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The Free Stuff Friday Stuff from SEGA arrived!

Soooooo I participated last Friday (F) on SEGA's (S) Twitter at a giveaway called Free Stuff Friday (FSF), and somehow I won. Winning a packet with Free Stuff Friday Stuff (FSFS).


Just now, 1 week later, the Free Stuff Friday Stuff from SEGA (FSFSFS) arrived, and after a little violence it opened, too. (seriously, after the german customs inspection, these guys use so much tape you could throw this thing into a volcano and nothing would happen)

Anyways, Finally Some Free Stuff Friday Stuff from SEGA for showing (FSFSFSFSFS)!


(click to see the full size pic)

I really like the lanyard.
Anyways, this weeks Free Stuff Friday (FSF) has started just now! Go follow SEGA (FS) on Twitter and good luck! http://twitter.com/#!/SEGA
Also, whoever can do the longest FSFSF... combo releating to the Free Stuff Friday in the comments can win something. I still have some unused gifts rotting in my Steam account, so I might give them away...

Also, thanks to Kathryn20000, masterlugia and... well, I guess narrativephotos' tweet counts for this, too - for congratulating me. High Fives for you o/
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Just my 3.14 cents: Project DIVA extend TGS demo


DAMN IT. I HATE MIRACLE PAINT. I HATE THIS SONG, ESPECIALLY THESE FOUR NOTES AT THE START OF THE CHANCE TIME. ARGH.
So yeah, time to take a break from raging while trying to perfect all the songs on Hard in PD1. I finally got the TGS demo of Project DIVA extend! 3 songs are available in this demo - Nekomimi Switch, Palette and Rin Rin Signal -Append Mix-, on the Easy and Normal difficulties. I played them, and here's a quick opinion.

Less slowdown, more awesome
On of the first things I noticed is that there's a lot going on on the screen, but PDe keeps cool and keeps running at a smooth framerate. Seems like they rewrote the engine - very awesome! In extend there are easily Rin and Len displayed next to each other and the game still runs well, while PD1 already had a mental breakdown when it had to zoom out (see: Sono Ichibyou Slow Motion or Star Story). It also seems to work fine with RemoteJoy now - PD1 is heavily flickering.
Also, the new Note Types! There are now Hold Notes, and notes where you have to hit both the button and the directional key! Also², some small, but nice new things! I really like how you can display the number of notes you need to hit to get a certain rank, and the little completition gauge in-game. That's it for this part, moving on!

Black Borders, Big Bonuses
There is one thing I really hate about PDe: the new Chance Time. In the PD1 scoring system, you would get massive bonus points for combos: the first note gave you 100 extra points, the second one 200, and so on until 5000 bonus points for each more. This means you need to clear this sequence almost perfectly, as the Chance Time usually decided if you were ranked Standard or Great. The new Chance Time is quite simple: You get bonus points based on how well you hit the notes. So basically, it's just 5 times the points you would usually get.
Now, you could say the new one is better, since now you don't have to hit every single note in the Chance Time to get a Great or Excellent - but in my opinion, the old one is better. It just felt so much more rewarding to me. Also I like raging.

Aaand the other stuff
Apart from the new Chance Time system, PDe looks really awesome and will surely be another awesome game in the series - but I don't have Project DIVA 2nd yet, so I don't know how much extend improved, but I'm going to buy both, anyways. I'm just like that.

The only question is, which do I buy first?






Also daaaaamn Nekomimi Switch is catchy as hell. I don't like it but it's not getting out of my head aaaaaaaaa
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Celebrating 7 years of Ubuntu! (also... NEW GCG GAME?)




Weeeeeee! Also, I made a category for stuff ariving in the mail now. Check it out by clicking "mail" on the right!


In other news, I'm working on a secret project with someone else. Check it out on the GCG forums!
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Look what just arrived in the mail: The Sequel

Weeeeeeee!

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And suddenly this day became 500% more awesome!


Link
WHERE CAN I THROW MY MONEY IN YOUR FACES, GAIJIN.
BTW, I would love to see the Grab String implemented.
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It's just a temporary death

The Binding of Isaac and Portal 2 DLC came and suddenly no more posts.

In other news I FUCKING PERFECTED ALL SONGS IN HATUNSE MIKU: PROJECT DIVA. I AM SO AMAZING. \o/

And here's Buff and me playing the new Portal 2 Co-Op levels. http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL841467472F44614C
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Cleaning out our shelf with old manuals


We have come a long way.
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So here's my plan

In the last few classes in Bavaria, your timetable is like swiss cheese - holes everywhere. To use them productively, I'm now thinking about doing a club on my school.

Basically, Minecraft.

Have you ever heard of the Minecraft Teacher? No? Google him, right now.
He's a teacher in New York, and brought Minecraft to his students. You can read a ton of nice stories on his blog. So, what should stop me from trying this over here?

Well, first, I don't know any teacher playing Minecraft. But there are enough students. MORE than enough.

I'll keep you updated or something. I guess.
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111 posts.

Just sayin'.

