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Tweets from 2015/08

  1. RT @cnnbrk: Roddy Piper, arguably professional wrestling's all-time top bad guy, has died. cnn.it/1JByyAD
  2. RT @robertflorence: Roddy Piper said he was from Glasgow and we all chose to believe it because we wanted it to be true. And that's why wre…
  3. RT @lorenschmidt: dithering with wide error displacement vine.co/v/eXLrxmTlhYV
  4. …in reply to @lorenschmidt
    @lorenschmidt this is really great. Ugh, I should do more non-realtime gfx.
  5. RT @lorenschmidt: staircases 8206444939706366, 8481441025359870, 4966660379246591 and 55096834310143
  6. Ugh, I need to jump on that Floyd - Steinberg shit. I wonder if I could write it up to work fast enough for real-time...
  7. …in reply to @raiganburns
    @raiganburns I haven't played (don't have the right hardware), but I suspect I wouldn't enjoy it?
  8. …in reply to @v21
    @raiganburns I can't be bothered to improve my skills at playing particular games, without which I think I would gain only small enjoyment.
  9. …in reply to @v21
    @raiganburns for reference, the last game that made me want to get good at it was Super Hexagon. I know that feeling, it's just rare.
  10. …in reply to @raiganburns
    @raiganburns I hope to! I have played a bit, actually, round yours last year. I liked the precision, I liked the style,
  11. …in reply to @v21
    @raiganburns but didn't want to keep failing at it a party when people who were digging it more wanted to play.
  12. …in reply to @raiganburns
  13. @8fldh @brothboy Is there an email address I can reach you on to ask about a thing to do with Fish Fly?
  14. …in reply to @fernantastic
    @compositeredfox @joonturbo @taleoftales I just messaged you! We're gonna go run get food now. Joon lands at 9.
  15. i feel like i am wasting this gorgeous balcony by not being a smoker
  16. …in reply to @HilariousCow
    @HilariousCow nah, our airbnb in cologne
  17. …in reply to @HilariousCow
    @HilariousCow wish you were here... drowning
  18. …in reply to @Oujevipo
    @Oujevipo hah! exactly!
  19. …in reply to @Oujevipo
    @Oujevipo if you want to play the game properly (through non-videogame means)
  20. …in reply to @Oujevipo
    @Oujevipo cook something that needs checking on every 20 minutes, smoke a cigarette, watch that TV, and talk to a friend via walkie talkie.
  21. I want to remake Always Stuck Minding The Store as a real time motel room simulator.
  22. …in reply to @v21
    Edgily waiting for a man to call by, mysterious suitcase under the bed, TV showing only fox news and a fuzzier version of fox news.
  23. …in reply to @v21
    DLC will let you go down the hallway to buy more smokes and get some free ice.
  24. …in reply to @TomNullpointer
    @TomNullpointer I'm undecided if anyone ever actually comes...
  25. this is a fun game n.nfshost.com/1.html
  26. …in reply to @iainl7
    @iainl7 "3.html"
  27. …in reply to @jazzmickle
    @jmickle_ me too
  28. …in reply to @v21
    (it's by @whitingjp)
  29. …in reply to @ntlk
    @ntlk yeah, but where would it go if it did?
  30. …in reply to @v21
    @whitingjp psst, Jonathan, you should peep my mentions :)
  31. …in reply to @joonturbo
  32. If you're at GDC Europe, come see me show off Fabulous Beasts at the Innovative Games Showcase at 5! Also, @Me if you wanna play it.
  33. RT @bitcraftlab: Keyboard Layout for Celtic Knotwork Design >>> clanbadge.com/how.htm cc @akllr @raquelmeyers #knotwork #tiling #font http…
  34. RT @AranKoning: just remember: all the cool kids don't wear their badges at parties
  35. …in reply to @Gib
    @Gib @SFBTom no, we just arrived - gonna grab food and find somewhere
  36. …in reply to @Gib
    @Gib @SFBTom first thought us the attendee lounge?
  37. …in reply to @erbridge
    @erbridge @FabBeasts yeah! Having lunch at the moment, but we're going to try setting up in the attendee lounge after.
  38. GDC Europeans! Fabulous Beasts is set up and ready to play. Come to the Attendee Lounge in the next few hours!
  39. …in reply to @erbridge
    @erbridge @FabBeasts we're here now!
  40. …in reply to @maltron3D
    @maltron3D I got cups. Where you at?
  41. …in reply to @StevieB64
    @StevieB64 oh, that's gorgeous, Stevie!
  42. RT @lorenschmidt: lovely interview about hte @mothgenerator up on studio 360! studio360.org/story/sideshow-how-make-moth/
  43. …in reply to @tef
    @tef @guattari2600 hm! You might like Beeswing?
  44. …in reply to @WeAreMuesli
  45. …in reply to @v21
    @tef @guattari2600 Oh god, actually: Kentucky Route Zero. Strongest possible recommendations for KRZ.
  46. …in reply to @alicemazzy
    @alicemazzy this thread has inspired me to spend the extra and get a neon F-91W rather than the black I usually get.
  47. having good nostalgic times with the PS Move Pairing Utility. that music!
  48. The tube strike means I'm travelling in an actual Routemaster, overhanging platform at the front and actual conductors and everything.
  49. …in reply to @patrickashe
    @patrickashe will they carry you over mountains?
  50. …in reply to @KommanderKlobb
    @KommanderKlobb @gabesmed @ADAMATOMIC haven't yet read the article: but that's a great URL
  51. …in reply to @ADAMATOMIC
    @ADAMATOMIC @KommanderKlobb @gabesmed I read the article! It lived up to the hype.
  52. RT @KommanderKlobb: here's an outstandingly brilliant and honest description of the reality of making largish indie games by @ADAMATOMIC ht…
  53. "I built 5 stupid Twitter robots and they failed to fill the void in my heart" somefoolnotion.com/there-arent-any-real-people-in-here-at-all/
  54. Glad to hear of another Unity competitor stingrayengine.com/
  55. …in reply to @shanley
    @shanley i am thinking about petting a seal now
  56. RT @mcclure111: Here a single CNN headline neatly encapsulates the limitations of our thinking on the middle east
  57. …in reply to @patrickashe
    @patrickashe @hannahnicklin are these your friends who are always flakey? PS I'm en route to Crystal Palace if that changes anything.
  58. …in reply to @hannahnicklin
    @hannahnicklin Bekah has a lot of different hats, but from my distant involvement with Finji she seems like a great producer.
  59. …in reply to @psychicteeth
    @psychicteeth the thing that gets me is that they're clued in enough to put it on itch, but not enough to realise it's a stupid ask.
  60. This looks like a great primer for starting to do some interesting things with generative text github.com/aparrish/sfpc-gen-text-2015
  61. RT @Vector_GL: Sine and Cosine:
  62. RT @imgconvos: a beautiful song by @imgshredder and @badpng
  63. …in reply to @oysterFAKE
    @oysterFAKE I've gotten mad about this before, but I don't think I'd seen that text. Ugrh.
  64. …in reply to @undefined
    @jennatar after a while you just get used to it. I ate a £11 pile of vegetables in a bun last night and the slate tile didn't even register.
  65. …in reply to @undefined
    @jennatar I think the worst I've ever experienced personally was chips in a little wire shopping trolley. Wait. "Fries"
  66. RT @atters1000: The list of traditional creeps from the Penguin Book of English Folktales #FolkloreThursday #Mumpokers #Shag-foals http://t…
  67. We have a website up for Now Play This, our festival of games at Somerset House at the start of September! nowplaythis.net
  68. …in reply to @erbridge
    @erbridge thanks :< I saw, and then didn't fix it because we're gonna have to redesign it when we get some fancy graphics through next week.
  69. …in reply to @erbridge
    @erbridge Wordpress... :/
  70. RT @fromsmiling: Finally got the new character design in today with @mousefountain. Yep.
  71. @maltron3D do you have that slow-mo tower fall video?
  72. RT @hoskingc: There's so much bad typography on steam. Games with beautiful (if pat) art but then ordinary logos.
  73. RT @droqen: forget "best 2 out of 3", try "best 3 out of tic-tac-toe"! get a move in tic tac toe every time you win, play until you win t-t…
  74. who's going to 9worlds tomorrow?
  75. …in reply to @srules
    @srules ugh, yes. actually, i need to find out what i'm doing there...
  76. …in reply to @srules
    @srules there's all these great videogame shows going on these days, and i don't get to enjoy any of them.
  77. …in reply to @srules
    @srules PS did you see nowplaythis.net/
  78. …in reply to @srules
    @srules we were! i need to respond to those emails. but we put up a website today, so that part is new.
  79. …in reply to @dr_d_king
    @dr_d_king rad! I am. I'm on a panel on Twine games.
