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[vurelly]

your friends ever just

and you feel your entire nervous system light up

[dispatches-from-the-lorecord]

But, like, what *are* the glitches?

[February 1 2023]

{Mitzi:}

time to talk about a recent revelation:

I Know What The Glitches Are

{Krizste:}

go on///

{Trollkitten:}

rubs hands together and chuckles evilly

{Mitzi:}

like, i should have asked this question before, shouldn’t i. they’ve been a big part of tpp for almost as long as i’ve been into tpp, but i never really thought about, like, what they were

where they came from, why they exist, why they’re Like That

i think i just unconsciously assumed they were errors in the construction of reality or something, and never paid them much heed

but then haji said a thing, and i started connecting dots

some metaphysical background. every universe has its own rules, yeah? works in slightly different ways, has slightly different game mechanics physical laws

glitchiness - the effect the glitches have on the world, as distinct from the glitchstuff itself - is what happens when you try to run software from universe a on universe b’s system, and that might not even be a metaphor

things just… don’t work quite the same way, and the glitchy entity/effect is constantly bashing into the universe, trying to work through its rules and just failing. it can be as minor as a weirdly-coloured object, but if the contrast is bad enough, you get missingno

so like, whenever someone goes out wandering the multiverse and visits a reality other than their own… they’re a little glitchy. odd numbers of fingers, wrongly-pitched voices, things like that

but it’s never, like, too bad, at least around the pokemultiverse where realities tend to run on pretty similar lines. and it usually wears off, too, as the universe and its visitor get used to each other

or if you’re bullshit omnipotent like the voices you could just whack the universe until it works the way you want it to, but they’re an exception to literally everything

so long as you’re coming from a world of your own, you can usually reach an accord

s o l o n g a s y o u ‘ r e c o m i n g f r o m a w o r l d o f y o u r o w n

because, see, here’s the thing about the void between the universes. it devours

it eats away at everything that passes through it - it eats away at the voices, that’s how overpowering it is. spend enough time in the void, and you’ll gradually slip away

all the rules that used to define you just… disappear. it gets harder and harder to fit into - any reality, there’s so much less of you than the world expects

{Trollkitten:}

ooooo

{Newbie:}

...i think i see where you're going with this 👀

{Mitzi:}

sometimes you can claw your way up the table of pokenuclides into an acceptable self again, but more often than not you get swept away by the tides of dex number radioactivity

it’s fairly easy to ward off void decay if you spend enough time in - any world, but your homeworld is best. you were made according to the rules of your native reality, and you’ll always fit into those best

but what if your world

doesn’t exist anymore?

the glitches are shadows of dead realities

seeping into others, they try desperately to take form, but more often than not, they just bring the void in with them

put too many glitches in a reality and it’ll break from the strain. another world will fall into nothingness, and whatever survivors will start to lose themselves too

all they can do is try to latch onto another world - and it’ll all happen again

different clusters of glitches have different sources. the initial bout of glitches in the tppverse - associated with OLDEN, made the glitchhaze - are the last remnants of wing and thorax’s world

the reality might still exist, but - like, even the atmosphere’s chemistry is totally different. they try to push in, to bring the world back to what they knew - and the oxygenated blue-skied world will not let them, fuck yeah the wing-and-thorax stuff is now relevant to tpp

(as to how they came back into quote-unquote existence… look. amber would never accept a world where the fossil gods were trapped in the pc forever)

(they let a few things slip to cyrus in s1!platinum and are thus personally responsible for 90% of their own problems all the way up to omega ruby)

but the current crop of glitches… they’re not from that collective

the last few seasons, my lore has been full of universes blowing up and being rebooted, culminating in the big multiversal reset in pla

the new multiverse is a much less… troubled place, on the surface, so far. but despite the best efforts of the hosts…

there are still traces

And That’s Why Forrest Is Like That (angry)

{Newbie:}

...i see

{Mitzi:}

for something i bashed together over the past couple of months this is fitting into my pre-existing lore surprisingly well

it’s tying things together. gives me a reason to still care about the glitches

thank you for bearing with me while i took over the channel

{Newbie:}

no problem :LUL:

this is... fascinating for me

{Trollkitten:}

I really like your theorem on what the glitches are and where they come from

{Mitzi:}

but seriously this is giving me… ideas about certain non-voice legacy characters

feels like a way to bring in The Consequences Of The Hosts’ Actions, which is where my lore’s been trending lately anyway

turns out, you can’t just overwrite your problems

{Trollkitten:}

yeah

{Haji:}

What did I say??? :OMEGALUL: I've been on a ramble most of the day, I honestly can't remember

{Mitzi:}

i think you asked me something weeks ago about wing and thorax’s legendaries, and it set fireworks off in my brain

{Haji:}

Ah :tppPika:

Oh my. Yeah I remember now

{Mitzi:}

i think i went, like, ‘actually that connection does make sense’ and then ‘hey wait what if all the glitches are remnants of wing and thorax’s world’ and then ‘that would explain so much of why OLDEN is like that’ and then i kept going from there

evan mourns for the happiness he lost, the god bits of OLDEN mourn for the world they destroyed

… did i ever say that OLDEN is a fusion between evan, the bits of wing and thorax that didn’t end up in amber, and a whole lot of glitchstuff that might well be the same thing actually? well, IT is

{Haji:}

Y'know? I don't think so

{Mitzi:}

it’s a story but i need to go to bed

yeah this was secretly a section of mitzi won’t shut up about the fossil gods, part 5 the whole time

coupla endnotes!

- ultra space isn’t the void between universes. it’s… more like a corridor? a path between worlds, not void itself, which is why necrozma could use it to build an interdimensional empire

- the distortion world, on the other hand…

- phancero is… one of those glitches that decayed into a real pokemon, with a little help from the voices. the last remnant of the glitchhaze, finally made real

{Haji:}

I've been playing with this…

"So let me get straight. The Glitches we've been facing were already a living, consistent problem we'll have to deal with in Abe's world?"

There were a few giggles at the Slowbro since they had left that subject a few subjects back. Still, Rhianna decided to indulge Rocket with an answer. "I actually don't know. Maybe? They seem to be related, but the Fae we dealt with were like a human catch-all term for anything they couldn't explain. Letter shaped creatures and stretches of number carvings you couldn't walk past, people getting trapped by sentient buildings, and that's not even getting into things like the walking skeletons. A lot of stuff was brushed off as hallucinations brought on by "Fae Magic" but I don't know much of anything about this "other world" business to know if any of this stuff happened in his world."

Gen I glitches are.... Fun

Somewhat related, I like to imagine Phancero came to Kay with intent (we faced it twice iirc?) that if he was brave and strong enough to master it, he's retained his powers over the Void to safely go wherever. He's the latest Glitch King because there must always be a Glitch King

Phancero itself is only a fraction of Olden's real power, but much like the Fossils often serves as a good consistent vessel

(because the gods aren't actually the Fossils we know, it's just how they most often appear)

{Mitzi:}

… damn i’ve really been neglecting What’s Phanchy Up To These Days as a lore plot thread

[And what does this mean for Kahuna Moon?]

