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Cooperate with yourself ….

Cursor*10 … some very smart design.

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Dyson : RTS with semi-autonomous self-replicating mining machines

Another note to self. Remember to play Dyson. A winner of a recent ‘procedural’ themed TIGSource competition.
While I haven’t actually had a chance to play it yet, it looks really cool (couldn’t be bothered booting up the Windows machine or messing with Wine just at the moment … there is a ‘Linux patch’ here).

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Ludum Dare #12 entry: The Siege of von Danken Tower

This is my (pansapiens) entry for Ludum Dare #12.

I had various dramas throughout the 48 hour competition, namely two electricity outages … this is not the code I spent most of my time on, but I’m actually happy it all worked out the way it did.
The game is written using batari Basic v1.0. I learnt [...]

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What I’ve been playing: Playstation 2

So, I bought a PS2, since they are cheap now, and I completely missed that (ongoing) era of gaming history. There is a a short list of highlight games for the PS2 that I want to progressively play my way through. At the moment, I’m playing:

God of War – fairly easy on the default difficulty [...]

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Defender of the Favicon

Defender of the Favicon is a (tiny) version of Defender by Mathieu ‘p01′ Henri which is played inside the browsers favicon. For a game in a 16×16 (?) pixel window it’s brilliant !

Defender is my favorite under-rated arcade / Atari 2600 games (or the updated version, Stargate) … it’s nice to see it getting remade, [...]

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