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      <title>Xmashed RSS Feed</title>
      <description>Xmashed Games Blog is the home of games developed by game designer Xuanming Zhou.  It is also where he posts his articles and thoughts on all things related to game design.</description>
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         <title>Synopsize: TV Show Synopsis Feed</title>
         <link>http://www.aeonity.com/xuanming/synopsize-tv-show-synopsis-feed</link>
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Wouldn't you like an RSS Feed that provides you synopses of your favorite shows?  Well, now you can - I've developed a system using several existing web tools that will do just this. Take some time and read the steps I've laid out for you below:

&lt;b&gt;Step 1: Make a li... &lt;a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.aeonity.com/xuanming/synopsize-tv-show-synopsis-feed" title="Read More"&gt;Read More&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;</description>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 01:27:37 +0000</pubDate>
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         <title>Undead Wedding Pictures</title>
         <link>http://www.aeonity.com/xuanming/undead-wedding-pictures</link>
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What's the best way to prove your love to your bride?  Why, defend her from a zombie of course!  A couple from California shared the same thought and had their wedding photos taken with a friend dressed as a shambling zombie.  Wonder if someone could top that an... &lt;a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.aeonity.com/xuanming/undead-wedding-pictures" title="Read More"&gt;Read More&lt;/a&gt;</description>
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         <pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 04:29:25 +0000</pubDate>
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         <title>Automatically remove torrents after download</title>
         <link>http://www.aeonity.com/xuanming/automatically-remove-torrents-after-download</link>
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A feature that's been lacking in uTorrent for a really long time, is the ability to automatically remove the torrent file after download is complete.  This has been suggested several times, but repeatedly shot down by developers to prevent "snatch 'n ... &lt;a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.aeonity.com/xuanming/automatically-remove-torrents-after-download" title="Read More"&gt;Read More&lt;/a&gt;</description>
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         <pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 05:48:52 +0000</pubDate>
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         <title>Guide to Setting up PhoneGap with Construct 2</title>
         <link>http://www.aeonity.com/xuanming/guide-setting-up-phonegap-construct-2</link>
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I've mentioned before in an &lt;a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.aeonity.com/xuanming/5-tools-non-coders-make-mobile-apps"&gt;earlier post&lt;/a&gt; that with some initial matchmaking, PhoneGap can work pretty well with the HTML5 game creation toolkit Construct 2 to allow non-programmers to m... &lt;a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.aeonity.com/xuanming/guide-setting-up-phonegap-construct-2" title="Read More"&gt;Read More&lt;/a&gt;</description>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2011 14:57:45 +0000</pubDate>
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         <title>Awakening 3 released at number one</title>
         <link>http://www.aeonity.com/xuanming/awakening-3-released-at-number-one</link>
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&lt;i&gt;Awakening: The Goblin Kingdom&lt;/i&gt;, a game I helped develop, has just been released a few days ago on &lt;a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.bigfishgames.com/"&gt;Big Fish Games&lt;/a&gt;, and as luck would have it, risen on the Big Fish charts to become the number one download for PC games... &lt;a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.aeonity.com/xuanming/awakening-3-released-at-number-one" title="Read More"&gt;Read More&lt;/a&gt;</description>
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         <pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 03:58:34 +0000</pubDate>
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         <title>Hang Up Your Pixel Art</title>
         <link>http://www.aeonity.com/xuanming/hang-up-pixel-art</link>
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Ixxi is a modular wall art system that allows you to piece a bunch of printed cards together to form a mosaic.  While this system can easily be used for making impressive collages out of summer camp photos or wedding albums, we see no reas... &lt;a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.aeonity.com/xuanming/hang-up-pixel-art" title="Read More"&gt;Read More&lt;/a&gt;</description>
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         <pubDate>Sun, 07 Aug 2011 12:22:37 +0000</pubDate>
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         <title>Lovely Tifa Speedpaint</title>
