http://www.mirthkit.com Sun, 21 Jun 2009 13:39:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Once, a famous jazz trumpet player came to my high school. He played spectacularly for us, and answered many questions about improvisation, fame, and music. I'll always remember one question in particular, though.  A student was called upon, and asked, "What's your advice on becoming a better jazz player?" "Become a better ... http://www.mirthkit.com/?p=257 Trent (game designer/main programmer of Finity Flight) is at his hippy antics again. Last month he traveled to Australia, and hes been keeping a video blog of the whole adventure. Its a fun watch... www.trentinoz.com http://www.mirthkit.com/?p=254 MirthKit is now fully open source, under the LGPL. You can find the source on Launchpad. If you'd like to check out the source immediately, branch from the bazaar repository with the following command: bzr branch lp:mirthkit Cheers! :) http://www.mirthkit.com/?p=250 Winner of the Microgame Competition I, Mike Hibbert's Minigolf is a fun game demonstration where you play put-put around a house. Mike Hibbert's Minigolf includes 4 levels with par scores. Its good for a quick 10 to 20 minutes of entertainment, and has all of the code and assets to make ... http://www.mirthkit.com/?p=240 The deadline is up for the first MirthKit microgame competition, and, drum roll please....... there is one contestant. X) Despite the fact that our contestant, Mike Hibbert, put together quite a showing with his entry, an excellent micro-sized minigolf game, he has won by default anyway! Congrats Mike! Mike's game is already ... http://www.mirthkit.com/?p=237 The Windows installer for MirthKit has had a minor update. This update includes: A fix for an error caused by very long windows user names An installer which installs MirthKit onto Vista with higher privileges (hopefully no more right-click run-as-admin) http://www.mirthkit.com/?p=232 Last night my band played to a crowd of about 6,500, opening for the hit band Panic at the Disco.  I was lead guitarist. ...But I don't play guitar. Not real guitar, at least.  In front of the six-thousand-strong crowd, I was playing the video game Rock Band after winning a Rock ... http://www.mirthkit.com/?p=182 Curved Infinity Games, through the MirthKit game platform, is proud to present the first ever commercial game to be released with full source code included. Finity Flight: Fight Back, the expansion to Curved Infinity Games' August release, Finity Flight, is the first direct hybridization of commercialism and open source philosophy. ... http://www.mirthkit.com/?p=175 We are proud to present not only the first commercial game available on MirthKit, but the first commercial game ever to be released with full source code. Available on Ubuntu, Windows, and soon OSX, Fight Back is the expansion to our August release, Finity Flight, and represents a path yet-untraveled for ... http://www.mirthkit.com/?p=113 So, you've defeated the alien fleet. It's time to fight them on their own turf. Finity Flight: Fight Back takes place shortly after the events of the original Finity Flight. All alone, you've repelled the invaders of earth, but instead of simply waiting for them to come back in greater numbers, ... http://www.mirthkit.com/?p=139