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Socoder Newsletter #045
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5th March 2010
I don't usually repost this here, but. What the hey!
Sign up, it's fun, and weekly, and written!! Socoder Newsletter"Best viewed in Peiplum" #045 - 5th March 2010 Hello all The worst thing about writing AGameAWeek is that horrible lack of feedback. If you spend 6 months writing a game, and get only one bit of feedback, that's enough to depress you. If you write a game a week, you also get very little feedback, except the lack of feedback happens every single week! You write a game, nobody cares, rinse repeat. If I wasn't already nuts, this'd quite easily send me over the edge! Currently Listening To... Old Amiga Mods! In the Workshop Your last remaining life.. https://socoder.net/index.php?topic=1908 In the Shoutbox.. Onions, Castles and Days of David. In the Mudchat Fixing Testing Drawing Listening and not bothering.. Join in, it's occasionally fun! -=-=- Read Post$ The clue's in the topic number I don't think anyone got the reference.. https://socoder.net/?topic=1901 BBC catches up Proper games are going down the crapper, and "indie" is leading the way forward. Why? Because "indie" games aren't all FPS! https://socoder.net/?topic=1902 The big Portal thing.. 1. Valve update portal. 2. Odd things are hidden ingame. 3. Big mysteries afoot. https://socoder.net/?topic=1905 Accidental clickage Windows 7 shoves a great big "Turn it off" button in your face! What do you do?! https://socoder.net/?topic=1910 Quality? Afr0 wants to know, what exactly is needed in order to get your games published on Steam? https://socoder.net/?topic=1912 Repeat : Until GameOver A whole bunch of new games, every single week!! Socoder Games Jump (Pio) A simple little rope hopping game. Not amazing, but does show off how small FreeBasic can get things down, filesize wise. The Linux and Windows exe's both fit inside this tiny little 135kb zip file. https://socoder.net/?showcase=22295 Ted Bob in a Mario Costume (Jayenkai) Whereas this one's a wee bit bigger, and has to have two different downloads for Windows and Linux! eek. Hop on the hens to score big combo points. https://socoder.net/?showcase=22299 Scramble (Longarm) A neat little word finder game. Not a lot of people seem to like word games, but I love 'em. They can really soak up the hours! https://socoder.net/?showcase=22342 Moshboy's "Missed" Games SlumLord27/Moshboy's been busy this week!!! Gotta Play 'em All! #9 - Mysterious Floating Something UFO Abduction game! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsQEFSuDis0 #10 - Between Heaven and Hell Very Flashback like! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xfmdx5T8rGU #11 - Tripline Simple but complex puzzle game. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JC5Q5SLo2E #12 - One More Time Single screen platformer, a bit like Timeslip! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rmyLMEZsCQ #13 - Yum Yum Slowpaced shooter with little ants, or something! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uXMJ_pqWPE #14 - Mujeo One of those "Click things in a certain order" type of games, where doing things in the right way will earn you more. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaWKYYe1fiM #15 - The Yore An isometric adventure game! Oooh! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFDOIdYh1Gw #16 - Outrage A classic side-scrolling beat-em-up! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gmjyySFUts Pixel Prospector's Games Authentic Kaizen digs for more freeware gold. https://www.pixelprospector.com/indev/ Xeno Fighters ex-r Fantastically arcadey shooter. https://bit.ly/PPGames_XenoFighter Proun Beta I can't describe how neat this game looks! GfxProun! https://bit.ly/PPGames_ProunBeta Drone A Tower Defence type of thing, but without the stationary towers! https://bit.ly/PPGames_Drone Choke on my Groundhog, you Bastard Robots! More Timeslippery, this time in Shooter form. https://bit.ly/PPGames_BastardRobot Sword of Legends An RPG Platformer. https://bit.ly/PPGames_ArghMenus Goto Links Pokemon remade in Garry's Mod (HoboBen) Much funnier than I expected it to be. Sometimes the sillier things are just better! https://socoder.net/?link=22271 Browsing Noel has decided that he wants to make a Browser for his Android phone.. He's starting with a nice thumbnail based tab system, and is currently implimenting that first. The Design https://socoder.net/?blogs=22333 The Test https://socoder.net/?blogs=22348 Good luck! Compos! DBF's "Liquid" Compo April 10th is coming quickly. That's only 4 WW's or AGameAWeek weeks away! Yikes! Better hurry up and get your Liquid Demoes in to DBF if you want to win! https://bit.ly/DBF_4642 PlaySushi's "Adventure" Compo There might not be anything new to write here, but notice how I at least bothered to try! Stupid lazy GameDev newsletter. https://www.playsushi.com/Contest.ps Rant Is my stupid ranting a weekly feature now? FFS... OK, lets complain about stupid filesizes, then! Last night, Longarm tried to post his Scramble game, but it alarmingly shot up to 20+Mb because he was trying to shove a bunch of MP3s into the zip file. Don't do that! Mods are neat, they're small, and they repeat to create the illusion of much longer music. You don't need full symphonies! In this day and age, folk would be much happier to click a link and play a browser game, so we all have to keep things nice and small. No silly installers. No big downloads. Just a nice little zip with a game in it. People are happier if they can download it quick, unzip it, play it briefly and then throw it away into the recycle bin once they're done. And don't get me started on "Death from Above" https://bit.ly/DeathFromAFilesize The author of the 26Mb game included a 15Mb wmv file, the sole purpose of which was to generate a nice backdrop for the title screen. Yikes!! Lovely game, mind.. Gotta love Jetstrike! Be The Rant Want to vent off to the two or three people who bother to read the newsletters each week? PM or Email me your rants, and I'll start popping them into futurenewsletters! Let them feel your rage!! Random Youtubeyness Rant #2 I rarely listen to modern music anymore, but even I'm sick of this bloody song.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJRMwdmFYWg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NcMsDtyNKw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4npUdfEmbQ End of ------------------- Load, Next List Sign up, it's fun, and weekly, and written!! Views 46, Upvotes 9
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