What I learned from this is creating a character for an RPG is a kind of mini-game itself. Many hours of my childhood were spent poring over my friends' D&D Player Handbooks, rolling up characters that I'd never play (thanks to the infamous "satanic panic," I wasn't allowed to play the game). Now you can launch PCGen from your system's application menu as you would any other applications. Open it in a text editor and type the following, adjusting as appropriate: Create a file called sktop in your ~/.local/share/applications directory.Download a suitable icon (e.g., wget -O pcgen/d20.png.Unzip the archive with unzip pcgen-x.yy.zz-full.zip.Download PCGen to a directory, such as /opt or ~/.local/bin.Linux and BSD users can customize this experience: The application you want, of course, is Java or, if you're asked to input the application launch command manually, java -jar. You usually do this by right-clicking and specifying what application to open the file in. The application should just run if you double-click the pcgen.jar file, but if your computer hasn't been told what to do with a Java app yet, you may need to tell it explicitly to run in Java. Since PCGen is a Java application, you don't have to install it after you download it (because you've already got the Java runtime installed). If you're not sure whether you have it installed, you can download PCGen first, try to run it, and install Java if it fails to run. You likely already have Java installed if not, download and install it from your distribution's repository. This isn't quite the same thing as Java in your web browser PCGen is a downloadable application that runs locally on your computer. PCGen is a Java application, so it runs on anything that has Java installed. While it doesn't have a mobile version, there is a PCGen viewer for Android so you can access your build whenever you need to. Sure, you could build custom spreadsheets in Libre Office, but then again you could also try PCGen, a Java-based application that makes character creation and maintenance sublimely simple without taking the fun out of either. They certainly handle it a lot better than scratches on paper worn thin by repeated erasing and scribbling and more erasing. It's a sensible match computers are great for tracking information that changes frequently. That's an appropriate analogy, because, as we all know, character sheets have been computerized. Whether you thought it was fun or perplexing-or both, if you play RPGs, the process of building and tracking a character is probably as natural to you now as using a computer. If you're an avid gamer, it was probably a major milestone for you.īut do you also remember struggling to decipher an empty character sheet and what you were supposed to write down in each box? Remember poring over the core rulebook, cross-referencing one table with a class write-up, the spellbook with your chosen school of magic, and skills to your race? Welcome to the communityĭo you remember the first time you built a role-playing game (RPG) character? It was exciting and full of possibility, and your imagination ran wild.
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The only main difference between difficulties is that Ultimate has re-skinned monsters and bosses, plus rare loot becomes exponentially more common which each successive rank in difficulty. Since the actual adventure was so short, the main draw of going through the areas was leveling up, getting to the next difficulty level, or finding loot / rare items. Upon creating or choosing a character, the player chose their Episode and difficulty. The campaign had 4 difficulties, Normal, Hard, Very Hard, and Ultimate. The split screen multiplayer mode featured no quests and allowed up to four players travel through the game's areas on one TV. There are two sets of quests, one set for single player play, and the other for online multiplayer. In Episode I the players follow the footsteps of Pioneer 1 and the famous hunter Red Ring Rico Tyrell, who coincidentally is the daughter of Pioneer 2's Principal. The story revolves around the space colony ship Pioneer 2 which is sent to populate its passengers' new home of Ragol, a planet barren of civilized life. It was one of very few games to make use of the GameCube's Broadband and Modem Adapters to facilitate online play. Online play required a monthly fee of 10 bucks on both systems, in addition to the costs of Xbox LIVE. All of the Dreamcast content was gathered and labeled as Episode I, while all new content was created and labeled as Episode II. 2, half new content, PSO Episode I & II was originally created for the Nintendo GameCube but was later ported to the Xbox. Half a port of the Dreamcast game Phantasy Star Online and its expansion Phantasy Star Online Ver. So in the highlights we have "minus green" situation, and the common name for "minus green" is purple. This means Rmax will be multiplied by 2x and than limited to the tag value, 27850 similarly, Bmax will also be limited to 27850 but G in fact reaches only 26193. To calculate white balance multipliers from it, take the reciprocal values of the "As Shot Neutral" tag, meaning R is about 2x, B is about 1.13x, and G stays at 1x. For the particular shot, we are interested in "As Shot Neutral" tag, which reads R=0.5085 G=1 B=0.8843. The multiplier for the green channel(s) is usually 1x, or very close to 1x. By the way, you can check the DNG tag value right in RawDigger - press the EXIF button in the upper left part of the RawDigger screen and scroll down a little.