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Mayor McCheese: Sep 20, 2004; Everyone is a mayor... Someday..; Lipstick Apathy

# ? Mar 28, 2013 02:05

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Shimrra Jamaane: Aug 10, 2007; Obscure to all except those well-versed in Yuuzhan Vong lore.

Is Visorman even a launch title?

# ? Mar 28, 2013 02:08

Scirocco Griffon: Feb 3, 2012

Shimrra Jamaane posted:

Is Visorman even a launch title?

That kind of implies that the person making it is competent enough to actually finish the project. They probably got bored with it and went back to making a TF2 webcomic with Garry's Mod or something by now.

# ? Mar 28, 2013 02:14

Waffleman_: Jan 20, 2011; I don't wanna I don't wanna I don't wanna I don't wanna!!!

The Assassination of the Goon XboxPants By The Console Ouya.

# ? Mar 28, 2013 02:16

A Fancy 400 lbs: Jul 24, 2008

Wait, Visorman is real and not just a joke? I've been skimming the thread most of the time and because of the cover I thought it was fake. :psyduck:

# ? Mar 28, 2013 02:16

Yar The Pirate: Feb 19, 2012

Delusional Commenter on an Ouya Article defending their One True Savior posted:

Is your Android smartphone full of in-depth console-style apps designed primarily for a big screen and a controller that you can't get on Google Play? Or are you saying you only ever want to play cell phone games, the majority of which are designed for 5 minute play at a time?

I don't think this person has taken a good look at the majority of announced OUYA games.

# ? Mar 28, 2013 02:16

XboxPants: Jan 30, 2006; Steven doesn't want me watching him sleep anymore.

To clarify, I do also think that part of the reason they weren't announcing games is because of the insane pace the OUYA & developers have had to follow. In other words, it's not all just a marketing move. I've always said that the entire OUYA project has been a mad rush with an unreasonable schedule to release a system like this before someone else does.

# ? Mar 28, 2013 02:20

Dapper Dan: Dec 16, 2004; Can't post for 3 years!

A Fancy 400 lbs posted:

Wait, Visorman is real and not just a joke? I've been skimming the thread most of the time and because of the cover I thought it was fake.

I'm afraid it is real and apparently has some 'buzz'. I am not loving joking:

http://www.cinemablend.com/games/OUYA-Launches-Week-53977.html

# ? Mar 28, 2013 02:21

codenameFANGIO: May 4, 2012; What are you even booing here?

A Fancy 400 lbs posted:

Wait, Visorman is real and not just a joke? I've been skimming the thread most of the time and because of the cover I thought it was fake.

I like to think it's some other forums' elaborate, fake parody game, and they are all secretly laughing at everyone. :unsmith:

# ? Mar 28, 2013 02:21

astr0man: Feb 21, 2007; hollyeo deuroga

Visorman is so real that they now have a kickstarter. They have 13 whole pounds pledged so far guys!

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/polygongaming/visorman-battle-the-generic-army-guy-in-a-retro-fp

# ? Mar 28, 2013 02:28

raditts: Feb 21, 2001; The Kwanzaa Bot is here to protect me.

Mayor McCheese posted:

Oh dear God.

# ? Mar 28, 2013 02:29

Polio Vax Scene: Apr 5, 2009

You know what the SCAMYA's interior reminds me of? Those little motor-powered balls with a stuffed ferret attached to them that would roll randomly around the room. Our dog loved that thing. Suffice to say it also provided more entertainment in 1993 for $10 than an OUYA released 2013 for $99 ever will.

edit: oh god its a gif :stare:

# ? Mar 28, 2013 02:33

Meat Recital: Mar 26, 2009; by zen death robot

XboxPants posted:

The OUYA isn't available for purchase tomorrow.

The FOIBLE has been purchasable for months now, both through their website and though Amazon and other online retails, and if you want to argue about what 'purchase' means or what 'tomorrow' means, just dont. It is possible, today, at this very time, to pay $99.99 and someone somewhere will promise you an OOZE-IT.

# ? Mar 28, 2013 02:35

Wiggly Wayne DDS: Sep 11, 2010

astr0man posted:

Visorman is so real that they now have a kickstarter. They have 13 whole pounds pledged so far guys!

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/polygongaming/visorman-battle-the-generic-army-guy-in-a-retro-fp

# ? Mar 28, 2013 02:35

precision: May 7, 2006; by VideoGames

astr0man posted:

Visorman is so real that they now have a kickstarter. They have 13 whole pounds pledged so far guys!

