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Yes, july/august sounds about right. Anything with "bring some swimwear" temperatures works for me...

It's great to hear about a free/cheap 3D engines that are totally new to me, as well as a few I've looked at before like Reality Factory and Crystalspace which was used to make the (quite weak) adventure game Keepsake.

Incidentally, I believe that the free version of Unity only makes games for PCs, Macs, and web applications.

Still: your 3D point-n-click adventure, playable online. Still pretty sweet...

The really, REALLY nice thing of that Unity engine is, that it will run on a lot of different platforms: PC, Mac, Web, iPhone, XBOX etc. Not sure if that goes for the free version as well...

Mind you, as I understand it's only a concept for now. But it would actually be pretty cool to make a game with BG art coming out of such an app.

Yep Pidgin is pretty good. And I read somewhere that it's not so much Messenger that's to blame, but the actual installer that's not 64bit compatible (by the way, what gives Microsoft? how come your own software does not work on your own OS. Little silly, eh?).
Google around for the non-installer version of Messenger...

Cool, I'll play!



Didn't use quotes though.

Nacho, mi amigo ... I must say I wasn't completely surprised when this news came. I knew trouble was brewing at Mittens.

Still - this really sucks. I haven't been in the exact same situation, but I have been in similar situations and it simply always hurts. There's no easy way around it.
I also understand your decision - being great friends is NOT the same as having a romantic relationship (hell: I'd have a harem if that were the case ). I am sad it came to this - you did seem great together, but on the other hand I hope this decision opens new ways for you both.

Hang in there.

Payed through the PayPal as well. And I'd like a PAL version please!

Sounds cool. I could do with a 8Gb memstick. 
Sign me up, mr. Lovegroooove.

Anyway, editing together the Mittens video is taking longer than I expected, so in the meantime you'll have to make do with a quick teaser trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2aEKGAh-pk

Whooo! awesome! Can't wait for the full-on goodness...

Also Mr. Colossal: that Baron von Count intro is waaaay cool. Now lets make a beat-em-up with these characters!

Whoooo! Too bad there was no time to do more... next Mittens "the lost reels"?
Also - is there some way to download the movie, for posterity?

Also - pretty snazzy work on the "Wembley emerges from the pool" scene!

Everybody who votes for the Netherlands is just doing it for the whores and drugs!

NEWS FLASH - there's whores and drugs in OTHER countries as well! Seriously: if this is the only thing that's going to bring you over here, then please don't bother coming...

Hi! I'm Dutch myself. Maybe I should've used a

Aaaaahhhh. Ok. In that case, never mind my comment
But all you freeloading foreigners (m0ds excluded): take note!  

Everybody who votes for the Netherlands is just doing it for the whores and drugs!

NEWS FLASH - there's whores and drugs in OTHER countries as well! Seriously: if this is the only thing that's going to bring you over here, then please don't bother coming...

I'm changing my vote to Estonia before WWIII breaks out in this thread!

I'd gladly go to Italy, and I wouldn't mind helping out with organising...

Bellissimo! Prego! Ciao bella!

Marco and Miez organise Mittens 2010 in Italy somewhere.

There ya go.

Best of both worlds.

Haha, thanks but no thanks. No parliamo Italiano. Or something...

Okay so now we have a few other suggestions to add- Germany, Croatia, and China. I could see the first two being serious offerings while China may be just out of reach for some. Usually meets are traded between continents to give half the group a break on their travel costs If anything I would go to Taiwan over China though.

Anyways back to the Holland/Italy tally, we have either votes for Italy or Indifference, with Nacho perhaps favouring Holland so as not to take the sweet

So as of now we have-
Italy: 5
No Preference: 3


Regarding the newer suggestions, I could see Germany being an interesting place to hold, and we do have locals there.

Just out of misguided patriotism, but what would make Germany preferable over Dutchland? It will be as hard to find a good place to stay there as it is in the Netherlands...

[Darth's Mittens 2009 Photos]

I'm sick as a dog ...   But I wanted to get my photos up for reminiscing

Darth's Mittens 2009 Photos

I took about 300 photos total, but I preened them a bit to select the ones I thought most worth sharing.  I hope you enjoy them!

Could just be me, but I get a "failed to connect" page when clicking the link, Darth.

I was present at the Mittens Miami let's-do-Holland-next-year "discussion" (which was not so much a discussion, more just me saying that I wouldn't mind organising ).
Holland would be fun, Italy sounds great as well.

One of the advantages of the Netherlands would be size: everyting you'd like to do in a tiny country with good infrastructure.
One of the advantages of Italy would be those aforementioned cheap villas.

So from me: no particular preference.

Mittens 2010 is currently planned for Holland btw.

TULIPS FTW!