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Tweets from 2013/06

  1. RT @alrightthere: Write up: Jam Game Jam, A Game Jam With Jam bit-of-alright.com/?p=945
  2. I have got myself into a place in life where I can fuck around with jam in a professional capacity.
  3. …in reply to @hannahnicklin
    @hannahnicklin oh, okay, that makes some sense.
  4. RT @hannahnicklin: Also, the antifash bragging about beating up BNP until bleeding? Fuck off.
  5. RT @hannahnicklin: Likewise coppers who beat people up, and fascists. All of you. I am equal in my fuck off.
  6. RT @hannahnicklin: But really, everyone turn and look at the Houses of Parliament. They make this. We're their fucking pawns.
  7. RT @hannahnicklin: They make this when Cobra meets over a murder. When they institute laws limiting protest. When they approve damaging&div…
  8. …in reply to @ranarama
    @ranarama seems legit - I remember explaining/demonstrating/playing with @brandonnn
  9. What a huge waste it would be if people haven't had sex in space.
  10. …in reply to @rclarke
    @rclarke I've held one. It's... not too bad. Ouya controller probably has worse problems
  11. …in reply to @LewieP
    @LewieP @retroremakes @AeornFlippout the stuff they've been talking about, with user-curated stores seems like a good fix for this?
  12. …in reply to @pippinbarr
    @pippinbarr I have just seen that. I am excited to see more.
  13. …in reply to @pippinbarr
    @pippinbarr I feel apprehensive/excited/curious.
  14. Oooh, just learnt about anonymous types in C# msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/vstudio/bb397696.aspx
  15. …in reply to @AeornFlippout
    @AeornFlippout ah, I'm purely enjoying knowing C# has more neat features I didn't know about.
  16. Just played Kentucky Route Zero Part II. It was beautiful - lives up to the standards of the first part.
  17. RT @nickludlam: Lobby First floor. (Clerks' office) Second floor. (Conference room) Third floor. (Bears) #kentuckyroutezero
  18. …in reply to @KommanderKlobb
    @KommanderKlobb I think I have fewer than that...5's my limit.
  19. Still irritates me that "Video games" are filed under "Technology", not "Culture" on UK newspaper websites.
  20. …in reply to @undefined
    @WhisperBat "[?][?]" :<
  21. …in reply to @undefined
    @WhisperBat In the node view, "[]"
  22. …in reply to @undefined
    @WhisperBat Can you work with inserting "&#128126;" in place of it, in editor? Bit more manageable to work with...
  23. …in reply to @undefined
    @WhisperBat Bleah, my HTML entity got interpreted... "&amp;#128126;", I mean.
  24. …in reply to @v21
    @WhisperBat and now that HTML entity HASN'T got interpreted... One more try... &#38;#128126; ?
  25. …in reply to @undefined
    @WhisperBat The decimal code from codetable.net/decimal/128126 is working for me (Win/Twine/Bleeding-edge Firefox)
  26. …in reply to @smestorp
  27. …in reply to @undefined
    @WhisperBat Shit, sorry, I gave you a duff tip trying to get it to render properly in Twitter. Copy from codetable.net/decimal/128126
  28. lets go to the pub
  29. …in reply to @undefined
    @reallyfancy I've tried to vine Maddie so many times... And I'm not being racist, but she's just too black to be good at being vined.
  30. …in reply to @undefined
  31. …in reply to @martinhollis
    @martinhollis this kinda scares me. Being an indie is *hard*.
  32. …in reply to @martinhollis
    @martinhollis Yus, for sure -- vtwentyone@gmail.com
  33. …in reply to @joonturbo
    @joonturbo oh, sweet! Nice work!
  34. …in reply to @LewieP
    @LewieP 1)It's an excuse to make a twat of yourself with some friends round.
  35. …in reply to @LewieP
    @LewieP 2)It's a interesting/engaging thing to learn to master.
  36. …in reply to @LewieP
    @LewieP 3) it also has some of the appeal of dancing -- movements in some correspondence to music.
  37. …in reply to @LewieP
    @LewieP You can get plimsolls for a fiver on Brick Lane
  38. RT @humble: We just added 4 games to Humble Indie Bundle 8: Tiny & Big, English Country Tune, Intrusion 2, & @oilrush_game! http://t.co/RgF…
  39. …in reply to @MetzoPaino
    @MetzoPaino pretty much any two random APIs have a random chance of not agreeing which way is up.
  40. …in reply to @radiatoryang
    @radiatoryang whaaaaat?
  41. …in reply to @MetzoPaino
    @MetzoPaino well, what if you're standing on your head and looking in a mirror? A good API should deal with all cases.
  42. …in reply to @HilariousCow
    @HilariousCow I am a game developer, and I hate "gamers".
  43. …in reply to @HilariousCow
    @HilariousCow alright, being serious: there's a danger of moving further into a niche if you only listen to most vocal demands.
  44. …in reply to @HilariousCow
    @HilariousCow (which isn't to say you shouldn't listen, but you should strain harder to hear less vocal opinions)
  45. …in reply to @HilariousCow
    @HilariousCow though, again: no need to be rude to your fans, cripes.
  46. Still haven't figured out how they did scottmcd.net/artanalysis/?p=115 in KRZ. Just carefully set up sliding viewport rects?
  47. …in reply to @HilariousCow
    @HilariousCow that sounds real sweet. You got any CI on that?
