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http://www.czeta.it/2008/02/04/the-unfair-platformer/

The most frustrating platformer ever made. xD

http://www.bornegames.com/mirrors-edge-beta/
still in beta, only 1 level done, but it's awesome!

Thrill seekers will be launching off massive peaks while racing against skilled rivals and performing gravity-defying aerial tricks in Pure, an extreme sports and off-road, quad racing video game targeted for release in Autumn 2008. Disney Interactive Studios announced today the development of Pure, which will be available for the Xbox 360

What is the MBTI test?
The MBTI, Or Myers-Briggs Type Indicator is a psychometric test developed to define people, Basically.

The test and types were developed by Katherine Cook Briggs and her daughter Isabel Briggs Myers from the 1923 work of Carl Gustav Jung, a Swiss psychiatrist born in 1875.

There are 16 personality types and the theory is that everyone falls into one of them. It can tell you how you are likely to act, How you approach certain situations and life in general and it can also tell you what type of job position is most suited for you.




Where is it used?
The world of business is where MBTI is mostly used. It will often be issued by the employer before you take a job to see if you have got the right personality for what they want you to do. A competent employer won't put a shy follower in a leadership position for example.

I done this test, very skeptical about the result it would give me. (I thought it was like a fortune teller) But basically, in the end, it was if someone had spied on me my whole life, and wrote down every personality trait I possess.... Very accurate, quite interesting to see your result.

I'll give you my result to give you an idea.




Your Type is
INTJ   --    Introverted-Intuitive-Thinking-Judging
Strength of the preferences % 56 88 50 89
You are:

    * moderately expressed introvert
    * very expressed intuitive personality
    * moderately expressed thinking personality
    * very expressed judging personality

Rational Portrait of the Mastermind (INTJ) (apparently im a mastermind.)




My potential jobs are:

Information System Specialist
or Computer Programmer





and my predicted profile is basically a biography of me.
http://typelogic.com/intj.html



Try the test and post your results!

whoa just found this program. and is fantastic for animating. Not as hard/bloated as flash, doesn't force monochrome sprites like pivot, just simple bone animation that works great.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MHra8CySk8&eurl=http://forum.toribash.com/showthread.php?p=355514
thats my first shot. I lost a bit of my animation skill because I haven't animated in ages... but I will soon regain what I lost in time and be pulling out some nice sprites.

This isn't only for sprites, you can add bones to anything, you could get a photo, add bones and make it look like they are talking. xD

http://graphics.smithmicro.com/article/articleview/1913/1/793?sbss=793 <--homepage

unfortunately the program is not free... there is a free version, i think it can't export over a certain amount of frames or something.

so perhaps give it a shot, its a lot less tedious that drawing every frame by hand... and will come out with better results too.

heh, I was bored...

I announced a while back, that I was gonna make these sprites... actually I said they would be ready by the official release. But school and everything else, didn't have time unfortunately. Now that I'm in summer holidays, I decided I'd continue working on them.

All the graphics for them are done, it's just the making of the sprites to do now. Sounds simple right? No, not really. I wanted these to be great sprites, so they have a pretty complex rule set. This includes things like decent animation, full running and jumping animation complete so far, with jumping to be done soon.
Animation 'Preview': http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=G3aFB1MX6N0
but also, other than animation, it is a pretty complex sprite compared to the fairly simple sprites made in SGDK1. This includes things such as rules to stop you changing direction mid-air, when you jump you actually gain a little speed, if you don't build up speed by running first, your jump won't get very far, etc...

But just today I added a really cool, yet simple feature. You can set the colour of your sprite. And I don't just mean red, green blue, yellow etc. I mean full power over rgb values, in game. This allows you 14526784 different colours.   Why in-game you say? well if you wanted to you could easily modify it a little to be done in a menu, like a character select, but I chose to do it in-game, as like a camouflage feature.  :nerd:
Say you wanted green, since you start off black, you need to add more green, to make yourself green. You simply press G+Pageup... If you decide you made him a little too bright, G+Pagedown. If you wanted to make purple, you would go back to black, by holding G+Pagedown until you lost all your green-y-ness, and then add some blue and some red. This is done by pressing B+Pageup, to add blue, then R+Pageup to add some red, this will come out purple.
Now earlier I mentioned this could be used for camouflage... it wouldn't work against bot players, as it would take some complex code to do that, but it could work in MULTIPLAYER! Since I'm making 4 sprites I might as well build multiplayer into the sprite rules instead of the map, as much as I can anyway. So you can easily blend into backgrounds, to the point where your the exact same colour as it. This all depends on your knowledge of rgb values, and how good your reflexes are on the pageup/down buttons, it would be a skill, it would take practice. I know I made it sound really hard, but I just gave it a shot now and did pretty well I think. I will post a video to demonstrate soon. (Everyone likes videos!)
Oh and I might as well post the project so far, so you can have a shot at it yourself.   
http://www.box.net/shared/muey3m4g0o

Not sure if I will actually include that with the sprites, seems a little too specific, it would only work for a few projects.
If I don't include it with the sprites I might make it a importable source code thing or something like that, or include it in a game of my own, as I think it's pretty cool. :nerd:

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Oh, and any advice on how I can shorten/optimize that rule tree? It's massive...
wow, those .sgdk2 files compress so well! 300kb, with all the graphics and stuff embedded in there... that's fantastic!
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A week ago I got a nintendo wii.
Does anyone else own one?'

I gotta say, it is...awesome, to say the least.
I have Mortal Kombat: Armageddon and Wii Sports.

Mortal Kombat is cool, but barely makes use of the motion sensor in the remote at all... so its not that exciting.
Wii sports is just that much fun, its unbelievable. Especially multiplayer.

Does anyone else own a wii?

If so what games you got?