Tweets from 2012/06
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Was enjoying Twin Peaks til @asponge told me to turn it off if I was going to sleep through it.
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@timburke55 tbf, I was asleep at the time and "most episodes it's fine to miss part of, but this one is crucial".
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@docky @PerrinAshcroft @ExciteMike for real, it's made me get more enthused and made me think my Playtest Nights idea should be a real thing
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@garethbriggs I quit old support job and vowed never to sign an email "Many thanks," again. Now I'm usually a manual "-G"
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Trouser Joust was the discovery of the evening.
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@BRKeogh I don't have it either! But I think I will shortly. Double Fine. The on everyone goes on about.
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I feel like a real game designer now : my Wiztigs order arrived.
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@BRKeogh someday I'll take a year off and play all these games I'm supposed to have played.
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@BRKeogh I'm just kidding, I'll never do that.
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@metasynthie oh no. That was discussed, but this is entirely it's own thing. Like 0 crotch thrusts, for one.
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@metasynthie the way it works, is you tie the Move strap to your belt. And then you play Joust without touching your own controller.
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@metasynthie don't get me wrong - I enjoy games with crotch thrusts. This just involves lunging at other people's crotches instead.
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I don't care about Inbox Zero. What I want to hit is Laundry Zero.
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@MetzoPaino @HilariousCow err... not sure. Bit late to call it off/move it, maybe. I was gonna maybe be at the expo, though.
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@mugathur it's that time of the day again!
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RT @Michael_French: Ironically, these Zynga post-its I have aren't very sticky.
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@Carachan1 I get the impression the new game is about Lara stumbling around with a broken arm bleeding on things.
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@jennatar <3
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Hookshot Inc! hookshotinc.com/cubes-that-was-falling-with-cubes/
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RT @HookshotInc: A story about an iOS game called Cubes, a drunken commute and endlessly falling through space: hookshotinc.com/cubes-that-was-falling-with-cubes/
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@metasynthie Naww. They have no point at which they are defeated, only the point at which you walk away. That's how they do it.
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"Why is someone as creative and influential as Richard Lemarchand also such a nice guy?" I DON'T GET IT EITHER.
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@metasynthie Yeah, but I'd not praise smoking because quitting smoking is a difficult personal victory.
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@metasynthie That's reasonable. But games can fuck up your real life too.
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@metasynthie Remembering a friend who stopped sleeping regularly to play Travian better. Amongst other examples.
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At some point I'll stop making variations on a single website (nottheinternet.com/cubes nottheinternet.com/hell allotherpartiesaretriteanddull.com)
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@agAitcheson thank you! Hope you enjoy it!
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Hey, Ring Fling is pretty good, y'all. tinyurl.com/ringfling . It's more expensive than CUBES, though.
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@q0rt oh yes, that one is clearly worst. Go for the middle, I'd say, unless the room is super sunny/you have some stunning feature for it.
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@hannahnicklin hey, yeah, that's pretty terrible. Agree with whoever was lamenting that Brendan's piece wasn't widely syndicated.
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@hannahnicklin (though maybe that doesn't matter so much when you've managed to get attacked in PA for an essay)
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Right, so I just showed @oh_cripes the Hitman trailer. Thing is, he was behind them. He coulda just walked away.
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I showed Maddie-cat a video of herself, and she was intrigued. Business idea: cat teleconferencing.
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We could call it CatChat.
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@PeopleIKnow I don't know if it helps, but I'm also disappointed you're not at Legoland.
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RT @jonboris: My first iOS game BLAST HAPPY is now live! Get involved in the tap-fest! playblasthappy.co.uk/
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@jonboris DID I MENTION? I put in the CUBES start after seeing how juicy your start button was, and how it helped lift the whole game.
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@jonboris PARTICLES
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RT @TerrorBullGames: now seems as good a time as any to admit i'm working on a new game. it's about nation squabbles, called, provisiona ...
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@steishere You're drunk, Ste.
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@robertpeacock22 And I've changed it again! What is this world coming to?
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Living on the edge; drinking unpasteurized milk.
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COPY PASTE PAGEANT superfriendshipclub.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=568&p=4640
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@cunthorse I'm not quite sure. How much of what we feel is just chemicals sloshing about? They're not all originating in the brain.
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@S0phieH oh christ, need to look into that too. Also : how to make models. hm-hmmmm!
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Watching _something_ slowly become illuminated on the ISS livestream with @jennatar
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DAWN!
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Also learning about Acrophobia eingang.org/Games/acrosfaq.html , which is basically a competitive @heftyseamstress
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@doougle @pippinbarr Why are you letting him have the option? Of course he should be making one.
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PARTICLES TO THE MAX directtovideo.wordpress.com/2009/10/06/a-thoroughly-modern-particle-system/
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She did it! Ladies and gentlement, enchiladas by @jennatar:"Employ nacho, cheddar, habanero. Impetrate lard, and deepfry. Audaciously serve"
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@jennatar You pulled it off, though! My favorite word was "habanero".
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@srules You gotta chase your dreams.
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Damn, this idea requires learning more about OpenGL than I wanted to learn.
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@mikeBithell That totally works for Thomas, but there's more interesting relationships than can be easily expressed with tiles.
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@mikeBithell Yeah, any way to express your game that matches it naturally is going to be best. Uh, but don't write an engine. :S
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@doougle Glad you like it, thanks Doug!
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@radiatoryang oooh oh oh ooooh!
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@ElectronDance Should I ask why, or wait for the article in a few months time?
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@ElectronDance cheers, I should get the iOS version on the web too. (a larges part of the motivation for that is to get on freeindiegam.es)
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@ElectronDance Sounds like the flip side of why games are so exciting to work in. It's not been done yet!
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@lefishy I just replayed UHU, and the screen wrapping was totally neat & made things interesting.
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@xbelanch Thanks! What's your best score?
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Hefty Seamstress got written about. artificebooks.wordpress.com/2012/06/03/words-with-strangers-playing-hefty-seamstress/ cc @whitingjp
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RT @The_Swole_Nerd: @creedfangirl the tower bridge is raised and the del boy effigy is released falling backwards between the gap.
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@whitingjp isn't that great? Also I realized last night that @heftyseamstress should link to the source-sentence it expands.
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@xbelanch the controls work held overhead!
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@whitingjp no, no, to the tweet should be a reply to a/the tweet containing the source-sentence.
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"an indoor public space in which you do not have to buy anything in order to stay" nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2012/jun/02/north-west-london-blues/
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@cYnborg I have no suggestions to give you. I am pathetically reliant upon people handing me my models, rigging, animations, textures etc.
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@cYnborg Yeah, I have a resolutely 3D, model-needing idea for 7DFPS, so I'm entirely sure what I'll do.
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@lefishy Just had a brainwave for a UHU modifiers - the view pans, or rotates, but the wrapping remains in force.
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@lefishy uhhh --- the starting point goes wandering. things slide off left/up (and slide in from the right/down).
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@kitrichardsonuk @asponge I will be there! Also, don't worry about the press release, I've sent out my own stabs at it already.
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@Carachan1 floppy haired Lord Byron type.
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@KommanderKlobb @psychicteeth I am here too!
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@Carachan1 @edclef @asponge that's between you and your internal slobmeter. Going to wagamamas now, can let you know when we're pubwards.
