
Wandering around on the intertubes the other day, both Dan and I independently came across this cool Zero-gravity experiments video. A guy makes a sphere of water in (held together in zero-g by a loop of wire) and does neat things like injecting air bubbles into it and making waves. Worth a watch!
It reminded us of a cool game called Osmos. There’s a trailer you can watch of the game here for comparison.

Osmos has, like Cortex Command, has won an IGF award too! It really is a lot of fun and is a very new and unique game mechanic. Check out the demo here.
Speaking of other games, have any of you checked out Minecraft?

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Why are these games in CC section?
Oh snap Minecraft is gonna splode HIT THE DECK
To Lizard,
Competition perhaps? Afterall, know your Enemy.
Minecraft is Wurm online for people with ADD…naw jus’ kiddin’.
By “a few”, weasel means two. Mine and THOR’s.
Eh, alright, good to see the Dev Log being updated a lot, but personally, this is a bit TOO ‘up close and personal’. moar cc.
Wasn’t this the kind of thing Data didn’t want you to do?
Also, make 0 Grav in CC and we have a deal.
Maybe they are hinting at a CC feature.
Both great games!
Gogo minecraft.
I actually liked this post a lot, even though it didn’t have anything to do with Cortex Command.
Good job, Andy!
“Osmos has, like Cortex Command, has”
…typo.
@Cakedemon:
Minecraft and osmos is very different from CC, the only thing similar is that one is physics-based and one has mining.
I love minecraft!
Never heard of minecraft, I’ll have to try it. Nice to see you guys promoting other cool indie games. Also, I AM STILL ALIVE, just don’t check the forums. I’ll be active once the new build comes out….whenever that will happen…
Minecraft is awesome.
Go to one of Duh’s servers. THOR’s server is filled with elitists.
and rapists and a tranny.
Which one is Duh’s? I went to the one that said,(something to the effect of) “CC Private Server” and got in the mod said “what does CC mean?” So I tried to figure out how to talk for like 10 seconds and got banned >_>.
this one is Duh’s
http://duh102.xlphp.net/MCServRedir/servDRL.html
But you need to ask permission on the forums first, or else you can’t get on.
ME WANT MONDAY MASSACRE.
Is December going to be it? New build? Or at least a new screenshot or two? Anything?
I’m not even sure if Data himself knows that
*eyes in Dev’s general direction”
Dear Data n’ everybody,
My birthday is coming up in a few days and I was just wondering if there was any sort of estimation on when the next build will be coming out. I think I speak for everyone when I say that it has been a long wait and we’re real excited for this forthcoming build. I need something to occupy my christmas break so if you could just put the finishing touches on it and send it out into the world that would be just dandy. Love, Tom.
Being totally legit here, my Bday is on the 14th this month.
Feel free to email me happy birthday wishes.
and hugs.
Well, at least this is finally back up. The forums still aren’t working though. I’m getting lonely… ;__;
DAMNIT SITE IS SO FUCKED UP WHAT HAPPENED
/forum now directs to forums.datarealms.com, which gives a nice mix of 404 and error page. Get on it men! This has been fucked up since last night
What Geti said. Seriously, I know IRC got screwed up, and then the forums got shut down for maintainence today, but what happened? Does it REALLY take this long? Or did someone screw something up while trying to de-screw whatever was originally screwed?
Ok, the forums are sort of halfway back up ish.
Official position: During the middle of a maintenance session, something went wrong and they had to redo the entire thing. Web, forum, and IRC, all in one.
Only thing to do is wait for WJ or whoever to fix it, which it looks like they’re doing.
:O
Hay guise. Nothing happening on Cortex Command as usual. Look at these other games so we can pretend the devlog has a point!
>>Ok, the forums are sort of halfway back up ish.
Explain please; I only get 404 and Could Not Locate Remote Server.
Also, is the IRC up? I don’t seem to be able to connect to it – though that could just be me sucking at using IRC for the first time.
Not much to see, 411570N3
http://i45.tinypic.com/6egkrl.jpg
Fuckin bunnies.
>:3
…
Well the login is working. (I managed to get to that page, by the way)
login is working, posting system is not, the lockdown everything page is still up. topic of the digibase.ca irc says 2045 but leaves no timezone, but pauls on now and he doesnt know so I’m assuming no-one does.
Is the forum database actually gone or is it just down for “maintainance” till ambiguoustime?
that youtube video is pretty neat by the way.
It must be the power of the new release that did this. The servers can’t handle the awesomeness… May fluffykins have mercy on us all…
The forums now appear to be fully functional.
Scancode said not to use the forums for a while because he’s upgrading them.
So yeah.
Oh god not again.
*Drums fingers*
It’s back and stuff. There’s a current status thread in the forums.
Everything is at least semi-working except IRC, which he’s asking use to use the other server for.
Forum down again?
Nevermind. It’s working now.
Scan’s probably turning it off and on to test his changes.
Scancode also managed to remove himself from Administrators btw.
Devlog needs a favicon. Just sayin.
Another dry streak for the devlog…
Today was my birthday too, by the way.
