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It's not a bug, it's just the player would be destroying the wooden plank upgrades on the door and the door itself simultaneously, so the game doesn't detect that you destroyed the door (first) thus you don't get the knob. :p
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That is literally the definition of a bug. You could use that as an example in a programming class.

 
It's debatable.
However, the fix would be that excess damage does NOT carry over to the next door stage so you would "lose damage". /shrug
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I wouldn't mind that fix anyway. I don't recall exactly what the other issue was but I know this wasn't the first time a small bug/inconvenience was caused by the damage bleeding over to the next stage.

And why would that be the only fix? The bleed over HAS to be being applied to the new "object" or the new object wouldn't get destroyed from it. So it should/may be possible to trigger the door knob "harvest" and still have the excess damage. Though, like I said, I wouldn't mind the damage not carrying over.

Though I would imagine this is such an edge case it can't be considered high priority. It's a minor inconvenience at worst.

 
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Though I would imagine this is such an edge case it can't be considered high priority. It's a minor inconvenience at worst.
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My thoughts exactly. Just a small issue I happened upon, just thought I'd share it in case anyone is hellbent on acquiring and salvaging every bit of brass there is in the game and cannot take this tiny sacrifice.

 
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That is, if we get back food and water bars - we should Thank You for this? :)
....soooo what else don't we know about You? :)

I've been wanting to know - which of You guys developed graphics for the old GUI that was before A13?
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Uhhh, what do you want to know?

Raner did them, he's the guy who does all the icons. He's been mocking up a functionally same (nearly) new GUI.

 
Uhhh, what do you want to know?
Raner did them, he's the guy who does all the icons. He's been mocking up a functionally same (nearly) new GUI.
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Well, if I may pipe in, how did you get into the video game development business? (Not sure if that term is technically correct.) I'm quite curious. :)

 
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Well, if I may pipe in, how did you get into the video game development business? (Not sure if that term is technically correct.) I'm quite curious. :)
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It's pronounced: "Stripping."

@Madmole, sorry big guy, I get excited sometimes.

 
I'll be looking at adding more benefits to the recipes with more hard to acquire ingredients. For A19, the new super foods we added have 0% food poisoning because they are using 2 canned ingredients.
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That sounds promising.

 
Well, if I may pipe in, how did you get into the video game development business? (Not sure if that term is technically correct.) I'm quite curious. :)
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I started making mods for doom 2, then duke3d and people liked them so I made a partial conversion for Doom2 that added new enemies, behaviors, sounds, several levels. I recruited some help but and it took a year, but it covered all the major aspects of making a game at the time. It won some awards and I loved doing it, so I risked the family business and borrowed millions of dollars to make Gore in 98.

Gore took 5 years, and sold a decent amount of copies, but the publisher didn't want to invest in a sequel and took the money and ran. We were out of credit at the bank and the royalty advance they gave us wasn't enough to keep going. We scored a crappy deal with Activision that kept us going until 2004 when we went out of business and I went back to fixing cars for a year. (insert sad meme here) Rick moved and got work in the industry. In 2005 I got a small deal to make Patriots and gave up car repair for good. After Patriots was finished I worked for NC Soft on Dungeon Runners a goofy MMO that got cancelled in 2008. At that time I got into real estate and invested all my cash into it.

For the next several years I acquired more rental properties and built up sweat equity. By day I fixed up old foreclosed houses and rented them out, at night I worked on Oblivion mods and improved my game design chops. Those got a lot of attention and downloads and pacified my creative desires and iterating live (like the EA model we have now) on my mods allowed me to take a decent idea and hone into a masterpiece. It was also good networking, one of the guys I worked with ended up investing into my real estate business allowing me to expand faster. The other guy went on to work at Obsidian, and probably worked on Outer Worlds.

Come late 2012 I became a paper millionaire and had enough cash flow to live on and wanted to get back into the game industry making my own games, and that famous Thanksgiving transpired that gave birth to the idea of 7 days to die, a survival horror game that would blend elements of Minecraft, Fallout, and The Walking Dead tv show.

