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Jayenkai
Created : 22 April 2011
Edited : 31 December 1969

#101 - Five Alive!

; Five Alive!

#101 - 21st April 2011

Subscribe to Socoder Newsletter

          groups.google.com/group/socoder-newsletter
Every Friday!!


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; Hello World


It's Good Friday.
Happy Easter.

You know what that means...?
Doctor Who's back tomorrow!

!\o/ yeay \o/!

Today something very strange happened on Twitter.
Someone retweeted a post by @MrTeller (of Penn and Teller) earlier on.
As I tried to read it, my "inner voice" seemed to struggle to find a voice to read the tweet in, for obvious reasons.
I then became incredibly aware that my inner voice is plucking random accents whenever I read people's tweets, and I can't seem to comfortably read tweets anymore.
Hopefully that'll disappear later!

          bit.ly/ff9QqY
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Game..
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; Dash Da Dash


Crazy trippy psychedelic bullet dodging insanity!
ON ACID!!!
          bit.ly/dVJX4e

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Socoder.net
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; Lovely Weather

The weather's been so nice that I couldn't even be bothered to make a "What we did" topic, this week!
No matter, people are using a lovely weather topic to do the same thing
          socoder.net/?topic=2295

; Portal 2

Having not yet played Portal 2, I've been avoiding the Portal 2 Spoilers/Discussion topic entirely.
If you click and find monkey porn, or something similarly distasteful, I only have myself to blame!
          socoder.net/?topic=2296

; Apple Tracker

Do you know where your fruit has been?
          socoder.net/?topic=2293

; Lego Ball Trip

Some people really have nothing better to do, do they!?
I really hope this was done by college students or something, and not just some really bored person!
          socoder.net/?topic=2291

; Interviews?

Spinal's looking for retro game coder interviews in Podcasts. If you find anything, let him know.
          socoder.net/?topic=2292

; Bloody wifi...

When you're in a crowded street, the routers aren't quite as easy to set up as they should be...
          socoder.net/?topic=2289
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Two things submitted to the newsletter, this week, but without names added!
Maybe we'll get names next week!

; Floppy Wars


View on YouTube

New Elder Scrolls game screenshots!
Elder Scrolls looks big and questy, and looks like it's had millions spent on it's creation.
It's due for release on 11/11/11, the same day as Minecraft, the indie game made of cubes.
.. That's money well spent!
          bit.ly/gjT26D

Want to add something to next week's newsletter?
          bit.ly/SN_Add
Click, Slap in some text, Submit! Easy!
And add your name, unless you want me to guess!


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Why Not Try?
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; PMC Challenge

DD's been working on Sprite Recolour functions. Use them to animate a nice big day/night background.
          PlayMyCode.com

; Audio Challenge

Use Speech Synthesis to create an awesome song
          www.readthewords.com/

; Visual Challenge

Create a character using only 4x4 pixels
          pixlr.com/editor/
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Random Developments
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God knows I've hunted!! (well, nosied at my usual few blogs!)

RR seems quiet, mostly being replies to old topics.
          www.retroremakes.com/remaketalk/

PixelPaton's off doing his big Adobe conference thingumyjig
          bit.ly/fuet4f

Moshboy's not posted any youtube vids for a while, and is instead focussing on his "/" website.
          quote-un-quote.tumblr.com/

and PixelProspector's so mind bogglingly busy with 100 projects, he's had no time to update his InDev site.
          www.pixelprospector.com/indev/

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Sorry guys, last week's newsletter was inifinitely better than this.
I trawled the net for about an hour, this morning, and then a whole bunch last night as well.. There really isn't anything happening!
Blame Easter!

.. and send stuff!!

hmm.. How about "The Making of Manic Miner"?
          bit.ly/gBh1di

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@zarawesome
draw directly on 3d models https://pixexix.sophiehoulden.com/

@JeriLRyan
This. Is. AWESOME. Artist Heike Weber's room-sized permanent marker art installations: /via @brainpicker
          j.mp/ft1d1W

@DarkAcreJack
Proun

View on YouTube

@photonstorm
Stunning animated gif loops from films
          bit.ly/a84hTB

@zarawesome
weird al does lady gaga, lady gaga doesn't like it
          www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUxXKfQkswE

@cucumberoneye
wait no this is the guy's actual page. more on there.
          www.xocmusic.com/

@danielalbu
How to fix any computer (via @Oatmeal)
          theoatmeal.com/blog/fix_computer

@GeorgeBray
Retro Katmari, rolling up lots of 8 & 16bit games - #8bit #katamaridamacy
          bit.ly/hc8mdj

@GigerPunk
Ooh yeah that cupcake was good. Local pyo raspberries and our own eggs. #Nom
          bbc.in/gROlAG
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Random Tube
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; Damnit, Sega..

My hopes and dreams are being raised again, just in time for their annual smashing to smithereens.

View on YouTube

; How to shake hands

How to successfully complete an awesome hip handshake.
          www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPZG2xDXg64

; Wheelbarrow Fun

Might as well have some fun, eh!
          www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqOtKxQ8xpw

; Angry Birds : The Movie

I can't believe I only just saw this.. It's been up since the end of March!
          www.youtube.com/watch?v=2matH4B9bTo

; FPS

Taking FPS's into the next generation.
          www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1QItGlbG5U

; Blanka Wins

Blanka always wins.
          www.youtube.com/watch?v=rV_hBtaT_OM

; Whose shoes are they?

Silly childish comedy, but I saw a shoe on the street earlier, and got the song stuck in my head again!
          www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYCs_nKX-m8

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; Really Crazy Japanese Shit

I have no feckin' idea what this is..
          bit.ly/gfE1j9


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