Today I finally tried to retrieve files from my Armagetron Advanced server computer that suffered from hard drive corruption. Sadly, many Armagetron server files were lost. I backed up as much as I could to a flash drive before I wiped the hard drive. Some files that I noticed were missing are:

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I have recently bought Battlefield 1943 off of the PlayStation Store and I think the game is great! It’s a nice, small, multiplayer-only, downloadable title that’s easy to just pick up and go. There is a tutorial level, but you can probably get the hang of the game by just playing it. The main way of getting into a game is using quick match, which automatically finds an open game and puts you in it, but you can also start a private match, or go to a match a friend is in.

The game is played in a conquest mode where you try to capture as many bases on the map as possible. Each team has a healthbar at the top of the screen. Each time someone respawns the healthbar decreases, when it reaches zero the other team wins. The more bases you have captured, the more points that come off of your enemy’s healthbar when one of them respawns.

There are 3 normal maps that are played in conquest mode, Wake Island, Guadalcanal, and Iwo Jima. There is also special fourth map, Coral Sea, that gets unlocked when the total number of kills for everyone on your console reaches 43 million(this is already unlocked on Xbox 360). Coral Sea is played in a special gametype that is only dogfighting instead of conquest mode.

The game also allows the map to be destroyed in various ways by the user, such as driving jeeps through wooded areas and taking down the trees, driving tanks through buildings, dropping bombs to destroy buildings and dent the landscape, and sending rockets through fences and walls or blowing them to parts with grenades. This can alter gameplay dramatically by allowing you to have lots of cover to use in the beginning of a match but being an open target in a shooting frenzy by the end of the match.

The PS3 version of the game seems to have voice chat problems but it is supposedly being looked into.

Overall I think it is a very good game at only $15.

It’s been a while since my last post here, yah sorry about that, but at least I’m getting to it now =P.

Ok so there’s a few things. First of all due to some server problems(my guess, data corruption) my Armagetron servers are currently down. I could probably get them back up but honestly I don’t really want to make the effort to do so at this point in time. They might be brought back up eventually, who knows?

Second, if you haven’t noticed I’ve added Facebook Connect to Screeze. It allows new visitors to log in with a Facebook account without registering as well as letting current users sync their accounts. Members from Facebook or who synced their accounts are allowed to invite friends from Facebook and post on their wall when they make a topic or change their “What I’m Doing” status. Try it out if you get a chance.

Third, I’m currently working on a little search engine with the Yahoo BOSS APIs. Check it out at: http://search.osvaldojr.com

Today I finally put up the Armagetron Advanced server for Screeze I was planning on doing since Screeze started but never found the time to. You can find it on the server list as: Screeze The Fruit. It’s a fast paced server with a cool map, and growing death zone in the center that makes for a great, dizziness inducing, party server.

Now on to Twitter.

I have had a twitter account for a while now(about 2 months i think) but I haven’t used it. With a little bit of coaxing I was convinced to at least give it a try. You can find me at http://twitter.com/afroshock . I’ll post there things too small to put here and some tech updates for Screeze, while normal Screeze updates will be on the Screeze account http://twitter.com/screeze (not exactly ready atm).

Apparently there are leaked pictures that show a new slimline PS3. Now, these pictures are definitely not the prettiest, but hey, they might still be real. It might just be without any of the chrome and such added yet. I’m happy with my nice 80GB PS3 but if this means a cheaper cost PS3 then why not? Who knows, E3 is just around the corner.

What do you guys think? Real or fake?

Feel free to comment either on here or on the aggregated topic on Screeze

Slim PS3 in production? Leaked pictures say yes – PlayStation 3 News – QJ.NET

A few friends and I made a paper board game based off of Territory War a few days ago at school. It started really close to the game but soon spread out into insane things like a really jacked stick figure guy on fire that can throw grenades 3x the distance and a team of Russian soldiers and tanks. It was really quite fun to say the truth

So as we’re playing we say that the game we came up with would make a really good sequel to Territory War. So I said that I could do it, and that it might actually be a really good PC game.

Soon after, I scanned all of the images we made and put them into Photoshop to clean them up. Then, I started working on development. It’s going very well and I already have the whole engine completed and a cool little easter egg that reproduces a bug I found while making the engine. I’ll hopefully have a usable beta by the end of the week.

I’ve made a cool new game as an extension of the Screeze launch game.

It’s a text-based game with many hidden clues and in the future will force you to make decisions that change the outcome of the game.

If you want to check it out you can find it at http://screeze.com/game.html

I’m sorry that the tron servers are down. This is due to a power outage that has recently come to my attention. I will be bringing the servers back up as soon as possible, which will be sometime tomorrow in the early afternoon.

I want to make another PSP game but I have completely no idea on what kind of game it should be. If you have an idea shoot me a comment here, or reply on the aggregated topic on Screeze.

BTW, I want to add a type of trophy/award system and have the ability to play on the computer as well and sync progress so your ideas should have this in mind for types of games this would work with. For instance a simple game with a bunch of minigames wouldn’t work because there is no need progress saving.
Although, if you think you have a really awesome idea but it doesn’t work with the aforementioned requirements tell me anyway.
If I use your idea you will of course be credited in the game.

Yesterday Johnny and Klaudio, a comedy webshow, debuted on Screeze during its launch. It was just an introductory episode so its not super insanely funny but you should get a chuckle or two.
If you want to check it out you can find it at http://screeze.com/forum/johnny.htm

Now, the other thing I wanted to talk about is that I’m thinking of making my own little web series. It wouldn’t be a comedy show but maybe the latest in gaming news and some reviews as well as the occasional rant. If I did make it there would probably be an episode about once or twice a week.
Tell me what you think either as a comment here on osvaldojr.com or as a reply to the aggregated topic on Screeze.