  48. …in reply to @HilariousCow
    @HilariousCow @1y1e @camyule (CI being continuous integration, aka an automated thing that tells you when you've broken something)
  49. …in reply to @camyule
    @camyule @HilariousCow @1y1e Oooh, that sounds great. If I wasn't the only programmer on this project...
  50. @ColinNorthway @GunpointGame alt seemed to work for me. One of those buttons, anyway.
  51. RT @bramcohen: Results of Fukishima's radiation: zero dead, nobody sick buff.ly/10Pivcb
  52. "Your convention lanyards will act as your statement necklace."
  53. RT @steveklabnik: Ted Nelson's computer paradigm, expressed as one-liners buff.ly/17e4usX
  54. Let's... go to Brighton!
  55. …in reply to @profaniti
    @profaniti I'm going along to @BrightonIndies! Come along, is you like?
  56. …in reply to @checker
    @checker different clients have different behavior for what they put at the start of a tweet that is a reply to one of your own tweets!
  57. Let's... continue to keep travelling to Brighton!
  58. Oh, I should announce this. cptheatre.co.uk/event_details.php?sectionid=theatre&eventid=673 Next Friday! Come play my much-delayed A BASTARD at a cool games/performance thing.
  59. Google Maps Preview is slow like starting a videogame
  60. I do not wish for finding out where a pub is to have a sense of occasion about it. A slow buildup of anticipation. A hunt for a config menu.
  61. Ha! I only just now recognize the @BrightonIndies logo!
  62. …in reply to @BrightonIndies
    @BrightonIndies ha, it's great, no need to change it. Had a good time t isn't, btw :D
  63. @jennatar "But, of course, games live or die by their gameplay. And the gameplay in Magic Carpet is bloody marvellous." :D
  64. …in reply to @asponge
    @asponge why would they do that?
  65. Really wish you could set default values on nested classes in Unity
  66. …in reply to @haikus_by_KN
    @haikus_by_KN you should definitely see if you can chat up the Humble guys as a first option (I don't have contacts there, but someone will)
  67. …in reply to @fastramdesign
    @fastramdesign not even very scary! Just lists of (logically) grouped settings, where you can add a type from the inspector.
  68. …in reply to @fastramdesign
    @fastramdesign like, a list of "FadeInObject" : objectToFade, timeToFadeInFrom, fadeLength, enabled
  69. …in reply to @fastramdesign
    @fastramdesign maybe I should blog this idiom! It's really useful, just a pain you can't set sane default values.
  70. I happen to be in the centre of London at lunchtime. Anyone want to get lunch?
  71. …in reply to @KommanderKlobb
    @KommanderKlobb what about those poor composers?
  72. …in reply to @aeoye
    @aIexmoyler hm... It starts from far enough west from my house that I wouldn't walk home. It's other boundaries are still mysterious.
  73. …in reply to @TRUTRUTRULUV
    @c_hedborg @KommanderKlobb @rexbox There's different lenses if you're only a bit short sighted
  74. "Their sincerity is simply a display of fidelity to a constructed self...built out of consumer choices and hypocrisy" plover.net/~bonds/newsincerity.html
  75. …in reply to @radiatoryang
    @radiatoryang Just remembered -- I heard the best story about the water creature AI last night...
  76. …in reply to @radiatoryang
    @radiatoryang it kind of ruins it as a player, so do you want to hear how it's implemented?
  77. …in reply to @radiatoryang
    @radiatoryang it's a midget, 30 cm high, who can't see any higher than that and has splashes coming out it's head.
  78. …in reply to @bfod
    @bfod @mwegner Someone told me our game didn't last night! I was chuffed.
  79. …in reply to @bfod
    @bfod @mwegner A great illustrator making all the art in Illustrator, then rendering it via RageSpline.
  80. …in reply to @bfod
    @bfod not super performant if you're hoping to modify shapes at runtime, but otherwise it works pretty well (importing with RageTools SVGin)
  81. Admired a beautiful magpie on yhr opposite roof. Then noticed it's friend :D
  82. …in reply to @torahhorse
    @torahhorse unbroken while loop'll take down the editor, so maybe it'll work?
  83. …in reply to @garethbriggs
    @garethbriggs @tigershungry You realize you've just invented Papers Please?
  84. …in reply to @garethbriggs
    @garethbriggs @tigershungry Ooooh -- did you see the Ming Mecca? That has jackplugs
  85. …in reply to @whitingjp
    @whitingjp is that the outcome of It's My Birthday?
  86. …in reply to @tigershungry
    @tigershungry The US Military is by all accounts the natural home of ugly PowerPoint.
  87. …in reply to @whitingjp
    @whitingjp then I am excited to see it! That game was fun, and a bit too hard to explain!
  88. …in reply to @LewieP
  89. Fascinating watching the 2011 Kickstarter pitch video for Kentucky Route Zero kck.st/ekZr0F
  90. …in reply to @undefined
    @Carachan1 Don't tell Chris (not that he needs telling)
  91. …in reply to @wjjjjt
    @resiak oh! what a shame.
  92. …in reply to @musebloom
  93. RT @gideondefoe: I have become unhealthily addicted to the Mail's ongoing Boring Minutiae Of Jennifer Garner's Life series: http://t.co/psg…
  94. RT @gideondefoe: Boring Minutiae Of Jennifer Garner's Life (BMOJGL) Part 2:
  95. RT @gideondefoe: BMOJGL Part 3:
  96. RT @gideondefoe: BMOJGL Part 4:
  97. RT @gideondefoe: BMOJGL Part 5:
  98. RT @gideondefoe: This entry in the BMOJGL series is so exciting it took TWO people to write the article:
  99. RT @gideondefoe: You might be getting sick of the Boring Minutiae Of Jennifer Garner's Life articles but bear in mind those last 6 only tak…
  100. RT @gideondefoe: Ok, I will stop in a bit, but this one is ACTUAL ART:
  101. RT @gideondefoe: Might try to option the movie rights to this one:
  102. …in reply to @glassarmy
    @glassarmy you can just get a new one. And the YP card doesn't help any, unfortunately.
