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Bennu Game Development - bennugd.co.uk
There is now a english forum for Bennu.
You will find here the latest news and builds for Bennu, coding help, a sumbissions showcase, tools and much more.
It's a lot better looking than the bennugd.org one and it's actually not spanish!! But seriously, it opens up Bennu support to a lot more people, and hopefully will inspire more people to use the great games-dev language Bennu.
Have fun!
http://bennugd.co.uk
Domain Name Problems
As you may have noticed, the domain name had a brief(ish) period of being-expired-ness but its back under control now and the site is once again back on the interpipes.
What happened? Basically the site's previous host still had full control over the domain and let it expire without telling us. After a long wait they finally responded to our emails to let us know that they couldn't renew the domain because the credit card they had on file had expired. By the time we'd updated the payment details, the domain had entered the next stage in its long journey back into public availability - a stage which both the host and the registrar seemed to be confused about. The host told us to ask the registrar to renew the domain. The registrar told us to ask the host. Anyway, we've now managed to get the domain registered with a decent registrar so there'll be no more of this nonsense.
For future reference, the site can also be reached via http://www.booleansoup.org or failing that, http://bs.ruilhandel.net 
two thousand nine
And a happy...2009? 
Ludum Dare 13
The next instalment of the tri-annual 48 hour solo game development competition, Ludum Dare 13, will be upon us in a matter of weeks. 5th-7th December are the dates, so if you fancy a sleep-deprived adrenaline-fuelled 48 hours of extreme code hacking, be sure to check out the site and suggest a theme. See you there!
Games roundup
Despite the single-quote-in-a-description-field-is-a-fail bug, a bunch of games have been uploaded the past two months:
Full games
- Rebel by Nimusi
- Atomix by Nimusi
- Smallball in Changeland by Neotron Games
- Altitude by Neotron Games
- BeatBox by Neotron Games
- Tower Rescue by Frimkron
- Java Beans by ArikWex
WIP games
- BirdHunt by Neotron Games
- Guru Logic Champs by Rockford (Ian Price)
And the worklogs page has been very active, it's where all the game development action is happening!
Remake of Atomix added
A remake of the Amiga game Atomix has been added to the full games section.
It is playable, although I have not added any sound yet. I also need to work on adding several different transitions between levels (at the moment there is only one transition).
Any comments are welcome.
Retro Remakes 2008 competition is GO, GO, GO!!!
I hope this doesn't overshadow the Boolean Soup comp, but www.retroremakes.com is holding another retro inspired/based competition this year, with £thousands in prizes, including a super gaming laptop, two Pandoras, Hydra game systems etc. etc. and loads of other bits and bobs that everybody would sell/kill/swap their family members for.
You've got a full three months (and a few days) to get something done.
With six different categories (including one for a very deserving cause), there should be something for everybody.
So if your inclined to do some coding (or want to offer assistance in other areas), then go on over to Retro Remakes and see what's happening.
Go on, have a go
Datacenter move
The Boolean soup server will be moved to a new data center in the night from friday (August 29th) on saturday (starting at 11:00 PM GMT), there will be a downtime of 3-5 hours. Hold on tight!
The new data center is called GrafiX, located in Alphen aan den Rijn (Dtuchland) connected to the network of Technotop. Reason for the move is that the network provider our host is currently using, InterXS, has not been paying its fees to the current data center Interxion. This lead to trouble when our host tried to access the data center.