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On reflection, I think it's good enough to have it's own thread

It's called ebay

One of my favorite boardgames has been made for the iPhone: http://carcassonneapp.com/ It's beautifully done too. If you get a chance to play it on an ipad, the tiles are already high res (though not the UI, yet). Toblix and I are already playing, anyone else fancy it? There's a decent manual in there, but I'm happy to teach people too. The invite and game system is a bit clunky, but you can invite me by emailing david [dot] hayward [at] pixel-lab [dot] co {dot} uk If you get a link to start a game, and it doesn't actually work as one in your mail client, copying it into safari on an iThing with Carcassonne installed will work.

I am happy that these two things are being resurrected as games, but you know: cautious optimism. Fix this and you will not regret it.

The screen being >300 pixels per inch impressed me. That's an important jump beyond the usual "Now in HD! Now even HDer!" type announcements, just because it goes to standard higher than print and potentially surpasses the resolution of human eyesight. Nothing else about it really jazzed me, but that screen is something I hope a lot of phone manufacturers follow.

Heh, that's great Patters! Hermie, seriously, these tool around Manchester all the time:

My favorite piece of gameplay that not even the developers were expecting was Manta camping in UT2K4. It was outrageous enough to be hilarious for a little while, but just boring enough to do for more than a minute that it never became such a common problem. Basically, there was a hovercraft called the Manta which had two special abilities: Descend slightly to gib players on foot, and jump short distances. In this map, you could work your way up the side of the heightmap and jump onto the top of that sniper tower you see in the screenshot. At the top of it was a telelport pad, the only way up on foot, and if you hovered above it, anyone coming through would be instantly gibbed. Scores of budding snipers turned to mince The developers didn't forsee it, but thought it was hilarious. It could be countered fairly easily by anyone in a flying vehicle, but often the team in that base would take a long time to notice it was happening and get enough shit together to send a flyer up there.

Holy fuck, I hope that doesn't happen to you often

Yeah, likewise, nothing that has prevented me from gaming. I once had a sprained thumb that definitely took longer to heal (about 6 months) than it would have done if I didn't have a DS.

Would you expect me to admit it if I was? There are a bunch of outdoorsy people I train in a martial art with, but in terms of who they are, it's a group pretty well spread over class and political lines. It's made clear that there's no ideology or ultimate external aim to the group (), and if there was, I'd be avoiding them like they were lepers. (I should probably also clarify that the target shooting was done with air rifles and bows, not guns or anything else illegal). So, yeah. Not going to turn into project mayhem.

Someone I follow on Twitter pointed out that sneaking gameplay is pretty hard to show in a trailer. They might be right, but I'm worried because when he kills people in the trailer, it's pretty over the top

Internal monologue just before the the call: "Don't say congratrations. Don't say congratrations".

I hope it turns out to be nothing serious, monkeyarmada.

I think this is a big problem with any kind of game that has a system handling choice and consequence in terms of narrative and characters. What was possible in games has created an expectation of being railroaded, so when a game can manage it, we either think "That's how it would have happened anyway" or it has giant flashing neon signs saying CHOICE HERE!

Indeed!

By tomorrow, I meant today. Sorry All on their way to you now though.

Still says copyright 2009 in the footer, so it seems they're just neglecting the site. I hope.

Hope it's was a good one Thrik

Q by Luther Blisset is a very good novel on European history. That might fit the bill.

I'm still 23 miles from home and powered by pedals, so I'm afraid I will miss zee choppar tonight

No idea I'm afraid. Somehow, I have never even seen the film, only read the book

Can there really have been no mention of Wizball yet? http://www.exotica.org.uk/wiki/File:WizballC.jpg

You weren't, and it could partially explain it: http://www.visual-memory.co.uk/faq/ It carries on, with quotes from people who edited it. Basically there are several ways it could have crept in, from tweaking frames late in the editing process, to cinemas projecting at the wrong aspect ratio.

I thought I'd recommended this already, but it appears not: http://www.bbc.co.uk/ahistoryoftheworld/ It runs daily, but only for some months in 2010. Really short chunks of history, nicely written and presented. Each is about 15 minutes long, which is ideal for me as I tend to only have 20 minute or so chunks where I can pay attention to podcasts.

Fuuuuck. As you retweeted the other day: "Those are gonna launch out of the Big Dog's mouth" I really want some. Physically, they look like a reasonably easy build, but the software and battery life would be massive ballaches.