Tweets from 2012/02
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Hey look, @christinelove's new game is out: ahatestory.com/
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@terrycavanagh i feel i should make an mmo, just to enjoy playing it with other people at all hours of the day.
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@terrycavanagh incidentally, that tweet took ages to write, as I couldn't see the keys for cat.
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@tiedtiger Do they not break out of game-fulness when they become heavily impactful on the real world?
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@tiedtiger Reminded of the Weightwatchers game where completing real world tasks earns you points you can spend on real world eating.
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RT @oh_cripes: Submitted Uprok, if you want to check it out then look at adam-a.co.uk/uprok You need Chrome I'm afraid and probably 4 ...
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@tiedtiger To be honest, i'm not sure where I stand on the distinction between sports and games. Will think on it!
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@radiodario let me know how, if you succeed.
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@edclef @nachimir hackspaces have labcoats, people put an order in. unfortunately they're all *someone elses* lab coats.
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@radiodario what, formaldehyde?
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“It’s our responsibility as publishers to find new ways to keep all of our characters relevant,” NOT WHEN IT'S WATCHMEN IT'S NOT.
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@oh_cripes Dave Gibbons' statement is very carefully worded. Also :"“I think the gut reaction is going to be, ‘Why?’ ” Mr. Azzarello said."
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613 lines of global variables at the top of this file
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"can I --uh -- can I take a break from this to tweet about it in a horrified tone?" "yeah, sure go ahead"
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@penguat it's a god object, and it's not hugely sensible. current task - ripping out cruft.
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@KommanderKlobb @bfod @Fortress_Inman I have one, at home or at work. Mind, they're filthy Apple products.
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@AstroFRA @Skizomeuh Yeah, it has -- You get metadata sidecar files in Free, and you get mergeable scene files in Pro. Want our .gitignore ?
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@christinelove AND include a little screen explaining such, and anticipating that response and it doesn't boot you anything.
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@c_hedborg I try to avoid, but I'd rather receive that than mealy-mouthedness.
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I want to write about @christinelove's Analogue, but I don't want to do spoilers and I can't be arsed writing around the spoilers :<
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@mattwebb85 yes. i think it makes sense, but i just spent a few minutes checking. yes, apparently it can also mean "As well; in addition"
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@doougle @KommanderKlobb fuck, that's a formidable force. might try to bully @oh_cripes into helping me train this evening.
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Still kinda awed by people coming from abroad to come to Wild Rumpus...
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@docky is it? Discussed that idea an increasing amount recently, I guess I'll have to play it.
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@Slaktus once you're, y'know, not in immediate danger of death, most of your problems turn out to be status related.
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@Slaktus I dunno. What else do you want? Our base desires have got us pretty far, so far.
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@new_nomad I want the Waterloo and City line to become a combination walkway/art gallery.
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@TerrorBullGames @WildRumpus screaming, terror, and shoving.
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@mikeBithell both are huge, diverse, internally-conflicting things.
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@musebloom and reopening under new, more corporate management in a months time. :<
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@Slaktus but any change could break any part of the game, and fully testing it takes aaaaages. I'll try to do both.
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@asponge And to think I pulled a wodge out this morning...
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@Slaktus which is an important part of the larger battle. And they later form regression tests, which is also important.
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@Slaktus Most game code isn't suitable for unit testing, but that that is, absolutely should be.
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@Slaktus it can pass the unit tests and be totally wrong, but it's hard for it to fail the unit tests and be right.
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@Slaktus Basically: have as many regression tests as you can. Gameplay tests are way more important, but way more expensive to run.
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@Slaktus I've never yet found Tortoise* unhateful. Sometimes better than the alternatives, but. Someday there'll be good Win git support.
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Nothing that makes you feel sillier than only pretending to do something very silly.
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I should probably be disassembling and sorting out The Beast now, but unfortunately a small child is really enjoying playing on it.
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@musebloom at least there's hope.
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@vetraskr @Draknek The two philosophies being represented by @KommanderKlobb and @reallyfancy in rockpapershotgun.com/2011/11/01/the-games-industry-on-poached-eggs/
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@asponge yeah, where did you go? i was wondering. our house is full of indies.
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@HilariousCow oh jesus christ, we saw those red stripe cans, we were wondering who'd drink out of sharpened edged cans.
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@HilariousCow it was you who crashed joust, denying me my final shot at glory?!
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@cucumberoneye @KommanderKlobb yeah for sure it was super awesome. i played some, it totally worked.
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@asponge it's more likely than you think.
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@asponge @WildRumpus I am sad I failed to actually play any Joust. Ah well, there's always tomorrow. Or Monday. Or maybe the weekend.
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@KommanderKlobb @vetraskr @Draknek @reallyfancy no, one gives you poached eggs, and the other gives you a virtuous life (and poached eggs).
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@unseven it is totally unnecessary. do not stress about this.
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I could whatever, but I am drunk and need to sleep to be capable of jamming tomorrow. But it was so lovely to see everyone.
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We've been going minutes, and already we're in hashtag confusion. #boagj ? #bitofjam ?
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@mattwebb85 the hashtag is officially #bitofjam
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@mattwebb85 so I have decreed!
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@HilariousCow dude. dude. dude. I wanna team up and make something with you. today. let's do it?
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the theme is CLOUDS or FRACTALS or VENEGANCE
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@radiodario I wrote your name on my wrist on Thursday, but I can't remember why.
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@edclef ZOMBIE LARP ZOMBIE LARP ZOMBIE LARP zombielarp.co.uk/
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@edclef (sorry, I had "bug Ed about Zombie LARP" written on my arm when I woke up this morning)
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RT @asponge: Toying with ideas for real-world social-y games, I spot a big hurdle: what I find hilariously awkward, many find awkwardly ...
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"I wandered lonely as a cloud. I am a cloud. Which way am I wandering? (N/S/E/W)"
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I am making a swarm because I like making swarms. I will worry about the game later. #bitofjam
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@cucumberoneye @KommanderKlobb yeah, for sure. I'll get a snapshot of it when I'm next tending to the Beast.
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@cucumberoneye @KommanderKlobb I think aaaaa was kinda hogging the machine, though.
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I am stirring fruit and sugar in a pot. #bitofjam
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@cucumberoneye @KommanderKlobb main thing is that it was hard to notice if you didn't know it was there.
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oglaf.com/media/comic/cloud_of_death.jpg #bitofjam
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@mattwebb85 the webcomic is sometimes pornographic. This one isn't, but.
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@radiodario ah, shame. It's at the LRC building at LSBU, Elephant & Castle. I'm making a flocking thing.
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@mattwebb85 yeeeeeah.
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@doougle @KommanderKlobb Was an honour to be crushed beneath your boots. Gonna try to get some training in...
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@Slaktus @KommanderKlobb But the average complexity of TV plots has dramatically increased. Even MTV quick cuts are hard to process.
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@KommanderKlobb nup, but I mighta read an article on it at some point. Mainly noticed through watching old scifi shows, which are boooooring
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26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyvt1pMe3r1qztfv2o1_500.png #screenshotsaturday #bitofjam
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@patrickashe you've reminded me i need to bring my other hats today. looking now!
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@KommanderKlobb @patrickashe @asponge bit too long to explain in a tweet. it's a game about passing ever increasing accusations about.
