The Dark Furie

Halloween Treats!

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I've just realised that I'm such a terrible host. Here you all are visiting my page on Halloween and yet I haven't given you any treats yet. Well, as mobiles are my world, how about a couple of horror based mobile treats?

Dracula & Frankenstein

These two classic gothic horror books can be downloaded for free (support depends on your country) to your phones and read at your leisure. If you've never read them before then they're definitely worth a read, although my tip is to start with Frankenstein. Shelley's work stands up so much better these days than Stoker's Dracula does. But wait, that's not all...


My Intentions
As I've said before on many occasions, mobile games usually suck ass. To find any of the few gems out there you'll have to wade through a bunch of crap, spending around £5 for each game with no way to try them out first. It's a shame and it puts people off buying the games which means they miss out on some absolute gems. I aim to change that by putting up a free game every now and then that has passed my own personal standards for mobile gaming. This will allow people to try the game out and, if they like it, to pay the money for the developer's version. That way people can have access to these brilliant games and be sure about what they'll be paying money for.

Today's Game

New York, 2011 A.D.

The city is besieged by a wave of terrorist attacks. With conventional police overwhelmed, several private forces have been created to counter the threat.

The best funded and most effective are the Freedom Fighters.

Other forces, integrated with live TV crews have become extremely popular.

So begins Zombie Infection, the first true survival horror built exclusively for mobiles.

When I first came up with the idea for my mailing list (before I started giving these things away here) I mentioned that most mobile games just plain don't work because action games don't translate well into mobile games. Zombie Infection is the exception to that rule - fast and frantic action, creepy creatures that take strategy and item conservation to beat, puzzles to solve, boss creatures to fight, side-quests to complete. This is a complete survival horror experience that you'll play over and over, if only to unlock the hidden bonus games, find that last file or play a favourite mission again.

There's not much I can say about Zombie Infection that isn't covered in Pocket Gamer's review where they gave the game 10/10 and compared it to George Romero's films. Read that and download the game or, well... or I'll eat your brains.

Download The Game Here

And one final treat for all those who've already tried out Zombie Infection and read those book - Resident Evil: Genesis. This little horror game contains puzzles and zombies galore. It's a bit more hardcore than Zombie Infection but can provide some entertainment on a cold and lonely night, as the wind howls across the moors.


Happy Halloween Folks

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Comments

r♡serose-marie Saturday, October 31, 2009 1:07:28 PM

cool

But this doesn't necessarily mean you don't get any tricks... devil

Moesring Saturday, October 31, 2009 1:17:43 PM

Hasn't Zombie Infection been featured here before? confused

Dark FurieFurie Saturday, October 31, 2009 1:18:19 PM

B...b...but... awww

Dark FurieFurie Saturday, October 31, 2009 1:20:07 PM

Yeah, but only for members of my mailing list. The list is over now and the free trials are available to all. up

Dacotah Saturday, October 31, 2009 1:38:26 PM

Happy Halloween Mik.

Dark FurieFurie Saturday, October 31, 2009 1:43:44 PM

*eggs Carol*
Happy Halloween. p

Dacotah Saturday, October 31, 2009 1:44:42 PM

p That's not being a nice host.
Ducks the eggs.
p

Dacotah Saturday, October 31, 2009 1:45:22 PM

Toliet papers Mik's phone.

Dark FurieFurie Saturday, October 31, 2009 1:49:35 PM

Thanks. It needed a clean. I do have special instruments for that though. up

Dacotah Saturday, October 31, 2009 2:46:11 PM

YW zip bigsmile

KittyliciousZaphira Saturday, October 31, 2009 4:03:42 PM

The cleaning is usually done with un-used toiletpaper, Carol. p

Dacotah Saturday, October 31, 2009 5:18:20 PM

bigsmile

Dark FurieFurie Saturday, October 31, 2009 6:37:22 PM

Don't be a mean kitty or there'll be trouble. devil

KittyliciousZaphira Saturday, October 31, 2009 7:03:11 PM

Trouble - that'll be me! yes
You did call me that the other day, remember? wink

selurus Saturday, October 31, 2009 7:32:48 PM

Happy Halloween to all.

Darkogdare Saturday, October 31, 2009 8:33:29 PM

Instead of phone games I want... left

It won`t be smart to ask something now, right? bigeyes

Mad Scientistqlue Saturday, October 31, 2009 8:38:42 PM

*throws bowl of tapioca pudding at the creepy jacko-lantern* p.
happy sanheim folks!

Cleanclean Saturday, October 31, 2009 9:41:13 PM

Brains?

Dark FurieFurie Saturday, October 31, 2009 10:29:17 PM

Zombie food. up.
Speak your mind Darko. If nothing else it'll get Rose looking at other sources of sustenance. left

Darkogdare Sunday, November 1, 2009 7:05:56 AM

Tapioca pudding is zombie food? I didn`t know that left

Dark FurieFurie Sunday, November 1, 2009 10:44:53 AM

Brains you nutter. p

Dacotah Sunday, November 1, 2009 10:48:22 AM

Mik
OMG, did you see this? Do not look if you get sick easy. *Throws up* Not kidding. http://my.opera.com/Meg9ja/blog/ I pm'd Espen about it, hope he bans that person.

Unwhispered so things actually start to make some sense around here

Dark FurieFurie Sunday, November 1, 2009 11:15:02 AM

That's not all that bad. I've seen much worse on this site and protected people against it by reporting privately instead of publically. If you ever see my recent visitors list has been turned off, then someone's visited that I don't want to subject others to and it wont get turned back on until they've been banned.

Being fair she's speaking out against this, not putting up cannibalism recipes. As she's just found out about it and it's not the focus of her blog, hoping she gets banned is a bit strong isn't it? She's also commented on her own post saying "That's shocking. Where is that?" as if she'd just found the blog. lol

Cleanclean Sunday, November 1, 2009 12:34:25 PM

I've so missed something. Damn time zones ...