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@Draknek shoulda went walking.
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#2 most read on BBC News bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18280000 I feel ashamed to be involved with the gamer scene. I feel a bit defensive.Isn't that fucked?
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Trying to decide if I should transcribe Games We Have Known And Loved entries. (I guess I could pay someone else to do it?)
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@KommanderKlobb I've also not been great about being upfront at the editing I've done on them too.
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@KommanderKlobb Though I don't think I've mangled meaning. Just to get the time down and removing occasional "this is terrible"s from within
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@KommanderKlobb Is there really an issue of consent for transcription? Would you be miffed if your hypothetical interview got transcribed?
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@iamtef Already follow it. Not entirely sure why, it just bums me out.
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@docky I think about what it's going to be, and then I make the thing that the most other bits depend on.
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@smestorp I've chosen to make a game that involves 3D models and netcode, neither of which I've done. So I'm getting a little practice in.
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@smestorp I mean, I'm planning to practice. I'm actually editing an interview and going webGL. :S
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@Slaktus @HilariousCow endgame implies that things are somehow drawing to a close.
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@Carachan1 @Slaktus @HilariousCow And thank goodness for that! The way to make change is to challenge and call out fucktards.
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I edited @jennatar down to under 5 minutes! Success!
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@jennatar Call it being thoughtful.
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Probably time to head down and check out this indie expo thing. Alas no London Indies for me tonight, though.
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Why am I reading twitter fuck off E3 I guess I work in games but I don't really want to know these things not really.
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I mean if I was watching the feeds I could snipe at it that would be fun but I don't really care as to what smartglass is.
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@Carachan1 yesqq
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@lefishy I will do my tiny tiny shove to help fix it, and I will continue complaining.
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@lefishy and I shove not out of altruism. Out of that same disgust and because it's a happy side effect of aims I already have.
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1/2 buses home and my oyster card is out of money. Seems fucked that this is inevitably the most expensive part of the evening.
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@lefishy I mean, pretty much this. Doesn't mean it's good.
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Heyyyy! My ownwards bus pulling away, and dawn. Two sights I desperately want to see right now.
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@iamdanw can never get enough Nordic larp
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@Carachan1 ugh I'm not even out of bed yet
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@RobMeyer7 that's pretty good! Glad you're enjoying it!
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Suddenly I feel okay with the world/E3 : youtube.com/watch?v=FKJbPPN1SnY&feature=BFa&list=UU23zHrzFMiUXv8GoBKI11Zg
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I miss Lucid TV lucid-tv.com best dark webcomic about the medical profession.
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"Don't think your tears restrain my desire. They only make me more ruthless." lucid-tv.com/045.jpg
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@christinelove It means people don't hugely care about the OST. But a fair few people want to give you more money than Analogue is priced at
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I just read Bee, by Em Short. It was really good. varytale.com/books/
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IF is about to take off in a big way I reckon. In no small part due to Echo Bazaar. Let's hope so, anyway.
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@doougle For what it's worth, if I was writing that op-ed now, I would go further. Probably also swear more.
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@doougle If I ever make a game with a sound of grass underfoot, I'll know I've not done it as well as Kyntt.
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@vetraskr oh shit, bar billiards? i love those! now I'm sad.
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That interview I kept going on about is up! @jennatar talking about Berzerk! gameswehaveknownandloved.tumblr.com/post/24530517736/jenn-frank-on-berzerk
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@PeopleIKnow pretty much, yeah. Also at that level is @Lucky_Chip, and it's way easier to actually get to eat.
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I love love love people making factual errors on Games We Have Known And Loved.
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Thinking about "The Man Who Sold The Moon" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Sold_the_Moon
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@jennatar The very first post's pull quote is apparently not true. Start as you mean to go on, I say.
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@S0phieH definitely possible! I'm sure it exists! Nope, don't recall where. (Sorry)
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Oh no, Ray Bradbury is dead. That's a real loss.
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@psychicteeth now I have to cary a memory stick about... :<
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@Dick_Hogg I had read a few of his books and hadn't quite got on with them. Then I read Something Wicked This Way Comes and was destroyed.
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Free credit card security check ismycreditcardstolen.com/
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@somebodyweknow ha, it wasn't me!
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@asponge i told you you can't trust these internet websites. best shred your emails, just to be on the safe side.
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I interviewed @jennatar about a Game She Has Known And Loved. (It was Berzerk for the Atari 2600) gameswehaveknownandloved.tumblr.com/post/24530517736/jenn-frank-on-berzerk
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Which, surprisingly, isn't the oldest game anyone has talked about. By 21 years.
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@doougle I know what you mean. I'm reminded of Zadie Smith writing about libraries in North London from New York. nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2012/jun/02/north-west-london-blues/
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@doougle "Without the balancing context of everyday life all you have is the news, and news by its nature is generally bad."
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Hey guess what? I'm doing the fancy graphics post-processing effects first! Not the bleeding mechanics!
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We don't even have any real artwork yet.
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This game is going to be awesome. Or it's going to fail. Or it's going to be quietly satisfying but ignored by others.
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@compositeredfox I have been thinking about your "everything is on fire" not-really a post-processing effect!
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@paperCaves @SFBDim The advantage of zombies is you don't have to explain them.
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@paperCaves @SFBDim This was brought home to me by doing Zombie LARP. No need to explain the lore, just "get in there and run from them".
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@paperCaves @SFBDim Digital games, yes, a little less so.
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Uplink is now available for your iPad. introversion.co.uk/uplink/mobile/
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@Carachan1 whyyy did you say this? Of course I looked after reading that. Now I want to kill everyone and then myself.
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@KommanderKlobb Do it in Germany : "The Ed Key Keynote Key Note DE"
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RT @haikus_by_KN: There should be a eurovison themed nordic larp, I feel
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This is a shame, and stupid. luckyframe.co.uk/unverse-not-coming-to-iphone-and-ipad/ (I might do the iOS provisioning dance, and have a play myself)
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@robertpeacock22 And it's so ... enough.
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@cucumberoneye "Thinking Thoughts"
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@asponge Pls make a playlist.
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RT @peterseibel: My favorite Mythical Man Month story: a team in which each developer bought the manager a copy of MMM. So he could read ...
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@S0phieH I'm looking enviously at this multiplayer setup you're assembling. Oh god, I have to handle all of this stuff, and make a game...
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@severalbees I completely agree. And have thought so even while looking at pineapples growing. At least I think they were.
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@ru55ianroulette You could complain to Twitter account services? Or just create a new account.
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@teknopants @jwaaaap @KommanderKlobb IN FACT: can I get a build? Partly for possible Wild Rumpuses, mainly so I can try it out.
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So @asponge has started a playlist of "Pleasingly Self-Descriptive Band Names", and I'm struggling to think of things open.spotify.com/user/asponge/playlist/14EOZPTFYIvQTZW1wsMyM2
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@garethbriggs @asponge Yeah: wasn't sure. I only added it because it's such a enjoyably straightforward name for a band.
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Does anyone know : a good example project that has networking, lobbies etc set up in Unity I can tear apart for #7DFPS ?
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Also, if anyone wants to help me out by modelling and animating a super low poly scuba diver, I will be enormously thankful.