I had a dream that i had Build 24
Alright scancode, lets get a move on.
Happy Post-Birthday!
only 364 more days until YOUR NEXT BIRTHDAY!!! HUZZA!
So… *Cough*
Did someone get hit by a car, or what?
… I think Andy died of Malaria… and Data went into a coma after writing to much code in one day…
So no chance of a new build this year then? Shame.
@ZEVN47
Data hardly works on the game anymore it seems
^^^
I agree
I heard Prom was hospitalized when they found him lying in the corner of a bathroom at Walmart muttering something about crabs everywhere.
What about data?
just THREE WORDS.
PA
THE
TIC
… Mhnnnhhhmmmmmm crab legs…
Also its Friday… Update? :3
I remember when I was a young lass, waiting eagerly for the next devlog update. Oh, how we have changed…
Zev: You will not know the day nor the hour in which Weasel or Data will update. For one, they’re too busy messing with the forum’s server.
“young lass”
R U GRL?!
ಠ_ಠ
ಠ_ಠ
Might as well just let the server go down again, nothing to see here anyway.
May i ask where are you getting those eyes?
So… um… it is getting near Christmas…
and you haven’t gotten me a present yet…
so… get on it.
GAHH! Their using suspense!!
@AirBurst: Here’s Your Christmas present—->
I got you a smiley face
@ Duh102: One can always hope… *looks toward Monday with a false sense of hope*
@Endahs: And the worst kind too! PROLONGED SUSPENSE!!!
SUPRISE BUTTSECKS
I hope the next release will have a warning dialogue before exiting CC… I closed CC so many times by accident …
dude… everytime they say they’re going to release more updates… they release worse updates, even less frequently…
@cipher – Use “space” not “esc”
@YAY,
Yeah, I suppose I could change the keys, you’re right. But still, a warning would be nice.
“Warning You could possibly be making yourself feel really stupid by exiting… Continue?”
^^^^this
OH NOES NOT ESCAPE OH WAIT PHEW, I thought I would exit out accidentally and feel like an idiot, thank goodness they added that screen!
Don’t do drugs kids!
I have lost all hope. 18 days since last updaet.
I BLAME YYOOOOUUUUUUU AAAANDDDY!
Christmas Eve in one hour here. D:
No christmas present!?
WAHHHHHH!
Andy, if there is no new post by midnight, I won’t come by your house tonight.
Merry Christmas! Where’s B24? :[
I WANT BUILD 24 FOR CHRISTMAS.
I even got the CC splash shirt for X-mas. Where’s that update?
NO PRESENT!!!!!!!!!!
WAHHHHHHHHHH
*Sings blue christmas*
I know what I want for Christmas…
stfu
Can datarealms get anything right? Data HIRES someone to update the devlog frequently and that has already fallen off
An update? At least? Come on you could at least wish us a merry christmas.
My Christmas is ruined… Oh hey, look, a brand new shiny 260 GTX video card! ^.^
There has been a major failure at the internets.
Bah, the mailbag has been AWOL for a whole month. Could we at least get a hint as to what’s happening behind the scenes?
Christmas isn’t over yet…….
GIVE US THE BUILD!!!!!!!!!
Now we look forward to New Years.
wth is up with the devlog. Its a big dead weight.
We must sacrifice a goat to the cortex gods.
*Blows off some dust*
I remember, *Gasps for air* back in ‘09, where Andy said he would give us more constant updates.
Ho ho ho. Those were the good old days. *Scratches his gray beard*
Andy, may I speak to you privately in the kitchen for a moment? Thanks…
How dare you! You think you can just shirk your responsibilities? Can’t you see you’re tearing this family apart!! Ever since you got here you’ve spoiled us. Giving us presents and making promises, but of course you don’t keep them!!
At least data made us humble and we patiently waited for the newest update. But you, you are here one minute, and one day I’ll come home and you’ll have packed and be gone and I won’t know when you’re coming back!! We can’t keep living like this Andy! We can’t!!…So you can go join your friends and get drunk. Go have a great time Andy!! But just remember that it’s at our expense…
Mommy… Where is daddy going..? *Pulls mom’s dress for attention* Where is he going, mommy? Why is he taking little brother with him? Mommy!?
I am willing to call the mailbag MIA.
Did the image next to the URL change?
I think so. Anyone else noticing a difference?
*Inserts penis into devlog*
“Dry as a dead dingo’s donger”.
DM: You and your dog enter the rustic cellar and you see a very old partly mumiefied Devlog, theres a unatural cold breeze in the room…
Yay: I cast a spell of reanimation Lvl 6 on the Devlog!
DM: Roll
*Yay rolls a 1*
DM: The devlog reanimates and kills your dog, then the rampaging Devlog turns to dust and can’t be animated again*
Yay: Can I eat the dust?
DM: errhmm.. yes? But why would you do th…
Yay: I eat the dust!
DM: Oookey… you snort up the Devlog dust, you throw up alot of blood and then you die thinking about how dumb you are.
Yay: Oh well… It could been worse. *pauses* Heh, what if the Devlog did get reanimated!? That would been so awesome!