In other news, so I did my Nixon presentation today. Went pretty good. I built in some last-minute facts, like I always do, and managed to stretch it to 8 minutes.
It's a bad habit, but it FUCKING WORKS

In more other news, there's going to be some insane shit in November and December. 2 test every week. Holy crap I will SO go down. D:
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And here we go again

Almost forgot to post today. Not because I am lazy, but because of this sexy beast.



*drool*

Anyways, I have to do a presentation about Nixon tomorrow. 10 minutes. The problem: I can hardly push it past 6 minutes. I should really research some more and see if I find some more little bits...

...naaaaw. bbl, trippin' some bits
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I'M BAAACK

holy shit it has happened.
I'm once more trying to revive this thing. Maybe I can get back to daily posting? Maybe. Will someone actually read this? Maybe. Will I ever get off my lazy ass to make more comics? Maybe.

Let's start off with cehcking my holiday list. What did I want to do?

- Finish Super Meat Boy (get 106%)
I actually did it! Golden God is mine! :D God I feel so awesome
- Buy PSP & game I hinted at (hint: it was Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA)
YES AND IT'S FUCKING AWWESSOMEE. Might write a review or something.
- Buy a new handy [my current one is old as shit]
NOT done. Too lazy, too much stuff to play and code.
- Buy a new (computer) mouse done
- Replace one wall in my room with a pinboard
Half done. Not a new pinboard, BUT A WHITEBOARD. YAAAAAAAY.
- Finish the engine of my flash shooting game thingy already done

So that's it for today already. Keeping some topics for later.

Oh, one last thing, if you feel like being awesome, HALP MEH kthxbai
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Game Maker, YoYo Games and Mismanagement

Very interesting post about those:
Anna Anthropy on Game Maker and game making: Who gets to make videogames? | Seven Stories Press

I couldn't agree more. Back when Game Maker was not from YoYo Games, it was awesome, but then with every update it became worse, slower and more incompatible. An example is the EXE encryption - up to GM6, the games ran fine even in Mac or Linux. Then YoYo Games came, went like "lolol let's make filesize bigger, loading times longer, just so we have a new encryption in the EXEs which will not be broken for three whole days" and here we are.
I want you Game Maker guys to at least try Stencyl, which is linked in the post. It outputs games as Flash files, which can be played by anyone having Adobe Flash. Even on Mac, Linux, and Winsuck XP and older. Even on your Wii, even though you can just use the mouse then.
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Ludum Dare!

So I'll be participating in Ludum Dare #21 this weekend. This is a competition where you have to make a game in 48 hours, from scratch. That means code, graphics and music - all made by yourself, in these 2 days. When I did that the last two times I've hardly made any sketches, so this time I'll try to make some and upload them somewhere.
Anyone else going to participate? :D

In other news, my new tablet pen finally arrived after my old one broke. Now I can finally do stuff again!
In other news², Hatsune Miku no Shoushitsu is evil on HARD difficulty. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rfqm_AyYnA
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Look what just arrived in the mail



Now I have to wait for the console to arrive. Isn't it odd - the game from Japan arrives before the console from Germany does? :p
Let's try to make some sense out of the manual now. Will be a little problem since I know only 4 japanese words: watashi, anata, kawaii, baka. :I
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I'M FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

FUCK YEAH

and now let's revive the list I did last year with stuff I want to do during the 6 weeks of holidays and at the end we check what I finished:

- Finish Super Meat Boy (get 106%) [most likely impossible]
- Buy PSP & game I hinted at [this is pretty much done already but eh]
- Buy a new handy [my current one is old as shit]
- Buy a new (computer) mouse [my current one is broken]
- Replace one wall in my room with a pinboard [my current pinboard is too small]
- Finish the engine of my flash shooting game thingy already [it's taking way too long]

So yeah that's it for now, maybe I'll add some stuff later
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I'm baaaaaaack.

And nobody gives a damn :D

Anyways, I didn't have any time so monst likely no comic this Sunday unless I whip something up this night. Too busy playing Super Meat Boy. While I had free time I unlocked The Kid and beat Dark Dr. Fetus, and now I want to get 106% completition.

Also, I just ordered a PSP and a certain japanese game. Hint: It's for PSP...

...what, you expected a real hint? Okay, what about... uh... the main character has really long hair.

Also², TOMORROW IS LAST DAY BEFORE HOLIDAYS WOOOOOO *dances*

Okay enough random blah for today, back to Meat Boy.
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/away

Two weeks left until holidays. And it's going to be the busiest two weeks ever.

Monday we are doing the final plans for our school shop.
This Tuesday the class I'm in drives to Berlin, stay there until Friday.
On Saturday, we're opening our school shop where I have to help.
On Sunday, the Drama Group of our school is going to Wasserburg, and I'm going also since I'm doing light, sound, video and that stuff.
Wednesday, I return.
On Thursday, we have to carry all our stuff to school to give it all back.
And finally, on Friday, we get our marks and then we have holidays.

I will post stuff from my mobile to Twitter, so go there to stay updated: http://twitter.com/#!/The_Superyoshi
(it's one-way communication though :<)
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(my) Best TF2 capture evar



Now to try some other classes. Scout's first with 5 hours playtime, second is Sniper with one hour.
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[COMIC] Encounter

Well here we are again. It's always such a pleasure.