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@Svoka cheers, I'd seen that before, will probably go for it.
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@therussmorris Probably! Likely going to go with the Photon Bootcamp example. Which is probably a bit too bloated, but is at least popular.
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@jennatar I love talking about games with people who love them, but have no friends who do.
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@jennatar Much more excited than people from games.
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RT @paperCaves: Actually in love with this beautiful low poly lion statue on @polycount polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=100407
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@paperCaves @jonboris and that means the mane looks way more detailed than otherwise. So good. (I should learn to model.)
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"in a spacious, purpose built converted factory"
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@patrickashe hmmm... "purposelessly built"
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.@Pentadact wrote a manifesto: pentadact.com/2012-06-08-suspicious-developments-manifesto/
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I really like it, though it's not the manifesto I would write. I think I once would have agreed on every point, though.
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I especially like how upfront it is at just being his manifesto, not a manifesto everyone should abide by.
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@nachimir I've seen him up in Edinburgh a few times. Given me goosebumps, he has.
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@lefishy 1) Make a game 2) Have fun
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@lefishy if you're lacking an idea, I'm happy to supply some.
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@iamtef None so good as Le Guin. Though if you find any, I'm very interested.
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@iamtef I just read this review: goodreads.com/review/show/344753928
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Sex tips from Cosmo cosmosextips.tumblr.com
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@cunthorse I read that out loud "Who wrote that?" "Guess" "Cunthorse?" "Yes"
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This was posted by @jennfrank earlier. It's... it's pretty funny. fucknoreligiousfanart.tumblr.com/post/24136768904
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@rclarke If I stopped reading things because that was the source... I'd probably be a lot happier, actually.
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@PeopleIKnow A hair cut is only a pair of scissors away.
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Huh. Past midnight. Maybe I should start my #7dfps, huh?
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Just saw the keynote. youtube.com/watch?v=cmQ6o0MHTOA Cactus, man! That's some excellent advice.
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"I want to see people experiment with settings, presentation, narrative and feeling...
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... a game with plain FPS mechanics can be more interesting than something experimental if you surround the core with something unique"
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Right, let's see if I can get some fucking netcode running before bed. #7dfps
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@brianmtaylor Not actually played it, so I won't comment on it's quality in particular. But it's certainly not an oversaturated category.
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@xra @brianmtaylor Proteus, man, proteus.
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@squidlarkin haha, saw your name on the 7DFPS website. I have The Gostak open in another window...
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RT @still: The booth babes at #E3 train you to filter out all women-- including professionals. It pushes networking towards "men only." ...
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@tierneylovell Oh man! Thanks for posting this -- I love Invisible Cities.
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@smestorp daaaamn, like paint accretion.
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#7dfps update : Got the Bootcamp Photon demo working, and stripped back til it's just 2 cubes moving. Encouraging!
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Next, I guess I spend several hours travelling to the other side of London to pick up my Olympics tickets?
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@smestorp 0spaceFPS?
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#7dfps progress shot: It feels like you're underwater! v21.tumblr.com/post/24748941393/feeling-okay-about-my-7dfps-progress-thank
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Making a to-not-do list : v21.tumblr.com/post/24753336692/things-i-shouldnt-do-for-my-7dfps-game-yet
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@retroremakes Once had a Flash browser issue that was similar - old code was still running in the background,revisiting the page cleared it
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Ah yes, this is more like it. Apparently the Photon Bootcamp thing is a wholly different thing to the PhotonNetwork Unity plugin.
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Efforts to find a value for the time that all instance of the game share are now ongoing. Lost in documentation, MonoDevelop crashing: bliss
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RT @CIllustration: Artists: please omit the following words from your profile: starving, aspiring, wannabe, amateur etc… you get the idea.
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#7dfps progress v21.tumblr.com/post/24764547943/one-can-create-a-harpoon-and-the-other-sees-it beginnings of projectile netcode. Soon, moving projectiles. And death! After food and a shower.
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Really struggling to want to write this code.
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I did a playtest! And the first thing that happened was cool! Now let's fix some things.
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Why are Gameboy Micros so expensive?
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@pippinbarr It's a deathmatch game, and I'd never played it before.
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@pippinbarr (I mean, so do I. That's partly why I was so thrilled)
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@cunthorse Doug and Dot.
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@reallyfancy The Photon Unity demo code has a function called "DisplayLogoRutin".
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I'm using recursion! This never happens! It feels good!
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Though this does make me think. Recursion is far more often a property of data structures than of operations.
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And my Intro to CompSci course started with recursion and Haskell. The two go together well - Haskell is all about the data structures
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How long do you reckon a cloud of blood would remain visible in seawater? How long at too thick to see through? #7dfps #gamedevquestions
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@jwaaaap I dunno if the camera helps, but those are some damn good colours you're got going on there.
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@jwaaaap I hope you're listening to open.spotify.com/album/07qLoVw7V73vzSklyNzHvm this week.
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@radiatoryang Oh man! Me too! He's lovely in person, as well.
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@BRKeogh they mean two discrete things, but you are too discreet to use either?
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watching loose women clips for research
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@smestorp @jonbro @tametick Twas sixtostart.com/onetoread/2012/distributing-3000-copies-of-an-ios-game/ ,if you hadn't seen.
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Hey, @LawrieARussell's Trash TV is on RPS! rockpapershotgun.com/2012/06/11/garbage-before-beauty-trash-tv-demo/#more-111399 Pretty pretty game.
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Might call my #7DFPS game "Silt". What dya think?
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@bfod they make ~$300 per iPhone, and about ~$90 per user on the App Store. How much extra marketshare is there in being a console?
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My feed: "aaah I want it", "Ooh." and "The guy next to me sounds like he just soiled himself." No idea what's been unveiled.
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@D_Nye_Griffiths my idle curiosity is being piqued, not satisfied!
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@mugathur Shiny!
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@plichta You should submit that to indieanfood.tumblr.com/
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@npupp 7 day FPS! It's a challenge running all this week. You can have a play soon enough.
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@npupp I believe there was someone who was going to try to make a 7D FPS for 7DFPS...
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@jennatar I'M NOT ARGUING, JENN
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@tomscott that was fantastic -- excellent spot.
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@Carachan1 Oh man, you can have some fun putting quote from that article into new orders.
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@Carachan1 "We're not trying to be over the top, shock people for shock's sake"
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@Carachan1 "And then, Rosenberg says, those scavengers will try to rape her."
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@Carachan1 "The ability to see her as a human is even more enticing to me than the more sexualized version of yesteryear"
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@Carachan1 For some values of fun (that include finding rape sexy)
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@jennatar @Carachan1 if I was some kind of GAME CRITIC, I'd be thinking about an article on new Tomb Raider through lens of that Spaced clip
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@Carachan1 Yeah yeah, I know you do, but @jennatar's American, she might not know these things.
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@RowanKaiser This bit : youtube.com/watch?v=IXj9muy2gM4 (The pub episode? Dya mean the one with the hand-guns? 'Cuz that is most certainly the best)
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#7dfps update : 7dfps.org/2012/06/12/silt-update/ (and now to bed)
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@metasynthie That's not entirely fair. Rape is their way of making you care about Lara, their way of stopping you repeatedly drowning her.
