This week saw the launch of my sixth App, Daisy Chains.
This week also saw the launch of my mother, off a kerb, tearing ligaments in her leg, and ending up on crutches for the week.
These two events do not fit together well, as I'm having to do all the household chores, helping mum up and down the stairs, and simultaneously fitting in as much of my usual stuff as I can inbetween!
eek!
Mum's having a rest, and I've been rescheduling most of this week's stuff.
As such, this week's newsletter isn't quite as "rushed on a Thursday Night" as it normally is.
I've been slapping bits and pieces into the text file all week, and it's just kinda been pieced together as it went.
Apologies if this results in a more hectic newsletter..
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.. not that it matters.. you'll still just head to the Youtube vids!
As for Daisy Chains?
I normally post promocodes in the newsletter, but I've not got around to any PR'y stuff yet, so ... whatever's left, next week!
It's been a while since we heard from J'ordos and his shoot-em-up game, but this week he jumped right back on the bandwagon, and prepared a new set of questions for Teasy!
Does Teasy return to answer?
Click to find out!!! socoder.net/?topic=2029
; Fancy CSS
Neat post full of loads of little CSS tricks and tips.
Very handy!
This is the sort of stuff a webmaster/forum designer should know.
He should be willing and able to add the masses of awesome CSS into his framework and extrapolate the wonderful improvements that it brings.
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I make games!! socoder.net/?topic=2460
; Lodsys poke the Birds
I envisage an internet based event, whereby 100,000s of fans line the streets outside Lodsys HQ, and throw large fluffy birds at their building.
.. Actually do Lodsys have a building?
It's probably some room somewhere, with some stupid twatty goit, just buying patents and screwing everyone over. socoder.net/?topic=2459
; Networking in RTSeses
The mass of information going over a network whilst playing an RTS game sometimes baffles me.
To be fair, it was college when I last attempted a network game, but even that struggled to keep up with the Tron game's player positions!
Here's how they do it. socoder.net/?link=27549
; Phantom Wifi
A mysterious new connection popped up on Spinal's system, this week, and baffled him quite a bit.
Turns out it was his extra-system virtualisation stuff. socoder.net/?topic=2463
Over at PlayMyCode.com, this week, lgshort made a nice lengthy wave-based horizontal shooter, this week.
Ryker has plenty of shooty things, and a nice bit of background music, too! bit.ly/qBf4sh
; Terry Paton's Interview
Not strictly a game, but we've been following PixelPaton a few times, and it's a nice lengthy read, so .. yeay! read!! pixelpaton.com/?p=4199
The world is almost ready for the return of the Pixel Prospector.
Not quite yet, but almost!
30th July's the date to be there.
That's tomorrow!! www.pixelprospector.com/
; Shotgun Ninja
A nice retro platform shooter with plenty to keep shooting, while you traverse the small complicated arenas of death.
Gotta kill them all!
If I made this video, A) There'd be no box, they're still on display on my shelf, and B) The video would be at least 8 hours long, as I attempt to describe the contents of all the handscrawled cassette labels! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ll8Ju_xnykw
