I am the spider that laid this web.

Happy Halloween!

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 10:35:45 GMT

(Posted here as well)

Happy Halloween, everyone! Are you excited for the occasion? Dressed up in your bedsheets, mother's undergarments, with a LEGO container on your head, all ready to gather up your neighborhood's sweets? Then I might ask you to take off that bucket, because it will make reading this article quite impossible... If you're not a witch, at least. Kihihihi!

First of all, Sigrogana Legend! And for the starters, your minds are going to be blown on this one, but: the game is now being hosted 24/7! Thanks a lot to Knight, though, who hosted up until this point, because we might have to resort to him hosting sometime in the future, who knows!

If you remember last year, all of the monsters started coughing up candy the minute you beat their heads in. If you don't remember, then you didn't play back then, and shame on you! It's the same story this year, except we've expanded our candy horizons with the addition of several new witty candies that kept the writing department away from their families for weeks at a time, possibly against their will! Hooray! If that doesn't excite you, then perhaps you're far too out of touch with your inner child. In that case, I'll offer you free stuff! Today, only, if you log in to play, you will receive a QUITE POSSIBLY THE ONLY TIME YOU'LL EVER GET ONE event familiar, the Jacky Lantern!

This ribbon-wearing little bound-to-be-rotting-inna-week harlot will make sure that you get enough candy this Halloween to drown yourself in! However, she will not be able to supply the super-heating gamma ray cannon required to turn your huge piles of candy into liquid with which to drown yourself in. Too bad, so sad!

You're still here? What a good, obedient person you are! In exchange, I'll tell you a super secret about Sigrogana that no one's found out yet! You ready? Have you ever tried to 'Select All' on the Asago Corporation Press Release news post? No? Well, maybe you're better off not trying... Kihihi..

Now then, I seem to have forgotten... What else was this news post about? Oh well, it was probably nothing important, so long!

... Wahahahaha! I saw the look on your face, you looked so surprised and stupid! Worry not, for now we get to the meat in this meat sandwich. A new game, yes! One befitting this holiday of witches and werewolves and mummies and ghosts and pumpkins and the game's name? Witches' Chess! I'm sure you've at least played Chess once in your miserable, short life, yes? Kihihi. Well, if you're content with that, Witches' Chess is a game that will let you play chess with all of your loser human friends as long as you want!

What's that? There's already literally HUNDREDS (2) of BYOND chess games? Well of course there are! You'd have to be a really big moron not to know that! Would it really be fitting to call a normal chess game 'Witches' Chess'? Certainly not!

That's where the 'Witches' Chess' part comes in, dummy. It's just like normal chess, with the huge exception that it totally isn't! You see, witches can use powerful magic to change the way the game is played! When you play Witches' Chess, you don't just play like normal. You power up your magic spells by beating the crap out of your opponent's pieces and other stuff, and then casting spells on your turn! Witches always manipulate the game to best suit them, you see. Spells do all sorts of things, so it's best for you to go check it out immediately, right?!

And hey, if you like medals, you can at least play for a little bit and collect some! This game already has, like, 20 that you can get! That's more than most of your guys' ages, right?!

But, um. One last thing. This game is just being released, right? So it's basically the first ever non-official testing it's gotten! There might be bugs, but you guys aren't scared of bugs, right? Kihihihi... Anyway, if you find some, you can head on over to the Witches' Chess forum and report them! And if you have any neat ideas for medals, game features, or spells, you can post them in the Suggestions section. You know how to type, at least, right?

Thanks for your continued support, and Happy Halloween, everyone!

Since there's at least two posts on the members page about it...

Fri, 04 Sep 2009 03:16:25 GMT

I haven't actually bothered to look at it, but I am aware that there seems to be a rather poor attempt at a Mitadake High emulation floating around. Let me go ahead and clear up what I assume will be a few potential questions people might have.

1) No, I didn't okay it. Didn't even know about it!
2) No, it wasn't made using the source, as you can probably tell. I don't give it out, I don't consider giving it out, so it doesn't get out.
3) I don't really plan to do anything more than click the 'it's a rip' button if it's on the hub.