I never understood those trainers.

Anyways, first one of the comics I plan to put up. Basically some quick drawings I do in school, color them at home and put up bi-weekly. I don't really put attention on details for these (for example no hands. BLARGH HANDS) so that's why you might spot some anatomy errors and stuff. Just focus on the story, not the drawing :3
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POST 100 WOOO

:D

that is all.






























nawww just kidding I just wanted to say I (am trying to) bring the comic back this Sunday. See ya then.
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[LD] Pretty much done

It's a game! With online highscores! And pepper spray! You KNOW you want to play it!
If you got some free time, please leave me a bit of feedback (too hard/needs more waves/needs more bombs and nukes) :D

Now listening to: Strobe Nights - Miku Hatsune
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[LD] Progress on Sprites



AHAUDIGAS MY EYES ARRRGH

First time spriting humans - it's not that good, but a lot better than expected.
Left: Background and Cutscene, then Scoring.

Now listening to: World is Mine - Miku Hatsune
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[LD] Gameplay done!

Click here!

Now there's a wave structure, beginning simple but getting harder. Also stats on the bottom. Also² sounds and less earrape music.
After 30 waves, the game is over and scoring will happen in the final version. But for now, GRAPHICS.

Spray pepper spray at incoming people with Arrow Keys or W A D.

Now listening to: Koi wa Sensou - Miku Hatsune
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[LD] BASIC GAMEPLAY DONE

Woo! Took 6 hours!
Thar
Again, numbers are walking, as soon the arrow appears you can take out enemies with WAD / Up Left Right.

Now listening to: Still Alive - Jonathan Coulton
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[LD] Finally Rhythm

I just managed to align my game to the beat. Was harder than expected.

In the following version enemies only drop from the top, in the final game they come from all sids, and other patterns.

For now, WAD or UpLeftRight to use your pepper spray in that direction, which only works if you got it ready (which is displayed by the arrow. the numbers are the walking cycle)

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/17041897/Main.swf

Now listening to: EPIPHANY - BIT.TRIP FLUX
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[LD] Breakfast is go

Gotta love the classics.

Suyo's Breakfast

Also I finished the basics for the player spraying around and the spritesheet structure. Behold my epic walking cycle:



Now listening to: Searching. Emergence. Discovery. - Dejobaan
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[LD] LIVE BLOG RETURNS!

<-- LD 20 IS HERE AND ABOVE -->

Party and stuff

Anyways here's my concept:

- girl (player) comes back from shopping with bags, nothing special here
- robbers try to grab the bags, nothing special too
- you have to defend yourself with pepper spray, no special
- the whole thing happens in rhythm, that means you see the robbers one measure before they run at you and you have to spray them to the face

It kinda fits the theme, right?

Now listening to: CONTROL - BIT.TRIP CORE
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UBUNTU 11.04


GO GRAB IT. NOW.

WEEEEEEee~~
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YAY VALVE

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[GCG] Planned Downtime

In *looks at calendar* about two weeks greencouchgames.net and achievtendo.net will go down.

We're changing servers, but since I'm a bit broke right now there might be a big gap without sites. If I'm lucky, I get paid for my website job soon and can start the new server ASAP.
Just saying.

(also, the comics are not dead.)






(yet.)

i LISTENING TO: Strobe Nights - Miku Hatsune
NOW DOING: Saving the files on the old server
NOW PLAYING: AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!!
RANDOM THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

I got my third Valve potato today! :D
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O_____________O



i LISTENING TO: Bit Shifter - Strange Comfort
NOW DOING
: Coding the Story Portal for Runouw.com
NOW PLAYING:
lilt line
RANDOM THOUGHT OF THE DAY:
betamax is an a**hole D:
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[COMIC] F13

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Time for revival

(also there's an old friend coming back on the bottom of this post)

So yeah, I've been neglecting this for some time. Why, you ask?








That is why. :3

i LISTENING TO: Passion Pit - Sleepyhead
NOW DOING: Coding in Allegro
NOW PLAYING: BIT.TRIP FLUX, trying to PERFECT EPIPHANY
RANDOM THOUGHT OF THE DAY:
Everyone should follow the capitalization rules of BIT.TRIP
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In case you didn't notice me being quite inactive

this is why

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[COMIC] Meat Boy Cycle



oh boi is it just me or do I know this guy in the front from somewhere
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SUPER MEAT SMILIES. WOO.

Alice joins the ??? page.

Also, look at these. THEY ARE FEATURED ON THE OFFICIAL SUPER MEAT BOY FORUMS. I BE HAPPY.
Meat Boy
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Moar Question Marks

Jenny is now joining Jeff on the ??? page.
This came out better than I expected... though the pose I aimed for was way too hard to make it look natural so I just stuck to this.

If I keep posting one part every day, I can show you the finished thing Sunday...
...wait, Sunday... what was I doing earlier on Sundays...?
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???

???
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[COMIC] Beta


Also, tomorrow, I'll try to revive this thing
 
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