Evil Twitter Darknet

So I had an idea while waxing with Simon and others at the letsmakegames gamejam event tonight and came up with an awesome idea.

An evil Twitter ‘darknet’.

Everyone makes a new clone user called evilusername, I would be evilbeetlefeet. Then you only follow other evil people. Ideally anyone who crosses the evil / non-evil boundary by following the wrong type of person would be shunned by both sides. Tsk tsk.

This network of evil people would then be separated from ‘regular’ users and have their own evil status updates and remarks about their evil doings and goings on. When you tweet your normal tweets you should also tweet an evil version.

For example:
beetlefeet: “Just had an awesome cherry pie!”
evilbeetlefeet: “Just had an awesome cherry pie, it reminded me of spilling innocents’ blood!”

You know it makes sense!

Gaming Cocktails

XBox magazine has an article on gaming cocktails they commissioned a bar to design.

Pictured: Boomer Bile
Via Kotaku

“Love” indie MMO type thing

Here’s an awesome gameplay video of “Love” as narrated by its (sole) developer.
Looks like a really interesting project.

http://www.quelsolaar.com/love/gameplay_video.html

PS: You should totally check out the tools video as well. Just watching it now and it’s awesome.

Amazing Pics from Saturn

It’s so fascinating to think about what you are actually looking at in these pictures, and how the picture made its way to your screen. It’s too easy to just glance and go ‘yep Saturn’ and not think about how incredible the images are.

Tiny moon imbedded in Saturns rings.

Cassini’s continued mission 

Some info regarding wiiware profit model for developers.

Basically games need to sell an initial cutoff amount before nintendo will start ponying up royalties. The numbers are quite low though and once you break the figure you apparently get back paid for the past sales. /shrug.

Article at Kotaku.

tweenbots!

Kacie Kinzer creates tweenbots and sets them loose in the city to get help travelling from one place to the other.

“Tweenbots are human-dependent robots that navigate the city with the help of pedestrians they encounter.”
Must see!

(via: Gizmodo)

Got my Xbox 360 controller for PC

I haven’t had a PC gamepad since I broke my awesome Thrustmaster Firestorm Dual Analog (it was a great controller, not like their tacky range of crap in the lower price bracket.)

Anyway it broke, I superglued it, it broke again I superglued it solid so it no longer functioned as a controller and I’ve been controllerless since.

Soo, XNA plus recent purchase of the latest Prince of Persia (for half price on steam) means it’s time to get controllered up! I just 2 days ago got an EB voucher from my sister, and thats the end of the story.
The xbox controller is an obvious choice, because it’s the most compatible with XNA (obviously) but PoP (not so obviously) specifically supports just the xbox controller, OR you have to manually hook everything up to your gamepad controls and the gamepad doesn’t properly control the menus and stuff (it’s pretty poor actually :/).
I have always been a fan of nintendo controllers, (I love the gamecube controller!). And anti playstation controller (the handles are too small!). I really didn’t like either iteration of the xbox controller (s was obviously better than the infamous giant original xbox controller). But the xbox 360 has a great controller. It’s good to see evolution working in the right direction.

That doesn’t mean I don’t totally want one of these awesome Wii classic controllers though:

One day. Or maybe one day I’ll hack or buy a converter from SNES to USB

Solar lighting indoors

I stumbled across this random article on some random page somehow (reading about web hosting and stuff).

We Put Outdoor Solar Lights Inside Our House

Seems like a pretty simple but great idea.

Quest for the Crown

Amazing that this epic game can be played inside a browser with just flash.

Quest for the Crown

Hint: You don’t have to burn the rope.