Many many many many years ago, as me and Mum watched a kids TV show, we both lol'd at the stupidity of a young child, asking his mum if the bus flies!
20+ years on, and we still regularly use the phrase "does it fly!?" at suitably stupid moments.
Yes, it's childish, puerile, and entirely a personal tale of silliness.
I'm not sure why I bothered telling you.
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OMFG!! I just found it on YouTube!!!!!!
Watch from about 3:20'ish!
A lot of the Socoder community has come from Mark Sibly's amazing Blitz filled wonderland, but now over a decade later, the community is widespread. We use different tools, and try new languages to shape our ideas.
Watch as the community expands into these alternative areas, and then struggles to get things working because they're so used to the lazier ways of Blitz! socoder.net/?topic=3199 socoder.net/?topic=3181 socoder.net/?topic=3205
; Atari - EndGame
This is a bad week to be a videogame company.
Atari (formerly Infogrames) are filing for bankruptcy, THQ folded in on itself, selling up pretty much everything, and closing up shop, and.. I'm not entirely sure if it was true, but I also heard something about Codemasters closing a few departments, too, earlier this week..
Man, it's a bad time to be a big company!
In other news, Jessops and HMV in the UK have both had a crap month, too.
Everyone's screwed!!
..it's all Amazon's fault!!! socoder.net/?topic=3200
; File Screwiness
Spinal's getting annoyed at his phone, which is refusing to give him a simple readable file. Instead it's sending him a .vnt file, which is next to useless to him.
What the hell was wrong with simple .txt files?
I blame Microsoft for all this, with their stupid inexplicable need to make every version of Office completely incompatible with their last one! What the hell, MS!? socoder.net/?topic=3202
Spinal has now officially joined the ranks of Socoder Dev's who've jumped onto the Apple Cart. Spinal's first iOS game is available for free, and features the antics of a poor Dev who gets his code stolen by an evil pirate.
Scour the levels to track down all the disks, solving puzzles along the way, and completing as many of the levels as you can! bit.ly/W7pbzt
; Surprise
Sophie Houlden blogs about the greatness of surprises in games. A nice lengthy read that kept me up quite late! www.sophiehoulden.com/surprise/
If PlayMyCode has taught me anything, it's to constantly keep hitting Ctrl-S to ensure things are saved.
In theory, this is a GOOD thing.
In practice, it's getting REALLY annoying, as the "Save Webpage As" dialogue keeps popping up every time I finish writing a forum post!
; Spinal again!
Spinal released a nice snow-fuelled version of his lovely "Kaitlyn's Adventure" game, to coincide with our lovely weather, here in Britain.
Lovely stuff.. Brrrrr...
[pmc_s]spinal/world-with-snow[/pmc] bit.ly/XzGZj4
; Editable Maze Game
Oooh, user generated levels! A first for PMC!
Created by user cainy393, this uses a simple one-to-play, one-to-build method, or lets you edit a chunk of ASCII map to build your maze. Simple but effective. A bit on the awkward side, though. Would be nice to see something PMC-side to make this a bit easier. *hint* bit.ly/10EJfIi