{Trollkitten:}

So... if Kahuna Moon lost her world... is she glitched?

that could explain a lot

{Newbie:}

Moon has Zygarde and Necrozma with her so i think she's protected... for now

{Mitzi:}

personally i’m going with her starting to glitch and having a really anime plan to stop it from happening

‘i will resurrect my world!’ ‘doesn’t that literally always backfire’ ‘i’ll do it!’

{Newbie:}

so this goes from just manic grief to manic grief coupled with an underlaying self-preservation instinct 🤔

this probably explains the "shadow boys" we saw in Star

[inkyquince]

Always hated the term work husband but...

content warning. cucking, cheating, general backstabbing your spouse. Distant spouses, m a r r i e d t o l e i g h t o n, age gap, saucy photo taking, free use pc for bailey.

Married to Remy but work husband Avery likes to take you out for long dinners to discuss the business in the first half but whispering in your ear with his hand on your thigh in the latter half. Books a hotel room while you're on the phone to Remy that it's too dark and you'll stay in town that night.

Or even the reverse. Married to Avery whose married to his job so you spend more and more time at your own job, helping out at the riding school until you get your own work husband in Remy. Stablehands giggle that it's not the dogs spooking the horses up in the hayloft.

Also, just saying, flirty Wren complimenting his boss' spouse and cheekily inviting them to his card games, just because when Remy ain't at the ranch, then he's at his farm, and when he's not at either, his face down sleeping. Wren is gonna get shot for ogling you and smugly leading you to your shared room with Remy just to make your bed a bit messy, but yknow, if he's not dying hard, he's not dying.

This will be a punch to the balls, but husband Leighton (Ew. I'd fuck him, wouldn't marry him) and work husband Daryl. The club owner didn't even start all of this because your husband was their abuser, and most probably yours too by the age gap, but you're so sweet and nice and wanted to invest in his club. Also punching perverts does make Daryl flustered. You're just too nice, too soft, too good for that piece of shit and before too long Daryl needs you over to take up some of his duties, just so he can see you more and hear your laugh and feel your lips curve upwards against his when he bumps into you in the stock room and has to give into his urges. Leighton doesn't notice your absence for a while not gonna lie.

I won't even think about the reverse, if anyone cucked Daryl for Leighton, I'll sue.

Not really work husband but another kick to the Leighton nuts, Mason offering to teach you how to swim and having internal meltdowns because Holy Shit I'm Going To Get Fired For This, while he has you up against the swimming pool edge.

Niki runs you ragged between setting up shoots with his models, with weddings and events needed their photographer, not to mention the quiet photoshoots that stretch into the evening for just the two of you. Of course Niki will have his nuts twisted right off if Quinn ever found those very risque photos of his spouse.

Speaking about Quinn, B a i l e y. Mans obviously has Quinn in his pocket, so why can't he borrow his spouse for a fuck or two when he's particularly stressed. Sends you back home with a red handprint on your ass and cum running down your thighs. AGAIN, not work husband but definitely forcibly-loaned-out-by-your-husband.

I've met Quinn once in game and I want him fucking miserable.

Anyway, I should get back to cohesive writing, huh?

Edit: IM A FOOL

I FORGOT

THE ONLY BOY

WREN

Have Included him now but I HAVE LET EVERYONE DOWN

also I do like the thought that Eden cucks them all... Because yknow. It's Eden.

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55 Laptop Shortcuts To Increase Your Productivity

Ever been in a situation when you are in a productive zone while working on your laptop and you have to take a moment to use the mouse or drag your cursor to complete your next action? How does it feel?

The moment your momentum takes a pause is one of the worst feelings ever because you're riding the horse of maximum productivity who just ate the creative power bar and is forced to slow down only to reach that highest gear of efficiency again.

We all have been there and through these situations. It doesn't feel right at all. First of all, we rarely achieve this samurai state of working in our day and then when we achieve it we are taking a break only because we are unaware of the few hacks or shortcuts we can take to avoid such pit-stops and continue to ride our momentum to task completions.

So here are a few keyboard shortcuts to save our precious seconds and streamline our work process. We should practice these regularly and add them to our arsenal.

Windows logo key to the rescue

Open or hide start screen - Windows Key or CTRL + Esc

Maximize/minimize your window - Windows Key + Up/Down Arrow (Up arrow for maximize and Down arrow for minimize) Laptop on Rent

Cycle through apps on the taskbar - Windows Key + T

Switch between open apps - Windows Key or Alt + Tab

Switch to Desktop - Windows Key + D or M

Shutdown options - Windows Key + X

Take a screenshot - Windows Key + PrntScr

Snap. Split the screen evenly between two to four applications.

Snap a window to the left side of the screen - Windows Key + Left Arrow

Snap a window to the right side of the screen - Windows Key + Right Arrow

Now snapping into the quarters after dividing the screen into 2 parts -

Windows + Up Arrow or Windows Key + Down Arrow

It's important to lock your computer whenever you walk away - Windows Key + L or to switch users.

Output your screen to a projector, connect to external monitors or broadcast to a wireless display - Windows Key + P

Open my computer or file explorer to view all your drives and folders - Windows Key + E

Move app from one monitor to another - Windows Key + Shift + (Left/Right) Arrow Key

Open ease of access center - Windows Key + E

Open quick link menu - Windows Key + X

Open Run dialog box - Windows Key + R

Search quickly in your computer - Windows Key + F

Find other PC's in your network - Windows Key + Ctrl + F

Selection and actions

Selecting a required area requires precision. And our touch screen PC's and sometimes even the mouse fail to deliver this accuracy.

Select all of the content in a given window - Ctrl + A.

Select rows in an Excel spreadsheet, blocks of text in Word or files in File Explorer - Shift + Click the first row or the first line, hold down the Shift key and then click the last row or line.

Iterate through words and select the desired area as per your requirements - Shift + Arrow Key.

Select two or more non-adjacent items at the same time - Hold down Ctrl and Ctrl + Click all the items. If you click without Ctrl being pressed down, you'll lose all the previous selections.

Basic actions that can be taken now –

Copy the content - Ctrl + C

Cut the selected the area - Ctrl + X

Paste the cut or copied content - Ctrl + V

Open formatting options in MS Word after selection - Ctrl + D

If you want to skip the wide variety of options presented by the Format Dialog Box simply use -

To make the text bold or to remove the bold effect - Ctrl + B

To make the text italic or to remove the italic effect - Ctrl + I

To add or remove the underline on the selected area - Ctrl + U

Everyone loves a fresh piece of content. Thesaurus or online search for particular words can add these vibes to your language. To do so, highlight the word and press Shift + F7 and Word shows a comprehensive list of related terms in a panel on the right side of the screen.

If you want to reverse your recent actions use UNDO - Ctrl + Z and if you want to reverse the undo command use REDO program - Ctrl + Y. If nothing was undone then the Redo option will not do anything.

If you want to order a print, use this command - Ctrl + P

Open task manager to view the currently active tasks and manage them in case a task is not responding - Ctrl + Alt + Delete

Permanently delete files by skipping their entry to recycle bin - Shift + Del

Zoom in - Ctrl + plus sign(+) | Zoom Out - Ctrl + minus sign(-)

Shutdown windows - Alt + F4

Save your work - Ctrl + S

Rename a file - Fn Key + F2

Rename multiple files at the same time by selecting all the files at once using the shortcuts mentioned above and then press F2. Enter the new name and Vola, all your files will have the same name and a number in the end.

