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Halloween Treats!

Saturday, 31. October 2009, 12:55:49

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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

rose-marie 31. October 2009, 13:07

:cool:

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

Moesring 31. October 2009, 13:17

Hasn't Zombie Infection been featured here before? :confused:

Furie 31. October 2009, 13:18

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

Furie 31. October 2009, 13:20

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

Dacotah 31. October 2009, 13:38

Happy Halloween Mik.

Furie 31. October 2009, 13:43

*eggs Carol*
Happy Halloween. p:

Dacotah 31. October 2009, 13:44

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

Dacotah 31. October 2009, 13:45

Toliet papers Mik's phone.

Furie 31. October 2009, 13:49

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

Dacotah 31. October 2009, 14:46

YW :zip: :D

Zaphira 31. October 2009, 16:03

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

Dacotah 31. October 2009, 17:18

:D

Furie 31. October 2009, 18:37

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

Zaphira 31. October 2009, 19:03

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

selurus 31. October 2009, 19:32

Happy Halloween to all.

gdare 31. October 2009, 20:33

Instead of phone games I want... :left:

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

qlue 31. October 2009, 20:38

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

clean 31. October 2009, 21:41

Brains?

Furie 31. October 2009, 22:29

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

gdare 1. November 2009, 07:05

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

Furie 1. November 2009, 10:44

Brains you nutter. p:

Dacotah 1. November 2009, 10:48

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

Furie 1. November 2009, 11:15

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:

clean 1. November 2009, 12:34

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

Furie 1. November 2009, 13:05

Rose is a zombie. :insane:

clean 1. November 2009, 13:14

Well, sure, I knew that ... :whistle:

Dacotah 1. November 2009, 13:42

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

Furie 1. November 2009, 16:39

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 1. November 2009, 17:36

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

You're not the first person to be caught out by that. Homer: 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 1. November 2009, 18:28

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

Furie 1. November 2009, 18:52

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

gdare 1. November 2009, 19:27

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!!!!

:D

Furie 1. November 2009, 19:42

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.

rose-marie 1. November 2009, 19:55

Brains?

p:

clean 1. November 2009, 20:36

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

Furie 1. November 2009, 20:50

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

clean 1. November 2009, 22:15

Well that's all right, then. :whistle:

Moesring 1. November 2009, 22:48

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:

:sst: (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:

:sst: 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

Furie 2. November 2009, 00:29

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 2. November 2009, 07:10

*makes a stylishly late entrance* :cool:

Furie 2. November 2009, 10:02

You missed the zombie, dude.

qlue 3. November 2009, 23:39

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

Diabolical 7. November 2009, 07:49

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

clean 7. November 2009, 08:25

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 7. November 2009, 10:01

:rolleyes: gitboy p:

clean 7. November 2009, 10:48

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:

Furie 7. November 2009, 11:32

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

Diabolical 7. November 2009, 14:38

OLD RECORDS..
Yesteryears scratches. :rolleyes:

clean 7. November 2009, 20:13

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 9. November 2009, 22:48

Who are you ???

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