Ah, it's good to be back!
After a teensy bit of a gap, I'm finally starting to get back into the swing of things. I've had a pretty good couple of weeks, and figured it was probably about time to kick off the newsletter again.
I should probably warn you that I'm writing this weeks newsletter using the iPad. This may make things a little quirky, and if there's any oddball errors, or autocorrected nonsense, I apologise beforehand.
It did manage to spell Finnegan for me, though, so it's not all that bad!
Coming up...
A bit by Afr0
A video in Klingon
And my pick of 7 months worth of tweets, which I've been favouriting this whole time!
Grab your earphones, and get that Tony Hart jingle drumming through your ears, then come and take a look at the lovely artwork sent in to help me feel better.
Thanks, guys socoder.net/?topic=2975
; Apple Crap
Spinal thinks its a bloody disgrace that Apple can essentially shut out his iPod Touch, just because its a couple of years old. socoder.net/?topic=2971
; More Free Stuff for Students
HoboBen's nabbed himself a free copy of Windows 7, and there's Bucketloads more stuff to be had, too! socoder.net/?topic=2978
; University Life!
HoboBen and ShroomMonk have both started new lives as Proper Students, whilst JL235 has headed back for a PHD! It's all getting grown up, now! socoder.net/?topic=2976 socoder.net/?topic=2967
Pixel Paton is now playing about with Unity, and is having a bit of fun fiddling around with a pseudo3D platform engine. Looks neat so far, but I'm not too sure about adding 3D in-out movement. That didn't exactly work out in JNKPlat3D! pixelpaton.com/?p=5432
; Connect
A nice and simple looking puzzle game, where you need to connect like-valued dots, in order to remove them from the screen. Give the video a couple of minutes and you'll get it!
A bafflingly complex 3D version of Snake! Give this one a few minutes, and your head will probably explode! www.pixelprospector.com/qrth-phyl/
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The best thing about not doing the newsletter for 7 months, is that by the time you do a new one, there's fuckloads of new stuff over at PlayMyCode! \o/yeay\o/
There's even been a blog post, all about the wonderfully neat iOS compatibility, API changes, and more! bit.ly/T3Q1Tn
; Pacman Slots
A remake of a five year old DS Homebrew game, taking Pacman's sprites, and locking them down into a slot machine. bit.ly/AGAW_PacSlots
; Shooting Stars
You have to be really quick to get a decent score on this game! Click on the stars as they fly by.
[pmc_s]chrbell/shooting-stars[/pmc]
; Tangent Paint
Nothing miraculous, here, but it's a nice example of the fact that PMC works great on an iPad. Keep building stuff like this, and you could have yourself an entirely PMC developed suite of tools! bitly.com/VkJpGh
What follows is part of a Newsletter that Afr0 sent in a few weeks ago.
In order for the newsletter to get properly posted, though, it's required to be in a very specific format, so that it can be filtered through my proggy, and outputted nicely for both email and web... and since I was still completely out of it, I basically couldn't be arsed faffing about with it. Fuck that shit!
Still, it's got a bunch of tubeage, and it'd be a shame to waste that, so here's the top and bottom of what he sent!
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Jay's been sick for quite some time now, so I decided to take over the newsletter!
Thanks to the magic of modern GPUs, Project Dollhouse (The Sims Online) is now looking better than ever - read all about it here: afr0games.com/wordpress/?p=90
I've now changed from studying Art History (which wasn't really for me) to Journalism. School sez I'll be needing a laptop, I sez that I'd like one that can function as a gaming and school PC, and still doesn't cost too much. Does anyone have any recommendations?
#old #but #smart