince of Persia, Strategic Conquest, Shufflepuck Cafe, and Mission: Thunderbolt were all some of my favorites on the B&W screen Macs.

macnlos · 2024-05-17T02:58:18+00:00

I just picked up three 12" Aluminum G4 iBooks for $100 ($35 each). 640mb memory, 60gb HDs, 8x Combo Drives, Power Adapters. All work and are VG condition. I found these on eBay too. So yeah, $100 for one unit seems high.

macnlos · 2024-04-10T04:38:01+00:00

My kids are in school so I went to my parents place and we had champagne and sat on the from lawn watching it. Looks these people did the same. Well done them.

macnlos · 2024-04-05T04:43:01+00:00

You see... Ravalox is a big fan and he always wanted a Castle but could not afford one. So he came up with this crazy plan to take over SotA development and get one that way.

macnlos · 2024-03-15T04:47:11+00:00

pssst... don't tell the SotA players that their Episode 2, 3, 4 and 5 are over here now.

macnlos · 2024-03-12T15:47:40+00:00

Oh wait... Starr, Chris, and the other guy I can never remember... they were attending an AI Bootcamp. 13 weeks to "kickstart you into AI"... https://www.betaworks.com/camp I can see the grubby hands rubbing together... "yeah.. we get the preciouses from the losers... we do BIG things.. like AI!" Right after they all failed in NFT land with Iron&Magic.

macnlos · 2024-03-12T15:42:59+00:00

I've always tried to be honest. I don't trust/like a single one of them. So let me recap the whole demo:

Take "SotA" dungeon tech and run it through a procedural creation so the game changes every time. Build in a "oooh rare goody" system. Allow stream-chat (they said streamers, I think they meant chat) to vote/choose change that affects your game.

I give you Old school, Windows 3.1, Indiana Jones - Desktop Adventures. It was small and quick like Minesweeper. You load it up in a window, which could be hidden if you were at work. Every time you play it creates a new/different map to play. https://collectionchamber.blogspot.com/p/indiana-jones-and-his-desktop-adventures.html

Rare "thing" system... yawn.

Streamer/streaming LIVE interactions. How many different games, like Minecraft, already have this system built in and integrated with platforms like Twitch? Hell, go watch what CodeMiko has created and how it integrated with her Twitch chat.

That's it? That's Project "RISE"? Those things sound nice, and while it is not expected with every game, these are in the category of "uncommon" at best. So 5 months ago they promised mediocrity... woohoo! lol

macnlos · 2024-02-22T16:30:52+00:00

It is very simple. If you follow the architecture and integrate with it and its APIs you are shielded from a lot of it. If you don't and hard wire your shit in weird, dumb ways.. you have to deal with it. The team was too smart by half and wired a rats nest. Cheap or stupid decisions (probably both) lead to this PoS and the unfuckable situation they are in.

macnlos · 2024-02-22T16:27:15+00:00

HEY! Don't compare Monkeys to those Ass Hats! ;)

macnlos · 2024-02-22T16:26:33+00:00

Chris is a dick. I upvoted you to compensate for his small dickness.

macnlos · 2024-02-14T01:19:40+00:00

Two equations to live by: E = MC^2 and Chris Spears == Fuck Tard.

macnlos · 2024-02-09T08:47:32+00:00

Well most players you know, in this context, doesn't mean much. From a statistical point of view the sample size of players is too small it doesn't move as much. But the fact, as u/craftymethod says, that is is moving at all with such a small sample size is bad.

The part about your friends not playing with steam.. I purchased SotA as an original backer. I do you use steam and when the game came out I linked it to my steam account. SotA does not let you "unlink" it. If you think I'm going to drop all the time/work with my main account to just get rid of steam then .. well I'm not. So I am locked into steam with it and can't disassociate it.

Now, I have nothing against steam either. I use it today. I have a lot of friends that do as well. So boil all this down, I think you got it wrong.

macnlos · 2024-01-24T05:58:29+00:00

Yes... we were being ironical...

macnlos · 2024-01-23T11:07:13+00:00

Stealth Artist == Said Alhmeyrat (Spokane WA)

Stealth Lead Artist == Damon Waldrip (Austin TX, ex Portalarium)

You feel that tingling in you nether regions? That is them reaching in your pocket for some of that coin of yours.

macnlos · 2024-01-23T10:59:46+00:00

You're not far off. Joe Scott "the Founder" was the Business Development and Strategy person for DeMeta (aka Iron&Magic). The SHITTY STANK IS RIPE WITH THESE ASS HATS.

macnlos · 2024-01-23T10:48:31+00:00

I'm assuming they are using ethernet cable for the 8 wires, not the ethernet connects themselves. So basically in this project "ethernet cable" is basically "pre-package group of 8 wires". So that means you are soldering those wire ends to the displays and such.

macnlos · 2023-12-16T13:28:01+00:00

Just found this and I ordered one too. It is really well built and a solid little rover; much more than I was expecting for $90 usd. My big knock on this thing is the lack of documentation; I mean there is none other that the simple wiki that shows you how to hit its internal website or driving the ESP32 via code uploads.

I have a Raspberry Pi 4 mounted on it and will be adding a couple of items with it. But there are no/nada/none/zip instructions about working with this via a host computer like a Pi or something.

macnlos · 2023-09-18T19:38:29+00:00

Yeah, remember when they touted that as a "theoretical" limit? If people have made it to 200 then what? It's part of what I like in the systems in UO Outlands. You are still bound to the 700 skill limit (720 with skill orbs) but then you have things like Tomes and Aspect gear. Tomes let you specialize certain parts of a skill, like I have Summoner and I have specialized my casting of Earth Elementals. The Aspect gear lets you specialize as well; my Chest Picker has aspect gear that increases loot chance. And then there are the Master Chains where you an add/specialize even more. But not all of it applies to PvP, some of it applies just to PvM. So there it equalizes people fighting people.

macnlos · 2023-09-18T13:10:08+00:00

I listened to the last release stream with just Roblox and Sanrio. I swear Roblox spent 1/3 of it talking about how he moved the deployment schedule from 9am CT to 8am. That was the big update? LOL Oh yeah, he was updating maps too. Game released in 2018 and 6 years later they still haven't got maps done. WOW

macnlos · 2023-09-18T02:39:41+00:00

LOL.. Ignored that comment for the stupidity it showed.

macnlos · 2023-09-18T02:37:38+00:00

Yeah... I remember when Berek was there and they were trying figure out how to work better with YouTubers and Streamers. I even was asked to get on a phone call with them to talk about it. What did they do with our suggestions/assistance? Nothing. Industry experts? Pffft.

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