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@HilariousCow i know exactly what you mean. it's something i've been feeling the lack of recently, too.
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@DGoodayle yeah, i took a shedload. will sort... at some point?
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RT @asponge: A hilarious long game of I Demand Satisfaction! began spontaneously in the pub. It feels pretty great when people like a ga ...
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I feel like a waddling little penguin.
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@mattwebb85 @OScpp @kitrichardsonuk Sorry, I was slow getting up and at 'em this morning.
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@mattwebb85 @kitrichardsonuk has arrived!
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@nachimir so did I! It's my ringtune, and it's suitably demented.
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Hey look, @oh_cripes talking about Skies of Arcadia just automatically posted: bestgamedesign.tumblr.com/post/17087381989/joe-bain-on-skies-of-arcadia
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Right, I've set up a tumblr for people to submit #bitofjam games to. bitofagamejam.tumblr.com/submit (or email me a build if you want me to host it)
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@terrycavanagh at least do palette swaps
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The not-really-a-game I've been fiddling with this weekend is up : bitofagamejam.tumblr.com/post/17094134999/blobs-by-v21 #bitofjam
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@edclef oh, that sounds lovely!
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@edclef yeah, I know that. Am feeling pretty bloody knackered myself. But, then, you missed "I Demand Satisfaction" & snowy lemon jousting.
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This is an interesting thing: wonderfl.net/c/zKJB (via @abagames, who I follow despite not being able to read Japanese)
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RT @WonderlandBlog: Answering the door to a builder: "Hello, is there a man in charge?" Me: "there may not be a man in charge." Him: "oh ...
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@emeraldsong the only part of promoterapp.com/ I use is the emails about upcoming submission deadlines...
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@emeraldsong there's also this for jams and competitions : google.com/calendar/embed?src=qff4jughhe4ecuvp5d56coblm8%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=Europe/London
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@tigershungry @KommanderKlobb Can't you picture Ricky as a foreman at a brewery?
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@mattwebb85 And thank you for showing up! Finish it finish it finish it...
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@samjermy87 @JoeKinglake Yep yep, I shall be putting it up soon. Meant to do it last night night, but then I, er, accidentally fell asleep.
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RT @MrAlanCooper: This is one of the wisest posts about UX I've ever read: bit.ly/AgCmQ0
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@JoeKinglake feel free to post it up now -- no shame in an incomplete jam game.
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@oh_cripes I've put ping pong spidermother up on the jam site.
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@oh_cripes ah, yeah. sorry, i was too lazy to do it meself.
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More tickets now released for our GDC party. If you hadn't gotten one before - there is still time! : allotherpartiesaretriteanddull.com/
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@samjermy87 dya know who did Egyptian Cloud Attack? I am afraid I have forgotten, but want to credit them properly.
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@JoeKinglake Sweet, it's live. Who was on yr team, shall I add credits?
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@tigershungry i am trying to use Songkick here, but trying not to notice a)awesome gigs in London while I'm in SF, or b) other way round.
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RT @londonhackspace: We've just broken past 400 paying members! Thanks everyone for your support!
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@jonbro yeah, it was excellent to meet you! looking at your site i see you did pyoing -- that's an excellent little game.
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@profaniti yeah, it was fantastic to meet you. hopefully see you there -- we can totally play on the Beast without everyone else in the way.
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@Slaktus @jimrossignol @MituK It's been needed for the last decade. Depresses me that exiledonline.com/elite-versus-elitny/ is still relevant and incisive.
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@oh_cripes it should auto-size, but tumblr auto inserts width and height attributes into the img tag, which fucks it.
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@tigershungry ..from all those prying eyes... fuck, I guess I have to listen to that now, huh?
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@SiriHoho weeeell, I have hope the rate can be reduced. theglobeandmail.com/news/national/british-columbia/dont-be-that-guy-ad-campaign-cuts-vancouver-sex-assaults-by-10-per-cent-in-2011/article2310422/ is encouraging.
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@SiriHoho The risk of being killed violently these days is at the lowest than at any other time in human history, roughly speaking.
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@SiriHoho the focus on women in rape prevention is pretty fucked up, though. Most women I know are already hyper-cautious/aware.
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@emeraldsong not at all! A reliable, used calendar would be an amazing thing - previous attempts have all kinda fallen over after a bit...
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@SiriHoho for sure I would love to argue this at a pub. Most of what I know of these are from arguing...
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RT @clckwrk: Been thinking about the future, so I made a Roughly Chronological Game Development Bucket List: imgur.com/9sq2N
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@HilariousCow I added three lines to my "terrible game ideas" file last night. I should probably go look to see what they were...
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@edclef @miguelsicart @radiatoryang infovore.org/archives/2011/08/22/technology-as-a-material/ is a lovely essay on technology as a material.
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@edclef @miguelsicart @doougle @mjntendency @radiatoryang difference between "crafting with a material" and the end you're trying to achieve
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"Graphics, story, and music are all key to an amazing game, but nothing defines a title's success more than its gameplay."
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@PerrinAshcroft @terrycavanagh @Dick_Hogg I keep trying to watch it, for the good hate, but my disgust keeps making me stop every 15 seconds
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@FollowEllie my only real q was : so how much is desk space, then?
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@booleanBoy @jax_ed @unseven Just put Big Earner up on the jam site : bitofagamejam.tumblr.com/post/17274404248/big-earner
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@PeopleIKnow Pembury Tavern in Hackney
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@psychicteeth @c_hedborg careful, that way lies Javascript.
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@musebloom :/ sounds terrible for all involved.
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@edclef boy, that is good!
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@musebloom yeah,I figured. no fun. still, on behalf of people who have been rejected before, thank you for doing it gently and unambiguously
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@Cunthorse If I was reading cover letters, I would want the cover letters to be short as possible.
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@Cunthorse people who design forms are different people from the ones who decide.
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@mikeBithell indiegogo ?
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@LewieP I see what you mean, but am reminded of PC Gamer telling IV they'd fucked up the controls for Multiwinia. Was that wrong?
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@oh_cripes @benmilsom can't you just turn up and say "Hello, I am Joe Bain"?
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@nachimir @Dick_Hogg The attitude of serious investment in your work is good though.
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@nachimir @Dick_Hogg I was unemployed and spent a grand and a half on a laptop, and I think that was incredibly sensible to do.
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@FollowEllie lucky the government is getting so gung-ho on supporting startups, then.
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@doougle I would be, actually, yeah (though when I'll get time to read them...)
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Wow, this job looks ace : music.columbia.edu/pipermail/dorkbotlondon-blabber/2012-February/002156.html herding arcade machines around the world for the Barbican...
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@KBsGameTOILET Oh goodness, I really want that to exist.
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RT @edclef: I've been working on palettes in Proteus twistedtreegames.tumblr.com/post/17323491090/been-working-on-colour-theory-and-palettes
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@Slaktus you say that, but @oh_cripes has been having Problems making standalone exe's of his HTML5 games.
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@tiedtiger Calling over $2mil. The news feeds itself by this point.
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@Cunthorse whatcha doing this in?
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@Slaktus @oh_cripes tell that to my half-baked launcher software on The Beast. New platforms don't replace old ones, they supplement them.