  103. …in reply to @glassarmy
    @glassarmy woah, shit, that's new since last I checked. Should probably get on that, then.
  104. On designing games, starting from the interface bezzy.net/?p=233
  105. Free Indie Gams freeindiegams.tumblr.com/ (including mine)
  106. …in reply to @hannahnicklin
    @hannahnicklin it's important to look your best, don't you think?
  107. …in reply to @undefined
    @NYUTischNews @bfod oh shit! congratulations!
  108. …in reply to @Draknek
    @Draknek yeah, totally! (cc @asponge @oh_cripes)
  109. …in reply to @glassarmy
    @glassarmy Yeah! Looking forward to it. Could maybe also get lunch Wednesday or Friday, depending what you're up to?
  110. "Apps can now be transferred from one developer to another within iTunes Connect" !!
  111. …in reply to @AdriaandeJongh
    @AdriaandeJongh email I just received -- presumably you'll be getting the same soon enough.
  112. …in reply to @mcclure111
    @mcclure111 Looks like just another ugly hack laid on top of a terrible system -- so I would assume so.
  113. …in reply to @mcclure111
    @mcclure111 I mean, actually, it would be nice if they made Testflight redundant, like it is for Android. Not holding my breath...
  114. Tired and fed up of making games for the night, so I go read a book. 22 pages in, the story has advanced to a game developer's office.
  115. …in reply to @hollygramazio
    @severalbees "The Restoration Game", by Ken MacLeod. It's also been to two pubs I have drank in multiple times. Also pretty good!
  116. …in reply to @hannahnicklin
  117. …in reply to @Draknek
    @Draknek @asponge @oh_cripes I think so? Need to confirm. You should know, though - Joe's brother will also be staying those nights.
  118. …in reply to @Draknek
    @Draknek @asponge @oh_cripes still welcome, but you might get bumped to the short sofa or something.
  119. …in reply to @patrickashe
    @patrickashe @c_hedborg @goldpanda @tigershungry @brandonnn oh yeah! I'm seeing him tomorrow!
  120. RT @severalbees: This afternoon I've mostly been designing Tiny Games for Buses with @v21. Our favourite game so far is called GAME POLICE.
  121. RT @severalbees: To play GAME POLICE, P1 reads out a sign as they pass (Super Kebabs, The National Lottery, GK Locksmiths, etc). P2 replies…
  122. RT @severalbees: It's possible that GAME POLICE won't make it into the final app.
  123. …in reply to @mcclure111
    @mcclure111 current team : 4 people, 4 countries.
  124. …in reply to @Draknek
    @Draknek @zarawesome @asponge @oh_cripes yeah, will be at one/both.
  125. …in reply to @tef
    @tef You know, I think you could use a lot of these techniques to improve cs.cmu.edu/~tom7/mario/mario.pdf
  126. …in reply to @tef
    @tef (The talk is awesome, by the way. Wheee! The delta stuff near the end was the best bit)
  127. …in reply to @tef
    @tef Actually -- does STM do everything they do? STM doesn't keep track of reads, which they surely need? I am likely misunderstanding.
  128. A Vesper.5/Stickets mashup
  129. Stickets and ASYNC Corp are two games that manage to look great in 2x mode on an iPad.
  130. RT @mcclure111: "Here I've got something that will cheer you up" "Is it a spider" "No" "Is it a baby scorpion" "No. It's te... https://t.co…
  131. people who publicly post email addresses vs people who DM email addresses
  132. Seeing Gold Panda tonight!
  133. alright, I will
  134. …in reply to @undefined
    @jennatar ugh ugh ugh ugh
  135. RT @HilariousCow: Sometimes randomness is a necessary shorthand for systemic complexity, and sometimes it's a missed opportunity for system…
  136. …in reply to @undefined
    @WhisperBat the proper jslint, the douglas crockford one, is a really weird style no-one actually uses
  137. …in reply to @undefined
    @WhisperBat JSHint was much better, imho -- esp if you turn things you do/don't care about on/off.
  138. RT @pippinbarr: Dearest internet! I made an iDevice game! It's Snek.! It's free! You should try it out! itunes.apple.com/us/app/snek./id649513073
  139. …in reply to @patrickashe
    @patrickashe @st33d til, like Friday?
  140. RT @KommanderKlobb: The first Hohokum trailer is out in the world! youtu.be/6sAzQrX9zzE ¸.·´¯·.¸¸.·´¯·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸¸.·<º>
  141. …in reply to @haikus_by_KN
    @haikus_by_KN Gumroad?
  142. …in reply to @HilariousCow
    @HilariousCow @edclef you should really show stuff. Partly so I can have a play, partly because it's the best way to learn what confuses.
  143. …in reply to @HilariousCow
    @HilariousCow @edclef ah good. Yeah, making things is hard and takes ages. I, too, suffer from this.
  144. …in reply to @webbedspace
    @webbedspace ah, what? The M is the fun part!
  145. @Carachan1 o yeh - do you want me tomorrow night?
