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Offline Mánagarmr

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Miasma
« on: March 23, 2012, 07:01:34 am »
So seeing as there's a fair bit of Dwarf Fortress quips in AVWW, is the whole concept of ghosts leaving miasma (amongst other things) one of them, or did you think of the miasma clouds without the help of !!SCIENCE!! ?
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Re: Miasma
« Reply #1 on: March 23, 2012, 09:55:53 am »
DF, all the way.
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Re: Miasma
« Reply #2 on: March 23, 2012, 10:27:47 am »
Quote from: keith.lamothe on March 23, 2012, 09:55:53 am
DF, all the way.

Oh yeah, that was very intentionally named.  We talked about that quite a bit at the time, I recall.
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Re: Miasma
« Reply #3 on: March 23, 2012, 11:08:01 am »
I had my suspicions. :P Now all we need is elephants. And skeletal mandrills.
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Re: Miasma
« Reply #4 on: March 23, 2012, 11:11:12 am »
We have elephants on the list, but also magma rhinos.

"Pull the lever" on the switches, and the fact that the traps are currently lava-based, are another reference.

This game is so different from DF that we feel pretty free with the ability to put in a lot of homages to it; we're in no way competing with their market.  I just really love build in homages to games I like and respect in all my games, but I'm always careful not to do it to a game or genre that is too close to the game we're actually making.
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Re: Miasma
« Reply #5 on: March 23, 2012, 01:13:26 pm »
Any plans of dinosaurs?  As ridiculous as that might seem?

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Re: Miasma
« Reply #6 on: March 23, 2012, 03:01:26 pm »
Quote from: KingIsaacLinksr on March 23, 2012, 01:13:26 pm
Any plans of dinosaurs?  As ridiculous as that might seem?

You mean beyond the ones that are already in the game and have been for months?  Yes, we plan on adding more dinosaurs. ;)
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Re: Miasma
« Reply #7 on: March 23, 2012, 04:00:11 pm »
Quote from: x4000 on March 23, 2012, 03:01:26 pm
Quote from: KingIsaacLinksr on March 23, 2012, 01:13:26 pm
Any plans of dinosaurs?  As ridiculous as that might seem?

You mean beyond the ones that are already in the game and have been for months?  Yes, we plan on adding more dinosaurs. ;)

Umm, Derp, I clearly haven't run into them. 

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Re: Miasma
« Reply #8 on: March 23, 2012, 04:02:07 pm »
Stay out of the lava flats, or they're likely to run into you. ;)
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Re: Miasma
« Reply #9 on: March 23, 2012, 04:51:19 pm »
Fans of Dwarf Fortress might call them "fun" :)
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Re: Miasma
« Reply #10 on: March 23, 2012, 04:56:08 pm »
Quote from: tigersfan on March 23, 2012, 04:51:19 pm
Fans of Dwarf Fortress might call them "fun" :)

So might fans of AI War, although they borrowed the term from DF. :)
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Re: Miasma
« Reply #11 on: March 23, 2012, 07:14:34 pm »
I like the idea of putting references in the game...(obviously not too many or it would be too obvious)

go for some really obscure random ones too, just for kicks.  :P
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Re: Miasma
« Reply #12 on: March 23, 2012, 09:19:26 pm »
I'm disappointed I've never found a place called Murdoch.  Is it in list the game draws on for place names?
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Re: Miasma
« Reply #13 on: March 23, 2012, 10:28:36 pm »
It should be in the list of character names.  For both first and last name.
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Re: Miasma
« Reply #14 on: March 23, 2012, 10:42:06 pm »
Is it possible then to get Murdoch Murdoch as a legitimate character, because I would be inconsolable if I lost that one to a darn skelebot. 
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