DM: That chance were always quite slim, you knew that.
Yay: Yeeeahhh.. *looks out of the window on the falling snow*
Oh, don’t mind me.
What the duck
Weasel or Data, you need to make/permissionize devlog moderators.
So…
anyone seen any good movies lately?
Let the Right one in. What an amazing movie.
Oh and Bad Santa in this Christmas flick week, I lold so much. :p
“Let the Right one in” is awesome… And Swedish, which is good.
Avatar was good too!
Avatar was sweeeeet.
Avatar was a meh for me.
The best CGI effects I’ve seen, but it’s basically;
Humans are evil, aliens are good.
Big ass technology versus Arrows.
Actually, nevermind.
I still stick to my MONSTER TECH versus Spears.
But it was well executed, I have to admit. They did the best out of the ever-milked concept and they excelled. hurr.
Two updates in a week,
I bet you think that’s pretty clever don’t you boy?
Flying on your little keyboard,
watching all the fans beneath you drop
we’d kill ourselves for recognition,
kill ourselves for you to never, ever stop
You broke another promise,
you’re turning into something you are not
Don’t leave me high, don’t leave me dry
Don’t leave me high, don’t leave me dry
Drying up in devlog-sation,
you’ll be the one who cannot talk
All your fan-dom fall to pieces,
you just sit there wishing you could still make love
They’re the ones who’ll blame you
when you think you’ve got the internet all sussed out
They’re the ones who’ll cry to you,
you’ll be the one screaming out
Don’t leave me high, don’t leave me dry
Don’t leave me high, don’t leave me dry
Oh, it’s the best thing that you ever had,
the best thing that you ever, ever had.
It’s the best thing that you ever had,
the best thing you have had has gone away.
Don’t leave me high, don’t leave me dry
Don’t leave me high, don’t leave me dry
Don’t leave me high,
Don’t leave me high, don’t leave me dry
So..no updates huh… rock on
:C
Hey there Datarealms!
I just wanted to wish you a happy new year!
Maybe buy some champagne with the winnings from GDC eh?
@ TonSopHun: SECONDED
Also
Yay a new year I hope *cough*a*cough*newbui*cough*ld*cough*getshere*cough* you all have a happy new year and don’t get (too) drunk!
# Ch33n – # December 25th, 2009 at 2:11 pm
There has been a major failure at the internets.
Oh yea… sorry about that I just updated my computer and its not a(s much of a) POS anymore!
I got a graphics card and 2gb ram for Christmas<YAY!
I really hope that weasel has had “doing his job better” as one of his resolutions…
Cmon, he’s hired to make devlog entries and we don’t get a simple merry christmas or happy new year…
I CLAIM ANARCHY!
Mutiny me’ maties! ‘Arr.
Pirate ninja cyborg jesus approves.
I brought the pitchforks and torches
AARGH! Can’t take it anymore! I need an update or I’m gonna kill my self(not realy)
anyone being the civil unrest?
^wow, ment bring there…oooops!
Booo!
Good-day my fellow sirs but as of this moment I am utterly peeved by the lack of information.
I’m going to eat someone.
Combination between Mr. Bullet and Pacman, HOLY SHIT.
I know what will fix this! a good ole’ fashion hunger strike!
ready mates?
Who you callin’ yer mateys?
I fully support your hunger strike! I’ve got 2 pizza’s in the oven and I’m hungry.
I fucking knew it! They got so drunk they accidentally EVERYTHING including weasel! D:>
accidentally what?
cortex command died.I’ll never buy stuff that’s never released…
^ so you’re new to this whole internet thing..huh?
They probably ended up in vegas again…
… uhh… isn’t data still working for terrorists?
Roar, I am a monster living under the devlog. rawr
Maybie…just maybie…their SOOOOO busy working on the next build that even weasel has to help, and when they release the new build, it will be the final one!
….or maybie thier face down in a puddle of barefoot wine in a circus circus motel….
i dont know..
Eh.. we dont WANT CC to be finished yet, becuase then it will just be rushed, poor campaigns and not everything that we could get.
i was being sarcastic, mate.
Well it didn’t really show at all.
This sucks…
@lizard: updates on development wouldn’t hurt even if we don’t get a build
“updates on development wouldn’t hurt even if we don’t get a build”
This is very true, need more info! And our late xmas gifts!
“This sucks…”
This is also true.
Right, because referencing Circus circus motels and bare foot wine in the same sentance is totally a normal thing to say!
also, YAY is right
this indeed
sucks..
The devlog has started its downhill slope.
Started? Dear sir, this is the full-tilt section.
@ZEVN47: I never said that we don’t want updates on the development, I said that we WANTED update on development.
Almost a month since the last update ; _ ;
Honestly, not even a mailbag? Goddamnit, torturing us with promises and to-be content is bullshit. And even more bullshitty is the fact that i’ve paid for not even getting an update to wish merry christmas. Happy new year anyone? Future of the game? Anything like “2009 has been a great year for CC developement”? It would cheer me up just to know that something has happened.
