Two smiles

When I need distraction I sometimes ego-google (ego-ogle?) for "volity". We're winning enough mentions outside of the Known Volity Cloud to make this worthwhile now. I just saw someone with a name I didn't recognize casually plug Volity (in the same breath as VASSAL and Zillions of Games) in rec.games.design. Yay.

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Shoot, I can't find it now. On my friendsfriends page this morning there was a flyer for a revue of various MC-style musicians somewhere, and the list of non-headlining performers was wonderful, particularly "MC MCMC" and "MC XYZ". It was like a fake ad from Mad Magazine or something, and they were just cracking some corny jokes to fill space. But they're apparently actual artists! RESPECT.

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Oh, a third smile that local conversation just reminded me of: Austin the Volity Hacker debuted the alpha of his Hearts game yesterday, and it's great! It needs a lot of work still but it's more done than not, and several of us had fun playing against each other and his bots. This is the thing that's been giving my Perl libraries a real workout - most of the Volity work being done by others uses Zarf's Python libs instead - so I have two big reasons to love this. I can't wait to see it finished!

It starts.

One of many ads we've sprinkled over Google, actually. But this one has my favorite copy. Zarf wrote the last line. (Yes, it would be better with "and", but there is a 35-character-per-line limit.)

Spoony bards, the lot of you

Whee it's me getting beaten up by Nintendo DS fans over my objections to the name of the upcoming game "Final Fantasy III", which bears no resemblance to the classic Super Nintendo game "Final Fantasy III", published in the 1990s by the same company.

It's actually kind of an interesting thread as far as that goes, modulo all the kids shouting duh don't you read the game news you dum-dum?! after I said that I don't read the game news.