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/polygongaming/visorman-battle-the-generic-army-guy-in-a-retro-fp

This is either a joke or the work of a very sad, autistic man. :smith:

# ? Mar 28, 2013 02:39

XboxPants: Jan 30, 2006; Steven doesn't want me watching him sleep anymore.

Meat Recital posted:

The FOIBLE has been purchasable for months now, both through their website and though Amazon and other online retails, and if you want to argue about what 'purchase' means or what 'tomorrow' means, just dont. It is possible, today, at this very time, to pay $99.99 and someone somewhere will promise you an OOZE-IT.

Many people in this thread, for a very long time, have said that it wasn't possible to "buy" an OUYA until you could actually pay money and receive one. This isn't something I came up with.

# ? Mar 28, 2013 02:42

astr0man: Feb 21, 2007; hollyeo deuroga

precision posted:

This is either a joke or the work of a very sad, autistic man.

No you see it's the work of a truly genius indie game developer and it will surely revolutionize the industry.

# ? Mar 28, 2013 02:42

Wiggly Wayne DDS: Sep 11, 2010

precision posted:

This is either a joke or the work of a very sad, autistic man.

Visorman's Rewards Tiers

�6 or more: Your name added to the credits, and a massive thank you! (All rewards include previous incentives!)
�12 or more: A digital copy of the game upon release. For free!
�12 or more: A massive thank you e-mail from myself, not just for supporting Visorman, but for allowing the legacy that retro games left to continue!
�20 or more: Receive the game a week before release, before anyone else has a chance to play it!
�40 or more: Your face placed on one of the 'Generic Army Guys' faces! (Will require you to e-mail me a picture of yourself)
�70 or more: Your own select-able multiplayer character! (Your face placed on a character in multiplayer, and the character will be named after you (or whatever name you desire)). (Will require you to e-mail a picture of yourself)
�80 or more: A 'Visorman Backer' t-shirt!
�100 or more: The next 'Polygon Gaming' game we release; free of charge!
�2000 or more: A glass replica Visor so that you yourself can save the FPS' genre with retro controls, graphics, and gameplay! (Must be worn with a stern expression upon your face.)

This has to be a parody... :catstare:

# ? Mar 28, 2013 02:43

gay skull: Oct 24, 2004

astr0man posted:

Visorman is so real that they now have a kickstarter. They have 13 whole pounds pledged so far guys!

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/polygongaming/visorman-battle-the-generic-army-guy-in-a-retro-fp

This really comes off more like a parody done by one of us than a serious game for anything, even XBLIG or XBOULIYAG.

edit: Actually, you can play a game that's pretty much Visorman right now:

The War of the End of the Days, available on Xbox Live Indie Games. :laugh:

And somehow it looks better than Visorman.

Mayor McCheese posted:

Oh my God I wish we had a picture of XboxPants

gay skull fucked around with this message at 02:51 on Mar 28, 2013

# ? Mar 28, 2013 02:44

astr0man: Feb 21, 2007; hollyeo deuroga

Do kick starters for SHAMWOW games break the rules since all games are supposed to be free?

# ? Mar 28, 2013 02:45

Breetai: Nov 6, 2005; 🥄Mah spoon is too big!🍌

XboxPants posted:

Many people in this thread, for a very long time, have said that it wasn't possible to "buy" an OUYA until you could actually pay money and receive one. This isn't something I came up with.

Don't you ever get tired of arguing semantics?

# ? Mar 28, 2013 02:45

Snooze Cruise: Feb 16, 2013; hey look,
a post

Dapper Dan posted:

I'm afraid it is real and apparently has some 'buzz'. I am not loving joking:

http://www.cinemablend.com/games/OUYA-Launches-Week-53977.html

The best thing about this is the video. The best thing about the video is the song and the crab walk.

# ? Mar 28, 2013 02:46

peter gabriel: Nov 8, 2011; Hello Commandos

Breetai posted:

Don't you ever get tired of arguing semantics?

He's not arguing, he is debating, there is a difference you see because

# ? Mar 28, 2013 02:47

boo_radley: Dec 30, 2005; Politeness costs nothing

SoupyTwist posted:

http://forums.ouya.tv/discussion/1040/in-app-purchase-testing-change

Do they not have a separate development and production environment? :stare:

edit: Oh my

pre:

        JSONObject purchaseRequest = new JSONObject();
        purchaseRequest.put("uuid", uniqueId);
        purchaseRequest.put("identifier", product.getIdentifier());
        // This value is only needed for testing, not setting it results in a live purchase
        purchaseRequest.put("testing", "true");

Holy poo poo, that thread.