  80. I like that Time cover? I mean, it'd be better if Bloomberg Businessweek had ran it...
  81. RT @karaastone: LAST DAY TO SUBMIT TO WORLDPLAY! WRITERLY GAME MAKERS CLICK THIS handeyesociety.com/event/announcing-wordplay-2015-call-for-submissions-volunteers-2/
  82. @tigershungry I only just saw you got Laura Callaghan stuff for the Friday Late. That's rad.
  83. …in reply to @tigershungry
  84. Facebook 2016 thedatadrive.com/
  85. I read a parody of this and thought it boringly heavy-handed. This is amazing. robrhinehart.com/?p=1331 "How I Gave Up Alternating Current"
  86. …in reply to @v21
  87. …in reply to @vectorpoem
    @vectorpoem I mean, I am making fun of it here.
  88. …in reply to @vectorpoem
    @vectorpoem Yeah, my bad, it reads ambiguous from this end now.
  89. …in reply to @DivitosGD
    @DivitosGD it's not mine! It's by @MasonLindroth!
  90. …in reply to @joroach
    @joroach Wild Life by Molly Gloss
  91. Should I buy this shirt? @3liza/629507462517751809
  92. …in reply to @jazzmickle
    @jmickle_ that's PAOM for you
  93. …in reply to @sheilamu
    @sheilamu boo 😢
  94. …in reply to @sheilamu
  95. …in reply to @sheilamu
    @sheilamu (have fun in Swindon!)
  96. …in reply to @saracecilia
    @saracecilia I'm feeling good about being there, even secondhand.
  97. RT @Chati: we built babel in silence
  98. …in reply to @alicemazzy
    @alicemazzy you're a terror, Alice.
  99. This article (feat @hannahnicklin & @hollygramazio) makes me really appreciate my friends midnightresistance.co.uk/articles/videobrains
  100. …in reply to @KommanderKlobb
    @KommanderKlobb @tigershungry @patrickashe aw, i want to, but i gotta go to 9 worlds. my panel is at like 6, though...
  101. …in reply to @PersocomNina
    @hentaiphd i am really into that hair. mmm!
  102. someone used a tool I wrote to make a bot that just posted a gif of a vine by someone who is friends with a guy i knew online when i was 15
  103. RT @hollygramazio: And. AND. Literally six and a half thousand(!!!!) (!!!!!) words of my opinions in an interview for nodontdie http://t.co…
  104. …in reply to @_JakeTucker
    @_JakeTucker yep! Shadow Photocopier
  105. "Pretator always points to the nearest open Prêt à Manger." pretator.tomarmitage.com/
  106. RT @johndaguerra: Email from my dad: Subject: Spooky Ghost Love the spooky ghost! Dad
  107. If you're at Nine Worlds - hi! Me too! I'm on a panel on Twine and Interactive Fiction at 6:45, if that's a thing you're into.
  108. …in reply to @Sethirith
    @Sethirith rad, thanks - on my long way back now
  109. What a beautiful day to travel to Heathrow and hang round in a hotel.
  110. RT @PulpLibrarian: 70s advert for #computer programmers in #Romford & Guilford. £2000 p.a. Reverse charges when you call! #coding http://t.…
  111. …in reply to @haikus_by_KN
    @haikus_by_KN I'm really sad you're not planning on doing this for real
  112. @tigershungry @hollygramazio I have just arrived - either of you around?
  113. …in reply to @tigershungry
    @tigershungry @hollygramazio ah, see you in 15, then (bus stop 20, any to Nene Road)
  114. @mink_ette @kierongillen as I return for another day, I just wanted to say : it was super nice to hang out with you both yesterday.
  115. @hollygramazio we're around at the room now - room 11, round through lots of corridors
  116. RT @9W_vgculture: At 15:15 in Room 11 - Imaginary Museums with @SophiaPretoria, @tigershungry, @hollygramazio, @AboutThisLater, @v21 #NineW…
  117. Imagining a phone call between Donald Trump, President of the USA and Jeremy Corbyn, Prime Minister of the UK.
  118. RT @aguycalleddaves: @v21 I'd play that.
  119. RT @ClareCoffey: this is the best thing ever on so many levels
  120. …in reply to @nachimir
    @nachimir full of admiration for you doing that kind of work solo
  121. …in reply to @muratpak
    @muratpak @archillect I want sources posted...
  122. …in reply to @muratpak
    @muratpak @archillect also, less posts about centering normative female beauty. Nakedness is cool, though.
  123. RT @0xabad1dea: pps: “saying bae for babe is wrong because it is lazy”
  124. RT @ohh_deer: #illustration by Nicolai Troshinsky. Show us your work at creativesafari.com
  125. Barriers you are forbidden to pass, but are permitted to travel to either side of.
  126. My apologies - Cheap Bots Done Quick had another outage. Should be online again now.
  127. @patrickashe do you have a Vignettes sticker?
  128. …in reply to @patrickashe
    @patrickashe then i shall keep this one folded into my notebook til I see you next!
  129. …in reply to @PIXELATEDCROWN
    @PIXELATEDCROWN 4 but 1 is prettiest
  130. ZOOMBINIS FOR THE ZOOMBINI GOD! @leighalexander/630742738510737408
  131. …in reply to @v21
    Also, if you played Zoombinis as a kid, you should def check out The Illogical Journey of the Zambonis realnoyb.tumblr.com/post/101837796804/the-illogical-journey-of-the-zambonis-2014
  132. …in reply to @sarahbadr
    @sarahbadr Me too! I feel it's significant I heard about the mobile re-release from my aunt on Facebook before, eg, Offworld.
  133. This looks beautiful to me. @impbox/630437735233269761
  134. RT @maruti_bitamin: Reopened online store! koyamori.storenvy.com !! Gonna be updating with new merch throughout the day!
  135. …in reply to @hunktears
    @hunktears Skull, Dixit: Snap, Resistance: Avalon, 1000 Blank Cards
  136. "It was a glimpse of what would become the first man-cave in space – a remarkable achievement." screeninnovations.com/news/si-news/iss-viewscreen-the-first-screen-in-space/
  137. RT @aliendovecote: My virtual pet game is out! WITCH EGG! With cutey music by @HEAVENPEGASUS! #petjam aliendovecote.com/uploads/twine/pet/pet.html http://t.co/hV…
  138. Love the soundtrack from this rad new Sonic game vine.co/v/OrjJEA67KjP
  139. …in reply to @mink_ette
    @mink_ette I still can't believe Angelica & the other one finished the night with Stronger Than You.
  140. …in reply to @v21
    @mink_ette I'm going to be expecting that every time now (and disappointed, too)
  141. Where's a good place to buy interestingly structured non-jeans trousers?
  142. RT @danbarker: Remember 'milkmen'? Electric cars that delivered 'just-in-time' local produce direct to your door. If it launched now you'd …
  143. …in reply to @killerswan
    @killerswan and Dairy Quest!
  144. RT @hannahnicklin: My cat hates everything. My hateful cat.
  145. …in reply to @nachimir
  146. RT @nice_tips_bot: hey, if cooking more than 1 egg at a time, increase the cooking times as needed.
  147. …in reply to @leighalexander
    @leighalexander me too, i think. Rat Chaos & With Those We Love Alive are probably troubling them... hm.
  148. …in reply to @BetaRish
    @BetaRish @HarryGiles sometimes, walking to a place, when it's particularly bad, I put it in my bag for the journey.
  149. …in reply to @Brendy_C
    @Brendy_C @leighalexander it's in Leon's big Twine archive - I can send a copy if you like.
  150. …in reply to @Brendy_C
  151. Okay, I've only seen this gif, but I already think this is important. You can put a tie on a ghost! @__Tyu/631003798161502208
  152. I have played Million Onion Hotel and it is brilliant. @brandonnn/631109418898206720
  153. RT @tommchenry: One reason it's important to make things is those things can remind you that you are bigger than the economy would have you…
  154. So: that deep dream neural network shit is based on a machine for recognizing images, but run backwards (seeded with a source image).
  155. …in reply to @v21
    What happens if you train the original neural network to detect deep dreamed images?
  156. I like how people are starting to riff off @godtributes @ingdamnit/631129724392206336
  157. …in reply to @undefined
    @m1sp I am now interested!
  158. …in reply to @patrickashe
    @patrickashe @NotInventedHere yeah, this is a false alarm. but it has seeped into my brain, so if I do it it's a second-order reference.
  159. …in reply to @dirtcreaturr
    @fromsmiling i dunno about powerful, but
  160. …in reply to @patrickashe
    @patrickashe @Seemo you're on some next level corporate warfare shit there, Pat.
  161. I'm pretty psyched for Shoot Shoot Mega Pack - Sync was/is great youtube.com/watch?v=Y_F92ZoHv2A (the kind of simple that's hard work)
  162. …in reply to @undefined
    @Phurnix @cyanatar @paperCaves also, it's cheap.
  163. RT @shr_em: だいぶゲームらしくなってきた #gamedev
  164. Delighted to learn that the Science Museum is following the lead of the Museum of Jurassic Technology in honouring Konstantin Tsiolkovsky.
