; Panic Fixing!
#251 - Friday 12th February, 2016
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Every Friday, Tweaking things before people notice they're broken.
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; Hello World
An extremely busy week for me, as I decided to publish the new version of my massive game archive.
The plan seemed sensible. I've "finished" the site, all I have to do is add in all the data!!!
So I spent a lot of the week trying to find ways that I can gradually update the old archive, adding extra data and features as I go.
Things ran smoothly, and all was good!
.. This is usually my warning sign!
So, I hit publish, and I swapped out the old archive for the new one, at which point cracks started to appear.
Games that were listed as the wrong system, games apparently coded in Monkey that were done before Monkey was a gleem in Mark's eye, games that had upside down screenshots (I haven't a blood clue why that one happened!) and games that had stupid oversized screenshots that broke the layout of the site.
It all seemed to happen within about an hour of me publishing it as the live version. I obviously missed all these issues, beforehand. Either that or a ghost made them all happen!
So I spent about 6 or 7 hours, panically fixing all the weird little cracks and things.
Hopefully it's all nice and "working", now.
The updated data includes things like a "Series Link" parameter so that (for example) all the JNKPlat games link to each other, and things like that.
There's also a need to add a longer description to each game, add control descriptions, link the games to their soundtracks in my Music Archive, and then go through all my Art Asset stuff to add logos icons and other things for each and every game, going right back to the very beginning of the archive. (Which currently goes back as far as a couple of Amiga games!!!)
That'll take me fucking AGES to do.. I've so far found that I can just about do rougly 4 games a day before my head wants to pop...
... And I'm currently only doing the topmost games, which already have Icons, Logos and things like that. Soon I'm going to have to start recreating those for all the old games.
Erk!!
So, yeah, busy week!!!
Let's get on with the newsletter, shall we?
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SoCoder
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; Arty Stuff
What do you use to do your art with?
GfK's looking at Manga Studio. Any experience with that?
socoder.net/?topic=5261
; More Watchiness!
Spinal continues to work on a new Pebble Watchface.
He's currently trying to integrate the weather into his new display.
socoder.net/?topic=4238&viewpost=51600#51600
; The Pancake Thread
Because..
... Pancakes!
socoder.net/?topic=5259
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IndieSphere
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; Usborne Coding
A blast from the past, as most of us lot grew up with this kind of thing.
Usborne have rereleased their entire 80s programming books as free PDF downloads.
Fantastic!!
socoder.net/?topic=5258
; Dabz Does Die
Dabz has done that scary thing of recording a video with his own voice in it!
Eeek! Won't see me doing that any time soon!
In the video, Dabz plays the CPC classic Die Alien Slime, and rants about how crazy the olden days were, when you had to go out to shops, and couldn't simply download a new game every day!
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SoOffTopic
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; Global Warming
What are the causes?
It can't be all those big coal burning power stations, or the gas guzzling vehicles..
.. Must be the trees...
socoder.net/?topic=5253
; TV That Disappears
Don't you just hate it when your favourite show disappears from your streaming "network", just when you're in the middle of a series?
socoder.net/?topic=5245
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Tweetage
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Tubage
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; Musical Interlude
Kanye's the best!
View on YouTube
; Mary Doodles
I love Mary's doodles! They're so much better than my silly Platdude Daily Doodles!!
youtu.be/A_JdaJU2Tp4
; Hungry?
Cup Noodle!
youtu.be/VVOD5YXTl_0
; Musical Interlude
I want you Bach
youtu.be/JZPSV78iQxg
; Cat Wig
Because every cat needs a great wig.
youtu.be/f4z0tYJPekQ
; OK Go Weightless
Another of those awesome videos with highly mute-able music over the top.
youtu.be/CUXafLUL5hs
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In Other News
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New new Top Gear is slowly being unveiled.
They've announced a whole bunch of the new team, which oddly includes Friends/Joey star, Matt LeBlanc.
.. Which is weird.
Anyhoo, Top Gear and stuff!
socoder.net/?topic=5250
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Movie Theme Remix Corner
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View on YouTube
youtu.be/BgAlQuqzl8o
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