And I know a good portion of BYOND doesn't care and thinks that anime games deserve the worst sort of treatment and attention but quite honestly, Mitadake High doesn't have much in the way of anime dependency. It isn't based off an existing anime, the source was pain-stakingly coded by me over the course of several months, and if I were to sit down and remove everything anime about it, the game would have one or two less modes and a less interesting help file, but it would still be an entirely playable murder mystery game.

So please don't hate, yo.

Another Status Update

Thu, 06 Aug 2009 14:51:17 GMT

What've I been up to lately? Basically killing myself over Sigrogana Legend and the new site! Of course, you'd know this if you frequented the forums...

We just had a pretty big update to SL a few days ago. It's pretty cool and introduces some new areas, a few new bosses, and some neat game features that I'm, like, totally proud of. I mean, look at these sweet collapsible inventory menus:

And that was only a minor note on this update. Hard to believe, right? Then again, perhaps it isn't.

If you've never heard of the game, it's an RPG. Why, yes, an RPG! Roleplaying being an important part of the game, as well. But if that puts you off, don't worry; maybe after giving the game a try you'll be more open minded to that sort of thing.

If you're on the fence, why don't you go visit the hub page which is here or over there to the right if you're a total lazy ass! Maybe you'll see something that will make you say 'wow, that's totally sweet and I will give it a try'. There's some helpful descriptions of the game on the hub and screenshots that display some of the more unique things the game has.

We also, a little less recently, in June redid that ugly old plain site we had. The new one is http://www.saya.se/neus and it's pretty neat, if I do say so myself. Take a look around, you don't have anything better to do!

Have a nice day.

I'm Back

Mon, 16 Feb 2009 16:41:22 GMT

A huge thanks to Sabaku no Kira for renewing my membership. It was an unexpected surprise all around, but I greatly appreciate it. You may commence downloading the host files for Mitadake again. :D

Sigrogana Legend Update (Jan 09)

Fri, 09 Jan 2009 14:06:12 GMT

We updated today with some changes and additions already listed in the Worklog on the forums (though it's apparent not everyone reads it!) Give it a glance if you're curious what's been added since the last update on the 5th~, but if you're too lazy, I'll summarize; a new class (Detective), as well as several major changes to a few status effects.

My BYOND Membership is also starting on its last month today, and I doubt I'll be able to renew it myself. I don't use this blog much, so it's not a huge deal, but it will mean the host files for the games that have them up here will no longer be accessible. So, if no one renews it for me, I'd grab a hold of the files while you can because hosting them on the website probably isn't going to happen.

Thanks.

Something weird in the neighborhood.

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 18:41:00 GMT

A little disturbing thing I found... Apparently a resource extraction list from someone named 'Rob'. Was that the name of the DarkWizard guy? Either way, some peculiar stuff. Seems to have been posted 2 days ago.

http://ja.pastebin.ca/1225642

Apparently Mitadake and Sigrogana got extracted, which is really weird because I haven't actually sent the SL host files to anyone but one person, so I don't really know how they could've gotten the .rsc.

Unfortunately several other games seem to have gotten it too; Proelium, P2, DNO, Seika, etc. I dunno how this makes me feel. On the one hand I am disturbed because I felt I had a relatively good security on at least one of my games, which seems to have been for naught, and I don't think the person who I have host it would send the host files to anyone else. I am also a little upset about how easy it seems to be to pull files from the .rsc, taking less than a second for even big games.

Going to go ahead and save a copy of this page just in case the person who posted it finds it and tries to take it down, so let me know if you can't access the page anymore and I'll post it.

Client Side -> Server Side

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 13:22:31 GMT

If you're logging onto Sigrogana Legend today and you've played before, you might want to be aware (if you're not already) that we're moving from client side saving to server side saving.

The bad news is that your characters will be lost. The good news is that any items in your house and your player houses themselves will be fine. So, if you get a moment between now and 5 PM EST, you might want to log in and drop your items and Murai in your house for safe keeping, as we've been suggesting all week.