  165. CBDQ was down again BUT I think I finally fixed the problem for good (19GB log file, deleted & should now grow slower). Sorry everyone!
  166. …in reply to @v21
    You know what's harder than making a thing work? Making a thing work into the future, while other people use it.
  167. …in reply to @State_of_Play
    @State_of_Play that's looking really good, guys
  168. …in reply to @State_of_Play
    @State_of_Play are you gonna do a game all filmed on Steamicam now? The Children of Men of Lume.
  169. …in reply to @edjeff
    @edjeff it's always after midnight somewhere
  170. …in reply to @undefined
    @deathmtn I opened linuxcommand.org/man_pages/logrotate8.html , stared blankly at it for a few minutes, then closed it again.
  171. …in reply to @v21
    also, for all this expansive *cough* logging, actually i find out how long it's been down by checking how long since @ItsMrTree spoke.
  172. …in reply to @undefined
    @deathmtn (I mean, I knew logrotate existed, I'd just never set it up myself. I should, but... I should go to bed way more)
  173. …in reply to @NoraReed
    @NoraReed @deathmtn aw, thank you both! i'm just moaning/embarrassed i'm doing a bad job
  174. bot of the day: [unlinked] a bot made to repeat work jokes among work colleagues a small piece of art with no mass appeal camaraderie
  175. …in reply to @v21
    (i am SO PLEASED that CBDQ was the avenue for this being created)
  176. …in reply to @tigershungry
    @tigershungry @lauramcallaghan @V_and_A ohhh, that's great. tough videogame ladies.
  177. …in reply to @DanJFox
    @DanJFox :/ I stalled out just before getting that feature in, sorry.
  178. That Friday Late looks so lush. vam.ac.uk/content/articles/f/friday-late/
  179. …in reply to @DanJFox
    @DanJFox hm! I might have tried this before, but what happens if you put in "&hash;"?
  180. …in reply to @hannahnicklin
    @hannahnicklin sorry, our vault is under the ground. ping me on here, and i can call back when you're done with yr call?
  181. …in reply to @buenothebear
  182. RT @nonhashtag: Shoulder Peach Challenge: put a peach on your shoulder & try to eat it without using your hands. Post pics/vid
  183. …in reply to @dreamfeelx
    @dreamfeeel @siobhangx this is the correct answer (by which i mean i agree and so do the creators)
  184. my favourite form of apology goes "haha, whoops!"
  185. …in reply to @v21
    obviously only works in appropriate situations
  186. …in reply to @cr3
    @cr3 at least it's sincere? something went wrong, but no-one is hurt, or was likely to be, so i'm not going to stress about it.
  187. …in reply to @cr3
    @cr3 ⋋_⋌
  188. I am dithering on whether the whole Corbyn situation has stopped being funny or not.
  189. …in reply to @v21
    (for the record, I like Corbyn, would vote for him if I could (I'm a Green), and think he would ultimately help Labour get elected again)
  190. …in reply to @MagInTheSmoke
    @MagInTheSmoke @NEDymond yes. probably only because it's not worked.
  191. …in reply to @v21
    @MagInTheSmoke @NEDymond Blair writing an editorial that's just begging, the idea of "entryism" and that it's a plot by the evil socialists…
  192. …in reply to @M1NKBOT
    @M1NKBOT I believe in you.
  193. Ahhh, this sounds great. I want to get people together and play sometime [modern cheesy FMV detective game] boingboing.net/2015/08/12/fmv-games-make-their-glorious.html
  194. …in reply to @_JakeTucker
    @_JakeTucker yes - twice, one by myself and once with @sheilamu and biting my lip.
  195. oh yeah? well, why don't you go make a bot about it?
  196. The other rule is we're not using any maps. @hannahnicklin/631777581218557952
  197. …in reply to @v21
    Without using a map, how far do you reckon it is from Stepney Green (central-ish East London) to New Malden (which is near Kingston)?
  198. …in reply to @hannahnicklin
    @hannahnicklin i wish i had a big map of London we could uncertainly draw the route we walked on before checking against the Strava.
  199. …in reply to @AlexKalopsia
    @AlexKalopsia @joonturbo @guardian yeah, looks like that's a trivial tweak of #1. Each tiling is actually a set of similar tilings.
  200. …in reply to @joonturbo
    @joonturbo @AlexKalopsia @guardian oooh, actually that's a good question. looks like the new tiling is more specific...
  201. …in reply to @joonturbo
    @joonturbo @AlexKalopsia i am imagining perturbing the vertexes of the tilings - there's some constraints, but not complete.
  202. …in reply to @joonturbo
    @joonturbo @AlexKalopsia or various warp/skew/stretches you could do - some tiles would allow some transformations, others not.
  203. …in reply to @joonturbo
    @joonturbo @AlexKalopsia or, actually, the answer is at the linked mathpuzzle.com/tilepent.html . D + E = 180
  204. …in reply to @v21
    @joonturbo @AlexKalopsia meaning two adjacent angles add up to 180, meaning two sides with a single side between them are parallel.
  205. …in reply to @Gib
    @Gib @joonturbo @AlexKalopsia you can trivially scale any of them, and stretch Joon's along x or y.
  206. …in reply to @v21
    @Gib @joonturbo @AlexKalopsia and in fact skew Joon's as much as you like - as long as D+E = 180 it works.
  207. …in reply to @joonturbo
    @joonturbo @Gib the sides of the pentagon are still parallel, which is the key part. You can tile any pentagon where that's true.
  208. …in reply to @joonturbo
    @joonturbo @Gib (and obviously, some in multiple ways)
  209. …in reply to @patrickashe
    @patrickashe @Avalix the knife games are kids games, not drinking games. The hammer games, on the other hand...
  210. …in reply to @dirtcreaturr
    @fromsmiling i have sometimes done this (tired, lazy, and have a good novel) and it is a bad idea. you don't sleep well.
  211. …in reply to @dirtcreaturr
    @fromsmiling moving your body around in the world helps with sleeping, it turns out
  212. apropos of the start of a @AliceMaz rant: imagine if we decided kids time was as valuable as that of adults.
  213. modern web programming is not designed for people who want to do, like, a week of it every year or two.
  214. RT @doctaj: "What does this have to do with Hegel? Fucking nothing!"
  215. …in reply to @infovore
    @infovore it takes a lot of effort to find things to build on that won't go away, be updated beyond recognition, or be obsoleted.
  216. …in reply to @helvetica
    @helvetica I've got an advert for a CRM system because it's on my work email & I tried to look up how to either use it or make it go away.
  217. …in reply to @v21
    @helvetica also adverts for a watch I'm currently wearing
  218. This evening I did not send the emails I needed to send, but I did play two very excellent Twine games.
  219. …in reply to @v21
    sub-q.com/play-neon-haze/ Neon Haze by @aliendovecote & @neotenomie - super evocative, both the slippery writing Porp excels at & presentation
  220. …in reply to @v21
    antholojam.com/games/Tonight%20Dies%20the%20Moon/themoon.html Tonight Dies The Moon by @tommchenry - like The Dispossesed with male nurses on TV and a long Lemonade Stand section.
  221. RT @VINE2D: unintentional but neat
  222. RT @MKBHD: In case you've ever wondered how to beat Snake
  223. RT @eleanorturney: So, nothing @edfringe has made me cry yet, but THIS: RT @missellabell: A kind of faith prevails: @missellabell/631122672659922944/photo/1
  224. …in reply to @LovedayBrooke
    @LovedayBrooke I didn't respond to this! But yes, I am interested. Imagine I'm an owl turning to look at you, with interest.
  225. trying to decode a code that's not really a code...
  226. …in reply to @LovedayBrooke
    @LovedayBrooke I mean, @asponge was, for sure... Though actually I think I always missed Miss Twin Peaks, but I went to Double R a bunch.
  227. …in reply to @v21
    also, consider this a teaser for an upcoming announcement
  228. …in reply to @angusdick
    @angusdick @KommanderKlobb yeah, if we ever make More Games For More People this is a shoe-in
  229. wait. Twitch plays Bayonetta. BUT. in slow motion, so it's actually possible.
  230. …in reply to @zarawesome
    @zarawesome infinite landscape solves the problem. or else it becomes "tool-assisted design" - EVE is an example, there.
  231. …in reply to @leighalexander
    @leighalexander i am enjoying knowing what happens in subsequent scenes
  232. …in reply to @Willeth
    @Willeth tiny bit icked by the CAH content, but I'm always happy when people make things with CBDQ. It's not so bad I'd be upset to host it.
  233. …in reply to @Willeth
    @Willeth so: the following opinions are completely irrelevant as to whether you should use CBDQ.It's an open platform, and this isn't abuse.
  234. …in reply to @Willeth
    @Willeth Buuut: I am okay with a random card playing as well as a person. That doesn't mean there's bad game design.
  235. …in reply to @Willeth
    @Willeth The game is an excuse, a pretext to hang out with people for an evening. A social context. That's valuable.