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@Cunthorse ah, can't help you there. :<
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RT @bogost_ebooks: Cereal used to *mean* something.
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@c_hedborg I think this is a really good guide to "networking" songbytoad.com/2010/10/song-by-toads-guide-to-schmooze/ (though obviously s/music/games/ )
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@c_hedborg Whole implied aim of that article is to help yr career. But it turns out the best way is the least soulless?
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@Slaktus @oh_cripes like Chrome doesn't provide that now?
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@Slaktus @oh_cripes well, Flash and WebGL both open up the huge attack vector of graphics cards. And I assume it'll be walled garden perms.
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@Slaktus @oh_cripes well, full HW goes further than than. Serial, raw TCP & UDP, full graphics card, even interesting USB stuff...
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@dinosaurrparty @doougle @scd @selmaleh I think that's incredibly important ... but it's a GDC party. Everyone will be from games, anyway.
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@selmaleh True, but I'm skeptical it'll get that crowd. The main reason I care about Wild Rumpus is for attracting non game types, but
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@selmaleh -- but I'm pretty sure AOPATAD will get few to none non-games people. (I know, the music...)
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@psychicteeth oh fuck yea
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@Rachelbug1 Be are good. Virgin Media sometimes good (and don't need a landline, being cable)
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@asponge stupid film overthinking, prefaced with a duke nukem mod. youtube.com/watch?v=0sUIxXCCFWw&feature=player_embedded#!
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@Cunthorse the first thing people managed to put in space was a manhole cover. from an atomic test.
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"let the game be what it wants to be" lockeddoorpuzzle.com/site/devblog/process
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@rclarke boo! hiss!
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Hey, it's me, in a recorded audio format, while a bit pissed and enthusiastic : 99coins.tumblr.com/
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Oddly, I'm hearing a recording of me talking about seeing something on the screen that I am reading these words on.
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@asponge now appended to "terrible game ideas.txt"
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@alrightthere oh yeah, I have a few I took, want a hi-quality zip of 'em?
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@KommanderKlobb @steishere I can confirm that this is very good feedback. Also that I want a Garlic Zoom now.
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@alrightthere and feel free to do whatever you like with 'em.
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@HilariousCow @HilariousCow I remember fighting it when I first got into Macland, but I have acclimated since.
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RT @asponge: I spy space in the new Kotaku schedule for a late-night Fruitaku show: fruitaku.blogspot.com/
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@catburton if you just jump fast enough, you can fly. which is nice. i think listening to creepy ambient helped the atmosphere...
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A Sophisticated Philosophy of Functions with illustrations by Maurice Sendak: phiwumbda.org/~jesse/geek/functions.html
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@Carachan1 I hate all games. And am still waiting to be invited on the show.
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People are using my red, puffy face to sell their videogame to sell someone's console.I feel OK about it. blog.eu.playstation.com/2012/02/10/playstation-vita-discovery-apps-frobisher-says-and-tg/
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apparently the first videogame was called "cathode ray tube amusement device"? that's surely the best name for a game ever!
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Just queued up a month of Best Game Design posts. Up next is @terrycavanagh talking about dying in Dark Souls.
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Lemon jousting in the snow bitofagamejam.tumblr.com/post/17383177041/saturday-night-we-went-lemon-jousting-in-the (cc @Draknek)
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@jonbro hahaha, yes. all done in grey helvetica.
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ZOMG yfrog.com/oe1aqkqj
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@LewieP Do I? I'm pretty sure we don't need to go to California to talk, you only live down the road.
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Of the three ways I could learn of a new DM, email, texts or this page, why is this page the slowest?
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I love the London Hackspace mailing list "theres a totally unused 60w co2 laser just lying under my bed"
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@srules fuck yeah congrats!
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@terrycavanagh well, I've heard umpteen times while editing it and putting it up and testing it, and it's still an excellent story.so: Good!
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@KommanderKlobb @keefstuart if, y'know, context didn't exist, "an appointment with the little man" would sound amazingly sinister.
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Put up a bunch of Bit of A Game Jam pictures last night on bitofagamejam.tumblr.com/ #bitofjam
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@mattwebb85 look at you, studious as anything!
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@HilariousCow that tweet made me seriously consider opening a parody twitter account of you.
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@KommanderKlobb I was thinking more in the lines of The Prisoner, or the Black Books episode with the tiny mobster.
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@edclef is that a ruined tower I see? :D :D
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@edclef Oooh, oooh, feature request! Cross-shaped shelters on saddles, and when you get in the lee of them, the wind noise dies.
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@edclef (like this: go4awalk.com/userpics/paulharrison5.php )
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@patrickashe I had a poached egg, and now am doing some work! It is a good way to live!
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From an email : "Our whole team has been working hard to satisfy your product needs." Guess what for?
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Fry and Laurie on privatizing in the name of choice. Depressingly relevant. youtube.com/watch?v=Nv_TvSB-9Mk
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@KommanderKlobb @docky @edclef (fantastic recordings, a dancing thing in the header, and read the description on eg Sleepy Beach Waves!)
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@hannahnicklin Whip it? Depends on your opinion of Juno-face and the kind of films she's in, but I enjoyed it.
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Hey, @terrycavanagh 's interview went up! Death in Dark Souls! Really fantastic analysis. bestgamedesign.tumblr.com/
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@Cunthorse now four...
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Some point soon, I need to go buy some plastic spoons.
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RT @retroremakes: On that Eurogamer piece from yesterday, "Insert Entitlement, Exit Stage Left" is.gd/8nmhTD
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@musebloom I know surprisingly little about her, and am not particularly curious. I don't really care, but don't even mind other do?
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@Carachan1 You mean you don't like Wiseau's rippling, melted, thrusting flesh?
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@Carachan1 *clench* *clench* *clench* *bellybutton*
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@Carachan1 night night! sweet dreams!
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@whitingjp 'ello! I put bitofagamejam.tumblr.com/post/17526040675/cirrocumulus-castle up.
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@edclef I think, on balance, I would. But you can do something minimal/well stylized. Like just the address lines without stamp or divider?
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@edclef @Dick_Hogg @KommanderKlobb only reason i'd do it is because it transforms it from "card" to "postcard"? stamp face would be enough.
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@tigershungry @KommanderKlobb @Dick_Hogg Now I am imagining you both as a dinosaur comedy duo, that only makes the sounds "RHA!" and "RHO!"
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@terrycavanagh a token that needs to be redeemed, fuel for a machine that's based in town, a key for a lock?
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@terrycavanagh the item you collect requires both hands/is a massive burden/is alive and eating you all the while/is drugs & fucks yr vision
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@lefishy that's some beautiful awareness of colorblindness issues, there.
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@lefishy it's really neat though -- someone did pretty much the same at the gamejam, but this is totally simplest expression of the idea.
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@docky @KommanderKlobb Anything I build will come with a big pile of issues, and no-one who'll fix them but me. :<
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@docky @KommanderKlobb It's of course a tradeoff: ramp-up time/lock in/momentum of the platform/how weird your game is.
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@bfod if the world depended on them, they wouldn't be able to get away with the margins they do...
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@bfod I find lots of things philosophically weird about corporations.
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@docky @KommanderKlobb yet another reason to use open-source when you can... (Not too worried about Unity - they've refused enough offers..)
