Tweets from 2012/01
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Yo dude we got tats
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'I can actually see the bitemarks on your hands. I can see where the ring of teeth were'
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Oh hay, happy new year everyone,also.
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@infectedarea haha, it was just a transfer tattoo I found in my jacket yfrog.com/odzvwpoj
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@HilariousCow man, i deserved that sleep. i got in at ... past 7?
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wanna play boardgames. anyone want to come round and play boardgames? cc @HilariousCow @tigershungry
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@HilariousCow i have no urgency for anything, it is okay
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Help, I am trapped and cannot move yfrog.com/oenwohuj
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@DGoodayle @KommanderKlobb 16th, I believe
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@JoeCavers what dya reckon if it's not legally available?
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@JoeCavers one of my favorite games is Mother 3 - only ever released in Japanese, so I played the fan translation applied to a pirated ROM.
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@JoeCavers No, not Enix. It's strange and funny and has a really good soul. It has some of my favorite bits of game design in it. <3
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@JoeCavers and I'd have had to learn Japanese, too.
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@RubZo dude, i do not know! we could go to the hackspace, or the pub, or play boardgames, or videogames or go to a museum. or all of them?
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Did you know Abed from Community was based on a real person? He's called Abed.
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Abed Gheith, to be precise. He auditioned for the role, but didn't get it.
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@KommanderKlobb @tigershungry @Dick_Hogg let me take this opportunity to remind you all of the Little Lytton awards adamcadre.ac/lyttle.html
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@nicholaslovell I often end up with obscene numbers of tabs. There's just not space down there. I agree the two should be merged -
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@nicholaslovell but right now it seems as likely the taskbar will get glommed into the tab bar as the other way round.
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@tigershungry @KommanderKlobb we only value things because we know we can lose them. :'(
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@KommanderKlobb @nicholaslovell ugh no. all i want is to know what's gwanin on my computer right now. simpler, simpler!
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@KommanderKlobb but if the alternative is keeping track where in a tree the thing is, and hunting it down and interacting...
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@oh_cripes @edclef looks like the wiki is spam city
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@paperCaves @therussmorris @willgoldstone pretty sure it's real : see io9.com/5850729/quantum-locking-will-blow-your-mind--but-how-does-it-work for an explanation of how it works
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@ElectronDance @edclef I'd love to see a HM game.
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Huzzah! After they fixed the slow drainage and broken pipe problem, our washine machine now no longer receives water! Whooo!
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@psychicteeth no, what i do is i go to bed and get the letting agent to send people out for the third time tomorrow.
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@psychicteeth 10-4; will let them know
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@KommanderKlobb i'm not sure if it's sane - but don't forget about domain name squatting.
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Why don't MMOs have bounties and responsible disclosure for in-game exploits?
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@mikeBithell the issue I have is three way conversations where they're not all in one chain of replies.
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@oh_cripes is Sam back yet? Or do you have another number to call?
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@oh_cripes got it, called him, he'll get the other guy to call.
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@robertpeacock22 That was the trigger for me tweeting about it again, yeah. It'd be worth EA $1000 to find that out before 4chan.
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@robertpeacock22 oh, I am a big fan of games with mechanics that combine unpredictably. That's probably my favorite thing in games.
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@oh_cripes I am always right, you should know by now. But seriously: that people could not notice this says something.
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"VOCALOID UTAITEs are who(people) sing a vocaloid's song in the Nico-Video. there are many great utaites in nico video."
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That's a subculture of people who sing covers of songs that robots originally sang.
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@RubZo I've had King of Tokyo on order from Amazon fro about 4 months now...
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@RubZo nup!
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@RubZo but I got a Tantrix set for Xmas this year
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the US primaries would make a fantastic boardgame
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This Brie claims to be "an ideal eating cheese"
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@rclarke damn, I already put a chunk of it in a warm moist place. With crackers.
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@ElectronDance haha, I'd somehow missed that. I was going to tweet you back with "The only winning move is..." but you got there first.
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@ElectronDance but yes, more, more!
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@christinelove what? Play testing analogue? Yes please!
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@Slaktus "the public gets what the public wants"
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@doougle I am imagining Kwame Brown reading that article. I have no idea what he'd think of it.
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"Completing tasks in order to receive the ability to eat is not a "game". It is not something we "play"."
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@Rachelbug1 laptop or desktop? either way, you can get little USB ones, they're pretty cheap.
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@Rachelbug1 you can spend as much as you like... but internal sound cards aren't great anyway, so a cheap one'll be as good as before
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Reading this made me grin like a motherfucker laphamsquarterly.org/voices-in-time/lee-quinones-does-the-cars.php?page=all
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@KommanderKlobb @doougle I totally want to be hearing about them too.
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@benmilsom @KommanderKlobb I've snuck in there a couple of times. Beautiful, fascinating place.
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@KommanderKlobb @benmilsom but there's been a lot of arson, and floors were squidgy underfoot years ago. God knows how much is standing now.
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@S0phieH they're asking because it's in preference to trying things. what do you expect?
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RT @edclef: Must've been amazing to be at Firaxis and reading the furious xcom comment threads in 2011!
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@doougle @SpindleyQ They have a software archive, they say to email info@archive.org to upload. archive.org/details/software
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TRIPPPLE NIPPPLES i like this band soundcloud.com/trippplenippples
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@hannahnicklin you are so transparent. But of course you should do the one you're looking for validation to do. :D
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@new_nomad it's a hack to give a sense of tactility to the shiny planes we design for. Make interfaces lumpier!
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@S0phieH honestly, you should have an anti-sale, and publicise it widely and po-facedly. That's news-story gold.
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@Dick_Hogg @KommanderKlobb I'm trying to decide if I'd guess you were the type of person to regularly smuggle booze into hospitals.
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@asponge Remember that thing I was going to see, but then had finished? Want to go this eve? bac.org.uk/whats-on/jimmy-stewart-dec
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@asponge in the last 10 minutes it sold out. tomorrow night?
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@asponge concurrently with that tweet, i got tickets anyway, such was my paranoia. lemme know if i should find someone else.
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@asponge tho, ironically, there is now a single ticket for tonight free.
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ahah-hah ha ha miyamotodev.tumblr.com/
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AS3 really needs to be able to deep copy things. Grah.
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@KommanderKlobb not that I know of. bad idea if only for performance. but allowing the option would be nice. like Python's copy module...
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@KommanderKlobb Most of today would have been more fun if ByteArrays serialised type metadata, even. Which'd be close enough.
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@KommanderKlobb i gorged myself on generics in c# and now I want everything to be typed.
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@PeopleIKnow JEPIC
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@PeopleIKnow I'm sorry, I'm drunk
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@PeopleIKnow I follow them on twitter
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@PeopleIKnow they're quite enthusiastic
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@FollowEllie @tassosstevens @imadeitforyoun1 oooh, looks lovely. I also have things that need rectifying, it seems.
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@ElectronDance I guess it comes down to : can it be abusive if you give informed consent. Are people informed? (sounds like sex ethics)
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@jon_ellis NHS is obliged to save lives.
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@alexjprice man, screw carriers and their insistence they need to provide value add! You're just fucking up value, fuck off!
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@jon_ellis fucking negative externalities
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RT @edclef: Nerfed trees; buffed dandelions
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@edclef @ElectronDance started playing a weekly game once. A month or two in, we weren't out of the early game.
