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Hii, I'm John, formerly an aspiring game developer, now just a game player. I'm a huge fan of games made in the 90's and early-to-mid 2000's and love seeing the creative things that people come up with. I prefer to keep to myself, so there isn't much for you to see around here, sorry... but hey, this isn't a place for profile reading is it? It's a place to play some games and mods, so get to it!

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NiiRubra
NiiRubra @ Squeddies Mappack

You're welcome. I'm just glad that I saved a bunch of stuff from back then, and that it's working properly (at least it was when I last played it).

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NiiRubra @ Mental Omega

Thank you for your efforts!

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NiiRubra @ Welcome to "Stargate Galaxies"!

Woah, a multi-galaxy campaign? That's wild. Can't wait to try this out

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NiiRubra @ Guardian 5e Personal Defense Speeder & Guardian E2 Escape Speeder Bike

So they get disposable spawned bikes? That's an interesting alternative way to do bikes, compared to how it is normally found in all the other factions, very unique.

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NiiRubra @ Mental Omega

"The Foehn Revolt" sounds fitting as a historical name, since a "revolt" tends to refer to an event, besides just the group, and you can't really get more cannonical with a name for the event than basically citing the name of the faction.

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NiiRubra @ The Last Bastion

Lovely work by Hell-Kitty! I would say that it must be weird to watch the defenses of the Last Bastion moving about in fast forward, but I doubt anything is even capable of watching them in person, given that they would probably *get shot* in fast forward before they could even process what they found.

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NiiRubra @ Act III Announcement

Oh wow, no way! I'm amazed that you folks really are going for it, you've done so much already, this is awesome!

Besides watching the Foehn story unfold, I'm really curious to see what Epsilon will look like now that it faces no resistance, and how a certain faction, which has found itself isolated, will adapt and change, and what role will they play in this new world.

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NiiRubra @ Lost and Damned has released an update! Achievements, Costumes, extra maps and more!

Ooh, time for me to do another run! Thanks Sellface!

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NiiRubra @ DDDevlog: Chapter 0 progress

Nice! Looking good.

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NiiRubra @ Chat GPT and Dall-E (Bing Image Creator) for Modders: Some Advice

To be honest I don't think trial and error-ing into a successful prompt is a skill, it doesn't take real effort like learning, practicing and refining one's writing, painting or drawing skills, or even all of the effort that goes into developing such tools, a profession like a "pro google searcher", for example, doesn't really exist, if someone claimed to be that we would all laugh at them, and any attempts at making money out of it, because it's rather mundane. They just typed in some words and tried again until they found what they wanted.

Nevertheless it is good that these tools served their purpose and made it possible to achieve your goal with this mod, in light of all of the changes happening in your life, that is a very positive outcome indeed. Thank you for sharing your insights.

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NiiRubra @ Half Life: 28 Days Later | Official Demo

This was pretty good, I enjoyed it. When I woke up on that hospital bed, in the complete silence of a dead city, as the morning sun rose with its lukewarm lighting, it felt very lonely, just like in the movie, you managed to capture that feeling extremely well, and as I roamed around looking for things to use and ways to progress, it did put me in a similar mindset as Jim, in that I was kind of looking through abandoned places trying to figure out what's next.

The church was pretty spooky, when the zombie came out the door, I initially underestimated him because he was shuffling like HL a zombie, but then he saw me and he instantly switched to a full sprint and it startled me, I ran away and eventually died. I wasn't sure what I was supposed to do at first, so I guess I would say that's one point of criticism, but other than that I think you have done a tremendous job capturing not only the look but the *feel* of 28 Days Later, and that's something that even big budget studios fail to do with adaptations sometimes.

I wish you luck with whatever you decide to do next. Maybe this project didn't turn out the way you wanted it to be, but if nothing else, it's proof that you got a pretty good artistic vision.

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NiiRubra @ Should enemies attack Cal (but he has really high health) Or mostly ignore Cal?

(voted on "they should attack Cal")
Answering this question was not straightforward to me, because on the one hand, enemies attacking an ally brings to our attention that they have an abnormal amount of health, which feels gamey and less immersive when they are getting shot at by like 5 people and living it.

But on the other hand: enemies attacking an ally means they are not attacking *the player*, it means that the ally is more useful to the player by diverting attention from enemies and allowing the player to do fun things, like flanking the enemy while they are distracted, taking their time throwing a well aimed grenade, or taking a well aimed shot at them when they are not looking at the player. If Cal is a likeable character, him being in danger may also ellicit concern from the player, they may try to aid him when he is taking a lot of fire, I think that helps establish a bond with an NPC, when you can rely on them and you're also a bit worried about their safety.

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NiiRubra @ Expanding Fronts 1.5.1 Now Available!

Awesome stuff, thank you for all of your efforts!

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NiiRubra @ (OLD) TimeWarp Lava Cave Demo v1.1

Haha to me it was like, I entered that room and I immediately went "oh look, a secret passage!" lol. I'm as blind as a bat generally, so I don't mean anything by it, but that's a funny contrast.

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NiiRubra @ (OLD) TimeWarp Lava Cave Demo v1.1

I see, good idea.

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NiiRubra @ Chapter 5: Focal Point - June 2023 Article

That first concept art is the stuff of dreams. Nice work folks! I wish you the best of luck.

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NiiRubra @ (OLD) TimeWarp Lava Cave Demo v1.1

I loved this! Loved the art style, had fun with the gunplay, loved the environments, I'm intrigued by the story and impressed by what you managed to achieve, I also thought it was pretty funny that we told the detectives we were from the future and they were basically like "oh, not again" lol.

What you got here is something pretty special, I can't wait to see more!

Edit: oh yeah, I read in the ReadMe that saving during cutscenes causes problems, I would suggest having an alert for that at the beginning of the game, like maybe soon after the player is given control it pops up on screen.

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NiiRubra
NiiRubra @ Coalition: NEWS DROP; AI friend, new maps, and more!

No pals? Better call Cal.

Looking good!

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NiiRubra @ Lovac Update 2023!

I am glad that you had the opportunity to reflect, revise and find a new direction for the story that you're happy with. Those screenshots are looking awesome too. Take your time, make the game what you want it to be (just be careful of feature creep of course), I for one will be looking forward to it however long it takes.

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NiiRubra @ london

Lovely!

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NiiRubra @ Announcement Remake

Awesome! Looking forward to it.

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NiiRubra @ Final Update

That's totally okay. I wish you the best in your future endeavours.

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NiiRubra @ Isolation : Zero status report #4

Good stuff! Looking forward to it.

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NiiRubra @ May Progress Update

Yeah, whether humanity likes it or not, the biosphere of Earth has largely been replaced.

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NiiRubra @ May Progress Update

Wow, that second screenshot looks like a painting, I love it. Great work folks! This looks so unique.

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NiiRubra @ Modding thoughts. Procedural Map Generation. My new limit-circumventing journey in Sourcemodding.

It is pretty amazing how you managed to make the ol' janky Source-engine comply with this cool idea you have.

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NiiRubra @ Half Life 2: Raising the Bar REDUX: May 2023 (Division 3) Update

This stuff is just incredible, I'm in awe. I like how the grubs come in a Shiny variant too haha. The Hunters are very interesting, they are familiar enough and yet different, with that distinct RtBR aesthetic to them.

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NiiRubra @ Soldiers of the Meduseld

That shield is beautiful, I wouldn't want to take it into battle lol, it would be like holding up a painting as someone batters and cuts it.

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NiiRubra @ Crush Depth V1.7

This looks fantastic!

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