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@docky @KommanderKlobb to be fair, so is commercial software. But yeah, actually working takes priority.
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Can't wait for tweeting your "jam" to become socially unacceptable.
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So, I'm respamming this since it's not the weekend anymore: @terrycavanagh enthusing about death in Dark Souls bestgamedesign.tumblr.com/
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@doougle @KommanderKlobb beautiful! I want the teletype bell to be pinging furiously as a warning your typing is getting dangerous...
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dreamweaver is write-only bullshit
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@LewieP @marksandspencer maybe you should write them a longwinded letter and post it on your blog full of longwinded complaints letters.
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@DGoodayle I'm just getting the train. But the Megabus might be a bit cheaper?
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@DGoodayle or you could hitch it, but just getting out of London is expensive...
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@resiak yeah, want that joke to die, too. But since posting that, thisismyspam.com/ exists...
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@patrickashe you can add "-county" to your the alert, which should help. unless you get talked about in the context of counties.
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@terrycavanagh man, it's frustrating to have a sucky ping and hence have people outrun you. :(
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@terrycavanagh call it "Look! I found a gemstone!"
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RT @WstonesOxfordSt: Roses are red / Violets are blue / It's Valentine's Day / Buy books
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@oh_cripes fuck yeah, dude, congrats!
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@Carachan1 whip your hair
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@HilariousCow weirdly, i find my excitement largely unaffected by scale...
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@HilariousCow ha, i totally get that. but scale on the cheap opens interesting questions, that could be answered by good games.
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@HilariousCow ie Realm Of The Mad God -- an MMO made by 2 people for a Tigsource Compo...
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@Slaktus @PeterMolydeux too good!
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@Slaktus @PeterMolydeux @HilariousCow (would also be 100% unsurprised if that idea is in the queue for @asponge 's blog)
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Would be interested to see @unity3d s reference docs clustered by mutual referring page counts.
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@medeasin ctrl and + (or ctrl and scrollwheel)?
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@KommanderKlobb @ashleygwinnell i see that on one monitor, but noth the other. think that colour is just super sensitive to viewing angle?
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@Dick_Hogg I'm moaning!
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@la_miaow grey!
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@HilariousCow oooh, yeah, i can put that boids-y thing i did at the jam out on webplayer build.
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@HilariousCow oooh, and use build in gamecenter stuff for cubes
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@FinalBullet @_TheEvent_ if I was up at the right time, yeah!
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@doougle @mybestdayever i'm glad it cheered you up!
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@DGoodayle @patrickashe but seriously, if you ever want a beta tester...
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@bonzrat Please tell me you're planning on reviewing this : moa810.tumblr.com/post/17639632230/finally-hatoful-boyfriend-full-version-comes-out
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@SimoRoth Yeah, I remember at the time. But it's now been translated officially, and is the full version, with an expanded backstory...
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@Carachan1 man i cant wait to get old and rich and get angry about uteri
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@KommanderKlobb too many hidden affordances for me...
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Is there a Game Design course where people have to make a game, put it on the App Store, and get graded on how much cash you make?
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(Not saying it's a good idea, mind)
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@new_nomad you should come to a gamejam! it's pretty much that, except without anyone telling you what to do.
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@new_nomad beginners very much welcome, though - at the last one I hosted there were 5 or 6 people who were making their first game.
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@new_nomad There's one in Cambridge this weekend ( tigjamuk6.eventbrite.com/ ), or I'll probably be hosting another in a few months.
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@new_nomad probably be one somewhere for ludumdare.com/compo/ in April, too.
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@RubZo on my list of games i think i'd love, if i allowed myself the time to play them.
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@RubZo having that list might make me a miserable person
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@smestorp true enough. the main reason is to make them care about the fit, the obscure bugs, the last 10% that takes 90%.
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@jasperstocker if nothing else, it'll give 'em a healthy respect for the concept of marketing things.
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@oh_cripes a bitter lesson to learn
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@annashipman "the excellent v21" *blushes*
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@annashipman happy with either -- one is my "Internet name" and one my "real name", I guess.
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@oh_cripes you still bitter about @srules 's success?
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@RubZo haha, I have a literal one of those. It's called "Terrible game ideas"
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@HilariousCow @docky and then extra GUI to explain the HUD!
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@HilariousCow @docky i'm not sure the precise distinction between feedback and interface?
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@tigershungry @Dick_Hogg that's obviously what's made my computer go all wobbly. how do i uninstall it?
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@Slaktus "if it doesn't have science, it's baseless"?
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videogames are interfaces that don't connect to anything else
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@KommanderKlobb @docky i remember playing FIFA that way.
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@HilariousCow @docky like SupCom's amazing zoomy camera. Or, fuck, Spore did this brilliantly. Best thing about Spore, come to think of it.
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@Slaktus still a shitty analogy. fuck "playing the game wrong". More fun can come from breaking something.
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@Slaktus ie - last Sunday I saw The Room in a cinema. It was fantastic fun. Not at all what the auteur intended. Should I be ashamed?
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@Slaktus if it turns out there's literally nothing of interest in the wrong direction, i'll stop doing it. but that's very rarely the case.
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@Slaktus fuck YES i want to inject my own control into the system! why the hell else would i be playing a game?
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@Slaktus No, it's that I like taking things apart and seeing how they work. wondermark.com/tink8/
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@Slaktus I mean, yeah, I probably would. But again, a different analogy. The game allows actions to exist within it...
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@Slaktus ... the same way a Hitchcock film allows vastly different readings and analyses to be drawn from what he intended.
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@catburton oooh, how is NGUI to work with? less than hateful? (that's really all I ask from Unity GUI systems at this point)
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@RubZo what _about_ hands?
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@RubZo how old fashioned! I play videogames by leering and waggling my eyebrows suggestively.
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@oh_cripes says the person I helped prototype a battle system as a boardgame this morning.
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@oh_cripes (but yeah,they're different in a lot of ways."games" is a weird word, often vaguely used. but non-video games are as interesting)
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@oh_cripes (excuse my abuse of words) because it shares "having mechanics", which is the defining thing that games have.
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@oh_cripes don't make me attempt to do proper games studies words on you.
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@oh_cripes theatre and films I'd accept. there's no hard line between the two...
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Does anyone really need yet another article about what being an indie developer is like?
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@PerrinAshcroft uh, apparently it's a lot of work, and a big risk when starting, but ultimately very rewarding.
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@therussmorris Unity Out-Of-Memory'd right as it was finishing importing assets...
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@therussmorris yeah, restarted and it's reimporting 'em. we'll see!
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@therussmorris not showing up... not gonna fiddle now :<
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@srules @oh_cripes weirdly, while we're in the flat we don't talk to each other at all, Twitter or otherwise.
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@oh_cripes @srules i am making a website in javascript, html and css. today's not my cool day.
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oh small things that are so much better: Ctrl-B in iOS Unity builds for Xcode *and then builds and runs on device*
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I make that an hour and a half to report to a leaderboard and display a score from it in new Unity. Pretty good! Documentation's crap, mind.
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@brendy_c Just so you know, I love you for this Punk's Not Dead series. PEOPLE SHOULD MAKE GAMES.