ĭigital cameras also use white balance, which is 3 or 4 multipliers applied per respective RGB(G) channels. In my case it looks like this:Īs you can see, highlights are magentish and the lowest maximum value (marked with green arrowhead) is 26193 it happens to be for the second green channel, G2. Now to check the actual white level value, download a free trial of RawDigger from and open the same dng file. This means that the white level in the file is supposed to be 27850. With exiftool, the command line isĮxiftool -S -H -WhiteLevel your_dng_filename.dng or one of the GUIs that are listed closer to the bottom of the page. To see the value of the tag for your camera, download and install the free command-line utility called exiftool /~phil/exiftool Saturation is caused either by the sensor itself becoming highly non-linear in response, or by the camera's analog to digital converter clipping." The DNG standard calls this value "White Level" and explains it this way: "This tag specifies the fully saturated encoding level for the raw sample values. Sometimes it is called "saturation", but it is a bit of misleading term, especially if ISO is raised. Thus it also exhibits magenta highlights.Ĭan you please explain what do you mean for "calibration, maximum, tag reads"? Is there a procedure I have to do?ĭigital cameras have the maximum raw value that can be reached (highlights). On one of the samples I have the real maximum is 26193, while the tag reads 27580. Iliah Borg wrote:The problem is most probably the calibration. Film mode allows a LOT of the overexposure to be tamed down during the color correction pass. All shooting used Film Color Space, which, with the last Final Cut X upgrade, is EXTREMELY simple to process, as the conversion is built in. Because it has a bulging front lens, it will take a unique little rig to get the variable ND on it. Its shortcoming is that it has a limited f/stop range, stopping at f/11. The Kowa, a one inch sensor format lens from the machine vision world (where most camera sensors come from) is spectacular. The shooting was with a Metabones speed booster on a 17-35 Nikkor and a decent variable ND filter at ISO 800, and when darkness allowed, a Kowa 6mm f/1.8 via a Metabones C to M43 mount. When the show is done with scoring and final color work, you will be able to find it on YouTube titled "Cross Country at 14,000 MPH." I don't really see any magenta in the blown out highlights. I just reviewed five days' worth of footage shot with my Pocket Cinema Camera with loads of overexposure, as when shooting a trip due west from Florida to California on the I-10, shooting the sun is inevitable. The upside-down ballroom was built on top of a large water tank in the soundstage so it could be flooded and drained in a matter of hours. Studios, Burbank in California, two sets for each main room were built, one right-side-up and the other upside down. Sets Īs with the 1972 The Poseidon Adventure film, which based many of its sets on rooms aboard the RMS Queen Mary, the film's set designers drew inspiration for some of the spaces aboard the fictional "Poseidon" from rooms aboard the Queen Mary 2, most notably in Poseidon's ballroom, which is partly modeled on the one of Queen Mary 2. Production on the film began in July 2005. Fergie as Gloria (credited as Stacy Ferguson).After the survivors fire a flare, two helicopters and several ships arrive to rescue them, having tracked the location of the Poseidon's GPS beacon. Poseidon flips back over, and across the water, the survivors look on as she sinks stern-first deep into the ocean. As they are paddling away, the waves push the raft farther away from the sinking liner. The group jumps out the thruster and swims to a nearby inflatable raft, and as they are getting into the raft, the ship starts to sink. With the propellers now spinning in the other direction, Dylan throws an acetylene tank into it, causing an explosion that destroys the propeller, and leaving an opening for them to escape through. He finds the "shut off" switch to be broken, but presses the reverse button instead, before drowning. With their path blocked by the propellers, and knowing that the control room is submerged in water, Robert swims away to turn off the engine. The group enters the bow thruster room and are horrified to find the thrusters still running. With the ship slowly sinking, the survivors soon find themselves in a crew lounge where they find the bow section is flooded, until an explosion of the engine room lifts it out of the water. With the water rising rapidly, the group escapes through an air duct and some ballast tanks, although Elena hits her head underwater and drowns as a result. The pressure from the water finally cracks the ballroom windows, drowning the occupants, including Captain Bradford. The group crosses a makeshift bridge across the lobby, where Lucky Larry gets crushed by an engine. They reunite with Jennifer, Christian, Elena, and gambler Lucky Larry, who had all been in the nightclub section of the ship, and who are the only survivors out of all of the occupants in the nightclub. Unconvinced, Dylan leads Conor, Maggie, Robert, Richard, and Valentine as they make their way towards the bow, where he believes that they will have the best chance of escaping from the capsized liner.