If you're too late? Well, you're too late, I guess.

Just giving you guys a last heads up.

Sigrogana Legend Public Testing

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 17:09:46 GMT

As of the time of this posting, I'm opening the game up for a public testing period. If you didn't even know the game was being updated again, might I suggest glancing over this post of mine since it details all of that stuff.

If you don't know what the game is, I'll summarize; it is a multiplayer roleplaying game (as in actual roleplaying, not just sitting in the genre). That's a very generic summary. For more on what's all in it, check the previously linked post for screenshots/game details or check the hub entry, or even better yet, the game itself.

If you happen to join the game, please take a minute to read the Foreword from the Developer, as it details some things that I don't want to re-list here.

You can join the game by clicking the link just to your right under 'Cool Games', and finding the server listing. I'm not sure how long I'll be keeping the server open (it ultimately depends on if any bugs and such are discovered), but it should be at least a few hours.

Thanks for reading.

Some Early News For Lair Lurkers

Sun, 27 Jul 2008 11:08:42 GMT

I'm not going to be posting this message on the Members page yet since I'm not quite where I want to be, but I'm getting closer (who would have thought) to the event I wanted to wait to post on the Members page for; public testing. Public testing of what? If you frequent the forums, you already know, but apparently a lot of people don't do that. Anyway.

Sigrogana Legend is back in development. And it has been since... Mid-April. Now, this is probably something you'd think I would announce back then, but to be honest, I had reservations; first of all, the tried and extremely true 'DON'T ANNOUNCE ANYTHING YOU HAVEN'T DONE YET' slogan that BYOND is proud of. I felt that if I announced it too soon, many of the things I wanted to try with the game would feel pressured on me, and if I couldn't end up making them happen, I would feel disappointed and fall out with the project again.

However, three months later, and I've made some really good progress with the game and I'm surprised how well it seems to be going. The game has, essentially, been completely redone due to bad coding practices, but thanks to BYOND 4.0 and a little bit of effort, the game looks far better than it did way back when.

In addition, it plays a lot better than it did back in the day too; many changes and improvements have been made in the way to help make the game feel... more like a game, which is a weird feeling to describe, but it's one of the ones I've managed to curb.

I'm not entirely sure just how many or who amongst you lurks this blog, and since this won't be on the Members page, it's hard to think of just who played Sigrogana Legend like a year or so ago. I know that at least one of my blog watcher, Ryokashi, did, but then again I don't know to what length.

That big digression aside, the only things holding me back from public testing is one thing; content. Even with all of the work I've put into the game, this is something that will always bug me because I will always feel that there is never enough.

This is mainly in the vein of areas to explore, quests, things to do, class functions, and such. Oh content, you generic bastard. Fortunately, with the way the system is now, it's probably easier than ever to add these things, and it will probably be my primary focus.

Don't worry, though; it shouldn't take too long. I don't want to add TOO much to the game, only to find a game-breaking bug (none yet, but knock of wood) and have to redo a lot of stuff as a result.

Sorry for the delay in posts; I was worried that it might happen, which is why I put them both as posts here instead of Members page ones.

Hopefully the next blog post will be an announcement that public testing is open.

If you want to keep better track of what I've been doing and how fast it's going, I keep a topic on my forum open for this very purpose; I tend to post everything I've done so far there as it happens. The Worklog, on the NEUS Project forums.

I've also kept a small collection of screenshots of the game; mostly things that were 'newly developed', so they've probably changed by the time you've seen them in the game, but just the same, here's the link to the screenshots section.

Feel free to post comments/questions here, too, if you like.

Whoops

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 09:27:23 GMT

Yes, I realize that I posted that on May 28th about 'news coming soon', and that there hasn't been 'any news yet'. Still, the post served its purpose to let people know that I'm still quite around.

Anyway, a month later and I'm going to say the same thing; 'news coming soon'. I apologize for that brief period, that seemed to fly by, but I'm going to get everything together now.