JonAbrams Member, Administrator, Team OUYA posted:

We had encountered a problem whereby many developers were submitting games with the testing flag enabled. We realized that this would be a common problem going forward, so we changed the server side logic to treat purchases from published games as non-test purchases even if the game had the testing flag enabled. This change occurred on March 22. (...)
This change was not communicated, for that we apologize.

TheFlyingOrc posted:

This is amazingly unprofessional.

JonAbrams Member, Administrator, Team OUYA posted:

TheFlyingOrc said:
Can you please be more specific in your feedback?

That's insane. "I'm just not... I don't see the unprofessionalism here. Can you show me? Help me understand. We just made it so we ignore your testing signals and treat everything as real transactions. I don't get why that would upset you." It's embarassing to even consider. What's the next level beyond internet trainwreck? Like where everybody just feels sort of bad about having laughed at all.

# ? Mar 28, 2013 02:47

Dewgy: Nov 10, 2005; ~🚚special delivery~📦

zylche posted:

"All those N64 games looked like poo poo on purpose, right guys? Right? Style choices!"

# ? Mar 28, 2013 02:49

boo_radley: Dec 30, 2005; Politeness costs nothing

"What is credit cards. When you get right down to it, has anybody even seen money???", mused Jon Abrams.

I'm showing this to some of my SWIFT/ Interbanking colleagues tomorrow. I'll see if I can get pictures of their reactions.

# ? Mar 28, 2013 02:51

Dex: May 26, 2006; Quintuple x!!!

Would not escrow again.

VERY MISLEADING!

Mayor McCheese posted:

Don't run your OUYAs after midnight.

# ? Mar 28, 2013 02:51

ZenMasterBullshit: Nov 2, 2011; Restaurant de Nouvelles "À Table" Proudly Presents:
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ZenMasterBullshit posted:

My impression was that every OUYA was gonna be developer ready and that they had sold units to people around the world. If they want every OUYA player to be a possible OUYA developer then yeah it's skipping a pretty huge step to completely ignore all overseas developers.

Why in the world would you NOT try to include overseas developers? Why would you handicap yourself like that?

Quoting because XPants keeps ignoring me.

boo_radley posted:

"What is credit cards. When you get right down to it, has anybody even seen money???", mused Jon Abrams.

I'm showing this to some of my SWIFT/ Interbanking colleagues tomorrow. I'll see if I can get pictures of their reactions.

I swear I'll never not be surprised by how little the OUYA team knows about anything.

# ? Mar 28, 2013 02:56

precision: May 7, 2006; by VideoGames

boo_radley posted:

What's the next level beyond internet trainwreck? Like where everybody just feels sort of bad about having laughed at all.

Internet School Shooting?

I can't find any information on where the OMNOMNOM Launch Event actually is. Somewhere, right now, just across the bridge from me, people are getting drunk and playing the KURTRUSSELL. I was going to bluff my way in!

# ? Mar 28, 2013 02:56

XboxPants: Jan 30, 2006; Steven doesn't want me watching him sleep anymore.

Breetai posted:

Don't you ever get tired of arguing semantics?

I wasn't the one to bring it up - ask Meat Recital instead.

ZenMasterBullshit posted:

My impression was that every OUYA was gonna be developer ready and that they had sold units to people around the world. If they want every OUYA player to be a possible OUYA developer then yeah it's skipping a pretty huge step to completely ignore all overseas developers.

Why in the world would you NOT try to include overseas developers? Why would you handicap yourself like that?

They don't have enough time to do everything that needs to be done, so if there's a corner that can be cut and still let the system still turn on and play games, they gotta consider cutting it.

Anyway the point is moot, they do actually have all the tax forms up.

XboxPants fucked around with this message at 03:00 on Mar 28, 2013

# ? Mar 28, 2013 02:57

Wiggly Wayne DDS: Sep 11, 2010

XboxPants posted:

I wasn't the one to bring it up - ask Meat Recital instead.

They don't have enough time to do everything that needs to be done, so if there's a corner that can be cut and the system will still turn on and play games, they gotta consider.

Anyway the point is moot, they do actually have all the tax forms up.

When you're trying to sell a system, the corner you cut isn't marketing or extra developers when you're already short on games at launch. You say this like OUYA has amazing software or hardware to back this up. They don't.

Some amazing quotes from that thread.