Is it an oxymoron to say that by nothing happening something happened (because nothing happening is something happening, that something = nothing)… No Andy that is not an excuse
Also
@KZEROG: u said bad words O_O but made good points d(^_^)d.
and finally
@lizard: Misunderstood what you were saying and Yes, we do indeed.
http://www.google.com/trends?q=Cortex+Command%2C+Nerd+Rage&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0
Notice how as Cortex Command Is at an all-time low Nerd Rage is at an all time high…
http://www.google.com/trends?q=Weasel&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=1
Notice how searches for Weasel are at an all time low…
i would even like it if weasle just posted what he did that day.. ANYTHING
everytime i come here and see that first sentance “been wandering around the intertubes the other day” it makes me so sad D:
… I would like some more crab-art
Even a 404 error would be entertaining!
Washcloth 94# Radio head fan i see
, how did no one else get that? God damn it. back on topic, WHAT THE @!$%!? What ever happened to updates?
^i laughed pretty hard at that.
Maybe the next update will be on April 1st and they will say “NEW BUILD”
but the message will say “April fools, ha we had you going there didn’t we?”
Tomorrow is my birthday!
*roll for update*
Lemme rephrase that.
The devlog is sucking some serious nut. Thanks to the posters.
Is it here yet?
>.>
<.<
-.-
Awww….
Ok lets play some D&D:
You just woke up from a strange dream were the dev-log had a new post every time you hit the “refresh” button. So, You get on your computer but ,sadly, Dev-log is not up yet. do you?
A. Go into a rage and kill everyone you know.
B. Go to Vegas and drag the DRL team back to their computers.
C. Eat breakfast
D. Roll for critical on Dev-log
E. Cast “Revive” on dev-log
F. Other:___________________________
BTW D&D is actually for Dev & Data (in case you got it confused with some other game)
A.
Woah, tomaster, why so serious?
F. I cast spell of reanimation Lvl 6 on the Devlog. (see #85)
F.Send the Dev team coal as a late x-mas gift
BECAUSE HE’S RIGHT
Well, i mean, yes, the devlog dose tend to get quite silly once the posts get past 100, but thats the thing.. if the devlog was updated when it was said to be, then the posts wouldent be so off topic and insane. The reason why this happens in the first place its because we run out of real CC related things to talk about around post one hundred. If the devlog was updated as much as it was said it would be, our post wouldent even REACH 100!
so i think we can have alittle fun and games now and again!
And im not blameing DATA or anyone else, im sure it is very hard to creat ontopic things about CC every week..thats no big deal. But if people are having fun posting stupid crap than just dont read the comments you silly goose, because really your just contributing to this (what you would call a)mess.
Happy first month of this post everyone!!!
Aww.. Time goes by fo fast, I remember when this post where young and filled with life!
Those were the days… *sigh*
Now its old and smells of cabbage
Washcloth, I’m not saying that you can’t be fun or anything. I’m just saying that compared to the other devlog comments, these seem abnormally…stupid.
@Tomaster: You didn’t take into account “Santa’s Law”
and I quote:
“…..all things while from Dec 25-January 5 shall be deemed ’silly’ as people are getting drunk, laid, mugged, or otherwise they tend to create an effect similar to mob mentality but more so related to a frenzied-Good-Feeling. This is the holiday season so therefore humans tend to be unnaturally rash, stupid, drunk(more so than usual), etc…..”
A great example of this is the polar-bear club and other new years related traditions.
Santa’s Law is a sub-chapter of Murphy’s law
Its my birthday, too bad there is no update…
DATA REALMS MORE LIKE SACK OF SHITREALMS, happy one month everyone
@Airburst: Happy Birthday!
@FootKerchief: Happy one month!
Happy one month every one, may our Future endevors rise and fall together.
If B22 to B23 took 6 months…
And so far it’s been 8 months…
B24 will obviously be 120% better.
Hi guys!
I’m, as most of you are, fond of CC, and really waiting for DR to come with another build.
Though, if I were an indie developper, and read something like “shitrealms”, I don’t think I would invest myself in working harder.
Please, please, keep calm, having paid a few dollars does not give you the right to write such things, exactly the same way that DataRealms has no obligation to post everyday for a bunch of impatient guys.
Stophe
This sucks.
Well, I’d bother to remind you people that Data probably has a life outside of this website, but I know the complaining will continue… As for Andy’s excuse, I don’t know. Holidays can be taxing on people, maybe he forgot. Ah, well… We’ll find out eventually.
I hope the new build adds to the campaign a lot… It sounds pretty darn fun…
@Ch33n: Stop insulting 4-letter English words
@Tonsophun: We can only hope.
