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Title: HLP Newsletter - May 2015
Post by: niffiwan on May 07, 2015, 04:28:15 am
Due to our fearless leader being otherwise engaged, the May Newsletter has been cancelled completed overtime & over-budget (http://www.hard-light.net/news/article/hlp-newsletter-may-2015) by MjnMixael and myself, enjoy!

(oh and yeah, could a kind admin please move this to the announcements board as I don't have the permissions to post there)
Title: Re: HLP Newsletter - May 2015
Post by: BirdofPrey on May 07, 2015, 07:30:49 am
What do you mean it's May already?
Title: Re: HLP Newsletter - May 2015
Post by: niffiwan on May 07, 2015, 07:38:23 am
Indeed, May newsletter is posted in May :)
Title: Re: HLP Newsletter - May 2015
Post by: X3N0-Life-Form on May 07, 2015, 07:50:36 am
I told you guys that sequestrating Axem would have side effects. You can't just kidnap someone, have him FRED missions for you and write a full newsletter!

Anyway, excellent interview, glad we got more insight into Mister Subspace Strikes - makes me want to do a modding dive during the upcoming week-end.
Not much in the campaign area, but oh gods how much stuff happened code-wise. As a github user myself, I can now see basically everything the SCP does, which is neat :P
Title: Re: HLP Newsletter - May 2015
Post by: BirdofPrey on May 07, 2015, 07:55:51 am
That reminds me, I need to get back to the work I was doing.
Also learn more art since my monkey brain never learned to code.
Title: Re: HLP Newsletter - May 2015
Post by: 0rph3u5 on May 07, 2015, 08:06:09 am
Nice job, sorryto hear about the budget problems...

Reminde me what I've to do to get in the newsletter with Of Shivans and Men? - I'm currently very pressed for time and can't actuallly develop a strategy to promote myself (and the appearent lack of interest is affecting my drive to finish)....

ps. Greetings from the last day of re:publica 2015 in wonderful Berlin :)
Title: Re: HLP Newsletter - May 2015
Post by: Sandwich on May 07, 2015, 08:13:55 am
Hmm... trying something for the interview formatting... pardon any temporary oddness.
Title: Re: HLP Newsletter - May 2015
Post by: headdie on May 07, 2015, 08:23:55 am
Posted to Facebook and Reddir
Title: Re: HLP Newsletter - May 2015
Post by: Sandwich on May 07, 2015, 09:33:54 am
Ok, after much hair-pulling, I think I've gotten something I like. Newsletter-posters, pay attention:

There's a new text field when you're posting a newsletter, called "Interview". Use that for interviews. Format interviews as a big unordered list. The site will style the even list items in one style and color, and the odd list items in another style and color. Because of the even/odd styling, the only requirement for using this new Interviews content field is that you never have consecutive list items belonging to the same person.

Do this:
Quote
  • Person A: blah blah
  • Person B: Foo
  • Person A: Bar
  • Person B: Baz.


DON'T do this:
Quote
  • Person A: blah blah
  • Person B: Foo
  • Person B: And BTW, yadda
  • Person A: Bar
  • Person B: Baz.

Enjoy! Bug reports to me OFC. :)
Title: Re: HLP Newsletter - May 2015
Post by: mjn.mixael on May 07, 2015, 09:39:07 am
Nice!
Title: Re: HLP Newsletter - May 2015
Post by: Axem on May 07, 2015, 12:09:08 pm
A hearty thanks to niffiwan and mjn for pulling this off. :) I was moving to a new place and I've only started to recently have time again to do fun things. (And thank you Sandwich for that, makes reading interviews a lot better!)

Reminde me what I've to do to get in the newsletter with Of Shivans and Men? - I'm currently very pressed for time and can't actuallly develop a strategy to promote myself (and the appearent lack of interest is affecting my drive to finish)....

Give some good meaty posts about the work you're doing. I did see you did post some in-campaign quotes, but I suppose that's just barely under the bar for a mention. I think things like background fluff, your experiences, screenshots or showing off gameplay with videos makes it a whole lot more likely to get a mention. We really try to mention any progress but it can be hard when its a very short post.
Title: Re: HLP Newsletter - May 2015
Post by: AdmiralRalwood on May 07, 2015, 02:14:26 pm
Mister Subspace Strikes
Hmm...