  236. …in reply to @Willeth
    @Willeth Like, who really cares who wins? CAH is nice because you can join, leave halfway and it doesn't matter.
  237. …in reply to @Willeth
    @Willeth The content leads you towards making a lazy kind of joke that unthinkingly propagates stereotypes, which I'm generally down on.
  238. …in reply to @v21
    @Willeth but you can also play in a way where your punchlines usually subvert those stereotypes interestingly.
  239. …in reply to @undefined
    @oneesk19 @inskora especially cheeky given we were told when we were there that the 20% discount only applied to drinks.
  240. …in reply to @v21
    @oneesk19 @inskora and that discount wasn't something they ever volunteered...
  241. RT @nonhashtag: #ThatsMisterFogeyToYou 👴 👇
  242. RT @FabBeasts: Prototyping a new Fabulous Beast - codename Tony the Shark
  243. Tickets for Now Play This are now up! Come to our weekend of games and that at Somerset House! somersethouse.org.uk/book-tickets/3f574966-e1d3-4cbb-bcab-815253ad9d3d
  244. …in reply to @v21
    Also, consider this the resolution to this tweet: @v21/632137982477254656
  245. …in reply to @v21
    This also means we have (some) of our lineup announced. Some highlights follow (we have too many to list) (the spreadsheet is over 100 rows)
  246. …in reply to @v21
    A game about a plane, debuting from @klondk. A game of musical exploration from @LeeShangLun, @amaninaseem & @MChaza.
  247. …in reply to @v21
    "Alabama Cornhole". "Woodlouse" (find words with more vowels than consonants). Clapping games that take pictures of you.
  248. …in reply to @v21
    Get rained on within a tent (thanks, @dreamfeeel). Explore a perfect city (thanks, @katierosepipkin & @lorenschmidt).
  249. …in reply to @v21
    A magnet maze from @KBsGameTOILET, a maze of snakes from @samnotjohn, a giant wooden maze from Alexander Berchert...
  250. …in reply to @v21
    And much more up on nowplaythis.net/2015. And yet more to announce...
  251. …in reply to @v21
    oh, also also: shout out to @Dick_Hogg for making us this rad identity.
  252. …in reply to @hannahnicklin
    @hannahnicklin :) ahh, yeah, will have to listen to that. lrb.co.uk/v36/n01/james-meek/where-will-we-live was a big influence on this chain of thought.
  253. …in reply to @v21
  254. …in reply to @hannahnicklin
  255. …in reply to @infovore
    @infovore @hannahnicklin I think I would as well! Thanks for the rec.
  256. …in reply to @metroidbaby
    @metroidbaby <3 <3 <3 it's a wonderful feeling to see someone yelling about their first bot, checking, and yup! it's with a thing you made.
  257. RT @katierosepipkin: so excited to show the next iteration of inflorescence.city here in sept! (v new- it won't even be online yet~) ht…
  258. …in reply to @alicemazzy
    @alicemazzy if they really care, just automatically reformat them away when you're done.
  259. …in reply to @psychicteeth
    @psychicteeth It'sUsuallyNotReallyCamelCaseBecauseItStartsWithAnUppercaseCharacter
  260. Game nostalgia: leaving the opening cutscene of Black and White to run at 1/20th speed so to get to the rest of the game (ran ok)
  261. …in reply to @patrickashe
  262. RT @adrianhon: “Health metrics might cease to correlate with good health if they become lifestyle goals” 3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2015/08/be-careful-what-you-wish-for-some-wild-speculation-on-goodharts-law-and-its-manifestations-in-the-br.html Good piece …
  263. RT @sheilamu: Hey non-Caucasian queer individuals! Do you identify with the term QPOC? Or do you use something else? Looking for non-US res…
  264. …in reply to @asponge
    @asponge I'm feeling very attacked right now
  265. …in reply to @dinosaurrparty
    @dinosaurrparty thank you! @Dick_Hogg did it!
  266. …in reply to @v21
    @dinosaurrparty @Dick_Hogg I think my favorite is the Yung Venuz.
  267. RT @patrickashe: The FJORDS soundtrack is super good, listen to it yo: kylereimergartin.bandcamp.com/album/f-j-o-r-d-s Also you should totally play the game: http:…
  268. RT @kevin_pauly: New piece "Island Home". See in 3d at skfb.ly/FFRy #lowpoly #3DArt
  269. the commissioned lineup for Fantastic Arcade seems SO GOOD fantasticfest.com/news/entry/fantastic-arcade-announces-the-2015-lineup
  270. …in reply to @dreamfeelx
    @dreamfeeel I am pretty mad we can't show any of 'em at Now Play This.
  271. RT @20000TinyJars: i got to witness an elderly man say "goodness me", pick up one of @thecatamites games, mutter "my god" & swiftly put it …
  272. Seriously struggling to think of things as good as going queer dancing.
  273. RT @morganmpage: All of the Animorphs books are online for free, so you know, there goes the rest of 2015: animorphsforum.com/ebooks/
  274. …in reply to @chrisamaphone
    @chrisamaphone Blur - Girls and Boys, of course
  275. …in reply to @AurenSnyder
    @whatisian these are nice. i'd wear a clothes composed of fabric with this printed on.
  276. …in reply to @smestorp
    @smestorp it's like going to a disco, except far fewer people are gross about it
  277. by @house
  278. RT @unicode_garden: ノ ㅣㅣ丿  ⇟ㅣㅣ ㅣㅣ ㅣㅣՐㅣ ㅣʃ〡ㅣㅣㅣㅣ     ㅣㅣㅣㅣㅣㅣɭ丿ㅣㅣ ㅣ ㅣ  ㅣɾ ㅣㅣノ 丿ㅣ  ㅣ ㅣ  ㅣ ㅣ丿ㅣㅣՐㅣㅣㅣՐㅣㅣㅣ ㅣ↶ㅣㅣ↷Րㅣ ㅣㅣ丿ㅣ ɼ   ㅣ ㅣ丿ㅣɿㅣㅣ ㅣㅣ ㅣㅣ ㅣ ㅣㅣ亅…
  279. @sheilamu just wanted to make sure you didn't miss this tweet : @asieybarbie/632749291132469248?s=09
  280. …in reply to @KilgoreJnr
    @KilgoreJnr @martinhollis I only know this stuff in a vague, high level way, and I did a degree with some CS elements.
  281. …in reply to @v21
    @KilgoreJnr @martinhollis I am completely fine with that! I don't think I would include this on a games course, were I designing one.
  282. …in reply to @v21
    @KilgoreJnr @martinhollis it's good to have intuition on this stuff, but mostly knowing appx time for instructions, reading from disk, RAM.
  283. …in reply to @martinhollis
    @martinhollis @KilgoreJnr an optional course on how a modern graphics pipeline works, though...
  284. bot of the day: @GIFsofWikipedia me, teasing: so, your favorite twitter account is a bot? [bot-sceptical friend]: yeah, weird, right?
  285. the amount of narrative and personality that comes through in this review of a cheap tent... amazon.co.uk/review/R19VRZBJI4Z8FD/ref=cm_cr_dp_title?ie=UTF8&ASIN=B0086S6ZF2&channel=detail-glance&nodeID=318949011&store=camping-hiking
  286. RT @SK_Louie: If you're not using skulls as controllers in 2015 I don't want to hear about it. #altcontrollers
  287. …in reply to @Draknek
    @Draknek ah, rad! catch you in a bit
  288. LRT: not actually true, 83% say they're heterosexual, 43% say they're "completely heterosexual". (23% have had a same sex sexual experience)
  289. back on that floyd-steinberg shit.
  290. RT @FemicomMuseum: The second FEMICOM game jam has begun! The theme: "dress up!" More info at itch.io/jam/femicom-game-jam-2 #femijam
  291. ugh. i really should have went onto incognito before shopping for tents for an hour earlier. they're following me.
  292. RT @crystaldbeasley: The Amazon culture debacle reminds me muchly of this post about sick systems. issendai.livejournal.com/572510.html @hypatiadotca @gi…
  293. RT @ammonite: morning! if you’re a front end dev who loves wordpress, I have paid gig to help out this week on a relaunch of http://t.co/ZY…
  294. …in reply to @Dick_Hogg
    @Dick_Hogg @dinosaurrparty is this an either-or choice?
  295. this cheered me up: some lovely brutalist constructions in Minecraft rockpapershotgun.com/2015/08/17/minecraft-brutalist-build/#more-308313
  296. …in reply to @jukiokallio
    @jukiokallio maybe I should wake up to something less stressful...
  297. …in reply to @jukiokallio
    @jukiokallio every morning for like a year now...
  298. …in reply to @jukiokallio
    @jukiokallio okay, i just tried... it is like I Got You Babe from Groundhog Day is mixed in with dying.
  299. this lineup is, again, incredible. blog.xoxofest.com/post/126941207290/announcing-xoxo-arcade good work for making the good games, games people.
