Just stumbled on a really awesome app called “Hiragana Pixel Party”. For me it’s a brilliant mix of bit trip runner and LEARNING! The art’s a nice retro style, as is the music, which complements the concept of learning from rhythm I feel when I play.
The “free version” of the game (the core game without any of the packs purchased) comes with the first set of hiragana and 12 missions, for 99c you can get all the missions which means 192 hiragana missions and 192 katakana missions. Unsurprisingly an army of hateful shoggoths have complained all over the youtube trailers for it, which is sad.. If you’re not at all familiar with the basic Japanese alphabets check it out!
I feel like ranting about people complaining now… no… going to go have fun instead.
Decided to mess with pulling information from external files while working on a small project of mine, as a result I ended up trying to make a text based adventure system. Its pretty bare bones/not really stellar writing in there but it gets the point across I guess (oh and to top things off it’s unfinished! So enjoy being stuck at the end of a chain in the game below I guess).
Next mission is to try find a way to get it to just look for keywords such as “north” so that players can experiment with sentences and stuff so that saying “I go north in a pretty red dress” words alongside just “go north” Also finding a better way to handle how it switches the two text objects content via the ajax requests would be nice, it’s a little bit messy at the moment.
Oh, finding a way to make the game pick up the choices that need to be typed is one big to-do too, currently it displays what you can type, but the game picks up what they have to type from the code, not a text document, so the games still not completely modifiable through text, it probably never will be, but I’d like to see how close things get.
I’ve had a blast with Day-Z since it came out, even just thinking about it fills my head with glee. It’s stalker mixed with everything I want in a zombie mod. I’ve died countless times, from players more than zombies. Or from my own human error, falling off a ladder and breaking my legs was a slow and painful way to go.
The description from the above trailer explains the game in a nutshell perfectly:
Welcome to Chernarus. A 225 km2 open world post-soviet state and one of the areas hit by a new and presently unknown infection which has wiped out most of the world’s population. You are one of the few who have survived and now you must search this new wasteland in order to fight for your life against what is left of the indigenous population, now infected with the disease.
Go Solo, team up with friends or take on the world as you choose your path in this brutal and chilling landscape, using whatever means you stumble upon to survive.
This is Day Z – This is your story.
Tonight I decided to end my old characters miserable life and start new for 1.5.7. Entered an Australian server, I knew it would be night due to the servers being 1:1 but this time it was different, I couldn’t even see silhouettes of tree’s buildings or my characters feet. There was no moon, the only way to navigate for a new survivor would be to use flares, but by doing so making yourself a target for other people.
Crawling through the mud and the rain on a moonless night I suddenly could hear the buzzing of hundreds of flies, perhaps a dead player I thought to myself, exited with the prospects of finding a dead body, hopefully with some bullets and a can of beans at the least.
I decided to crouch and crawl around the ground to find the body. With no luck I reluctantly popped a flare only to find a mass grave.
So after finding that I spent a few minutes crawling through dead bodies covered in flies I hurried away as quick as I could, from the grave and the light. It’s going to be a long, dark, night.
By the way, If you haven’t yet checked out DayZ get it, here: http://dayzmod.com/ emergent game play is a brilliant thing, and the stories i have read and lived in it are great.
So break’s started, want to mess with some low poly stuff here and there over the next couple weeks. Starting off with rather basic stuff today and hopefully building up to an animated, textured lowpoly character.
So day one of my holidays, messed with a little environment setting, want to add some more to it tomorrow, possibly get the floor and walls to tile a little better. I’ve turned off all forms of filtering for the textures at the moment, ’till I can figure out a better system. 100 tri’s for the full scene so far, texture map is 128×128 for the wall and floor tiles (and has plenty of space for more tiles soon) and 32×32 for the box texture (which is kinda basic at the moment.
Writing about Stevens v Kabushiki Kaisha Sony Computer Entertainment and Roadshow Films Pty Ltd v iiNet Limited has probably been the least enjoyable thing I have had to do in my recent life, though that goes to show how good my life has been lately, here’s a list of things I would rather do than finish this assignment, in no particular order:
Eat some cake.
Go to the dentist.
Play a video game.
Read a book.
Read a book I wouldn’t enjoy.
Read a book by Jane Austin.
Read a book by Jane Austin and write about it from the perspective of enjoying reading it.
Don’t do the above.
Play superman 64.
Play the first mass effect game.
Pretend I enjoyed it in conversation with a fan.
Attend a day of year 12 again.
Enter a religion debate on the internet.
Become a Christmas caroler.
Go to a church service.
meditate with some monks.
Have after meditation drinks with some monks and wake up without one of my legs in a German hostel.
Play Sengoku.
Play Sengoku as the Oda clan.
Play Sengoku at full speed while trying to have a conversation with someone.
Read webcomics.
Read webcomics i dont like.
Listen to terrible libravox recordings of H.P Lovecraft stories.
