Author: scrooloose

I've been a gamer since a young age, my first experiences were with my old Atari 2600. Nowadays I'm mostly a PC guy but I also play board games when I have the group for it. And I love wrenching on cars besides.

Game Club Plays: Galak-Z

Hey everyone. Me again, Scrooloose, with my pick for this weeks game club. This time it's 17-Bit's arcade space shooter, Galak-Z. This one is fun and feels like an old arcade title that you might drop a bunch of quarters in to keep playing.

Battle alien space bugs and run missions for command while earning upgrades for your little space ship in ever increasing difficulty levels of play. It's $10 on Steam and if you want to join us in playing that'd be great. I'm sure there are plenty of Let's Play videos out there as well if you don't feel like spending the money. Goodness knows I feel that.

System Requirements for Galak-Z are as follows:

Windows:

MINIMUM:

    • OS: Windows Vista / 7 / 8 / 10
    • Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo (2.6 GHz) / AMD Athlon 64 X2 (2.6 GHz)
    • Memory: 3 GB RAM
    • Graphics: Radeon HD 2900 XT (512 MB) / GeForce GT 430 (1024 MB)
    • DirectX: Version 9.0c
    • Storage: 3 GB available space
    • Additional Notes: Gamepad, Mouse and Keyboard Support

Mac:

MINIMUM:

    • OS: Mountain Lion 10.8
    • Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo (2.6 GHz) / AMD Athlon 64 X2 (2.6 GHz)
    • Memory: 3 GB RAM
    • Graphics: Radeon HD 2900 XT (512 MB) / GeForce GT 430 (1024 MB)
    • Storage: 3 GB available space
    • Additional Notes: Gamepad, Mouse and Keyboard Support

SteamOS / Linux:

MINIMUM:

    • OS: Ubuntu 12.04 / SteamOS
    • Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo (2.6 GHz) / AMD Athlon 64 X2 (2.6 GHz)
    • Memory: 3 GB RAM
    • Graphics: Radeon HD 2900 XT (512 MB) / GeForce GT 430 (1024 MB)
    • Storage: 3 GB available space
    • Additional Notes: Gamepad, Mouse and Keyboard Support

WRUP Word of the Day

It's getting hot around here these days and probably where you are too if you live in the northern hemisphere. It's times like this that make me want to sit indoors under the cooler and brush up on my vocabulary so I can hold intelligent conversations with people who are real smart. Lucky for myself and others like me, we have the Pronunciation Manual on the ol' YouTubes to help get us by. I'll post a word of the day below.

Anyway, It's the weekend and you know what that means... I assume.

What's everyone playing?

Trulegendkiller: Reigns for Gameclub, Went back to replay Uncharted 2, and finished (finally) Horizon Zero Dawn.

Andrew: Still hooked on Injustice 2. I hate the forced grind they subject you to if you want to level up and get new gear (and also if you just don't feel like shelling out for premier skins). But fortunately, the game itself is satisfying enough to not make it feel like too much of a chore.

Greywolfe: reigns again!  and more sm3dw.  i'm almost back at the spot i was at before my save got corrupted.  so, yay?  that plus costume quest...and quest for glory 3...and a mind forever voyaging. i've never played through costume quest before [only seen it played] so it's...sort of fun? i feel like it has problems in the "my first rpg" department, though.

Yoda: Reigns and Dota 2

Scrooloose: As with the others I'll be playing some more Reigns for Game Club. Certainly I'll be playing more Vermintide (gotta finish those contracts for epic loots) and I'm very likely to crack and pull the trigger on picking up The Surge this weekend.

Dr. S.: I don't know... he didn't say

Twinstiq Game Club Plays: World of Goo

Hey everyone, Scrooloose here with my game club pick for this week. This time it's World of Goo, a puzzler from developer 2D Boy. This one's just for sitting and relaxing and honestly after Spec Ops: the Line don't we need to sit and relax a little?

The goal is to move though the world by solving puzzles on each screen to see a rather charming story unfold. That's about it. Simple and cute and a good way to spend a few hours using your brain.

It's worth noting that the resolution is locked at 800 x 600 but I'll post below how to change that. A big thank you to steam user Blootrix for creating this guide for both PC and MAC users.

PC

-Right click on World of Goo
-Click Properties
-Click Local Files
-Click Browse Local Files
-Open "properties"
-Open "config" with notepad

-You should now see this. (Ignore the message left by the Sign Painter, it's there as a joke)

<!-- IMPORTANT WARNING: If you edit this file, your computer will probably explode. Your friend, the High Resolution Sign Painter -->
<config>

<param name="language" value="en"/>
<param name="screen_width" value="800"/>
<param name="screen_height" value="600"/>
<param name="refreshrate" value="60" />
<param name="ui_inset" value="10"/>

</config>

-Now change "screen_width" and "screen_height" to your resolution. 1080p would be

<param name="screen_width" value="1920"/>
<param name="screen_height" value="1080"/>

MAC (Courtsey of Regi524)

1. Open a new finder window.
2. Goto your users folder.
3. Open 'Library' and find 'Application Support'.
4. Once in Application Support, find Steam.
5. Once in, goto 'SteamApps', 'common', 'World of Goo'.
6. RIGHT click on World of Goo.app(or just simply called World of Goo) and click "Show package contents".
7. Open Contents
8. Open Resources, game and then properties.
8. Open config.txt with textedit or another text editing software.

Thanks for checking this out and have fun with it. Of course make sure you join us as usual when we discuss the game during our game club podcast next weekend.

System requirements for World of Goo area s follows

PC:

MINIMUM:

    • Supported OS:Windows® XP or Vista
    • Processor:1GHz or faster
    • Memory:512+MB RAM
    • Video:Any 3D graphics accelerator less than 5 years old
    • DirectX® Version:9.0c
    • Hard Drive:100MB

MAC:

  • OS: OS X version Leopard 10.5.8, Snow Leopard 10.6.3, or later
  • Processor:Intel Core Duo
  • Memory:512 MB
  • Graphics:64 MB

SteamOS + Linux:

  • Processor:1 GHz or faster
  • Memory:512 MB or more
  • Graphics:hardware accelerated OpenGL 1.4 support
  • Hard drive:100 MB free space