Author Archives: oddbob

rubbing himself in flour whilst looking at your webcam. When not doing that - running Retro Remakes in a haphazard fashion and gobbing off around these here parts.

War Twat Hi(gher) Vis

August 20, 2008 – 3:30 am

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[update: apparantly, something went fuck with the packing and upload - that'll teach me to keep plugging at things till I'm beyond tired. Hopefully, should be fixed now.]

A womans work is never done…
After a request from Silly Tuna over at NewRetro I thought [...]

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:-(

August 19, 2008 – 2:29 am

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showInitialOdiogoReadNowFrame (”111202″, “583″, 290, 0);

I’ve really got to put some time into this, but my 360 will be going away soon.

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Woo!

August 18, 2008 – 11:52 pm

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Today I finished the RR Compo 2008 rules. I’ve been putting off finalising them for about a fortnight now as it’s really just so not the most interesting way to spend a day and turns into an epic slog for a while. Also, all prizes that [...]

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War Twat Bug Fix

August 16, 2008 – 9:22 pm

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Uploaded a bug fix for War Twat which caused the player to magically disappear and lock the game up on death. Something I’ve been trying to trace since launch but couldn’t work my head round quite what I’d done to cause it.
Whilst putting [...]

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Retro Remakes Competition Sponsors Round Up So Far

August 16, 2008 – 2:01 am

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For those who haven’t been following the official Retro Remakes Competition 2008 blog, here’s a quick round up of the sponsors we’ve announced to date:
Acekard
Charlie’s Games
Clickteam
Game Socks
Pandora
Raptisoft
XGamestation
Zombie Cow Studios
And there’s still plenty more to come.

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Links Round Up

August 14, 2008 – 3:56 am

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Been a while since I’ve done one of these, but it’s either that or a massive fucking rant about how shite Bionic Commando:Rearmed turned out to be, so I’ll choose the happy option anyday
Uncle’s 3d Starstrike released - around 3 years in [...]

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GWAN

August 13, 2008 – 2:20 am

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A mate of mine has just released his first budget game. I glowed up the font. Because that’s what I do, sort of…
It’s not half bad at all, certainly worth a punt at £2. The nutter is trying to give me half the proceeds towards RR [...]

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