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@ElectronDance @edclef it's simulatneous turns, but emphasis on secret comms and backstabbing.
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@ElectronDance @edclef real time long strategic boardgames don't happen so much, I guess.
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@ishisoft @KommanderKlobb I didn't know you two had a project going! Now I'm curious!
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@hannahnicklin I'd enjoy that, but I'd enjoy it even more if you later revealed that you never went and bought soup after all.
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@hannahnicklin *gasp* how dare you construct a fictional narrative for my entertainment!
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If The Beatles wanted to take the Abbey Road photo today, they'd have to ask all the tourists to stop doing it first. (cc @srules)
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to IKEA! Let's buy some stupid crap! And a bookshelf!
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The devil horns stuck to this poster of Meryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher had outlines done in felt tip, and were coloured in with crayon.
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@Lucky_Chip are you open yet?
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@HilariousCow you'll be disappointed... :<
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@benmilsom honestly, I'm unlikely to touch a Skyrim. What do I like : Super Crate Box, Windowsill, Proteus, Digital : A Love Story.
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@edclef @plushapo @KommanderKlobb ayah! I don't want to make a game with everything in it! I think. Maybe I do.
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@edclef @plushapo @KommanderKlobb But if I do, I'll be sure to fail to research those I'm copying. I want to copy things wrong.
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@S0phieH I predict you'll have a day where the price is over $7
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@ishisoft @KommanderKlobb oh, yes, I do remember now. Looks gorgeous!
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@doougle My only complaint is that there's not more of it.
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@doougle ifthiswasonfacebookiwouldlikeit.com (though it's slowed down a bit recently. And you'll recognise the latest post :P )
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You can buy Canabalt for the C64. rgcd.co.uk/p/shop.html
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@tassosstevens Here's the night I was on about : thewildrumpus.co.uk/ (I am expecting you to kill at JS Joust)
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@KBsGameTOILET This game would be a load better if there were bottles of spirits duct-taped to the Move controllers.
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@christinelove I'd not be annoyed by "superuser" or "admin". Shame to lose "root", but not worth explaining.
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@pippinbarr it amazes me how much flavour a single well chosen sentence can inject into a game. You played English Country Tune?
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Nothing makes you feel better about slogging through content than seeing people playing it.
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.@terriblebear has 390 followers?! I should get him talking again.
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@Draknek @terriblebear We did! That's already in there. He changed his profile pic to match it.
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@mattwebb85 wait, scrub that, that's the Wild Rumpus night
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@mattwebb85 @kitrichardsonuk ah, didn't you see my other tweet? I tease, I can't, I'm running Wild Rumpus, which you're coming to.
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@mattwebb85 @kitrichardsonuk Didn't heard about the one on the 3rd, but again I am wedded to videogames that night. :<
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@doougle @RamiroCorbetta I just posted it without any comment. I still don't know what I should have said. Thank you @BernieDeKoven
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@bonzrat ha, just like Dust Tactics. Works well there!
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@mattwebb85 ah, it's okay. I mean, you're missing out. But then, I'm missing out on JH & KC &c. But we should hang out soon, though.
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@ThePCCLondon No, but we've made a indie gaming arcade machine, The Beast. Next scheduled appearance: thewildrumpus.co.uk/
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@ThePCCLondon Would love to be involved with whatever you're planning - either as The Beast or as Wild Rumpus.
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@asponge @Carachan1 o hai, inviting myself along to this.
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@terrycavanagh congrats dude!
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Some absolutely fantastic games here: igf.com/2012/01/2012_independent_games_festiva_3.html#more congrats, all!
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@edclef well deserved!
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What's it say that 2/5th of the IGF Grand Prize nominees are also up for the Nuovo?
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@tigershungry I know, right? A cavalcade of excellence.
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@kitrichardsonuk isn't the dnb night on the 3rd? I'm at a conference that day, is why I can't come. Wild Rumpus is on the Thursday.
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@kitrichardsonuk and totes up for Friday, although I am prebooked for boardgames before. So I'd guess to arrive at around midnight?
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@State_of_Play Congratulations on the nomination! It's well deserved. You to #LondonIndies or H&S's playtest next week?
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@doougle HAHA YES. (and congratulations, of course. very well deserved)
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@State_of_Play eventbrite.co.uk/event/2313126624/eorg : just mentioning it cuz I bumped into you going to the last one.
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@S0phieH @cheapdevotion It's too easy to second guess yourself. But you should be sure that you're making the most awesome thing you can be.
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@KBsGameTOILET hahaha, yes!
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@doougle @steishere @KBsGameTOILET don't forget the expansion! gametoilet.posterous.com/gametoilet400-addendum-sony-gaffer-taped-booz
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@DGoodayle do it! but... why can't we play it?
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@DGoodayle hey, don't let me bully you - but it's always way better to play than to see games.
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@DGoodayle you mean the boardgame day? The first one is coming up, so, no-one
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@terriblebear hello? are you on, you lousy oaf?
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I'm feeling worse about myself now.
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To clarify : that last tweet was due to a hilarious misconfiguration when resurrecting an old ursine friend.
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@terriblebear I'm sorry to hear that, big yin. But I'm pretty pleased to see you back.
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@Draknek @terriblebear Yeah, that's probably a better way to do it. Mind, the profile pic changing broke with the API, ...
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@Draknek @terriblebear ... and the mood changing text is boring, so I've just deactivated that for now.
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@terriblebear you not going mad, now?
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@increpare I will be about afterwards - wanna see SF. Not sure how long for or what I'm doing, but.
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@terriblebear has woken from his long hibernation. github.com/v21/terrible-bear has been freshened up some, too.
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@ishisoft congratulations, i think that tweet just let me know why @terriblebear replies multiple times. live debugging ftw!
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@terriblebear fuck you, bear. I've got you. I'll stop your mouth from blabbering on.
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@terriblebear yeah!
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@HilariousCow I read it. It's a good philosophy. I can't wait to steal all you ideas.
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@lampholder be mean to him or give him praise, and he'll tell you what he thinks of you.
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Real life shots of Project Fiona leaked: v21.tumblr.com/post/15666230427/project-fiona-if-you-dont-get-the-joke-click
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@pleasefindthis error : stack overflow
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XKCD today is a pretty good outline for good approaches for future game development : xkcd.com/1002/
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@radiodario Meet @thomasapage, King Of Muscle Cars.
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@doougle @KBsGameTOILET I posted this on twitter a year ago: tojam.ca/games_2009/cheeseohol2.asp
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Videogame maps drawn from memory : mapstalgia.tumblr.com/
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@nachimir bit tricky, since it's event triggered. You need things to be constant to be checked against it. But I understand the urge.
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@D_Nye_Griffiths thanks for the @WildRumpus mention!
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@smestorp you shoulda just called it an EP, you know...
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Woo, go UK! Makes me feel almost patriotic! develop-online.net/features/1504/The-global-league-of-IGF-finalists
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Blog: The usefulness of proceedurality post.ly/4nsOC
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@edclef I'd have as much game as possible. OSX is for releasing, surely?
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Blog: Second-order design, and choice. post.ly/4nvyC
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@brandonnn @steishere I still don't entirely believe that wasn't parody. Poe's law in action, I guess.
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RT @pozorvlak: Suggestion to cinemas: an #ironlady/Brassed Off double bill.
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@patrickashe oh dear god, i've not even opened that this year. C'est un quelle surprise.
