Throwing shurikens

This Monday we finally made another game test of Eat my shuriken and die! Unfortunately for you I had so much fun playing it that i don't have any footage;)

I got to test a little feature i added some while back. That was a feature enabling you to carry the body of a dead player and use it as a shield against other players. I was a bit surprised that it still worked and that it was pretty fun. Tough there is still a little tweaking needed. We shall see if its included in the final version;)

Learning to fly

So last weekend i bought myself a micro helicopter. A Blade mCPx. It's damned hard to learn on one of those;) After just 5-6 battery changes i managed to fly the helicopter in the air for about 10 seconds before crashing. I picked up the helicopter and luckily nothing broken. Later with consecutive crashes into walls, tables bookshelves and whatnot in my living room. The strain of to much inexperience showed on the helicopter. The Helicopter tail boom got cracked at the base and I was unable to fly again:(

I didn't think i would break any parts so soon so i hadn't bought spares so that's when i turned to the community. To see if there was any good ways to repair the tail booms of my helicopter. Apparently this is a very common issue with the Blade mCPx. One tip was actually pretty good. Just take some glue and some bits and pieces of toilet paper and wrap the tail boom over the cracked part. When the glue hardens the toilet paper, it becomes a quite good cast that holds the tail boom straight. Here's the link for any one interested: Fix broken tail boom mCPx

I'm planning to get a helicopter that's a bit easier to learn all this stuff with, and then go back to the mCPx at a later time. It's a really cool little toy. Luckily I bought the DX6i controller so I'll get off a bit cheaper for the next heli as i dont have to buy the version that includes another whacky controller!

Announcing Lumberhack XSI

Continuing the new tradition this instance of Lumberhack is called XSI - because we've lost track of what number it really is so we just invent an ambiguous one instead. We've had over 20 Lumberhacks that I know of, and a bunch more in the early Amiga days as well.

With that said - welcome to Lumberhack XSI

• Date: October 29-30th, 2011
• Time: 12:00 Saturday
• Location: Stockholm, Sweden
• RSVP: weyland@flowersfx.com
• Confirmed guests: Oskar, Tim, Henrik

Please note that we've moved the opening from Friday evening to Saturday noon in an attempt to better time-box the event and not sit around tired from a work week on Friday evening doing nothing.

Impressions from the Build Windows keynote

User testing as a superb conversation killer

Shortcut mania

Three days without broadband in 2011

Somebody has to save the world

The discoveries of JS

Becca vs Galderik - 3p1c own4g3