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[miauw62]

Did the finals for the belgian informatics olympiad.
EVERYTHING WENT BETTER THAN EXPECTED.

I came in 9th out of 20 participants and won a Raspberry Pi (B model), which makes me very happy.

[scriver]

Congratulations, miauw! If that's what you get for placing ninth, I don't want to know what the other winners get

[miauw62]

Well, the best four got a ticket to the IOI in Kazakhstan and the other people that placed above me got the xkcd what-if book and an arduino robot thingy

[BlitzDungeoneer]

No school on Monday!

[Spehss _]

Guys.

New Banjo-Kazooie style platformer made by the guys who made Banjo-Kazooie & Donkey Kong Country.

With the graphics artist from Banjo-Kazooie and Viva Pinata.

With David Wise from Donky Kong Country and Grant Kirkhope from Banjo-Kazooie and DK64 working on the soundtrack.

And a Kickstarter with a goal of £175,000. Currently at £1,126,951. With 45 days remaining for more funding.

Guys. It's happening. I'm hyped.

[Cryxis, Prince of Doom]

Ya 1920's rock
Took almost two hours last minute to find a pocket watch for the outfit, ended up replacing the chain with some brass chain from hardware store so it looked right.
May or may not post picture of me in as zoot suity as I could get and GF in flapper dress with homemade headband and costume pearl necklace.

[flabort]

...
Can't say I'm actually excited about that one.
It looks too much like... well, exactly like B-K mixed with DK64, which as you've said were made by this same team.

What I'm saying is it looks like it was designed for the N64, without taking advantage of modern hardware; and they're basically reinventing the same characters, without really innovating in any way.

It's really, really cool that the old Rare team is working on a new game, but I'd expect something, you know, actually new from them. They used to be so inventive and creative, it's disappointing to watch that video and see nothing happening. The coolest thing is expanding the worlds using the things you collect, but it's been done; especially by the "voxel genre" like Minecraft and Terraria. I guess it's nice to see in a non-voxel game, but I doubt that it will be expanding in anything but a pre-set manner. I'm sure all the end-game worlds will look exactly alike between play-throughs, is what I'm saying.

[Spehss _]

But my nostalgia-tinted glasses!

[Putnam]

The coolest thing is expanding the worlds using the things you collect, but it's been done; especially by the "voxel genre" like Minecraft and Terraria. I guess it's nice to see in a non-voxel game, but I doubt that it will be expanding in anything but a pre-set manner. I'm sure all the end-game worlds will look exactly alike between play-throughs, is what I'm saying.

that's like complaining that dwarf fortress doesn't have enough guns in it

you really shouldn't be expecting that to begin with because the very concept was never brought up

[penguinofhonor]

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[Spehss _]

The coolest thing is expanding the worlds using the things you collect, but it's been done; especially by the "voxel genre" like Minecraft and Terraria. I guess it's nice to see in a non-voxel game, but I doubt that it will be expanding in anything but a pre-set manner. I'm sure all the end-game worlds will look exactly alike between play-throughs, is what I'm saying.

that's like complaining that dwarf fortress doesn't have enough guns in it

you really shouldn't be expecting that to begin with because the very concept was never brought up

They mention it on their kickstarter page actually. One of the main collectibles serves as a "currency" and can also be used to "expand" worlds, whatever that will mean.

Although this was also done in Banjo Kazooie with the musical notes being used to unlock deeper portions of the world hub and allowing access to later levels.

[Putnam]

I'm saying that that doesn't sound anything like procedurally generated levels.

[flabort]

you really shouldn't be expecting that to begin with because the very concept was never brought up

Au contrare. It is mentioned several times on their Kickstarter page, just not in the video.

Collect-em-up 2.0: A roster of shiny collectibles with gameplay progression at their core (as well as other, more valuable materials). Every collectible type in our new game will expand gameplay in a meaningful way. Yes, we employ the man responsible for DK64's myriad of trinkets, but we've had a stern word. Our main collectible, Pagies, are used to unlock and expand new worlds in Yooka-Laylee.

Expandable Worlds: Experience more of the playgrounds you love by spending collectibles to expand your favourites into bigger, more challenging worlds.

During their adventures Yooka and Laylee will complete challenges to unlock and collect Pagies. These golden collectibles are the main currency in the game, used not only to unlock new worlds but expand them too.

In the jungle world showcased in this Kickstarter for example, new islands containing advanced features and challenges will become available once you’ve decided to hand your Pagies over to the world-building construction crew.

Don’t give a monkey’s? Spend your Pagies elsewhere. If you desire, world expansion can be ignored entirely and you can hop, skip and roll your way through the standard worlds towards the final boss lurking in his or her mighty keep. And once the pivotal villain is nought but ash on the pavement, you can still opt to explore the expanded worlds with your full moveset post-credits to hunt down those leftover Pagies.

Basically, it's "collect these to unlock these doors", which is very DK64-ish, except the doors are optional now and dressed up as building bigger worlds, instead of actually building bigger worlds which would have been SO cool.

[AlleeCat]

Morel season. Time to go mushroom hunting in da woods o.o

Why do I keep hearing about this recently? What's Morels, eh?

[scrdest]

Morel season. Time to go mushroom hunting in da woods o.o

Why do I keep hearing about this recently? What's Morels, eh?

Mushrooms.