  300. I wonder if we were related. @DeathMedieval/632391024975851520
  301. bot of the day: @DeathMedieval thinking about % of violent death thro the ages (it's gotten better) (requesting deaths looks fun! do me!)
  302. I couldn't remember what was in the paste buffer, but I figured it might be my flathunting spiel, so I tried it it was "we all die some day"
  303. …in reply to @hannahnicklin
    @hannahnicklin that art is gorgeous - it looks properly tactile.
  304. …in reply to @hannahnicklin
    @hannahnicklin @invisibleflock oh wow. that's impressive.
  305. RT @gamecity: If you’d like to join in, read this about OpenGameCity! gamecity.org/open-is-open/ We’d LOVE to see you there :)
  306. RT @gamecity: Good Morning! The tenth GameCity Festival is running from 22-31 October, 2015.
  307. About to do a whole load of RTs. I'm not sorry.
  308. RT @nowplaythese: We've updated our website with MORE GAMES nowplaythis.net!
  309. RT @nowplaythese: There's @BirdyRaeesah's Amorphous - the Paper Series, set to fill a whole room...
  310. RT @nowplaythese: There's @angiebual and Fergus Dunnet's residency, developing a game across the whole weekend...
  311. RT @nowplaythese: There's a first glimpse of the scene and character generation from The Forest of Sleep, an upcoming game from @edclef / @…
  312. RT @nowplaythese: Basically we have a lot of games, is what we're getting at here.
  313. RT @nowplaythese: You should come and play them.
  314. I'm helping organize that. We do have a lot of games. I feel really pleased with it.
  315. Also: look at this wonderful gif from The Forest of Sleep, the newly announced @edclef game (will be there) gfycat.com/QuerulousQuestionableDunlin
  316. …in reply to @v21
    I am so jealous of this art style. I have wanted to make a game that looks like this for so long, and it looks so good.
  317. RT @nowplaythese: OH WAIT SOME MORE GAMES: game-poems from @whitingjp. A selection of games from @helvetica's 128-character games experimen…
  318. RT @nowplaythese: Panto-style game Whose Shoe Is It Anyway from @sillyideashq. An eTextiles workshop from @me_backwards.
  319. RT @atwistedtree: Here's the screenshot that the header image is from. Characters have changed a little recently for one thing http://t.co/…
  320. …in reply to @asponge
    @asponge @patrickashe welcome to borrow mine if this is for V&A...
  321. …in reply to @asponge
    @asponge also, you can get software MIDI controllers for tablets
  322. …in reply to @ADAMATOMIC
    @ADAMATOMIC @helvetica @doougle yeah, spent the day doing it and it's been really productive - granted our game is basically a board game.
  323. …in reply to @v21
    @ADAMATOMIC @helvetica @doougle skews the results towards being implementable by people - but that also means comprehensible, so can be good
  324. …in reply to @brandonnn
    @brandonnn @atwistedtree great work compressing that gif down to embeddable sizes
  325. …in reply to @PeopleIKnow
    @PeopleIKnow it's pretty good!
  326. …in reply to @PeopleIKnow
    @PeopleIKnow but, i mean, fuck anyone who'd shame you for not reading a thing. even mock-shaming.
  327. RT @tburrellsaward: Come listen to me waffle on about something or other at @nowplaythese, 4th Sept @fabbeasts/633643972582313984
  328. RT @FabBeasts: excited to announce we will be showing a new build of the game @nowplaythese on Sep 6th! Let us know if you want to come and…
  329. RT @hannahnicklin: So this month my @VideoBrains psychogeography costs are £220 transcription, £140 of trains and ferries, plus 10 days of …
  330. RT @hannahnicklin: So I guess, if you're enjoying my @VideoBrains work I would LOVE yr support patreon.com/hannahnicklin or even paypal hannah…
  331. …in reply to @undefined
    @caraellison @asponge does your life ever seem like it's gone a strange path?
  332. RT @partytimeHXLNT: Continually impressed with @JuliaSerano's straightforward, compassionate, and articulate writing on complex issues htt…
  333. I'm enjoying the Wild Rumpus will be able to add as a venue "Medieval & Renaissance, Room 64b and Tapestry, Room 94" at the V&A
  334. …in reply to @v21
    It seems like all I do these days is tweet about how great videogame event lineups are. But this one really is great: vam.ac.uk/content/articles/f/friday-late/
  335. …in reply to @v21
    Not least because I will be there, speaking, of course. Next Friday (the 28th) at the V&A Lates.
  336. RT @doougle: " 'like' as a primary signal in the world’s biggest social network has substantive political consequences." https://t.co/5guWH…
  337. RT @ADAMATOMIC: hmmm im noticing a pattern
  338. congratulations @hellophia on her Ignatz nominations! Now I feel super cool for being ahead of the curve on loving Sex Fantasy.
  339. …in reply to @v21
    All of Sex Fantasy awaits you at this link: sophiafosterdimino.tumblr.com/tagged/sex%20fantasy/chrono certain lines echo in my head ever since I read it.
  340. …in reply to @v21
    also congrats to @janemai_ and @ppcrotty. I picked up SOFT and a stupid comic about kissing from them at ELCAF & both were really great.
  341. …in reply to @everestpipkin
    @katierosepipkin thanks! I literally just said to myself "what was i even doing?" saw this and remembered: trying to find a place to live
  342. fwiw, for most games i spend more time looking at marketing materials than i do playing the game
  343. …in reply to @v21
    so lots of games spending money doing lots of interesting things with marketing instead of making the games better is not actually a loss
  344. …in reply to @KommanderKlobb
    @KommanderKlobb @radiatoryang I'm a good shout! I have emailed it over.
  345. RT @failbettergames: We are now offering incubations to micro studios or individuals making games: failbettergames.com/incubations/
  346. …in reply to @bfod
    @bfod ironically it seems to be a ground state for a lot of real world game design. maybe if we.. oh, no, wait, that's a pictionary variant.
  347. …in reply to @v21
    @bfod last time i was like: no! not pictionary. i'm gonna rip off Dixit Snap/Mysterium instead! and that was a wise course of action
  348. …in reply to @phoenixperry
    @phoenixperry @Poxican oh, that's great news! welcome!
  349. RT @MelanieKKing: This is so cool.. A Brief History of Analogue Light Shows liquidlightlab.tumblr.com/
  350. RT @MaizeWallin: If anybody is looking for a composer, hit me up maizewallin.com/music-and-sound.html Out of work at the moment and happy to do small com…
  351. love this character design @Kalonica_/633943228476092418
  352. …in reply to @patrickashe
    @patrickashe I would but I'm banned :/
  353. I'm looking at uimovement.com/ and I don't trust any of these to be implemented fast enough to be reliably responsive.
  354. …in reply to @v21
    This is lovely! But. Hm. Actually, maybe I just want a native control...
  355. RT @nonhashtag: I like Rogaine, not George Buckenham
  356. …in reply to @edclef
    @edclef @mink_ette @tigershungry @nachimir Also registering interest!
  357. …in reply to @stinkytownmayor
    @janemai_ i did! i never knew how before, but it seemed like it would be pretty fun. it is! A++++ would kiss again.
  358. …in reply to @tommchenry
    @tommchenry this feels like a detail from a Tom McHenry game.
  359. …in reply to @ra
    @ra @gnuaesthetic I once begged v21@hotmail.com off a random dude on MSN. That email got a lot of spam.
  360. RT @CorySchmitz: I forgot to share this! Proteus print for the film @gameloadingtv. coryschmitz.com/GameLoading-Rise-of-the-Indies Cc @edclef @dkanaga http://t.co/…
  361. It's weird working somewhere that gets announced on the tube along with the station.
  362. What do you guys think of our new Fabulous Beasts block?
  363. …in reply to @haikus_by_KN
    @haikus_by_KN @KommanderKlobb you're always so sweet to me.
  364. good story about taking responsibility for what bots you control do in your name bbc.com/future/story/20150820-the-bad-things-that-happen-when-algorithms-run-online-shops
  365. …in reply to @v21
    @machinestarts really liked this article - touched on some deep issues in a intelligent way while being widely readable.
  366. RT @jasperstocker: Couple more #Unity3D contracts in Edinburgh I've had to turn down as I'm busy. Let me know if any of you guys need some …
  367. repeating standard cool job advice: if you want to do it, but suspect you're not qualified, apply anyway. @tigershungry/634366631569920001
  368. reading about private contractors watching real time drone feeds and reporting "in to a chat channel called mIRC" thebureauinvestigates.com/2015/07/30/reaping-the-rewards-how-private-sector-is-cashing-in-on-pentagons-insatiable-demand-for-drone-war-intelligence/
  369. …in reply to @v21
    which is haha, off use of jargon, but also, fuck. people are dying because of decisions made via a program i used as a 15 yr old
  370. …in reply to @v21
    but mainly it made me think of the @tommchenry game Tonight Dies The Moon antholojam.com/games/Tonight%20Dies%20the%20Moon/themoon.html & this tweet: @tommchenry/634070473823776768
  371. Trying real hard not to plump for a flat just because my room would overlook a particularly beautiful bit of bleak industrial canal.