Dark FurieFurie Sunday, November 1, 2009 1:05:28 PM

Rose is a zombie. scared

Cleanclean Sunday, November 1, 2009 1:14:32 PM

Well, sure, I knew that ... whistle

Dacotah Sunday, November 1, 2009 1:42:36 PM

Mik, I whispered it to you. Do you have your whispers turned off?

Dark FurieFurie Sunday, November 1, 2009 4:39:53 PM

Oh, is that a whisper? lol Looks just like regular text. I'd heard the formatting had been changed, but didn't realise they'd mess it up on the mobile stylesheets too.

Looks like I'd better get around to reformatting my whispers sooner rather than later.

Moesring Sunday, November 1, 2009 5:36:09 PM

Oh, is that a whisper? Looks just like regular text.

You're not the first person to be caught out by that. doh

You'd have thought that they would have made whispers look normal (well, as they used to) by now. I can't imagine that they haven't noticed that whispered look like ordinary text.

Dacotah Sunday, November 1, 2009 6:28:53 PM

Yes it was a whisper but it looks like normal text to me too.

Dark FurieFurie Sunday, November 1, 2009 6:52:24 PM

Bizarre that they missed these things out really as they're integral features of a community based site. And now that everyone knows I can't tell either I just know you're all gonna whisper insults about each other to me to try and get me in trouble. awww

Darkogdare Sunday, November 1, 2009 7:27:42 PM

I tried to change colour of a whispered text but it won`t work in comments. At least, whisper still exists, so if I would whisper something to someone lol I would emphasize it somehow. For instance:
THIS IS A WHISSSSSSSPER!!!!

bigsmile

Dark FurieFurie Sunday, November 1, 2009 7:42:00 PM

I'm thinking a dotted outline with Whisper From <username>: at the top in bold would be the way to go on this page. Once I've hit my tutorial files (gone through Moe's code) to figure out how to do it now the whisper class is gone, I'll put it together.

r♡serose-marie Sunday, November 1, 2009 7:55:48 PM

Brains?

p

Cleanclean Sunday, November 1, 2009 8:36:00 PM

Wait, whisper is gone? Is that in bbCode or CSS?

Dark FurieFurie Sunday, November 1, 2009 8:50:51 PM

CSS. Whispers are still hidden from people, but the styling that makes them stand out to the people that can see them is gone.

Cleanclean Sunday, November 1, 2009 10:15:16 PM

Well that's all right, then. whistle

Moesring Sunday, November 1, 2009 10:48:01 PM

Once I've hit my tutorial files (gone through Moe's code) to figure out how to do it now the whisper class is gone, I'll put it together.


Hate to burst your bubble but you won't find any answers in my CSS. I haven't done anything about the current state of whispers. I'm just waiting for them to fix it (ironically, whispers to yourself look fine when editing your own comment rolleyes - you can't see whispers to anyone else when editing a comment).

Quotes were also screwed up until very recently so I'd guess that the whispers will be fixed soon. up

pssst (Also, did I mention that I'm lazy? There hasn't been any activity at all on my pages recently so I don't feel as though there is any rush for me to find a temporary solution to the current predicament. zzz)


Personally, it looks to me as though there has been a clampdown on what is permitted in comments. Remember how you can't change colours in comments? No matter what you did, the new colour simply would not show up? (Unless you used a workaround like mine - which now doesn't work either awww)
That was (and still is) caused by custom styles being removed from comments.

Now the restrictions are a bit more far-reaching. Classes and ids are now automatically removed as well (both are used for styling). Problem is, the enhanced filtering is inadvertently stripping the formatting from whispers as well. down

pssst Reckon someone caused a scene with the use of false whispers or something similar, to prompt a ban on adding your own classes and ids? awww

Dark FurieFurie Monday, November 2, 2009 12:29:42 AM

You couldn't have burst my bubble before I went through your code and entire blog? awww You're the only one I know of that's ever formatted whispers here anyway so I'd have to check yours. I assume it's the same as formatting quotes though?

Diabolical Monday, November 2, 2009 7:10:17 AM

*makes a stylishly late entrance* cool

Dark FurieFurie Monday, November 2, 2009 10:02:19 AM

You missed the zombie, dude.

Mad Scientistqlue Tuesday, November 3, 2009 11:39:49 PM

He was the Zombie! Why do you think he had to be 'stylishly late' whistle.
(euphemistically speaking that is p)

Diabolical Saturday, November 7, 2009 7:49:54 AM

I know irked and now I'm just late.. p

Cleanclean Saturday, November 7, 2009 8:25:08 AM

Who ... who are you? Is that ... ? No! No, it couldn't be! He disappeared way back in ought-nine! You look like him, but ... wink

Diabolical Saturday, November 7, 2009 10:01:28 AM

rolleyes gitboy p

Cleanclean Saturday, November 7, 2009 10:48:08 AM

Who said that? Who ... who are you? Is that ... ? No! No, it couldn't be! He disappeared way back in ought-nine! You look like him, but ... wink

Dark FurieFurie Saturday, November 7, 2009 11:32:23 AM

Whoa! Anyone else just get a feeling of deja vu?

Diabolical Saturday, November 7, 2009 2:38:10 PM

OLD RECORDS..
Yesteryears scratches. rolleyes

Cleanclean Saturday, November 7, 2009 8:13:20 PM

Originally posted by clean:

Who said that? Who ... who are you? Is that ... ? No! No, it couldn't be! He disappeared way back in ought-nine! You look like him, but ...

whistle wink

Quantrotone Monday, November 9, 2009 10:48:07 PM

Who are you ???

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