• 4Jun 09

  Oh crap, my crotch is on fire? QUICK, GET THE GASOLINE!

  Whew, it's sure been a while since my last blog. With all of this E3 excitement in the air, I decided to stop procrastinating (by putting off homework) and post a damn blog for once, as opposed to constantly dicking around in the forums and posting comments on others' blogs. Summer vacation is just around the corner, and so I'll get around to making a lot more than usual once that starts up.

  I'm testing out a new blog format, which looks a little messy but colorful at the same time. I'm still trying to find a good visual balance between words and pretty colors.

  

  ===LOL I MADE A VIDYA GAEM===

  My friends and I made a video game for a school project a few months ago, and would like to share this atrocity with everyone. It's (supposed to be) a 2-D survival horror game titled After School.

  We were using Micromedia Director - that's right, quite possibly one of the most limiting pieces of game-designing software I've ever tried using. It's like trying to re-create Space Invaders with Microsoft Powerpoint... wait, I think I've actually done that before. The point is, our initial vision was never realized mainly due to time constraints and the lack of the proper resources to get our ideas into a playable game.

  

  
  To be frank, our game is a piece of crap. On a scale of 1-10, I give it a 2 - only because of the hilariously bad story that we made up got me laughing, along with some pretty catchy tunes (everything is original, including the soundtrack and art). The code we were working with was so full of bugs, it was unfathomable. We had to script some elements and behaviors of the game from the ground up as well. Even after hours of alpha and beta testing, the game still has bugs. If you don't get killed by the unfairly brutal difficulty first, then you'll probably run into a glitch that prevents you from going anywhere.

  

  
  Kill bosses by tapping the keyboard like crazy. You can try to be strategic when dodging boss bullets and stuff, but it's almost impossible to win by doing so. Oh, and that thing she "fires" is supposed to be a baseball bat. Sad, I know, but the best we could do with the script was change the bullet behaviors and whatnot to make it look like a baseball bat. There are no continues, no checkpoints, and absolutely no planned-out level design. Although we did get a perfect score on this due to the fact that ours was sadly the most polished of the bunch, but for the love of God - don't expect anything remotely decent.

  Unless you're bored out of your mind, don't bother this 42 MB download. No viruses, but at what price?

  

  AFTER SCHOOL - 42 MB

  Mirror 1 (Do you really want to download this?)
  

  
  

  

  ===LOL I GOTZ A BASS GEETARR!===

  
  Also, I got a bass guitar a few weeks ago. My friends decided that we should randomly form a band, and so I accepted - thinking I'd be doing electric guitar or something I'm familiar with.

  
  Nope - I'm playing bass guitar and doing vocals. Bass was actually pretty easy to pick up due to my guitar background, and vocals are... well... vocals? I'll post a sample of my singing voice one day; I have no idea if I can actually sing, or I'm forced to because I'm the only one who has the ballziness to do so in front of large audiences. Coordinating bass and vocals is hard though...

  

  I swear this whole band thing has nothing to do with K-ON; it is all purely coincidental that my friends decided to form a band just as the show started (they don't even watch anime).

  
  Oh, and we have a saxophone in the band. Groovy!

  

  ===LOL E3 WUZ AWESUM===

  E3's major press conferences were awesome this year. Made me want to put video game stickers onto a watermelon and make awkward love to it.

  

  

  ===LOL SUMMERZ===

  And so another year passes and I retain my 4.0 GPA *knocks on wood*. Not done finals yet, but I'll probably have even more free time when summer comes around to play games, blog more, etc. Pre-ordered BlazBlue as well. Should be awesome.

  

  I also managed to snatch a new tutoring job. Might have up to 3 tutees at once when summer vacation starts, but hey, I need as much moola as possible if I want to build that rocket ship to the moon one day.