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@edclef That seems super stressful. Unless there's a really good reason, I'd not do that.
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@tierneylovell ... coming from gamedev, I envy that figure being that low. :<
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DID YOU KNOW: Pizza used to be called "Italian rarebit"?
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ANNOUNCING : Bit of a Game Jam. London-based Gamejam on 4-5th Feb. Come along, make games! bitofgamejam.eventbrite.com/
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@ashleygwinnell sucks :< although you're welcome to a sofa if that's the sticking point.
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@asponge @oh_cripes @srules copping out with my ... let's not go there. I want to join in, I just really dislike rollerskating...
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@terrycavanagh @HilariousCow Thursday night!
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Anywhere I'm forgetting about that I should tell about Bit of Gamejam?
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@unseven it's the wrong weekend :(
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@unseven (which sucks, but we couldn't get that space that weekend, and it's also good to tie into Bit of Alright/Wild Rumpus)
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@KommanderKlobb Should I book The Crown for #LondonIndies ?
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@HilariousCow Don't forget, it's London Indies on the Monday.
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RT @brandonnn: iPad people: @GameOvenStudios' finger-twister (& #IGF Nuovo finalist) FINGLE has arrived: http://t.co/zRtZPpdw Play it wi ...
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@unseven well, I've been mulling over going to GGJ, but will probably be too lazy. You should come to London Indies on Monday, though.
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@unseven nae worries at all. It's a monthly indie pub meet, at The Crown, Islington. Normally first Monday of the month, but it's the 16th
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@KommanderKlobb yep, they have the booking! See you Monday?
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@RubZo @oh_cripes I think that would be me.
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@RubZo @oh_cripes no hate, I just ...didn't want to go. I'm glad Joe's having a good time.
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@edclef I was considering reading it, but I think I just decided against it.
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@edclef You should really post in it. I can't think of a better way to calm the waters.
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@asponge Now I'm glad I didn't go. I never want to think of you being terrible at anything. That'd be true innocence lost.
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Okay, this is pretty evil of Google: blog.mocality.co.ke/2012/01/13/google-what-were-you-thinking/
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(it's also a fantastic detective story)
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@hannahnicklin I bet that got you up.
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@nachimir @HilariousCow Don't forget, there's another London Indies right after Bit of Gamejam.
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@nachimir @HilariousCow I really want 2 more events to happen, so there can be a full week of indie events. And we could call it a festival.
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RT @rubbermuck: "you have such a phenomenal grasp of game design, when are you going to make a game for me to enjoy? :D"
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@SiriHoho some day, they'll lick your credit card.
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@State_of_Play @KommanderKlobb Yeah, it's on the 16th. The first was too close to New Years.
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Hey, everyone! London Indies is on Monday. Come along! Indies drinking at The Crown, Islington.
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@KommanderKlobb @oh_cripes @asponge @nachimir @HilariousCow if only it was still at the Hackspace... HACK THE PLANET
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@nachimir @asponge @KommanderKlobb @oh_cripes @HilariousCow but seriously, I've seen people rollerskating in the Hackspace.
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@OScpp Sweet! See you there!
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@doougle That charging up sound is the best sound. In fact, I'm gonna make that my text message tone.
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@doougle I still say that you should always activate your Move controller while holding it above yourself.Only way to do that noise justice.
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@reallyfancy Thank goodness! I was worried I was writing it right now, that's a load off my mind. #thesecondworstphp
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@JonesyVision we're in Old Truman Brewery. I don't believe it's unreasonable?
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@edjeff ah, you're just getting to the point where you can be smug about people who do smoke.
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@edclef "junkets"?
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@jon_ellis how incredibly terrifying.
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@kaeru I keep reading about it and having my ideas of what's possible in games expanded. Guess it goes with investment and trust in a game.
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@kaeru I can believe that. It's a good idea, and I'd like to (though I'd also like to play more before). Maybe this summer...
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@musebloom a deeply fucked extradition treaty and deeply fucked copyright law combine to deeply fuck over a guy's life.
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It's burgertime!
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Burgers are taking a long time.
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@rclarke where were they going to mention it, the section about "things other than Flash"? That's a messy story.
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@thomasapage Google really needs to be more of a platform for others to make games and stop just buying/making them themselves.
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gif too large - by Yoshi Sodeoka tmblr.co/Zo3lZyEouQyS
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@thomasapage had a look when it came out, it seemed quite limited/not exciting.
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@JoeKinglake fantastic, get on it! There's only 16 tickets left, apparently... (I am scared by how quickly they're going)
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@S0phieH oh wow, that went fantastically. so pleased for you.
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@S0phieH though, prying further -- what were your page hits per day?
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@hannahnicklin you're reminding me i need to get another railcard to replace the one whose thermal ink has entirely faded.
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@hannahnicklin i got away with it once, from a ticket inspector who went onto the platform and waved a lighter under it.
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@therussmorris you really have found your calling, eh?
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@HilariousCow either that, or the blog post boils down into a tweet.i swear half the skill of blogging is picking appropriately sized topics
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@HilariousCow Hey look, a blogpost on this subject: v21.posterous.com/blog-posts-are-hard-to-write
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@hannahnicklin @agencyofconey absolutely fantastic tutorial structure in there. <3 . and just the right scope for LD, too.
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FIFTEEN PLACES REMAIN! bitofgamejam.eventbrite.com/
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@WonderlandBlog @danthat If it'll help tide you over, London Indies is on tonight at The Crown, Islington.
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My advice is to watch this : vimeo.com/34949864 and listen to this : youtube.com/watch?v=5SXy88Ai99E
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#londonindies tonight! yes.
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@JoeKinglake I'd offer a sofa, but I think we're booked out. :<
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@kirstycarrot seems a bit less organized than that. Monthly pub meet for indie games people in London.
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@jon_ellis deluded, more like.
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@srules @oh_cripes That's entirely fantastic. Especially perked up at the Hover Plover games-for-learning stuff.
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@oh_cripes @srules Yeah, I keep thinking of it that way. :<
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@DGoodayle @patrickashe @Monkey_D_Daley @SurplusGamer yep!
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@iamtef congrats on having a sleeping pattern!
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@S0phieH They're talking about a 65-15-20 split (devs/charity/admin). If admin is less, then it'll be reshared.
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@ashleygwinnell @increpare :( I guess you had no luck in the search for an alternative venue, then?
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@maryrosecook we'll be the crowd in front of the round bit of the bar. You should be able to spot us.
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@Carachan1 There's plenty on Youtube. youtube.com/watch?v=2O0kuoiAm2A
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@LewieP they were cold!
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@LewieP "free"
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This is great : especially the first answer. stackoverflow.com/questions/5508110/why-is-this-program-erroneously-rejected-by-three-c-compilers/5509143
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@KommanderKlobb @doougle Yeah, let's do it.
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@CharlesYarnold *drink*
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@terrycavanagh :< I prefer DMs to emails as I can usually just respond to DMs. Responding to an email feels like a task.
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@terrycavanagh Though I may well be doing it wrong.
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@MrLukeH think both of our sofas have been bagsied :<
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@Carachan1 bit messy, but this exists: youtube.com/watch?v=-APYRzXdENs&feature=list_related&playnext=1&list=AVGxdCwVVULXd6na5NM_Q1VkACbMqGEJgg (I shall have Nujabes in my ears all morning)
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Pogo does the Fresh Prince youtu.be/a4NCnH7RPZY
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@bentosmile yes, you totally should.