  146. Games that look like gig photos
  147. tweets containing only a noun phrase
  148. RT @jwaaaap: Shit… starting to wonder if screenshake is like chilies: you get used to it & want more, but might be too much for others… #ga…
  149. RT @doougle: Also! Don't miss the HORIZON livestream tomorrow, Thursday, 10am PST: horizon.venuspatrol.com/ I'm going to talk about a new pro…
  150. …in reply to @iamcarneiro
    @iamcarneiro @m_kopas low scope/low budget makes it much easier to make something beautiful, imho.
  151. …in reply to @iamcarneiro
    @iamcarneiro @m_kopas consistency is the key, and mo money, mo people, mo inconsistent and overlaid elements over a game.
  152. …in reply to @iamcarneiro
  153. Maddie, I don't know if you're aware of this, but you're standing on me.
  154. …in reply to @radiatoryang
    @radiatoryang you go with what's cheap, I guess?
  155. …in reply to @beckwig
    @beckwig how do you feel about unexpected crunching sounds?
  156. …in reply to @adult_witch
    @auntiepixelante @jennatar yeah, this is p much exactly how i feel. I want to go to the bar you're drunk at, Jenn.
  157. …in reply to @undefined
  158. @asponge Alice Alice Alice, that Dominos game has a beta available. I think it's the old version? Downloading now.
  159. …in reply to @v21
    @asponge I got halfway through the trailer, and it has a parrot and gears and lasers and working electric circuits. I am excited for this.
  160. …in reply to @v21
    @asponge also there is a fan and blimps. and 5 Parrots To Find
  161. I am not sure I can recall being as excited for any game more than I am for the beta of gamieon.com/dominozetrailers to download.
  162. RT @haikus_by_KN: What's holding Britain down isn't benefits. It's low pay | Zoe Williams gu.com/p/3ggp7/tw via @guardian
  163. …in reply to @garethbriggs
    @garethbriggs hurrah! Finally!
  164. …in reply to @martinhollis
    @martinhollis @drinkrelaxplay @ETooLondon that sounds like a good plan. I think I'll join you.
  165. …in reply to @VitaminPowered
    @VitaminPowered @asponge I just woke up! I was excited about dominos at 3am, though, which I blame.
  166. …in reply to @patrickashe
    @patrickashe @joonturbo it turns out that living somewhere is an inherently immersive experience.
  167. …in reply to @patrickashe
    @patrickashe @joonturbo but you gotta be participatory
  168. …in reply to @joonturbo
    @joonturbo @patrickashe also : I am heading over again in a few weeks.
  169. …in reply to @jonbro
    @jonbro @smestorp i am looking forward to upgrading! Should I not be?
  170. …in reply to @droqen
    @droqen Oh the one hand, yes, but on the other hand, the combination system resembles Luftrausers, which works marvellously.
  171. …in reply to @v21
    @droqen the difference being, any combination is valid?
  172. …in reply to @droqen
    @droqen no, no magical combos (that I know of). But magical combos layered delicately on top wouldn't ruin it, I don't think?
  173. I'm talking about stuff at EToo later (about 10, I think) etoolondon.com
  174. Horizon.venuspatrol.com hey look, @doougle is on a livestream
  175. I wonder what he's just about to announce?
  176. Noooo, the livestream!
  177. Mutazione! Look at this lovely game we're working on mutazionegame.com
  178. …in reply to @mcclure111
    @mcclure111 bad machinery, gunnerkrigg court?
  179. I'm live on eToo in about a minute? Etoolondon.com
  180. Well, I think that went well.
  181. …in reply to @smestorp
    @smestorp NICE ICON
  182. …in reply to @LewieP
    @LewieP I see a theme developing here
  183. …in reply to @jonbro
    @jonbro I wondered if this was about Doom at first
  184. hey, that game I'm showing this evening still runs!
  185. …in reply to @garethbriggs
    @garethbriggs yep! Showing MEGA BASTARD
  186. …in reply to @garethbriggs
    @garethbriggs yep! Dancemats ahoy!
  187. Finally watching Horizon. Watching @Dick_Hogg and @KommanderKlobb bumble around on stage, <3
  188. All these games where all the pixels are in the right place! Hopefully ours will be one of them.
  189. (it will be, unless I fuck up)
  190. RT @seniath: @v21 George Buckingham
  191. …in reply to @TRUTRUTRULUV
    @c_hedborg mutazionegame.com !
  192. …in reply to @haikus_by_KN
  193. …in reply to @TRUTRUTRULUV
    @c_hedborg @doougle yeah, really, between that lovely art, and those lovely sounds, it's my game to fuck up
  194. …in reply to @dikte
    @dikte nah, I've got another two games to do that to today!
  195. …in reply to @patrickashe
    @patrickashe got a miniDP to DVI adaptor, but not VGA
  196. …in reply to @patrickashe
    @patrickashe getting some lunch now then heading over.
  197. …in reply to @radiatoryang
    @radiatoryang I'm not sure working it out properly has ever worked out for me.
  198. …in reply to @smestorp
    @smestorp @ADAMATOMIC your previous productivity is giving you unreasonable expectations. That's probably a good thing.
  199. @patrickashe got iPad, dance mats, USB hub, laptop, two iPad cases, only a single Kensington lock(sorry!) 2 Xbox controllers. That's it,yes?
  200. In a few hours I'm showing MEGA BASTARD at cptheatre.co.uk/event_details.php?sectionid=home&eventid=673&searchid=current Come along!