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@metasynthie I mean, my interpretation is still messed up as hell. Just differently so. Also: those sexual grunts when you ran into a wall.
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@KommanderKlobb I've never been mad about an editor using muscle memory I've already acquired, and features I already understand.
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@HilariousCow *whew* the microscopic graphics style I want to make, but don't know how hasn't yet been made.
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@HilariousCow though, yes, super pretty. Excellent graininess!
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@MetzoPaino Huh, turns out I wasn't following you.
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"Game looks like it's good, but I think it's a bit expensive as it is... Will wait for some sale."
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@paperCaves @HilariousCow Oh, that looks even better in motion. So very effective.
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@paperCaves I mean, I wouldn't take to YouTube threads about it, but I have thought that before. But yes.
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@HilariousCow @paperCaves that tweet was like George's interests bingo.
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@plichta it seems that poached egg thing really kicked things off, I guess.
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RT @pozorvlak: Given youtu.be/wPf03T8YN-4, I propose the Tyson Test: does your show feature a minority intellectual not talking about ra ...
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RT @SneakyMission: @iamtef yes you are right thank you pedantic nerd friend you have spared us from incorrect http status codes
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@Dick_Hogg looks fantastic, but
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@lefishy @ProteusFrogGod won't be pleased.
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Unity uses planar fog calculations, which means for a wide FOV you can see a fair bit further in the corners than straight ahead.
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Does anyone know a way to not have this happen? Turns out this is awkward when your game depends on not being able to see through the fog.
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@TomNullpointer murky scuba diving harpoon fight, is what I'm making... but yeah, Exp does seem the least bad, thanks.
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@TomNullpointer I'm not going to write custom shaders since I have terrains and also need to be done by Friday. But it's nice to know I can.
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@therussmorris ooh, promising! Will try that. Can think of good things to do with the height effect, anyway.
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@eddiecameron that uses real depth, but I it seems to go from no fog to not-quite-opaque without that long murky inbetween I need.
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@therussmorris it solves that problem but introduces others! but I might use it for a global silt level effect with it's nice height stuff.
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@jwaaaap "station manager"? don't just make the poor dude a vending machine.
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RT @wwwtxt: Practitioners of computer graphics should keep working for what feels beautiful after achieving their initial goals of near- ...
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oh man, making a game about not being able to see shit really frees you up to have terrible graphics
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How most simply to indicate a need to breathe in a videogame?
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@LewieP I mean, you're just holding your breath. So you'd just pass out and then start breathing again, at best.
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@schonstal oooooooooh! noise filter with the grain turned RIGHT up would be great for simulating about-to-blackout.
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@LewieP they're one of my favorite bands
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The bizarre things indie game dev makes you hate : people who put music beds on their spearfishing videos.
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@compositeredfox that was my first thought. But fuck writing UI code.
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@lefishy no, no, that's what happens when you do breathe.
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@lefishy it's a bit confusing still, as you're holding your breath to avoid letting bubbles rise... also I have like an hour to do this in.
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Gettin' emotional listening to Ballboy. "All we need... is hope and love and confidence" youtube.com/watch?v=1Jjl0j0oIZk
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I really didn't get enough sleep when I was a teenager. This feels awful, and so familiar.
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Still, at least I'm spending the weekend recov-- camping and playing games involving physical exertion.
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@brandonnn @KommanderKlobb Oh man! A game I have wanted to make for a while but can't figure out is a themed version of Fuck You, Buddy.
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@brandonnn @KommanderKlobb Also reminds me of the laser gun game I've played with people -- which is rhythmic & has shields.
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@KommanderKlobb @bfod Hey, I'm on a Joos kick too. I've had "Punks in the Beerlight" in my head all morning.
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@Minkette @AnnetteMees I keep trying to get people to play this! Often without success.
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@bhmwong not really sure? Not super interested in the show, but there were rumours of an indie picnic around then.
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@bhmwong (basically : if I do, it'll be for the drinking, so I'm waiting til I hear about drinking opportunities before deciding)
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Who's free tonight? Wanna help me playtest Silt? You can now hold your breath and use bombs and hide in mud and clouds of blood 'n' stuff.
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@bhmwong will do -- the picnic might not be that day exactly, but around then.
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@Carachan1 I dunno, her world is still pretty sexist. Ergo, she's still a feminist. Because she's a woman, and being awesome.
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@siobhanthomas yeah! I'll post the link, everyone can join in. Though it's not as good as being able to peer at screens while people play.
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@Minkette Yeah, they're kind of mathematically laid out, and you have to deduce the actual game from them. Need to work to get that flow.
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@Minkette (thus, the desire to theme it... Lot easier to reason about luchadors dog-piling each other than stacks of poker chips)
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@Sosowski I just didn't like the message that you gotta suffer. I don't want to suffer! I just wanna make cool games and hang with people!
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@Sosowski Suffering is totally more dramatic to put on camera. But the model presented is totally not "everyone can make games!"
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@Sosowski Think of the dissonance you'd get if you told the story of Pippin Barr or Bennett Foddy making a game alongside them.
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Tomb Raider! I wanted to dig up some examples of using rape as a lazy shorthand, but apparently TV Tropes can't talk about rape any more.
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@MetzoPaino when it says something interesting, really.
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@Slaktus I mean, I can find other things. Just... sucks that a useful resource has stopped being so, due to pressures from Adsense.
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@smestorp ouch. I know that feeling. Back to Farmer SPACEWIZARD?
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Most exciting game release of the week? month? I Demand Satisfaction! is officially out! Let's play sometime? asponge.tumblr.com/post/25025076994/i-demand-satisfaction-is-a-bit-like-this
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All of that punctuation was intentional and semantically necessary.
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@MetzoPaino It's also not a bajillion dollars, though.
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@MetzoPaino (I mean, I dunno, I assume your laptop wasn't a bajillion dollars.)
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@wellinformatted eat a burrito!
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@Carachan1 fuckin' ace stuff, Cara!
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@AnnetteMees @Minkette I reckon he'd be great -- could you hold a grudge against the Dalai Lama?
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@AnnetteMees @Minkette (& yes, we should)
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@cunthorse I would like to seriously talk about this shit, but these guys make it very difficult indeed.
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@cunthorse That goes double for talking about male roles generally in society and MRA cockbags.
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@cunthorse pretty much exactly. They've saying the same things, but with a smirk, and a random yell of "Jews!".
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Hey, if you want to play Silt, my #7dfps game, I wanna test it. Come play now? v21.tumblr.com/post/25049157722/7dfps-silt-testing-time
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@KommanderKlobb It is Unity. And it's an FPS, so no iPad build, heathen.
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Thanks everyone who played! (I'm not sure exactly who played) It went pretty well. I will grudgingly turn my eyes towards UI.
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#7dfps progress : it's coming together! v21.tumblr.com/post/25056536052/silt-progress-the-stupid-plan-was-to-spend
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RT @kahodesu: @kahodesu @madparker @doougle @RamiroCorbetta @Superfection @charlesjpratt I mean, there is an uncanny valley too for cont ...
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Twitter is for the important business of asking people to respond to your emails.
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Jane McGonigal is at Siggraph, Chamillionaire is at the Gamification Conference, and I'm not still in bed. World's fucked up.
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But on the plus side, I got me some iTunes financial reports.
