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The problem is that this is exactly what the Rock Raiders United community doesn't want, or at the very least that is the general attitude that many people have around here. Rock Raiders is a very casual game already up until a few levels near the end and many of the mods that RRU has made try to make the game more challenging. The core demographic for the original game was children, so that is understandable. Now, we have grown up and the majority of us are 15 to 25 years old. We can take a challenge. This makes me feel a little bit better about the situation. In my eyes, Rock Raiders was one of your best games and I have hope that you are willing to show us a game that's even better than the original Rock Raiders. Of course, when I say "you" I'm addressing all of DDI -- the programmers, the artists, the musicians, the engineers, and the leaders. I was talking to a few people about this and we're actually concerned about you developing this game on multiple formats at once. Having multiple formats means that you need multiple teams to work on each version, which splits your time and energy. If you're planning on PC, Wii, WiiU, Android, iOS, and Facebook... you're spreading your effort way too thin and the main product (PC) will suffer. And honestly, the game will end up being completely different for each format. The PC has mouse and keyboard controls which are superior to a controller (WiiU) or pointer (Wii), and far superior to a touchscreen (Android, iOS). The general attitude towards Facebook games for many people around here is negative, and I feel that you will receive either backlash or apathy towards a Facebook version of the game. We do not want Farmville Raiders. We do not want to waggle a Wiimote at a screen in order to drill a wall. Please understand this. Your trending analysts may say that Facebook games are hot right now and the casual market is something you need to capture, but RRU in general is not in that market. I don't want to speak for everyone, but I think we are looking for a game that makes us think and plan ahead.

This. So much this. Another reason I'm also concerned about the idea of Facebook, iOS, Android, etc versions is that they wouldn't end up supporting modding, at least to the same degree. The folks here on RRU would likely stick with the PC version and ignore the other ones, and the split in development would likely cause the PC version to not be as good as it could. Oh, and that image Fushigisaur posted is actually a Mega Man robot: http://megaman.wikia.com/wiki/Servbot

The Lego Island Racetrack music is one of my favorite tracks in the game, and I thought I'd record my (short) interpretation on the piece, so here it is. Music was composed by Peter Dunne. I played and recorded the backing (Rhythm Guitar, Bass and Drums) off camera. Sorry for the sloppy playing at times, it was slightly rushed, but hey, I think this must be the first time someone's done this for Lego game music? If anyone wants the chord progression;

[5:36:49 PM] McJobless: NOW I'M HAVING DEADSPACE/STEAMGIFT DREAMS. [5:36:53 PM] McJobless: WHAT THE f**** IS THIS.

So something like this?

Hi Peabody, I don't mind addressing this. We sold over 5 million Popcorn Arcade titles, It was a huge worldwide success, and the truth is that the public loved the titles and we are still selling them now. Our only problem was that the press (actually 2 companies) hated our titles. to be fair they didnt understand them, they saw the huge success we were having and didn't get it. At the time the press was talking about 100 man teams taking 5 years to develop hardcore games, and we came along with family friendly casual games at the lowest price on Wii, the opposite of what they thought gamers wanted. At the time, the Press didn't think family friendly, simple to pick up and use games would be popular, and they slated our games for being too easy, and simple. The whole games market has since learnt that simple online games and phone games have captured the majority of the market, this type of game is exactly what the public wanted! To be a commercial writer you quickly learn that extremes sell, writing a review of an average game, at at affordable price appealing to young kids isn't 'interesting copy' you get a better story saying, this is the best game, or worst game in the world. Anyone who has been in the business will also stell you the correlation between advertising budgets and review scores! and we didn't advertise. It was sort of amusing as despite their hate campaign, they still kept printing 'why are people buying these games' and thats who we make games for the 5 million players, who bought and kept buying our games, not the 3 magazine writers. Our titles helped the Wii market, at the time NO-ONE was writing games for Wii, and a console flops without enough software, we captured 40% of the market, nothing was a shoddy product, they all fully used the Wii remote, they were all multiplayer games, we were innovators, first to launch titles with Wii motion Plus support, first titles with 3D glasses, our Golf Trainer title won many awards, Budget games can't compare with full price titles, but our games were excellent for the money, and at less than $20 when games were $40-$60 we were games that kids could afford, I am proud of what we did. After saying all that, the New Rock Raiders is not a budget game, it is a BIG project, we can do many styles, and this is a Major quality title for us.

