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Minecraft Realms

For the past year, we’ve been using a Minecraft server running locally. Realms will be nice for anyone who’s less tech savvy.

‘Minecraft’ aims to reel in families, young gamers with new Realms subscription service | The Verge

In an effort to broaden Minecraft’s audience and draw in families and younger gamers, Mojang has announced a new initiative called Minecraft Realms. At its core, Realms is a monthly subscription service that gives players a private, tightly-controlled Minecraftserver, providing “a safe and easy way” for children to enjoy the hugely-popular title. Pricing has yet to be finalized, but Games Industry International suggests it will fall somewhere between $10 and $15. For that fee, players will take ownership of their ownMinecraft world with full control over who else may enter and build alongside them. Thankfully only one person needs to pay for a Realms account, so your friends and family members won’t have to part with any cash to get started — all they’ll need is a copy of the game and an internet connection.

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The inscrutable Dwarf Fortress

It sounds like Dwarf Fortress is more fun than watching golf on TV. Maybe it’s really just performance art.

Dwarf Fortress: Ten hours with the most inscrutable video game of all time | Ars Technica

Who knew trying to build a virtual chair could lead to questions of self-worth?

Dwarf Fortress is one of the most complex computer games in the history of computer games. How complex? In the game’s discussion forum, one player asserts that after 120 failed games, he can finally “get into the swing of things.” One of his many fortress death spirals began, as the downfalls of society often do, with an immigrant dwarf who suddenly succumbed to a “secretive mood.” A short time later—kaboom.

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Canonical TeamFortress Server

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Steam appeared in the default Ubuntu repositories last week and Canonical is (was?) hosting a TF2 server.

Canonical Host Weekend ‘TeamFortress 2? Server

Calling all gamers: Canonical are hosting a TeamFortress 2 server this weekend to mark the arrival of Steam for Linux on the Ubuntu Software Center.

TeamFortress 2 is free to download and play, so if you fancy some free fragging fun with fellow Ubuntu gamers here’s how.

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Fat Wreck Chords signed Get Dead

Get Dead is a great band that does great live shows. I think I’ve listened to their first acoustic release about a million times.

Fat signs Get Dead

Fat Wreck Chords has signed Get Dead from San Francisco, CA. The largely acoustic band has a bunch of music on Bandcamp and are currently at Motor Cities working on their debut for a summer release.

You can also find more about the band on their Facebook Profile..

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HTML5 game market is expanding

This post from Photon Storm surveys the various opportunities for funding HTML5 games. Despite the assertion that “next to no market … for desktop HTML5 games“, we may see this break out in 2013. For example, check out the HTML5 implementation of Diablo. And since these games run well in Chrome, they ought to be playable on the all the Android game consoles rushing into the market this year. Also, don’t miss the HTML5 Minecraft world editor.

Photon Storm » Blog Archive » Insert Coin to Continue: The HTML5 Game Sponsorship Market

I had the pleasure of giving a presentation at the onGameStart 2012 conference in Warsaw, Poland. The title of my talk was “Insert Coin to Continue”. A gentle nod to the fact that lots of game developers do actually need paying in order to carry on creating great games! I wanted to share my experiences and results of working in the HTML5 game sponsorship market. The Flash world is well served by sites like FGL and blog posts detailing income and strategies. But very little exists for HTML5 games, hence the choice of topic for my talk. This article will cover most of my presentation for those who weren’t able to attend.

mitallast/diablo-js · GitHub

diablo-js – Isometric minimal-code style game at html5 canvas and javascript

Hey everybody, I’m working on a WebGL-based voxel world editor with planned Minecraft file format export. Here’s a screenshot and a live demo.

Here’s the screenshot, and here’s the link to the demo. The demo probably only works in Google Chrome for now. You’ll need to wait a moment at the green screen for the world to download. (It’ll look like it’s frozen for a few moments, but it’s downloading.)

After the world loads, you can click in the world to start exploring (you’ll need to let Chrome grab your mouse; you can release the mouse lock by hitting escape). If you hold down the H key after clicking into the world, it’ll display a hotkey list.

You won’t be able to edit that project, but you can go to Project->New to make one (after signing in with a google account), and you can save your project from the Project menu, too. It would pretty much make my day if anyone posted some screenshots or links to their projects.

Finally, please forgive my shadows. They are awful. I’m working on them.

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