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Re:Tilde.Club: I had a couple drinks and woke up with 1,000 ... by joshmillard on Thursday October 09, 2014 @03:37PM (#8434595)
It's been a wonderful weird little thing so far, with folks having a mix of nostalgia for and first exposure to shell account stuff, playing around with oldschool webbery, hacking little things together across user accounts, and just generally being great people in a nice place.

I got inspired yesterday and wrote us up our own custom low-rent version of Flappy Bird:

http://www.tilde.club/~cortex/js/tildebird/

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Re:Tilde.Club: I had a couple drinks and woke up with 1,000 ... by joshmillard on Thursday October 09, 2014 @04:43PM (#8434937)
Decided we needed an arcade page for all the sweet games:

http://www.tilde.club/~cortex/games.html

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Re:Tilde.Club: I had a couple drinks and woke up with 1,000 ... by stevewilhelm on Friday October 10, 2014 @11:15AM (#8438131)
Where's adventure or empire?
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Re:Tilde.Club: I had a couple drinks and woke up with 1,000 ... by joshmillard on Friday October 10, 2014 @03:34PM (#8439610)
Early days yet; I'm looking forward to folks getting all kinds of stuff either installed or written from scratch.
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Re:Tilde.Club: I had a couple drinks and woke up with 1,000 ... by gohrt on Friday October 10, 2014 @12:06AM (#8436220)
It's called Helicopter :-(
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Re:Tilde.Club: I had a couple drinks and woke up with 1,000 ... by nnnnni on Friday October 10, 2014 @06:23AM (#8437024)
Helicopter had "hold to increase elevation" rather than "tap to fly up"... and was a MUCH better game for it.
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Re:Tilde.Club: I had a couple drinks and woke up with 1,000 ... by jpswade on Friday October 10, 2014 @05:10AM (#8436853)
http://www.helicopter-game.org/ :)
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Re:Tilde.Club: I had a couple drinks and woke up with 1,000 ... by pja on Thursday October 09, 2014 @04:09PM (#8434756)
That is one brutal Flappy Bird remix Josh - it's even worse than the original!
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Re:Tilde.Club: I had a couple drinks and woke up with 1,000 ... by joshmillard on Thursday October 09, 2014 @04:42PM (#8434934)
No point in making an easy one, I reckon!
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Re:Tilde.Club: I had a couple drinks and woke up with 1,000 ... by joshmillard on Thursday October 09, 2014 @07:00PM (#8435448)
Though I did spend about fifteen minutes working on a pure command-line turn-based version called Roguey Bird a few months ago before realizing I didn't actually feel like spending more than fifteen minutes on it at the time.
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Re:Tilde.Club: I had a couple drinks and woke up with 1,000 ... by joshmillard on Friday October 10, 2014 @03:35PM (#8439617)
In the interest of truly returning to the days of Nintendo Power hijinks, I have added a high score table that is powered by people sending me screenshots of their high scores.
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Re:Tilde.Club: I had a couple drinks and woke up with 1,000 ... by ErikRogneby on Thursday October 09, 2014 @04:26PM (#8434844)
I love that very quickly my goal was to score a single point. And then I did and it showed my high score! Sweet, I got high score I can quit now...
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Re:Tilde.Club: I had a couple drinks and woke up with 1,000 ... by sejje on Thursday October 09, 2014 @04:33PM (#8434886)
Sorry to tell you that, at least as far as I can tell, that's a personal high score.
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Re:Tilde.Club: I had a couple drinks and woke up with 1,000 ... by m_myers on Thursday October 09, 2014 @07:25PM (#8435515)
I could only get as high as 14 before getting bored and fiddling with the source code.
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Re:Tilde.Club: I had a couple drinks and woke up with 1,000 ... by ibisum on Friday October 10, 2014 @08:10PM (#8440709)
It's a little bit of the spirit of The Well, and some USENET/BBS to boot. I think this is really missing from the modern web, so I cheer you on! It is a toast-worthy activity, your little blip on the horizon ..
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Re:Tilde.Club: I had a couple drinks and woke up with 1,000 ... by SeanDav on Thursday October 09, 2014 @06:27PM (#8435341)
I scored 8. Must have got lucky!
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Re:Tilde.Club: I had a couple drinks and woke up with 1,000 ... by motdiem on Friday October 10, 2014 @05:00AM (#8436833)
it obviously needs a tilde clicker too :-)
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