Browsing made easy

You don't need to rush to your mouse to take you to the previous page. Alt + Left Arrow takes you to the previous page of the current tab and Alt + Right Arrow takes you forward. Computer on Rent

Eliminate unwanted format when you paste in a snippet of text from a web page or any other document by using Ctrl + Shift + V. This copies the content into your browsers clipboard, free of all the formatting provided by the page or document owner and from there you can select and paste the content into your desired file.

Restore the recent opened tabs in case you wildly closed the tab you were working on using CTRL + SHIFT + T. This works for all the major web browsers such as Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Internet Explorer.

Select or highlight cells or rows while editing a spreadsheet in Excel or Google Docs by using Shift + Space. Furthermore you delete the selected rows using Ctrl + minus sign(-). In case you wish to select all the rows below or above the current row, use Ctrl + Shift + Up or Down Arrow.

Hide or reveal the bookmarks bar using Ctrl + Shift + B

Open bookmarks menu in chrome in a new tab using Ctrl + Shift + O

If you want to send your email with the speed of light after you're done composing it use Alt + S Outlook or other desktop mail clients. If you want to perform the same lighting action in Gmail use Ctrl + Enter.

Initiate a quick reply to an email in Outlook using Ctrl + R

You can create your own custom keyboard shortcuts in Gmail by switching on the keyboard shortcuts settings.

Update, reload, Refresh the stuck pages using F5 or Ctrl + R in any Windows web browser.

Search the web pages for a particular phrase or your desirable words using CTRL + F

If you like what you are reading on the internet it's better to bookmark that page and revisit it and gain precious seconds by not taking your cursor or mouse to the star button, using CTRL + D.

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[superstringstudio]

Mottos, Mantras and Mission Statements; 4 Steps to Branding Your Studio

Recently I’ve put a lot of thought into how I want my studio to be perceived by others. I’ve asked myself: What are the attributes that make Superstring different to the slew of other indie devs? What values will unite all the games that are born out of my studio? What does Superstring stand for?

I can almost hear the gags and wretches – this subject matter unavoidably gets into quite guffy, saccharine territory. It sounds like a load of bollocks, doesn’t it? Not long ago I would have agreed and written anything like this off as pretentious busy-work – a fat waste of time.

In retrospect, that thinking was naïve. I’ve come to realise how important this positioning work can be in the long run; it’s a vital step that a lot of smaller developers and studios are overlooking.

Taking the time to properly position your studio/company will cement your creative vision – it will give the games that slowly fill your catalogue consistency and a stamp that is undeniably yours. It will help you hire likeminded folk, and – most importantly – it will allow you to shape what the masses think when they see your studio interacting in the wild. This work is easy to rush and difficult to nail, but it’s not expensive. Anybody can do this work. Everybody should do this work.  

I want to say up front, by the way: I am by no means an expert in the world of indie development - Superstring is still a very young studio, and yet to release its first game (Headspun is out later this summer, releasing on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, PC and Mac). I have A LOT to learn about development. I have, however, worked in the games industry for over a decade, with the past four years in a global brand role at an AAA publisher. Recently, I’ve been trying to leverage some of that big-publisher-thinking on a smaller scale.

Today I want to share that work here.  

In this first entry in the Superstring Journal (get updates here!) – a new monthly blog exploring various aspects of indie dev life – I wanted to walk through the four steps I’ve taken with Superstring in terms of building a brand for the studio. I’m not claiming Superstring is the best example of any of these steps, merely an example.

Note: in an ideal world, the below would be worked up alongside the birth of your studio. It should influence the name you choose, the icon you design, the language you use when communicating with the world. I’d imagine lots of people skip over all this and just get cracking developing their dream game – I know I did. Much of the below can be figured out at a later date, however – it just needs a step back, and some dedicated time to figure a few things out.

Ok, here we go!

1 | DEFINE YOUR STUDIO’S MISSION STATEMENT

This should be an easy place to start, but wrapping language around the aims of your studio/business is surprisingly tricky. “Because I want to” doesn’t cut it, sadly.

Your mission statement isn’t a slogan. It doesn’t need to be catchy or clever. It just needs to lay out what you’re trying to achieve. If you’re a tech company it will simply outline the solution that your product offers to a problem. As game developers, our mission statements are more likely to be rooted in the experience we’re looking to give to our players.  

Some examples:

Supergiant Games “We want to make games that spark your imagination like the games you played as a kid.”

Dropbox: “to unleash the world’s creative energy by designing a more enlightened way of working.”

Blizzard: “Dedicated to creating the most epic entertainment experiences...ever.”

Doublefine: “committed to making high-quality games with an emphasis on originality, story, characters, and fun​”

Giant Sparrow: “[to create] surreal experiences people have never had before. Our dream is to make the world a stranger, more interesting place.”

Superstring: “To bring narrative to unlikely places through genre hybrids and experimentation.”

Try not to skip this step, as it segues directly into the second.

2 | DEFINE YOUR STUDIO’S VALUES

Yeah, the second step is equally as vague and woolly as the first. Sorry. But again, it’ll unlock a lot if you can really nail this. Knowing the three values your studio stands for will help you to hire staff who share the same virtues, and thus develop games in accordance with a unified vision. It will help write your studio’s signature.  

It’s all too easy to rush this step and fart out a few quaint sounding words - but if they’re not reflective of traits you genuinely believe in, they’re meaningless. ‘Honesty’ might sound like a lovely value on paper, for example, but in an ideal world this would be true of all companies and brands. It’s hardly a virtue to shout from the rooftops, is it? “We don’t’ lie!” Brilliant. Even if this is, in actuality, less common than we know to be true, it’s just a bit shit and generic. Dig deeper.

In an effort to minimise ambiguous bollocks and show how these values can directly affect your ongoing work, I’ll share Superstring’s values alongside examples of how these values help in practice.

Superstring is:

T R A N S P A R E N T This might sound similar to ‘honest’ on paper, but it’s not. It’s about being actively open in all facets of development. It’s about sharing, and keeping very open channels of communication. In practice: transparency will inform the content we create and share outside of core development - hence this blog! It guides how we interact with other developers, and – hopefully – shapes our games, which will benefit from the outside perspective we otherwise lack as a small team. I think this is really important for small studios where you can easily end up working in a bubble. Transparency is a two way street.

G U T S Y There were several words I flirted with here – spirited, daring, adventurous – but they all relate to being bold. As Superstring is a one-man team, and a side project (I have a salary and full time job if things go pear-shaped), I’m happy to take risks. If an idea doesn’t pan out, nobody loses their jobs. Nobody goes without food or accommodation. In practice: Riskiness as a value means that experimentation is built into the studio’s DNA. Our games don’t need to be approved by a risk committee. We will actively pursue ideas that are more out there.

R E B E L L I O U S   This sounds try-hard, but I’ve always been keen to weave a little attitude into Superstring’s persona. I don’t want the studio to walk or talk like a traditional developer; I want it more in line with a band’s brand, for example. Specifically, I want to tap into the themes and visuals of the synthwave music scene – which I feel embodies this attitude nicely. In practice: rebellion as a core value gives nice constraints for visuals, tone of voice and language. This value has directly influenced the visual identity work I'll outline later.

