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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 23, 2008 -- CryptoCast #012 POSTED! (yo!)
Posted by DJGeki

It's on the books! Another episode is being uploaded (or has been uploaded, depending on when you read this) to fill your creatively warped little minds with dull banter and rambling opinions.

Download at your own risk...

In my defense, I had not had much to eat today, and the beer was taking quite the liking to my liver near the mid-point. Please pardon my lack of grammar and complete loss of vocabulary.

Notes for the show follow the two itty bitty dots:

Let us open iTunes for you here (subscribe and review please!), or the episode can be found here.

Don't forget to Digg the CryptoCast!

Host list
-Roddy
-Pam
-Mike!

Intro
Music - Kid n' Play - Back to Basics
The CryptoCrew talks a quick bit of news, gives opinions on emulation (albeit fairly brief and uninspired...sorry! we'll do better next time), and a rundown of played games over the past couple of weeks.

Links
Here are the relevant links covering what everyone discussed during this CryptoCast (some are more important than others…we’ll leave it up to you to decide which is which):
www.tigsource.com - Always great for Indie game news.
WiiHD Homebrew Guide - Nearly forgot to add this important article! Trying this right now.
Castle Crashers - We're still waiting for this one; points at the ready in (virtual) pockets.
YetiSports - It's a Yeti with a bat, smacking a penguin. What else is there to say about YetiSports, eh? If you haven't ever played these, you're missing out on some Flash-y fun.
Parasol Stars - The superb TG16 game that got poo'd upon by some of the 1Up staff...how DARE they?!?! (YouTube video)
Puzzle Farter - Take Puzzle Fighter, remove the Fighter and...oh hell, just read the title of the game and know that you get what you assume. (See what I did there? ASSume?...*sigh* I know I'm terrible)
Anderson Cooper - With his swarthy good looks, amazing hair, and worldly knowledge, this newscaster certainly knows his way around technology! Oh wait...no he doesn't. I must have had him confused with Adam Sessler. (YouTube video)

Outro
Music - Soul'd Out - Peace, Love and Soul
Digg the CryptoCast!
PM me if you want to have your questions/comments read on the show!

THANK YOU ALL for listening! Get a friend in on the action, lead them to the forums, and let's make this a true podcast for the people.

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June 22, 2008 -- CryptoCast #012 to be recorded tomorrow afternoon!
Posted by DJGeki

Hey everyone,

Just wanted to let you know that we'll be recording the podcast tomorrow afternoon (that's Monday). I was able to grab Mike to get back in on the action, so I wanted to wait until he was free.

I'll be posting tomorrow promptly, soon as I'm done editing!

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