http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bT3DFLdjuJM

do i win

Games as an art form should not seem so preposterous, it is only viewed so negatively for its incorporation of user participation, which admittedly immediately fucks up integrity with the automatic compensation that must take place (at least in terms of wide-audience relases) however lesser popular games will inherently contain some obvious quirk of the designer, the user instead will have to grapple with the singular/small teams issues/inadequacies instead of being comfortably carried through a la book or movie, it becomes simultaneously about experience and analysis, if not direct analysis of the programmers then that of the simulated environment they created with a pinch of willful suspension of disbelief (the ol WSD) so really in this day and age i no longer try to argue or defend video games artness because really its kind of auto-art, not something which you can just claim isn't such and it will be defamed, like it's eternally esteemed in my head so what. maybe that seems a little solipsist but you understand how it's essentially human excess just like any other art, just concerned more with creating a comprehensive controllable experience or something i dunno. you get what i'm saying. thanks

Glorious Trainwrecks hasn't been that active recently. Is this bad?

I've run into a little something I haven't seen here and potentially it could be interesting, not sure.. Apparently you can make any object into a friend, you've got the basic platformer stuff already built in how you remember it. You can make your own levels, like this one going to nowhere, Uhh, there was a crab guy in it too that talked to you but he ran into the void to the left because he was really into what was going on there, and here I've got mario just chillin with the gargoyle man, he's still shooting fireballs. If you're looking for something that's not knytt games but has a little less atmosphere a a little more Mario that is marioey then this might be your output. There's also some metroid sprites for whatever reason and it can be easily turned into someone's mashup fanfiction fantasy if one is patient enough to get the layout right, otherwise we can also wait to see what happens with the new jetpack when it comes out...

http://www.mtsapd.com/

THE LINK enjoy!

September 25 is my birthday, and I thought I'd celebrate by making another hit game in the "You Have to Put the Noun in the Other Noun" series! Turns out I was an hour late with it (over here, anyway), but whatever. Comes with the source code for the original "You Have to Put the Ball in the Cup" game, which is the template for nearly all of SoftSoft's incredible games! I am going to stipulate that it is alright for non-commercial derivative use (but why would you want to sell this?!?), as long as you clearly mark that it is a fangame.

PLANNIN DAT STUFF cAN BE SOOO HARD

YOU HAVE TO PLAN IT IS DIFFICULT..

So plan that and like bring condiments.. You can't go without condiments. Sometimes the caterer bails on you or the food is late.. Sometimes your neighbors can be invertebrates... But keep it on.. You can do it. Get a manual... You don't have to read it, cuz manual reading is like manwell's tv. Just give it some time, wear a crown, and if you can't afford that wear a frown. It's the best you can do to make the stew. CHEERS

bc__

Haven't made a game in a while and im out of ideas. HALP.

I've been dedicated to the irc front of the ug for a while... yes it's #glorioustrainwrecks on irc.freenode.net and for those who already idle about on irc servers this channel is probably one of my fav and if I ever tell someone "hey get on irc" i'll be hitting this one..

This is made possible by people like SpindleyQ, linhat, effbee, Smedis2, mojofilter, ray, pirate_sephiroth and those who make their presence applicable either just to say hi, but I'm really making this post to promote irc awareness and there's a being that makes it worth the while.

That's mno.. It isn't much but he got like older the other day. like a couple decades i'm assuming is his age but of course he's wise beyond his years and I've been viewing games in this ug for a while and I've always been impressed by not only his releases but the way he has them written up. When he makes a cover page for something he goes out of his way to make it count, and that's why we shout out his birthday or at least I do.

So yeah join irc if not just to catch mno riding dirty, or maybe with his pals goto and chie, or whatever. If you're looking for inspiration, he's a good go-to but don't overdo it... He needs inspiration too. That's why I picked this link where like if he's ever feeling a lack of it, and he doesn't want to look at the klip art on days when he's feeling down, he can go here.. It's a little last second since his birthday was the other day, but as we all know....

INSPIRATION HAS A LONG SHELF LIFE!!

so enjoy this long url from yahoo images cuz I thought it'd add to the value and keep on doing your thing sir.

http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images;_ylt=A0oG7kL83VJQkXgAqGxXNyoA?p=spatula&fr=yfp-t-521&fr2=piv-web

I wanted to finish my game for the themed trainwreck, but my laptop died and so has my backup laptop. How am I gonna do my projects now? I pulled up the old desktop from the basement and got zip disks to save my projects. Aargh. So annoying. Now I got to carry a zip drive wherever I go (it's USB so woot)

The zip250 drive died on me yesterday and I'm upset. At least the zip100 is still kicking. I went online to find any other zip250s on Amazon, but most of them are listed for $50. WTF. I'm not paying that much for a zip drive when I can find them at the thrift store for less than $10. Ugh. I just want to complete something, anything! How can I when my stuff keeps failing?? I was actually too depressed to do anything but my sister gave me a pep talk and I got out of bed to go finish a project. I would like to have a finished product.

So the Pirate Kart launchers are pretty cool, right? Makes browsing and playing games that little bit easier. It would be cool to have a launcher like that for every event or even one launcher that works for all Glorious Trainwrecks events! (well at least the ones since the new game submission system) I thought that'd be pretty rhinoceros! So I built it!

GLORIOUS TRAINWRECKS DOT EXE

If you see any weird issues or have ideas for improvements, let me know!

UPDATE 19 Feb 2013: Now should launch DosBox so you can play 16-bit EXEs on Win 64. Also some bugs got fixed.