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Geek Culture / Newsletter 62 - March 2008

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BatVink
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Posted: 1st Mar 2008 09:41
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http://www.thegamecreators.com/data/newsletter/newsletter_issue_62.html

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Zotoaster
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Posted: 1st Mar 2008 12:35
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Partnership with Intel?! OMG! Go TGC!

A better than average issue IMHO

Don't you just hate that Zotoaster guy?
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Accoun
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Posted: 1st Mar 2008 14:01
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But it's still issue 61 on the site, just with i62 cover on main site...

Make games, not war.
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Veron
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Posted: 1st Mar 2008 14:21
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Yeah, they always take a little while to update that.

Anyway, great issue as always TGC, and congrats on the partnership with Intel, freakin' awesome work! Shame I didn't get to see you guys at the GDC.


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DarkBasic Pro Guy
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Posted: 2nd Mar 2008 02:34 Edited at: 2nd Mar 2008 02:35
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great!

I always go after the tutorials first ^.^, loved the tutorial this month especially

Good job TGC on the Intel thing! and go FPSCX10 although I can't quite get that yet

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Sid Sinister
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Hey! Glad to see tersculpt made the cut for annoucements. Van B did an amazing job, but it's getting even better with user updates. Thanks =] That totally made my day seeing that on there

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Jeku
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Posted: 3rd Mar 2008 21:47
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Nice issue, but I didn't like the loud sounds from the movie autoplaying when the issue loaded up.


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BatVink
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Posted: 3rd Mar 2008 22:32
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Quote: "but I didn't like the loud sounds from the movie autoplaying when the issue loaded up"


All of the videos are set not to autoplay. So something else has interfered to cause this. Would be useful to know what browser/mail client you are using.
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Zappo
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Posted: 3rd Mar 2008 23:03 Edited at: 3rd Mar 2008 23:05
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Those videos autoplayed for me too. I viewed the newsletter in Firefox (2.0.0.12) and it used Windows Media Player 11 (11.0.5721.5230) to embed them.

Great issue, even though the sudden engine noises made me jump!


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BatVink
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Posted: 4th Mar 2008 09:00
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From the description of "engine noises", I'm guessing it was the wmv files at the end of the Spitfire Maverick article? There are 2 typs of video this month - the TGC hosted WMVs and the YouTube videos elsewhere.
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Zappo
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Posted: 4th Mar 2008 11:47
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That's right. The YouTube ones worked fine and wait for a click before buffering/playing. The WMV files started downloading immediately (nasty for those on dialup I expect) and play as soon as they have come down. I am guessing the audio would have been compressed too much and you would have lost the effect you wanted to demonstrate if those had been converted to Flash Video (YouTube) so I am not sure how you would fix it.


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