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#001 - An Idea Started |
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-=-=-=-=-=-=- Socoder Newsletter "An Idea Started" #001 - May 1st 2009 groups.yahoo.com/subscribe/Socoder Tell all your friends! -=-=-=-=-=-=- 5 Years On 1st May 2004, Blitzcoder closed its doors. 5 years on, and not much has changed. Some of us have gone on to do amazing things. The rest of us are still bobbing about writing silly games. It's fun. It might not pay the bills, but it's fun! .. If only it paid the bills!! .. To those that have stuck around since the BlitzCoder days, I'm glad you're still here. We've been through CW, and lived to tell the tale! To those who are new, enjoy the ride!! Here's to another 5 years of insanity.  -=-=-=-=-=-=- Hot Topics Movie Thoughts Afr0's decided he wants to make it in the Movie business, and wants your ideas for possible short animated stories. He's going to attempt to enter his movie into a festival next year, as long as it's all done in time! socoder.net/?topic=1520 PixelArt Request Zardon's been using too much Temporary art, and now needs to come up with a nice new theme for his work. If you're a decent pixel artist, head on over and help him out. socoder.net/?topic=1504 Coding inside a Game JL235 wonders what kind of game can be made, if you allow some kind of coding within the actual game's world. Thoughts include RTS, Robot making, Logo and even an entire hackable system! socoder.net/?topic=1522 Intel's "Level Up 2009" competition Intel have come up with an intruiging way to advertise their latest processors and graphic chips. Get Indie developers to build a bunch of programs that shows everything off, as best they can. There's a great big bunch of prizes on offer, so go and see what you can do. socoder.net/?topic=1527 -=-=-=-=-=-=- Showcase "Entangled Rectangles Mobile" by Pio Pio recreated the classic "Rectangles stuck together untangle them all!" puzzler, using Midlet Pascal. If you've a decent phone, you can probably run it! Let him know if you can! socoder.net/?showcase=18346 "RPGMaker" by Realtime A 3D RPG Creation tool. Realtime had been working on it for quite a while, but doesn't have the time to finish it anymore. The project is entirely open source, so why not have a look and see what you can do with it. socoder.net/?showcase=18376 "H~S~R : Horizontal Shooter Redux" by Jayenkai Recreated in Blitz3D, this is yet another version of Jay's super happy swirly shooter. It comes with Online highscores and a nice blurry background! socoder.net/?showcase=18410 -=-=-=-=-=-=- Links Functional/Game Blogger (Linked by JL235) A blogger who like to write things in a nice big lengthy way. These are the types of blogs you'd happily pop onto your phone, or other e-reader, so you can relax and read all about coding. A great read. socoder.net/?link=18381 We Didn't Start the Flamewar (Linked by Jayenkai) A very well made video. Simple, but really quite nice, in a "that's quite impressive" kind of way. socoder.net/?link=18383 Introversion's year of hell (Linked by Jayenkai) Introvision had a really bad year in 2008. Founder, Chris Delay, tells of what went wrong, and why it all happened! socoder.net/?link=18536 -=-=-=-=-=-=- #1, it's not much. But it can be better. Every week I'll be compiling a bunch of these. Links, topics, showcases, things like that. If you want to be part of this, use the forum, that's what it's there for. Give me some suggestions for things in future issues. It's rubbish. It'll get better! Let get this started! |
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