Comments on: Gunpoint Now Has Artists, Will Be Art

By: Amelia

Amelia — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 18:54:12 +0000

Sounds great, can’t wait until the art and levels are properly planned out

By: Krushna

Krushna — Mon, 16 May 2011 21:50:30 +0000

This sounds a bit like The Art of Theft

By: groovymann

groovymann — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 18:17:55 +0000

Hello artists, your art made me very happy, what looks to be a brilliant game is evidently going to have brilliant art. i am a bit worried about the mission tracking stats, being a bit OCD I will evidently feel the need to redo every level until I get an A or equivalent top mark, must you do this to me Pentadact?

thanks,
groovymann

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 08:04:35 +0000

Here’s a quick and dirty way to get the shorter /gunpoint URL you’re wanting: https://gist.github.com/933941

Put that bit of Javascript somewhere into the page and it’ll change the URL shown and optionally change the title text too.

It’s only a quick cosmetic change so any links followed from that page will still have the same URL they’ve always had.

By: Urthman

Urthman — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 21:16:54 +0000

It would be great if you could use Beldak’s windows (or get Roberts to do something similar). Those things look like they would sound fantastic and fly into a million shards when you shatter them. Just looking at the artwork makes me itch to break one.

By: TooNu

TooNu — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 18:07:14 +0000

This is going to be a fantastic looking game now :)

It’s been a year of waiting but it’s like almost here so that’s awesome! I have one request, and it’s fairly important.

Please do not release it after Human Rev’ comes out because I won’t be able to focus on Gunpoint at all if that happens. Unless you release it months after of course. I think I’m actually affraid of this happening.

By: Lobo

Lobo — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 14:21:52 +0000

Congrats guys! Excellent choices I must say. :)

By: Bret

Bret — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 20:39:12 +0000

Looks pretty cool.

How does one go about volunteering to beta test again?

I know, I’m shallow, but when it’ll look this nice, I can’t resist asking.

By: Lack 26

Lack 26 — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 19:12:48 +0000

I got bored and mixed the two to see what it might look like,

http://img808.imageshack.us/img808/2300/gunpointmixed2.png

I do hope the final product looks something like this.

By: barley

barley — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 19:05:01 +0000

Uh, I sort of got mixed up with what I was saying in that comment. Parking the domain is pretty much the only way to have gunpointgame.com load the page at pentadact.com/gunpoint. It won’t persist after you click a link on the page, though. WordPress looks like it’s using absolute links to all of its pages (http://www.pentadact.com/blahblah instead of just /blahblah).

.htaccess would work for silently redirecting /gunpoint to /tag/gunpoint or /category/gunpoint though. The RewriteRule that I mentioned in my other comment should work for that.

Okay I’ll stop typing now.

By: barley

barley — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 19:00:53 +0000

Hmm, so you’d want the gunpointgame.com domain (/whatever) to stay there even when you click to view the individual posts, or just not have it disappear straight after you type it in?

If it’s the first, unfortunately there isn’t any way to do that with .htaccess because it’s made for serving up pages on a local server. Asking it to serve pages from a remote server will just result in it telling the client to redirect.

You could park the gunpointgame.com domain though. It depends on your web host but most will have options in the control panel for setting up parked domains. Parked domains point to exactly the same content as other domains, so it’s not like they do any redirecting.

By: Pentadact

Pentadact — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 17:40:14 +0000

It’s probably not going to use the mouse wheel in the final thing: my current plan doesn’t involve it. Once I’ve got my idea for the controls working, I’ll make sure it works on netbooks and that no testers had problems with it. I can make an alternate control scheme to avoid specific problems once I know what they are, but fully customisable controls might be more work than it’s worth once those are resolved.

By: verendus

verendus — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 17:36:12 +0000

Out of curiosity, how likely are you to allow for changeable controls for us poor souls who own laptops and, thus, lack scroll bars?

By: Pentadact

Pentadact — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 17:33:21 +0000

What I was trying to do was keep gunpointgame.com in the address bar if that’s how you got here. It’s easy enough to redirect that domain to the category URL so it only shows Gunpoint stuff, but then the URL is a long and fiddly subdomain of my personal blog.

I’ve tried a bunch of .htaccess rewrite methods, but they all actually change what’s in the address bar.

It’s not a huge deal, it’d just be nice and professional if I could find a way to do it.

By: Drug Crazed

Drug Crazed — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 14:40:23 +0000

If I am correct, you want http://www.pentadact.com/category/gunpoint.

There’s probably a rewrite rule you could use, but I’d just point it at that…

By: The Indifference Engine

The Indifference Engine — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 12:11:35 +0000

Now that the art-style’s nailed down (awesomely) have you given any thought to the soundtrack? Because it’s not a proper indie game without a kickin’ rad reto-tastic soundtrack.

Or maybe something more along the lines of 20th century jazz by way of the 23rd and 1/2 century would fit with the aesthetic better?

Either way, I’m excited!

By: dual_barrel

dual_barrel — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 08:14:50 +0000

Excellent choice!

By: fatalxploit

fatalxploit — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 08:04:48 +0000

I’ve been lurking for ages but I’ve got to say this: This looks awesome! Can’t wait to test/play it :D And yes I’ve said too much.. back to lurking.

By: Karl

Karl — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 00:36:32 +0000

So sick, this is going to look awesome and be awesome. Cheers and good luck, Tom.

By: Crane

Crane — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 23:08:21 +0000

Oh excellent! Those are the ones I would have gone for as well.
Goodness this is going to be magnificent…

By: charlie

charlie — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 23:06:48 +0000

i’m first! ‘i remember when gunpoint had dodgy old graphics made by the programmer!’ & ‘i like the old artwork better than the new artwork, the new stuff is way too overproduced’ :D

By: sQUEAKYfOAMpEANUT

sQUEAKYfOAMpEANUT — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 23:04:45 +0000

Oh man, perfect choices, Tom. Now I really want to play this.

By: barley

barley — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 22:54:52 +0000

I’m not sure if this is what you mean, but if you’re trying to get the page at http://www.pentadact.com/tag/gunpoint to display at http://www.pentadact.com/gunpoint you could maybe do it in .htaccess with an explicit “^gunpoint/?$ tag/gunpoint [L]” rewrite rule stuck at the top.

I’m not sure how wordpress handles the whole url redirection thing because it obviously has something going on (when you try to go to http://www.pentadact.com/gunpoint it takes you to one of the posts with “gunpoint” in the title). It should work though.

Probably.

Maybe.