Leon's Microblog – October 2011

"Hey, Twitter's site's been replaced with a photo of you," he said. His friend laughed in a million voices. "I AM TWITTER." #twitterchillers
Only floaters can survive this.
Wrecking Crew. The battle of wits - man versus machine.
Knytt Stories, "The Extinct Bird".
#igfreviews Stork Ride by me: god what the hell was I thinking. 4/5.
#igfreviews Noggin Quest by me: god what the hell was I thinking. 2/5.
What is money? Nothing more than metal and paper! *tears $5 note in half, blood starts pouring from the tear, nearby coins start screaming*
Welcome, customer, to Mattress City. We're a real city. We all live here in a mattress paradise together. Please don't tell our families.
And that, as they say, is that.
http://l.j-factor.com/gifs/ALinkToThePast-Triforce.gif - The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past. Power. Wisdom. Curtains.
#igfreviews Trepidatious Peak by me: fall damage rules, having only three checkpoints rules, monochrome rules, no sound effects rules. 4/5.
#igfreviews Delve Deep by me: No one's reviewed this yet because everyone who played it died of thousands of heart attacks. A zillion/five.
http://www.glorioustrainwrecks.com/node/2013 - I've fixed some bugs and added an '@' symbol to help you test individual sections of your Tombed levels quickly.
http://www.glorioustrainwrecks.com/node/2013 - I decided it was time to put Tombed and Tombed II into a single executable. And I tossed in some extra features too.
A few IGF Pirate kart statistics. #igfreviews
Every time a platform game character runs off an edge then falls vertically straight down, I imagine the slide-whistle from Wrecking Crew.
I've suddenly thought of two questions: 1) Who made Cactus Block, and 2) Why isn't it in the IGF kart.
"It was at that moment that my eyes glazed over. Then she applied the glaze to the rest of my face while I tugged at my bonds."
Video game scientist looks down microscope - sees hundreds of tiny keys encircling hundreds of tiny keyholes.
I Would Follow You To The Nads Of The Earth
"IN CASE OF EMERGENCY BREAK GLASS WITH FIST. THE PAIN WILL MAKE YOU RESPOND FASTER."
WHO IS THE MAGICIAN??
http://www.glorioustrainwrecks.com/node/1286 - I made an updated version of "Nitty Gritty" from 2010. Its concept is basically 'The Muppet Show: the bullet hell.'
http://www.glorioustrainwrecks.com/node/2004 - This is a @zarawesome fangame, "MonoLudiCon". Use the editor to make your own platform game in just one click!
"O-of course I'm a bird!" said the bat. "M-m-my beak fell off, that's all! You guys molt feathers, I molt beaks! A-as well as feathers."
http://www.glorioustrainwrecks.com/node/1974 - Here is a new game of mine: "ABOVE v. BELOW", an arcade game mashup.
Giana Sisters DS.
Homestuck, "[S] ACT 4 ==>".
Norrland.
"Shoo!" he cried, sending the animal scurrying. "I've had that two-leaves-in-a-pot for four apartments now, and I'm not losing it to you!"
They own framed pictures of Notch and Nifflas... They listen to demoscene chiptunes 24/7... They are derisively known as the "swedeaboos"...
WHAT?? PAINT ABILITY?!
More Mother 3. Only the worthy shall pass.
Mother 3. Speak, friend, and enter.
WarioWare, Inc. Not your average uncool super-scientist.
"Our family is a well-oiled machine. ...A simple machine. Like an inclined plane."
As a bonus here's a GIF of me beating level 1, four times fast.
Donkey Kong Junior. Be careful!
Return of the Invaders: dramatis personæ.
"A peanut sat on a railroad track, his heart was all a-flutter, round the bend came-" *dies suddenly, leaving audience hanging for eternity*
Peanut butter too thick... jaw completely immobilised... this is the end... Honey, I'm saying goodbye with my eyes, as my mouth cannot...
"Hi, this is my podcast about art and fine culture." *proceed to loudly hum Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 for two straight minutes*
"Hi, this is my podcast. As you can see, this is just a text file. Please paste it into a text-to-speech program instead of reading it."