  201. @patrickashe actually, do you have a bunch of (ideally black) gaffer / duct tape?
  202. Really not the time, laptop...
  203. Really hope my laptop isn't actually dead.
  204. Anyone build a Unity project for me real quick? Laptop is completely dead, it seems...
  205. MEGA BASTARD LIVES! vine.co/v/blLUT7QAaT2
  206. For some reason I thought the Stickets grid was 5 x 6. (It's 5 x 5)
  207. …in reply to @undefined
    @inskora there's puzzle games that wouldn't make sense for, where mechanics are gently introduced. But even those should have breathing room
  208. @brandonnn I saw that fav...
  209. Alone in the Park is out! It's a sharp-worded adventure game that @haikus_by_KN has been working on for ages itunes.apple.com/us/app/alone-in-the-park/id568068207?ls=1&mt=8
  210. RT @haikus_by_KN: Here's the full version of the Alone in the Park themesong: soundcloud.com/katharine-neil/alone-in-the-park-theme-song
  211. Getting real bad about to go out anxiety. I hate this and don't understand it and I know it'll be worse when I'm travelling there.
  212. Lengthy, meaty essay to read on my phone on the tube would be appreciated.
  213. The first thing I did after I heard about the highly classified NSA PRISM program two years ago was set up a proxy... warscapes.com/literature/cryptogams-nsa
  214. Everyone here looks like they could be from comics.
  215. I guess hopefully including me?
  216. I'm not going to buy a 3DS, you guys.
  217. …in reply to @C418
    @C418 same! But that is Too Much to spend.
  218. …in reply to @KommanderKlobb
    @KommanderKlobb thing that gets me - science programmes that aim to inspire people to be interested in science.
  219. …in reply to @KommanderKlobb
    @KommanderKlobb I already care about science! That's why I'm watching a science programme! So tell me a thing, instead!
  220. …in reply to @haikus_by_KN
  221. …in reply to @glassarmy
    @glassarmy that is impressive!
  222. …in reply to @9W_vgculture
    @9W_vgculture @SFBTom @London_Geekfest yeah, totally. Would this be a panel, or a talk, or? (My email is vtwentyone@gmail.com, if you want)
  223. …in reply to @Dick_Hogg
  224. …in reply to @jonbro
    @jonbro can you stream any of it? ie, background music?
  225. …in reply to @jonbro
    @jonbro oh, actually for something actually level-based, there's the world of AssetBundles etc too.
  226. …in reply to @fernantastic
    @compositeredfox not really. I'd go with NGUI, really -- the mental strain is not gonna be much less with anything else.
  227. …in reply to @fernantastic
    @compositeredfox also, we should talk about the thing I'm making
  228. RT @resiak: Erlang: the Movie: Just the Calls vimeo.com/16232844
  229. …in reply to @mcclure111
    @mcclure111 oh, I like your new icon algorithm!
  230. …in reply to @Doomlaser
    @Doomlaser hello Jasper, hello Rami, hello Anthony!
  231. RT @jonty: Laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaannnnnnndsaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat! I love that you can see the orbital path in google markers. https://t.co/f5npFrz3…
  232. …in reply to @retroremakes
    @retroremakes @Jayenkai @edclef @S0phieH @docky "don’t need art/music spend" : though he did contract out that stuff, just for profit-share.
  233. …in reply to @undefined
    @jennatar it is useful to draw a line between substance/style of reporting, and behaviour at events?
  234. …in reply to @lefishy
    @lefishy I can't get used to the Omnibar gone away, but other than that I am really liking being back.
  235. …in reply to @lefishy
    @lefishy Like, have you seen that Chrome right-click menu?
  236. …in reply to @undefined
    @jennatar some of my favorite T-shirts are swag T-shirts.
  237. …in reply to @undefined
    @jennatar (mainly from @lucky_frame. Or Wild Rumpus, which doesn't really count (especially since I paid for one of them))
  238. "It's a video game: If people aren't playing it, it's not worth anything," said one of the creators of Glitchhiker.
  239. (<3 u, Rami)
  240. …in reply to @tha_rami
    @tha_rami actually, being serious: I don't know that I agree with the quote. A game is also it's context.
  241. …in reply to @tha_rami
    @tha_rami "A play starts when you first hear about it, and ends when you forget it" -- @tassosstevens
  242. …in reply to @tha_rami
    @tha_rami @doougle @joonturbo mine was between designed object being purely the game, versus the entire game experience.
  243. …in reply to @tha_rami
    @tha_rami @doougle @joonturbo (online or offline discourse with the designer can happen in either)
  244. …in reply to @tha_rami
    @tha_rami @doougle @joonturbo depends on the game, though part of my point is that the boundaries between game and context are fuzzy.
  245. …in reply to @joonturbo
    @joonturbo o shit! ~~~
  246. BIFURCATED GIRLS darwinscans.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/standard-vanity-fair-952-november-15.html LEADING ACTRESSES - MEN'S TOGS - - GAY GIRLS IN TROUSERS
  247. I guess we have a new genre adarkroom.doublespeakgames.com/
  248. …in reply to @psychicteeth
    @psychicteeth @terrycavanagh but I can think of some ways I prefer this, too... (on balance, probably worse, though)
  249. …in reply to @PerrinAshcroft
    @PerrinAshcroft @psychicteeth @terrycavanagh But on the plus side, I'm pretty sure it doesn't have Chuck Norris.