New feature: Being able to change your credit card info, basic IAP features for developers!
Wait, the console is shipping TOMORROW? :magical:

# ? Mar 28, 2013 03:02

precision: May 7, 2006; by VideoGames

zylche posted:

New feature: Being able to change your credit card info

Ahahahaha. I mean seriously. Oh my god.

I'm taking tomorrow off and buying some popcorn.

# ? Mar 28, 2013 03:04

codenameFANGIO: May 4, 2012; What are you even booing here?

They ship tomorrow though, right? I feel like people won't start receiving them until Monday or Tuesday.

# ? Mar 28, 2013 03:10

ZenMasterBullshit: Nov 2, 2011; Restaurant de Nouvelles "À Table" Proudly Presents:
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zylche posted:

When you're trying to sell a system, the corner you cut isn't marketing or extra developers when you're already short on games at launch. You say this like OUYA has amazing software or hardware to back this up. They don't.

New feature: Being able to change your credit card info, basic IAP features for developers!
Wait, the console is shipping TOMORROW?

Basically what he said PeePants.

Also, holy loving poo poo this thing is shipping FINISHED tomorrow? What a piece of poo poo.

# ? Mar 28, 2013 03:11

mechanicalFactory: Dec 24, 2011; I could calculate your chances of survival... but you won't like it.

XboxPants posted:

To clarify, I do also think that part of the reason they weren't announcing games is because of the insane pace the OUYA & developers have had to follow. In other words, it's not all just a marketing move. I've always said that the entire OUYA project has been a mad rush with an unreasonable schedule to release a system like this before someone else does.

Hey, OUYApants, since you are practically all of OUYA's marketing team, you should help them out and advertise all the great games coming to the OUYA!

Like Visorman, which is a low quality rip of Goldeneye.

Or that one cube third person shooter with copyright infringement in it!

Or Minecraft*!

_{* note Notch, Mojang, or any other Minecraft Developer or Distributor has not said they're porting Minecraft}

mechanicalFactory fucked around with this message at 03:14 on Mar 28, 2013

# ? Mar 28, 2013 03:12

precision: May 7, 2006; by VideoGames

codenameFANGIO posted:

They ship tomorrow though, right? I feel like people won't start receiving them until Monday or Tuesday.

If there aren't any actual units in the US tonight, what the poo poo are they doing at the launch party? Are they sitting around looking at an empty box?! Why count down to midnight if that's when they're shipping from China??!!

If they're shipping from here (SF) tonight, people should be getting them this afternoon. Like, people in CA, anyway.

# ? Mar 28, 2013 03:14

Dex: May 26, 2006; Quintuple x!!!

Would not escrow again.

VERY MISLEADING!

XboxPants posted:

They don't have enough time to do everything that needs to be done, so if there's a corner that can be cut and still let the system still turn on and play games, they gotta consider cutting it.

Anyway the point is moot, they do actually have all the tax forms up.

It must be cool living in a world where tax obligations are corners you can cut for the sake of having more time to nod enthusiastically at questions you don't understand. Can somebody link me to the OUYA page regarding taxes(since I know that poo poo didn't exist a month ago), because I've no idea if the marketplace is the seller and you're earning royalties, or you're the seller and paying commission or what the gently caress. I mean, I'm sure my local tax office is going to be totally fine if I cut a few corners since I have important things to do instead, so it's probably not a big deal.

# ? Mar 28, 2013 03:18

duckfarts: Jul 2, 2010; ~ shameful ~; Soiled Meat

ZenMasterBullshit posted:

Basically what he said PeePants.

Also, holy loving poo poo this "thing" is "shipping" "FINISHED" "tomorrow"? What a piece of poo poo.

I hope this clarifies things.

# ? Mar 28, 2013 03:18

A Fancy 400 lbs: Jul 24, 2008

Ahahaha, changing your credit card information is still "coming soon" the day before launch. That's loving hilarious. Terrifying, but hilarious. How was that not one of the first things they implemented?

# ? Mar 28, 2013 03:19

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Wiggly Wayne DDS: Sep 11, 2010

Dex posted:

It must be cool living in a world where tax obligations are corners you can cut for the sake of having more time to nod enthusiastically at questions you don't understand. Can somebody link me to the OUYA page regarding taxes(since I know that poo poo didn't exist a month ago), because I've no idea if the marketplace is the seller and you're earning royalties, or you're the seller and paying commission or what the gently caress. I mean, I'm sure my local tax office is going to be totally fine if I cut a few corners since I have important things to do instead, so it's probably not a big deal.

Here's the marketplace agreement: https://devs.ouya.tv/marketplace_agreement.pdf

# ? Mar 28, 2013 03:22

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