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@bentosmile now i want to compile an indie games cookery book.
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I posted these a year ago, but it just blew my mind all over again, so I'm going to post it again:
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Chew bread for 2 minutes and it tastes sweet, due to amylase enzymes in our saliva. But other primates don't have this ability.
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We have this ability due to viruses infecting egg or sperm cells, leading to their genetic code becoming permanently embedded in ours.
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Paper: "Endogenous retroviral sequences are required for tissue-specific expression of a human salivary amylase gene"(bit.ly/ekxGB8)
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@edclef !!!!!!!!
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RT @edclef: Resignation letter status.... Printing! ARGH HAVE I GONE MAD WHAT AM I DOING
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@edclef It's about time too!
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@annashipman the Wordpress stuff is a real WTF.
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RT @oh_cripes: Timelapse of last night at #londonindies youtu.be/q2vufhz-adU
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Videogames, everyone: gutefabrik.com/blog/?p=1352
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@samjermy87 not hit 60 ... but with only two left, I'm fairly confident we will :D
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@samjermy87 @ChrisMellowship :D me too! only the one on bitofgamejam.eventbrite.com
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@benmilsom I keep being threatened with being taken there by @asponge. I'm not sure she sells it very well.
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@annashipman Nor reddit, nor ... but their constituents are. And if Randall only has the converted to preach to, should he not preach?
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‘I’d like to give some of the audience the opportunity to confirm the degree of tumescence’ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1464-410X.2005.05797.x/full (via @jwz)
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Really you should read that last link I posted it's fantastic. And then read this : alignmap.com/2006/11/06/presentation-is-not-really-everything-the-giles-brindley-show/#identifier_19_196 . I have a new hero.
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@number108 J. S. Joust
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@SurplusGamer ah, cheers. got the first "can you squeeze us in" email yesterday...
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@Slaktus our only defense against them is banding together as a community and hating them.
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Anyone know an alternative to Playtomic for leaderboards that doesn't go down for weeks at a time?
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@JonesyVision can be worth the two hours to know why it's not any better.
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@onebitbeyond ugh, yes, I can write it myself. It just adds to the things I have to make sure don't fall over. :<
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@JonesyVision yeah, don't get me wrong, it's never fun to be there. But it's still necessary progress to be making.
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@richlitt A database? If it's from just one application at a time, SQLite, is probably your man.
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@richlitt Or just nested arrays/dictionaries, pickled. But that's terrible if you're gonna want to access the data with anything but this.
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@richlitt Had a very quick skim, and I notice you're not using docs.python.org/library/csv.html . I'd recommend it.
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@richlitt load the csv into a python datastructure, do what you will to it, and then deserialize it out to csv regularly.
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@richlitt sure, bug me when i'm on gchat and not at work.
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@zunguzungu rockpapershotgun.com is. Compare xkcd, qwantz and gamasutra, who are hovering again in the middle ground.
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@zunguzungu I mean, even Wikipedia's blackout is easily evaded, more symbolic than actual. ("Esc" was trending earlier)
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@richlitt :s did I cause this?
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@pippinbarr constraints usually make things more interesting, I think you're okay.
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@musebloom earlier today I read a story about a man removing his trousers while giving a lecture, then tweeted he was my new hero.
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@musebloom I guess what I'm asking is - am I about to acquire yet another hero?
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@musebloom sounds very educational.
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@musebloom now want to talk about how great Marina Abramovic is with someone.
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@FireHazardGames that was a fantastic post. For too many reasons to go into here.
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@dkanaga happy birthday!
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@DGoodayle congrats on the indie games mag mention!
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@musebloom There's always the videogame. pippinbarr.com/games/theartistispresent/TheArtistIsPresent.html
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@HilariousCow at least they're done with some wit.
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@tiedtiger about 150? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar's_number
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@tiedtiger I'm not sure I hold that the numbers make a difference in that case. They are just numbers, you don't experience the ...
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@tiedtiger ... difference in any real way between 10m and 60m people.
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@tiedtiger I follow 368 people on twitter and I (more or less) know who all of them are, and have a reasonable idea as to who knows who.
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@tiedtiger if I followed 2000 instead, I think that would break. There's a difference in kind, not quantity, in that transition.
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@tiedtiger The numbers don't matter, the "social brain" doesn't grok 'em. But - differentiation from outgroup interacts with size, etc.
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This is a fantastic writeup of Hide and Seek's New Year games : hideandseek.net/2012/01/19/the-new-year-games-what-was-all-that-about-then/
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@8BitJoyToy hey Joy!
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@doougle I can't wait for your deadly adaptation of Pole Riders.
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RT @TNG_S8: Riker must battle the only thing in the galaxy he may not be able to defeat: A CLONE OF HIMSELF. Troi is torn.
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@HilariousCow lots of women shave more body parts than men do.
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Fuck yes. Stepney green is getting a Boris bike stand.
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@Demruth depends on the game, of course. can you fuck yourself with earlier poor choices?
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@Demruth then unless it's for other people to play through on the same computer, I wouldn't bother.
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@edclef you know I do.
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@DGoodayle I am!
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@HilariousCow <3 kenta cho.
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@benmilsom how did her indie indoctrination go?
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@edclef carve a rubber stamp, apply to pebbles. or slate! (guess I should make some more business cards too, huh?)
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After watching the Jamestown trailer this morning, I now want to make all my games set in 17th Century Mars.
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@JoeCavers I have, it is super fun. Not sure I played much co-op, which I absolutely should.
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Yeah, we're showing Pole Riders at @WildRumpus ! It is going to be ace, come along, Thursday 2nd Feb. thewildrumpus.co.uk/games
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@Carachan1 @asponge @LewieP @nickbreckon What was that best Imagine game? (Did you remember the pineapple?)
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I keep listening to chiptune ska. youtube.com/watch?v=hrR0W-P8P7w and youtube.com/watch?v=hgJM79X3JhM , mainly.
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@LewieP @Carachan1 @asponge @nickbreckon That's a shame, because I am totally going to spend the weekend making Imagine: Jeff Goldblum.
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@JoeKinglake I don't know if we'll be able to use LSBU's computers. I would assume against it, and bring a laptop with whatever you need.
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@samjermy87 @JoeKinglake aye. I'll write up a post of advice for starting out developing games sometime soon. Or just find someone else's :P
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@DGoodayle Yes. Everyone is!
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@bentosmile does that mean it's more moral to eat turkey, because you get more meals out of it?
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Don't rock gently into that good night.
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commence freaking out
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David Graeber on power in modern society libcom.org/files/20060525-Graeber.pdf
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Excellent guidelines for level design (via @auntiepixelante ) iceyboard.no-ip.org/projects/yyyyyy/room_design/
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RT @ted_martens: @nameoftheyear new Horsey drinking game? dl.dropbox.com/u/3907270/EverytimeaPenny.rtf
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@KommanderKlobb @reallyfancy the process is still baffling to me in FD. Not that I've properly tried, though.
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@reallyfancy @KommanderKlobb Seen the new template, it's the conversion of an existing project I'm bouncing off. Will try again.
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@musebloom @WildRumpus roll up, rock on! free non-ticketed. I'd tell you to RSVP on FB to make us look popular, but you already have. :D
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writing a blog post on how to make a computer game if you haven't before. technically speaking. anything I should say/link to?
