Comments - BlackIceTheGame

Try messing with the video options. Turning off stuff like AA and Reflections can really help with performance

Thank you!

Not so much Shadowrun as the source material for Shadowrun - books like Neuromancer and Snow Crash were my primary inspiration. A lot of shared DNA :)

Thanks! I'm actually doing a t-shirt sale this week at merch.superdupergc.com

Animals packed with grease and gibs? Count me in!

Definitely don't mind, thank you for making it :D

Yes, I have to pay for the multiplayer servers (which are in the cloud!) so I had to start selling the game. Plus I need money to pay artists and such.

The full version has no level limit, in addition to multiplayer :)

Please do :) And go ahead and monetize the video, it's all good!

That's very nice of you! I still have lots of improvements to make :)

Thank you! I appreciate it :D

Love you too, pie! Thank you for your support!

Thanks! I'm going to be starting the Greenlight on Saturday, but I'm also going to start selling on itch.io as well.

Best part: It'll only be $5, and you buy it and it gets greenlit, I'll send you a Steam key :)

It will likely be $20 by the time I get on Steam.

Thank you!

- I'm glad you had fun! I didn't realize the FPS limit would be an issue, but it looks easy to set one so I'll add that soon!
- The final battle lag has been fixed for the upcoming beta release

Get on that! We should be friends.

You can always name your hacker Shoop Da Whoop :P

Right, I know modding is definitely possible, but I need to make the core game good enough to make people want to make mods, lol. It's more of a focus thing.

Well, I don't have plans for modded servers, but if I find a way to do that easily, I'll make that happen. You should be able to start a server, maybe just a listen server at first (as opposed to a dedicated server where you can have no one playing). Either way, you'll be able to give out the IP address associated with the server so others can join.

Take your time on a video, it's all good :)

Thanks! I think it's looking pretty good, but it could still use some more work. What do you mean by strobe-y?

Thank you! That makes me so happy :D

Thanks! It was a fun week.

I do love Epcot, so that's high praise! Did you know the sky was inspired by the Infinity Room effect at end of the Spaceship Earth ride at Epcot?

Glad you subbed to my youtube - I don't post videos much, but I do keep the playlists updated with people that make videos!

Multiplayer will be co-op, and yeah just local servers. Think Minecraft.

Awesome! Wait, how did this video get into my patch notes? Did I do that??

One of the things I've been thinking about doing is adding level requirements to items so you *have* to level up before you can use the really good items. Right now, the only barrier to better items is RAM cost. I think that's fair, for now. If you spend points on RAM, you won't have as good offense or defense.

I would love to do other cities with specific buildings and stuff, but I think it might make more sense to focus on the one city, and make it spectacular and more varying. Instead of having a Bejing and a Mexico City, I could combine them and have a Chinatown and a Mexicotown within one big city. It makes the one city more interesting.

Ships, I think, would be a bit too much. Vehicles are probably outside my scope, but having an ability that simulates a light cycle should be doable. You're totally right that ideas that take seconds to come up with can take months to implement.

You could always just get Twitter - I'm on there all the time. I do want to add wandering enemies.

As for weapons, well, you can now get fireball weapons that set things on fire, which is new. I'm surprised you think you get the best weapons near the beginning - it's possible, but pretty unlikely.

Tron Cycles are going to be a thing, for racing outside the city.

I thought it was funny that it looked like their feet were on fire, but I could change it. I'll add it to my list!

What kind of mod would you be interested in making? Maybe I could just add whatever it is to the game.

There's a bug with the save system, sorry! I've already fixed it for this week's version. Thanks for telling me! I definitely plan to implement melee weapons, I just haven't gotten around to them yet :)

As for mods, I'd love to do them, but I'm not sure how to at this point. I will be looking into them eventually, though!

Why, thank you! By all means, please make a video of the game, and feel free to monetize it. If you'd like to email me the link, I'm blackicethegame (at) gmail. You could also tweet me - twitter.com/blackicethegamee
Thanks, and have fun!

Awesome! Let me know when it's done, I'd love to see it :D