Bejeweled Used in Marriage Proposal, Developer PopCap Helps with Honeymoon

I especially liked that Popcap admitted that ordinarily they would be against people manipulating or creating clones of their games, but this was special so they let it slide.

this sounds almost as good as the program I wrote in VB for my students last week.

I hooked my laptop up to a projector to demonstrate to the whole class the program. They were initially puzzled because I typically use a piece of software called Vision to broadcast my screen onto all their workstations.

I was teaching some sample ways to incorporate loops into VB programs. I called one student up, a quiet, short, indian boy, to demonstrate a simple example. He came up to my laptop, ran it, and then I had him sit down again.

Then the second program, which had an unannounced secret in it, was demonstrated by a tall obnoxious kid. I explained the interface to a fully legitimate program, and then when he clicked the "Calculate" button, the interface cleared out, and all that was left on the screen was a box that said "YOU = RICKROLL'D", and then it loaded WMP into fullscreen and proceeded to rickroll my entire class.

Half of it didn't know what it was, but for those who know of the internet, the expression was priceless.
Afterward, I commented out the function call that did it and proceeded with the lesson as normal. I even did a little sub-lesson on how to embed WMP into a VB form.

I'm probably one of a very small selection of public educators that have Rickroll'd their entire class.

We had a guy here at the office propose to his girlfriend in similar fashion by having her playtest Mirror's Edge. At a certain point she was supposed to come out running from under a tunnel and find a small box with a note and a ring on it.

She missed it entirely the first time. :)

All worked out in the end though, and it made for a beautiful moment.

This is an awesome story :)

I swear to god I heard this like a month ago regarding bejeweled or something similar. At some point during the game (previous article also mentioned it was his gf favorite game) an "8-bit" version of an engagement ring popped up on the screen. Is this the same story, and if so, why is everyone covering it now? Two different people, just one mimicked the other?

Makes you wonder how she would tell him that she is pregnent (if/when it happens).

Fascinating! More stories like these please! :)

Should have used peggle. Unicorns are awesome!

Imagine extreme fevers points buckets replaced with Yes/No. Intense :D

Women just laugh at me when I try and do cute things involving hard work, yet this man gets a wife. Life is a cruel bitch mother.