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April Fools 2016 thread

Paltheos

Paltheos

Member
DoctorM64, the almost sole developer of am2r "Another Metroid 2 Remake", puts out a cool April Fool's joke ever year. This year's might be the most elaborate I've seen from him yet: amta "Another Metroid Text Adventure". Play Metroid 2... as a text adventure!

http://metroid2remake.blogspot.com/
 
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FelixOrion

Poet Centuriate
So, it's April 1st and you know what that means! Everyone's favorite fake/real/fakereal computer science conference SIGBOVIK is on. You can read the full proceedings of the SIGBOVIK 2016 here (should you care for a laugh and maybe some head scratching): http://sigbovik.org/2016/proceedings.pdf

But onto the title at hand. You may remember the venerable Dr. Tom Murphy VII, Ph.D. aka "Tom7" from his other SIGBOVIK videos/papers in the past few years such as writing generalized programs to teach computers how to play video games entitled "The First Level of Super Mario Bros. is Easy with Lexicographic Orderings and Time Travel (...after that it gets a little tricky)." For you math nerds in the audience, he also established in 2007 that Super Mario Bros. is NP-Complete.

This year, he's back, and he's here to make all your old NES games beautiful and in 3D!

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDxjbXAqTPg
Paper: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~tom7/zelda/zelda.pdf
Source code: https://sourceforge.net/p/tom7misc/svn/HEAD/tree/trunk/smeight/
 
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Gunstarheroes

Member
Jakten said:
Wayforward's April Fools Joke, revealing a silhouette every 2 hours:

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First Revealed:
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https://wayforward.com/news/2016/04/youll-never-guess-who-weve-got-lined-up-for-our-next-adventure/
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Are they secretly announcing a game or is that a character for a game I don't know?
 
The Sum of Zero

The Sum of Zero

Member
So the anime of Planetarian wasn't a hoax after all, it seems.

http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2016/04/01/anime-to-adapt-key-visual-novel-planetarian
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/new...an-visual-novel-gets-anime-adaptation/.100558
http://key.visualarts.gr.jp/product/planetarian/animation/index.html

The project's website lists David Production (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Level E) in charge of animation production.

Key made several false announcements on Friday for April Fool's Day, but renewed the planetarian anime project announcement page on April 2 (Japan time).
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Azure Dream

Member
Jakten said:
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Here's the full roster. The final character turned out to be Hamster Master.
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This makes me so sad, because they nailed the silhouettes so well. Blaster Master's also been on my mind more recently, and Giant Bomb just mentioned it again in their podcast a few days ago (that I was just now listening to).
 
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