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This week, your nice hosts are still relaxing in Mark's dining room for an episode that has it all: a disagreement about Bluetooth, some good ClawTalk™, and the shortest conversation ever had on the subject of tabs vs. spaces. All this, plus a slightly higher than usual number of wild digressions.

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Input Methods and Controls 0:01:29 Stephen McGregorHardwareStephen’s controller of choice, Power A FUSION.New Windows 10 Xbox wireless controller adapter delayed into 2018 - Gabe Gurwin, Digital TrendsMetro Nexus’ tutorial in action - Mark LaCroix, TwitterBehold, the unintuitive enjoyment of Claw Breaker. - Martha Megarry, YouTube“How to Claw Effectively” - Ture Vangaurd, YouTubehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aY-o0zYxjyE - Game Maker's Toolkit, YouTube“You say jump, I say how high?”  - Martin FasterholdtMartha’s favorite Fingeance fighter, Sparky.This goofy game turns your entire keyboard into the controller - Andrew Webster, The Verge

Alternative controls game Butt Sniffin Pugs, shown at Ctrl.Alt.GDC.

Rocksmith Vs. Rock Band 3 – The Pro Guitar Showdown - Jeff Atwood, Fake Plastic RockGuy beats Dark Souls with DK Bongos - Jordan Devore, DestructoidGameplay of racing game Kirby Air Ride - Mutch Games, YouTube We mentioned this previous episode "We joke here." we also mentioned this one "Will you be the best with me?" Coding Syles 0:36:49 Mark LaCroixProgrammingWhat is your preferred Indent Style?Whatever you do, don’t code like this. - @HisCursedness, TwitterDon’t be a Stephen: Comment your code!Martha uses a cool HTML template engine called Pug.Getting started with Pug template engine - António Regadas, MediumRussian nesting dolls are called matryoshka. - Wikipedia

CamelCase or snake_case?

DarkBASIC, which Stephen used when he was young, went open-source in 2016! - the Game CreatorsHistory around Pascal Casing and Camel Casing - Brad Abrams, MIcrosoft“Namespacing” in Objective-C - Matt, name spacing hipster

JetBrains IDE’s: Webstorm for JavaScript and Rider for C#.

Visual Studio Code is a lightweight Visual Studio that Mark really likes. Splatoon 2, ur, I mean Shooters 1:13:45 Martha MegarryGamingApparently, Splatoon devs didn’t realize the comparison to Super Mario Sunshine… - Sean Ayres, Nintendo EnthusiastDesigning FPS Multiplayer Maps - Dodger, On Game DesignDesign Patterns in FPS Levels - Kenneth Hullett & Jim Whitehead, University of California - Santa CruzLost Planet - SomeCallMeVidal, YouTubeLost Planet's only sequel - Woophoro, YouTube We also referenced our episode on Violence in Games