Jan

23

Polytron is go

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Polytron Corporation has updated their website with some long-awaited screenshots and tidbits of information about Fez [link]. About time, too! Suffice to say that the game is looking truly delicious and I can’t wait for a release some time this year.
Now, if they would only post a brief teaser video of the current [...]

Jan

21

Thinking with portals

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This is seriously dedicated stuff. I don’t know exactly who made this, but someone has created a brilliant copy of Aperture Science’s portal gun:

I love it! It’s even got authentic-looking wear and tear. Very professional indeed, and best of all it’s completely safe. Oh, and your cake is just through that doorway over there…
There’s some [...]

Jan

19

Plonker

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See that post title? That’s an accurate description of what I am.
Over the weekend I was bashing away at some more of Dalyn’s Quill. I was at the stage where I wanted to code the pen toolbar functionality – i.e. when you click a pen button, it sets up the pen so you [...]

Jan

19

Lick o’ paint

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Another small set of tweaks to the page design, mostly featuring backgrounds. Backgrounds are good. At least, generally they are. My particular taste in backgrounds might be described as something less complimentary. But hey, it’s different, innit? Trust me when I say this is one of the least striking options that I came up with… [...]

Jan

13

Retro Remakes hacked

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Retro Remakes is recovering after being hacked yesterday. Whoever did this deserves to be shot, frankly, and I really hope that this doesn’t cause Oddbob and the rest of the RR team more work than they’re expecting, and that’s quite a bit. They really don’t deserve it.
Recovering the backups of RR and its sub-sites will [...]

Jan

13

Retro Roundup: Staroid

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Well folks, you know I mentioned about being eager to see what Tom Beaumont would come up with next? Here’s another of his RRC entries, this time in the “We Like It Retro” category. If you love Commodore 64s – and let’s be honest, no sane person doesn’t – you’ll probably fancy checking Staroid out. [...]

Jan

8

Indiefest!

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Gosh, this time of year seems to roll around quicker and quicker lately. The finalists for 2009’s Independent Games Festival [link] have been announced and you can check the list of finalists and award nominations right here.
Other than the contenders that you may already know about like Cortex Command [link] and – rather inexplicably, I [...]

Jan

5

Retro Roundup: Blast Passage

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It doesn’t take much to convince me that mixing things together is good. After all, I know this from experience: mixing toast and marmite together, for example, gives possibly the tastiest snack in the entire history of the world. Ever. Delicious foodstuffs weren’t on Markus Persson’s mind, however. Instead, he thought what a tremendous laugh [...]

Jan

2

Who was where?

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Progress!

Dalyn’s Quill is coming together slowly. As you can see, the dungeon canvas now draws as it should do and can be edited with the default pens (the pen selection toolbar doesn’t work yet). It breaks embarassingly often, and annoyingly strange and weird stuff happens if you push more than one mouse button at once. [...]

Jan

1

Happy New Year!

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2009
Happy New Year!
It’s a time when a lot of people will be thinking about what their New Year’s resolutions should be. But keep in mind: New Year’s resolutions can be bad for you! Whatever you decide you want to do this year, I wish you good luck and success all the way.
These aren’t [...]