@Dabingo: Data may have a life but is it that hard to update the dev-log > once a month. As for Andy… I seem to remember “once every Monday” being reduced to “be happy with what you get”. Also I have the same hopes for the new build
I too do know people have lives outside the internet but still, posting a mailbag could really calm down the fans. I mean these guys are ready to storm datarealms with torches and pitchforks. And just to add to that, they named it monday mailbad so we expected them to come every monday since a blogger was HIRED to do it. Then it was called thursday mailbag when it turned out our blogger doesn’t follow time all that well. After that, everything died, a few mailbags, concept art and empty promises… *sigh*
I’m starting to feel that Data is losing his passion for Cortex Command. Planning for the “next big project” is a big mistake when you’re already dedicated to another.
so… is this dead? … cause this looks really dead… *poke* *poke*
i wounder if they will be implimenting any more factions in the next build…Those religious warrior guys (cant remember thier name) prehaps? or maybie just add on to the exsisting factions. Id like to see a faction based on organics…like the flood from halo for instance, but than again youd have to wounder why trade star would do business with them…
“Holidays can be taxing on people”
I want a 30-days holiday too =(
“these guys are ready to storm datarealms with torches and pitchforks”
Thats a GREAT idea! *Grabs he’s shark with herbies and bees for eyes* Cheeaarrrggeeehhh!’.
ಠ_ಠ
@yay: Can I borrow a shark… I ate mine.
@BlueDrake: CLEAR… *BZZZCCHTTTT*… NO EFFECT!… CLEAR! *ZAP*… We are losing him! NOOOoooooooooooo… oh wait never mind this thing has been dead for weeks.
Guns here! 10 dollars! Comes loaded with one free bullet, if you need more, you’re doing it wrong! 50% back if you return the gun!
Hey, look at that, a new dev update.
The one thing I always find amusing is the lack of patience and tolerance to either side of the argument.
On one hand I hear moderators saying that Data owes us nothing, but that couldn’t be further from the truth. Where would CC be if nobody bought the game? Or spread it by word of mouth? Or provided feedback, and help foster a community for it? It wouldn’t have gotten this far, that’s for sure.
But the door swings both ways: I can’t count how many hours I must have sunken into this game whether it was staying up late nights by myself playing the game, learning how to modify things, or playing it with friends whom also enjoyed it. And I owe all those good times to Data’s [and friends'] patience and prudence in developing such an awesome game.
So, in short: we should point the finger at nobody but Andy for being so lazy.
CC will never be finished and Data is moving on. He is slowly getting tired of working on this game. Progress is getting less and less.
@Hyper: I’ll take 3!
@Tonsophun: Ok… true and true… and… maybe true… I would feel kinda bad if I blamed Andy and he had gotten diagnosed with terminal cancer or something.
My only complaint is with Andy, do to the fact that the only reason he is here is to update the devlog more often than data did. It was nice for a while when he did, but now it hasnt been updated in over a month, which means Andy isnt doing his job all too well.
Well even if Andy is just being lazy, he should still post on the blog about all the fun he has been having not updating the blog…
tons0phun, you sir are correct
Agreeing with Tonsophun here… I don’t know what I was thinking with my earlier post.
I think there’s a trigger to post a new Devlog entry every time the posts get anywhere in size from 170-250. It must have been broken by constant spamming in that one topic then…
Oh well. *Goes and plays his shiny new Odyssey*
@tons0phun: I’ll stay on the moderate side because I think that’s the way it works. Yes indeed I paid, but not for a product, I paid to help them. All the better if it works, of course!
But I already gave money to indie games that came nowhere close to release, and I can’t blame them for not being strong enough to stand against the giants of this world.
For example I gave 50$ to Rubies Of Eventide to get small advantages online, and help them get the engine to date… about a month before they closed the servers
But, yes indeed, we’re helping them and they could at least wave a hand once or twice a week. I think every argument on this subject should end with the words “Andy”, “Lazy” and a meaningful groan!
Arrr!
I want news.
JEEEETSOOOOON!
AAAAANDDDYYYYYY!
Ofcourse Data is not the one to blame and i’m not even itching for a new build that bad. It’s only the lack of updates after promising them and hiring a guy to do it.
The one thing that does make me kinda sad is that it’s Andy’s JOB to update this. Or so he says. And yet, no updates except for that brief spurt of activity.
hurf hurf…
Son, I am disappoint.
Date a Man Realms. Gayta Realms. Give us new build or your name become a homosexual
What did you expect? Didn’t you see that picture of him when he first started posting updates?
Talk about a first impression.
-To be honest folks, im not really feeling the need for a new build either, i just keep getting a wierd feeling like this game is about to die when the devlog-water hole goes dry…
I mean DATA hasent even chimed in, as is his custom from time to time to insure us that he is infact alive.
… Can anyone remember a time when the dev-log was updated (at least) once a month?
(by “TIME” i mean a 6 month consecutive period)
Data’s probably still sleeping off his new year’s party.
Seriously guys, what is going on? It sure looks like Cortex Command is either dying or dead.
dude, you’re just being stupid. Cortex command is not seeming like it’s dead. the devlog has allways been like this remember?
and the new build will have all kinds of stuff like Lua’d AI and more missions, so just wait for it.
The force is strong in this one.
Yeh, it’s nothing new that the devlog isn’t being updated. It’s just the fact that things are supposed to be better now that they’ve actually hired a guy to update it. That’s what’s stirring up the fans.
