Be Excellent To Each Other

And have Gold LIVE accounts.

Basically, I need two people to log in and form a party, and, if possible, play a game with each other.

Anyone fit the bill?

Kinky

Playing games on Xbox 360? I think you've asked the wrong group of people for that, sorry.

We're all playing Solitaire on our word processors now.

I am near my 360, but I have no friends on line at the moment.

But it's on and you're playing GoW2, right?

yes, well I have had a short break due toa grinding noise, but am now loading it, and am in party with Wullie of the Ooster.

I am near my 360. Don't have GOW2 though. Why????

Really? Fuck.
Wullie is showing as offline (is he still WullieOoster?)

I want to make the forum know if people are playing together, and tell other people.
Before you get afeared, this will be an opt-in thing.

I haven't got it because I am not paying £55 for it.

Yes it is WullieOoster

I yam

yeah, me and Wullie are now playing Horde. Well, Wullie is playing, I am dead as usual.

ZOMG! You are awesome.

I am not "afeared", sounds like a good idea.

Edit: Also how the hell are you doing this???

I will be home and wanting to play Gears in about an hours time once I escape from The Bus of Doom. No old ladies smelling of sausage yet,but I'll keep y'all updated (I'm sure you're on the edge of your seats).

I could be there soon... but I dont play gears

I don't think the bit of LIVE I can get my little claws into knows who is playing with who. But it does know if you are currently playing, and what it is. So that'll do.

It was Gaywood's idea, to be fair.

I'm at home if you need me.

I've got a few things to do first, but maybe in an hour or so I might be able to pop on

Nah, not really now, thanks.
All I wanted to know was if any party information became publicly available when you joined a party.
It doesn't, unfortunately.

I don't think the party thing is too vital really. If five bezzies are all playing the same game, it's pretty easy to work out they're probably playing together.

Out of interest, where's this awesome info gonna be displayed?

I think I might ditch the "news" thing.

Yeah, might be an idea...

or merge it .. 'Dimrill is playing Undertow.. mock him!'

Look up, folks...

Wow! That is actually quite cool.

I see the ceiling.

(Good, but it's a bit of a shame that you can't click it to either advance or see the entire list.)

Oh nice!

maybe a scrolling one might be better?

Looks up. Realises you have to switch to the normal version.

Awesome!


Suggestion: can you make like a top 5 list of the games with the most people playing, and then who they are, because it would be "at a glance" instead of "sit there and watch it for 10 minutes".

Like:
Gears of War 2 (3): bobbyaro, wullieooster, some guy nobody knows but is in the list anyway...

Be cool, folks. It's not finished.
And it's off now, in case you were still looking

Maybe it's something that would work in the 'Who's Online' box at the bottom?

Or instead of Bobbyaro is playing gears 2
Kalmar is playing gears 2
Wullie is playing gears 2

have it saying, Bobby, kalmar and wullie are playing gears 2?

Something like that

OR, just a button that opens a pop-up box with the list in it?

That's what I said! So it is a good idea.

But something that isn't in the news list thing would be better because it doesn't work on the mobile version...

This is probably a good idea too, but maybe both?

A thingy at the top with as kalmar said the 3 or 5 most played games? And then a full list if you want to view it?

Slight brokage:

phpBB Debug] PHP Notice: in file /viewforum.php on line 193: fread() [function.fread]: Length parameter must be greater than 0.

That's a notice, that's not breakage. Yesterday was breakage

That'll do for now. I guess we have to wait until later to see if it works.

Good work!

Whoever metalmiketh is.

Yeah, I'll deal with the 'opt-in' stuff when I know it's working.

If anyone else is around to try it I can bob downstairs and start a game if you want to test it.

It's not working, Mr Chris is not constantly playng CoD4

He must've completed it on Veteran by now.

or at the very least he should be off the first level.

Yeah, that's not quite right.
Hmm.

Also instead of "on their own" needs to be changed to "with themselves"

Heh.

However, over the Pig Pox period that wasn't far from being true. I am MAJOR. However, how chuffing disappointed was I that the reward was another fudging sniper rifle. When do I get the P90 or G36?

Right, that's actually updating now

Good. For a lot of the day me and Mr Chris did look like a pair of jobless layabouts with Xboxes and no mates. Which is unfair on me.