Elite: Dangerous

For gamers and nerds in general Kickstarter is a amazing, most of the big projects thus far have been either technology or cool games. I'm pretty sure we could all say we had daft ideas in the past of little gadgets or ideas for games. I, myself, am brimming with "good" "ideas" about a medieval fantasy game. But whatever your inclination, the thing that nerds like to do the most is to imagine and to dream. Kickstarter is a medium through which these ideas take shape and become products. We have already seen amazing projects come from Kickstarter, Ouya is one example, and there are many more. One which is close to my heart (for perhaps selfish reasons) is Elite: Dangerous. A game by David Braben (of Jesus college (YAAYY BEST ALUMNUS EVER!!!)) from a studio based in Cambridge. Yeah, I am very biased towards it but this guy is a legend. Just look up Elite on Wikpedia, its beauty can be appreciated by anyone. A game which fitted on 22k of memory, was sandbox before the word was coined, and had a massive universe (the same tech that now powers the infinite Minecraft world). It even had some self-modifying code in it, it was pioneering and defined a genre. So check out the remake, see what you think: (click here to see the kickstarter page)

Day 5

On the fifth day we mostly messed about and got fuck all done. So here's some pictures of the progress on the dwarven city.

Dwarven mountain at night

This looks inviting

The good old days before health and safety

Ohhh what could be through this ominous arch?

Large underground dwarven city

Gratuitous lava

Gossiping dwarves

The bank, as we all know, dwarves invented banks

Minecart system and market

A less moody view of the whole city

Day 4 (ish)

So basically, the 4 kinda went off and did their own thing. I'm not sure what the others did but I went off to study at Hogwarts. When we all temporarily came back from our adventures, I decided that Minecraft would be a jolly good idea. As it happens, Martin had been busy building pretty much everything. I guess it isn't really day 4 but it is in this world. This isn't 6 literal days of creation, who do you think we are?

Entering Shorehaven, the most mainest city in all the world

Fountain (Where are all the people at?)

Where it all happens, the pub, the blacksmith and the drug shop (Everyone must be in the boozer)

ohhhh pretty houses, where the posh people live

More posh houses, and another fountain, they liked fountains didn't they...

Where the smelly peasants live

That's impressive I hear you say *nudge*

Awwwww, moody

Day 3

Our imported palace, snow and all.

The actual palace, this is where we live bitches, what've you got hater? You aint got a glass f%@#ing roof!

The royal road, just to make commoners feel small and insignificant

The back of an unfinished boat, you may have guessed already that we don't like finishing things off

Blitz's contribution for today

It turns out that filling in gravel roads and arguing about brick colour gets boring real quick, not much done today. Tomorrow we will try and install some mods, speed things up a bit before Dusty shoves a cactus up his arse.

Day 2

And on the second day, Dusty and Enzo had planned to finish off the city and boat but got distracted with the idea of a Dwarven city. But anyway, they thought it was good, if not unfinished and another thing to add to the list. It's difficult being mortal.

The front of the Dwarven Mountain, now with giant dwarf head

The double helix minecart, 140 blocks of pure nausea

The beginnings of a dwarven underground city

dwarven market

The backside of the mountain, with a lovely waterfall

Stay tuned for boats and hoes

Day 1

Ohhh what's this, looks ruddy mysterious. And I see you creeper

What a strange building! Probably troll science

 Oh bookshelves, with bestsellers such as "The Wizard Games" and "Fifty Shades of Sparkly Spells" 

Every discerning wizard needs an enchanting table and mysterious stone blocks 

An even more mysterious detour 

A wizards pool, an absolute necessity for any good wizard tower. I think the pool fairies are talking to me, apparently I'm a Wizard, who knew.

A lovely aerial view

To revive our Quadstream project we have decided to make some Minecraft goodness in the form of a medieval fantasy world (such a new idea). At the end of the first day, the (ruddy) mysterious wizard tower was the first to be completed. Stay tuned for the completion of our boat, a walk through of our imported palace and the massive inner city.

QuadStream Plays - Left For Dead 2 - Versus

One of our favourite games to be raped on, Left 4 Dead 2. I'm not playing here, which would probably explain why they did well. Either way, its a good watch. There's more for each chapter too, just got to wait for Blitz to stop faffing about a post them.

Nerdy Aspirations

With much of my early life wasted on runescape, it may come as little surprise that I love high fantasy, in particular MuhMOaRPuhGuhs. As with most gamers I am a constant critic, thinking I always know better than the developer. I Criticise every new update because of my protective nostalgia of how the game was "better when it first came out". Dusty, Blitz and Striker all did/still do play world of Warcraft. Its success always puzzled me, as I despised its shallow stories and weak attempt at gaming as an art form. Before all the WoW neck beards attack me however, its only jealousy. Despite this bitterness and these shortcomings, I think I actually know a thing or two about RPGs.

Perhaps its childish I don't know but for a long time ive been writing plans and scribbling down ideas for my RPG, in the extremely vain hope that one day I will mysteriously have to power to make one. I'm not alone in this, Striker regularly chirps up his suggestions for this mystery RPG. Although I think I'm the only one who went as far as to start a notepad with all my ideas on. Actually that does sound pretty childish, although I can't really remember the last time I let such silly social conventions rule my life. I don't really know where i'm going with this, just wanted to get it out.

QuadStream play Mass Effect 3 - Gold Challenge (Part 1)

The first of many games from us involving Mass Effect (I hope). The trial was free (obviously) and we can't refuse a free game. One thing I have to say is there's a lot of content for a demo, thank you Bioware. The game doesn't appear to be massively different from its predecessors but that is by no means a problem, combat is slightly more refined and the controls have been simplified. Mass Effect 3 is shaping up to be one hell of a game.

What is QuadStream?

Once upon a time, there were 4 friends who liked going out and playing outside playing video games. Basically, Blitz (who likes making elaborate plans) decided to put up their games on YouTube so that other people could laugh at them. They (especially Striker) were also highly opinionated and so decided to talk about games too. Dusty, decided to celebrate by jumping around on Orgrimmar bank roof, a popular past time on some realms and a favourite of his. Finally Enzo, who is incidentally an all round cool guy had the genius idea of starting a blog, and well that's where we are up to.

Stay tuned for more