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The game is done and downloadable

Well its made, its been tested and you can try it out too just download from http://aminal-thegame.com/ibirdzombierobot/and see what you think, thanks to bruce harding for letting me use his awesome chiptune track he made.

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Project update, collisions yo!, also model textures, many spawnings etc

Been a long while since the project blog was updated, been spending a lot of time on the models in maya, and finally got some texturing done, code wise there is collision detection for the birds and the arrows, and … Continue reading

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let it snow let it snow let it snow, Mojang uploads teaser video of 1.5,

A teaser video has sprung up on Mojangs video channel, well i say sprung up, notch tweeted he was uploading a file yesterday, this morning he tweets it’s up. It shows some snow, some rain, storm lighting effects, some water … Continue reading

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Minecraft gets a release date 11/11/11 pure poetry in numbers

At the risk of literally repeating everything notch has said over at his blog http://notch.tumblr.com. Mojang had a meeting today and decided to say that Minecraft will be released on the 11th November 2011. Now i know what you’re thinking, … Continue reading

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New Commodore Style Computers, Yes Please :D

If you’re the kind of person who actually reads this blog, then you are more than aware that Commodore are the mac daddy home computers of the 1980’s. From the vic 20 to the Amiga 1200, these were prosperous times … Continue reading

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Aminal Team plays Streets of Rage remix

What used to be a day for Aminal to play some guitar, and write a little music, soon turned into a day where Super Street Fighter IV was played with our Tournament Edition Arcade Fight Sticks. And thus the birth … Continue reading

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Mojang win March Mayhem 2011 the Developers Showdown

Over at http://www.escapistmagazone.com they seem to have an annual contest by which you, the voters, vote for game developers in a series of rounds. This takes place during the majority of March and ends in April. Last year another favourite … Continue reading

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Adding new menu to WordPress theme to be customised by the admin

So a friend messages me about custom navigation that can be edited within the Content Management System(CMS) of wordpress and not hard coded into the website template. Of course i’ve only done a little in wordpress and php but this … Continue reading

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sega rare merch on ebay about to go, hurry hurry folks!

This will have to be a quick blog, though no ones gonna see it. The sega merchandise on ebay is about to end. ###update#### Well the bids for the good stuff is over. Dreamcast Hoodie = £537.10 Dreamcast console bag … Continue reading

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project update, replacing board pieces with arrows and trampolines

Well folkes its getting there, the game is now targeting squares and replacing them with arrows and trampolines, they also have a property ready to tell the characters that wander across them what to do 🙂

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