3 | WRITE YOUR STUDIO MOTTO/TAGLINE

The first two steps involve language that – should you wish – need never be public. They’re the invisible tracks your studio will run along. Your motto (or tagline), however, is the slightly more succinct and catchy embodiment of the first two steps. It’s the language you’ll whack on your website and Twitter bios and whathaveyous. It should succintly convey what you’re all about.

Here’s what I landed on for Superstring (after many iterations…):

“(Superstring is) dedicated to abusing the boundaries of game genre.”

I like this because it a) reinforces my mission statement of experimenting with genre hybrids, and b) introduces a little hint of attitude. It sounds progressive – a little rebellious, even.

Note: With the motto complete, I’d also recommend building out a long and short description for your studio, too. There’s countless uses for these (website about page, press release boiler plates, etc etc) , and having a long and short versions prepared will save you a lot of time.

4 | DEVELOP YOUR VISUAL IDENTITY

With the first three steps nailed, you can start building the core assets that will reflect your aims. All that introspective ethereal rubbish can now be converted into some lovely eye-candy! This final step is a big, complex one, in truth; the extent to which you’ll be able to act on it may be limited by budget (it certainly is in my case – there’s plenty more I’d do with a bigger wallet), but there’s a lot you can do to bring your intention and values to the world.

A – by no means exhaustive – list:

L O G O What is your studio logo? How does it reflect your values? Does it reflect your tone of voice? Does it take advantage of accompanying iconography? Does it work in both black and white? How will it animate in video form?

P R O F I L E  P I C T U R E S What is your Twitter/FB/Insta/Discord/IndieDB profile image? Does it use your logo’s iconography? Is it still readable at a teeny-tiny resolution? Perhaps there’s no better representation of your studio than your own beautiful face.

K E Y  A R T I wouldn’t say your studio needs bespoke key art (unlike your game, which most certainly does), but it can help establish your values and convey what you’re all about. I was really keen to have something more than just a logo for social headers / website backgrounds etc.

C O L O U R  P A L E T T E   This will likely fall out of your key art & iconography – but having a defined colour palette will help tie everything together across the many platforms you’ll likely use. Continuity is key. Whenever I set up Superstring on a new service or social media, I ensure the colour themes are set to purples/blues/pinks; whatever is closest.  

F O N T What font or lettering are you adopting for studio communications? We all know how poor font choice can lead to wrong impressions...

O T H E R  S T Y L E  E L E M E N T S e.g. D O U B L E  S P A C I N G  I M P O R T A N T  T E X T //Branded bullets Signature Emojis

W E B S I T E How does your website bring together all of the above to perfectly convey the brand you've tried to cultivate? This is the one place you have complete control over, and it should accurately portray what you're all about.

Note: I see lots of developers leaning on imagery from one of their games in relation to the above. I think it’s important to separate your studio imagery from game imagery as soon as you’re able. Let your studio stand on its own legs and exist outside of individual game branding.

There’s a lot more to it than just this, of course. The language and tone of voice you adopt is also born out of all this positioning work, but there's enough to talk about here to dedicate a blog of its own. I won't go into it now.

I still think a lot of the above can feel pretentious and without substance, but going through the motions of each step honestly unlocks a lot. Give it a bash.

Thanks for reading – I hope somebody finds some use in this. I am more than happy to chat in more depth about any of the points here – come chat with me on Discord - and if you found this helpful, please do subscribe to the Superstring newsletter for the next dev journal.

Jamin

[earcontact]

Describe each of the PCs' blogs, and what they usually blog about

im love u 

I’m on the computer now so I can do things like put shit under a read more and tag things

Zey: it depends on the universe. zeys typically a lot more of like a youtube/snapchat/instagram gal, she likes taking and sharing pictures and seeing other peoples pictures, her tumblr is reserved almost entirely for crossblogging from her other accounts and 4 interacting w her fans and interacting w the content the other pcs make, if she does reblog anything beyond like stuff she herself made or that people made for her, its all humor things, jokes, she doesnt get a lot of tumblrs humor but there is still some humor she does get, so if it makes her laugh, she reblogs it, and she also reblogs music, espeically original music, that she likes, which her fans then see and make popular, hence why she reblogs it to begin w

Sylvia: i tink sylvia would b like zey in that her tumblr is mostly 2 keep tabs on the other people in her community, especially the other pcs, her blogs mostly empty but she likes her friends personal posts with near religious dedication. 

Rekmid: rekmid doesnt know how 2 do most things w computers but she loves her friends and wants 2 support them and keep tabs on them, so she makes a tumblr. her theme is still the default but zey showed her how to change her icon and its of rokgor. she posts a lot, but like, complete non sequiters that dont have 2 do with anything and have zero context like “what the fuck was with that guy” and “go team *insert 10 emojis here*” which team? no one knows. also likes her friends posts with near religious dedication, often reblogs and leaves a comment in the post itself. also leaves comments in the post itself for e v e r y reblog, she’s the mutual youre embarrassed for, please, someone teach her how to tumblr propeerly, reblogs so many different things, animals, her friends posts, signal boost posts, infromational posts

Dana: shitposts, shitposts s o o o o o much, and then like dives into seriousness when she reblogs and writes an essay pointing out flaws and inaccuracies in some like, historical or faux-informational post, and then the op reblogs hre essay w an essay of their own and she just reblogs with ‘lol’ or something similar, she doesn’t care t h a t much

Gwyn: has like a sideblog, off of one of thea’s dummy accounts (because thea would have fucking dummy accounts) and like, her blog’s a ghost town, but she always seems 2 be lurking w that like and empathetic emojis

Thea: does she have a blog? she has the tumblr app downloaded, gwyn’s confirmed she does have a tumblr, but no one knows what it is, what’s on it, anything. she has dummy accounts that she sometimes queues posts at for like 4:15 in the morning, and no other time, but her r e a l blog is a fandom blog where she goes on in essays about classpecting that is Very Serious. just kidding about the very serious thing, shes a fucking nerd and runs like 4 different blogs, like shes got a pure multifandom and an aesthetic blog and a classpecting (or fantheory) blog and a blog she uses to absolutely t r o l l everyone else, but especially rekmid (dana is left alone, but once one of dana’s essay reblogs was from one of thea’s posts and thea spent like half the night in a panic because she thought she’d properly fact checked everything. but dana just like demolished her arguement and logic. she never respons)

CURI: very cute aethetics blog, has a minimalist theme and like 0 text posts beyond reblogging like, self help/mental health posts, is that person who’s always like “I’m here if my followers need anything!!”, does actually get a few anons who need to vent, handles it very well, but always stresses that she isnt a replacement for actual medical help or therapy (”though i soon will be qualified!”)

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How I, a designer, learned to code and released an app in 4 months

Okay, I’ll be honest with you right away. The title is a little misleading.

I started learning Swift 4 months before and I knew some coding before that.

But I have never created a native app for any platform. Thinking about it now, I had no idea what I was up against…

For you to understand the how I did it, first I must tell you the why.

Traveling back in time

I always loved computers. My father bought our first machine when I was around 8 years old, and I became hooked in a second. It had a blurry CRT screen and it was running DOS, but it did what you wanted it to do.

