as i mentioned in the random sh!t thread, ive recently been working on a Batsignal with my girlfriend in a game called Minecraft. i took a few screenshots of the various development stages, so ill stick them in here for anyone whos interested



this is a draft layout of the batsignal, we made this just above ground level so we could get and idea of where it would go, how big it would be, etc. we made this out of dirt, but the finished thing was made from obsidian, which has a great purple colour, but it tricky to make and requires a long time to mine, so for this rough version we used something a little more pliable



this is the finished logo, illuminated with torches, so the outline could be seen against the night sky. this was taken when we were planning the lava holding system, we decided to use glass but since that can only be placed once because it cant be picked up after it is destroyed, we mapped it out with dirt, and made adjustments. the illuminated house in the distance isnt ours, but i used it to take the faraway shot shown later.



this is the finished article, from directly underneath. as you can see, we used a lot of lava to create the 'spotlight' effect, like the real Batsignal. this is held in place by about 100 blocks of glass, which we obtained by digging up half a beach and smelting all the sand in furnaces.



same as above, but on an angle. helps to demonstrate how we keep all the lava in place. we couldnt put a lid on it though (it is literally at the top of the level), so every now and then burning embers come flying out of it. they disappear before hitting anything flammable though, such as the hundreds of trees or our wooden base entry hut situated directly below it.



same as above but from a distance. we decided to take a hike and see how far away from our base it could be seen. this shot it taken from a house at the bottom of the hill, and is it still very visible.

so, thats our Batsignal. comments/questions/suggestions for other stuff we could build welcome also, i am aware that several of the images are pretty huge, and i will resize them if needs be.

You should try to get this noticed on something like Kotaku as it's pretty cool

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any chance of a download of that? I have paypal if neccesary

the map is SMP so anyone with Minecraft can view it, its on a server belonging to Aprilon Dynasty. the IP of the server is on that page, i wont post it here in case it gets turned into a hyperlink our house is little tricky to find on the map, but i will post directions from the spawn point if someone requests them

thanks for the comments and suggestions guys. im chatting to the co-creator at the moment, we might see about posting on a few places. ive suggested Kotaku, and we will probably stick it on the official Minecraft forums as well

Last night even though she was knackered Emily decided to stay awake as long as possible. This was around 10:30pm....

One of the admin staff at work found we'd bought a quite a few too many pages of laser printer sticky labels, so asked for requests in for any labels people might want to have. I put in a suggestion purely on spec and it has been printed! I now have a sheet of 16 labels, each of which show the following profound missive :-

Get a few sheets of "Retard Parking Award" and stick them on badly parked cars.

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Bagpuss!

Mark

I got a Baguss too.


Share the labels then Jon

This was photographed in scotland near an 1800s church

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Nice.

Mark

Odd car parked on Euston road yesterday

F1 cars are rare, so u are lucky

photographed this one back in 2008, took the photo whilst driving past them, expressions on their face was just lol