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@Chman Gravity Ghost /troll
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Have you ever seen such an ugly hashtag? #ulpifkohackathon
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This 7-dimensional 7-day FPS is looking rather special. 7dfps.org/2012/06/13/seven-dimensions-gameplay-video/ #7dfps
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@DGoodayle hey hey hey!
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This thread is so full of beautiful work and history for all your favorite indie devs. forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=582.0
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Maybe I should have got a Dingoo instead.
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@DGoodayle sure -- just write a vert shader to move them about. Why, though? Positioning isn't the expensive part.
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@Carachan1 To be fair, I'm also bored of this. Way more bored of games being irresponsible and dumb, mind.
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@Carachan1 @TeamUnwinnable Ace. Hope I get a credit.
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@HilariousCow turns out, people are better tweeters with practice!
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@smestorp That's a rubbish rule.
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@smestorp I suppose I should be more constructive. Ignoring all games that tell stories, what about long-form games like Animal Crossing?
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@smestorp What about Neptune's Pride. You'd have to be a bit strange to play that 100 times.
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@smestorp I dunno, I didn't play, it didn't seem worth my time.
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@terrycavanagh @smestorp I would love to play it, but it'd come at the expense of working on my own stuff.
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Hey, look. @Carachan1 wrote an article based on me posting Spaced clips on Twitter. unwinnable.com/2012/06/14/it-made-me-want-to-drown-things-thoughts-on-my-beloved-tomb-raider/
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Deadline: bedtime.
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@r4vi You've made me so happy (context : @ulpmori/213291658228400128 )
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@ulpmori I've seen worse... labs.gurron.com/projects.php?proj=../projects , for instance.
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RT @greenseaweed: I now have some of my prints for sale on Etsy. Feel free to have a look around > etsy.com/shop/greenseaweed
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@therussmorris Yeeeeeeeah, welcome to the club.
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@therussmorris I meant the "club of people who are fans of Deadly Premonition and bore their friends with stories about it", but words.
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@ElectronDance @terrycavanagh @smestorp ... so you're saying you'd happily play it 99 more times? is that what you're saying?
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@ulpmori Happy hacking tomorrow!
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@asponge a professional mohawk.
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@lowpoly Hey, another "3D" FPS! Looking forward to seeing where we diverged!
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RT @jonbro: new game development innovation (for me): loading game settings from shared google spreadsheet. sort of like this: http://t. ...
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My words have been edited completely out of context! vimeo.com/44089061
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@KommanderKlobb it's an outrage.
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If I get time next week I want to drunk-review all of these games. 7dfps.org/view-all/
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@therussmorris I think I might be going to my brother's girlfriend's opening... Not sure.
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@therussmorris also, what's the networking situation like? It's a multiplayer deathmatch game, so it needs multiple computers on the net...
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@therussmorris it's just downstairs!
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@therussmorris it is! they're giving out programmes about it by the lifts.
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@therussmorris I blame you entirely.
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@therussmorris it's okay, it's been nicked now.
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@asponge I should really read that.
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@therussmorris just this morning. taken long enough. But it's bright and (for the time being) clean.
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@MetzoPaino go on then
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RT @garyandrews: When you realise council officials have spent a morning in panicking about a 9-year-old's blog, it almost makes The Thi ...
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@tassosstevens @theplayethic I've always loved that quote. Ha -- from toilet graffiti in Glasgow to embedded in Parliament in Edinburgh.
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@D_Nye_Griffiths hey, it's honest advice, and it'll increase the number of articles you read. So what if you wrote them first?
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Has ... has Grooveshark sorted out their metadata issues? So I can play entire albums without having to hunt down missing tracks?
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You should go play @pippinbarr 's new game pippinbarr.com/games/wargame/WarGame.html
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It's about war and stuff.
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@therussmorris Yeah, that's the one. It's pretty roomy. And tranquil...
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I'm tired, and it's just occurred to me that I could not go camping this evening, but join people tomorrow morning.
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@VoxelBoy I mean, on the one hand, yes. On the other hand, how many showers do you have? Won't you run out of hot water?
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So this week I made a game. It's called Silt, and it's about shooting people underwater and hiding in their blood 7dfps.org/?projects=untitled-harpoon-fight
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Accidentally enjoyed some racist music.
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The satisfying feeling of crossing off a game idea on your list of game ideas.
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@patrickashe aw jeez, yeah. This was Alice's country music -- apparently old Confederate songs can be racist?
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@TheCodeTroll haha, yeah, I didn't do much work on the whole "game superstructure". But if you want, I'll jump on and kill you some now?
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@TheCodeTroll ahh, nice, as soon as I put that in it just felt right. :D
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Even better feeling: someone appreciating a design element you thought was neat, but weren't sure anyone would notice.
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@Abi_Makes_Music copy the file before you save!
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"Get your very own, personalized, ITAR paperwork from FFD and participate in the unfortunate militarization of space!" -- Kickstarter reward
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Oh shit, @dkanaga just laid out some hard thinking wombflashforest.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/played-meaning-concerning-spiritual-in.html
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@D_Nye_Griffiths @zoewi You're making some excellent points there!
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I'd like to talk more about how societies expectations are constraining for men. But most of the people that do are knobs, so it's hard.
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I mean, really this falls under the domain of feminism, but a lot of feminism (understandably) treats this as a complete afterthought.
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At least that's my experience. Suggestions for things to read/places to talk about this welcomed.
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@D_Nye_Griffiths Yeah, the Misandry vs stuff pisses me off because I'd like to see exactly that, but without the smirk.
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@D_Nye_Griffiths Yeah, I always interpret that 4chan stance as both meaning, and not meaning what they say simultaneously.
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@MetzoPaino Which podcast idea?
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@D_Nye_Griffiths It's a mode I find myself using a lot, too. At it's best, it's a really concise way of expressing some contradictory ideas.
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@MetzoPaino It's controversial ground -- I'd not like to speak on it til I felt really sure of my position.
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@doougle @D_Nye_Griffiths Hurrah!
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@somebodyweknow thanks for this - will have a look.
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@metaleap well, clothing is an obvious example. The range of acceptable dress is way smaller for men.
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@ColinNorthway now this I can help with! Brewdog bar, Holyrood 9A, Dagda, the Cuckoo's Nest, the polish vodka bar down Jackson's Close.
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A graph of growth of compensation and productivity for workers since 1940. thesocietypages.org/socimages/2012/06/13/the-exploitation-of-u-s-worker-productivity
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RT @heftyseamstress: this: Thinking hard is stupid!
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@docky I'd love to have you on gameswehaveknownandloved.tumblr.com ...
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@zunguzungu seems like people blog to build blogs.
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@ColinNorthway yeah, wasn't there back when I was living there, but it would have been a regular haunt otherwise.
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@reallyfancy OKAY i'll learn what dependency injection actually is.
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@ColinNorthway Then you should stop by Peckham's (a delicatessen) at some point. And you should go the Cameo for the Sunday double bill.
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@kitrichardsonuk just edited your Games We Have ..., and am queuing it up now. Shall I link your Bandcamp page?
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@kitrichardsonuk at least you only had to do so once... still, I got you under 5 minutes in the end.
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Someone still loves you, Fixedsys.
