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Celtx - free TV and film production software
by Victor Agreda, Jr. Feb 24th 2006
Starting with the story and breaking down the elements,
building a schedule and sharing the reports, Celtx is an incredibly thorough tool
for TV and video (or film, or theater). It's cross platform and totally free. One of the interesting features involves
a built-in web browser, enabling some great collaboration opportunities. For instance, you can update multimedia assets
(like photos) in realtime, so everyone has the same pic of the location for tomorrow's shoot. In fact, Celtx is built on
Mozilla's Application Framework. I had been stressing templates for Word to do a little proper screenwriting, but Celtx
does a great job, reminding me of my long-lost OS 9 copy of Final Draft. But Celtx is like much of the Movie Magic line
rolled into one web-aware, cross platform nugget. Did I mention it's open source too?
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