         <link>http://www.aeonity.com/xuanming/lovely-tifa-speedpaint</link>
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A nice little speedpaint of Final Fantasy VII's Tifa Lockhart I found on the highways of the internet a few days ago.  The posture, the unfinished quality and the liveliness of the picture as a whole grabbed my immediate attention.  It's done by a 23 year old Aust... &lt;a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.aeonity.com/xuanming/lovely-tifa-speedpaint" title="Read More"&gt;Read More&lt;/a&gt;</description>
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         <pubDate>Sat, 30 Jul 2011 16:51:22 +0000</pubDate>
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         <title>Design and Publish your own Board Games</title>
         <link>http://www.aeonity.com/xuanming/design-publish-own-board-games</link>
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The Game Crafter is a web-based board game creator that also lets you sell stuff you created on their website, in that sense it's a little like the &lt;a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.etsy.com/"&gt;Etsy&lt;/a&gt; of board games.  The gist is that you design cards, boards and instruction ma... &lt;a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.aeonity.com/xuanming/design-publish-own-board-games" title="Read More"&gt;Read More&lt;/a&gt;</description>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2011 05:11:54 +0000</pubDate>
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         <title>Tekken VS Street Fighter Illustrations</title>
         <link>http://www.aeonity.com/xuanming/tekken-vs-street-fighter-illustrations</link>
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So have you ever wondered how it would be like if Ryu had a face-off with with Jin, or if Chun Li and Ling Xiaoyu had a cat-fight, or if Zangief and King started a cage match?  Well, wonder no further.  A Brazilian illustrator that goes by the name of Pe-u ha... &lt;a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.aeonity.com/xuanming/tekken-vs-street-fighter-illustrations" title="Read More"&gt;Read More&lt;/a&gt;</description>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 22 Jul 2011 16:37:56 +0000</pubDate>
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         <title>Guard your Actionscript from SWF Code Theft</title>
         <link>http://www.aeonity.com/xuanming/guard-actionscript-from-swf-code-theft</link>
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So I found this in my mailbox today, and thought it may be of assistance to someone out there.  DComSoft released an Actionscript encryption software named &lt;i&gt;SWF Protector&lt;/i&gt;, that is designed to guard your AS2 and AS3 code from SWF decompilers.  They invited me to... &lt;a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.aeonity.com/xuanming/guard-actionscript-from-swf-code-theft" title="Read More"&gt;Read More&lt;/a&gt;</description>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2011 14:25:37 +0000</pubDate>
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         <title>Restricted Recall</title>
         <link>http://xmashed.com/restricted-recall/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=restricted-recall</link>
         <description>Restricted Recall is a puzzle platformer made for Experimental Gameplay Project&amp;#8216;s theme for April &amp;#8211; Repeat. The game centers around the concept of repeating a set of three given commands in a loop to solve puzzles and get to the exit in each level. Only the spacebar is required for play. However if you ever [...]</description>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 08:33:42 +0000</pubDate>
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Restricted Recall is a puzzle platformer made for <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://experimentalgameplay.com/">Experimental Gameplay Project</a>&#8216;s theme for April &#8211; Repeat.  The game centers around the concept of repeating a set of three given commands in a loop to solve puzzles and get to the exit in each level.  Only the spacebar is required for play.  However if you ever get stuck, press &#8220;end&#8221; to restart the level.</p>
<p style="text-align:right;">[ <a rel="nofollow" title="Download Trivium" target="_blank" href="http://xmashed.com/games/restricted_recall.rar">Download</a> ]</p>]]></content:encoded>
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         <title>Pangaea</title>
         <link>http://xmashed.com/pangaea/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=pangaea</link>
         <description>Pangaea puts you in the shoes of the beautiful Xunea, who is on a quest to protect her beloved floating homeland of Pangaea from the invading hordes of aerial monsters. Without an actual army, Pangaea&amp;#8217;s defense relies solely on the magical towers built on its very lands. In this refreshing cross between a Sh&amp;#8217;mup and [...]</description>
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         <pubDate>Sun, 27 Dec 2009 03:03:11 +0000</pubDate>
