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JANUARY 2018
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hello friends and welcome to a very special january edition of the
tilde.town times. the tilde.town times is a newsletter about what is
happening on tilde.town. it publishes on or around the 15th of every month
and is completely open to contributions! please see the section on
contributing if you would like to help towards the next edition.
this month the newsletter returns after a long hiatus. we say hello to
many new members who have joined us since the last issue which was
published in may of last year. it is a real treat to have the opportunity
to work on this once again. I hope you enjoy the issue and that it is the
first of a busy 2018.
my apologies to readers disappointed with the gap in publishing the
newsletter. last year was a difficult time for me and left me without the
opportunity to be a part of the town as much as I would have liked.
because of this I did not feel in a good position to write a newsletter
about what was going on. with more time in the new year I hope to see the
newsletter fulfill its potential in bringing our amazing community closer
together.
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1. tilde news
2. around the town
3. ~ page spotlight. this month: ~joniwoni
4. new members
5. a note from the editor
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the news desk is taking a break this issue as including all the happenings
since may did not seem right. look forward to its inclusion in next months
issue.
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MICROSCOPE GAME!
tilde.town stalwart ~krowbar is running a game of
microscope, open to all members of the town! in ~korwbar's words:
"Microscope is a game about collaborative stories. Determine the scope,
choose the narrative palate, create historical periods, then zoom in.
Focus history's Lens to find out what Events took place in The Age of
Enlightenment or play a Scene to answer what the Mad King gave in exchange
for magic. You have to power to create or topple empires, people or gods -
although they always may be revisited later. But remember, surprises are
bound to occur. You may not know the full history yet."
to get involved, drop ~krowbar a message on irc or alpine.
ASCIIFARM!
tilde.town hero ~troido has been working hard on the fantastic
asciifarm which you should really check out if you have not seen it yet.
~troido writes:
"AsciiFarm is a project to make a farming rpg for the town. Play the game
by running the `asciifarm` command in your shell, or if you want
fullwidth, run `asciifarm -c fullwidth`. For more information and helping
with development see: https://github.com/jmdejong/asciifarm
Please leave feedback on asciifarm in the bbj thread, on github issues or
by telling ~troido!"
CENTRALFEELS
tilde.town senior associate ~login has furnished us with some
tantalising info on both centralfeels. they have transmitted packets
containing the following characters:
"centralfeels, tilde.town's latest feels in reverse-chronological order
To make it easier to browse everyone's feels on the web, centralfeels is a
website at https://tilde.town/~login/centralfeels that collects the latest
feels from all users that have opted in and displayes the latest twenty.
To opt in, just type (without quotes) `touch ~/.centralfeels` in your
prompt. If you've just written a post and want to update centralfeels
manually, just type (without quotes)
`/home/login/cronjobs/update_centralfeels`. https://centralfeels.cf is a
convenient URL that redirects to https://tilde.town/~login/centralfeels ."
WRITO
but that's not even all! ~login goes on to communicate:
"viewing writo's world on the web
~selfsame made a persistent world with no private ownership called writo.
You can draw ASCII art with colour on an infinitely large grid. He made a
viewer for it at https://tilde.town/~selfsame/writo.html but it's out of
date, only in black-and-white, and doesn't display characters at negative
coordinates. My version of writo's webview solves all these problems, and
has a one-to-one correspondence with how writo looks on the telnet client.
You can visit my version of writo's webview at
https://tilde.town/~login/writo/ . If you want to update it manually, just
type (without quotes) `/home/login/cronjobs/update_writo` at the prompt."
thank you ~login!
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in this month's spotlight we're taking a look at tilde.town member
~joniwoni's page which you can view at http://tilde.town/~joniwoni/.
~joniwoni has some completely incredible little webgl bits and some lovely
8-bit computer noises going on. the absolute highlight of their page for
me though is this textbox demo: http://tilde.town/~joniwoni/visceral/
the sounds remind me so much of old dos games that I used to play.
something about those crunchy bleepy sounds reminds me of exploring CDs
full of games, trying to decipher them without any manuals. thanks for a
potent nostalgia hit, ~joniwoni!
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due to the sheer colume of new members since may and also due to some
technical problems, this section is taking a break this month. huge
apologies to all our amazing new members who have joined during that
period. this section resumes next month.
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thank you so much for joining us for this issue of the newsletter. special
thanks to everyone who was able to contribute something to this issue, it
is hugely appreciated.
the newsletter grew out of a desire to see more awareness of the amazing
projects on the town and foster collaboration between our inspirational
members. it therefore thrives on the contributions of you, our members.
if you are working on anything you think people might be interested in,
please email me. if you have published anything you think is cool or have
seen anything on somebody else's page, please email me. if you have any
ideas of future issues or feedback on the newsletter, I would be so happy
to receive it.
townies engage with our community in different ways and it is not always
visible. so even if you have something you think everyone has seen it is
still definitely worth letting me know.
thank you so much for reading and for being part of this wonderful
community.
~jumblesale x