Try to raise the dead.
Try to raise the dead with self raising flour.
Try to raise the dead, succeed, then fight off the dead uprising.
Walk down the street and then back up it.
Not doing my law assignment.
Becoming a cleric and oppressing people.
Watch home and away for five hours.
Translate Nicki Minaj songs into english.
Try find a low ping server in an old multiplayer only game.
Become a true cultist and take a boat to where Rleyh supposedly is.
Reinstall MSN messenger.
Email past clients and ask how their lives are going.
Read a political news website.
Read an american political news website.
Colour co-ordinate my games collection.
Colour co-ordinate rooms in my house.
Door knock looking for people who look like me, close the door on them if they do not look like me for them.
Trick or treat with no costume in a run down part of the city.
Rig a character with countless limbs.
Play Dota2 and trick myself into enjoying it.
Read IGN reviews and trick myself into enjoying them.
Send fanmail to people i have mutual friends with on facebook.
Play dungeons and dragons by myself in a bee costume.
Do other assignments.
Eat two cakes.
Put out signs on my lawn protesting myself.
Pay people to put signs on my lawn to protest me doing my law assignment.
Make a miniature version of myself making a list of why miniature me should not do his law assignment.
Clone myself so that i could get him to also not do my law assignment.
Hire a lawyer and pay him to not do my law assignment.
Reblog things mindlessly on tumblr.
Cook food and take photos of it for all of my friends on facebook.
Post song lyrics on facebook.
Listen to my collection of radio drama.
Watch the news shows on TV and call my future self to warn him about mundane things.
Sculpt Dean Halsey before and after the typhoid epidemic/reanimation.
Play Munchkin because its actually fun.
Make a youtube video about the epidemic of youtube videos.
Get a tattoo.
Get two tattoos that contradict each other so i can get put on failblog, for example “Leviticus 19:28″ and then “I love marking myself!” i don’t know..
Become a lawyer and then exile myself from the rest of humanity, to study the art of lawyerim.
Take up a dance class.
Take up a dance class and a fighting sport, attend both in wrong attire.
Stare at a lamp.
Make toasted spaghetti sandwiches.
Try finish “I wanna be the guy” without dying, restart everything on death and cut off one of your fingers.
Play second life.
Sing along to a song while videotaping it .
Record myself doing walk cycles and animate over it.
Claim I’m a member of some subculture and say everyone else in that subculture isn’t a “Real” member of the subculture.
Kill sims by removing the ladder in the swimming pool.
Play through the metal gear solid series while eating cake and sleep in afterwards.
erase the version of “Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down) ” by Cher.
Visit Innsmouth and stay in the really nice hotel they have there.
Drink a gallon of soy sauce .
Drink a gallon of soy sauce, wash it down with a gallon of miso soup.
Write hatemail to people I like and respect, sign the hatemail with my full name.
Listen to my younger brothers choice of music.
Learn Swahilian.
Make coffee for every member of today tonight’s team.
Try to find people who would play ARMA2 with me.
Paint war gaming miniatures .
Watch a game of Australian rules football.
Watch a game of soccer.
Unlock everything in cooking mama4.
Get to level 80 in World of Warcraft in one sitting.
Play through the Dynasty warriors online tutorial’s three times.
Actually do something productive.
Write fanfiction.
Make a visual novel from the fanfiction with stick drawings.
Make a first person shooter/romance novel epic to follow it up as a sequel .
Eat a fried egg.
Eat a fried egg hard mode: Not allowed to drown it with sauce.
Watch the lord of the rings series again.
Actually watch starwars for the first time, enjoying it is not a requirement .
Write a list about what I could do instead of this assignment.
Post list on Facebook to waste other peoples time reading it.
He’s not overly pretty but for a first attempt at making a body with mudbox I’m pretty happy, I was at first a little reluctant to go get the hand of it but i can see how useful its going to be for organic models, till I can afford zbrush anyway.
About an hour or two of work in total, the rest of the body exists/have most of the muscles vaguely sculpted in!
So far this weekend I haven’t really touched Maya, which is good and bad I guess.
I’ve had a good two last days though, yesterday I started messing around for next week’s ludum dare, warming up by making a somewhat generic shooter game that can be found here to get used to construct and snippets of java script again, in the early hours of the day I listened to Alan Watts talk about zen and various other things I didn’t really understand but enjoyed listening to.
Today i headed into the city to hold a gamedev group for qantm students, as I expected no one really turned up, I’ll have to rethink how to get people to attend. One classmate turned up a little while later which was nice, and then when he left i decided to keep chipping away at my little top down game for a while, the complete solitude was actually really nice. Headed down to Iku Sushi, tried the cheeseburger sushi again, ate about half of it before feeling destroyed and sat in there listening to the music and watching people.
Well, now that I’ve posted this rather pointless update on my life i feel like my days complete, time to soldier on and jump back into legal case studies and getting better with 3d.