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@terrycavanagh Dunno if you heard you got props in Bret Victor's talk here : vimeo.com/36579366 (at about 15 mins in)
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The ratio of Things That Are Good For Apple vs Things That I Want To Use is way out of whack apple.com/macosx/mountain-lion/features.html
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RT @Draknek: Oh cool, I didn't realise the Pirate Kart game ideas from Kickstarter backers had been revealed: docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AiGDGxM1mcXVdFVwcEZCYWxLQ0RfMGhKRjFHQTYyb0E Make ...
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Had you forgotten about Things Real People Don't Say About Advertising? tpdsaa.tumblr.com/
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Trying to make something feel a bit awkward, but everything feels awkward as I have been looking at it too long. Should probably stop.
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@DGoodayle @patrickashe i am!
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@DGoodayle @patrickashe I've been before, but I don't really know Cambridge. Why?
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@steishere I have a worse story, but unfortunately to tell it I need to recount an entire breakup...
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@LewieP @mikeBithell that's cheap enough for me to wear to inappropriate places. That's it, I'm gonna become a tux-owning man.
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@LewieP nah, linux still isn't really a viable platform for games, more's the pity.
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RT @asponge: Still puzzled by Sony's backronym for its 'G.I.R.L.' ladies-only game design competition: Gamers in Real Life.
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@asponge there's vans outside fixing it. At least I assume they're fixing it, they claim to be from the power company.
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oh god this looks fantastic, i already hate myself for not having thought of it. eriksvedang.com/2012/02/16/else-heart-break/
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it's so good that i am tempted to avoid looking at it again, so i can clone what i know now and it will feel totally different.
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@asponge @oh_cripes wooo yes our peas!
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"You're the reason we thought the world was flat for a millennia and a half" youtu.be/bzkRVzciAZg (a rant about node.js)
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@KommanderKlobb Similar, but without just being able to click to make it go away.
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@mikeBithell @oh_cripes @LewieP i feel like we should all walk somewhere, reservoir dogs style, in our identical tuxes.
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@mikeBithell @oh_cripes @LewieP or wait, better -- we can go out and toss a ball around like in The Room. FOR NO REASON AT ALL.
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#FF @sdgames for making so many more games than me, and for inventing the genre "GIRLS".
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@robinlacey @SiriHoho wedge the door shut with a chair. youtube.com/watch?v=2-aiWxmJBds#t=0m15s
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@asponge I think I own the tie...
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@psychicteeth @asponge if everyone just pays a dollar, no-one has to see my balls. or my indeterminately hairy arse.
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RT @asponge: Amazing Dear Esther Steam forum post: "I don't care about my $10. I care about the damage you've done to indie gaming" http ...
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When people think"indie gaming",we've worked long and hard to ensure that the thought that comes to mind is"grassroots, good value,good fun"
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@asponge I squeezed, what, like 4 characters out of that one.
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@edclef hells yeah! now you can visit links on Twitter during the day :D
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@doougle if you need/want a pair of eyes to go over it, you have mine.
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Will be heading off to Cambridge and #tigjamuk6 in the morning, I think. It's been a long week.
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My real problem with the Gatekeeper thing is that the primary motivation reads as Apple taking control, not protecting users.
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Why do I need to press Shift-Escape to get the results I expect from good old Escape?
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RT @ukslim: RT @tkingdoll WOW RT @bengoldacre: Who is, and is not, invited to Cameron's emergency NHSbill summit? A data vis. http://t.c ...
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@Cunthorse because you don't live in a hyperbaric chamber, the air can get in and out and push on you.
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Is it an offense to read a newspaper while driving? (Taxi number is 84942, btw) yfrog.com/g02mmkj
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I saw a ghost bike and felt sad.
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@Carachan1 hmmm... a plate of ham? No, that's Benedict Cumberbatch. Maybe a hot cup of black coffee on a windowsill?
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New themes are : Frying Pan and Oath. #tigjamuk
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I must confess -- my mind is as much focused on whether to go downstairs and order food and drink as it is on this game.
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Making a game about fonts in AS3 using only TextFields. Because why not?
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Made a font game nottheinternet.com/games/fonts/
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(wanted to do it with just ampersands, but AS3's hasGlyphs() seems utterly fucked, so had to abandon that)
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@pippinbarr Haha! It pulls all of the fonts from your computer...
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@resiak quick, to Da Font! dafont.com/theme.php?cat=118
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@imaginary_lines haha -- it chooses from all the fonts installed on your PC...
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@penguat yes, there is! I know exactly the code to fix it. Until then, consider it a statement on the relationship between player and game
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@smestorp @KommanderKlobb I have done too many things involving cubes. But I am loading CUBES as I type.
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@simonv3 @danielguntrip Sounds like excellent times.
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Collaboration with @whitingjp : Hefty Seamstress nottheinternet.com/games/heftyseamstress/ #tigjamuk
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@SiriHoho @Carachan1 G D fuckin' C!
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@oh_cripes it kills insects
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@oh_cripes well, there's flies in the top of one of them
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@oh_cripes There was a thin layer of dead ones.
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@oh_cripes like fly poison sickens flies?
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@ExciteMike @smestorp @whitingjp @terrycavanagh hell, if needs be I could just run DELETE * FROM heftyseamstress;
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@SiriHoho @vetraskr Yeah, they're good for ale.
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Oh, yeah, also @whitingjp 's interview talking about Nethack went up this morning bestgamedesign.tumblr.com/post/17875208397/jonathan-whiting-on-nethack
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Waiting out a food coma reading Playing To Win ( sirlin.net/ptw-book/1-deception.html ) . Suspect I would enjoy it more if s/game/sport/
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@KommanderKlobb why would you want them actually rotated when you can have a flag set in the EXIF data?
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Haha, an excellent Hefty Seamstress: "Yearnings : Yearly earnings are rather nice. Indies need great sales."
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@Slaktus Why would games need one?
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@Slaktus I say that more from disrespect of games than HST.
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@Slaktus Look to the games themselves for your bravery.
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Where were the recipes? I forgot? I know it was in "royalty", but what linked to there?
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@Draknek I think now is the time to start thinking monetisation.
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@PerrinAshcroft @terrycavanagh I'm not sure that would improve it?
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@smestorp Magical! We need an URL scheme for this. Web 4.0!
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@smestorp hefty://ogre.roughhouse.underling.liquorice.regimes.recipes !!
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slapping an ease on it
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@asponge wait wait --- when her friend gets killed, she knows that he wouldn't be the kind to blow his head off with a pistol --
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@asponge --he'd use a shotgun! she's left with only one option -- to play the Game of Death and find the killers herself...
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@asponge and then something about a heart-throb videogame developer, but whatever.
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@HilariousCow nothing like a project becoming awesomely pretty when all you have to do is import some graphics.
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@JMicklee most of 'em --- but enchiladas are still unexpanded.
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@Minkette @D_Nye_Griffiths 'cuz she's the one whose harassment has been on my twitter feed >5 times this morning?
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@Minkette @D_Nye_Griffiths besides, I am super bored of that game where both people try to be seen as the bigger victim.
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@D_Nye_Griffiths @Minkette I thought it was over the "story mode"? Not that a stupid internet argument has to keep ontopic...
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@Minkette @D_Nye_Griffiths Welcome to Jim Sterling!
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"engine: enough namespaces, gameplay is next experiment" <3 whoever wrote that one.