  372. …in reply to @sheilamu
    @sheilamu it's got other things going for it! But also the spot it overlooks is maybe the most peaceful place I know of in London
  373. RT @dzifyr: Working on a *secret plane project* with @Gib (=^・^=)
  374. RT @Gib: better sky/ground blending 🇨️🇴️🇴️🇱️
  375. RT @Gib: hey look we're making a game for this nowplaythis.net/
  376. …in reply to @sheilamu
  377. …in reply to @sheilamu
    @sheilamu Sandra
  378. …in reply to @sheilamu
    @sheilamu Winifred (Win for short)
  379. …in reply to @sheilamu
    @sheilamu Ferocious
  380. …in reply to @sheilamu
  381. …in reply to @sheilamu
    @sheilamu @tef Connie?
  382. …in reply to @sheilamu
    @sheilamu "Little Potato"
  383. …in reply to @v21
    @sheilamu but really, aren't you oppressing the cat by naming her? It's not like she can pick a name...
  384. …in reply to @sheilamu
    @sheilamu Rowena, Kendra, Hilda, Esme, Bliss or Audrey. (Saxon names, because you live on Saxon Road... That's a solid link, I'm sure)
  385. …in reply to @tomscott
    @tomscott @sheilamu @tef <cat> is not mysterious enough to suit, I think...
  386. It must be slightly awkward for @tom_watson to have as his deputy leadership pitch "to help rebuild our party across the UK"
  387. …in reply to @sheilamu
    @sheilamu sadly not!
  388. …in reply to @v21
    They called it "Operation Icepick". It's definitely still funny.
  389. wonderful geocities collage cameronsworld.net/
  390. had a sudden urge for some Wyndham
  391. …in reply to @undefined
    @caraellison if you don't have Alice's wonderful Twin Peaks intro log sawing one...
  392. …in reply to @nachimir
    @nachimir tbh... the last time I went out I drank basically nothing and danced instead? didn't pull, but did have an awkward chat with an ex
  393. …in reply to @undefined
  394. crawling thru my tumblr... apparently I posted an early gif of what is now Fish Fly about a year ago?! and now we're putting it in a show
  395. …in reply to @v21
    also, huh: turns out, looking at shit you post on tumblr is a really effective way of realizing what visual styles you like
  396. …in reply to @undefined
    @caraellison you know she's gay, right?
  397. ugh, trying to find a particular gif... it was a short loop of a 3D model cycling legs, glitched out, head sheared, rendered in b&w lines
  398. …in reply to @v21
    I remember I saw it drunk in the window of an art gallery in Toronto one night, to my complete surprise. It's collected on a white website.
  399. …in reply to @everestpipkin
    @katierosepipkin hey, aren't you a dues-paying member of the Unicode Consortium?
  400. RT @unicode_garden: 🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸 🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸 🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸 🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸 🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸 🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸 🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸 🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸 🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸 🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸…
  401. RT @godtributes: @v21 🌸 🌸 🌸 FOR THE 🌸 GOD
  402. RT @maruti_bitamin: Stoic plants
  403. …in reply to @everestpipkin
    @katierosepipkin unicode, flowers & no house. that's you.
  404. …in reply to @v21
    @katierosepipkin (i don't say that to be mean, but because you have always seemed to be wandering)
  405. …in reply to @maruti_bitamin
    @maruti_bitamin @fromsmiling @ameruu yes please!
  406. …in reply to @v21
    It was Rhetoric on Sublime Ring, by Francoise Gamma computersclub.org/club/?p=3949
  407. …in reply to @leighalexander
    @leighalexander agreed. but i'd be sad if itch became a monoculture, no matter how good it is and how nice leaf is.
  408. RT @Brendy_C: This article about videogames warping the Chinese language is great: boingboing.net/2015/08/21/chinese-gaming-multi-entry.html
  409. …in reply to @HilariousCow
    @HilariousCow Rutger Hauer > Harrison Ford
  410. Successfully failed to view a flat. Did manage to view the flat next door to it, though. And only realize in retrospect...
  411. …in reply to @CelDavison
    @_mynameischuck hm! Yeah, I might be, at that. Send me some details? I'm at vtwentyone@gmail.com
  412. …in reply to @CelDavison
    @_mynameischuck got it, thanks!
  413. RT @Pinboard: I propose we pay more attention to ‘Maximal Unviable Product’, how large a company can get without ever finding its way to pr…
  414. …in reply to @alicemazzy
    @alicemazzy to be fair, i did a course on genetic algorithms at university, and the "how do they work?" was just kind of ... shrugged at.
  415. RT @anildash: In America we should not expect, and will not accept, police killing our fellow Americans: joincampaignzero.org http://t.co…
  416. I wanna do a pirate larp where the pirates larp being lawyers. Maybe I should become a lawyer first...
  417. RT @auriea: This interview with @katierosepipkin is something else… drawing! computation! mad plans! a bright future <3 #FF http://t.co/5SY…
  418. RT @dkanaga: Looking to pay some classical musicians to record what they're already playing. Please RT if u might kno som1! http://t.co/VzI…
  419. It feels like this is really just an incentive to have a big pile of savings you can afford to gamble? gamesindustry.biz/articles/2015-08-21-can-salary-gamification-really-work
  420. …in reply to @v21
    Much more of a fan of the more standard indie approach of minimal salary + rev share (calculated on a points basis or whatever)
  421. …in reply to @AdriaandeJongh
  422. …in reply to @inky
    @inky this is a bad post. they can link to those articles just fine, they just can't return them when you search for the individual's names.
  423. …in reply to @dreamfeelx
    @dreamfeeel it feels like the tiniest step to being able to buy points off another dev by paying their salary.
  424. …in reply to @dreamfeelx
    @dreamfeeel I mean, that's capitalism, right? Literally profiting from your pre-existing capital (to an extent greater than just labour)
  425. I just had happy shivers at how good the talks we've got scheduled for Now Play This look nowplaythis.net/2015/talks/
  426. …in reply to @erbridge
    @erbridge as the text says, they were supposed to go up this week - i'd guess Monday?
  427. …in reply to @alicemazzy
    @alicemazzy maybe it's a thing like when you bleep swearwords because it makes them sound ruder.
  428. RT @rubna_: lil ramen monster
  429. Moveflat.co.uk is so much better than spareroom. Long live human-scale websites.
  430. …in reply to @edjeff
    @edjeff Due South?
  431. …in reply to @patrickashe
    @patrickashe I wanna play Contradiction with you guys.
  432. …in reply to @v21
    @patrickashe (also, yes)
  433. Want to play Fabulous Beasts? We're running a playtest every Thursday evening until November. playfabulousbeasts.com/playtest-thursdays-needs-you/
  434. …in reply to @v21
    Also, it'll be at Now Play This, a whole weekend of games that's happening next weekend. nowplaythis.net/2015
  435. …in reply to @Gib
    @Gib @BenHumphreys yeah, it's a pain. basically it's the "wrong type of curve", I think.
  436. …in reply to @wjjjjt
  437. RT @bennpowell: Day 2 of #LDJAM and I think it's finally beginning to come together ^__^
  438. …in reply to @radiodario
    @radiodario Generate 3 random numbers between 0 and 1. Divide all by the sum of the three.
  439. RT @nowplaythese: Today we're working on the Now Play This zine - oh wait, you mean we didn't mention there was a zine? Well, there is...
  440. RT @nowplaythese: Book for nowplaythis.net in advance and you're guaranteed a copy of Games for an Uncertain World, our tiny weekend…
  441. RT @nowplaythese: We've got illustrations, a few VERY little games, and essays by @philippawarr @TomNullpointer @oniropolis and @kevan
  442. RT @nowplaythese: If you don't book in advance you might still get one! No promises, though. They're there till they run out...
  443. RT @nowplaythese: We've aaaalmost announced the whole line-up; additions today from @SplashAndRipple and @chrisdickson! A drop-in game or t…
  444. bot of the day: @cryptbooks a rich, dank world to be lost in (comparing it with @cant_miss_it, my proto-CBDQ bot)
  445. …in reply to @j3rrytron
    @j3rrytron Hey Jerry- can I take this tweet and put it on a piece of paper and put it in a festival? Namely this one: nowplaythis.net/
  446. …in reply to @LotteMakesStuff
    @cubed2d Hey :) Can we show this at Now Play This? (nowplaythis.net) We're doing a selection of instructional games, including these.
  447. sad i'm missing videobrains, especially @mink_ette's talk. better actually do some work to make missing it worthwhile...
  448. RT @mcclure111: When I was a kid I was terrified of my parents, and I ran to computers because it was the one place that was safe, where I …
  449. RT @Drake: @serenawilliams I cannot wait to put it on you and make you sweat..........during our match this weekend.
