Zatacka 360 is finally released on Xbox Live Indie Games. You can grab it here or in the Indie Games section on Xbox Live for 80 points. From the game description:
“Zatacka 360 is a remake of the classic multiplayer DOS game in which players must steer their curves away from one another in order to survive. Players can gain the upper hand by trapping their opponents or using powerups. The classic game has been expanded with five crazy powerups and additional game modes, all in full HD and features an original soundtrack”
Thanks to JDK for his awesome soundtrack. Our next project is well underway and promises to be an audio-visual feast
Funnily enough, many of my friends are finally going vegetarian. I don’t think it’s particularly my influence (4 years without meat other than an accidental and unforgiven bite from a chicken sandwich last year…) but it does seem like the sensible choice in this day and age. The thing is that many people are put off going veg because of the hassle it causes for hosts providing food. Hopefully if, as it seems, it is becoming a much more socially accepted thing (well, I never really feel persecuted, other than perhaps at braais…) then more people will switch. And then chickens will overthrow us all. As the eloquent Troy McClure once said: “Don’t kid yourself, Jimmy. If a cow ever got the chance, he’d eat you and everyone you care about!”
The greatest thing about the Stellenbosch Institute of Advanced Study (STIAS) is undoubtedly the catering. It makes conferences a pleasure. I’ve never eaten so well so consistently before. I’ve eaten better food, but if one was to take the time averaged taste factor$<f>$ then it would be far higher than my usual veggie hotdog lifestyle. Anyway, the conference in question was a 4 day workshop on lasers and accelerators. The topics ranged from using lasers to accelerate electrons to GeV energy levels to using lasers in fusion reactions for energy production (unfortunately way away from being viable at the moment). It’s always nice to see a completely different section of physics and the speakers did an excellent job in giving those of us who had little idea on the applications of lasers an overview and an understanding on how and why people are building such enormous lasers.
A few of us have started working on something very exciting: Project Mammal. Basically it’ll be a simple game that incorporates multitouch input and mutliplayer. The idea is to have multiple players on one multitouch screen working together. It should be very fun once it gets off the ground.
Blue Dragon. Love it or hate it, it’s a bad game. It’s got a weak story, music that is far from the best work of Nobuo Uematsu, and framerate issues that piss the hell out of everyoen. Still. It’s a Japanese RPG. On Xbox. And that’s gotta count for something, right? Well not for very long. Luckily there is a deluge (ok, maybe just a light drizzle) of J-RPGs coming up for the Xbox (starting with the beautiful Eternal Sonata pretty darn soon and ending off with Lost Odyssey early next year) so it looks like Blue Dragon will go the way of so many other mediocre games and be forgotten not a moment too soon.
So this is officially my first post…now if only I could get this site to work. Now I need to find a picture of the soon-to-be infamous Suteka. Right now she’s sleeping (as usual) while I play Final Fantasy XII. Really though I’ve been very impressed with 110MB.com, where this blog is hosted. The service is pretty darn good and best of all it’s free! I’m not sure exactly how it works. My suspicions are that all error pages (404 etc) display loads of adverts which is how they get their revenue. So by linking to a page that doesn’t exist, I’m doing them a favour! If you’re feeling generous then click on this non-existent web page to support 110MB.com.
Funnily enough, many of my friends are finally going vegetarian. I don’t think it’s particularly my influence (4 years without meat other than an accidental and unforgiven bite from a chicken sandwich last year…) but it does seem like the sensible choice in this day and age. The thing is that many people are put off going veg because of the hassle it causes for hosts providing food. Hopefully if, as it seems, it is becoming a much more socially accepted thing (well, I never really feel persecuted, other than perhaps at braais…) then more people will switch. And then chickens will overthrow us all. As the eloquent Troy McClure once said: “Don’t kid yourself, Jimmy. If a cow ever got the chance, he’d eat you and everyone you care about!”