Comments on: Unicorns & Magic Cats: Tasha’s Game

By: Shadowcat

Shadowcat — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 12:57:18 +0000

That was awesome!!!

Make sure you do actually play this through to the end :) It might seem same-ish, but there aren’t very many levels, and it’s well worth the effort :)

By: hydra9

hydra9 — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 17:47:21 +0000

That was great! I always swear that I don’t like platform games, then something like this comes along, and is nothing but fun! Particularly when one can play it while wearing a TRUNK! There’s nothing pointless about a trunk!

By: Moonracer

Moonracer — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 16:09:53 +0000

Fun!

By: chesh

chesh — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 15:57:23 +0000

I’d love to see much, much more of this.
I hate to say it, but it would be a great WiiWare game.

By: mashakos

mashakos — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 14:28:52 +0000

brilliant!

By: John Walker

John Walker — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 14:06:43 +0000

Oops – the “Shafer” thing was a typo, rather than ignorance. Can’t fix it from here, but will do later.

By: Jp

Jp — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 13:48:03 +0000

Perl as an acronym: you're all wrong, but only just.

I wanted a short name with positive connotations. (I would never name a language “Scheme” or “Python”, for instance.) I actually looked at every three- and four-letter word in the dictionary and rejected them all. I briefly toyed with the idea of naming it after my wife, Gloria, but that promised to be confusing on the domestic front. Eventually I came up with the name “pearl”, with the gloss Practical Extraction and Report Language. The “a” was still in the name when I made that one up. But I heard rumors of some obscure graphics language named “pearl”, so I shortened it to “perl”. (The “a” had already disappeared by the time I gave Perl its alternate gloss, Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister.)"

Larry Wall> So Practical Extraction and Reporting Language was part of its original name, "Pearl" (although a gloss rather than an acronym as such); Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister came after its name was changed to Perl.

He’ll find that out when he meets St Peter at the Perly Gates.

Hmm, some kind of content filter, eh? I wonder if St Peter writes greedy or non-greedy regexps.

By: Gap Gen

Gap Gen — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 12:57:56 +0000

“And stop calling it PERL, you’re making baby Jesus cry.”

He’ll find that out when he meets St Peter at the Perly Gates.

By: pkt-zer0

pkt-zer0 — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 12:47:48 +0000

It’s “Tim Schafer”, you heretic.

By: Ergates

Ergates — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 11:31:41 +0000

@John
Which would make it a backronym (decided after the fact) rather than an acronym. Hah!

And stop calling it PERL, you’re making baby Jesus cry.

By: ZeroByte

ZeroByte — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 11:31:30 +0000

OMGZ! Evidence of the video game conspiracy to turn our children game! Lawdy lawkes! Who will help us in our time of need!

By: Dinger

Dinger — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 11:23:00 +0000

What do you mean it’s girly? Everyone calls the main character (Tasha) “Dude” or “Boy”.
Qrwqrö Glad I could help. Donàt blame the games for buzing the wrong kezboard.