  250. …in reply to @dikte
    @dikte I might make one, call it "A Number Goes Up"
  251. Hey, my @AMazeFest talk went up! youtube.com/watch?v=pQTMkM8kRzY&feature=youtu.be It's just me listing genres.
  252. …in reply to @D_Nye_Griffiths
    @D_Nye_Griffiths @Carachan1 @fullbright @bonzrat @jennatar don't go in Cara's basement (it's damp)
  253. RT @cluedont: I see someone in Boots has got a sense of humour. twitpic.com/cxu9zh
  254. …in reply to @TheRichardClark
    @DeadYetLiving "The worst part is, these women think that they are free." : this is the crux of my disagreement with this article, I think.
  255. …in reply to @TheRichardClark
    @DeadYetLiving Takes p extreme circumstances to make me insist that my views on someone's experiences & choices are more valid than theirs.
  256. …in reply to @lefishy
    @lefishy (it's 8.8.8.8, btw)
  257. …in reply to @lefishy
    @lefishy (I only mentioned because I remembered it off by heart)
  258. …in reply to @schonstal
    @schonstal @simonv3 Did I know you knew each other? (Also, yeah, sounds pretty normal)
  259. …in reply to @notsimonv3
    @simonv3 @schonstal oh, ha! Good for me!
  260. Bah, I forgot the time and missed @agencyofconey's Salon.
  261. RT @joewengert: imagine if you had the persistence and the drive of the Adobe Reader Updater
  262. Yaaaaaay, trying to generate meshes with long compilation times! Yaaaaay!
  263. …in reply to @LateTide
    @LateTide Plenty!
  264. “When people call Microsoft ‘evil’, while I don’t want to defend them, it’s kind of an undeserved compliment. To be evil, you have to have..
  265. ...vision, you have to have communication, execution… None of those are traits are things that I would ascribe to Microsoft Studios.”
  266. …in reply to @robertpeacock22
    @robertpeacock22 yep! Not that I'm really posting that to hate on Microsoft, more just -- it's a great quote.
  267. …in reply to @dgrey0
    @dgrey0 @smestorp when I think of my own actions, I think I'm only evil when I choose to ignore something, not just fail to comprehend.
  268. …in reply to @dgrey0
    @dgrey0 @smestorp I am very aware of that process by which you choose to not think about a thing.
  269. …in reply to @jwaaaap
  270. @infovore Hello Lamppost looks lovely! SMS is a great choice.
  271. …in reply to @TRUTRUTRULUV
    @c_hedborg shit, that's really nice! I've got a lot of nice glitch stuff in the works -- unfortunately it's all tied up in a single project.
  272. …in reply to @TRUTRUTRULUV
    @c_hedborg Yeah, the glitch texture fits so well as sparkles, I'll remember that in future.
  273. …in reply to @webbedspace
    @webbedspace that's amazing, please make that.
  274. It's probably a great article (I find it hard to tell because it set off my cringe reflex)
  275. I love feeling part of this community of open, curious, inventive people. It's a lot of why I make games.
  276. …in reply to @robertpeacock22
    @robertpeacock22 I haven't, but that sounds great!
  277. …in reply to @KommanderKlobb
    @KommanderKlobb @patrickashe Oh, shit! I was going to give you some speakers for TWT!
  278. It's difficult : I like awkward, uncomfortable games. But the discomfort varies invisibly with the player's context.
  279. So hitting that perfect level of discomfort (where you are just outside you comfort zone, but happy to be testing it) is ... unreliable.
  280. The most important thing, I guess, is the right not to play. Otherwise, it's not a game.
  281. …in reply to @undefined
  282. …in reply to @radiatoryang
    @radiatoryang (I oscillate between saying this, and explaining just how much work & stress it is)
  283. …in reply to @radiatoryang
    @radiatoryang Yeah, I GUESS.
  284. …in reply to @joonturbo
    @joonturbo Silkscreen in CUBES. Think I use Fixedsys in PtC -- Fixedsys Excelsior is the best way to do that.
  285. RT @webbedspace: Chess knights are unaware they aren't moving in straight lines. They are otherworldly beast-fighters whose sense of geomet…
  286. 6am tube people
  287. Gmail on iOS turns a email containing the code I need to pick up my ticket into a giant calendar entry not containing that code.
  288. Also I got here like an hour early for some inexplicable reason. After waking from a dream about traditionally table-roleplaying the Bible?
  289. …in reply to @haikus_by_KN
    @haikus_by_KN nope! Wedding in Selkirk. Means I miss Rezzed, unfortunately.
  290. I think they might've succeeded with this trick of making the first class tickets cheaper. Cup of tea, wifi and breakfast later...
  291. …in reply to @jonbro
    @jonbro tell me about it! Woke up at 5, won't be in bed til past midnight...
  292. …in reply to @jonbro
    @jonbro funny you should mention that (on the Edinburgh train right now)
  293. …in reply to @jonbro
    @jonbro there is a game symposium? (No, a wedding in Selkirk)
  294. punished for talking about git in a social situation last night with git going hideously wrong this morning
  295. …in reply to @infovore
    @infovore much worse! Some internal files got corrupted, I had to manually yank them out, delete some others, git fsck, etc.
  296. …in reply to @infovore
    @infovore ignore all but Assets & ProjectSettings, Editor Settings> .meta files and force text serialization, that's most of it.
  297. …in reply to @infovore
    @infovore But still, don't rely on being able to merge scene changes (even manually). Which can be mitigated with smart use of prefabs.
  298. …in reply to @infovore
    @infovore ah, that's much less painful. I use it to collaborate with artists. It's fun teaching non-technical people about git.
