Heard about Mirror's Edge yet? No? It combines our love of asian ladies, clean and bright colors, and parkour all into a potentially delicious first person video game. Sure, we can't say for sure yet whether the game play will kick ass or not, but we can hope and pray. The video game industry NEEDS a parkour game. Assasin's Creed whet our appetite and now we want the turkey.

Enjoy some new concept art from Destructoid along with a YouTube in game trailer.



In other news, we are still working to add support for Flash players that still require the EMBED tag, like GameTrailers. We are also bringing the Bootleg system back online for beloved members and news posting.

I'm continuing the trend of linking old YouTube videos for the next few days. Dance, MFers.
 

It's been a slow week as Jesse toils in Wisconsin, I look for a new job, and Seth starts work on the ATHWT Recap episode, so I thought I'd fill the void with one of our favorite cartoons of all time, Pinky and the Brain.  In this brilliant piece, Brain reenacts almost word for word a famous Orson Welles hickup.
 

I was at the Workplay Theatre last night to go see Man Man and this band called Yeasayer opened for them. They are a 4-piece with some kick ass visuals (when playing live) and one spastic singer. I was fortunate to talk to him after show and he even sold me one of their tshirts and a cd. If they are playing near you, check them out and keep an eye on these badasses. Right now what I have for you is a video for their first single. It's a special treat for me because I'm an aerospace engineering major so hopefully I get to work with NASA and astronauts in the future.

Yeasayer - 2080

I have fixed news posting and editing for moderators.  To show Flash, simply copy and paste the necessary Embed / Object code.  Support exists for YouTube, Google, and MySpace.  Other websites that permit XHTML standard OBJECT code should work as well.
 
Instead of trying to get a front end WYSIWYG written that works with every possible browser, I decided to port TinyMCE.  It probably saved me a week of bothering with JavaScript conditionals.  The backend scripts to handle HTML cleanups have been rewritten to handle any possible combination of OBJECT code, so there shouldn't be any additional problems.
 
BTW, all images and Flash are resized to 425 and centered.
 
And to start the first test,
 

If your in the Cambridge, Massachusetts area you may already be at ROFLcon which showcases and celebrates the interweb phenomena. The event is slated for today and tomorrow, so if you haven't registered, you're, unfortunately, out of luck.

But for those who want in on some of the action, they have a live video feed set up for all of your voyeuristic needs. The event has all the standard cosplay, notable celebrities and plenty of boozing fun to be had.

It's been sad times around here at the TXM.com office.  Jesse has officially headed off to Kuwait.  Technically, I think he is in Michigan training for Kuwait but we won't be seeing him around the Austin branch anytime soon.  However, he'll be setting up shop overseas and will be back on track for whoring in great artists and game developers.

Seth has been on the ball making sure everyone comes together to record all of their lines for season 2 of As The Hamster Wheel Turns and it is really shaping up.  We are releasing the entire season 1 as one uncut episode with an extended introduction later this week, but we are still looking for a good hosting solution for that.

In other news, business as usual.  I've made it an effort to write code for TXM.com at least once a day.  The primary issue write now has been in developing a WYSIWYG with interoperability and Flash embed support.  We have sold most of our Obama shirts already and we have more requests coming in.

BTW, Dead Like Me is a brilliant series.

We are filling up preorders tonight.  Get your Obama shirt for $10 (plus $5 shipping if not in Austin).  All profits go into paying off the cost of the shirts and the initial screen printing setup.

Send me a message with your full name and shirt size.  We will add you to the invoice and on Friday will be sending out private links where you can pay through credit card.  If you can meet us in person, all you have to do is hand us $10. No checks!

PREORDERING TUESDAY TOMORROW AT NOON!  We cannot guarantee your shirt in your size after that!

Also, we will try to have one more drunken blog before Jesse leaves to Kuwait.  I will then be trying to find a drunken replacement, which might be my roommate Jason.

I met a couple of gals from a theater honor society and heard various events and skits they had planned for the year.  Apart from playing regular roles in plays presented by the theater department at UAH, they performed a series of Saturday Night Live parody skits, as well as some they developed on their own, for a week-long campus festival celebrating the coming of spring time.

One of those gals I met recently released on YouTube a growing collection of sugar sweet parody sweetness.  All videos choreographed, scripted and filmed by a group of ambitious UAH students for the love of screenplay.  I suspect the need for a film program to be adopted by the school *combs fingers through ridiculously long, non-existing beard*...  At any rate, I'm anxious to see what other characters and scenarios these guys draft up and hope to see a steady production released.

Enough reading my jibber jabber... go watch and enjoy!<



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