Īs they head up, they have to cross an elevator shaft, into which Valentine falls to his death before being crushed by the falling elevator. In the ballroom, a badly injured Captain Bradford attempts to restore order and assures the surviving passengers that help is on the way, and tries to persuade them to stay put. The wave swamps and capsizes the ship, killing the bridge officers along with many passengers and crew. To survive the wave, they try to steer the ship to starboard to take the wave bow-first, but she does not turn fast enough. Also on board is former Navy submariner-turned-professional gambler Dylan Johns, architect Richard Nelson, widowed Maggie James and her son Conor, stowaway Elena Morales, waiter Marco Valentine, and Captain Michael Bradford.Īs the passengers are enjoying a New Year's Eve party, officers on the bridge see a huge rogue wave bearing down on the ship. Former New York City Mayor and firefighter Robert Ramsey is traveling with his daughter Jennifer and her boyfriend Christian Sanders to New York, soon to be engaged. The Poseidon, a luxury passenger ship, is making a transatlantic crossing. It grossed $181 million worldwide on a budget of $160 million however, after the costs of promotion and distribution, it lost around $77 million for the studio. It was released on May 12, 2006, and nominated at the 79th Academy Awards for Best Visual Effects. It had a simultaneous release in IMAX format. It was produced and distributed by Warner Bros. It stars Kurt Russell, Josh Lucas and Richard Dreyfuss with Emmy Rossum, Jacinda Barrett, Mike Vogel, Jimmy Bennett, and Andre Braugher in supporting roles. It is the third film adaptation of Paul Gallico's 1969 novel The Poseidon Adventure, and a loose remake of the 1972 film of the same name. Poseidon is a 2006 American action disaster film directed and co-produced by Wolfgang Petersen. If a gamer saw that Siralim 2 is cheaper on mobile, they’ll buy it there to check it out. But on other platforms, $15 is cheap.”Īs a marketer: this is a beautiful fly-wheel effect. I would get 0 sales if I sold it for $15 for iOS/Android. Regarding the pricing differences, Zack shared, “Overall, it boils down to what the market is. Some played on Steam, then bought a iOS version or an Android version for on the go. The biggest surprise: Because of Siralim’s cloud save, many fans purchased multiple versions to play anywhere. There’s the belief that pricing based on the platform is unfair. By being in multiple storefronts, Zack is catering to the buyer. In a niche market like old-school RPGs, there no longer is a definite ‘platform’ to play. (Siralim 2 is getting Playstation 4 and PS Vita soon) If you look at Siralim, you can find it everywhere: iOS, Android, Mac, PC, Linux, Windows Phone, PlayStation 4 and PS Vita. That’s all it took for Thylacine Studios to ship it in multiple platforms. Multi-platform AttackĪ commenter asked Zack, “Why isn’t this game on Mac?” Unless you have the experience and money, you’re better off reinvesting ad dollars on freelancers who can help you market. Other campaigns, hundreds of thousands of dollars were spent and became a sunk cost. I’ve lucked out in Facebook ad campaigns that made a profit in the first week. (Can you afford to test ads at $100 a day for two months?) “It’s never worth for an indie developer to invest in ads.” Zack shares.įrom a marketer to indie developers: You need two things to make ads work.ġ) A background in marketing and copywriting to understand what ‘clicks’ with customersĢ) Enough money to experiment. While ads are shortcuts to quickly growing your audience base, it’s a gamble. Ads (or don’t even BOTHER.)ĭuring the first year, Zack invested in Facebook ads, Google ads, and Reddit ads. Struggling to validate with people? I wrote a post about finding hidden communities here. It's ALWAYS a bad idea to spend months/years working in isolation and expecting a fanfare of good results. Others build it slowly, and see if people are willing to pay for it. Some do it with market research and making projections. Look at that special ability! Screenshot by BadIndieGamer. That’s when the ball started rolling and Siralim acquired it's first hundred fans.Ī view of the monster ranch. It took 272 days from putting the Humble Widget on his site, to getting Siralim on Steam Greenlight. Not a load of fans, but enough to help him validate that this is something worth pursuing. The Humble store initially didn’t even allow Siralim, because, in the words of Zack, it had “Microsoft Paint level graphics.”įrom there, he shared his work on various subreddits, which got him his first fans. There was a gut feeling that there must be others who yearned for a game similar to Gameboy classic, Dragon Warrior Monsters (a monster-collecting side-story based on the Dragon Quest series.)