One week "Ask A Dev" event. Closed to new threads.
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Sharkey
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by Sharkey » December 14th, 2012, 3:07 pm
Any chance on running into such an elegant creature on the coastline?

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RangerKeenan
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by RangerKeenan » December 17th, 2012, 11:41 am
Hello Sharkey,
This was a tough one for us. While it is only natural to want to include the glorious Land Shark in the game, we weren't sure we could fully do it justice in this environment. How do you balance for something so dominant? It's basically a "game over" button.
It was agreed that if we could bring ourselves to add a land shark, it would certainly be pantsless.
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McDougle
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by McDougle » December 17th, 2012, 12:36 pm
"DONT GO IN THERE! ITS A LAND SHARK! YOU WIIIIIIILLL DIE!" written on the door of its hideout/whatever ... in blood... a lot of blood... problem solved.

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Sharkey
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by Sharkey » December 17th, 2012, 7:33 pm
DarkTwinkie wrote:Hello Sharkey,
This was a tough one for us. While it is only natural to want to include the glorious Land Shark in the game, we weren't sure we could fully do it justice in this environment. How do you balance for something so dominant? It's basically a "game over" button.
It was agreed that if we could bring ourselves to add a land shark, it would certainly be pantsless.
Ha, I love this answer! Any love of Land Sharks (especially pantsless) is most pleasing to the members of Macho Yintit's Society for Pantsless Land Sharks. We shall remain ever vigilant for their (hopeful) day of reckoning...

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Drool
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by Drool » December 17th, 2012, 8:48 pm
DarkTwinkie wrote:How do you balance for something so dominant?
You just need this guy:

Alwa nasci korliri das.
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Ronin73
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by Ronin73 » December 17th, 2012, 11:41 pm
Drool wrote:DarkTwinkie wrote:How do you balance for something so dominant?
You just need this guy:

You just need to carry around a large supply of air tanks, I mean it worked in Jaws and all

The biggest failure in the recent past is this assumption that the audience is not smart.Too much effort is being spent making it dummy proof..all the clues are being held right in front of their nose.The exploration and journey is the reward
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by Woolfe » December 17th, 2012, 11:43 pm
Ronin73 wrote:
You just need to carry around a large supply of air tanks, I mean it worked in Jaws and all

You may need a bigger boat however!

It's not too late. Make it Eight!
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by Rat_Herder » December 18th, 2012, 10:37 am
Drool wrote:DarkTwinkie wrote:How do you balance for something so dominant?
You just need this guy:

If I can give him a pipe and a gimpy leg, you have my vote.
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by McDougle » December 18th, 2012, 2:34 pm
Give the land shark the pipe!
As long as he smokes some... substances... he might not even instakill the party...
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TΛPETRVE
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by TΛPETRVE » December 21st, 2012, 6:52 pm
This brotoflatron requires a strul!
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by Ryan Keokuk » March 15th, 2013, 9:55 pm
Ok, if you do land shark with no legs
please do it with lazers
It has to be a Dr. Evil landshark mech-lazer shooting monstrosity.
If its going to be pulp fiction goodness go all out, have one or two tentacles to get land-shark-topus.
If you've gone land shark you've got to go land sharktopus.
If you've jumped the land-sharktopus, you might as well put a bear paw on one of the tentacles so you get full blown bear-land-sharktopus. Needless to say this slippery slope is all debauchery and just calls for shark to be guarding vats of high quality beer.
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by Zeful » March 17th, 2013, 10:34 pm
DarkTwinkie wrote:Hello Sharkey,
This was a tough one for us. While it is only natural to want to include the glorious Land Shark in the game, we weren't sure we could fully do it justice in this environment. How do you balance for something so dominant? It's basically a "game over" button.
It was agreed that if we could bring ourselves to add a land shark, it would certainly be pantsless.
Make it a boss. The final boss.
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by clearer » December 3rd, 2013, 7:30 pm
A real live landshark
http://mc4bbs.livejournal.com/237963.html (air version... well.. airshark then)...
Ryan Keokuk wrote:Ok, if you do land shark with no legs
please do it with lazers
It has to be a Dr. Evil landshark mech-lazer shooting monstrosity.
If its going to be pulp fiction goodness go all out, have one or two tentacles to get land-shark-topus.
If you've gone land shark you've got to go land sharktopus.
If you've jumped the land-sharktopus, you might as well put a bear paw on one of the tentacles so you get full blown bear-land-sharktopus. Needless to say this slippery slope is all debauchery and just calls for shark to be guarding vats of high quality beer.
Carefull: falling into said VATs would turn you into some sort of psionic cyborg creature, bent on turning everybody into super beer enhanced shark/human mutant to save everbody from themselves.
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