Gabberkooij

Gabberkooij

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Reply to Deep Space 9 or Babylon 5 in Everything Else Stardock Forums

Personally i like B5 more than DS9. But be warned if you watch the show because it will be hard not to watch the next episode. Especially season 3 is almost one story splitted in 22.

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Reply to Will the game be translated in languages other than English? in War of Magic Stardock Forums

I've translated Demigod to dutch in the past and it helped my sons playing and understanding the game. So if the game is fun for 8 to 12 years old then i will probably translate Elemental for them to Dutch. If it is possible to localize. The quality of a localization will be higher if done by fans then by official translators who do not understand what they are translating. Less literal more focussed on creating a fun/workable translation. A bit more pragmatic. I'm in the elem

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Reply to My hobby project for parents with autistic children in Everything Else Stardock Forums

What i forgot to tell: There is an other group of people who are using the tool. I was a bit surprised when i heard it. I know someone who is using it to create some instructions in case one of her other personalities take over. I have also used it to create a sheet of photo's and print it.

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Reply to My hobby project for parents with autistic children in Everything Else Stardock Forums

[quote who="lifekatana" reply="3" id="2569325"]I'm sorry but why would an autistic kid need this? Correct me if I'm wrong but doesn't autistic mean something different? IIRC autistic children are just as smart as others(and usually smarter) although they have some issues with being independent, but they mostly have social problems not I can't dry myself after the shower problems. Obviously I don't have an autistic son, so you may know more about it. [/quote] A lot of autistic chi

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Reply to My hobby project for parents with autistic children in Everything Else Stardock Forums

Version 1.0.8 is online Several enhancements - added several buttons with the most used function, for people who do not like to use the right mouse button menu - You can now also set a border for the Sclera pictos, this is usefull if you have reversed the colors and still want a border around it - added a "Send to Yahoo Group", not yet available for the english and french translation. But i'm developing a way to put the picto sheets online in a yahoo group. I will first

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My hobby project for parents with autistic children in Everything Else Elemental Forums

Hi all, We have the experience that we can help our youngest son of 7 (who is diagnosed with autism) a lot when we visualize the daily tasks for him. Things like drying himself after taking a shower, taking a shower etc can be performed without our help after we visualized those tasks for him. And after a while he can do this without those visualizations. Creating those visualizations was a lot of work, using Word with pictures is a pain. Especially when you w

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Reply to Recommend an MP3 player in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

I'm very happy with my Ipod Classic + Teufel docking station. I'm working 4 days at home and the Ipod has so many docking stations to choose from. So i actually first buyed the docking station and after that the ipod :-) My wife has a Creative Zen and is very happy with it. The sound is nice and very affordable.

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Reply to What happen if you mix The Muppets and Queen? in Everything Else Elemental Forums

[quote who="GW Swicord" reply="4" id="2462730"]I've always sorta thought that to be a truly great band, you need to do some really great covers of someone else's great songs. Now I'm sure. Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem rule. [/quote] Does the fame increase when you cover a real great cover?

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Reply to Getting a job in the game industry in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

[quote]I spent part of my vacation learning Python. Why? Because I enjoy doing it, not because I have to. I know that most people go home and live “normal lives”. That’s great but a small tech company may not be a good fit for you then. [/quote] Remembers me of a holiday i took an AWK manual with me. For the rest most applies, but not the reallocation part :-)

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Reply to Quest Creation in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

It will be great to look into the quest system that Stardock is creating and eventually enhancing it with more random stuff or creating something new. I see some potential in the ideas of the topic starter. Biggest issue will be a way to balance the stuff so it generates quests that 'feel' right. At the other hand it can generate some really interesting quest's that no one had thought of before. To create a story around those random quest's will be a tricky. It will look like a l

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Reply to Stardock coding practices in Elemental Dev Journals Demigod Forums

Just wondering: [quote]Yeah, I used GalCiv names because they're a bit more recognizeable. The Elemental engine is a cleaned up and updated version of the GalCiv2 engine. Before a new major project we tend to go through and do an overhaul on the engine because we learn a lot over the course of a project, and technology updates.[/quote] So in theory we can mod GalCiv 3 ourselves? ;-)

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Reply to Elemental: June 2009 FAQ in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote] Q: Are the screen shots we see indicative of the final quality? A: NO! The engine we've developed is still being enhanced. For instance, in the screen shot above, the shadows aren't in yet. There are still a lot of features left to be put in visually. That said, one of our primary objectives with Elemental is to have a game that has unprecedented flexibility in terms of the systems it can play on: Netbooks all the way up to 64-bit Core I7s with monster video card

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Reply to Securom Removal just got easier in PC Gaming Demigod Forums

[quote]If after intalling the game I remove securom, will it just reinstall iteself by running the game's executable or will it only reinstall itself if I reinstall the game?[/quote] If the game runs you can assume it has reinstalled the securom stuff. Otherwise the check would not do it's job.

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Reply to Book in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="Solam" reply="16" id="2263808"]Who is writing it? I read all the time. So much so that my wife give me hell because I have books lying around everywhere.[/quote] I have seen several references in forum posts for Brad needing more time to finish his book. I think that it was a reference to this one.

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Reply to Cloth map? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="14" id="2263357"] I love this idea of a cloth map and making it 100% playable on that map. That way if you have horrible system requirements you can still enjoy this game. That is indeed on of the requirements we have. You will be able to run Elemental /basic (i.e. /basic is a parameter) and play the entire game symbolically on the cloth map. If it's a good game, it should still be fun in that mode. [/quote] <p

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