Events

« Wednesday April 27, 2016 »
Wed
Start: 11:26 am
End: 10:43 am



ZZTV is a community project started by Dark FLR in 1998. ZZTers can create and contribute channels, which are small ZZT worlds that can contain any kind of content the author wishes: previews of upcoming games, artwork, minigames, stories, etc... These channels are traditionally given names that begin with the "#" symbol (e.g., "#bakedcheese"). All of the channels are sent to the person in charge of ZZTV; the project leader is then responsible for compiling the contributions into a series of volumes and releasing them to the public. ZZTVs are done at the rate of about one per year. Each ZZTV is numbered; for example, the current ZZTV-in-progress is ZZTV11. The person in charge of ZZTV changes fairly frequently; Zenith owned the project between issues 4-7 before passing the mantle on, with the more recent project leaders being MadTom, Commodore, and now bitbot.

Game link: https://archive.org/details/zzt_zztv11
Video link: https://youtu.be/XGCuxC5ZibE
Website: http://geocities.ws/bestofzzt

Start: 12:33 pm
End: 12:33 pm

Hello friends!!

It's the second Klik & Play marathon! Two years of bringing out your old computers (or DOSBoxes or VM's) to make some games in Klik & Play. This marathon's going to be compiled in an unofficial Pirate Kart and put up on my website!

Two rules.
One: Anything goes.
Two: don't use exports like Multimedia Fusion, keep the games in the native KnP format!

Reha Soft
http://geocities.ws/rehasoft

PS: I'm gonna try to make games on the Thanksgiving weekend. :D

Start: 5:00 am
End: 10:22 pm

reviiiive

Well, I was checking out this node http://www.glorioustrainwrecks.com/node/7174 and trying to figure out how I missed out on this gem along with figuring out the anniversary date as I kinda just wanted to make a laid back event when I was just having such a gr8 time with it, I figure we could reflect around this important holiday time, I'd ask what people were up to and stuff, encourage others to whatever, post a message on the bottom, say a hello and stuff, do some rewsearch, post a portfolio, the thing, yeah.

But yeah, thought I'd just post something up. Happy 8th by the way GT and those involved, uhh, thank you.

Start: 1:00 am
End: 11:00 pm

So, today is the 9th anniversary of Glorious Trainwrecks! That's like... a bit more than twice as long as I've been here, wow?!? That's really amazing. I don't know who else has been here for 9 years in a row other than SpindleyQ, but even then like. Congratulations!! On such a successful enterprise. I haven't done anything for more than 9 years continuously, other than breathing.

Well, to celebrate this, I thought to myself: what if I made a year long event starting today, and ending on the 10th anniversary? "Perfect!" - my reaction. 9 years is very impressive, but the only thing more impressive (that isn't 11) is 10: its' the first double digit, and it's a nice round number, and also it's 10! For some reason numbers like that sound nice.

I don't want to throw out celebrating the 9th anniversary either, so this event will combine both. Want to celebrate the 9th anniversary now? You can do that! Want to plan ahead for the 10th anniversary? This will help you do that! Want to celebrate the 10th anniversary now? You can do that too, I guess? Want to celebrate the 9th anniversary in a year? I'm not even going to make a snarky comment because I don't believe in submissions being "late"!

So here we go. I will one day submit something to this event, but for now I am too busy. Also, I recognize that the greatest event postings include many amusing gifs and regular images, but I do not have the time to gather suitable ones up. I will gladly take suggestions in the comments. Also SpindleyQ, feel free to edit this post to put some in!!

Haaaappy birthday everybody!

Start: 9:41 am

Make more games from delicious spam meat:

Event works to help Batavia students afford prom dresses

Racks of newly-cleaned evening gowns filled the basement recreation room at Congregational Church of Batavia recently.

Dress shoes, jewelry and accessories waited on nearby tables, just as five Community Helpers Impacting People in Need volunteers waited to help high school girls find the perfect free dress for prom.

girls party dresses

All they lacked was girls looking for those perfect dresses.

"We're not sure what's going on this year," said Joanne Spitz, co-chairman of the group that works to help Batavia students in need.

dresses for prom

"Last year we gave away more than 100 dresses, and we gave away at least 50 dresses the year before that, which was our first year doing this," she said during the sale. "So far, we've had maybe 30 girls come in over the last three days and we've given or sold 19 dresses."

wholesale wedding dresses

The gown selection couldn't have discouraged girls with limited prom budgets from attending the third annual sale. Many of the 200 or so dresses were new clothes donated by area bridal shops and formalwear boutiques, while the rest were in "like-new" condition. Sizes ranged from 0 to XXL, and the styles included knee length and ankle length, slinky with spaghetti straps, strapless with poufy skirts and just about everything in between. In fact, the donation haul was so good this year that event organizers decided to advertise it throughout the Fox Valley and to invite girls who didn't meet Illinois' "low-income family" criteria to buy gowns for either $25 or $50, as compared to the $100 to $400 they'd pay in a retail store, said event co-chairman Melinda Kintz.

Proceeds from dress sales will pay for prom ticket subsidies and tuxedo rentals for low-income boys, she added.

long prom dresses

"We don't care about making money from this," Spitz said. "We just want every student to be able to go to prom even if money is tight at home."

Sugar Grove resident Stephanie Biery and her daughter, Courtney, brought exchange student Katrin Hunger to find a dress for Kaneland High School's prom.

"I did not save money for a prom dress because we don't have proms in Germany," said Hunger, who hails from Chemnitz, which was once behind the Iron Curtain. "There is a dance for seniors when they graduate, but it is just for seniors and it is not formal. I'm very excited to go to a prom here, and I'm very surprised to get a dress for free. In Germany we have places where poor people can go to get clothes, but they don't have dresses like this. This is a princess dress!"

cheap bridesmaid dresses

Not all the dresses claimed at the event will grace a prom dance floor. Rotolo Middle School counselors chose about 20 age-appropriate knee-length dresses to give to eighth-graders for the school's dinner dance, Spitz said, while a few girls picked out gowns for other occasions.

Courtney Biery, a Kaneland sophomore, picked out a few dresses to try on and had a hard time deciding which one she wanted to buy.

"I wasn't expecting to even try anything on, much less get anything, but these dresses are all really nice," she observed.

cheap prom dresses

Meanwhile, volunteers were brainstorming ways to better publicize and position next year's prom dress extravaganza. Some ideas they're considering include partnering with an area library, holding the event earlier in the spring and promoting it at Batavia High School events like Rock the Runway, a fashion show for student designers in which all the clothing must be made of non-textile materials.

long evening dresses

"We are still making a difference here," Kintz asserted. "... A girl came in, found a beautiful dress and started to cry because she was so happy. She went around and shook every volunteer's hand and thanked her, while her mother kept asking, 'Are you sure it's free?' That's when I knew we have to do this again next year, because helping even one girl go to prom who couldn't otherwise afford it makes all this worthwhile."

Syndicate content
pensive-mosquitoes