  450. …in reply to @_JakeTucker
    @_JakeTucker oh god dammit, @patrickashe was speaking as well tonight.
  451. …in reply to @aburidashi
    @aburidashi entirely my pleasure! @cryptbooks is a lovely thing.
  452. APPARENTLY we need to have names for the rooms of @nowplaythese that aren't "the big room on the left" "the small room on the right" etc.
  453. …in reply to @haikus_by_KN
    @haikus_by_KN @nowplaythese actually, no. I'd feel bad but we will have a woodland grove, a tent and a giant crumpled bit of paper.
  454. …in reply to @haikus_by_KN
    @haikus_by_KN @nowplaythese because i'm not very imaginative?
  455. …in reply to @haikus_by_KN
    @haikus_by_KN @hollygramazio @nowplaythese hey, we might also cut some trees out of sugar paper. if it's good enough for infant school..
  456. RT @JohannaTheMad: ☆ P R E T T Y B O Y S ☆
  457. …in reply to @janakinsman
  458. …in reply to @hunktears
    @hunktears this is a really cute pout
  459. i just saw a picture of someone with a t shirt tucked into belted slacks and though coveted their look. what is happening to me?
  460. …in reply to @hoskingc
    @hoskingc that's rad though. and rad to see how being familiar with different tools produces good results. also to have yr stuff 10m tall!
  461. …in reply to @hoskingc
    @hoskingc imagine how blase you'd get about Big Printing!
  462. …in reply to @jennschiffer
  463. RT @atwistedtree: Hey, here's a new website with some more info and fancy images from our game Forest Of Sleep! twistedtreegames.com/forest-of-sleep/ http…
  464. …in reply to @undefined
    @m1sp Any() is nicer, but that's perfectly readable to me.
  465. Oh yeah! Remember that time I worked on a game with Keita Takahashi? @KommanderKlobb/636104607643619328
  466. …in reply to @v21
    Back working on this code and this is still really irritating.
  467. RT @AngryNIdaho: SHOUT-OUT TO LOWER TAXES LESS GOVERNMENT MORE FREEDOM GUY THANKING GOVT FIREFIGHTERS FOR SAVING HIS HOUSE! http://t.co/uwz…
  468. …in reply to @KommanderKlobb
    @KommanderKlobb at least "fishes" is legible. "speciess"? "specie"?
  469. RT @Poxican: #Trawl came out today! Me & @ThatDannyGuy's game about discovering forgotten tales on the sea houseofwire.itch.io/trawl http://t.…
  470. …in reply to @Doctoe
    @Doctoe maybe not! i mean, it's a preservative - think as long as it stays dry it'll still be good.
  471. …in reply to @oopsohno
    @oopsohno that's a lovely umbrella
  472. …in reply to @alicemazzy
    @alicemazzy it's true, but it's still useful. it's about what onlookers without strong views accept as normal.
  473. …in reply to @undefined
    @m1sp yeah, i've found myself wishing for a way of handling clicks that's "the closest thing within x max radius" quite often.
  474. badconlangingideas.tumblr.com/ this is a tumblr of bad ideas for constructed [natural] languages. and all the latest posts are SU references.
  475. …in reply to @v21
  476. Been playing Viridi the last few days. You grow succulents in a small pot in real time. Succulents grow quite slowly.
  477. …in reply to @v21
    the best bit is definitely the description for the snail. If you wanna play, it's here: icewatergames.com/viridi/
  478. …in reply to @sam_cook
    @sam_cook yus, afraid so. (i now realize that that's a bit confusing, sorry about that)
  479. …in reply to @sam_cook
    @sam_cook we're not doing the playtest on Friday morning, no. But the exhibition will be running & there's (other!) talks Friday afternoon.
  480. RT @bcrypt: if you're going to wear 6+ inch heels, you might as well hide a router, keylogger, and lockpicking set in them https://t.co/EJF…
  481. …in reply to @tigershungry
    @tigershungry my personal event horizon is the 12th of September. it's rushing towards me at terrifying speed.
  482. …in reply to @retroremakes
    @retroremakes can i just take a moment to appreciate the wonderful work of @alienmelon? @TalesOfGames, too.
  483. 14 Insanely Fun Drinking Games You’ve Never Heard Of buzzfeed.com/mallorymcinnis/get-drunk#.dtKkKm1R6R this linkbait headline was pure catnip to me
  484. …in reply to @ra
    @ra saw Spy on Saturday, and yeah. same.
  485. RT @melissagira: Have you also noticed w Rentboy charges: the absence of rhetoric about saving children, or about sex workers "forced" or "…
  486. …in reply to @mcclure111
    @mcclure111 Cargo : A Quest For Gravity is a clone of Banjo Kazooie : Nuts and Bolts and definitely seems to fit
  487. …in reply to @v21
    @mcclure111 Ice-Pick Lodge's games, generally, I think. Odd that when there's mechanical consequence for it, it seems less so.
  488. …in reply to @v21
    @mcclure111 comes down to your "well-behaved" bit earlier, of course. gameplay that is not well behaved is ... much harder to do.
  489. this is cruel but i found it funny @oldasballs/635414524728856576
  490. …in reply to @everestpipkin
    @katierosepipkin "known", surely?
  491. i'm curious what the social experience of the Vive is like! but i'm still sceptical it's good for parties. @chetfaliszek/636317643956314112
  492. …in reply to @v21
    i mean, weird new expensive experiences other people have installed in their houses are always good for parties. but after that wears off.
  493. …in reply to @AurenSnyder
    @whatisian like, Keep Talking... did excellent work with the weird visual virtual space/connected audio space thing.
  494. …in reply to @KommanderKlobb
    @KommanderKlobb @mike_robbo ugh. i wanted to like it (i still want to like it), but this is true.
  495. It's weird being a programmer who follows conversation between other programmers when you very rarely write code that touches the internet.
  496. …in reply to @v21
    I wrote some tests today! They were helpful. I basically never do that, because I usually only know the spec after I've finished.
  497. RT @electrolemon: whoa. taylor swift just stopped in the middle of singing "love story" to let bobby mcferrin perform his hit ted talk on m…
  498. …in reply to @retroremakes
    @retroremakes it's the political party as football teams thing. Come on the reds! No matter who plays for them or what they say.
  499. …in reply to @LewieP
    @LewieP I saw just this tweet RTed into my feed and I knew exactly who you were talking about.
  500. …in reply to @Nifflas
    @Nifflas I'm crushing from afar on My Summer Car right now. Similarly, GTA - driving by the ocean in a convertible with tunes blasting.
  501. I think I would prefer C# if objects weren't nullable unless you specifically made them nullable.
  502. …in reply to @JFriedhoff
    @JFriedhoff with a 5 second pause? Bad RAM support.apple.com/en-us/HT202768
  503. …in reply to @JFriedhoff
    @JFriedhoff (you have my sympathies)
  504. I work under the ground and it's started filling with water.
  505. RT @mothgenerator: lemon-welsh maroonwing detris intemeroblemma
  506. …in reply to @Cyarron
    @Cyarron as someone who usually thinks of their creative work as primarily problem solving... i am paying attention to this thread.
  507. this is a story about a large tech company releasing a new feature that i still found super interesting: wired.com/2015/08/facebook-launches-m-new-kind-virtual-assistant/
  508. …in reply to @v21
  509. …in reply to @v21
    2) The last paragraph (about what it's like when this stuff reaches people with problems that aren't having too much money & living in SF)
  510. …in reply to @v21
    3) Tech cos making things that don't scale. And then... hoping they'll figure it out on the way? Or just throwing bodies at the problem.
  511. …in reply to @v21
    4) Badly paid bodies of course. The "trainers" may sit next to the engineers, but they're explicitly called out as contractors.
  512. …in reply to @v21
    5) And all of this as a platform play! I am so sick of my choices being constrained by large companies vying to get underneath each other.
  513. …in reply to @martinhollis
    @martinhollis i mean it's basically just getmagicnow.com/ but by facebook
  514. …in reply to @v21
    6) and also! (cc @martinhollis) i like using self-service machines because you can fuck up and no-one judges you. cyborgs give mixed signals
  515. …in reply to @v21
    like, you're free to explore limits & break things in a way you shouldn't if there's a real person on the other end.
  516. …in reply to @v21
    people aren't learnable systems, and you should be considerate when demanding things from them. what about sometimes-people?
  517. …in reply to @smestorp
    @smestorp @martinhollis ouugh, yep, i can imagine.
  518. …in reply to @v21
    what about people whose existence has been purposefully erased in favour of "magic"? (ie these screenshots getmagicnow.com/)
  519. …in reply to @v21
    is the entire reason people want AI so they can have a servant they don't have to feel bad about or treat like a person?
  520. …in reply to @v21
    i bet there's way more women on the trainer team than the engineering team working on M
  521. …in reply to @martinhollis
    @martinhollis @smestorp i'unno- private chat, usually a robot. i think people will forget it's sometimes people until suddenly they don't.