  

  

  Frank Sinatra - "My Way"

  This song is something I wouldn't mind listening to before kicking the bucket. The melody soothes me in ways I can't explain, and the chorus simply explodes with confidence and energy. To top it all off, I just recently discovered this song but I can't help but to experience a gripping sense of nostalgia when I hear it. I know I heard this when I was incredibly young; I just can't remember when and where.

  • Posted Jun 4, 2009 10:01 pm PT
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• 19Apr 09

  Touch my body, put me on the floor...

  ...WRESTLE ME AROUND, PLAY WITH ME SOME MORE!

  TOUCH MY BODY, THROW ME ON THE BED; I JUST WANNA MAKE YOU FEEL LIKE YOU NEVER DID!

  (This song will automatically play in your head forever.)

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  So it's late at night, I'm slightly more tired than usual, I feel sick, and am completely unable to make logical decisions, nor can I guarantee my own sanity; so yes, mii engrish r goin 2 B bad. What a perfect time to make a blog!

  The last couple of days were pretty hectic for me. First of all, I just won 1st place in the first film festival I had ever entered in my life. Winning fairly and normally? Heavens no! My friend and I won by default, seeing as no other high school kids gave a damn about the contest.

  +Self Confidence Boost!

  

  The Final Fantasy XIII demo that I was going to snatch from my foolish- er... compulsive buying friend didn't show up in the mail as scheduled. Better than no demo I suppose. Plus, the Fat Princess beta should tide me over until then.

  

  Since the tags I've been neglecting piled up a bit, I'll post 5 new facts about myself... again.

  1. I had always made fun of golf players with negative scores until this year, thinking before that they were sucking so badly that their scores were lesser than zero.
  2. I've probably vandalized more books in my childhood than you will in your entire lifetime.
  3. I have never used 'steam engine' and 'breast milk' in the same sentence before. Oh wait.
     
  4. I'm breathing manually right now. Maybe you are too?
     
  5. I've faced death in the eye about 3 times in my life so far. Fun stuff.
     
  6. I have trouble counting to 5.
     

  Oh man, I hope this blog makes sense to me when I wake up tomorrow morning. As of right now, I don't understand anything I'm typing or posting. It's like being drunk with fatigue.

  LATER, MY SUGAR-LUMPKINS!

  
  

  TUNE IN NEXT TIME - SAME HAZEL-TIME, SAME HAZEL-CHANNEL!!

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  SONG OF THE NOW:

  Battle Theme (Violins) - Final Fantasy XIII Official Soundtrack

  Yep, I uploaded it onto YouTube. Don't know how long until the copyright stuff starts kicking in.

  • Posted Apr 19, 2009 3:15 am PT
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• 18Mar 09

  Duck Apocalypse: Protect Your Wallet AND Reproductive Organs

  (Title means nothing; blog is about me gaming in HD.)

  That's right, I've finally killed SD gaming in its sleep, mutilated the body into tiny chunks, and attempted to flush the pieces down the toilet before deciding to dump the rest into a river.

  Today, I got around to getting some component cables for my PS3 today. This is after I found out that my 50" television supported component HD inputs and whatnot a few weeks ago. After picking up a pre-used, good-as-new cable for just 10 bucks, I replaced my composite (RYW) cables with my new component cables. That's right; I didn't have to buy an HDTV after all, because after some research, I found out that my TV did in fact support HD outputs. Silly me.

  The difference is crazy. It's like installing rocket-propelled grenades to your car. It's like your wife getting a boob-job. Better yet, it's like your car getting a boob-job and your wife getting rocket-propelled grenades installed into her. I mean, it's essentially the same car/wife, but arguably a lot awesomer.

  The difference between component and HDMI is seriously small to me (HDMI wins), but they are both better than my older composite set-up, so who cares?

  Now I can finally read those tiny letters in the bottom right corner when playing MGS4. Hooray for HD!

  

  (Lady Lightning in high definition? Oh my!)

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  SONG OF THE NOW:

  I Ran - A Flock Of Seagulls (nostalgic, huh?)

  • Posted Mar 18, 2009 3:35 am PT
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