ĭuring development, he set up a Humble Widget on his site to gather his first fans. Siralim didn’t come about because of market research. I asked Zack about the origins of Siralim. The first year and the first hundred fans His newest DLC for Siralim 2, Trial of the Old Gods, is being released for free, adding even more content to this already incredibly massive game. You’re invited to check out Siralim and Siralim 2. Your job is to turn your monsters into an ultimate weapon of destruction, by customizing every little feature of your team. Forget about love, compassion, badges and poke-contests. Instead of cute monsters, you’re capturing the souls of demons - summoning them as part of your personal army to gain favor from the gods (and in the free DLC, even transform one of your monsters into a god). It’s like Pokemon, only instead of being a trainer, you’re a wizard. Siralim is an old-school RPG, with monster-collecting. Feel free to chat with him in his forum or on Twitter.īefore we jump into the highlights of my interview with Zack, I want to share a bit about his games. Since this is more of a marketing post, developers may want to ask him about game development directly. Zack is a super friendly guy, and wicked smart. If you aren’t a brand spanking new developer, you’ll still pick up some gems in this post. You too might be building games on your free time and working a day job. This article is specifically about marketing and growth for indie developers, from an indie developer. So it surprised me in my interview with Zack Bertok of Thylacine Studios, when he told me he works full-time as a game developer on his old-school RPG series, Siralim. Many of these indie developers work during the day, and craft their magnum opus of an RPG in the wee hours of the night. Trying a new music library system is a bit like moving house – what’s the point in throwing all your junk in boxes and bringing it with you when you can use the exercise as an excuse for rationalising as you go along? Filling out fields It’s a bit time consuming, and this is partly the reason why I recommend that you start out with a handful of songs in the beginning. Note that this is not an automated process and you’d still have to pick out the title that matches your track, so don’t expect any “batch” processing of sorts where you can leave Beatport Pro to fetch all your data for your songs. That way, you don’t have to deal with removing duplicate songs (which could take hours) and erroneous files.Ĭlicking “Sync with Beatport” lets you interface with the Beatport Store where you can download metadata information for your track as well as the related album art. When you’re just starting out with Beatport Pro, the best way to get acquainted with it is to start with a small batch of songs. Selecting a track brings up its attributes on the right sidebar, along with a host of characteristics that you can fill in so that you can use them to filter them out later. Here I’ve created a rather generic “EDM” playlist, but it’s good enough to start. That’s what I did, and here’s how I got on… Starting outĪ great way to get familiar with the way Beatport Pro works is to create a playlist which you can populate with a handful of tunes. Unless you’ve been religious in keeping your tunes organised, you probably have a lot of duplicates as well as broken files that you don’t want imported, so instead of getting frustrated with having to clear all of these out, I’d say start small. While it’s possible to sync your entire iTunes Library with Beatport Pro so you have access to all your songs immediately, I think the best way to get acquainted with the software would be to process chunks of music at a time. Back then, Colette wished she could stay up all night. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely. 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Monsters that appear in the Moga Woods include the Great Jaggi, Qurupeco, Royal Ludroth, Rathian, Lagiacrus, and Rathalos. Instead, commodity items can be obtained from Junior and traded for rare items via the Argosy or sold for money. Because of this, there are no quest rewards (supply items can only be found by slaying Felynes and Melynx). Many large monsters can be hunted consecutively in this area for their carves. Players have the option to hunt in the Moga Woods (in single player) a free-hunting area with no time limit or penalty for fainting. Rathian, Rathalos and Diablos are the only returning large monsters, while Felyne, Melynx, Aptonoth, Popo and Kelbi are the only returning small monsters. Every area is new, there are no subspecies and most monsters from previous games are not included.
"wait the fan? oh so you can access the elevator room, i thought the purple door had locked. I even went to every door and managed to get to the top of the fan without turning it off, only to come to a dead end. A year-round world map of sun and shadow. Whether you just broke up with your ex or have been apart for a while, below are some tips on how to win your ex and make them want you back. Find nearby businesses, restaurants and hotels. If there is any hope that the relationship can be rekindled, then there are some things that you can try to do. Went up the elevator, took a right, killed the dudes, dropped down the jumped back out into the big room and the doors are now locked? "Yes they are locked. Official MapQuest website, find driving directions, maps, live traffic updates and road conditions. children choice and the opportunity to initiate their own learning and. so you went through the purple door to the left in the big room where you