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@KommanderKlobb @PerrinAshcroft that's absolutely the right stuff! not sure if I should just link that instead.
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@Draknek @terriblebear had become wedged. not sure why. the code is still not ... reliable.
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@PerrinAshcroft @KommanderKlobb You definitely should. And yeah, I will. (and it's already pretty fantastic. link it about more, already!)
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@FelixK_15 writing an engine is a stupid idea if you want to make a game. (I agree with your post entirely)
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@FelixK_15 Making a game, for people who haven't made any games before.
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@Draknek @terriblebear ouch. sorry. :< :<
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[blog] How to make your first videogame v21.posterous.com/how-to-make-your-first-videogame
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(I would love for people to tell me where I've gone wrong in that post, and what I've missed)
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@DGoodayle Thanks, man! I don't feel quite qualified to write it, but enough people were asking me...
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@DGoodayle haha, if I only I was known for making lots of awesome games!
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I'm writing GOTOs. I'm writing GOTOs! This is entire program is built of GOTOs! You Can't Stop Me! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
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@edclef nice pixels! I'd like to see a game with those solid colours, I haven't seen it before.
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@BinaryTweedDeej @mikeBithell Reading auntiepixelante.com/?cat=6 is probably the best level design education I've gotten.
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@samjermy87 @booleanBoy It's on my list of things to get confirmed. Will be sending out an email with these kind of tech things later on.
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@DGoodayle looks good!
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27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ly5sd3b1JU1qztfv2o1_500.png #screenshotsaturday
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@LewieP that's the one!
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@iamtef Melitta teapots pop on eBay fairly frequently. Usually under £50.
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RT @docky: Do zombies poop?
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@therussmorris i used to live with a girl who would eat them with the skins on.
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@therussmorris well she lives in reading now i don't know if that's the natural result or what maybe try it i did it was okay
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for what it's worth, i like the idea of indie game : the movie : the sitcom. think of the kids who'll make indie games after watching it
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@therussmorris it's where the good stuff is
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@doougle thinking about it, stuff should still work. error rate'll get huge, but it'll probably come out as latency, rather than total fail
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@LewieP will you be about tomorrow at 7ish?
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@LewieP Yes, PM. I don't know the last time I saw 7am...
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@Choplogik you should center that shit (but it looks good otherwise)
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Today is terrible; I haven't got my headphones. Or my emergency earbuds. Terrible!
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I wrote this on Friday: How to make your first videogame v21.posterous.com/how-to-make-your-first-videogame
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@nachimir @jimrossignol I liked the spec sheet on Wikipedia. "Crew: 0"
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@benmilsom The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco,The Scar by China Mieville, The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi, Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino
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@benmilsom The Cyberiad by Stanislaw Lem, Roadside Picnic by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, The Invisibles (graphic novels) by Grant Morrison
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@benmilsom lots of sci-fi, or sci-fi-ish in there. Fewer spaceships, but they're a bit boring these days.
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@benmilsom or, older: Tunnel in the Sky by Robert Heinlein, The Space Merchants by by Frederik Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth. I'll stop now.
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@benmilsom well, these are all objectively brilliant, so i wouldn't worry too much.
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@benmilsom Culture novels are probably the last standout of interesting spaceships. And even then, it's not about spaceships, really.
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@rupertmurdoch You know piracy and stealing aren't the same thing, right?
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@severalbees I actually looked into writing a script that randomly orders you £x of stuff from Amazon each month from a list of Stuff I Wamt
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@severalbees (and then it turned out to be quite hard to do, so I didn't. But it would be great!)
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@mattwebb85 I did use Ren'py over the weekend, and it lives up to expectations
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You can't accuse The Pirate Bay of thinking small thepiratebay.org/blog/203
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@Slaktus "the striker" or the "test your strength game"
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@LewieP aye, just walking home now, probably half an hour off.
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@rclarke have you ever... have you ever felt like this?
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Gin and tonic, aubergine and chickpea stew on brown rice, getting cracking on Imagine: Jeff Goldblum.
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@Dick_Hogg @edclef I would pay that. Send me to the order page!
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@rclarke Maybe I play up the "ah ha ha, I am the youngest!" card a bit too much.
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hey hey hey hey hey, who wants to come to this with me: zombieshop.co.uk/index.php?route=product/category&path=95_103_104
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(you do, that's who)
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@dartt unlikely! this will be my first proper zombie larp (i've done 2.8 hours later, and a mini session at gamecamp)
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@dartt i dunno. the distinction is a bit vague. but it was scary and there were dramatic moments, so I guess it managed to be a larp.
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@loleg preach it, brother!
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@Draknek i did, it was pretty good. you did 2.8 hours later, though? more or less that, + guns. + maybe more scope for individual glory?
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@nachimir occurs to me we're well into the point where you could open up a Anything* You Want Shop *(within 10cm3 volume, made of ABS)
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@nachimir yeah -- tipping point for me was watching someone print a plug, rather than just go to the cornershop. (then tie it on with wire)
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@nachimir but that's a weird thing for a household to own, because how often do you need plugs? or a thing, in general.
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@nachimir anyway, good blogging!
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@nachimir to be fair, i can't actually recall another time someone just wanted a thing and any of our 3D printers were working.
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"How was I having a conversation about motion-controlled video-gaming with an adult female? What sort of awful sitcom had I stumbled into?"
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@Carachan1 I don't know.You ever tried to persuade Tim Rogers to play Dance Central on the Kinect with you,while he tried to sleep with you?
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@Carachan1 does that mean he's a Belle and Sebastian lyric?
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@Carachan1 youtube.com/watch?v=_-kGjJMtin8 is pretty inoffensive, if you're not trying not to listen to them.
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@Carachan1 if you are, never mind.
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@Carachan1 also, it turns out we both know @RubZo.
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@Carachan1 not true on two counts. it was my jacket, not my bag, and it's here now.
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@Carachan1 also, i've already done like an ending and a half for I:JG.
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@Carachan1 *that* ending is only stubbed out.
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@asponge @Carachan1 Earlier today... I could have pretended that you were trolling me. I preferred it back then.
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@LewieP not a problem. He is lovely, isn't he? I'd follow up with ballboy, but I wouldn't be telling you anything new.
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Really want to go go The Replacements at karaoke. Forgot just quite how much I loved them.
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@simonv3 @brunopanara pre-warm the pot? milk goes in after?
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@psychicteeth half hour fictional hbo series optioned. "not a sitcom".
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@reallyfancy I think the confusion comes (in part) because it's needed for computer science, which is totally a different thing.
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@bentosmile it'll be my first, but i think i will.
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@SiriHoho it's HBO, at the very least there'll be strip clubs.
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Chrome doesn't think "monetise" is a word.
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@S0phieH @rockpapershot It's just a pain in the arse if you want to preserver your saves. Just pointless complication and difficulty.
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Man, fuck commenters on Kongregate! "It's is pretty fun, but I want upgrades" Fuck you, it wouldn't work, enjoy what it is!
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I mean, this is really great : kongregate.com/games/abagames/visitan
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@guided1 Was triggered by Kenta Cho's new one. But I got similar stuff on CUBES: kongregate.com/games/vtwentyone/cubes
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@guided1 that's a super old version. soon gonna release it for iOS. Can testflight you a build if you like.