  299. …in reply to @Gillespionage
    @Gillespionage Any old unpowered hub works fine, unless you're gonna have more than 2 or so vibrating at once.
  300. …in reply to @Gillespionage
    @Gillespionage Hokra can trip that power limit on an unpowered hub (if all the controllers go through the hub)
  301. E'ry day I'm importing assets in Unity.
  302. Sad I'm not popping by ELCAF tomorrow: elcaf.co.uk/
  303. So excited for when I get enough Internet to download Toca Builder. I've only really loved Hair Salon 2, but I have so much hope for this.
  304. …in reply to @undefined
    @jennatar @smestorp @aliendovecote I reject, as a point of principle, the idea that drunk tweeting is worth less.
  305. Toca Builder downloaded. 30 seconds in, and I feel like I could write an essay on how masterful the interaction design is.
  306. This wedding has weird bubbles that don't pop normally.
  307. "Touchable" bubbles?
  308. …in reply to @wjjjjt
    @resiak @whitingjp @Hysteresis_WM see also Clairvoyance
  309. I can accurately predict Deceptacon from 400 miles away.
  310. …in reply to @nachimir
    @nachimir :/ hope it's calmed down now...
  311. @KommanderKlobb is TWT going well?
  312. …in reply to @ElectronDance
    @ElectronDance you were at Rezzed last year, though! You should come to more things.
  313. …in reply to @ElectronDance
    @ElectronDance (not that I'm at Rezzed, either, mind)
  314. …in reply to @tigershungry
    @tigershungry ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh, I wish I was there!
  315. …in reply to @tigershungry
    @tigershungry can you buy me a copy of Sunday In The Park With Boys? On Koyama press, I think at Blank Slate? And Giant Days?
  316. …in reply to @ElectronDance
    @ElectronDance oh, yeah. I forget, because they seem like much the same thing?
  317. Wish the libraries I was using were open source so that making hem better felt more useful.
  318. …in reply to @tigershungry
    @tigershungry Ahhh, I can understand that. I should probably suck it up and pay the stupid shipping cost.
  319. …in reply to @GameTOILET
    @KBsGameTOILET "Lamagna", a pipecleaner, 26 lightyears.
  320. I got on a train at half 4. I am still on a train.
  321. …in reply to @C418
    @C418 oh, so my friend got married yesterday, and he played your music while we were eating <3
  322. …in reply to @me_backwards
    @me_backwards coming home from Edinburgh. Now one tube stop from home...
  323. …in reply to @bonzrat
  324. …in reply to @bonzrat
    @bonzrat And also, relatedly unwinnable.com/2013/06/20/lemons-trawlers-and-a-bit-of-alright/ (not least because this one has a lot of me in it)
  325. …in reply to @kittaveli
    @kittaveli Animal Crossing?
  326. …in reply to @bonzrat
  327. Tempted to take my Oculus Rift to Roskilde and jam out a game for it there. But that might involve buying a large suitcase.
  328. …in reply to @undefined
    @Carachan1 @RezzedGameShow NOW I'm sad I didn't come.
  329. …in reply to @undefined
    @jennatar all these groups and places leak. Get enough decent attitudes about, maybe it'll diffuse into the entire world.
  330. …in reply to @infovore
    @infovore very glad I saw this tweet when I did. I just managed to get one, also. And now it says sold out.
  331. Zones has been designed with interaction experts and theatremakers Coney to ensure that genuine gamification is incorporated into the design
  332. RT @SFBDim: Draw your own lampshade, the light in your room changes to match the colours you used. Little light visible from outside also c…
  333. …in reply to @undefined
    @jennatar oh god. I find that show like taking a wire wool scrubber to shine up my sense of decency.
  334. …in reply to @undefined
    @jennatar I feel I should rewatch it every so often, to remind me what to hate, but it's not a pleasant experience.
  335. …in reply to @undefined
    @jennatar Mind you, it should be noted that I currently live in East London.
  336. …in reply to @undefined
    @jennatar It's an amazing amazing show.
  337. …in reply to @undefined
    @jennatar But in the same way that I argued to a non-games person at a wedding that games shouldn't have to be about "fun"...
  338. …in reply to @undefined
    @jennatar ... I can't watch a man inappropriately rapping while going down on a woman and call it "pleasant", or "enjoyable".
  339. …in reply to @undefined
    @jennatar Yeah, exactly! That's why it's so painful -- you can't even retreat into a comforting revulsion at the terrible people you see.
  340. …in reply to @KommanderKlobb
    @KommanderKlobb @VG247 @WildRumpus @brandonnn Also Asuka Sakai (Keita's wife) did the music, and their son did some of the sounds.
  341. …in reply to @neveahfs
    @neveahfs @john_brindle @SFBTom Ahhh! Excited to "panel" with you -- but I'll have to skip out on the Skype, as I'm off to ...
  342. …in reply to @neveahfs
    @neveahfs @john_brindle @SFBTom Roskilde and generally Copenhagen for two weeks come Friday.
  343. …in reply to @tef
    @tef @CodeClub ohshit! Fantastic!
  344. …in reply to @helenlewis
    @helenlewis @Carachan1 Not that it's not, but it's more remaking Lara to appeal to a gay male audience than doing a Hawkeye.
  345. "Although a thick refrigerator door is good at masking sound (as anyone who has lost a cat inside one knows)" what?
  346. I am unexpectedly (not that unexpectedly) both a juror and an entrant at Indiecade. I guess I should start stressin?