That thing was pure magic for God’s sake!

Of course I mostly played games on it but I fell in love with the whole environment. I learned about how a PC worked, turned all the knobs and switches in the programs and became the guy others came to for tech-advice.

Fast forward to 1999. It was the time of 56k dial up modems and ADSL lines. I was still into computers as the Internet started gaining popularity in Hungary. I spent most of my afternoons in the school’s IT room visiting Geocities pages.

It was the beautiful era of <frame> based websites with the dancing baby animgif and I wanted a part of it.

I started learning HTML and created my first website. And since it was ’99 I appropriately named it Zolee Site Millenium. It ran on our school server and was only accessible via a Frankensteinian URL, something like www.kkt.piar.school.gov.hu/~hosszu2 (notice the nice tilde character in there). But I was online, I conquered a little bit of the new promise land called the World Wide Web. It felt amazing.

My love for gaming stuck with me in the following years: I was playing a lot of Counter-Strike. As it became the most popular game, I always had a chance to create a website for my current team.

I loved designing and building pages, but after a while started focusing my efforts on the visuals and usability. The latest trends of web development passed right by me as I learned more and more about pixels and user-experience.

Today I work as a full-time UI designer at a Hungarian agency. I have no experience with the current top frameworks like Node, Angular or Bootstrap. And I’m okay with that.

But I’ve been keeping an eye on HTML, CSS and JavaScript goodies, because I always work on personal projects on the side.

The idea for GAget

In 2011 my website got a huge facelift. The layout got featured on DeviantArt and I felt excited about new users checking it out every day. But I also was really frustrated.

Not because of the number visitors, but because there was no quick way for me to check them. There were two options. I either had to keep fiddling with Google Analytics, or I needed to find a simple app to do the trick for me. That’s what OS X Dashboard widgets are for, I thought, so I started looking around.

But the solutions out there were either too nerdy and ugly or just didn’t give me enough data. So being a designer, I drew up a mockup of what the best solution for me could be and posted the design on Dribbble.

A couple of dozen likes made me dig into the topic a bit more. I found out that widgets were essentially HTML + JavaScript apps, so I started taking it a little more seriously. I mean, these were the two languages I was most familiar with.

The working prototype was running on my Dashboard in a couple of days. I named it GAget [pronounced the same way as gadget] as an acronym for Google Analytics widget. A silly name, but it stuck.

The widget was released about 2 weeks later, in August of 2011.

I stopped updating the bookmarks featuring GAget after a while…

The amount of feedback was stunning: MacStories, SwissMiss and tons of smaller blogs featured GAget. I even had my name printed in the Hungarian version of PC World magazine.

I knew I had to keep working on it.

What to do next?

Today the widget has over 84 thousand downloads and it is being used by thousands weekly. With a friend of mine we even created an iPhone version. So when Apple released Yosemite and discontinued the development of Dashcode, GAget’s future started looking pretty grim.

But as one hand took something away, the other gave something back: Apple opened up the Notification Center for developers to display widgets there. Hope! Maybe the success story of my small widget could continue!

My Instagram post about the new design.

I started reading Apple’s documentation on Today extensions (this is what they call widgets). But it was all native Objective-C code. Ugh! Dealing with a compiler, memory leaks and multi-threaded processes was not what I wanted to do. It sounds scary if you’ve never done it before. But I made up my mind, GAget needed to become a native widget!

My biggest problem was that I had no idea where to start.

The Objective-Struggle

I purchased a book about iPhone development in Objective-C, but gave up after a couple of sections. To be honest, for someone familiar with front-end languages and a bit of PHP, Objective-C looked way too complex. Look at this code:

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What could an interface, a property be, what does nonatomic or weak mean and what the hell are @ and * doing in there? I understood end though!

https://fat.gfycat.com/DifferentGivingFunnelweaverspider.mp4

The swifter way to code

The tutorials in the book were leading nowhere. After a few weeks of struggle, I didn’t get any closer to a native widget.

Then I remembered that Apple introduced a new programming language called Swift alongside Yosemite. It was new to everyone, so a lot of gurus started writing about it, discussing why it sucked and how you should learn Objective-C before even thinking about touching Swift. All this buzz made me take a look: I downloaded and started reading its documentation.

It felt like a breeze. The code started looking familiar, something like a little complex JavaScript! I fired up Xcode and started copying what people were doing in tutorials.

My main goal was an OS X widget, but most tutorials were focused on Swift itself or iPhone apps so I had to keep searching. I still had a lot of unanswered questions, like:

How can a widget and a containing app communicate? (Core data and app groups)

Can I use hover interaction? (No)

How do I open only one row of the widget while closing the others? (Auto layout and some manual height hacking)

Apple’s one page long documentation on widgets forced me to dig up source codes on GitHub and Stack Overflow and it took me countless hours to figure out the answers.

I collected and published the links I found useful along the way. They might be relevant for you too, in case you’re starting out with iOS or OS X programming.

I managed to find everything I needed and started moving faster than I expected: GAget for Yosemite started to take shape.

MVC, multi-threaded processes, app targets, view controllers and core data meant nothing 4 months ago. But thanks to the tutorials, Stack Overflow and a lot of sleepless nights I managed to learn the bases of Swift and OS X development.

Thanks to 800 people the beta testing was a blast. GAget is now available in the App Store as a designer’s first native application.

What I learned — besides a new programming language

I knew that working on a personal project is awesome long before Swift came along. You get to do whatever you want and you don’t answer to a boss or a client. You can add and remove features any way you like and you work in your own pace.

Deadlines

However, I found that giving yourself a deadline can be extremely motivating. Every New Year’s Eve my wife and I sit down and make a list about the things what we want to achieve in the following year. This time I listed that I want to release the new version of GAget by the end of January: this was my deadline.

Even though I ended up missing it by a month (thanks to Apple’s review process and a few other projects), I was working the hardest in January to check this thing off my list. Having it written down on a piece of paper is a powerful motivator.

The circle of learning

I also discovered that while learning something new there are three phases you cycle through: excitement, struggle and solution.

Excitement phase:you alway start here. You have a new idea and start learning things, everything looks promising and you wonder what you can do next. You feel motivated and you’re experimenting with the stuff you know. But you eventually reach a barrier in your knowledge.

Struggle phase:as you encounter the first real problem your excitement and motivation levels start to plummet. You have no idea what could help you or what to search for. You are desperate: even checking out the 3rd results page in Google for an answer.

Solution phase:Finally! You find the solution to that nasty problem. You move faster than before, and start to feel excited and motivated again. You go back to phase 1.

So next time you start out, remember: the struggle phase might be long and frustrating but the solution is out there. Finding it is part of the fun.

And don’t forget to check out GAget ☺

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Official Title: Grand Theft Auto IV

Also Known As: Grand Theft Auto 4, GTA 4 and GTA IV

Genre: Action, Third-Person 3D Action

Developer: Rockstar

Publisher: Rockstar Games

ESRB Rating: Mature

Release Date: April 28, 2008

Hints

Ton Of Money

If you happen to be driving around and see a truck that looks like a bank truck, steal it. There are two cool things about this truck, first you cannot gain stars. Hit police cars, run over people, skip a toll booth and you will not gain any stars. Second is find a quite place and blow it up, money goes flying everywhere. Be careful not to get too close though because you WILL burn, and if you don’t move fast around the time the fire goes out the money disapears.