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RT @State_of_Play: wow, how did we not know of this before? Kowloon Walled City - like a dream and a nightmare: zuloark.es/escenariodetrabajovirtual/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Kowloon-Cross-section_seccion-Hong-Kong-ciudad-amurallada.jpg
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@guided1 ironically enough neither do i... I'm borrowing my bosses iPad to develop for.
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@guided1 unity export. wasn't hard to get it working, just had to get it finished and released.
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@radiodario slap some varnish on it, make it webscale
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@ragamesound do I get a beer, then? Big fan of things I've seen on the internet about deep sea and antichamber, btw!
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@asponge @Carachan1 @reallyfancy you should go to B&H! And I should go some time I'm not already totally pissed.
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@ElectronDance @doougle I am starring this conversation furiously (starring means I will read it later)
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@ElectronDance @edclef @doougle I think the most important thing to bear in mind is that games are more interesting than theories.
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@doougle @edclef @ElectronDance he used "Sleep is death" and "dear esther" as examples of games today.
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@doougle @edclef @ElectronDance (now I'm on a laptop - was here : frictionalgames.blogspot.com/2012/01/narrative-not-game-mechnaic.html)
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@doougle @ElectronDance long may a lack of clarity reign!
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@design3video There's some terrific stuff there. (Didn't buy that post, as you can see from the comments, but then I'm uncertain here too)
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@edclef Not sure I understand you/him fully. But one thing I can totally agree on is the sep. between telling a story, and creating a story.
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@design3video Yeh - but I'm trying to move to firmer. 'Though the conversation wouldn't be interesting if I thought I had all the answers...
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@edclef I think those are different styles of engagement conflicting, not anything core to game/non-game. Link?
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@design3video completely disagree with his main thrust(?), that (video)games are about creating a world. That's a wonderful thing, but.
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Surprising nobody, it turns out to be difficult to conduct deep debates on meaning on Twitter.
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@design3video Don't get me wrong, I love games that do that! But that's not all of games, and I wouldn't want it to be.
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@edclef (was wondering if it was RK anywhere) Hard-core challenge leads to metagaming, which kills immersion. Or y'can solve as a character.
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(though it's good value in terms of starting them)
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If I was in Edinburgh I might be able to see the Northern Lights right now. Now I'm a bit sad.
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@marksutherland Yeah -- that tweet was inspired by this pic : flickr.com/photos/grant_r/6757368379/
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The Aurora over Edinburgh : flickr.com/photos/grant_r/6757368379/
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@HilariousCow Shame is historically very ineffective when used against large corporations.
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@Slaktus firing globs out of the balls, though? I like the swept-wings on the right. & the T-ship is nicely awkward.
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@psychicteeth @photonstorm networked actuators. too. teledildonics.
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This O2 cockup is making me realize how much I've forgotten since my Wammux days. "MSISDN Passing" was once a familiar phrase...
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@Cunthorse @nachimir I'll add to that - come to the gamejam after.
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@docky @psychicteeth Yeah same :( Although I'll add that I did absolutely love the music.
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Look at the art here, and imagine it's a decade from now. playpeep.tumblr.com/
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@PLAstudios believe it or not, I am actually watching people in space right now.
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@HilariousCow can't wait to be able to use 3.5 properly. c'mon text-based scene files!
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@oh_cripes @HilariousCow I should really try it in the preview. But I have some hope, as this is the specific usecase it was introduced for.
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VMWare should steal focus to it's Windows helper stuff when the VMWare window isn't in focus. So I don't get confused by the blinky cursor.
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@Slaktus it's fun and crunchy. Not quite sure about controls - aiming and moving seem like two quite separate tasks, one for each hand.
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@Slaktus the controls aren't bad, they just lead to that irritating thing games do where they split your attention.
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@Slaktus ah, it's not that it's hard, per se, it's that when you die, it's when your attention has slid off what causes yr death for a mo.
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@Slaktus ideally death happens from something you're trying not to be killed by. This happened big-time with SPHERES.
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@LewieP @Carachan1 to be completely honest, normal supermarket hassis is pretty decent. vege haggis is also lovely, but different.
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@KommanderKlobb He's still about, I follow his tumblr. He's @andy_helms on Twitter.
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@alexjprice @O2 Largely used for payforit providers. Here's T-mo's old conditions for MSISDN Passing access: dialogue.net/terms_conditions/uk/documents/TMpayforitMandate.pdf
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Yeah! Level design! a sense of progression, breaking down concepts and introducing them one by one, doling out surprise at a measured pace!
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@DGoodayle the budget just for the viola players is insane.
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@LewieP Used to work in this area. I buy it. See, frinstance developer.vodafone.com/discuss/question/130/msisdn-passthrough/ dialogue.net/terms_conditions/uk/documents/TMpayforitMandate.pdf
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@LewieP My job was, in part, ringing up mobile networks when they broke stuff. I DEFINITELY can believe they'd bollocks up maintenance.
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@Cunthorse Tis sold out, gonna bump up a few extra places for people who missed it. Not silly at all to come for a day.
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@mattwebb85 ... all of this applies to a bullet hell. I mean, I'm doing a puzzle game, but all of this would apply.
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@mattwebb85 Was who I heard of Twine from! But yeah - played kongregate.com/games/abagames/visitan ? Fun bullet hell.
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@benmilsom @edclef @KommanderKlobb @tigershungry I feel I need to upgrade my "classy indie phone sounds" for "unclassy indie phone sounds"
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Bailing on #LUUG because I'm tired and lazy. Hope y'all have a good time without me.
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RT @aras_p: Among other things, basic version control (.meta files) is in Free version of Unity 3.5! Source control, use it! #unity3d
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No .meta files in free was probably the worst thing about Unity. 'Course, it's only there now cuz Pro can now do basic shit like merging.
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@radiatoryang @doougle @smestorp It's a clan thing/identity thing, not anything to do with the content. Stupid, but...
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@guided1 fuck yeah dude, congrats!
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@penguat Yeah. Now: In Free you can source control everything, but can't merge anything that's not source code.
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@penguat In Pro: You can (I haven't tried it) source control everything and merge and do whatever. Assets, code, scenes, everything.
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@penguat Previously in Free, the best you could do was take snapshots and roll back to them. Not ideal for teams, or feature branches.
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@penguat I guess that's possible, but I suspect it'd be incredibly fragile. It's just binary blobs, not too big a deal.
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@penguat (without meta files it was, essentially, one binary blob of unknown structure)
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@patrickashe @not_games how do i see the locker numbers?
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@brandonnn @RamiroCorbetta @nealen @charlesjpratt @doougle I'd call that tweet a legally binding contract.
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@LewieP English Country Tune, Swift*Stitch, Minecraft.
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@psychicteeth Yeah, it was lovely - real proper grown up sci-fi.
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This is some fabulous animation youtube.com/watch?v=4QlUCZjbG1g&feature=related
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@patrickashe ah, no worries then. It's a lovely little thing, nonetheless. Should do a Proteus and never put a win state in, call it art.
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RT @benmilsom: "After listening to indie gaming podcast ’99 coins’..I was really determined to start a game.." natsworld.co.uk/index.php?page_id=41 http ...
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@musebloom on at the Whitechapel Gallery, you say?
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@patrickashe Actually, the CUBES framing does account for why there's no end. You play for the cubes, to see the cubes and to glory in them.
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@Slaktus the point is choices. QTEs are rarely choiceful, just a crap test to pass.
