Comments should work again

When I disabled user registration a while back, I forgot that comments on this blog require registration… d’oh! Thanks to Christopher for pointing that out. Everyone should now be able to comment to their heart’s content (although there is still a moderation step the first time to avoid spam). I also changed a couple of other settings that should make this site a bit more of a two-way thing (which is how it’s supposed to be).

Christopher also noted that there is no way of contacting me through the site. I will remedy that over the weekend.

Update: I added a contact page with an email address.

Next IGDA Vienna Stammtisch: Thursday, April 23rd

The next IGDA Vienna Stammtisch will take place on Thursday, April 23rd, at aQuadrat, Margaretenstrasse 55, 1050 Vienna, starting from 20:00.

Please pass this on to all game developers in Vienna you know. And remember: we’re on Facebook! There’s an IGDA Vienna group and this event is registered there as well.

See you all there!

“And Yet It Moves” Launch / Release Party at the Gartenbaukino, April 3rd

Innovative Viennese indie game And Yet It Moves will be released on April 2nd on Steam, Greenhouse, and on the game’s own website. A demo for PC and Mac is already available.

The prototype for And Yet It Moves has already attracted a lot of attention: it was the 2007 Independent Games Festival Student Showcase Winner.

If you’re in or near Vienna, you are invited to the launch party on April 3rd, starting at 21:30, in the stylish Gartenbaukino right in the center of Vienna.

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Soviet Unterzoegersdorf 2, an indie game from Vienna

Here is the press release announcing Soviet Unterzoegersdorf 2, an indie game from Vienna made by famous art collective Monochrom.

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/////// SOVIET UNTERZOEGERSDORF
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///// SECTOR II
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/// The Adventure Game
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An adventure marches on!

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/// http://www.monochrom.at/suz-game/
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Soviet Unterzoegersdorf (pronounced «oon-taa-tsee-gars-doorf») is the last existing client republic of the USSR. The soviet enclave maintains no diplomatic relationship with the surrounding so-called “Republic of Austria” or with the capitalist fortress “European Union”. The downfall of the people’s motherland — the Soviet Union — in the early 1990s had a devastating effect on the country’s intra-economic situation. External reactionary forces threatened the last remaining proletarian paradise.
Party secretary Wladislav Gomulka has been kidnapped and is being held in US-Oberzoegersdorf. We must save comrade Gomulka! Because communism isn’t an opinion. It’s a promise.

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// Special Non Player Guest Characters:
/ Jello Biafra, Bruce Sterling, Cory Doctorow, Emmanuel Goldstein, Mitch Altman, Bre Pettis, David ‘DaddyD’ Dempsey, Kyle Machulis, MC Frontalot, Eddie Codel, Irina Slutsky, Christian ‘plomlompom’ Heller, Jason Scott Sadofsky, Hans Bernhard, Robert Stachel (maschek) — and many more.

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// Voice Acting by:
/ Jevgeni Beliaikin, Sergey Teterin, Mikhail A. Crest, Daria Prawda, Bre Pettis — and many more.

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// Soundtrack features:
/ The Fat Man/George Alistair Sanger, Q-Burns Abstract Message, Zoe Keating, Neil Landstrumm, Jonathan Mann aka GameJew, Blockwerk, The Extra Action Marching Band, The Lazy, antivolk - Torsun feat. classless Kulla, Jan Klesse & Felix Knoke (left), Savant Trigger, Rioteer, MC Orgelmueller, Magic Jordan, Schaua, Horace, The Vladivostoks, Limpopo, Eric Skiff, Prometheus X, Kertal (feat. sunsetfactory), Bolschewistische Kurkapelle Schwarz-Rot, Farmer’s Market, Attention, Cosmonauts!, Woodn Earf, Trishes, Krach the Robot, Prosperity Denied, Arteom Denissov, Dan Oberbauer aka DJ Chronos, LFO DEMON — and more.

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// Operating systems:
/ Available for Windows, Linux and OSX! And many thanks to the fabulous comrades at CodeWeavers (http://www.codeweavers.com) for Linux/OSX versions. And also bloshevik geetings to the folks at Silver Server (http://www.sil.at) for bandwith sponsoring.

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/// http://www.monochrom.at/suz-game/
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// For IBM PC and Non-Compatible
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//// A true tour-de-red-force
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////// Russian with English or German subtitles
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//// Appealing graphical game interface
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// Creative Commons License
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Other projects:
http://monochrom.at/english

User registration disabled

Just a quick note to say that I’ve disabled user registration (as I see no real need for it), and have deleted the bulk of all registered users. Basically, everyone I didn’t recognize and/or who had obvious spam user names are gone. If that accidentally includes you: Apologies! But you don’t really need to be a registered user here anyway.

Back to work, nothing to see here, etc.