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"Cryptic Allusion" was started by Dan Potter around 1995 for the purposes of web design consulting. Since that area of the business world began to take off on its own and become crowded, the purpose of the group has been redefined several times over the years, but it has found its calling as an independent game development group. We are now Cryptic Allusion, LLC, registered in the state of Texas.

We have tinkered on various platforms (mostly consoles, via homebrew development tools) but our current obsessionis the Dreamcast(tm). We develop for these consoles only using fully legal homebrew tools (from the official companies (e.g. PS2 Linux Kit), or legally reverse engineered by hobbyists).

In 2000, Cryptic Allusion started the Cryptic Allusion DCDev Project, whose initial fruits of labor were libdream and KallistiOS. Both were toolkits designed to assist hobbyists and independent developers to work with the Dreamcast(tm) console, but KallistiOS is now the preferred and active project, and is developed by a group of developers on the SourceForge Free Software development site. Cryptic Allusion DCDev has slowly become GameDev as we start to move to other consoles as well.

We have been written about in various magazines, including Electronic Gaming Monthly, and we made an appearance at E3 2001 to distribute our DC Tonic CDs to the sad Dreamcast(tm) fans at the show. DC Tonic has been well received and has even been reportedly mistaken for an actual commercial demo, though we were rushed for time in its production, and the tools we used were not at a very high level of quality at the time.

Cryptic Allusion's contributor group tends to fluctuate over time (and is sparsely located, geographically), but what we all have in common is an obsession for gaming, and for the creation of games.

Our current projects include ongoing development of KallistiOS and development of a tunnel shooter game, Tryptonite. We have also started to dabble in Mac OSX games.

You might also be interested in our "sister site", http://gamedev.allusion.net/.

June 26, 2012 -- CryptoCast #63
Posted by DJGeki

Download here: http://cagames.com/podcasts/CryptoCast-063-20120624-128kbps.mp3

CryptoCast #063
Recorded on June 24th, 2012
"Games and news from perspectives other than your own"

Playage
Alex
1) In the Groove - Arcade
2) Pac Man Battle Royale - Arcade
3) Portal - Mac OS X
4) Portal 2 - Xbox 360
5) Phantasy Star Online 2 Demo and Character Creator - PC
6) Phantasy Star Online - GameCube
7) Street Pass - Nintendo 3DS
Super Puzzle Fighter II X - Arcade
9) Wangan Midnight Maximum Tune 3 DX PLUS - Arcade

Pam
(No Pam just yet... hopefully soon!)

Roddy
1) Diablo III - PC/Mac
2) Ys: The Ark of Napishtim - PS2
3) Super Street Fighter IV(of course) - Xbox 360
3.5) SFxT - PS3
4) Bastion - Xbox 360
5) Fez - Xbox 360
6) Magic 2013 - iOS

Chris
1) The Last Story - Wii
2) Final Fantasy XIII-2 - PS3
3) Trials Evolution - Xbox 360
4) Donkey Kong - GameBoy/3DS virtual console
5) Plants vs Zombies - iOS
6) Bastion - Windows
7) Offspring Fling - Windows
Final Lap Twin - Turbo Grafx-16
9) Superbrothers Sword & Sworcery
10) VVVVVV
11) Bit.Trip Runner


News and Interesting Articles
1) Roddy got a new job! Programming in the game industry! FINALLY!
2) Discuss E3 - Wii U, PS Wonderbook, Microsoft Surface, Xbox games, etc.
3) There’s this crazy business with producer Ron Rosenberg from Crystal Dynamics “saying” that you’ll ‘want to protect’ the new Lara Croft. It’s a quote from this Kotaku interview: http://kotaku.com/5917400/youll-want-to-protect-the-new-less-curvy-lara-croft. It has generated quite a lot of discussion in the gaming community (see here: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=478013) and even made it into mass media coverage (http://www.ingame.msnbc.msn.com/technology/ingame/lara-croft-sexual-assault-survivor-no-victim-829970). What do we think Mr. Rosenberg actually meant?
4) The new Steel Batallion is getting (unfortunately) bashed:
3.5 out of 10 from GameSpot: http://www.gamespot.com/steel-battalion-heavy-armor/
1 out of 5 stars from GiantBomb’s Brad Shoemaker: http://www.giantbomb.com/steel-battalion-heavy-armor/61-32695/reviews/
And 41 overall (out of 100) on Metacritic: http://www.metacritic.com/game/xbox-360/steel-battalion-heavy-armor/critic-reviews
Needless to say: OUCH! This is such a shame, as the original game had that ginormous controller which was so fun to break out and show off. If you need a more in-depth look at the game, GiantBomb has one of their infamous quick looks (27 minutes long!) linked in the review above.
5) Highly related to the above is this: http://www.destructoid.com/i-am-officially-done-with-the-kinect-229792.phtml
An op-ed piece from Destructoid that says what Roddy has been thinking since Kinect launched: lots of legitimate gamers got “suckered” into paying for a beta test. The Kinect hardware is a wonderful idea, but lacking in implementation sufficient for the core gamer to have a valid experience.
6) Not necessarily game related (although it could be in the future), but fun to think about nonetheless - Dolby is rolling out a new audio system for theaters called “Atmos”. 62.2 channels, anyone? See info and video demonstration here: http://www.engadget.com/2012/06/16/dolby-atmos-brave-theater-locations/
7) Newly embiggened 3DS-XL. It's 90% larger than its predecessor. Why didn't Big N release this info during E3? Because it's a non-Japanese trade show?
There is another article that goes here... *sigh*... It was Alex's! Whatever it was, I'm sure you'll figure it out

Alex's Link of the Show
Symphonic Anime Orchestra: http://www.animeorchestra.org/
Pam's Random Link of the Show


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January 29, 2012 -- CryptoCast #62 posted
Posted by DJGeki


The cow says, " It has died multiple times, and this idiot keeps bringing it back!"

Episode is up here, but you can always grab it from the RSS feed or iTunes.

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