Get Some Action

Drive around and find a hooker. Honk your horn at them and wait until they enter your vehicle, then drive somewhere and you will begin receiving head and she will get on top of you. All you have to do is drive around.

Annihilator Helicopter Location

There is an Annihilator helicopter landed on Francis International Airport in Dukes. When you enter the airport, go all the way to the north-west side, the helicopter is there most of the time, not always though. Make sure you get there quickly, since you’ll get an instant 4-star wanted level once you enter the airport.

Letter Codes

For some who don’t want to look on a phone, and since some tv’s have bad graphics and you can’t see the letters, well here they are.

A, B, C=2 D, E, F=3 G, H, I=4 J, K, L=5 M, N, O=6 P, Q, R, S=7T, U, V=8 W, X, Y, Z=9.

Fix Motor On Your Car

On your phone dial 911 and your motor will be fixed, also you can call the cops, hospital, and fire department.

GTA 4 Weapons Guide

Pistols:Glock 17 PistolDesert Eagle Combat PistolSMGs:Micro Uzi (Micro SMG)SW MP-10 SMGShotguns:Winchester 1300 Pump ShotgunBeretta 1201 Combat ShotgunAssault Rifles:AK-47 Assault RifleM4 Carbine RifleSniper Rifles:PSG-1 Combat SniperM40A1 Sniper RifleRocket Launcher:RPGExplosives:MolotovMk2 GrenadeClose Range:Baseball BatKnife

Dwayne’s Speacial Ablity

When you hang out with dywane alot he can give you backup on missions and stuff.

How To Rob Money From A Store

Go to a store and check that it have a cash register if it didin’t worked go to a internet and go where they put the food. After that get in it and you will see a cash register and it will tell to open it.

Ghost Hospital

When you die the hospital you can go in to go there. Then go to the hall ways, there shold be 2 girders in front of a window. Throw a gernaid until it moves away from the window, then you should be able to jump into the the thing bloking the window. Then go to your left ther should be a door opened go throw that and walk around if you want out you go to a light that apears some were HAVE FUN!

One Man Army Tip

The Achievement ‘One Man Army’ is a difficult one, requiring you to survive 5 minutes in hell (6-star wanted level). This is almost impossible to do by getaway, may it be with a car, a boat or a helicopter. The easiest way to do this is, yes, on foot. First, get a 6-star wanted level, then head into the subway station, into the tunnels. The police won’t follow you into the tunnels. Once you’re far between two metro stations, just stay there for five minutes and the achievement should pop up. (Now you could cheat to get rid of your 6-star wanted level, or you could become the best GTA IV player ever and try to get rid of it the hard way! ).

Multiplayer How To

Video Review

Get Fire Trucks Galore

To get lots of fire trucks, go to the hookers strip club and into the parking lot. Then turn around exit to the left. Take the last right before the end of the road. After that to the left there will be a fire station. Go in and you will see fire trucks galore.

The Heart Of Liberty City

First, you’ll have to have access to Happiness Island. Once you’re able to go there legally, find the Helicopter Tours (which is directly east of Happiness Island) and steal a helicopter. Fly to Happiness Island and over the Statue of Liberty, then jump out of the helicopter at the statue’s feet. You should land on the topmost tier of the statue, which is basically a square platform with a door in the center of each side. Run around the platform until you see a door with a plaque on either side of it that reads, “No Hidden Content Here.” It may seem like you cannot go through the door, but you can– it doesn’t open, you simply walk THROUGH the door. Inside, you’ll find an empty room with a tall ladder. Climb it, and when you reach the top, look up; there is a gigantic beating heart, held in place by chains.

FBI Most Wanted

To get an achievement for 6 stars wanted level go to ocean find a turbo boat and make sure you have a life jacket and ride the boat around a blocked island and get 3 stars after shoot at some boats until you get 6 stars after try to survive for at least five minutes and after try to loose your wanted level trust me your going to have to be slick.

Safehouse & Outfit

In the mission where you have to kill either Dwayne or Playboy X, killing Dwayne will give you no benefits, while killing Playboy X gives you his penthouse as a safehouse, as well as a hidden easter egg: the clothes that Clyde wears in GTA III.

Easy Money

Go to an ATM, then cause a traffic jam to the area. Wait for someone to take money from the ATM, then kill him or her. Make sure to block any nearby roads so the ambulance cannot get to the murdered victim. Take the money they dropped on the ground. Then, run a short distance away, and go back. The money should have respawned on the ground. You can repeat this as many times as desired. You can also kill more people taking their money from the ATM to increase the amount of money that respawns.

Phone Numbers

Dial one of the following numbers on Niko’s cell phone to call the indicated business or person:

Businesses

Bean Machine Coffee: 555-0110Emergency Services: Dial "911" to summon the police, fire department, or an ambulance. Express Car Service: 555-2222Express Car Service: 555-3333Fire Proof Doors: 555-5700Hero Shop: 555-8575LCPD Recruitment: 555-RECRUITLiberty Construction: 555-1274-73No Problemo Bail Bonds: 555-945-733-92Storage: 555-221-3877Superb Deli: 555-4674The Serrated Edge: 1-800-555-5555Used Auto Parts: 555-7300Vinewood Laundromat: 555-5123Zit Song Identifier: Dial "948-555-0100" if you hear a song you like on the radio, dial this number to get a text message with the name and artist of the song.

People

Blackmailer from “Call And Collect” mission: 843-555-0124

Drug dealer from “Lure” mission: 545-555-1022

Roman Bellic: 718-926-7215

How To Make Two Girls Fight

This how to make two girls fight. You have to be in any car and if you are driving around and you see two girls in a car, pull up and hit the driver side door and block it so the driver can’t get out that door. Once the driver gets out the passenger door, she will start hitting the passenger and the passenger will hit back. The cops however wiil NOT come arrest tthem because police are lazy in the game. It only lasts for a few minutes because eventually they will get hurt and tired and they will walk away in pain.

Keeping The Engine Running

While in a vehicle, quickly tapping the Y button will cause the engine to keep running while you head off to do something on foot. This way, you won’t have to start the engine again if you’re in a hurry. If you’ve done this correctly, you will still hear the radio station playing inside the car.

Pump Shotgun

First, unlock bohan then go to strip club. Go in and when you do look to the left and there will be a door. Go inside and there will be a pump shotgun.

Alarmed Car

If you see a car that you really like then take it but wait what if the cops come? After you activate the car alarm run away as fast and as far as you can crouch down and get your gun ready just in case then wait until you can’t hear the car alarm any more and take the car.

Perform a Great Stunt

Go the the International Airport and get anairplane (this stunt requires 2 people) and get ahelicopter. When you do bring a fast car over tothe southern or northern end (it doesn’t matterbut the south end is closer). Find the 2 yellowsmall signs that have a small path between them. Take the airplane and carefully place it in thecenter of the pathway staying on the pathstraight. When ready have the other player driveat a high speed and ramp the yellow signs. If youhit the propellers then you will be flying!