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Pangaea puts you in the shoes of the beautiful Xunea, who is on a quest to protect her beloved floating homeland of Pangaea from the invading hordes of aerial monsters.  Without an actual army, Pangaea&#8217;s defense relies solely on the magical towers built on its very lands.  In this refreshing cross between a Sh&#8217;mup and Tower Defense, can you emerge victorious?</p>
<p style="text-align:right;">[ <a rel="nofollow" title="Download Pangaea" target="_blank" href="http://xmashed.com/games/Pangaea.rar">Download </a>]</p>
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         <title>Wiip</title>
         <link>http://xmashed.com/wiip/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=wiip</link>
         <description>Wiip places you in the role of Mustachio, a circus ringmaster beset by bombs, bunnies, and barrel-riding cats gone out of control! In this single-player action game, you swing your Wiimote like a whip to tame your animals. Snap it back at the right time to create devastating combos which clear the screen with stunning [...]</description>
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         <pubDate>Sun, 27 Dec 2009 02:52:05 +0000</pubDate>
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Wiip places you in the role of Mustachio, a circus ringmaster beset by bombs, bunnies, and barrel-riding cats gone out of control! In this single-player action game, you swing your Wiimote like a whip to tame your animals. Snap it back at the right time to create devastating combos which clear the screen with stunning fireworks shows! How long can you survive against the Three-Ring Swarm?</p>
<p style="text-align:right;">[ <a rel="nofollow" title="Download Wiip" target="_blank" href="http://xmashed.com/games/Wiip.rar">Download</a> ]</p>]]></content:encoded>
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         <title>Constellation</title>
         <link>http://xmashed.com/constellation/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=constellation</link>
         <description>Constellation is a simple puzzle game involving 3 inter-connected orbs of different colors. The goal of this game is to move these orbs to absorb similar colored balls that are moving around randomly in the level, when sufficient balls are absorbed, each orb has a special ability that can then be activated. Be careful not [...]</description>
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         <pubDate>Sun, 27 Dec 2009 02:25:37 +0000</pubDate>
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Constellation is a simple puzzle game involving 3 inter-connected orbs of different colors.  The goal of this game is to move these orbs to absorb similar colored balls that are moving around randomly in the level, when sufficient balls are absorbed, each orb has a special ability that can then be activated.  Be careful not to collide with different colored orbs, as that will cause you to lose health.</p>
<p style="text-align:right;">[ <a rel="nofollow" title="Download Constellation" target="_blank" href="http://xmashed.com/games/Constellation.rar">Download</a> ]</p>
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         <title>Query</title>
         <link>http://xmashed.com/query/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=query</link>
         <description>Search results in style. Query is a quaint little websearch that takes results from Google (or Bing, once my daily Google query limit has been reached), and typografies it. It looks particularly ravishing on vertical screens (i.e. your smart phone), but has little use otherwise. But then again, do we need a reason for cool [...]</description>
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         <pubDate>Sat, 26 Dec 2009 07:56:17 +0000</pubDate>
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Search results in style.  Query is a quaint little websearch that takes results from Google (or Bing, once my daily Google query limit has been reached), and typografies it.  It looks particularly ravishing on vertical screens (i.e. your smart phone), but has little use otherwise.  But then again, do we need a reason for cool hacks?</p>
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         <title>Trivium</title>
         <link>http://xmashed.com/trivium/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=trivium</link>
         <description>Trivium is a multiplayer game that aims to explore the experimental idea of cooperation between three players, each using a different control interface &amp;#8211; a keyboard, a mouse and a joystick. Each player performs a different role in the game depending on the control interface that he or she has chosen, creating a dependency triangle [...]</description>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 25 Dec 2009 07:09:38 +0000</pubDate>
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Trivium is a multiplayer game that aims to explore the experimental idea of cooperation between three players, each using a different control interface &#8211; a keyboard, a mouse and a joystick.  Each player performs a different role in the game depending on the control interface that he or she has chosen, creating a dependency triangle where one interface’s weakness is covered by the strengths of another.</p>
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