The poor man's Thomas Eddison

Weekly Report

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 07:38:11 GMT

Yeah, Like I get these out every week.

[Final Frailties]

I've managed to get a lot of work done on this one lately. I've managed to get in several features I was very interested in.

Laptop support.
Save file versions to help prevent P-wipes.
Slight adjustments to the equipment lists.
Inclusion of a link to a small instruction file.
Fixed that pesky inventory screen bug.
Several minor tweaks.

I have been working very hard on the major scenarios of the game which will lead to a great restructuring of the game. Fun fun fun. There will be large restructurings of the equipment selections as well as items. In addition I am planing on adding in between 1-3 more towns. There is also a great deal of story work going on behind the scenes that you will just have to play to find out.

[Real Life]

I start my old job on Monday. Yay for gainful employment.

[Army]

Nothing new to report.

Were done here now.

Weekly Report

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 01:14:38 GMT

Well, I missed a week or two due to real life, it happens though.

[Final Frailties]

I have fixed several smaller bugs and redesigned the save system so that it now has an overwrite protection check if you try and save a character over a different one. There is now a check in place to let you know that you can not equip something before you buy it.

I'll soon be working on a new dungeon area, this one is a two parter, on a boat, and below the water.

[BASG]

Yeah, I dropped out of it to work on Final Frailties.

[Real Life]

Broke it off with my girlfriend. Moving east to live with my sister and work in Longview.

[Army]

Playing army now.

That's pretty much it.

Weekly Report

Sun, 27 Sep 2009 23:45:38 GMT

This week I have managed to get very little done in the way of actual work. I have however been all over gods green earth in my little corner of Texas.

[Final Frailties]

I have been doing plot development in my head, but I only have about 4 lines written down on paper.

[BASG]

Yeah, I entered it.

[Real Life]

Nephew's birthday party, girlfriends birthday, party is next week, complete and utter madness.

[Army]

Yeah, nothing yet.

That's all stop reading now

Weekly progress report

Sun, 20 Sep 2009 13:50:42 GMT

In order to keep me honest with my game development as well as to try and get myself to actually do something for a change I have decided to start a weekly progress report on all of my various and sundry activities.

[Final Frailties]

I have been overhauling many of the story elements as well as toying around with some reworking of the maps in the game. I need to get a better understanding of the swapmaps library, as well some simple text on screen systems so that I don't have to custom craft the name tags for every item and menu system in the game. I would like for that to be handled by the game it's self and cut down on my end workload. I have also toyed around with the idea of an opening sequence for the game, but don't expect that any time soon.

[Real World]

In the real world I have finally painted my Ranchero, so now she is a solid primer white instead of 4 different colors of primer. Things are going well with me and my girlfriend, we have been together for almost 4 months now, I hope that it works well.

[Army Life]

I am going to go report to my reserve station in Shreveport on 01 OCT and will have more to tell you after that.

[That's all folks]

Stop reading now.

Finaly home

Mon, 07 Sep 2009 02:30:07 GMT

Well, after three and a half years I am now out of the regular army and back to being mostly a civilian. Life has taken some time to get used to, but then again that is always the way it goes.

I haven't spent these last years in a vacuum though. I have been steadily working on design theory and graphic design with positive results. I am not exactly looking forward to redoing a project as large as Final Frailties, but it needs it and Byond deserves it. I have had the same file available for download for roughly two or three years now, and I am so very far behind in my work on the game.

In other news life continues upon it's inexorable march forward.

End Transmission

Designated driver to the welcome home ceremony.

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 13:18:28 GMT

Today was the official welcome home ceremony for my brigade, I got to be in the sun for almost 2 hours for the horse and pony show. It was fun and I got really sun burnt. However I did get to ride a really fun ride today and I destroyed my friend at bumper cars. He really can't drive them at all.

Then tonight we got a special appearance from Hinder. Only problem was that my friends are idiots. They got piss ass drunk and decided that they were going to drive to the concert. So I had to do the right thing and not drink myself into a stupor. I hate them all so much. But that's just life I suppose, now they're out getting pissed with the band and I'm stuck at home watching my friends wife and kids while I get drunk. It sucks, but whatever.

Thoughts of a soldier back from Iraq.