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RT @gullevek: OMGOMGOMG. I really laughed laud at the office: pushthemovement.tumblr.com/post/16508541058
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RT @rare_basement: sext: i am a bear and you are a delicious porridge. chicks try to steal you from me but i eat them. i eat you too. i ...
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@richlitt The hard part is continuity when you/other organisers leave. The technical part is easy.
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@richlitt host on your own server, just pay for a separate server, Tardis (not the most reliable), I'm sure there are free services too.
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@richlitt It's a compromised choice in many ways, but : free AWS micro instance for a year : aws.amazon.com/
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@ashleygwinnell wait, wait, wait. Spaces are the standard for python. python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/
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@ashleygwinnell (Yes, backspace should delete 4 space when appropriate, and tab should insert 4. But spaces, not tabs)
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@psychicteeth @edclef what? I still see tickets going.
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Open this in VLC : nasa.gov/multimedia/isslivestream.asx . You can watch live those new Android robots burbling about the International Space Station.
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And now they're talking about LEGO sets they've constructed up there! And they're about to do some "soddering".
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@Slaktus That doesn't mean they're not choices. At the end of DX 1st level you defeat the terrorists, but there's choices on the way.
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@ashleygwinnell think we're down to floor space only. but you're welcome to it. (cc @oh_cripes @asponge )
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@Slaktus But it was one that I spent many happy hours playing with (seriously, just that first level). That's not true of QTEs.
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@Slaktus (Tho, it does set up some stuff for later, and obv inventory/health/$s continues onwards. But still.)
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@Slaktus QTEs have no choice, only failure. There's also inconsequential choices, and then consequential choices. Increasing order of fun.
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@DGoodayle Nae, too lazy to.
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@DGoodayle @WildRumpus kinda committed, yes :D
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@keefstuart Since everyone else is asking : any chance of squeezing Mr Bubble onto the lineup? Looking forward to it regardless!
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@HilariousCow nice metaballs, bro.
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@HilariousCow @robinlacey I was wondering what you were doing for that. Some variant on Go rules?
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@KommanderKlobb I'm not ashamed.
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@HilariousCow for work I've made a AS3 metaball thingy render to lines, then connected the lines, and drawn them as a polys.
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@HilariousCow Was a bugger to do (and the marching cubes stuff I didn't write myself, and don't properly understand). But it works, if slow.
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@KommanderKlobb @rupertmurdoch I thought F1 took that title?
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Christ, what fandom! tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/InspectorSpacetime
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@Cunthorse take a day's holiday?
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@pippinbarr can't you sweep along the floor, and make one physic object for each floor section? Would help with performance, anyway...
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RT @WildRumpus: ...there might be some more Rumpus announcements blowing in soon ...maybe... I don't know...MAYBE
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RT @Choplogik: Your looks are becoming a solution.
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@KommanderKlobb @WildRumpus @patrickashe I thought it was the Styled Rumpus, where we all wore cool suits and had 50s hairdos.
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@pippinbarr yeah, that make it a bit more of a faff. :< Good luck! Solutions await you!
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Dangerous thing where you have an idea, think it's ace, and can't wait to commit yourself to it for a long period of time.
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ENTIRELY UNRELATEDLY : What's the Tumblr of podcasts?
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@Carachan1 I could see you as a serial divorcee.
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"I want to flip my frittata, but I don't think I will be able to do it with these instruments that we own."
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@edclef wait, no, other way round. I want to do a podcast on a service like Tumblr. Turns out, Tumblr works for this.
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@edclef We use fuckyeahgames.titanpad.com for internal docs at work. Well, I do, anyway, it never quite caught on like I'd hope.
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@ElectronDance The one I wish I could use normally is "diegetic". So useful!
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@srules hey hey let's hangout
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@srules I have cat. Let's do this.
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@HilariousCow I'm really impressed. That site manages to consistently crash Chrome for me.
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Hole crap, this is some good Reality Distortion Field rockpapershotgun.com/2012/01/27/head-in-the-cloud-dave-perry-disrupts/#more-91002
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@tigershungry "Could you be this rabbit's special friend?"
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@tigershungry I clicked send then I instantly cursed myself.
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@tigershungry if it makes it up to you any, img34.glitterfy.com/12027/glitterfy2055347655D30.gif
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@tigershungry @Dick_Hogg Someone's getting lazy with the tag lines...
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@SiriHoho I am not sure! I will endeavour to ascertain this fact, along with others!
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@tomscott Twitter is pretty memey too. At least it's not just people spamming posters for their clubnight?
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@SiriHoho :( Can't recall if you're still LSBU'ey enough to have logins and whatever on the computers anyway.
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@KommanderKlobb @doougle Yup, neodymium magnets are the shit. If you have any old HDDs, you can rip em apart for the magnets.
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YES! @asponge made it happen! readmedottxt.tumblr.com/ is live! (Fantastic bits of videogame history being dug up here.)
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Gold Leader is a go. Fire when ready.
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HEY YOU PEOPLE GOING TO GDC! We're having a party, you should come! allotherpartiesaretriteanddull.com
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@doougle wait, wait, which one is which? who gets to be "the future"?
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RT @WildRumpus: WEDNESDAY 7TH MARCH 8pm, SAN FRANCISCO early bird tickets while they last! wrollvp.eventbrite.com/
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RT @brandonnn: Over HALF of our early bird tickets have ALREADY SOLD. It is essential that you move quickly: allotherpartiesaretriteanddull.com/
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All of the Early Bird tickets have sold out! That was like... less than an hour. At this rate we'll be sold out by midnight!
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I'm going to the Hackspace now to drink beer and play videogames, if anyone enjoys those things they're welcome to come too.
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@DGoodayle ha, this isn't an event, this is just me wanting to drink beer and play videogames on an arcade cabinet.
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@zoewi @brandonnn I'll buy you a $5 drink there, if that helps?
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@zoewi don't trust myself to fiddle it correctly, but i'll get 'em. What's yr email address?
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@DGoodayle no, it's a permanent place in Hoxton, where events can sometimes happen. wiki.london.hackspace.org.uk/view/London_Hackspace
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@zoewi haha, no worries! It's gonna be awesome!
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@patrickashe haha, not sure I actually told the other guys, but the 7th is actually my birthday.
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@HilariousCow @S0phieH tis the season for going to gamejams and starting projects...
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@LewieP I am! I haven't before either! I am also excited.
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RT @DEVOPS_BORAT: If RabbitMQ is answer, you are ask wrong question.
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@ElectronDance sucks, man! Hopefully see you at Wild Rumpus, though!
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@ElectronDance We'll see!
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@HilariousCow kids love repetition
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@HilariousCow what's more repetitive than nothing?
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@SiriHoho @LewieP did i know you are? when are you guys over til? i am over for two weeks. did we have this conversation already?
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@RamiroCorbetta @Radstronomical wow, you guys are working together? no pressure, but i'm expecting something pretty spectacular.
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I love ChatChat naps. tumblr.com/photo/1280/v21/16614702831/1/tumblr_lyhnqccT1M1qztfv2 (chatchat: kongregate.com/games/TerryCavanagh_B/chatchat)
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I've had a good poached egg, a cup of tea and put Akron/Family on... let's do this thing.
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Whatever "this thing" is.
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@SiriHoho @LewieP Staying at the indie hostel too. The 1st, how does that work? I'm heading back on the 17th.
