Download it here: TorrentZip Win32 0.3 RC 2

*update* Missed a small but, huge bug – RC 2 should take care of that.

• Introduction to Nintendo DS Programming
• Homebrew Nintendo DS Development
• Dev-Scene
• DrunkenCoders

I've got an idea for a game that I could make. It will feature a hapless blogger wading through press releases and PR sites trying to find something no one else has yet, all while dodging spam and pop ups. Maybe I'll call it blogwars. Heh.

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*Update* I'm not sure why WordPress keeps butchering this post but hopefully its fixed now.

I just checked and there is a fix up on Trac so it should be good to go with the next release. But, if you need to fix it now open up admin-functions.php and look for (around line 750 or so):

$thumbpath = str_replace(basename($file), $thumb, $file);

just after it insert:

touch("$thumbpath");

And you should be all set.

changed/added (shindakun – SalmonKing)
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- Read Only file(s) in zip.
- Fixdat including extra data.
- Set status not saving.

- Added ‘demo-kiosk’ to the list of demo flags available

I’ve got a couple of ideas in the works for the site – hopefully I’ll have some news posted soon.

Hey, Ismo you should add a suggested viewing section so people can submit films they think you’d like – and when you release the source let me know (I think I might have to add that to my site).

The plan is to one day get together with some of his friends and play a pen and paper Cthulhu game. And someday it might happen. That reminded me of something that we had talked about long ago. The idea was to create a system so the game could take place over the i’net. Not much ever come of the idea…

I remembered that idea the other day and just haven’t been able to let it go. Maybe it’s because I’ve got a strong enough background now with PHP/MySQL that I could probably make it work. Cthulhu in a web based environment. Hmm. It might be fun…

Where to begin? OK. Databases. First database table would hold user data – e-mail addresses and stuff like that. The second database would hold character info – stats, levels, etc. The tables would be able to be referenced by a common user id number. Character generation would be a simple matter since once you’ve got your base stats it’s all simple math to figure everything else out. Mike (or Google for that matter) could give me all that info.

Look at that – a quick trip to Usenet get’s me ‘D20_WTC_88624_Call of Cthulhu – Official Character Sheet.pdf’ that should give me everything I need for the character table. I’ll have to ask Mike about the rest later.

The problem is where do I put people. NPC’s, players, horrors? I would need to build the code to make a ‘living/breathing’ town/city/country side. I need to start with a small location say ummm – a farmhouse. Then I can limit it to general places around the farmhouse. For instance: ‘the fields’, ‘the barn’, ‘the silo’, and the farm house itself. This could lead into at least one NPC – the farmer. Farmers have a pretty strict schedule don’t they? So, depending on time of day (based on real time * 10 or something like that) the farmer would be in different locations around the farm. That seems pretty broken down so it should be a nice start.

So, I guess I could whip up a couple of tables (user_accounts, characters, npc) and then move on to some basic location code from there.

Well, I’m going to make some ramen noodles…