Artist's Statement

World 3

This is the world we adventured in this week. Click the images to go to their Picasa pages. Above the image on the right will be a zoom button you can use to view each image at full resolution.
The map above was made with MoreTerra (Link.)

My Fellow Terrarians

The end.

(Link.)

Edit: Our heroes continue their journey today 
(Sunday the 26th 4th) at 11am PST/1pm CST/2pm EST/8pm CET. 
Connection details in the comments.

Linux Support (Debian Help)

As I have been trying to make some decisions about what Linux distributions and desktop environments to use going forward in 2012, I accidentally found this great guide for configuring and tweaking, as well as tip-top software recommendations in Ubuntu Linux. It is written somewhat like a junior high book report - very straight forward without the hysterical opinionated prose that fills up computing forums on a regular basis of late.

There are lots of screen-shots to quickly see and understand what is being offered, and there are loads of codes that can be pasted in the terminal to quickly follow the steps of the guide. Additionally there are ratings such as "Prerequisite and required" for things that improve the functionality of your desktop, and Windows equivalents named for software to get a sense what programs actually do (I find these things sometimes unclear with shortened package names and poor repository information).  The side bar offers other posts such as "How-to Install Minecraft in Ubuntu" and RSS-feeds to an array of relevant Linux forums from critical security patches, to open source computing news, to various and sundry tutorials.

A geek weblog Nirvana.

(Link.)

Mandelbulber

(Link.) (Via.)


Edit: The Terraria Server is open a little early today, for inventory management and mining. I'll be around today (Sunday the 19th) at our normal time 11am PST/1pm CST/2pm EST/8pm CET. We're running the unstable trunk version this week, for extra kicks. Also it seems they may have fixed some issues we'd been experiencing. The world is backed-up. You may want to back-up your character files in '$HOME/My Games/Terraria/Players'. Connection details in the comments.

A Reimplementation of the Aurora Engine

... using modern, non-proprietary frameworks and formats. I am watching this with great interest. (Link.)

Also, here is the BBS Documentary that I watched this week. (Link.) Many of the interviews are on the Internet Archive. (Link.)

Thanks for the video recommendation, Alex!

This game shows great promise.

I'd wait until the 0.2 update to try it, though. This next update will bring rudimentary NPC interaction, and a number of other exciting changes. (Link.)

Edit: This week's Terraria game info in the comments. -Pete

magic_mouth.py

I had good fun writing this last night. Usage instructions are in the script header. (Link.)

This was partially inspired by the Dasher Project (Link.), and some Paul Lansky tunes.

Contrary to the picture, this song is not on the 'Homebrew' album. Though that is a good one, also.
(Amazon link for the YouTube blocked.)

Edit: Terraria, tomorrow (Sunday the 29th), 11am PST/1pm CST/2pm EST/8pm CET. Connection details will appear in the comments.
Edit: Terraria, tomorrow (Sunday the 5th), 11am PST/1pm CST/2pm EST/8pm CET. Connection details will appear in the comments.

Tilt

This Firefox plug-in uses WebGL to visualize the structure of web pages. It's more cool than useful, but worth sharing, I thought. (Link.) (Via.)


Also: Terraria, tomorrow (Sunday the 22nd), 11am PST/1pm CST/2pm EST/8pm CET. Connection details will appear in the comments.

Eater of Souls

Statistics

Type: Corrupted Enemy
Flying Enemy
Environment: The Corruption
AI Type: Flying
Damage: 22
Max Life: 40
Defense: 8
Drops:
Coins 90 Copper Coins
Item (Quantity) Rotten Chunk, Rate 3

Eater of Souls, I shall have my revenge on thee. I shall build way point forts throughout your corrupted land. I shall lay clay bricks and set wooden posts, I shall tend gardens until your corruption is no longer a blight on our fair land of Terraria. I will get my shiny gear back, make no mistake. You may spawn but you will find your evil pits sealed up, you may soar through the air in swarms of doom but my tower walls shall repel you. Be afraid Eater of Souls, my plans are forming and Boogaloo is coming for you.