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ohshit, which has swiftly led me to fixedsysexcelsior.com/ ... nostalgia and Unicode compatibility? Yes please!
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@HilariousCow @edclef Yr game's strength doesn't have to be the core. Visual novels are a good example to show this.
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@edclef @HilariousCow I'm rembering you telling @ElectronDance about your mum not being able to play.
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@edclef @HilariousCow yeah. Or even... headbob, movement speeds... did I see that in new versions you can left-click to go forwards?
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@HilariousCow it totally makes sense. did you play my new game Silt? Be very curious what you think of my control decisions on that.
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@mareodomo did you?
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@HilariousCow a)That is entirely reasonable! b) nottheinternet.com/games/silt/ It's multiplayer, mind.
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@HilariousCow Glad you liked it. You're a better shot with a harpoon than me... Gutted the Photon Bootcamp demo to get the networking going.
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@reallyfancy @HilariousCow ah-hah, ace. Glad you liked it. Wish it was sane to work on it more, I'd put in a notification of people joining.
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@HilariousCow @reallyfancy I like how possible, and how Sealab, mutual annihilation is in this game.
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@HilariousCow @reallyfancy I said to myself "Fire, then CONTINUE MOVING". Then shot at you, and then died after remaining still...
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@kierongillen Oh man, you're in for a treat. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Ringbearer -- a novel about exactly that.
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@BRKeogh let me know if there's any issues with the Silt build -- I can build it, but I can't run it from here.
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@severalbees I Was A Teenage Werewolf by The Cramps?
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@asponge terrible news! I'm probably not going to make it this Thursday!
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@docky @S0phieH promised she'd release hers. I mangled the Photon Bootcamp demo to my ends, and my source is here : bitbucket.org/v21/7dfps
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@asponge Yeah, gonna check first. My brother's girlfriend's degree show opening, at the Old Truman Brewery - family's coming up for it.
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@DGoodayle I've flashed a develop before.
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Did you know? I'm working on a videogame with lovely art creaturegame.tumblr.com/
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@therussmorris Still mainly concept art... but yeah, I'm feeling excited about it.
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@therussmorris Not made a game which started with concept art before, for one thing.
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@PerrinAshcroft @edclef I guess the Input Manager wouldn't help here, either.
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@SurplusGamer Wiztigs! witzigs.co.uk/
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@patrickashe Well I Never! It was _me_ who was going to the Sandpit this evening for a game of #idemandsatisfaction and a G&T!
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Hey hey. This evening. This evening! hideandseek.net/2012/05/03/june-sandpit-2012-performance/ This. You should come to this. (Games at the southbank)
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@LewieP Humble Bundle was the first to prise it open... and it's influence can clearly be seen : developer.ubuntu.com/2012/06/top-10-ubuntu-app-downloads-for-may-2012/
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@oh_cripes ... some sort of joke about you being a good grandson?
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@cucumberoneye independent games have been around forever, but the "indie games scene" is new. I think that's true enough.
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@cucumberoneye I mean, Interversion couldn't call themselves "the last of the bedroom programmers" with a straight face these days.
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The Unity store is confusing me. Is the free version now going to be 3.5? Is Flash support dropping physics? What happened to Adobe's cut?
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@therussmorris @I_AM_CAM Unity Store says +$400 for Flash basic, +$1500 for Flash advanced.
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@PeopleIKnow You know me!
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@PeopleIKnow no, not this time. But my housemate @asponge is doing a game with hats in.
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This is fucked up and completely foreseeable : kraion.wordpress.com/2012/06/17/a-letter-to-theresa-may-guest-post-by-jenny/ (young soon to be married couple with maybe nowhere they can both live)
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@robinlacey "I do not understand those who are dissatisfied and puts a bad review, read the description."
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@Carachan1 now even more curious to see what you made today
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@Carachan1 where were you at?
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@edclef @HilariousCow pretty sure ziggurat is good on iphone, but not good on ipad.
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My GBA Micro came! And it's so badly dented the fascia won't stay on, and a button is wedged in. :/
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@SFBTom I am! Need to argue with Cash Generator first, mind. How much dya want for it?
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@SFBTom I could afford like £30... but you could probably do a fair bit better on eBay (GBA Micro prices are a bit ridiculous)
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@tiedtiger That's now become the Samsung SUR40 with Microsoft® PixelSense™.
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Last night I saw Comedian Dies In the Middle Of A Joke -- it was really good, and I recommend it if you're going to the Fringe.
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RT @tomcopy: Does anyone know a designer/artworker who can produce 8-bit graphics, i.e. like an 80s video game, to order? RTs welcome. T ...
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@retroremakes It's okay, they'll only enforce it on people they don't like the look of.
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@Slaktus What's to reveal? People aren't paid to be sexist. For calling people out, shit like programmersbeingdicks.tumblr.com/ does pretty well.
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@bfod @docky @zarawesome @doougle @edclef @patrickklepek I liked the sound of Lost in Blue, but when I tried playing it my enthusiasm died.
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@Slaktus Which part? Applying journalism? Calling people out publicly and noisily? These are being done.
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@smestorp try what is most exciting to work on? Or what is closest to completion.
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Where should I go have dinner with my Dad today?
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@LewieP Hey thanks, I should have thought of that!
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@bfod Not an extravagant amount? Doesn't need to be fancy, just decent.
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@cucumberoneye @smestorp I mean, as a creator I see your argument. But selfishly, you should totally put more Kompendium onto iPad.
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@KommanderKlobb @rclarke this is exactly it. I like the idea of games with achievements for upskirts. But they shouldn't be "normal".
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@smestorp @cucumberoneye oh yes, you never did. Send send send!
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@smestorp @cucumberoneye this is a hard choice! Having a think.
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@smestorp @cucumberoneye Exuberant Struggle is the sensible choice, but Hostile Pantograph might be the one that would benefit most.
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@HilariousCow BAR BARBARA-ANN - oh Barbara-Ann, please hold my hand!
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@garethbriggs Liverpool St
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readme dot txt is back! readmedottxt.tumblr.com/post/25435291149/nospiders-system-shock-2-6-11-2002
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@asponge Can I make a request? Can you make the title an image of "readme.txt" typeset in fixedsysexcelsior.com/ ?
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"CUBES is a highly addictive and impossibly hard game that will have players of all types on the edge of their seats. ...
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... It’s an endless good time and well worth the $0.99 price tag." 148apps.com/reviews/cubes-review/
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@KommanderKlobb *highfive!*
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I ate too much. I feel like getting older should automatically prevent these kind of things from happening, but that's not true.
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@Dick_Hogg @Minkette remembering my brother breaking his toe, it setting wrong, so he kicked a wall to break it again.
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@Dick_Hogg @Minkette it set wrong that time too, but I think he decided to cut his losses by that point. I did suggest seeing a doctor.
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@reallyfancy do I win because I guessed it'd be that article before clicking? Not that I've managed to read it.
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@HapZep it's supposed to be pretty impossible by that point. I see only three people on Game Center that have got past that point.
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@HapZep highscore is 139, mind...