Free Taxi

This trick requires patience because you need to sit through most of the cab ride. It also requires a pistol, or smg. When you are close enough that you don’t mind running or walking to the destination break the window as you would if you were driving a car and shoot your pistol or smg. The cab driver will be scared and run out of his cab not costing you any money. Don’t try this with a grenade because it will blow up before you have time to run away.

Easy Health

If you are running low on health get in anAmbulance and your health will be restored.

Repairing The Engine

If the vehicle you are driving breaks down and the engine will not start, call 911, and your engine should start again.

How To Find Sultan RS In Alderny

This is how to find the Sultan RS racecar. If you have completed the stroy or already passed the mission “To Live and Die In Alderny” and you know where the old mansion is in Alderny then you should be able to get it. Go to the old mansion and there should be another building next to it. Go behind that building and it should be there and partially covered by weeds.

If You Need To Refresh Your Health . . .

If you need to refresh your health, take a boat or helicopter over to Happiness Island and the corner in the very front of the statue, there is a thing of armour and if your health meter isn’t full after that, then go downstairs and there are soda machines and you can buy and drink soda and should fill up your health meter. If you need grnades, go out the entrance door to the left you will find three grenades. If you need a gun, press start look on the map of Happiness Island and on the end of the western dock in the little cop office will be a Micro Uzi you can pick up.

Helicopters No More During Wanted

When you have your wanted level up and the helicopters are after you, get to a high point near a body of water. Shoot the pilot of the helicopter so the chopper goes down, if the helicopter falls into the water the icon on your map of a helicopter will not go away as long as you stay in the area. Only two helicopters will spawn at a time so if you shoot them both into the water no more will spawn. NOTE: This is also possible on land, however it is much more difficult because the helicopters will most of the time blow up when hitting the ground. Sometimes though, it is possible.

Free Internet Access

In your safehouse in Algonquin, there is a laptop on the bar for you to use. You finally don’t have to pay 1$ for it anymore!

Soda Is Good For You

If you find a soda machine and you are a bit low on health, buy a soda using the LB button. You should get some of your health back. A can of soda only costs $1.

Police Cruiser Location

If you are looking for an unguarded cop car, there’s usually one parked on Mohawk Ave in Hove Beach.

Start A Stalled Car

If your car stalls, go to Nico’s phone and dial any number (while in the car). It doesn’t have to be a real number. Then call and hit the gas while it’s calling and it starts every time.

Free T-Shirt

Go to Happiness Island once you’ve unlocked it. Goto the Statue of Happiness entrance and go up thestairs. When you get up there there should be agood amount of people there. Go to your left orright. Once you’ve done that go up the stairs.keep going up all of the stairs till you reach thetop. Go around until you see something on theground glowing red. Go up to it and pick it up.After that you should be wearing a HappinessIsland T-Shirt.

Grenades

In Meadows Park on the center of the GlobeFountain there are 3 grenades.

Repair Without A Cheat

When you are in a game and your car breaks dow what to do is go on the phone and call anybody on your contacts then immediately hang up. Your car will still have black smoke but it will start back up again.

How To Stay In The Back Of A Taxi Car

First dial this number cop-555-0150. That gives you a wanted level. Then hold Y to get in the back of a cab car. The cab driver should run out. There you go! The wanted level will not go away.

Get A Helicopter

Find a taxi and get in as a passenger. Find and Select Helitour. When the taxi stops turn Niko around and you’ll see a building. Go behind it and you’ll see helicopters. Go up to one and shoot the driver. Get in the helicopter and there you go. ENJOY!

How To Finish A Mission Quick And Stay Alive

Somtimes this works so go with it. On every mission if you have the (HEALTH&WEAPONS) cheatcode get the shotgun begin to soot every enemy you see till the enemy wave is over sometimes on missions enemies have you in a sticky stuation. All you have to do is get run as fast as you can to a safe place turn on your phone and go to cheats and pick the (HEALTH&WEAPONS) cheat. It will heal you up and give extra ammo for help. Thats why I said pick the health&weapons cheat to give extra ammo and heal you up at the same time. Now this is in order if you have to kill a person or a buisness.

Get Your Statistics Up

Idea 1:First get a RPG out, and go find a cop car and shoot a rocket at it. You should have at least 2 to 3 Wanted Stars shown. Next sprint to a safe alleyway. The cops should be at by you now. Then start shooting at the cars and helicopters. Next RUN (NOT sprint), and go to your phone and go to Cheats (if you have them). Now select Heath and Weapons and Wanted Level Down. Idea 2: First go to Playboy X’s Mansion that you now own. Go to the balcony and pull out a sniper. Now start shooting at the civilians and cops. Finally get your phone out, and go to Cheats and select Wanted Level Down.

Easy 6-star Wanted Level

When you first play the game, you sart off in Hove Beach. After the mission when you take roman to the hardware store, He gives you his old phone. Use this phone because you can’t use the other phone. Either diel 486-555-0150 witch gives you just a Knife, Glock, Pump shotgun, micro uzi, ak-47, berrit, rpg, and moltoves or you could diel 482-555-0100 and body armor, a desert eagle, auto shotgun, ump-15, m4a1, barret, rpg and gernades, however if you diel the second number, it blocks an achivment called “clean the mean streets”. Now go to a subway station and fallow the tracks till you go into a tunnel (It should take while unless you spawn a car. The number for a comet (Porsche) is 227-555-0175. ) After you go in the tunnel, drive until you get a 6-star wanted level. Last at nleast 5 minites just waiting in the 6-star wanted level, and you should get an achivment.

Instant Wanted Removal

Whenever you walk through an arrow that triggers a mission while the cops are looking for you, your wanted-level will be cleared completely.

Under The Radar Tip

The ‘Under The Radar’ achievement is unlocked by flying your helicopter under all main bridges in Liberty City. The easiest way to unlock this achievement is to steal a Maverick helicopter from the helitours, since they’re the smallest type of helicopter. Once you’ve flown under a bridge, trophy items should appear on your map. Pause the game, and place a waypoint on any trophy icon that’s left. This should make finding those bridges easy.

Free Health

If you are getting low on health, call 911 and call the paramedics. When the ambulance gets there, hijack it! You should get more health. Repeat if necessary.

Taxi Refund

After a taxi takes you to your destination. Steal the taxi and run the driver over or get back out of the taxi and beat or shoot him down. You sould get your money back. And sometimes more than what you paid.

Free Tollbooth

If you have a police car you don’t have to stop and pay the 5$ dollar toll. You can just drive right through them and you will not get a wanted level.

2 Strippers

All you have to do is, go to a strip club and finda girl to have a private dance with. Then when sheis done with her first dance don’t leave but getanother dance. After that get another dance butanother stripper will walk in and start dancingwith the other girl together.

Loose Your Wanted Level

First of all you must have the ability to travel to Algonquin legally. Log onto the dating site and find a girl named LAWCHICK. And date her for a while and soon you can call her to clear your wanted level only ounce per day though.

Baseball Bat & Shotgun

There is a baseball bat in the alley across from your first apartment, in the grass. You can find the shotgun in the “Fun Fair” mini car racing track near the building, it’s right across from your crib off the boardwalk on Firefly Island.

Fixing Your Ride

If you already have the heath cheat and your car, boat, helicopter, etc. is damaged you can use it while in your vehicle and it with be fixed.