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@Cunthorse oh ffs, fuck the games industry
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@robertasaliani doesn't matter, as it's done by corporations, who are sociopaths
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@oh_cripes I saw nothing of that at the time! Wanna play when I finish fucking with spreadsheets?
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@benmilsom why would anyone currently wildly successful risk it on the latest hyped thing the kids with haircuts are going on about?
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@alexlifschitz @Carachan1 I'm serious here. Can we organize an unofficial Deadly Premonition GDC conference track?
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@benmilsom (that said with the understanding that I am a kid with a haircut, and I do think they'll die if they don't change)
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@alexlifschitz @Carachan1 (to be completely honest, i'm not entirely serious. but i could become serious, if it seemed possible)
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@benmilsom I think I might use "flippant yet kinda right" as my bio.
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@GKokoris @alexlifschitz @MituK @q0rt @tinysubversions @Carachan1 2 Qs left to decide: What day? Who's going to recruit Swery?
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RT @flyosity: Twitter is ditching /#! in their URLs. I guess it wasn't a well-thought out idea to begin with. sfy.co/aUW
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Celeriac really is a lovely vegetable.
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@jon_ellis I only tried it for the first time last night! I had roasted carrots, peppers and celeriac. But that sounds damn good!
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@whitingjp some fine unhanding there
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@LewieP ayah, that is a mess. :/
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Missed this at #tigjamuk -- pretty magical tech. youtube.com/watch?v=AXRstRzClP4
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@Fortress_Inman but "indie" is a mixture of both, weirdly. And it's a diffuse and porous boundary.
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@RubZo come round ours, Joe's making pancakes
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I swear yesterday someone was talking about making a game set in the SCP universe... rockpapershotgun.com/2012/02/21/the-neverending-stairway-scp-087/
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@ortoslon @increpare that's really neat -- did it come out of the "Vows" theme?
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You know what the fucking scandalous part of eoin-clarke.blogspot.com/2012/02/333-donations-from-private-healthcare.html is? How fucking cheaply the NHS has been sold for.
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@asponge only if you promise to look radder as a result.
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@asponge it's true, you are pretty optimally rad.
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@Slaktus Both, alternating. It's the part of game-making that feels closest to writing to me.
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@Slaktus least it's easier to see what people are thinking when they play levels than when they read stuff.
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Hey, we have a lineup for our GDC party ! (or half of one, anyway) allotherpartiesaretriteanddull.com/lineup/
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(can you tell we synchronise our announcements?)
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I finally beat ded.increpare.com/~locus/Negative_Shape/ love how the time pressure comes in towards the end, when you've lost track of your plans.
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@KommanderKlobb negative shape and promises by @increpare. And @smestorp's number game. And MANPONG. And I did a font guessing game, too.
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@tiedtiger I don't know what the right impression is. Which is the crux of the issue, isn't it, really?
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@moritz_stefaner always the doubt I have about Lakoff's work (which I love)
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@brandonnn @nsuttner thus, the resurgence of vinyl.
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@iamdanw arg, yes. especially having spent the weekend at a gamejam with no sponsorship, no prizes, no presentations, and pub and sleeping.
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@Demruth cuz the venue has a capacity, and you can't set kickstarter to make $35 and $15 tickets come from a common pool?
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RT @Lucky_Chip: Burger of the Week-JEFF BRIDGES True Grit Burger:Dry aged Beef Patty,Smoked Bacon,Bourbon&Maple Glazed Apple,BBQ Sauce,O ...
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@Demruth yeah, Kickstarter is a weird choice for selling event tickets.
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@planetjedward broadly in favour
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The future is a weird place. carlos.bueno.org/2012/02/bots-seized-control.html
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@Dick_Hogg @KommanderKlobb well, likely no human decided to put it on sale...
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@ortoslon I like animated avatars. Hell, mine's pretty obnoxious in the opposite way.
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Side effect of new new twitter: I assume all women who start following me are spambots (I could usually tell by username before) :(
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@Sarah_Jaaane if it's any consolation, I did notice you were a real person? :(
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@DGoodayle yeah, but I used to be able to do it at a glance...
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RT @radiodario: help a man when he's in trouble and he'll remember you when he's in trouble again.
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@DGoodayle and besides -- sex _is_ pretty great.
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really curious to see what results from this (code as poetry) code-poems.com/index.html
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@renaudbedard Did you put keyboard controls on Volkenessen yet? Would love to put it on The Beast arcade machine here in London.
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@richlitt one thing that works against it is rhythm -- in code, rhythm is a sign you could be doing this quicker/better, whereas in poetry
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@HilariousCow I've still not gotten into VS. In part because I'm Mac at work, but...
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@oh_cripes Quite the opposite, I'd imagine? "Code meant to be read, not to be run."
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@nachimir @LewieP "from now on"? but, then, yeah -- mo' money, mo' disputes over money.
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@oh_cripes sounds like it! congrats! you made it onto der Frietag!
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@Slaktus yeah -- and it's a fantastic thing too. everyone should code! (but I wouldn't like to work with lots of them)
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@tiedtiger of everything i've read about the Vita, this was the one thing that's made me want it the most.
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@richlitt damn you! I'm only up to 494!
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@bentosmile If you want to collab on making that up into a entry for next year, I am totally in.
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IGF drama : s'fucked up, but who's surprised that volunteer judges sometimes do a halfassed job?
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@Slaktus Sure. And the organizers bugged judges to play the game repeatedly when they hadn't.
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@Slaktus If the IGF used entrance money to pay judges enough to make them more motivated than basic human decency does, fee'd be above $100.
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@Slaktus that's a criticism of specific judges, not the IGF as a whole. Or if it is -- where do you find hundreds of free, motivated judges?
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@danintheshed it's more the huge quantity and diversity in games. hard to encompass all of that - bigger divide between big and small devs.
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@danintheshed Yeah, pretty much. It's simultaneously unworkable and the best thing about it, imho.
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@Cunthorse you could sum the range and then sum that with the other cell, at least?
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@doougle @KommanderKlobb @smestorp IGF is, and will remain for some time, The Big One. You can't get that elsewhere.
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@Slaktus @doougle @KommanderKlobb @smestorp it's a necessary price in the war of "Everyone Should Make Games".
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@Cunthorse i got my brother it for xmas -- always felt a little bit bad about it being disappointing?
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@doougle @KommanderKlobb @smestorp definitely. & for all the other reasons. but it's not an alternative to the IGF. for the foreseeable.
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@therussmorris @docky I like this, this sounds good.
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You had me til TCL ... (but still looks like an interesting & exciting sound program) dinisnoise.org/
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@doougle flatmate solidarity compels me to recommend Uprok, by @oh_cripes. But it's pretty ace, for reals.
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@Slaktus great car. great car.
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@bendotc there's one very sensible reason for this. it is because HOKRA IS AMAZING.
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@DGoodayle You do!
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@Slaktus maybe they like the story, or the artwork, or whatever.
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@Slaktus games don't need to become anything, other than everything.
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Just got the weirdest case of Tetris effect. I saw some stuff sticking in eye-space, and some stuff sliding past in world-space.
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Ah well, back to fucking with normals on this shader.
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@asponge does that mean no swapping food with other diners?
