a) the music gets really braindamaging after 30 minutes of the same very short pattern

click 'turn off the music' at the main menu?

b) NO FUCKING SAVE OPTION. How long does it take to conquer the whole universe? 1-2 hours?

A half hour? Do you want to save your game in Solitaire too? 

Not Solitaire. Maybe Hearts when I have possession of the Bitch and want to spring it on some one and not get caught with it in my hand. It would be edifying to always win in that situation, 

Yes, I saw that when I tried the game again. No idea why I cannot turn it off ingame. Anyways, the ingame sounds are way too silent anyways. If one has other music playing one cannot hear them.

The save option is not needed indeed. The game started so very slowly that I estimated a much long gameplay. Once I had my big swarms the rest was like 2 minutes. Very disappointing. :(

Nice little game anyways. 

the action curve isn't terribly flat. if you start out near other colors' home asteroids you'll be fighting for your life constantly, but if you start out with no neighbors you can gleefully take over half the world and have unstoppable blobs of hundreds by the time you meet anyone else.

That aspect could use some work. That said, I still fire this up and play it when I'm waiting for an import/compile/upload/etc at work. 

The combat is good but its definitely a worse off part of the game

So basically it's a nice interactive movie, apart from the interactive bits?

Thanks, you just saved me some money, I was vaguely tempted to pick this up, but if the actual gameplay (i.e. the only important thing) is pants then I'll skip it. 

Multiplayer could be nice, the ai just doesn't cut it yeah. 

"Thanks, you just saved me some money, I was vaguely tempted to pick this up, but if the actual gameplay (i.e. the only important thing) is pants then I'll skip it."

It's an RPG. 3/4s of the experience is the world immersion. 

I think "interactive movie" is perhaps taking things a bit too far.

There are lots of non combat gameplay situations also, lots of puzzles and detective work to be done etc.

While the combat isn't quite up to the quality of the rest of the game, it is by no means bad, I think it just suffers from trying to be a shooter when it really isn't.

For me personally I can overlook it, as on the whole this is the best rpg I have ever played (since knights of the old republic, heh) with a very compelling sci-fi world to explore.

Shambler : yeah I guess fanboi' is semi-correct here, as far as im concerned Bioware can do no wrong :) Lets just hope they dont go tits up after be swallowed by EA... :( 

do you remember Borsato? He and another guy made it together. 

http://www.kongregate.com/games/Coolio_Niato/music-in-motion 

http://www.kongregate.com/games/jmtb02/elephant-rave 

I suppose it should be said that RPGs for the most part just mean to me "stacks of dialogue and shit to skip".

Look, I try to like it, and I want to enjoy it, but damn, even if it's all well voice acted, these sort of games (especially with branching dialogue/choices) just end up driving me up the wall. I mean I'm sorry Fred Noblespank, but I just don't give two shits who stole your horse, find it yourself! Just fuck off and let me play!

I guess I'm just not in the target demographic... 

Thanks for elaborating on that point, Daz, I'm now at least vaguely interested again. :D 

I know how you feel frib, the only "RPG" I've ever got into was diablo/2, for obvious reasons :)

althoughI do have both of the KoTORs lying around 

that if you dont want to speak to people, you can be obscenely rude to them and end up telling them to fuck off, basicly ;)

...which is amusing 

but I just don't give two shits who stole your horse, find it yourself! Just fuck off

yeah you can do exactly that, thats why the game is a good real rpg unlike the sissy jrpg stuff 

Hey guys, been a while eh?

Thanks for those of you who played Dyson, and thanks for the feedback. I would like to iterate some important points however.

Dyson is a game made in 1 month in the spare time of 2 people only, for a compettion to create a proecedurally generated game indie game :-) The design is not fully implemented, we are still worrking on things like defensive units and better Ai and a better distribution of the attributes of in-game objects and entitis. To even get the game in this state within the limited timeframe was a triumph imo :-0

The contest has about ten days to go and then we will see how well we have done, and as importantly can start releasing updates with all the originally planned features in them.

www.omni-labs.com for news on this.

Anyway, how is everybody? :-D 

Good to hear from you.
Any word on when a new version of the game will see release? I threw it around at work (after seeing a collegue playing Nanowars, a slightly similar flash game, dunno if you've seen it) and quite a few people enjoyed it, but we all wanted to play multiplayer.

Good luck with the procedural contest. 

Thanks Bal! Good to hear from you.
Nothing will happen until the competition is done, after that we will start updating it incrementally with all kinds of features. Not sure when multiplayer will happen, it is incredibly useful to do so of course. I can't wait for that myself :-) 

Quit running drugs to the dutch soccer team and get cracking already! 

Not when they are polaying this well!! :-)

(I mean ok, sure) ;-) 

And it is awesome:
http://www.gametrailers.com/player/35246.html 

Good stuff. 

pretty groovy, not as annoying as I thought it might be. More later. 

Kids will love it!
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-689194118682834081&hl=fr