Cheats

Spawn Police Chopper

FLY-555-0100

Charger

CAR-555-0100

Health And Weapons

GTA-555-0100

New Car

Car-555-0100

Motorbike

At the phone, type mbk-555-0100.

Weapons Pack #1

Enter 4865550100 on Niko’s phone. It should giveyou weapons including Baseball Bat, Handgun,Shotgun, MP-10, M4, Sniper Rifle, RPG, Grenades.WARNING: Some of these cheats may preventachievements. It is recommended that you do notsave your game after using these cheats. Pleaseuse them at your own risk.

Weapons Pack #2

Enter 4865550150 on Niko’s phone. It should give youweapons including Knife, Molotovs, Handgun,Shotgun, Uzi, AK47, Sniper Rifle, RPG. WARNING: Some of these cheats may preventachievements. It is recommended that you do notsave your game after using these cheats. Pleaseuse them at your own risk.

Video Cheats (part 1)

Weapons

GUN-555-0150

Spawn Turismo

CAR-555-0147

Spawn Annihilator

Spawn an Annihilator in front of Niko. 3595550100

Advanced Weapons

GUN-555-0100

Remove Wanted Level

Dial “2675550100” into the cell phone. Note: This phone number translates to “COP-555-0100”. This code prevents the “One Man Army” and “Walk Free” achievements from being earned.

Spawn SuperGT

CAR-555-0168

Full Health

Dial 3625550100 into Nikos cellphone cheat codes disable achievements

Map Locations

Enter “www.whattheydonotwantyoutoknow.com” into the in-game computers.

Spawn Jetmax (Boat)

WET-555-0100

Spawn Comet

Dial “2275550175” into the cell phone. Note: This phone number translates to “CAR-555-0175”.

Change Weather And Brightness

Dial “4685550100” into the cell phone. Note: This phone number translates to “HOT-555-0100”.

Spawn FBI Buffalo

Dial “2275550100” into the cell phone. Note: This phone number translates to “CAR-555-0100”.

Spawn Cognoscenti

Dial “2275550142” into the cell phone. Note: This phone number translates to “CAR-555-0142”.

Wanted Level Up

Call on your phone cop-555-0150 and you will get one star and you can keep doing it till you have 6 stars.

Repairing Your Car Free

When your vehicle is damages instead of going to Pay’N Spray Press Up on the 360 controller go to cheats or dial this Number: GTA-555-0100

Increase Wanted Level

Dial CAR-555-0150 on Niko’s cell phone.

Morning

To make the game be early in the morning type in your phone 468-555-0100

Spawn A Sanchez

Enter MBK-555-0150 on the phone.

Spawn NRG900

MBK-555-0100

Armour

Enter 3625550100 on Niko’s phone. It should giveNiko armour.WARNING: Some of these cheats may preventachievements. It is recommended that you do notsave your game after using these cheats. Pleaseuse them at your own risk.

How To Completely Fix A Car

If your ride is broken or if you are delivering cars for Brucie or Stevie and the car is damaged, just pull out Niko’s cellphone and punch in the cheat code for full health and armour which is 482-555-0100. When you use it, it will not only give you full health and armour, the car you are driving will be completely repaired. Although the cheat will block the achievement “Cleaned the Mean Streets”.

HOT (weather Changer)

Enter HOT-555-0100.

this changes the weather and the lighting in the game.

To activate the cheats use niko’s sell (hit the D-pad up two times) then enter the nummbers.

Song Information

At any time during the game, pull out Niko’s phone and dial 948-555-0100.

Health

Enter 4825550100 on Niko’s phone during gameplay.It should restore Niko’s health.WARNING: Some of these cheats may preventachievements. It is recommended that you do notsave your game after using these cheats. Pleaseuse them at your own risk.

How To Get Dirt Bike

Pull up your phone and press the d-pad up to type in the code:625-555-0150.

Unlockables

Assassin’s Greed

Complete all nine assassin missions.

Annihilator Helicopter

Kill all 200 Flying Rats

Remove Ammo Limit

Get 100% for game progress.

Easy Wheelie Rider Achievement

First go to Meadows Park where The Giant gloge is.You spawn or steal a motorcycle (nrg 900) and drive it into the water. Hold the Gas and just drive around in the water. You should have a steady wheelie going without holding down on the Left stick.

A lot Of Infernus

If you got a infernus and you are on bohan, Go with your infernus to Algonquin give him a spray that you like and then go back to bohan on the end of the brigde go right and you see there sometome’s alot of infernus 😉

Wheelie Rider 30G

Do a wheelie lasting at least 500 feet on a motorbike.

Finish Him 15G

Complete 10 melee counters in 4 minutes.

King Of QUB3D 15G

Beat the High Score in QUB3D.

Off The Boat 5G

Complete the first mission.

Rastah Color Huntley SUV

Complete 10 Package Delivery missions.

Off The Boat

Complete the first mission. GS 5

Easy Wheelie Rider Achievement 2

While riding a bike, go to the broker bridge and do a wheelie at least halfwayacross the bridge. To earn the achievement, you’ll need to land it withoutcrashing into anything.

Fed The Fish

Complete the mission “Uncle Vlad”.

Rolled Over 30G

Do 5 car rolls in a row from one crash.

Driving Mr. Bellic 10G

Unlock the special ability of taxi.

Gobble Gobble 10G

Score 3 strikes in a row, a turkey, in 10-pin bowling.

Genetically Superior 25G

Come first in 20 single player street races.

Pool Shark 10G

Beat a friend at pool.

One Hundred And Eighty 10G

In a darts game score 180 with 3 darts.

Lowest Point

Complete mission “Roman’s Sorrow”. GS 5

Easter eggs

Statue Of Hapiness Easter Egg

First, you have to get a helicopter and fly to Happiness Island (or you can get a lift from Brucie). Then, land on the very top of the statue and you should find a sign that says “no hidden content beyond this point” (which is a complete lie). Then if you can get inside the statue from there, you will find nothing but an actual beating heart, with nothing else around it. It’s sick but then again it’s cool!

Glitches

The Water / Air Port Glitches

The Water- when you get a chopper (need a shoot first), then were the alien water easter egg is jump out of the chopper aim for the alien head, and before you hit the water (must be at lest 5ft above water) pull you’r shoot then you glich under the water. It takes a wile.

Air Port pt. 1- (must be on multi player) get in a four set car then go to the plaines that are moveing get in frount of the weel’s and you glich under ground (don’t get out or you come back up).

Air Port pt. 2- go to the air port go to the back of the main station then pull you’r fist out and jump in the thing that looks like a ramp beside the station, then keep jummping and you get inside of it. HAVE FUN!

Playground Glitch

Go to South Slopes. Then there should be a playground. Now, get a car or a motorcycle (i would prefer a car). Bump into the swings. Keep accelerating. Then, you should be flying away.

1000 Bodies In The Water Glitch

Go to the river between the 1st and 2nd city find a lot of people a just kill and kill and kill it may take an hour or so but keep killing and making the bodies go it the river after youve killed tons of people you will just be swimming/driving a boat in dead bodies.

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Achievements

Currently we have no achievements or trophies for Grand Theft Auto IV yet. If you have any unlockables please feel free to submit. We will include them in the next post update and help the fellow gamers. Remeber to mention game name while submiting new codes.