Flattr beta – let them share cake
February 15th, 2010 by malHere is a new idea from one of the founders of Pirate Bay, Peter Sunde. The Flattr system hopes to monetise content providers via micro payments from visitors to websites. Think Digg but with content providers making cash from the clicks. Check out the video.
It’s a simple enough system based entirely on good will. You have to admire the certainty, that people want to reward and spend their cash in this way. One to watch.
Do you want iPad with that?
February 10th, 2010 by malAs the iPad wings its way from factory to Apple outlets, developers should be preparing to convert apps so they work well on the new device, this could take some time and not all will get an iPad update.
While the iPad will play existing apps in a window at 1x zoom or at x2 zoom, it won’t be easy to interact with some games in either mode. This will lead to a poor user experience.
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THC free for 24 hours
December 18th, 2009 by LeeYes, we must be mad but it is the season of good will after all. For 24 hours only, we’re giving away Trigger Happy Christmas on the iPhone and iPod completely for free. Grab you copy now from the AppStore, blow away a few elves with your shotgun and send those last-minute Christmas cards. Yep, all that for precisely £0.00
Trigger Happy Christmas now on Facebook
December 18th, 2009 by LeeHey look what we’ve done. We’ve only gone and made Trigger Happy Christmas work on facebook, and best bit is, it’s entirely free. Check it out and tell us what you think.
Trigger Happy Christmas Hits the AppStore
November 30th, 2009 by LeeWoohoo, Apple have just approved Trigger Happy Christmas. AS it was the first release for iPhone we’ve done on our own, I’m pretty glad it has all gone well. At only $0.99, you really should go and buy it; what better way to spend December than by getting Santa to flamethrower a bunch of elves to death.
Click here to go to the AppStore.
If you haven’t seen the trailer yet, than have a goosey:
Trigger Happy Christmas – sending cards
November 26th, 2009 by malStill no word from Apple, we must be very close to release or resubmission now!
Here is a new video showing a neat feature in THC which allow you to send a Christmas card from the game, via e-mail. Check it out.
Project Aftermath patch 1.21 released
November 16th, 2009 by LeeIn order to get Project Aftermath onto the D2D ‘Best of Indie’ bundle, I had to make a new build of the game. Unbeknown to me, between making the original version of 1.20 and this specific one, Microsoft had released a security update which changed the default version of the CRT runtimes that Visual Studio would link against. This essentially broke the installed version of PA if you didn’t happen to have this latest security update. Usually, I check every build on a completely fresh install of XP without the latest security fixes but I forgot to do that this time. I won’t be forgetting again 
Anyway, the fix I used was one detailed in this blog (http://tedwvc.wordpress.com/2009/08/10/avoiding-problems-with-vc2005-sp1-security-update-kb971090/) which seemed to me to be the easiest way of going about it.
The game launcher should recognise that there is a new version available and offer to download it for you. If that doesn;t work for some reason then =you can download it directly from this link: (PA_Patch_1.21.exe)
Trigger Happy Christmas – game trailer
November 13th, 2009 by malNo word from Apple one week into submission. While we are patiently waiting here is the official THC game trailer.
D2D “The Best of Indie Volume 2″
November 10th, 2009 by malWe’re pleased to announce that Project Aftermath is being offered as part of Direct2Drive’s “The Best of Indie Volume 2″ bundle. Until the 16th november you can get the bundle for £14.95; that’s a saving of 75%!
The bundle includes
Project Aftermath
Aquaria
I-Fluid
And Yet It Moves
Acceleration of Suguri
Aaaaa!
Crayon Physics Deluxe
It really is a great offer, one not to be missed.
If, however, you aren’t so keen on the other titles, Project Aftermath is always available from our website
Announcing Trigger Happy Christmas
November 9th, 2009 by mal
We submitted Trigger Happy Christmas to Apple late Friday night.
All being well we could see THC live in the AppStore around the 21st of November! Follow us on Twitter to make sure you don’t miss out on the release
Whats it all about then?
The elves have gone bad, again, and are trying to ruin Christmas by stealing all the presents. They’ve hot-wired the sleigh, which is flying around uncontrollably, spilling its contents all over the place.
Santa is running hither and thither trying to gather them back up again but, quite frankly, he’s had his fill of the thieving blighters. Time to dust off “Olde Persuader”!
A little help from above
He’s not alone though. While trying furiously to bring the sleigh under control, Rudolph is also on hand to supply Santa with the a few more ‘persuasive’ tools. You know, like flame-throwers, grenade launchers… that type of thing!
Safe and sound
Santa has constructed a tool to help save the presents from the naughty Elves. The Tele-Present 2000. Once Santa has stacked 5 presents it’s activated, beaming the presents safely back to the workshop.
We can stop the Elves, Christmas will be saved!
