Rag Doll Kung Fu Available Via Steam October 12th

[SK]

Rag Doll Kung Fu, a wildly entertaining new game from designer Mark Healey, will be made available to gamers everywhere on October 12, 2005 via Steam.

Featuring a wide collection of single and multiplayer games, either online or with multiple mice, Rag Doll Kung Fu provides players with one of the most creative and unique game experiences delivered in years. Additionally, between game rounds, the challenges of an aspiring Kung Fu master are revealed via outlandish cut scenes inspired by classic Kung Fu cinema.

The game is the brainchild of artist and designer Mark Healey (who moonlights as a lead artist at Lionhead Entertainment). During last year's Game Developer Conference, Healey presented Rag Doll to industry colleagues. Immediately after this presentation, several Valve employees invited Healey to visit Valve and discuss Steam distribution of Rag Doll Kung Fu.

"Rag Doll was originally just an idea for me and some friends to have some fun making an old style Kung Fu movie," said Healey. "It's amazing to think that a tongue in cheek film project has now evolved into a full game being distributed via Steam. I hope everyone enjoys it as much as my friends and I enjoyed making it."

Steam offers developers and publishers a direct distribution channel to over 5.5 million customers. Rag Doll Kung Fu will be made available for purchase via Steam on October 12, 2005 for $12.95. For more information on Steam, please visit www.steampowered.com . For more information on Rag Doll Kung Fu, please visit http://www.ragdollkungfu.com.

Bah, I thought it was going to be free. Steam is now appearing to ruin the once amazing free Half-Life mod scene.

[maDDin]

Valve just wanna have money money money moneyits sad but valve is just like every company in this world :|

[Vorm]

I think it's good news that other developers and games are starting to come through on Steam - will certainly cut down on the warez scene.

Plus, what has ragdoll kungfu got to do with half-life apart from being created on the Source engine?

:)

[SK]

Nothing other than being Source based.

[MaNiC^]

pffft i aint paying for it :\ was kinda looking forward to this ;(

[SK]

Yeah very unoriginal. Not sure if I am willing to pay for it though.

[maDDin]

The only annoying fact is that u can just pay with your creditcard. Sry but i dont have and dont wanna have one.

Btw are u able to pay steam games with paypal?

[Cessle]

do you have debt card maddin? allmost all online hsops accept debt cards, except overclockers :(


if you dont know what one is, its like a credit card except you must have the moeny in the bank account that the card goes with to use it.

oh and i wasnt gonna get it anyway, it looks **** and shounds **** and it is **** :p (soorry needed to rant, had an evil lecterer at college today)

[BadGirlDefender]

debt card - a revealing misspelling :D

and ya, it looked really pants. looked like the game a 5 year old wud look at and think was the most amazing game that ever was! ;)

[Cessle]

debt card - a revealing misspelling :D

without opening my wallet how do you spell it?

actually i can be arsed

/me takes cover will the moths fly out :p

oh it has an I in it so debit card :p, i was sure i put an i in it, but then my keyboard has been fuking me around all day :(

and ya, it looked really pants. looked like the game a 5 year old wud look at and think was the most amazing game that ever was! ;)

i 2nd that notion ;)

[MaNiC^]

pffft :P some of the simplest things are the most ammusing ;)

[BadGirlDefender]

amusing possibly. but for amusing, i wud play Giants....much more fun ;)

H'im just an' ole man....pluus....me balls are saggy

[Cessle]

amusing possibly. but for amusing, i wud play Giants....much more fun ;)

H'im just an' ole man....pluus....me balls are saggy



eh?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?! i dont get it

[BadGirlDefender]

go to amazon or something, and buy a copy of "Giants: Citizen Kabuto". its an excellent satirical/funny/fps :)

little dudes called smarties, and one of them uses the above quote as his excuse for not planting a bomb or something :D

[Cessle]

oh right ok :)

[BadGirlDefender]

also, its quite old, but a good game in its own right, and probly only like 5-10 quid now. i still play it ocasionally, its well worth it :D

[Cessle]

i might just do that wen i get paid 2 weeks this friday

[SK]

It's up for preload now, is there anyone here thats gonna pay for it?

[maDDin]

Nope dont have a Credit Card. BTW this topic is wrong in HL 1&2. Its not Developed by Valve and its not running with HL1 or Source Engine. Its just published by Valve. :)

[SK]

But technically using the HL2/Source engine :)

[Cessle]

it looks ****e


it sounds ****e


it is ****e


paying for it is ****e


anything else i can add ****e to the end of?

[BadGirlDefender]

cessle speaks? :)

j/k, i agree with ya :D

[Cessle]

:p

[BadGirlDefender]

i want NS: S (and NS2) and Dystopia :(

oh and SC2 wud b nice ;)

[MaNiC^]

i want a day of the dead mod ;P though i doubt anyones good enough to satisfy my zombie needs ¬_¬

[maDDin]

Nah just SC 3.5 :X

[Pro]v[etheus]

I won't be buying it after seeing the preview movie, looked like something a 3 yr old would play lol. On a positive note....it's dirt cheap, about £8.

[BadGirlDefender]

manic, try brain bread or zombie panic, two very good zombie mods for hl1 :)

[pat_rules]

i want ns2 or ns:s also i want my 7800gt or gtx

[maDDin]

Rag Doll Kung Fu Update Released

Updates to Rag Doll Kung Fu have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:

Rag Doll Kung Fu

online server list has many improvements, including search for friends, and various filters
camera bug fixed (when you die, you can click to zoom to other players for differnt veiws)
added a chat log
mouse sensitivity now gets saved
missing text bug fix
open UDP ports problem fixed


U can read the news here. (http://www.steampowered.com/index.php?area=news&id=470)

[SK]

So who bought this game then?

[pat_rules]

not me thats for sure

[maDDin]

I played it. Its odd for some hrs but then its funny to control your player with mouse. Its like Codename Gordon. Just a mini-game.

[Cessle]

but does anyone play ragdoll tho?

[maDDin]

Rag Doll Kung Fu Update Released (http://www.steampowered.com/index.php?area=news&id=484)

Updates to Rag Doll Kung Fu have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:



Rag Doll Kung Fu



Enabled setting max players mid game, to stop people joining if it would disrupt a good game
Rebalanced the damage calculations, based on feedback from forums
Hands now do more damage than before, and combo hits now do less damage each consecutive hit, to stop the deadly phenomena that has been nicknamed 'spamming'
Read it here. (http://www.steampowered.com/index.php?area=news&id=484)

[Cessle]

why are we still talking about this?

[Naigel]

Why do you keep on making useless posts?