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@HilariousCow I might not want to know the answer to that
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@HapZep Very glad to hear it! :D
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New Games We Have Known And Loved : @kitrichardsonuk talking about King’s Quest VI and her dad. gameswehaveknownandloved.tumblr.com/post/25495848221/kit-richardson-on-kings-quest-vi
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Games as music, music as games, this post will be referred back to in years to come : rockpapershotgun.com/2012/06/20/music-to-my-thumbs-transcribing-braid/
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(course, @dkanaga has been banging on about this for years wombflashforest.blogspot.co.uk/ )
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@KommanderKlobb @tha_rami We talked for ages, but the rest of the stuff was Not For Public Consumption.
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@Carachan1 It's okay, I figured it out by now. (Also, it's a really good interview. Hope you're on a buzz today)
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@asponge feel no obligation!
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@asponge by which I mean -- I value, and would like to hear your opinions. I think the debates are a good thing. But feel no obligation.
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@awesommelier I like all three of those things, and am already going to the opening tonight.
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RT @pozorvlak: Why Go Out? brickmag.com/why-go-out-heti
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I get why Visa makes me enter random letters from my password rather than the full thing, but seeing my password written down looks funny.
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@MetzoPaino I chose laptop, and haven't regretted it.
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@mikeBithell @imrejele You totally would. Also, sugar water is denser than normal water, so there's that in a coke scenario.
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Who's going to Igfest and running from zombies? What session are you booking in for?
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@tigershungry 5th to 8th Sept. igfest.org/node/186 has 2.8 tickets on sale.
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@tigershungry yep! this question sparked by 2.8 having sold out entirely in London already.
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@cunthorse irritatingly, the original NYTimes article is pretty reasonable and balanced.
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@cunthorse Pretty much. eg: "93% of those with limited access to supermarkets have access to vehicles, though it takes them 20 more minutes"
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"No, no, it's K. K. Knightmare with a K." - @Carachan1
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@pfft_ I haven't, actually. But I've not played through the entires much at all. Will do this evening!
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@awesommelier It was huge! Like 8 different unis shows, all smushed together. All with different free wine.
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@awesommelier You looked good -- I pointed you out to my dad and my brother. I failed to meet Mary, though someone did try to find her.
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@awesommelier All cheap, alas!
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@awesommelier Been turning my mind that way the past week or so, yeah. Need to sit down and make plans.
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@smestorp How does following a finger at a capped speed feel?
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RT @asponge: Do you run an event/conference and want me to come ramble about readme files? Having seen Develop talks, I'd say yes, I am ...
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Apparently more men are raped in the US than women outsidethebeltway.com/men-outnumber-women-among-american-rape-victims/
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@smestorp boo.
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@smestorp Try... Capped speed decreases as touch continues. So to get somewhere fast, you tap. Or hold, normally.
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@bonzrat @reallyfancy This wasn't addressed to me, but I'd be happy to help -- have organised a bunch of London jams.
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Really tempted to get a studio portrait with that kinda blue marbled background and use that as my Twitter avatar.
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Well. I'm not really tempted. It's crossed my mind that I could, that's all. Maybe I should!
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RT @jimmycarr: '8 Out of 10 Cats' is on tonight at 10pm on Channel 4. Tune in to find out what people have been talking about this week.
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@kitrichardsonuk according to twitter trending topics, I live in Osaka. I recommend it!
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@bonzrat @reallyfancy woo! I'm vtwentyone@gmail.com
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Watch out! I'm drunk and writing game pitches!
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@zunguzungu What? It does -- it's "nationalization".
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@asponge no, it's okay I'm in "the zone"
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@MetzoPaino mozzarella. Also, that pizza looks good.
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@squidlarkin fuck history, what I want is "mainstream political consensus" to recognize it. that and a bunch else.
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@squidlarkin *sigh*
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YEAH I'm reviewing #7dfps games v21.tumblr.com/tagged/7dfps+review (So far : Dream 1 by @pfft_ & Holocaust Trigger by plaguespark)
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C'mon, "Random Entry". Show me something weird. #7dfps
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"Random Entry" came up trumps: I fell in love with Robrody Quest. v21.tumblr.com/post/25679240764/robrody-quest-review-robrody-quest-by-gunzil
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One more before bed? "The Temple of Dark Ancient Watermelon Abstractive Being" it is then. It has watermelons, apparently? #7dfps
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The Temple of Dark Ancient Watermelon Abstractive Being was also great v21.tumblr.com/post/25680574831/the-temple-of-dark-ancient-watermelon-abstractive #watermelons #miniguns #7dfps
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Last night I reviewed some #7dfps games. While a bit drunk. Congratulations me, on a threat successfully executed. v21.tumblr.com/tagged/7dfps-review
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@cyssong I saw your pictures at the Free Range opening, and I really liked them. Really lovely.
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@radiodario thinking of starting a dating site?
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RT @heftyseamstress: their: Terry has entered it's revenge.
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@Dick_Hogg Yeah, well. You think you could make a better video explaining science to the lay public? Oh what, you did just that? Hm.
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@dkanaga Have you come across the Schillinger System? v21.tumblr.com/post/25713490840/the-thesis-underlying-schillingers-research-is
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@HilariousCow @MetzoPaino Who can blame them? Me. For not getting serious after it became clear it was worth getting serious about.
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@BeeBug_Nic Would love to -- not sure when I'll do some more, but when I do, yours will be the first.
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@dogbomb Love it if you had a go at Silt -- 7dfps.org/?projects=untitled-harpoon-fight
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@dogbomb My apologies! Also, thank you, and that was awesome! But you gotta dodge more!
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Hey, look, @dogbomb played Silt! youtube.com/watch?v=JJeXeUgsD58&feature=youtu.be
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@me_backwards dya know @srules ? I believe she's where you are now.
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@me_backwards @srules I was supposed to be going minigolfing today!
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@HilariousCow There's a fictional co-op game in Constellation Games where you each play different halves of an aliens brain.
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@Radstronomical I am genuinely looking forward to getting to play it!
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Possibly my favorite tiny game design decision is the way the end score of @lexaloffle's Cat Cat Watermelon comes in lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=190
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RT @asponge: Idly dreaming of having the resources to document and collate all player-created, non-game-enforced custom rules for multip ...
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@asponge Oooh, I love that stuff. Some nice academic papers on it, too - I'va always liked digra.org/dl/db/07311.01363.pdf
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@doougle me, @Minkette and @AnnetteMees played it last Monday! Only just started to understand it, mind. I'm up for more.
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@patrickashe @doougle @Minkette @AnnetteMees I've an enduring aim to think of a way to theme that game into undstandability.
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@alexjprice isn't it just Open Street Map data?
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@alexjprice I know they were using ancient data before in iPhoto...
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@doougle @patrickashe @Minkette @AnnetteMees yeah - it's just stacks of symbols. Curious what it does to the pacing - turns are quick.
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@pozorvlak which gives me the perfect opportunity to link to my favourite white noise MP3 website whitenoisemp3s.com/sounds-like/ocean
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@jonbro Go for the memory leak -- there's at least a chance it'll be less painful than you expect.
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RT @Pentadact: You can tell games are cool because you can accurately refer to the same character in the first, second and third person ...
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@cunthorse a big lump
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@Dick_Hogg it's very lifelike!
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RT @ImMattLeBlanc: I'm sorry to say, I am not Matt LeBlanc. I'm a 12 year old girl who lives in the UK. I'm actually not sorry.