So in a nutshell, start making mods, network with people and believe in yourself. Its 1000x easier today with early access and people willing to put their credit card into a computer and download digital games. Back in the day you were at the mercy of publishers to get your product out there and you built 80-90% of the game on your own, then got some funding and got robbed to bring your game to the market. Now you can build a small demo, go to EA, and make a fortune if your game is fun and it stands out in the crowd.

There are also game schools where you can learn and they have pretty good job placement. So its easier to get in now too. Either way its work and learn during your spare time and build a resume.

 
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Some cool stuff happening in the modding world right now!
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Ronald McDonald turned into a zombie? 😂

 
I started making mods for doom 2, then duke3d and people liked them so I made a partial conversion for Doom2 that added new enemies, behaviors, sounds, several levels. I recruited some help but and it took a year, but it covered all the major aspects of making a game at the time. It won some awards and I loved doing it, so I risked the family business and borrowed millions of dollars to make Gore in 98.
Gore took 5 years, and sold a decent amount of copies, but the publisher didn't want to invest in a sequel and took the money and ran. We were out of credit at the bank and the royalty advance they gave us wasn't enough to keep going. We scored a crappy deal with Activision that kept us going until 2004 when we went out of business and I went back to fixing cars for a year. (insert sad meme here) Rick moved and got work in the industry. In 2005 I got a small deal to make Patriots and gave up car repair for good. After Patriots was finished I worked for NC Soft on Dungeon Runners a goofy MMO that got cancelled in 2008. At that time I got into real estate and invested all my cash into it.

For the next several years I acquired more rental properties and built up sweat equity. By day I fixed up old foreclosed houses and rented them out, at night I worked on Oblivion mods and improved my game design chops. Those got a lot of attention and downloads and pacified my creative desires and iterating live (like the EA model we have now) on my mods allowed me to take a decent idea and hone into a masterpiece. It was also good networking, one of the guys I worked with ended up investing into my real estate business allowing me to expand faster. The other guy went on to work at Obsidian, and probably worked on Outer Worlds.

Come late 2012 I became a paper millionaire and had enough cash flow to live on and wanted to get back into the game industry making my own games, and that famous Thanksgiving transpired that gave birth to the idea of 7 days to die, a survival horror game that would blend elements of Minecraft, Fallout, and The Walking Dead tv show.

So in a nutshell, start making mods, network with people and believe in yourself. Its 1000x easier today with early access and people willing to put their credit card into a computer and download digital games. Back in the day you were at the mercy of publishers to get your product out there and you built 80-90% of the game on your own, then got some funding and got robbed to bring your game to the market. Now you can build a small demo, go to EA, and make a fortune if your game is fun and it stands out in the crowd.

There are also game schools where you can learn and they have pretty good job placement. So its easier to get in now too. Either way its work and learn during your spare time and build a resume.
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Thanks for sharing MM. When going to college, I really wanted to go to school for game dev but back them there were very little programs compared to today. Hopefully your story inspires and encourages many. 😎👍

 
I started making mods for doom 2, then duke3d and people liked them so I made a partial conversion for Doom2 that added new enemies, behaviors, sounds, several levels. I recruited some help but and it took a year, but it covered all the major aspects of making a game at the time. It won some awards and I loved doing it, so I risked the family business and borrowed millions of dollars to make Gore in 98.
Gore took 5 years, and sold a decent amount of copies, but the publisher didn't want to invest in a sequel and took the money and ran. We were out of credit at the bank and the royalty advance they gave us wasn't enough to keep going. We scored a crappy deal with Activision that kept us going until 2004 when we went out of business and I went back to fixing cars for a year. (insert sad meme here) Rick moved and got work in the industry. In 2005 I got a small deal to make Patriots and gave up car repair for good. After Patriots was finished I worked for NC Soft on Dungeon Runners a goofy MMO that got cancelled in 2008. At that time I got into real estate and invested all my cash into it.