  522. Shadows of a Doubt: Hints of Emotional Conflict Within Black Metal Promotional liartownusa.tumblr.com/post/122697886855/shadows-of-a-doubt-hints-of-emotional-conflict
  523. RT @KBsGameTOILET: "THE ADMIRABLE CRICKTON" - one of a series of games I've REALLY enjoyed drawing for this nowplaythis.net/2015 http://t…
  524. …in reply to @ppcrotty
    @ppcrotty oooh. 3 is tricky. SpeedRunners is good if you put the time in. TENNNES is 2 player, but great. Rocket League?
  525. …in reply to @hannahnicklin
    @hannahnicklin oh, worse luck. *hug*
  526. …in reply to @undefined
    @caraellison videogames deserve ridiculous, beautiful chandeliers too.
  527. your capitalization is a mess, Twitter, sort it out
  528. …in reply to @wjjjjt
    @resiak i don't know if i'm glad for this information or not
  529. …in reply to @BanditoJuan
    @BanditoJuan not sure. i think i usually do. i blame the internet. (I just switched to British English Twitter)
  530. RT @crashtxt: ⠀ ⠀                .            ●  ࿁          ⦁  ●  .            ● ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━.  ━━━━━━━━━━●━━࿁━   ━━━━━━━⦁━━●━.━━    ━━━━…
  531. …in reply to @hollygramazio
    @hollygramazio these are those wooden things kids ride on before they've learnt to cycle!
  532. …in reply to @sheilamu
    @sheilamu @greatartbot yeah, it's great. Have you seen @imgconvos ?
  533. …in reply to @awesommelier
    @awesommelier some warnings seem to refer to a specific past incident :(
  534. …in reply to @rclarke
    @rclarke I'm willing to suspend my principles for self serving reasons (I'm not at PAX, though)
  535. …in reply to @eleanorturney
    @eleanorturney got no idea what you mean
  536. RT @molleindustria: Every OS X release Apple makes a little step toward locking your computer from all non-App Store programs http://t.co/q…
  537. …in reply to @AndiJorgensen
    @hideous_ @pozorvlak clearly they only read cheesy heaving-bosoms fantasy in Star Trek
  538. …in reply to @v21
    @hideous_ @pozorvlak sci-fi is only vaguely about futures anyway. It's more on a spectrum from fantastical adventures to alt ways of living
  539. …in reply to @undefined
    @jon_ellis if it was purely a landgrab no-one would stand for it. Instead it's mostly a landgrab.
  540. …in reply to @undefined
    @jon_ellis it just feels fucked that large companies have made it so you can't sell an executable file to a person without giving them 30%.
  541. …in reply to @undefined
    @jon_ellis I mean, I used to work at an SMS aggregator, selling the ability to text adverts at people (ok ok, much different scale)
  542. whyyy did i let myself get comfortable in a place and acquire so much STUFF. so many books!
  543. …in reply to @chromatogram
    @chromatogram i don't know, do you need to find & move house in the next few weeks?
  544. …in reply to @patrickashe
    @patrickashe do you want some objects? i have more than i want.
  545. …in reply to @v21
    @patrickashe you can own them if you like
  546. …in reply to @patrickashe
    @patrickashe @asponge @Poxican oooh! yeah, i'd be down for this
  547. really like 50shortreviews.tumblr.com/ - thoughtful criticism each week of one of thecatamites' 50 Short Games.
  548. …in reply to @v21
    and it reminded me of the great line from Magnificent Planet "this is incredible. I really need to reexamine my feelings about snakes"
  549. RT @Sierra_OffLine: Lovelace didn't write a program and the ENIAC girls weren't programmers: @ThomasHaigh rethinking women + tech history h…
  550. …in reply to @radiatoryang
    @radiatoryang thinking of Hohokum : "you need a goal to ignore in order to slack off properly"
  551. RT @xuhulk: "Why have drugs if you have this??" - @fascinated nailing how I feel about the WeChat Bubble Pup sticker set. http://t.co/3i4el…
  552. RT @tomstuart: VIRGIN MEDIA MAN: did we forget anything for this free tube wifi service R BRANSTON: how about a captive portal that takes 3…
  553. …in reply to @sam_cook
    @sam_cook i'm speaking!
  554. RT @patrickashe: Pretty standard space for a Wild Rumpus set up. instagram.com/p/67SEG6D7w7/
  555. RT @nervous_jessica: Linden Gledhill and @MrCraigWard create prints from ferrofluid in a magnetic hele-shaw cell kickstarter.com/projects/mrcraigward/fe2o3-glyphs-a-conceptual-ornamental-type-system h…
  556. …in reply to @patrickashe
    @patrickashe miss you guys. how's setup going?
  557. …in reply to @alphachar
  558. The V&A Lates tonight is about videogames! I'm speaking there! Wild Rumpus has stuff there! Loads of great people are doing stuff there!
  559. …in reply to @me_backwards
    @me_backwards main entrance! Back pillars
  560. …in reply to @me_backwards
    @me_backwards got to run up to the Tapestry gallery in a sec, thougg
  561. …in reply to @Draknek
    @Draknek i am not, i have to go to flat viewings. although i hope to catch up to people later
  562. …in reply to @tigershungry
    @tigershungry i'm gonna miss it for flat viewings, but will be around and in the area later if people are still around
  563. RT @WilliamChyr: I wish I could tell you how I'm achieving this effect, but I honestly have no idea. It sure is beatuiful though http://t.c…
  564. going through my shit in preparation for moving and it turns out i own a john campbell print?
  565. RT @Gib: this is now called OASES and will be playable next weekend at nowplaythis.net/2015 :>
  566. …in reply to @v21
    feels good to reconnect with things i'm actually nostalgic about, rather than generic commercial nostalgia
  567. …in reply to @v21
    but it's a shame early windows stuff is so hard to run these days
  568. …in reply to @dzifyr
    @dzifyr @Gib this is looking gorgeous, guys
  569. RT @dzifyr: Happy to work on this with @Gib <3
  570. …in reply to @mousefountain
    @mousefountain i've always read it as the latter, but there's shades of the former, to be sure
  571. …in reply to @shahidkamal
    @shahidkamal plain C# will work msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.io.file.readalltext%28v=vs.110%29.aspx - or you can use WWW.text (with a file:// at the start of the path)
  572. …in reply to @v21
    @shahidkamal the tricky bit is getting a reliable path to the content when it's built.
  573. …in reply to @v21
    @shahidkamal or if you want to use Unity's resource management, docs.unity3d.com/Manual/class-TextAsset.html will work.
  574. …in reply to @shahidkamal
    @shahidkamal yeah, previously you had to do .json.txt - terrible times.
  575. …in reply to @shahidkamal
    @shahidkamal it's a lovely language, though I only really know it in the context of Unity. When you're ready for it, Linq is amazing.
  576. RT @arnaud_debock: Recycling @lexaloffle Hello World for my @nowplaythese micro talk! #pico8
  577. …in reply to @alicemazzy
    @alicemazzy @nachimir why do people think this way? because it works that way 80% of the time
  578. …in reply to @alicemazzy
    @alicemazzy @nachimir i really do spend the vast majority of my time on the net only interacting with people i've chosen to
  579. I gave a talk in a fancy place
  580. …in reply to @MaizeWallin
    @MaizeWallin "The airline industry as a whole has made a cumulative loss during its 100-year history"
  581. …in reply to @hannahnicklin
    @hannahnicklin it's one of the official photos! They're up at flickr.com/photos/fridaylate/20981998081/in/photostream/
  582. …in reply to @realnoyb
    @realnoyb entirely welcome! It had @D_Nye_Griffiths literally rolling on the floor laughing
  583. RT @realnoyb: It's an indescribable feeling to see my game presented alongside casts of classical Italian art. Thank you, @v21! http://t.co…
  584. I... have a flat?! That I can live in on an ongoing basis?! I don't entirely believe it.
  585. …in reply to @realnoyb
    @realnoyb no, sorry, it wasn't filmed. Pretty similar to the Pop-Up Arcade version, though.
  586. …in reply to @PIXELATEDCROWN
    @PIXELATEDCROWN :D thanks! not signed yet, but it's agreed and I have much hope!
  587. RT @Arr: ULILLILLIA HAS A PATREON!!! Please consider donating to the Internet's finest living treasure. patreon.com/ulillillia?ty=c
  588. …in reply to @Gillespionage
    @Gillespionage @PIXELATEDCROWN near Broadway Market.
  589. …in reply to @everestpipkin
    @katierosepipkin i mean, I still need to actually sign stuff and that. But I am ready to not do flat viewings any more!
  590. …in reply to @everestpipkin
    @katierosepipkin soon I will reach the mythical place of having my life Sorted
  591. …in reply to @D_Nye_Griffiths
    @D_Nye_Griffiths @realnoyb there's a longer version, by the way. It was continued!