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@asponge i dunno, if you tested yr body temps against each other first, it could be okay
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@doougle @tigershungry GO AWAY I'M IN MY HAPPY PLACE!
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@doougle @tigershungry i don't know if it's the tiredness or what, but now I really want to design Proteus : The Card Game.
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@edclef @brandonnn @doougle @tigershungry @dkanaga @zoewi I present : Proteus : The Card Game v21.tumblr.com/post/18145038273/proteus-card-game
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@edclef @KommanderKlobb @patrickashe @SurplusGamer you say that ... but I chased one up a mountain yesterday and felt guilty.
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@psychicteeth how startlingly sane!
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@edclef @GriselCat I hadn't even considered that. I suddenly want to do it! But I know it's wrong! :< I love/hate games with moral dilemmas!
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@asponge I think the format is established enough...?
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@asponge i realize i am actually only saying that because i want to read them. want you to read them. so i can read them.
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@reallyfancy Happy birthday! Are those Krispy Kreme's I spy?
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@samjermy87 haint got a ticket yet. probably? I felt sad about not making it last year.
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RT @andrewducker: Why people draw on computer screens. With marker pens. (Because their software is rubbish.) bit.ly/zQUp0V
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@rclarke tbf, that was an actual design goal for the game?
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@increpare @S0phieH Everyday things!
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@doougle @pippinbarr excellent stuff! i really want the values to be sliders available on the level... maybe it'd be too powerful?
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@ashleygwinnell a script hooked up to mplayer/mencoder should do it.
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@FakeDoougle wait, wait -- does this mean you're Doug dreaming?
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@MWegner Excellent post, but the nitpicker in me wants to point out that if 20% of judges flake, you need 25% more judges...
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@MWegner I'm sorry.
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@edclef yeah, no prizes for guessing which game came into my mind while reading it...
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@Slaktus yesss
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@edclef Yeah, Night Sky is a really beautiful game. I love how unafraid to be easy it is.
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Printing some business cards. With a laser cutter.
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@danieltownsend Mountboard. This part feels like printing - it's scanning across, and burning off the black top layer of the mountboard.
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@kitrichardsonuk @mattwebb85 Sounds like ace fun. But I can only really after I'm back from San Francisco. So like, end of March/April?
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@danieltownsend I'm using the London Hackspace one. You could use it, too!
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@edclef Nahh, I was kinda trolling. But Night Sky is lovely though -- auntiepixelante.com/?p=886 is an ace piece on it.
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RT @whitingjp: It begins! My first #piratekart game: Frigid Seamstress jonathanwhiting.com/jam/pirate_gdc/frigidseamstress/ obv. a riff on nottheinternet.com/games/heftyseamstress/ Sorry @v ...
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@whitingjp @smestorp Nice or treat? Bad and dead!
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@whitingjp @smestorp Totally okay to ask limeys like you.
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@S0phieH Damn you! I wanted to make that game! Literally, it was on my List. But I'm glad to hear it's so violent.
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Right, if I'm to do more with the day than just watch Pulp videos on YouTube, I probably should do that, eh?
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@tigershungry YOU ARE THE PANDA SLIPPERS
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@S0phieH don't worry, I will (someday) I'll just have to up my game for my version.
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@brandonnn @aleksk bloody clouds... I didn't catch the ISS...
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Feel like I should spend tomorrow making fake Frobisher Says levels for the Pirate Kart.
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@Cunthorse I can see the argument that it kind of is though. Frustrating to denounce evil, but be too polite to name it.
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@awesommelier depends... will they be just as much of a cock-weasel if you do?
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@rclarke ha, I did that too after @severalbees suggested it. Source of stress: removed.
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@hannahnicklin i'd rather be occasionally accidentally offensive than always boring. ideal would be neither, but hey!
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@hannahnicklin I'm sure it's possible! At the very least theoretically.
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@hannahnicklin such a lag between action and response though. and always possible people feel either way, and you never hear of it.
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@edclef :D
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@asponge play it play it play it did you play it?
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@patrickashe Ha, was it you who sparked that off? Saw people enjoying that fact earlier.
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@KommanderKlobb needs to be on kong for that to work, i think.
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@SFBTom @KommanderKlobb I was considering recommending them, but last I saw the leaderboards were borked for new games for a few weeks now.
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@SFBTom @KommanderKlobb might be fixed now? is mochi not pretty intrusive? would honestly like a good solution here.
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Want to hear about one of the very first computer games? Like, before that one? My interview with @siobhanthomas is up! bestgamedesign.tumblr.com/post/18308124774/siobhan-thomas-on-mouse-in-the-maze
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I studied evolutionary psychology at university, which makes me feel defensive every so often when reading things on the Internet.
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I think it's totally a excellent area of study -- I am properly skeptical of the just-so stories -- I'm not a crypto-racist or whatever.
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@KommanderKlobb @terrycavanagh when you run a social indiegames night, everything looks like a multiplayer party game.
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@KommanderKlobb @terrycavanagh but yes -- it looks, feels and sounds fantastic. Makes me just the right amount motion-queasy/uncomfortable.
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(The course was actually called Sociobiology, but lets not even go into that)
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@DayMoonRoseDawn That was a beautiful critique. Thank you!
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@Slaktus oh, don't fear, I am properly sceptical of just-so stories. Hellaciously difficult to do right.
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@Slaktus Interesting that it's way easier to do these kinds of analyses on, say, blue tits, than on people. Politics is only partly why.
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@Slaktus same issue should apply to half of psych, though.
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@Slaktus ecological validity?
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This is pretty cool : wow.joystiq.com/2012/01/12/guide-dog-player-and-guild-embrace-sightless-guildmate-steer/
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Man, it's confusing using a Mac keyboard with a Windows machine when you use a Mac at work.
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@siobhanthomas not at all! Super fascinating to talk about.
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@psychicteeth Waiter, there's a ghost in my soup! Ghostly goings-on. G-G-G-G-G-G-G-G-G-G-G-G-G-G-G-G-G-G-G-Ghost! The Tale of a Ghost!
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@therussmorris When I put together my bookshelf, I didn't have a hammer, so I used a wooden spoon.
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@therussmorris Worked surprisingly well.
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@psychicteeth ah, whoops. Good names there, nonetheless.
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@psychicteeth rapgenius.com/ is pretty good.
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@LewieP ha, I went to Stratford yesterday to get my tux.
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Looking back through favorited tweets : youtube.com/watch?v=yGW05V7nCOQ&feature=player_embedded via @doougle is beautiful.
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@HilariousCow ha, is weird when someone makes exactly the game you were gonna, though.
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@benmilsom @KommanderKlobb @surplusgamer @kalligula sure, why wouldn't they be. not that's it's worth going without all the cool people.
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HEY LOOK visitproteus.com/ PROTEUS IS OUT! You should definitely buy it. Right now. It's the best place.
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@benmilsom I'm not one to make idle threats. Unless the threats would be a lot of effort to enact.
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@edclef Only just saw the @retroremakes pull quote. Heh. Cheeky!
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RT @Draknek: My friend has a ticket for Zombie LARP zombielarp.co.uk/2012/zombie-larp-white-noise-tickets-now-on-sale/ but can't make it any more. Is anyone interested in buying his ...
