May

25

Ptwoing!

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It seems to be a tradition here in the UK to use bank holidays in order to get rid of all those DIY jobs you’ve been meaning to do for ages… so, in recognition of this, I’m not going to do anything constructive whatsoever! Alright, well, maybe a bit. My recent obsession with [...]

May

25

Not quite the V&A

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The Minecraft Museum is a new page dedicated to screenshots of Minecraft [link], preserved on the interwebs for eternity. When the game gets uber shiny it’ll be fun to look back and say “Whoa, is that all there was?”. I’ll be trawling through various forum threads (and IRC) to refine and bulk it up later, [...]

May

19

Potential: Minecraft

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I didn’t immediately take much notice of Minecraft [links: homepage / dev blog] after seeing it get a mention on Indiegames, but on a closer second look, this sandbox game from Markus Persson has the potential to be freaking awesome. Indeed, it already is! Don’t let the simple blockiness fool you. Embrace your inner cube… [...]

May

17

Revenge of the Meep

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Well, that went well!
I’d like to thank whoever was responsible for removing all of my uploaded Wordpress images; it was a nice test of my backup system. Fortunately, it did its job quite well Anyhow, as you can see, everything is back to normal. Happy days!
On to more important matters: I am [...]

May

15

Yawn

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It turns out that the reason all the in-post images aren’t here any more is because they’ve disappeared from the webspace. No worries! They’ll be back soon enough, but first of all I want to ensure that a similar thing doesn’t happen again so I’m taking some time to examine a few things first.
Meantime, the [...]

May

11

Poing peek #2

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Awww man. That’s just my luck. I couldn’t show my face around here until I finally put together a few more screenshots of the upcoming new Poing! PC levels – and now, when they’re actually ready to post, weird stuff happens. Bloody typical. I won’t stand for it, I tell you! Someone will pay!! [...]