hype is funny because the people doing it didn't make the game. I wouldn't call that hype at all, actually, I'd call that word of mouth!

Nah man, it's still hype. Remember Killzone was hyped up to be the Halo killer by magazines and what not? Yeah.

Hype all happens before a release dude. I didn't have a clue as to when it was being released and neither did 90% of people who played it (probably more than that) it spread because of its merits and its affect on people. Maybe I missed the advert thread, the countless posts about release dates and how great it was going to be or maybe there was none. yeah.

ya, you did.

http://www.gamingw.net/forums/index.php/topic,56768.0.html

Yeah you missed the hyped demo thread that came out a year ago.

hype involves a game not living up to something and if you were seriously disappointed by a vidcon RPG about basketball and Cucuchulain get a fucking life.

~Kurt Cobain.

i actually wanted to say that the moment i joined the team zero hype was generated by me or any other "togster". i think chef maybe posted a screenshot once or twice in the screenshot thread but that's it. i am actually kind of disgruntled when people say the game was hyped because when we were making it we deliberately didn't want the game to be like a some projects where they post SCREENIES every few months and string people along. i guess you could say there was hype by PEOPLE but even then there was no barkley release date to get worked up over.

so that's really the big thing to consider here. not a single person who wasn't close to the team would have known the release date and it's pretty hard to generate hype without one. also i think he is reffering to the fact that a month or so before a game is done the TEAM usually posts a thread saying how great the game is and to STAY TUNED until it's released. also it was a year ago, in the INDIE SCENE a year is an eternity because projects are always popping up and dying. barkley could have died so i guass you guys rather see barkley die......

if you are still unconvinced you can blame chef because he made all the hype (send all your hatemail to [email protected]).

Still giving me the same error, does it have to do with saudio.dll (last modified Saturday, September 10, 2005, 7:13 PM)?

i am guessing this is a game maker problem then. the game was made in GM 6.1 and it runs on the vast majority of windows machines. here are the official GM 6 specs (taken from the GM6 wiki page):

Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows 2000, or Windows XP
DirectX 8 or later
DirectX 8 compatible graphics card with at least 16MB of video memory (32MB or more recommended)
Pentium or equivalent processor
DirectX 8 compatible sound card
64 MB of memory or greater (noted only in official Game Maker help file documentation)
800x600 (or greater) screen resolution with 16-bit or 32-bit colors

this game also runs on vista! if you have all this, it's probably a rare issue. i never heard of your graphics card but it sounds old. i would get the latest direct x and update your graphics card drivers as a last resort.

holy shit, one of the SA mods (Albrot) has this as an avatar:

Hey, just a thought, but how do you pronounce Cúchulainn?

I go for *"koo-xoo-lin", but is Irish phonology different in the Barkleyverse?

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* The "x" is a velar fricative, like the "ch" in "loch" or "Chanukah" or the "x" in "Cardinal Ximenez".

coo shoo lan is the appropriate pronounciation.

in barkley mythology (real life) it's actually cooch-ul-ain.

i love cooches

i've always pronounced it as quick lain.............


it was my first word actually...






how could my first word be wrong???

let us delcare now that barkology officially pronounces the word

kooch - uhl - ain

i am going to download this
RIGHT NOW
and play it.

http://www.gamingw.net/pubaccess/25568/so%20silly.mp3 also
i have made this just for you chef in honor of your game

couch that was awesome.

also this is not just my game! it is bort's and drule's and gz's and a bunch of other people too!

ok well i made it for everybody then