Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Coding is complete for the next element to be added to Boosterrific.com: a visitor poll. The only things missing are the poll questions. Since I'm in the process of compiling, if anyone has any preferences or desires, I'll gladly take suggestions in the comments.
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KMD posted on Mar. 17, 2010 at 8:31 PM
Who does Booster marry?
Monday, March 15, 2010
New to Boosterrific.com is a Flash adaptation of the Booster Gold Board Game found included in the 1987 DC Heroes Role Playing Game module All That Glitters by Gary Gordon. You can find the game here.
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tiggerpete posted on Mar. 15, 2010 at 10:12 AM
sweet, who's up for game night?
Harry posted on Mar. 15, 2010 at 10:27 AM
That's awesome Boosterrific!
Boosterrific [Official Comment] posted on Mar. 15, 2010 at 3:14 PM
Thank you both for the praise, but I can tell that neither of you have played it yet. While it's a fun little app to have for historical purposes, it's awfully dull and repetitive and Booster Gold deserves a better game. (Full disclosure: for game testing, I must have already played it 100+ times, so I admit to being a little burnt out on it.) I suspect that a multiplayer option may be more fun as, after all, it was designed by Mr. Gordon for a 4-player RPG module. I did not build a multiplayer option because Flash is not especially conducive to multiple players that aren't at the same terminal, and that seemed rather pointless for a Booster Gold fansite. Also note that since I was the only play tester, I'm would not be surprised to discover that there are still bugs in the code: if anyone detects something squirrely, let me know and I'll investigate.
tiggerpete posted on Mar. 15, 2010 at 11:18 PM
I got pretty far into it the first time and then it froze, but the second time through I won without much in the way of problems
Boosterrific [Official Comment] posted on Mar. 16, 2010 at 12:18 AM
Well, poot. That's what I was afraid of, Pete. I sent you an email for more debugging details. I'll try to track down that bug and squash it.
Harry posted on Mar. 16, 2010 at 2:12 PM
I played it four times without problem. Winning with Booster and Skeets is pretty easy. I could not win with Goldstar at all. It is repetitive, to be sure, and would be more fun multiplayer... nevertheless, it is still awesome!
Friday, March 12, 2010
As pointed out on the DC Message Boards which linked to icv2.com for verification, Booster Gold sales are going up! Not exactly a numbers explosion -- an increase of a hyper-specific 947 books -- but a month-to-month increase, especially in a month without a plastic ring tie-in, is always good news.
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Harry posted on Mar. 12, 2010 at 5:29 PM
I'll be.... could it be possible that BG's numbers are stable at over 20k? That would bode well for the future of the title.
KMD posted on Mar. 12, 2010 at 8:49 PM
This is good news!
tiggerpete posted on Mar. 13, 2010 at 8:02 AM
awesome, maybe people saw your post of the sales figures and took action? you may have saved Booster and by extension the entire multiverse, all by yourself.
Harry posted on Mar. 13, 2010 at 11:37 AM
I like tigerpete. He has perspective.
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Since all week I've been running items on other fansites' hopes for Booster Gold, I might as well include this older link to Crave Online. Just as I don't spend a lot of time thinking about who I would hypothetically cast in a nonexistent movie, I don't spend much time thinking about which inter-company crossover battles I'd like to see as comic books. But that doesn't mean that I wouldn't be interested in seeing Booster Gold go up against some other Universe's characters, be it Nova, Hellboy, or the Savage Dragon. I'm pretty much game for whatever.
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Harry posted on Mar. 14, 2010 at 12:49 AM
The article does bring up one aspect of Johns' opening arc that bothered me... there is no way the Joker beats BG in a fist fight. It is complete inconsistent with BG's powers. That force field has contained a raging Green Lantern before. He has taken punches from Doomsday and lived. The Joker... seriously. The Joker is cool and all, but when stories try to integrate human and superhuman heroes and villains, the results are often silly.
tiggerpete posted on Mar. 14, 2010 at 4:24 AM
well, he is never supposed to beat the Joker since it was solidified time, so I blame destiny more than a power imballance making the Joker stronger.
Boosterrific [Official Comment] posted on Mar. 14, 2010 at 3:31 PM
That's fate for you, Harry. I'm not a big Joker fan (I find the continued existence of a mass-murderer of the scale and depravity of the Joker, insane or otherwise, to stretch suspension of disbelief to its breaking point, especially when DC's super heroes have been pushed to kill the likes of lesser maniacs such as Professor Zoom or Prometheus. And that's not even taking into account the existence of the Spectre, the living Wrath of God on Earth, who has apparently never been angry enough with the Joker to have him disemboweled by a school of smiling piranha), but I always saw Booster Gold's inability to defeat the Joker during the Killing Joke as Booster always rolling a critical failure in an RPG: his stats are way better than the Joker, but when the cosmos stacks the dice against him, there's nothing he could do despite his best intentions.
Harry posted on Mar. 14, 2010 at 9:30 PM
You guys make a good point. And that the Joker hasn't been executed by now is a major stretch. I'm just saying the Joker thing shouldn't be held against Booster. All told, I enjoyed issue #5 and have like how the ramifications have played out. I guess that has to be enough. I guess that's why Morrison pushes all that metafiction into his writing... it's easier to suspend disbelief when you emphasize the quality/entertainment value of the story and not how much it makes "sense" logistically.
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