Phil I just read this and laughed for a good long time. I'm sure you can guess the specific sentence in there that started the laughter... I checked my email after taking a quick break from my coding. I'm in the bathroom. :D
> Swamp: The killer of games > by Phil Vlasak. > Aprone sat in his castle thinking about how to kill off all > the other game companies. > He knew that soon Phillip would be coming out with his > Ponderous Farts game that would be a big seller. Even old > David was working on his multi-person Shades of Gloom game. > Then there was Phil and his Sarah Good and the Castle > designed to keep Rowling from suing him game that was > reported to be coming out with an update. > What he needed to do was to create the perfect time waster, > a game no one could resist, including other game > developers. > He had a brilliant idea. He would start simple and he > could lull them into submission with great sound effects and > hundreds of updates so they would be so busy playing his > game to come up with anything on their own. > > Aprone spent all his time on the Swamp game killer > project. Working on a laptop he could take it anywhere and > fiddle with the code hundreds of times a day. Checking a > syntax error between bites of a sandwich, writing an if then > loop while standing over the toilet. > Eventually he posted the first beta and instantly got > several other game developers hooked. > Little did the public know that he had convinced all the > other game developers to participate in Swamp as zombies. > Aprone sent them secret keys to become the enemy in the > game. While the general gaming public was learning how to > play the game becoming fighters and practicing getting out > of the safe house, the other game developers were having fun > walking around grunting and having a good old time. > Che and Ken were truly hooked, each spawning > themselves so that they played dozens of zombies. > Even Jeremy took part in the game, soon becoming the top > tyrant zombie. > His plan was totally successful. All the other game > companies closed up and stopped working on new games. The > developers played Swamp until their fingers bled. > Aprone smiled from his castle as he was now planning > to do even more and take over the Audio game forum. His > Swamp fan fiction contest would bring them down in no > time. --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected]. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [email protected].