I know, it’s an annoyance, but it’s nothing new.
>.> after a month I think its beginning to get past “annoyance”
its upgraded to “ridiculous annoyance”
Mean fans are being so mean
A third-hand source told me weasel has a bunch of updates ready but Data has been out of touch to OK them.
Well, he’s still going to be nerdraged to the ground. Particulary if he puts that in the post. Otherwise i’m glad to hear.
“out of touch”
he’s dead, isn’t he…
DRL and New Years parties don’t really mix… I guess anythings possible !
@226
WHAT third-hand source?
I forgot. Someone who frequents IRC I’m guessing.
This devlog is in limbo, ive gaven up and removed it from my list of web pages to visit in a single day, replaced it with Akella studios page for heavy duty. Bye all!
I think that… Mebbe Andy went away, then he got back, then Dan was busy, so he couldn’t look at them. And then Andy was all like )’:
THEN Dan decided to look at them, but he didn’t, so Andy got all like D’:
Poow andee
I THINK MY THEORIES ARE AWESOME
Maybe this is a test. Maybe they all read the comments and take notes about who’s being worthy. They’re gods and we must earn our salvation. Our heaven will be the final version. It’s ready… they just needs more adepts.
Pray, pray! Maybe one day, our apocalypse will come…
… I had pizza for lunch today… I think I’ll have salad for dinner… oh yea sorry I forgot to say that my point is that their is nothing to say that hasn’t already been said at this point. So quit posting or something.
I think it’s like when you promise to call/meet someone, but for “x” reason you don’t and every day it passes it feels more and more awkward and embarrassing to do so.
Maybe?
Yea cortex command is being kept alive I think it part because people can add their own creations to the game with mods and stuff.
I had ham salad for lunch and hot sausage for dinner.
^ i bet you did
@CIPHER – I have thought of that too.
It seems reasonable enough.
Evidence, however,
http://www.flickr.com/photos/weasello/3249101882/in/set-72157613257929203/
suggests otherwise…
Dang it! We were right! Data’s got a hangover and is stuck in vegas… … … AGAIN! only this time he brought Andy with him…
What I’d really like to see in terms of CC development is simply further refining of the actual game-parts. I can understand if Data can’t refine the physics any further, as he is probably getting pretty sick of the engine by now and it’s not like there is any better pixel physics engine out there at the moment.
Just adding in things like the ability to pick a specific faction at the beginning of a game (even if just to reduce menu clutter) would be great. Really, CC could be a finished product with it’s current engine base; the physics have always been silly, and I can’t see them becoming less silly in the near future. It’s one of those bug-feature things, to some extent.
Then again, the prior history of CC suggests that Data is off on some mysterious codey hiatus, and who knows what may arrive. If he is getting tired of the project though, some general fit and finish type work would be nice, primarily just to make CC even better for dicking about with friends.
We shall see what we shall see is pretty much the only conclusion that can be drawn from the dev log right now, from my perspective.
Can I give up yet?
Yes we can!
Might as well, like there’s anything else to do.
Yeeeaaaaaaaaaah.
Who says we beat the previous high score and shoot for 2000 posts?
/stupidity.
No… Check that… HELL NO
Ok, my Bday is 6 days away. If there’s not an update by then i think i’ll… I’ll just keep posting nonsense in here.
… I think I’ll just keep stalking people until they update.
@ZEVN47
How about this?
You stalk Data and write here in the comments what he is doing.
Oh he wouldn’t dare.
We need more dots, more dots, throw more dots.
dot dot dot
more dots
throw more dots
come on more dots.
WHY, ANDY! WRRRYYYY!
Stalk log:
-Subject: Dan Tabar AKA “DATA”
Last visited Forums: Tue Dec 22, 2009 2:22 am
Location: Phoenix, AZ
Interests: Dodgeball?*
Active online: Yes**
Current Information:
We won’t be seeing Data any time soon…*** not to mention the last post contained games that he and Andy (probably)got addicted to… for more info visit sources.
Sources:
*http://www.meetup.com/PhoenixDodgeball/members/10851987/
**http://twitter.com/Data01 (possible data account could be fake)
***http://firstpersontetris.com/
Well… thats all I could find on subject data in the last month or so… cheers
ABANDON HOPE ALL YE WHO ENTER HERE
^ AYE
You guys have serious problems…
I seriously think that Data should post more often even a:
“I’m working on stuff… Cortex Command stuff.”
would be enough for me though if Weasel wanted to post that that wouldn’t be enough because I wouldn’t believe it(Weasels are sneaky)
When I considered buying this game(after a very long time) I kept watching the devlog for signs of life and when there was a burst in updates indicating that the project is still alive only then I bought it.
Ok thats it, im done posting stupid crap here, ill shall only return once the dev log is updated!
See you in two years!
Isn’t that 2012?
I’m going to be absent too until it updates.
clap
clap
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shasbmnb canadian spiders in my soup filled pants.
On the sun.
If Data have abandoned this I hope he’ll say so, so we may cry propely.