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@Gillespionage haha, excellent. My ex booked a 2 week holiday to Japan once, that was quite impressive. When you going?
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I once tried, and failed, to interview a Scientologist. Thus, my inbox contains : "Hubbard Academy >> How to Achieve Self Confidence"
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@paperCaves "Working with Paul Robertson" is on my list of things I really want to do.
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I'm not sure leaning quite so violently to the side helps when playing Serious Sam. I'd not be surprised if I fell of my chair.
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@number108 what, no Frobisher?
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@Carachan1 allotherpartiesaretriteanddull.com/ get on it!
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@nickbreckon hey, uh, could I ask you for a favour? Could you compile a list of Jeff Goldblum quotes? Or just things he would say?
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@nickbreckon I hear you're the man for this kind of thing.
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@OScpp uh, not really. Might be a sofa in a corner. But we've only got access appx 10-6...
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@LewieP batshit insane. looks good.
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Alright, I started a thing: bestgamedesign.tumblr.com/ Short clips of people talking about their favorite bits of game design.
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First one is @rclarke talking about ToeJam & Earl. bestgamedesign.tumblr.com/post/16695970061/robin-clarke-on-toejam-earl
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@rclarke glad I made that the pullquote, then.
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Apparently older drivers for my soundcard could record the output audio directly, but the RIAA got them to take it out.
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The best solution now is to buy another soundcard, or to plug a cable out the line-out and into the line-in. Fuckssakes.
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This is a really good article on Creatures, and on death and statis and motherhood. unwinnable.com/2012/01/27/playing-god-on-death-motherhood-and-creatures/
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@penguat I'm digging, but the ones I read about were for XP, not Win7.
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@KommanderKlobb Of course!
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@Slaktus @SiriHoho that's terrifying.
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@terrycavanagh @Slaktus @SiriHoho I don't get why you hooked up the leaderboards. Surely you knew this would happen?
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@KommanderKlobb of course you! I'll get ya next time we're both at a pub. Or Skype, if you wanna save drinking time.
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@checker The only point of it is to make people make more shit, and rent-seeking. So, er, no.
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@nickbreckon Fantastic! No rush, I'm not sure when I'll be done.
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@mikeBithell @spadgy_OTA The CPH lot did one : copenhagengamecollective.org/game-studies-card-game/ (is also this: wiki.siggraph.org/index.php?title=CBCG )
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@srules awww sweet
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@KommanderKlobb I find it really difficult to play Pokemon these days, as I grew up playing it in an emulator with a fast forward button.
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@samjermy87 Yeah, just actually confirming the tech stuff. It's coming, don't worry!
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@DGoodayle What you seek is a mythical beast, long rumoured. I hope before I die I catch a sighting of it.
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@asponge Dynamic geometry is expensive, and also I'm not a very good modeller.
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@DGoodayle Oh, I've used systems that function. That "can display menus" But none that fail to inspire in me an intense hatred.
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@DGoodayle I hold out hope for the new native solution. It's been long prophesied, but also long absent. I hold faith it will someday come.
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@DGoodayle "Batteries included" is a good thing, I think. But you gotta be careful to limit what you need to know to make things.
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@asponge I want to live in an eternal white void, with nothing but the perfect scintillating colours of my cubes.
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@asponge I want to empty my mind of everything but the impulses necessary to dodge, dodge and dodge again.
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@asponge I wish to see nothing but colour, form and motion. I wish for semantics to fall behind, for taste, smell, touch to have no import.
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@asponge In related news, I think I might need some help rewording this App Store description. Worried I'm coming on too strong...
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@terriblebear hello? you dead?
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RT @gominokouhai: @iamtef "When the lines on the screen Make more lines inbetween That's a moire"
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Hey look, I managed to get my mini podcast thing about people's best loved bits of game design onto iTunes: itun.es/iSj7qx
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@LewieP You have reminded me that I really should put online those live tracks I have of Gordon...
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Gordon McIntyre once sang for me v21.tumblr.com/post/16775775518/gordon-mcintyre-once-sang-for-me (cc @LewieP)
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@LewieP yeah, can't see that. :<
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@LewieP Jesus, err... either 2008 or 2009. Probably 2009, as that's the Last Modified Date...
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@Cunthorse it's Math.ceil() -- good guess, though.
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If you're going to GDC and don't have a allotherpartiesaretriteanddull.com/ ticket, there are less than 50 left. So get on it?
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If you're not, uh, I'm going to be excited about this for a good few weeks to come, I'm sorry.
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@patrickashe If we got your money, that's really all that matters.
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6 tickets left!
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wait, hang on, they're all currently being bought. people, you are probably too late.
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Sold: 601 Pending: 0 Available: 0. We sold out our party! Now how the hell do we entertain 600 people for an evening? #aopatad
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@richlitt I think the fact you are currently doing the insane thing you are currently doing is probably enough to earn forgiveness.
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@fullbright I dunno, playing Stealth Bastard I thought "why the hell is this free, you idiots"
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RT @Jam_sponge: Ladies and gentlemen, let me present the best box-quote ever. bit.ly/yK7obR (Cheers, @SpectralHands)
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@timoncheese fucking Siemens... (is it Siemens? other friends in the BBC like to blame things on Siemens)
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@cYnborg any time!
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@onebitbeyond Not saying it's not sensible, just saying you deserved that award (and this comes from someone also nominated for it)
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@onebitbeyond I mean, really, that's the reaction you were hoping for, surely?
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"With Raiden (someone appealing to women), instead of Snake, we will have a character in which women can more easily empathize."
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@cYnborg try playing with gravity & mass settings? (also, might wanna Rigidbody.AddRelativeForce rather than manually fiddling the velocity)
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@cYnborg :< Probably won't help, is just neater. Will plug it into a project and try it out, nothing leaps at me.
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@iamtef that's a lovely font, but no lowercase :<
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@Gillespionage and here's me, sat directly behind you.
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@cYnborg it'll take mass into account when moving. ultimately you might need to go non-physical, or hardcode a change at the top of the jump
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@asponge boo!
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@asponge that Victim Bot is actually really neat.
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@cYnborg ha, cheers. yeah, getting the feel right is as hard as it is important. you need physical response, but only sometimes.
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@zoewi @kaeru @WildRumpus make it happen! we did (in part) because we were jealous other places got the cool parties.
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@JoeKinglake would assume there is recent Flash -- @Slaktus, do you know?
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@KommanderKlobb "what's your favorite walk?"
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@KommanderKlobb "If you lost the source of Proteus (God forbid) and had to remake it, how would it be different?"
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@KommanderKlobb @edclef then consider them diversionary chaff, intended to distract you from the real stinkers.
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@booleanBoy @KommanderKlobb probably not great -- there's people occupying all the rooms usually, especially in the evenings.
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@benthorizon either they are, or you are.
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@HilariousCow I find it helpful to look at articles that are heavily shared/liked, and see how much content is in them.
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@HilariousCow generally, not very much! having said that, yusssss, give away the book you could write for free! share that squishy goodness!
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@terrycavanagh meow
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@patrickashe it's not you, it's them
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@patrickashe Yeah, I know how that feels. Hard to keep the energy needed to keep attacking.
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@Cunthorse Complicated waters of identity lurk even within the word "gamer"
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@kierongillen how's your writing going?
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@HaberdashingUK @tomscott oooh, I've been wanting to play that divvying up the loot game for a while now.