Everyone would have noticed how low quality the Rock Raiders are in 3rd Person view. This graphics mod changes this so that the high poly model is always in use. I hope you like it! Download (1.1 - Cafeteria Patch)

That's fine. I'm free today and about 1/4th tomorrow, and I usually don't VA while others are home, but I'll attempt to do it if you want me to. Also the stop-motion part was more "serious", I'll send it to you to watch if you wish. ;)

I WOULD try out, but two things: 1) I've got a *real* job now, and school's coming up; and 2) I've volunteered my work many times, and other than the QCs, I have nothing to show for it. So I'm afraid I'll sit this one out. Sorry.

What kind of VAs are you needing, character wise? I have a simi-wide range of character voices, some better than others.

I would like to try. Since Tahmira's project seems to be postponed indefinitely, it would be nice to have another VA role.

And so, another fan has joined the herd. As logic would suggest, I'm Geardirector, and I'm a 19-year old norwegian guy hoping to find ways to once again experience and improve one of my all-time favorite video games from back when I was a wee lad, LEGO Rock Raiders Hi, all.

I want to tryout i am very interested in this.

I'd like to see how you would do the park music from LI. It's funny that a place with so much insanity has such calm music.

No seriously, I'm loving these ideas. I like realistic also, but if you go with the blocky look... would the exposed cavern walls be like cubes or angled walls like LRR? Just trying to visualize it.

[3:50:11 PM] McJobless: Oh my lordy. [3:50:13 PM] McJobless: What the hell. [3:50:21 PM] McJobless: My dream... [3:50:24 PM] McJobless: What the actual f****. [3:51:07 PM] McJobless: So...it started off with the news that Russia would be doing some debates and Stalin was currently living in a house on top of a hill. [3:51:37 PM] McJobless: So we skipped a bit and suddenly I was with my friend and f****ing Ali Cat of all the people on the f****ing planet. [3:51:57 PM] McJobless: And for whatever reason she was working at this lodge where they had motherf****ing pokemon. [3:52:30 PM] McJobless: So, I was pretty upset that since my last dream about pokemon (years and years and years ago), I still didn't have one. [3:52:49 PM] McJobless: And I was even more upset you needed all this paperwork and a license to go look for one. [3:53:06 PM] McJobless: And even then you're not guarenteed to get one since the Pokemon has to "choose you". [3:53:17 PM] McJobless: This lodge apparently owned all the forest land for miles. [3:53:38 PM] McJobless: So my friend was laughing hard at my pissed off reactions to just about everything. [3:53:46 PM] McJobless: I was shooting things, throwing things... [3:54:08 PM] McJobless: I went outside, and there was this mother f****ing flame pokemon and he was like "I choose you motherf****er." [3:54:10 PM] McJobless: [3:54:19 PM] McJobless: And then there was some news that in Russia... [3:54:29 PM] McJobless: And I can't believe this was actually in my dream. [3:54:45 PM] McJobless: The entire population of Russia had decided to troll Stalin. [3:55:02 PM] McJobless: So now people dressed like Hitler were delivering his mail, poping out of the bushes etc. [3:55:09 PM] McJobless: And then I woke up. [3:56:56 PM] John: wtf

Just caught on to this...DUDE, WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN ALL MY LIFE?! THANK YOU!

I just tested the beta version. It's much improved over the alpha! The heightmap matches up to what I see in-game and it loads so much more quickly too. The only things you would really need now are a proper file browser and raising adjacent rock walls by 7 units to create an entire map terrain previewer. This tool is a keeper.

9:15 PM - PeabodySam: Now that DDI has copyrighted the title Rock Raiders, that probably means that we won't be seeing LEGO Rock Raiders in the near future for sure. 9:15 PM - PeabodySam: Or, at least, they'll have to be called the R*** R*****. 9:15 PM - jamesster: *clap clap clap* 9:15 PM - PeabodySam: Or, for extra fun... 9:15 PM - PeabodySam: The **ck ****ers. 9:16 PM - jamesster: I nearly spat salsa on my laptop

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