Fri, 29 May 2009 16:36:30 GMT

Well. I finally made it back to Germany about a week ago now. Things are going well, I'm on schedule to get out of the Army in less than three months, if all goes well I'll be out before I turn 26 but just barely. Unfortunately though just like the last time I came back from downrange I have lost pretty much all of my motivation. It's really weird, about a month before we left I received a visit from a powerful muse. I was drawing again, writing, programming, all of it. Everything creative that I've always loved doing I was able to do in spades. Then we leave and I've got nothing no creative mojo at all. Worse than that, even the idea of making something holds no joy. The simple act of writing this post is a huge effort. It's really quite strange I suppose it's somewhat similar to postpartum depression, something that's been a big part of my life for more than a year now is gone never to return. It's kind of weird to be thinking about the war in Iraq like that, if you can even call it a war anymore, but that's not my place to decide and I do digress.

I will be going home on leave in a few days to go and see my family and find out how everything has changed in the fourteen months that I've been gone. Let me tell you, things in Germany have changed a lot while I was away, I'm a little anxious to see what's happened in Texas in the last three and a half years. However I will be starting college this fall for game design and programming so I'm somewhat proud of myself for actually making it that far instead of still being a lazy stoner living at home and working at taco bell while getting absolutely nothing done.

All in all everything's going the way it should be going I just have to pick up my shit and find my own place again, nothing I haven't done at least ten times before. But I'm tired of picking up the pieces of my life, it wears on you after a while. I do surely pray that this is the last time I have to, but even then I know full well that it will not be.

In some other news I tampered around with the rpgmaker programs and I have to say that for what they do they are quite powerful will a decent if small library of games out. While they fall behind Byond in shear power of customization, they make up for it with the ability to throw together an Rpg in a relativity short time, longer for a good game, but you get the idea. That being said though I still prefer Byond's Dream Suite.

I would really like to seriously get back into drawing, maybe even put together a little webcomic of some sort. There was a time when I was really good at it, but that was years ago with much more time to be able to devote to practicing. Only problem is I have a lot of great ideas (In my own mind.) for how to start a story, I never know how I want them to end, and I don't even like running a nebulous free form campaign for Dungeons and Dragons, let alone just start writing and watch it go all kinds of rediculous.

Anyway I should probably go so uh... Later Taters.

Back in the sandbox baby!

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 13:28:56 GMT

Well it's my first post in some time, but thats just the way it goes.

I have returned to the Iraqi desert once again. The weather here is much like it is back home in Texas, only less humid. Although I suppose that makes it even more barrable.

Only to add to the awesomeness, I logged in to byond and there sat my game online. Talk about a supprise. I really should get off my lazy ass and work on it. Perhaps when I get done with my college application. Perhaps.

Well, thats all the time I have for now. But I'll be back before too very long.

Later taters.

--End transmission--

An exercise in bigotry.

Mon, 21 Jan 2008 13:09:49 GMT

Okay, I don't know how many of you out there play WoW too, but I have like 7 characters on 2 different servers, one of them happens to be a female blood elf, and yes I am a man playing a female character. But thats not the story here, well not really.

I ran across this poor soul who was running around the ruins of silvermoon city without pants on. From the very beginning I was nothing but kind and helpful, going so far as to buy her some pants out of my own pocket and give them to her. Then I went about teaching her how to play the game from scratch. How to equip things, find and complete quests, arrange the hot keys. Pretty much how to play the whole damn game right. Well after about 3 or 4 hours of running with her and showing her around she found out that that I was a man running a female character and smooth flipped out on me. Dropped me from her in game friends list, called me a cross dressing gay man and generally berated me for the next 5 minutes.

Now I understand that it's not the most normal thing in the world to run around on video games playing opposite gender characters, but the lengths that this woman went to are just bewildering and infuriating. To treat someone like that after everything I had done for her, I... I don't have words to describe how I feel about it.

I'm not trying to defend the fact that of my 6-7 characters about half of them are female. I don't really care what you have to say about that, I am just a pissed of man who needs to rant because I don't have anything nearby to hit, HARD.

And thats all I really have to say for now.

--End Transmission--

I can't believe that it really happened.

Wed, 02 Jan 2008 19:28:06 GMT

Wow, I can't believe that Final Frailties actually has more than 1000 downloads. It took a long time to get this far and I fell really proud of it. Granted I haven't worked on it in a while now, but never fear and stuff like that.

In other news I am still drawing and getting better at it all the time. I am starting character sketches for a Final Fantasy 6 webcomic based around Celes Chere before she was branded a traitor by the Empire. It should turn out pretty well If I can get a decent script cobbled together. Well here's hoping right.

--End Transmission--