Altho, I don’t think thats the case… I hope…
you’re a moron. the reason weasel hasn’t been posting here is that data has been too busy to look at them (no contact).
That means that data is either in vegas or has locked himself in his basement and has cut his internet cable, or just unplugged it…
Why does there seem to be such a lacking of hope here?
People used to just joke about Data being in Vegas or something like that.
Now people seem to think that Data is dead.
I don’t think that Data is dead. Not posting is normal for them.
^Whats the record for longest time w/o post?
There are different people that think he’s dead and joked about vegas? Because i have never said that he’s dead, just that he went to vegas.
And that was a joke btw.
I didn’t say that either.
I just wanted to mention that when you are new and don’t know Data’s daily routine it LOOKS LIKE it’s dead.
Well okay not now but before it looked like that.
@ZEVN47 – the longest time without a post was the ~4,400,000,000 years after Earth was made but before Data was created.
Ohoho, Airburst, you’re a witty one.
Ahahah, oh how witty, we all know the world is about 6000 years old, Duuuh!
Naaaah, I’m just pulling ya all’s leg… The flying spagetti monster is real though.
OH MY GOD DATA IS DEEEEEAAAAAAAAADDDDDDD!!!!!!!!!!!
Maybe they’ve just hit a rough patch in development?
I haven’t gotten any emails back from andy, and there wasn’t any updates for christmas or anything… this game is dead…
could Data have bought assassin’s creed 2 or something? (or another game)
“updates for christmas or anything”
Yeah, this is odd – but then will the crismas competition be over? Feb some time? so… They have to be back before that!
I bet things will get real fucked up if Weasel or Data don’t show up before the christmas mod competition deadline. Just to clarify: I know it’s normal that there are no updates.
1. It’s Cortex Command, we’ve seen this happen.
2.The game is not dead.
3.The fact that there’s a guy hired to update the devlog should mean more frequent updates.
4.But since he has to send the updates to Data first it makes the updating process just as long as before.
5.Result: annoyed fans, no solution to the update problem, worthless blogger.
That pretty much sums up things as they are now though i have some sympathy for Weasel. It must be really frustrating not being able to do his job. Data really isn’t a dream employer.
Anyway, I love you, Data.
The Christmas Comp IS over.
Stupid people can’t be bothered to look anywhere else than the devlog.
@Lizard
Oh, well then can you direct us to any new updates by Data or Andy? And give us build 24? Hmmm? Hhhmmmmm?
Now I feel like Garfield… I hate Mondays…
@ENDASH: You’re stupid, I was talking aobut the christmas mod contest, you know, the one right above my post?
@Lizard: You are stupid! You still have hope! X-mas contest sucked anyway… I thought data himself were sopposed to judge in that one, or prehaps give the winner the prize.
I think you people should hold a Cortex Command tournament or race or something!
WHAT THE CRAP
@YAY: Data was never supposed to have any involvment in it at all.
I meant: a competition
Do this for fun:
1. Make bullet train buyable
2. Change skirmish spawn rate from 8000 to 4000
3. Play on flatlands large
4. Buy heaps of bullet trains
5. ?
6. Profit $_$ *Ca-ching!*
*Psst* The profit part includes a dummy and a digger, you’ll figure out what I mean if you try it.
@ LIZARD – Dummy + Heavy Digger = digging at the sky
Well, “ATTACKOFFLAMINGPIGS”
If there was a CC competition of any sort, I’d establish from the start that only vanilla content is allowed.
Otherwise things would get personal, no doubts about it.
@TONS0PHUN
Well yeah in order to have a proper competition you need good rules but that doesn’t mean that there can’t be any [insert mod name here] mod only competition.
The pain! The misery! The horror!
@ ATTACKOFFLAMINGPIGS – how can you have a contest in a one player game?
I am not quite seeing where you are coming from.
Well, to be honest CC supports up to 4 players at once. But i’ll just try not to post from now on.
fgsfds…
Posting for 299
300th post
THIS IS DATAREALMS!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_ttcSaTheI
@AIRBURST
Like this:
Name: Dummy Brawler Championship
This competition will be played on the Astro scene with only dummies and no weapons(for you). The goal of the game is to smash as many puny ronin soldiers as you can!
Rules:
-Only vanilla Cortex Command with Astro scene added(no tinkering you bastards!)
-You can only buy dummies (Nothing else no weapons,bombs,tools…)
-You can only use dropcrates(no rockets,dropships…)
-You can only buy 1 dummy/dropcrate at once
-Using/picking up weapons is forbidden
-Final kill count is your score (so if a bird comes and flies into a ronin soldier knocking it into another one and killing both ronins in the process that’s 2 kills for you etc.)
How to participate:
Record a video with you playing.
Breaking the rules may result in finger wagging and your video being deemed invalid.
Every participants last submitted video will be the one which gets scored.
Determining the winner:
1)By the most final kills
2)By less time taken
3)By less final losses
4)By Weasel’s pick(bribing is forbidden)
The winner is determined by 1) in case of a tie by 2) in case of a tie by 3) in case of a tie by 4)
Just to be clear.