saw clair getting dragged away. through observations and various ways of gathering and making sense of data. 11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and. Jeremiah 29:10-15 For thus saith the LORD, That after seventy years be accomplished at Babylon I will visit you, and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place. All guns in the game have unlimited ammo but a limited clip size. Portions from Secrets of Christian Living, F.B. They are also your primary source of damage to enemies. All guns in the game are used to manipulate/destroy objects that glow orange. "I'm pretty sure there was never a blue line for the missle launcher but don't worry your practically on top of it. In order for us to make the best articles possible, share your corrections, opinions, and thoughts about Claire Russell: Romance Guide and Side Quests Cyberpunk 2077 with us. The WSMP50 is acquired while making your way to Mr. Was i suppose to get the missle laucher by following a blue quest like the other main items, if so I was not notified of it. The door to the room is inactive now so going back is not possible. When Claire goes missing, he finds a massive underground complex with soldiers. " said: " said: " Remember when you go in the room to the right of the elevator and kill the guys on the computer, and you shoot down and are able to jump to a huge room, well i came from righthand corner of there. The game follows Jason and his girlfriend Claire, out to explore some caverns. She also created a Las Vegas musical revue based on John Gray's book, Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus, and a show about life in Marin County, For Whom The Bridge Tolls. In 1981 she published a book, At Your Age You're Having a What? The Advantages of Middle-Aged Motherhood. She won a national Emmy in 1980 for writing the music for I Want It All Now, a documentary about life in Marin County, and a regional Emmy in 1992 for Classic Stories for Children. Elmo (Elmo Shropshire), commercials, and greeting cards. According to reviewer Greg Adams, "Only the most hard-hearted cynic could find no enjoyment in this minor masterpiece of early-'70s soft pop." Ībrams then left teaching to pursue a career in music and verse writing, which subsequently included children's records and novelty songs, many in collaboration with Dr. įollowing the success of "Mill Valley", Abrams, Jacobsen and the children recorded and released an album, entitled Miss Abrams and the Strawberry Point 4th Grade Class as the children had by then moved up a grade. The follow-up single, "Buildin' a Heaven on Earth", was written by singer/songwriter Norman Greenbaum. A performance for the Mill Valley Fourth of July celebration was filmed by Francis Ford Coppola. Promotional photos of the singers were taken by Annie Leibovitz, and Abrams appeared on several networked TV shows and in national magazines, while also turning down an opportunity to advertise Jell-O. Released in June 1970 on the Reprise label, the record reached #90 on the Billboard pop chart and #5 on the Easy Listening (Now Billboard Adult Contemporary) chart. Records where the label management "guys in suits stood up and gave it a standing ovation". It was heard by record producer Erik Jacobsen, who recorded Abrams with the children from the third grade class at the school, and took it to Warner Bros. On Christmas Day 1969, she wrote a song about the town for her kindergarten class to sing. In 1968, she moved to California and secured a teaching post at Strawberry Point Elementary School in Mill Valley. There, she also started to write verse and song lyrics, and sang with the Three Faces of Eve, an all-girl rock and roll band. Boston University granted her a fellowship for a Masters Program in Special Education, after which she taught for two years in Boston. She attended college in Cincinnati and at Simmons College in Boston, and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English literature from the University of Michigan. I’m also disgusted by the church’s fraudulent claim that it had healed another case of meningitis, when in fact the other child had the more benign form of the disease and had been treated in a hospital.Īn utterly heartbreaking but beautiful tribute to Rita’s son Matthew, who died while under Christian Science ‘care.’ This little book packs a powerful punch and clearly illustrates the utter coldness, denial, and futility of Christian Science.She was born in Cleveland, Ohio, where she attended Cleveland Heights High School and studied classical piano and music theory at the Cleveland Institute of Music. I’m disgusted by the behavior of the practitioners before and after Matthew’s death and by their petty rivalries. It stirred memories of my own time in Christian Science, and dealing with Christian Science practitioners, a class of ‘professionals’, if you want to call them that, who often and routinely cross personal and professional boundaries, at least in my own experience, and the experience of the author of this memoir. Short, well-written, very touching, but at the same time it was difficult to read because of its subject matter which hit a bit too close to home. How could people who love their children not get them medical care? This books shows how. |
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