As usual…

Posted on 06/09/2010 by vortex69

…change of plans.

Going back to one of the old ‘sleeping’ projects, “Project 32”

And will probably attempt to make it using WinterMute Engine instead of using Flash. Which has pros and cons, the biggest con being that using WME I won’t be able to submit it to Newgrounds.com. The biggest pro being that using WME I won’t need to worry too much about file size, since it would have to be distributed as a download and not embedded, so it could have ambient music, some SFX, etc.

Why this particular project?

Well, it doesn’t need any storyline – it’s an escape the room game – and I already have a list of ≈10 puzzles for it. Although I want them to be 32.

So all that is left is to start 3D modelling the whole thing. Oh Joy! Modelling and texturing dozens of objects that are not completely planned yet. Sounds like a typical project by me.

Now Reading: At the Mountains of Madness

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Is that you…Duke?

Posted on 04/09/2010 by vortex69

It is you, the last real hero! :D

At least the last one who had a personality…

Let’s see if this time the darned game will really be released.

Now listening to: Motorhead - One more fucking time

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Reading H.P. Lovecraft works, Part 1

Posted on 03/09/2010 by vortex69

First an ‘unofficial’ thanks to feedbooks.com , thanks to that site I found most if not all the works by H.P Lovecraft and just printed them, the poor guy wouldn’t get any money if I bought them anyway. :D

“The Call of Cthulhu”, “Dagon” and “Herbert West: Reanimator” have been read.

TCoC was nice, as an horror story. (I’m not much of a literary analyst, as you can see)

HW:R was great, as dark humour. West and his poor unnamed assistant always end up in the always ‘special’ “Oh…fuck…” situation, their first experiment conclusion, described by me:

“Meh, didn’t work…” /both go to another place in the house/

/minutes later/

*hellish sound*

*two guys running out of the windows*

I won’t even talk about “Dagon”, not that it was bad, just that I won’t talk about the really short stories.

So, those were worth the paper and ink that I spent.

Next I’ll probably read all of the really short stories (under 10 pages).

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Putting all my projects to sleep, why?

Posted on 01/09/2010 by vortex69

…why?

First, probably because I have some mood changes…pretty much every single day. So the project that was “fucking great” and “easy to accomplish” on one day, a few days later becomes the project that “is boring”, “too fucking complex” and “needs more planning than I like”.

In reality, that is not much of a mood change, it’s just that when I first get an idea I get ‘drunk’ on it, everything is wonderful, then a few days/weeks later I just look at it again, with my usual ‘cold’/not biased look and all hell breaks loose, that ‘wonderful feature’ becomes ‘a fucking nightmare to implement’, the base idea goes from ‘great’ to ‘needs some tweaks…lots of tweaks…better rewrite the whole thing’.

Continue reading →

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How random am I allowed to be on this site?

Posted on 31/08/2010 by vortex69

As I said on an earlier post, sometimes I just love to be overly dramatic…

I also love to type on a ‘normal’ keyboard, been using one of these “Made in china” rubber keyboards for a few months now, due to killing 2 normal ones in less than 3 months by spilling drinks over them. 2 days ago I remembered I still had 1 or 2 functioning keyboards around, plugged in my Logitech keyboard and…ahhhh…much better, except for the annoying noise of the keys – yes, it annoys me, mostly after 2 am, I’m fine with the noise during the day – anyway the rubber keyboard will comeback, will try to wash it, the poor thing is getting a bit dirty. Also my typo ratio dropped immediately after the change, the damned rubber keys were awful if you wanted to have some ‘precision’ while typing.

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I’m bored

Posted on 30/08/2010 by vortex69

That is all…

Not really.

I’ve been bored for the last weeks/months, so I decided to buy some fishing equipment and go fishing one of these days (for a little change from the usual boredom), bought it. Then yesterday my car broke down, now my only mean of transport is walking. Happiness, never ending happiness…

I wonder how long it takes to walk ~15km so I can go to the fishing spot I wanted to go to… :-?

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Dropped, all of them…

Posted on 28/08/2010 by vortex69

Ah…I just love to be overly dramatic.

So, to be honest, my projects will not be dropped, they will just go to sleep quietly to some corner somewhere…

This decision even includes projects that were already sleeping – like “Project 32” and all the other Flash game I had in mind – the Sniper Game also goes to sleep, probably for a long…long time, mostly because while I loved, and still love the idea behind it, I admit it’s a project that is a bit too complex for a single idiot. Even my ‘Learn C# while making a game’ project – Gamez0r World – is going to sleep.

Darn I’m in such a ‘meh’ mood (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meh) that even “Colina Silenciosa”, which I was – not very actively – working on with a friend is going to ‘sleep’ and that project represents my personal gamedev Holy Grail, a survival horror in the same vein as Silent Hill.

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Not as easy as it looks.

Posted on 18/08/2010 by vortex69

While I knew this kind of games was wrongly seen as simple, I have to be honest and admit that these games need an ass load of planning and I’m making only the bare minimum as this is only a project to learn with.

One thing it is great for, is learning how to use arrays and lists on C#  =))

Think about it, there’s an array or list for the skills of the player, for games already made, one for game engines and a few more.

Also a save/load system is…’interesting’ to think about.

It’s starting to get confusing, but I’m still adamant that this will be the first game I finish.

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Another project is born

Posted on 12/08/2010 by vortex69

So, as I’ve said earlier, I’m trying to learn C# (pretend that’s a sharp) so I can use it in Unity. What better way than to make a game?

One of my favourite small indie games is GameBiz 2 ( http://www.veloci.dk/gamebiz/ ), sure the guy isn’t very good at webdesign or English (the number of errors on the text in the game proves that) but that game is still one of my favourite.

So what could be a more adequate homage to GameBiz 2 than making a game of that style but using a ‘crazy one man game dev army’ world?

Nothing…that’s what. Yes, I’ll attempt to make a small game tycoon game with the premise of conveying what a ‘crazy one man game dev army’ should be like.

I guess this will be fun, since I don’t really know much of C# and I ain’t going back to VB.Net

The game even has a name, albeit a stupid one, “Gamez0r World”, it’s a half arsed homage to my old school project Paddyz0r.

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Yeah…Changed my mind.

Posted on 12/08/2010 by vortex69

So today there was another small – but important – step on the sniper game. It finally shoots, OK, honestly the bullet looks like it was hurled. But it works, it works…

Now I should make it cast smoke/dust when the bullet hits something. But that’s for another day…

Yes, I’m lazy.

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