——————————–
I imagined it like this… sort of
and with the help of modders there can be ‘proper’ competition maps made for specific uses.
The problem here would be strengthening the dummy or something. Not that detectable, and we would have to rely on people’s sense of integrity.
I’m worried. Okay, I said it.
I know you guys were thinking it, but I needed to say it.
Don’t give up Data!
OMFG! Weasel is alive!
http://forums.datarealms.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=17628
Eh, you guys are some of the weirdest prsons I have ever met.
Because you don’t hear anything from a person means that said person is dead?
Is your cousin dead if you haven’t heard from him in half a year?
“Is your cousin dead if you haven’t heard from him in half a year?”
Could be…
ಠ_ಠ
Have we ever taken the theory of data dieing seriously? Cause i reckon he’s dead. Not even a check up? Not even something like, “Hey sorry we haven’t given you updates at all on anything even in the smallest way on the devlog” comon’ Release some updates for the people who actually bought the game, just a littttllleee hint, that you’re not dead/zombie.
Go friend him on LinkedIn and nudge him yourself.
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/daniel-tabar/2/1b0/76
Hey, Nico, it’s your cousin! Let’s go BOWLING TOGETHER!
Okay I have another competition for you!
I’m going to think of a number between 1 and 20 !
The person who guesses the number gets an e-cookie.
10
2
$Texas
Apparently CC runs better on my laptop the size of two dvd covers than on my big blocky computer.
@LIZARD
What’s your laptop?
Oh and I haven’t started the competition yet.
The competition starts… NOW!
An Asus Eee PC 900
Some people might wanna check this out:
http://www.wayofthepixel.net/pixelation/index.php?topic=9808.0
Hmmm then I might try CC on my netbook too.
@Lizard – The concept art for that game is really cool.
I don’t quite understand what is going on though in terms of gameplay though…
IMO it looks pretty good. I like the way the gameplay is coming out. And the concept art looks just like Arne’s other work. He has that distinct drawing style.
Any other programmer done GridWorld?
If you haven’t, be glad.
It’s cold outside… -26ºc and windy as hell.
Just so you know ♥
Recently, we hear more news about other games than CC…
IMO, something’s wrong.
*Sad, depressed face*
/thread
Nice try Endahs, this isn’t dying until Data appeases the masses with weasel’s bloodied corpse.
Gridworld what?
Something is very wrong with this game… did someone die?
Stand back everybody, I’m going to try something ENTIRELY unprecedented in the history of dev logs!
*Ahem*
May we -please- have a dev-log update regarding the progress of the latest build?
It can even just be art clips, or more teasers.
Or if you are stuck, or even if nothing has happened, that’s okay too.
We like your updates because they are informative, and some times funny too.
We, the fans, hope things are going well and appreciate your hard work. Keep it up!
Not gunna work, mainly because Data doesn’t give a flying fuck how we ask, he’ll release the updates whenever he goddamn well feels like it. Motherfucker.
Eh, That was not a very nice thing to say, Tomaster… But I agree.
I third that motion…
And fourth that motion…
And fifth that motion…
And sixth that motion…
And seventh that motion…
And eighth that motion…
And ninth that motion…
And tenth that motion…
And eleventh that motion…
And twelfth that motion…
And thirteenth that motion…
Well he shouldn’t release an update when he doesn’t feel like releasing an update because if he does what he doesn’t feel like doing he will probably get depressed and commit suicide or worse he will use the devlog to express his emotions about how existence is pointless so making Cortex Command is pointless too.
While if he does what he likes doing(hopefully this includes working on CC) he will remain happy and while Data lives there’s always a hope of a new release or an update… or a Data with a big grin on his face swimming in the money which he got from CC.
No, we need to chain him to that chair!
Make sure that you don’t chain him to a wheeled-chair otherwise he will escape when you are not watching to do some extreme chair riding in the mountains.
^^^ zing
Okay, I have a theory of why Data or anyone else hasn’t been posting new updates. It goes a little something like this: Data has set up only one computer to be able to post new updates EXCEPT get this, its in a giant labyrinth made of heated glass suspended over an everlasting abyss that spirals into darkness.
Data can only access said computer by wearing the sacred suit of armor that has the 3000 digit password to the computer etched into it. Data must fast for 3 days before his journey with no food and very little water. He must complete his task perfectly or he will be unable to access the computer again. He also might die in the everlasting abyss that spirals into darkness. However andy has another identical computer with the same capabilities in his house but hes just a lazy douche.
^ this
100 this
ಠ_ಠ I am disappoint
Happy February!
Happy Failbruary
flappy tailpruary
Mangy Roxbury!
Nurgly Pervy
Uruguay this is stupid why would you continue this chain of nonsense
In 3 days it’s this devlog pages 2nd Monthday!
Oh the thrill! How shall we celebrate this event, I wonder?
We could always ask for an update politely and with an air of humbleness.
Well, YOU all could anyways.
Stop being a lazy bum, Data.
Please, stop being a lazy bum, Andy.
Andy isn’t a lazy bum. Dan has to approve ewverything he’s going to post here.