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@Carachan1 Unless it's EDGE.
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KOMPENDIUM is out! mightyvision.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/kompendium.html
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I love Kompendium. It's beautiful. It's great. It's good fun. You should download it and play it with a friend.
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@cunthorse "She only uses that word when it’s Scottish for amigo, Or to punctuate a sentence when deflating my wee ego."
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@reallyfancy I've not even had breakfast yet.
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@Carachan1 @BRKeogh that's good jerky level design. But even funnier are games like QWOP & YOU HAVE FORGOTTEN HOW TO WRITE.
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@Carachan1 @BRKeogh where the entire game is a practical joke on you. No confusion they might be trying to be helpful.
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@hidingseeking @ammonite minds me of @tassosstevens on about a play starting when you first hear of it, and not ending til it's forgotten.
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@Carachan1 do some work!
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@bentosmile please please do!
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Playing Cannon Fodder and it makes me wish I could move the player's cursor about on the screen.
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(I know -- I could lock it and use deltas to fake a cursor. PITA all round, though)
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@Slaktus Just the whole range of design enabled by being able to move the cursor about on the screen.
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@cunthorse The idea of evolutionary psychology is great. There's a load of worthless just-so stories, mind.
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@Slaktus when you clicked in Cannon Fodder, the mouse stayed still in world space, and the camera moved about.
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@Slaktus it's something that is now very painful and weird to do.
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@HilariousCow The idea has went in my game ideas file now. Solution tot hat is to have unfamiliar cursor from the off.
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@HilariousCow or constant forces acting on the cursor. Warping to different points on screen. Etc.
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@HilariousCow someone should make a locked-cursor-emulating-unlocked-cursor package...
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@HilariousCow Sensible rules! But you can get away with a lot more if the weirdness of the feel is the point of the game.
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@HilariousCow Yeah, it needs signals to let it be predicted in advance. Or does it, in fact...
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@HilariousCow might have just mentally designed a game which features only a mouse cursor.
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You know who's good at writing? @robertflorence is good at writing eurogamer.net/articles/2012-06-27-lost-humanity-1-fighting-talk
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@edclef it's sane if you think about a game lasting from when you first hear about it til you stop thinking about it.
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@KommanderKlobb @aeiowu I got from the film that there was a whole story there they hadn't tried to explain, at least.
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@KommanderKlobb @aeiowu There's a grievance, here's what it's like to be making & releasing a game with this kind of grievance about.
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@DeadYetLiving @jennatar That 1up bot is awful.
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Just had the friendliest customer service from Cash Generator.
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@HilariousCow "Huh, what, movement does look cool" ... "Oh, yeah, I see Aubrey's point - if they put this in the movement must be shite"
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@HilariousCow "One of my favorite things is that beating up baddies means I get XP" This man's job is hard -- I couldn't do it.
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@D_Nye_Griffiths @MituK If I was to troll about this -- I don't think I could do better. It hits all the notes you'd want to hit.
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"The games industry was never designed with females in mind. Fact." mitu.nu/2012/06/20/on-booth-babes/#comment-569508196
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@auntiepixelante snap!
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I'm glad failing to register as a Boris Bike member locks you out of using any of the terminals as a non-member.
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The registry of people who have opted into looking at porn politics.co.uk/news/2012/06/28/ministers-propose-creating-porn-database
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"Baby in My Sweatpants | I Didn't Know I Was Pregnant"
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(is the title of this video: youtube.com/watch?v=Zud9K9BTSR8 , via @Carachan1, via @10rdBen)
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The latest Bad Machinery is finished! That means I can tell you to go read the whole thing : scarygoround.com/index.php?date=20120107
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@Flexi23 lactating like anything!
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@Radstronomical me too! let's play Spy Party.... /together/
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@therussmorris @RezzedGameShow I would answer. But you said "twitches", so I won't.
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@lefishy you want to transfer (worldspace) forward velocity into (worldspace) sidewards velocity?
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@lefishy You can literally do this by fucking with rigidbody.velocity. Calculate speed, turn, set new velocity from new dir & old speed.
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@lefishy Alternatively, do pretty much the same thing by applying forces. You'll want to limit turn speed/amount of redistributed velocity.
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@asponge very topical
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"You're writing Python in Windows in VMWare?" "Yeah! It's uber! I've even got Cygwin if I need it"
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@terrycavanagh god damnit! you got me all excited.
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@terrycavanagh (I mean, I am excited.)
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Game design that makes you irritated you didn't think of it first, 143rd edition: rockpapershotgun.com/2012/06/28/what-are-the-odds-man-vs-the-world/#more-113898
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@mikeBithell that's the best feeling to take from a review. Hope you've been proper chuffed at the reception...
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@mikeBithell done a little dance yet?
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@edclef @increpare man, looking at this is getting me excited for tigjam. Gonna bring my blank dice & cards for sure.
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@smestorp @doougle @KommanderKlobb @bfod oh yeah, suggestion this evening - in extra time, draw people on at random from spectators.
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@KommanderKlobb Longitude is the one that goes around. I remember because I read that Dava Sobel book all about clocks.
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@whitingjp @KommanderKlobb Yes, in retrospect that was a stupid sentence. It goes the way round that clocks change when you go round it.
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@Dan_Tsukasa @tha_rami @Demruth Try it, it's great. It's a Nigella Lawson recipe! nigella.com/recipes/view/ham-in-coca-cola-171
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@tha_rami @jwaaaap @Demruth Boasting time! Yesterday I had this burger: aspoonful-of-sugar.tumblr.com/post/17664804591/valentines-burgers-chips-at-the-sebright
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RT @moonpolysoft: sufficiently advanced trolling is indistinguishable from thought leadership
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@vorrintal That doesn't make it any less funny, though.
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@himatako superrocketlauncher.inverseblue.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=3 isn't the same thing, but is also interesting.
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@bentosmile Yeah, he doesn't sound like he's worth any of your time.
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@tiedtiger Not sure gamers are unusual in this respect. Nor even necessarily irrational.
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@Slaktus I never did do that rant/article/blogpost on designing narrative-free games through a narrative lens, did i?
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@radiodario Can't stop looking at the kid with the gun to his mouth.
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"a phallus-looking multi-tool. It allows you to create midgets and do other things." readmedottxt.tumblr.com/post/26143193798/midgets-quake-19-6-11
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@Radstronomical I want both things.
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@patrickashe I do believe it is!
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@SiriHoho @kalligula god damn you. Just about to collapse now...
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@SiriHoho @asponge I'm alive! I was having a succession of dreams loosely themed around how much I love the film "If..."
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@radiodario @steishere this is weird. also, I'll be along in a bit, gonna do a quick spell of Useful Things first.
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@jwaaaap needs patrol routes, would be curious to see what it's like with cones of vision displayed. but fuckin' sweet already.
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@jwaaaap then ... they only seem to respond to shooting? don't fire and you can just shove 'em about.
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So I guess I am actually making Punching The Custard, then.
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I have finally been to Drinking In Parks. These long years of freelance park-drinking have been justified.
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A blog post from @smestorp relating to a lot I've been thinking about recently about making money on iOS.
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I need to write some postmortems.
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@hannahnicklin ha, I know that feeling. "So what have you been up to?"