what is lrg?

from time to time I check in here as well
Happy new year guys and gals!

some pixelartists with lots of free time should just write to abisso please

Ron mentions this Kornis Rift early in the talk.

I never played it (yet), but the cover looks more like Oculus Rift than Koronis Rift!

Interesting that he calls it 'a few weeks' of coding in assembly before starting to code SCUMM. It was a very barebones and basic time back then, no AGS, no SCUMM, no fancy engines, but I guess I would have figured out the need for an engine even faster...

Thanks for sharing this talk. I added it to my Loom Links List immediately. If you have any more things of interest that I could add to that list (like the russian localisation), please pm me and don't clutter up this thread.

The colorspace topic was very interesting, I recently pixeled a background with a more 90s feel and less colors through dithering. Annoying and fun at the same time. And the result is very much worth it.
The 4 color CGA Version of Loom with PC speaker was crappy though.

It's so great seeing Forge displayed in this talk, thanks professor Moriarty!

thanks for sharing that article. in case you missed it, we have another thread dedicated to the Loom Postmortem

Some years ago, reading this post, my past self would have immediately committed to create that "optimal" version of Loom.

Thank god now I'm a bit better at sorting priorities!

What happened?

you're not telling me, you implemented your own translation system on top of the working AGS translation system, are you?

cool!

Now gimme dat translation file

Now this sounds intresting. Please keep us posted.

But what do you mean with mechanical representation of that sentence?

Loom is available on Steam for some time.
Sadly not on GOG...

And more questions:

How do they give the cloaks to the weavers? do they look the face of their babies when they're born or they're safe from killing the others with their very eyes?

And more importantly, how do they make the babies in the first place? And don't tell me about the old bag over the head trick! I always thought that the weavers themselves can see another weaver without the hood without any problems.


I there some more info available somewhere about the tabletop rpg you are (planning on?) making?

The gauntlets' puzzles are also confusing - it is not so easy to draw the lines while holding the button...

Come on, it's piece o'cake easy in general.

The puzzles are very selfexplaining (after the Tombstone Puzzle) and go fluent with the story, imho that is the definition of good puzzle design. The Tombstone Puzzle is kind of a showstopper but once you got past that it is a fun ride (like in a tram).

Just play around with the copy protection and some of the rewards you might get for playing (with) the game

Now that is great to listen to, thanks for compiling that.

You're welcome.
I hope I haven't instantly killed any further Discussion of Forge Chapter 1 with this though. Feel free to open more topics discussing Forge gameplay, lore, art, whatever...