  347. …in reply to @Evan_Pincus
    @DrlemonWCGGG Yep, LA Indiecade. (Is there another?)
  348. …in reply to @Arndreth
    @Arndreth Tenya Wanya Teens! I am close to the least part of it, but still.
  349. …in reply to @undefined
    @Carachan1 After @jennatar talked about it last night, I tried to watch it. I got about 15 seconds in, then reflex-paused it in discomfort.
  350. …in reply to @PerrinAshcroft
    @PerrinAshcroft @S0phieH thus needing you to do ./foo ? I thought that was normal on Linux, too...
  351. …in reply to @PerrinAshcroft
    @PerrinAshcroft @S0phieH there's a lot of stupid internalized knowledge you need, for sure. A Thousand Years Of Cruft.
  352. All day long I've wanted a nap, but instead I'm going to Westfield Stratford.
  353. I have to do it in a chance of a new study shows the first place and a little more about this is the first place and a half hour of a new
  354. Markov chain courtesy of Swype, there.
  355. RT @asponge: I wrote about a Doom II level pack I find fascinating and my idle daydreams of video game forgeries: actual.gamesculture.biz/post/53307577608/fakes-frauds-and-method-mapping-doom-ii-the-way-id
  356. This (and the hope that @joonturbo will make an event happen in CPH) is enough to make that whole event worthwhile.
  357. Frustrating experience of searching for flights on Hipmunk, and them being £250+ quid more expensive when I clcik through to book.
  358. …in reply to @martinhollis
    @martinhollis Hmm... Good shout. Though having searched again, I think I've found a direct flight that only comes in £7 over budget.
  359. …in reply to @siskin
    @siskin I'm booking with the airline, so if that is the case I don't really want to give them my money.
  360. …in reply to @siskin
    @siskin Also, re-searching found out some direct flights that were suddenly £100 cheaper, so I've went with that.
  361. …in reply to @wjjjjt
    @resiak @leonardr @heftyseamstress Which has also broken... I'll fix it up at some point.
  362. …in reply to @leonardr
    @leonardr @resiak (btw, fetching from GitHub is totally fine by me)
  363. …in reply to @undefined
    @WhisperBat now I want to make something where the letters do rot(mod(time * 2), 26), rot(mod(time * 3),26), rot(mod(time * 5),26)
  364. …in reply to @undefined
    @WhisperBat all flashing different, indecipherable, then you hit the magic position, and -- clear sentence. And then it's gone.
  365. …in reply to @terrycavanagh
    @terrycavanagh or in the last ... however long it's been since it came out, for that matter.
  366. …in reply to @undefined
    @WhisperBat or - each letter with a sequential offset - a rare ripple of meaning down the page, just too quick for you. Oh! This is great.
  367. Amazing how creative being tired as hell can make you
  368. I want to get rich and wear Yohji Yamamoto
  369. This personally affects me, so it makes me furious. Also it's a terrible deal for the government. Fuck all of this. newstatesman.com/economics/2013/06/danny-alexander-confirms-student-loan-book-will-be-privatised
  370. …in reply to @phototropy
    @phototropy *searches* those all look cute as hell.
  371. Best time to have BA fail to deliver your luggage is definitely when it contains the tent and sleeping bag you were planning to sleep in.
  372. (Tomorrow night, at least, so I've got a chance of it working out fine)
  373. …in reply to @undefined
    @jennatar There's an app called Strange Rain. Partly it tells a story, partly it simulates watching rain fall onto a skylight.
  374. …in reply to @undefined
    @SiriHoho Oh! That's great news!
  375. …in reply to @sciencevsmagic
    @sciencevsmagic just saw this posted up elsewhere - it's awesome, but request: alt bindings for zoom -- on a laptop trackpad.
  376. …in reply to @radiatoryang
    @radiatoryang ahhhhhh, this is great!
  377. …in reply to @KommanderKlobb
    @KommanderKlobb Just about to head off for 9 days of camping in a field and also trying to run videogames at the same time.
  378. …in reply to @KommanderKlobb
    @KommanderKlobb they never lost it, they just decided not to put it on the plane. I am hopeful I will get a phone call tomorrow.
  379. …in reply to @undefined
    @Carachan1 every community needs something f to bond over unthinkingly hating
  380. Since reinstalling and fucking with and generally sorting out my ancient Nexus One, I like this iPad a lot less.
  381. On the other hand, this has Vine, Stickets and King of Dragon Pass on it.
  382. But fuck me, text entry is awful on this hint. I've had Swype for 2 and now this just feels barbaric.
  383. ios7 looks good though. Less fucking green baize, for a start.
  384. …in reply to @undefined
    @jennatar you played Haunt The House?
  385. …in reply to @hollygramazio
    @severalbees prom = smart, leopard print = casual
  386. …in reply to @smestorp
    @smestorp @KommanderKlobb @patrickashe but I wanna build the ultimate game! I just got a surround sound hifi, too!
  387. I have so many vines to show you (once I get some wifi)
  388. Oh, for people interested in the whereabout of my bag -- it should be delivered to the campsite some time before midnight? So that's good.
  389. some context: I'm in a shipping container at Roskilde festival, hearing @bfod and @tigershungry's mechanized sex noises and drinking lager.
  390. context for the context: Die Gute Fabrik is showing Get On Top, Proteus Frog God Mod, JS Joust at Roskilde.
  391. …in reply to @jamesthomson
    @jamesthomson I like how precise this language can be. "Wedged" is probably my favourite.