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Visit www.project-powder.com to download and play for free!

Outspark released their trailer for Studio BlueCat’s Snowboarding simulator game Project Powder.
Enjoy!

Visit Project Powder’s website at project-powder.com.

Project Powder, a snowboard sim, is the newest addition to the Outspark Free to Play library. It will be entering Closed Beta Test phase 1 soon, so make sure you sign up at http://projectpowder.outspark.com/ today!

There will also be prizes for contestants of the CBT including free Sparkcash, as well as a cool CBT hooded sweatshirt only given to users who achieve level 5 in the first test phase.

Closed Beta Testing Hours
Monday ~ Friday
10:00am - 7:00pm (Pacific Time)

The event was a great success, and there was a high turnout. Ten lucky winners got a random Dragon mount, and five lucky winners received a 2X Exp Card. Each of the prizes are currently unreleased, as a bonus.

The dragon mount winners are:
1. Kristenfiesta
2. Viorexx
3. McLaren
4. TheEriond
5. xjoshi13x
6. phaethon
7. Ganres
8. Bonthra
9. Kaiyo
10. RobRenegade

The 2X EXP boost card winners are:
1. Kittyfishy
2. Naoko
3. Stellarstella
4. PwnCorpse/Undead_minion
5. Cristo

The transcript can be found on Outspark and Xfire.

I’ve also made it available for download here.

I had noticed that the GDLib functions were installed, yet the images would not generate the correct output. This is due to the change in some of the functions, such as imgpng();, which had an alteration of parameter handling, and is much more restrictive.
bool imagepng ( resource $image [, string $filename [, int $quality [, int $filters ]]] )

Let’s say we had called imagepng(); like we could in PHP4:
imagepng($image,”,90);

PHP4 didn’t complain when using it like that, as it was a bit more lenient on parameters. When using PHP5, you have to either output images as:
imagepng($image);

Or, you can use the full-blown
imagepng($image,NULL,90,NULL);

and it should work again. I haven’t tested the latter (though it should work), but I changed all of my GD programs and projects to imagepng($image);.

If you are having a problem getting GDLib to work and you have all of the modules installed correctly, check your phpinfo(); and/or gd_info();.

If all of those claim to be working, yet your results are now URL paths to the image, well, they are working - you are just using a deprecated method of using imagepng(); or imagejpeg();.

TWCOM now has a GMOD11 dedicated server - unfortunately, it’s private and access is restricted to a select few for now. Because Garry has not written any *nix binaries, you have to run Wine to run the server. Luckily, if set up right, it won’t take up much space, as it doesn’t emulate Windows, but rather run. It was mainly set up for personal use (experimenting with Lua).

Because I went through a lot of troubles, I’m sure I can whip up a nice wall o’ text over the next few days for some problems that I hardly saw answers to (if there even were any).

I’m not much of an artist when it comes to painting - digital, even. However, I had fun doing this for the first time. Blame the stray marks on my laptop touchpad.

Today on Memorial Day, our TWCOM server is getting a massive upgrade, and the server will be taken down at around 10:30am CDT. Up till then, you may see some more-than-usual server lag, as everything is being backed up.

The current server is lacking a few processor functions required for srcds, and is plainly unable to keep up with the demand of gdlib, Ventrilo, and Wordpress for a fast load.

You’ll enjoy the sweet server upgrade, and might see a counter-strike or GMod server in the future.

I finally got around to making the loop from “Stronger” by Kanye West, featuring Daft Punk.
The only difference from the one in “Stronger” is the thicker bass drum beats and a little more synthesizing action.

At any rate, enjoy!

Click the below for the sample:
Daft Punk + Kanye West’s “Stronger” loop mp3

Here’s the raw loop file in WAV format.
WAV (Right-click to download) - Daft Punk and Kanye West - “Stronger” background loop

Finally upgraded the software transfer from my old, crappy programming, to WordPress, finished writing my own layout, added a few plugins (such as the auto-upgrade), and updated anti-spam with Akismet to the current version.

Enjoy!
-Terranwolf