Monday, November 26, 2007 4:20:35 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)

This is old news if you're a close follower of The Movies modding scene, but hasn't really been given any attention for some reason.

In a thread posted over at The Movies forums, a member points out that a picture of somebody's baby appears in the game files in a texture called "Marine.dds". Quite who this baby belongs to has not yet been determined, but it is an amusing easter egg nonetheless.

A Marine Baby

More interesting, is when another member posts that there is something suitably dodgy in the game files for him to be unwilling to post it for fear of punishment from the higher powers.

Intrigued, and armed with the information that it was "A painting of a nude woman", I popped into the newly released "The Movies Editor" and performed a quick search.

A Nude Woman

This is what then came up. I can't say I really see the fuss myself, but it is a nude woman and it is present in the actual game as sold in the shops. The game is sold with a "Teen" rating, which mentions nothing about nudity being present.

I then did a search for any sets that might use this image.

Usage Search

Two sets actually use this texture, but on closer inspection they use specific texture coordinates which mean the nude woman is not visible. The game as shipped does not ever show the nudity.

Having said that, the Hot Coffee scandal involved content that could only be unlocked by modifying game files. The exact same can be said for The Movies. I'd be interested to see what the fundies would say if they found out about this - coupled by the implied sex scenes available in The Movies and (with modding) full on nudity it would make for quite a racy pornographic game in their eyes.

Sssh, better not tell them then...

Tuesday, November 20, 2007 1:35:15 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)

Just released v1.0 of some software to a community I've been part of for coming up on seven years.

Two of those years have been spent writing the damned thing (Ok, that's a lie - but some of the code IS two years old...) and I've probably missed the boat considering the game the software is for was released two years ago, but it's nice to finally get something out like this after having it sit stagnant on the hard drive for nearly a year.

The game is of course "The Movies" by Lionhead and I won't bore people with the details, but if you want to see one of the things I get up in my free time, you can find the documentation I've written for it here.

It's about 26,000 lines of code (45,000 including comments etc) in a mixed source solution of C# and VB.NET using the .NET Framework 2.0 and DirectX.

I'll add it to my projects page in due course, far too many things to be getting on with in the meantime though.

Less likely, if anybody feels like contributing, there are plans to push ahead and carry on adding things. Oh boy, my poor free time is evaporating before me :(.