"Hi, this is my podcast. Sorry I'm poor so my only mic is this *holds up tin can and string* and I still need a pinhole-camera-to-USB plug."
Battle Kid 2: Mountain of Torment (demo ROM). Interestingly, their scythes do damage even while falling.
Battle Kid: Fortress of Peril (demo ROM).
By the way, that GIF contained Homestuck spoilers… unless it turned out to be a doomed timeline! Or a fake flashback in a ghost's dream!
Not really sure what exactly I achieved by making a GIF of one of the few non-GIF moments in a webcomic consisting almost entirely of GIFs.
http://l.j-factor.com/gifs/Homestuck-Seer-Descend.gif - CG: IS GIF REALLY A VIDEO FORMAT? EB: yes, absolutely.
Wario on the Cliff by the Sea.
Someone else slept through the alarm clock in level 1.
I get the barbells and tyres but I don't quite get the porkpie hats.
* Fixed bug: lag compensation can mean that train-departing fiancée can be hit with same blown kiss twice.
My Baby Is Tracing "HELP" With Her Hand Inside My Womb - Is This Normal (3 replies)
WELL DARREN, BY JOINING THE PERFORMING ARTS, A CHAIN OF EVENTS IS INITIATED WHERE YOU KNOW WHAT? MY LIFESPAN IS LIKE TWO NOW SO FORGET IT.
DARREN I WAS OMNIPOTENT BUT I GAVE IT ALL UP TO TELL YOU THAT. I MEANT IT WITH A THOUSAND PERCENT SINCERITY. I CAN'T SEE COLOUR NOW DAMNIT.
DARREN I AM GOD TRAPPED IN A CHIHUAHUA. QUIT YOUR JOB AND TAKE UP INTERPRETIVE DANCE. I TRAPPED MYSELF IN A DOG TO TELL YOU THIS YOU IDIOT.
Caution: this scary game has processor-intensive levels of terror! Close all open windows before playing (so no one can hear you screaming).
In this game you feel that your party is silently judging you every time you attack an enemy, and constantly wonder if you're "good enough".
In this game you tell your party a joke, but the wind howls as you say the punchline so you can't tell if they heard it or just disliked it.
In this game you can trick a ghost into bending over and then you kick them but your foot goes through them and it's really awkward.
New peanut butter tier list released! Top tier: crunchy. Bottom tier: smooth. Competitive sandwich community is up in arms.
What I will also say is that it's a bit silly that they made a mash-up of 7 arcade games, then filled it with finicky block pushing puzzles.
What I will say about Mega Mash is that its best bit is when the dragon from Salamander morphs into the brick snake from Roy's Castle.
http://is.gd/A5UVZ8 - Browser port of a recent game of mine, "Prizeleaper".
More Gimmick!
Oh no, busted!
Gimmick!
It's nice that this game provides some environmental justification for its tiny pools of water.
Yet more REDDER.
More REDDER.
REDDER.
http://zarat.us/olc/!y - A puzzling predicament!
"Note: this game has known issues for people with heartbeats. It has been known to stop hearts with pure terror. Please take this caution."
"The white square vs. the buzzing noise. The blurry splot vs. the yellow flicker. The great rivalries of pre-apocalypse computer gaming."
"I speak of the great videogame rivalries. The lemon-with-mouth vs. the jellies-with-eyes. The chipped triangle vs. the crappy octagon."
http://zarat.us/olc/!v - "OmniLudiCon, you say. Son, don't you think it's time you grew some taste and self-respect?"
http://zarat.us/olc/!u - "O-OmniLudiCon? S-surely you don't expect me to ever play THAT again! Nosiree!"
"OF COURSE I can't raise the dead RIGHT now, but you know I'd figure it out eventually, with infinite time to myself, and NO DISTRACTIONS."
"All you had to do was die and things would be fixed. I'd have brought you back to life later, as I explained in the Spinning Knife Room."
"You've been refusing to die for so long that my homicide routines have copied over all my peace routines. You must agree that's your fault"
"The 'videogame murders' are leaving doctors stymied, as bursting into cubes of light is not yet a medically accepted cause of death..."
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