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Geek Culture / Flipcode has closed it's doors

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Raven
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Posted: 28th Aug 2005 15:17
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http://www.flipcode.com/

This gave me a bit of a shock, was just trying to search for an article on something I was trying to do; only to discover that Flipcode is no more!

Totally threw me off balance this has, as it's had some bloody great articles over the years. Shame to see it go, now I'm wondering a little how long it's been down without me knowing.

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Richard Davey
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Posted: 28th Aug 2005 15:19
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Not long. Happened recently. They're leaving the site up, just not taking any new submissions and the forum will be read only.

A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices.
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Megaton Cat
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Posted: 28th Aug 2005 15:24
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Good riddance. Some of the people on the forums hadn't left their bedroom for 3 years.


The future is here, and I can't afford it.
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David T
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Posted: 28th Aug 2005 17:17
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Nooooooooooo!

Flipcode was amazing! The articles there are fantastic - sad to see it go.

"A book. If u know something why cant u make a kool game or prog.
come on now. A book. I hate books. book is stupid. I know that I need codes but I dont know the codes"
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Phaelax
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Posted: 28th Aug 2005 18:59
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I was just there last week, where'd it go?

I wonder how much space I need to archive all their articles?

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MikeS
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Posted: 28th Aug 2005 19:21
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This is very bad news. I always considered Flipcode one of the big three(gamedev, and gamasutra the others) of general game development. Hopefully whats on the site will be there a while, if not, better start archiving now.



A book? I hate book. Book is stupid.
(Formerly Yellow)
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Megaton Cat
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Posted: 28th Aug 2005 20:42
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Er...I should have mentioned that I'm sad to see the site go, but not the forums.


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Raven
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Posted: 28th Aug 2005 23:11
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never spent any time on the forums really, scanned for useful threads once in a while... and there were often some good ones, provided you ignored the back'n'forth banta.

definately this is more about the sadness of the site disappearing rather than the forums. GameDev.net was always a poor variation imo

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RegenProZ
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Posted: 29th Aug 2005 00:24
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Can't say I know flipcode

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Never You Mind
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BatVink
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Posted: 29th Aug 2005 00:54 Edited at: 29th Aug 2005 00:57
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Nice connection...just mirroring to my hard drive now at 130 Kb/s.

1,312 links, looking like it could be 30 - 35 Megabytes of info.

[EDIT] I lied, it's HUGE!!!! I'll find out in the morning just how much stuff there is.

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Phaelax
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Posted: 29th Aug 2005 14:36
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BatVink, is there an FTP they have open?

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BatVink
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Posted: 29th Aug 2005 14:54
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No, I'm using WinHTTrack, free mirroring software, download.com I think.

475 MB so far

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Dave J
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Posted: 30th Aug 2005 14:38
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At least the articles are still up, I can't help but feel there must be some other drastic reason for this to have occurred. The explanation on the front of the site is very lacking and there must be some other reason.


"Computers are useless, they can only give you answers."
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Raven
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Posted: 30th Aug 2005 15:23
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The guys ran out of cash to keep such a site going. It's expensive keeping bandwidth like that, without regular donations it was eventual it was going to fold.

Something I always liked was the fact the site didn't try to throw adverts or make you pay a subscription to use it. Sadly this is probably what eventually killed it.

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BatVink
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Posted: 30th Aug 2005 16:24
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Quote: "the site didn't try to throw adverts or make you pay a subscription to use it"


Never really noticed, but didn't they try Google Adsense or any other banner type system? It might just have kept it going.

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Phaelax
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Posted: 30th Aug 2005 18:38
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Site downloaded, about 475mb.

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