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I totally made a game today nottheinternet.com/games/gridwars/
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(Which isn't so impressive considering how many some people have made. But whatever -- this is my first Kart game)
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@rclarke I mainly went on there so I could get all the Das Racist references.
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@design3video Yeah, I kinda failed by being slow, and making something I was kinda proud of. Heh. Quantity, not quality!
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@therussmorris apparently, yes! (I am running late, but on my way in)
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@polyfonken oh, hey, I'd love to meet you at gdc some time.
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@oh_cripes @tigershungry how wonderful!
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@DGoodayle sure, what do you want?
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@DGoodayle make games and talk to people. s'basically all it comes down to.
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@DGoodayle thanks :)
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@edclef one thing i did find was that having a screenshot button ruined the peace in the same way going walking with a camera can do.
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@edclef not sure if this is a complaint or not... I did enjoy "taking photos" of the sights I saw.
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@edclef Was there a tweet before this?
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@jasperstocker @MrJop Easy enough to write a game "raw" in Flash. Stencyl generates Flash code, and Flixel and FP are very useful libraries.
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@TomNullpointer @edclef oh oh oh oh oh! Include an I-Spy booklet in the physical box!
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A beautiful story : Epic Flash memory leak track down wp.me/pImhf-d1 (via @Draknek)
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@kennethfejer Oh man, congrats! Can't wait to see what you guys produce!
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Does anyone know if it's possible to make a shader that renders a texture using screen space UVs in OpenGL ES 1.1 (doing this in Unity)?
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@imaginary_lines is this love-related or elsewise? either way, I hope it turns out the right way.
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@Carachan1 hahahahahahahahaha. Mine also stopped a few moments ago. But you know what? I thought OKAY TIME FOR BED instead. You win.
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@Carachan1 pshah! no chance that'll happen. I mean, he hasn't even sent me a list of Jeff Goldblum quotes, like I asked.
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@Carachan1 (which is totally my excuse for not finishing that thing, despite making like 3 games since starting it)
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Sext: This is the Evergreen Forest. Calm, peaceful, serene. That is, until Bert Raccoon wakes up.
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This is how I want my videogames to look: chromeexperiments.com/detail/fluid-simulation-with-turing-patterns/
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@tigershungry it's a taste thing, you wouldn't understand
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@asponge you must admit, though, pirates do have good hats.
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RT @planetjedward: PART OF ME! I AINT A PART! I AM EDWARD! OK MAYBE I AM A COOL CARTOON PERSON THAT ALL THE FANS DRAW AND MAKE MY EPISODES
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RT @asponge: Gorgeous X-Men couture costumes: THAT CYCLOPS tencentticker.com/projectrooftop/2012/02/01/pr-approved-kevin-wadas-x-men-coutoure-part-3/ THAT KITTY tencentticker.com/projectrooftop/2011/11/02/pr-approved-more-of-kevin-wadas-x-men-coutoure/ tencentticker.com/projectrooftop/2012/02/10/pr-approved-kevin-wada%E2%80%99s-x-men-coutoure-part-4/ htt ...
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RT @Antichamber: Official Antichamber Trailer is now online! vrge.co/xCfi1X
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@LewieP I didn't like it -- it only stirred up desires that can not yet be sated.
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@LewieP hey, it's doing it's job if it makes me want the game more.
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@reallyfancy @rclarke must say, I'm with Kerry on this one. I can imagine the terrible conversations about those screens.
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@doougle @joonturbo could you do audio processing on the devices to detect the music's speed? then put the game logic in the devices.
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@Slaktus There's two in the Pro-only Image Effects package.
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@edclef @whitingjp @dkanaga ha -- as @oh_cripes can testify, I have fallen asleep to Proteus. Reclined in a sofa, this time, mind.
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This is the least intelligible interview ever: news.killscreendaily.com/post/18444610044/the-indie-talks-an-indie-dream-team-goes-for-gold-in (<3 <3 <3)
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@pippinbarr @miguelsicart Hokra! TENNNES!
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Fuck having to rebalance your game to make the framerate not suck. But on the plus side, the framerate no longer sucks!
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Listening to @ElectronDance interview @NewLifeInteract , and find @ragamesound worked on yet ANOTHER cool thing.
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@miguelsicart @pippinbarr Vlambeer are working on it!I didn't love it, but excitingly, I didn't love it in the same way I don't love tennis.
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I am numb to the visuals of CUBES, I am numb to the sound of CUBES, I am numb to the feel of CUBES. But that go I just had was exciting!
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@nachimir @S0phieH @retroremakes Having read that Gama piece ... I'm tempted to submit "PONG BUT THE PADDLES ARE COCKS". Written in crayon.
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@radiodario check your email!
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Can someone make me an educational game explaining iOS provisioning? Please?
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@c_hedborg @doougle @zenalbatross It's a pinnacle of disassociated contextless utterances, in a medium perfectly suited for them.
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@therussmorris trying to add people to a provisioning profile, but it's not taking. & earlier logging into Portal gave me the sign-up form.
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@robertpeacock22 well, I'm using Testflight already. It's the dance you have to do to get shit signed to Apple's satisfaction that kills me.
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@robertpeacock22 Ultimately, it is a complex system with no good underlying structure that I must still interact with frequently. Sucks!
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@robertpeacock22 I'm getting by, I just hate dealing with it...
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@KommanderKlobb seems to be running smoothly on my iPad, it has GameCenter stuff in -- it's asymptotically reaching completion.
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Made a cheap variant of my weekend game: glorioustrainwrecks.com/node/3005 I accidentally made a neat puzzle mechanic?
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@doougle actually read that article! Disagree with it's fundamental premise. Horse_ebooks is no less interesting post-Chen. s'not the point.
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Look at the exciting things that arrived in the post! yfrog.com/nyg2cjtcj
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RT @marksteward: Protip: sysdate - interval '1' year throws an exception on 29th February #slightlylessobvious
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@asponge It works because their teachers will be excited by their nostalgia for BBC Micros.
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This article actually made me tear up some killscreendaily.com/articles/unauthorized-and-incomplete-story-igf-pirate-kart
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@terrycavanagh starting my own terrible game ideas file has changed my life for the better. The weirdest feeling is seeing games crossed off
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Oh hey, I should ask : anyone going to GDC and wants to, y'know, meet up and talk about stuff?
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@nachimir @msemtd that's so much fun to do. didja fall over backwards at all?
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Gah, I swear I have spent as long trying to name this game as I did developing it. fuck it, I'mma call it "a bastard".
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@jonty It's not really Javascript, it's C# that looks like Javascript.
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NEW GAME: nottheinternet.com/games/abastard/ It's called "A Bastard" and is for 2 players.
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@oh_cripes ha, and here's me at the Hackspace.
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Pull quote and a half : "It promises to be a highly concentrated point of light that will instantly blind people who stare directly at it."
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(that was a description of All Other Parties Are Trite And Dull, from here: games.parsons.edu/2012/02/gdc-2012-party-patrol/ )
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@hannahnicklin @rosebiggin If you ever do have any great suggestions for What To Do About Being So Tired, I would love to hear them.
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@Cunthorse but it would be fine to do CRITICISM on it. Which is far more Noble and Fancy than a mere REVIEW.
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@hannahnicklin I have so much inclination. There's just all these things I have decided, and appear to continue deciding to do first.
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@ishisoft oh wow.