Persona 3 FES Calculator – Analyzing Save Games Special
Due to a request by RyuKuro Ryu I digged a bit more inside the structure of the P3 FES save file format, looking for a way to find out about the checksum which detects tampering…
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The Whispered World
I’d say that the Whispered World is a definite candidate for my personal favourite adventure for this year. The puzzles were intelligently designed, not as easy as some of the other adventures I played this…
Mass Effect
[Screenshot follows] With the year slowly coming to a close, I’m starting to think about what the best game I played this year was, and Mass Effect could very well be it. The strongest point…
InFamous
The first PS3 game I finished. Not bad for having the console for 8 months… I had some fun with InFamous, mainly due to the over-the-top powers (Lightning Strike <3 ) and the good story…
Tales of Monkey Island – Launch of the Screaming Narwhal
This first episode was the best Telltale game episode I played so far, since it managed to get the old style of humour correctly. Some of the dialogue is hilarious. When trying to dip something…
Game Developers Conference Europe 2009 – Day 3 and gamescom
We only attended one presentation today due to having a small booth on gamescom and checking out the games on gamescom. Peter Molyneux – Choice: The Ultimate Game Mechanic I just had to see Peter…
Game Developers Conference Europe 2009 – Day 2
We missed the keynote by CCP`s boss today, so I actually only learned about the announcement of Dust 514 from kotaku… Fun fact: After the global economic downturn (with banks going out of business), CCP…
Game Developers Conference Europe 2009 Day 1
I got the chance to go to GDC Europe as a business trip, and I’ll write a short summary of the sessions I attended. Iian Gilfeather – Advanced Racing Game AI in PURE When trying…
Persona 3 FES Calculator – Algorithmic Optimization (1)
As noted earlier, in this post I want to have a look at how the general algorithm I used in the calculator can be optimized without applying any language-specific optimizations. Normal Spread Fusions In the…
Persona 3 Calculator: Analyzing Save Games (2)
After getting warmed up in the last post on this topic, now it’s time to start looking for the most important informations that are cumbersome to enter into the editor. These are: Protagonist level (already…