Kitchen Sink Wednesday

Tuesday is normally code night... but we didn't really get anything done because we were fighting a few fires.

1. Sending out all the Feb challenge month prizes
   This is turning out to be a bigger project than we thought... for one, the electronic point system that MS had online was taken down, so we had to fulfill all the prizes for MS points through amazon instead. PAIN! Also, we are having a hard time getting people to send us their addresses so the process keeps dragging. If you won something in Feb for challenge month (from a random drawing, not a challenge) please check your spam folder!
2. Encoding in microblogs
   We are having a problem where some game titles with special characters (At World's End, NCAA, etc) have characters that, when submitted through a microblog, it is breaking people's blogs causing them to appear blank. So for now, please do not microblog a game with a funny character in the title. This includes anything with a registration symbol, trademark symbol, etc. Squidpunch and I spend about 4 hours trying to fix this last night (with help from Syndelin playing At World's End so we could test) and we haven't figured it out... so the battle continues.

In other news, The Xbox 360 Content Creation Challenge presented by Nokia is going strong. Voting has not been activated yet... but get your themes up there! There are lots of great ones from the 360voice crowd. Head over, check em out... and plan your voting attack!

On the community front, go check out a fun interview that we did for dieselv2 did for his XBLCommunity site.

1) When did you start getting into gaming and what was your first game?

Fatty Chubs: As long as I can remember, Odyssey 2 was my first console, and I have owned pretty much every console since. My first great gaming obsessions were playing Oregon Trail on the Apple IIe (which is still a good game), and making levels for K.C.’s Krazy Chase on Odyssey 2 (a bizarre clone of both Pac Man and Centipede together).

Squidpunch: I used to play quite a bit on my Atari 2600, Colecovision, as well as some computer games on my TRS-80 that ran from cassette tape, so probably a bit over 20 years or so.

ChangeAgent: I started gaming as soon as I encountered technology. My real first memory of gaming was playing ET for the Atari 2600. I remember thinking it was a beta movie but it was an Atari cartridge instead. After that I jumped from PC to console, online and offline, back and forth through the rest of my life.

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And finally, HeNanigenz 510 is trying to win the world record for biggest gamerscore challenge. If you want to be a part of history (and possible break the challenge feature!) join up! Here is the info:

Come one come all for the first of many Big Fracking Challenges or BFC. 30 days of over a 100 gamers is looking to build the biggest gamer challenge ever. Currently the challenge is the biggest to date on 360voice and they hope pass over the 200 mark before the start time.

ETA launch: March 21st 11:55pm Pacific standard time.

If you would like to join this huge challenge and possible world record (6 comments down) please click here.

Rules: Just log on your 360 on March 20th and please no game saving. All gamer scores are welcome. Any questions or comments check out the forum thread here.

So there you have it... the kitchen sink... drink water from it... and be merry!

(as always, click the title of this post to leave a comment!)

Comments

[David Larrabee (Squidpunch)]

i had dreams (possibly nightmares) of encoding characters......

[Trapper Markelz (ChangeAgent)]

I went to bed angry and woke up angry.

[hoodedscorpion]

well done HeNanigenz 510 you set out to make this an awsome challenge and before it even starts you have succeded congats

[SoupyC]

I read the interview on diesel's site. Nice one guys! Hope you get the encoding figured out soon, I hate when small problems like that bug me where you can't work out why it's causing a problem, you just know it is!

SoupyC

[Darke Ascension]

=( I've never expierenced any major coding problems, but I've had issues before, they suck big time..

Im sorry guys, Hope you figure it out soon..

[HeNaniGenz 510]

Thanks guys keep up the great work

I had a nightmare last night too...Guess what it was...The nightmare was I started the BFC early lol

[Phil Canavan (dieselv2)]

I'll look for prizes for future BFC's. Maybe 48 Hr Trial Cards from enw games lol. I can't wait for challenge tho, it'll be awesome!

So are all Feb prizes going out once everyone has replied?

And I must say it myself, but that interview added some class to my site.

[Phil Canavan (dieselv2)]

The challenge now has over 200 members.

I think you may have to switch off Livescore lol

[Samphis]

I got my Zune today. Thanks! Now to rip all my Futurama DVDs...