For the next several years I acquired more rental properties and built up sweat equity. By day I fixed up old foreclosed houses and rented them out, at night I worked on Oblivion mods and improved my game design chops. Those got a lot of attention and downloads and pacified my creative desires and iterating live (like the EA model we have now) on my mods allowed me to take a decent idea and hone into a masterpiece. It was also good networking, one of the guys I worked with ended up investing into my real estate business allowing me to expand faster. The other guy went on to work at Obsidian, and probably worked on Outer Worlds.

Come late 2012 I became a paper millionaire and had enough cash flow to live on and wanted to get back into the game industry making my own games, and that famous Thanksgiving transpired that gave birth to the idea of 7 days to die, a survival horror game that would blend elements of Minecraft, Fallout, and The Walking Dead tv show.

So in a nutshell, start making mods, network with people and believe in yourself. Its 1000x easier today with early access and people willing to put their credit card into a computer and download digital games. Back in the day you were at the mercy of publishers to get your product out there and you built 80-90% of the game on your own, then got some funding and got robbed to bring your game to the market. Now you can build a small demo, go to EA, and make a fortune if your game is fun and it stands out in the crowd.

There are also game schools where you can learn and they have pretty good job placement. So its easier to get in now too. Either way its work and learn during your spare time and build a resume.
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Sounds like quite an adventure, eventually leading to where you are now. Thanks for sharing MM, it was a good and interesting read. It definitely goes to show that good work, dedication, heart, vision, and a little bit of luck can go a long way. (Or a lot of luck, depending on individual circumstances.)

 
Ronald McDonald turned into a zombie? 😂
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I know MM sees this as mod advertising or whatever, but that couldn't be farther from the truth.

Thanks to the pimps, and a certain key modder for figuring it out, we're now able to get entities into the game without breaking eac by using code. That pic is really a tribute to the awesome mod-ability of the game; a celebration, if you will.

It's a +1 to the fun pimps for giving us the ability to use their game essentially as an engine build from.

It's a thank you.

 
Sounds like quite an adventure, eventually leading to where you are now. Thanks for sharing MM, it was a good and interesting read. It definitely goes to show that good work, dedication, heart, vision, and a little bit of luck can go a long way. (Or a lot of luck, depending on individual circumstances.)
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Life lesson: always invest in your curiosity, it builds worlds ;)

 
sounds really Cool!

im wishing you and your company luck when making other games!
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Thank you for your well wishes, but let me say something about luck.

Luck is for people who are out of touch with reality and think success is a roll of the dice. Executing a plan with predictable results is just plain hard work and grinding. Let me phrase it like this: Do you feel lucky if you work your ass off on the track and work up to a 5 minute mile? Was McDonalds lucky for inventing the best tasting burger in the world called a big mac? No it wasn't, and it wasn't a great burger at all. What they did was streamline the process of opening a restaurant and getting food out as fast as possible and then duplicate. There was a NEED for faster food, half an hour wait at the drive through was unacceptable.

At the end of the day you simply have to see an opportunity and put the work in before someone else does. Luck is for losers hoping to win the lottery because they aren't investing in themselves on a daily basis, which leads to success. Get really good at something by practicing and grinding and make money at it, simple. Winners don't care about luck because they already dealt with hard times and persevered, and no matter what happens they have the right attitude to handle the difficulties that eventually come.

I was devastated when my first studio went under. It was like my 2nd family. But it was so awesome, the best years of my life at that time, that I just couldn't see my life any other way, so I reforged it, and something 1000x better, knowing that one day it would pay off, and if it didn't? So what, I loved it. It would be my passionate hobby the rest of my life and I was ok with that.

I read a life changing story about luck one time. A miner in the 1800's sold everything and bought a small mine in California. He didn't hire a professional miner though to help him. He dug and dug and never found anything finally all his money was gone and he gave up. He sold it for next to nothing so he could get back to Canada where he came from. The guy who bought the mine from him hired a professional. He came in surveyed it, and said dig here a couple feet. They dug in a few feet and found a huge deposit of gold and the guy made millions in the 1800's. Was the new owner lucky? No. He hired a professional to tell him the most probable place to find the gold and it paid off. So the moral of the story is, don't give up, surround yourself with professionals and you might be just inches away from huge success.

 
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