Monday, September 7, 2009
TNA Announces Australia Tour
I am really excited about this. A little over a month from now my favourite artists Yello will be releasing a new album. But early next year, something even bigger than that. TNA is coming here to Australia for the 1st time! I honestly can't wait and would really love to have Powerslam out then to celebrate... although that may be impossible as there is so much more work that needs to be done, but we'll see.
Monday, August 24, 2009
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
New Site Layout
My website will soon have a completely different look. It is already completed for the most part now sitting in iWeb waiting for me to upload it but I am still holding it off until I am completely satisfied with it. So on this note I have decided to delve deep into my memories to talk about my hobby of web site creation that goes back to even before I started game creation.
I remember when I 1st started out with my only tools being html and my Dreamcast on a dial-up connection. A website that completely blew me away when I was just starting out was Lisa Echidna ArtWorX. After seeing this site, my dream of expressing my self through drawing shifted to a new media, websites. I too wanted to create what I had just seen. Lisa helped me out when I was just starting letting me know the html needed to have music play in the background of my site too and her green on black theme was a direct inspiration for my very 1st website.
I started out with Tripod, which was fine back then. Set the ads to pop-up ads since the Dreamcast was unaffected by them and all was good. With the death of the Dreamcast I then upgraded to a computer. So aside from ads now being a lot more intrusive now, Tripod were now also introducing a lot more restrictions to try and get people to sign up with their new paid for hosting. This would begin a stupidly long search for the ultimate free webhost.
My search would bring me to a search engine called Tropical Anime. This would also bring me to my next major inspiration and motivation for web design. What I found was Mad-Sky.com. The web hostess by the name of Sawwa granted me the free hosting that I had always needed but the story goes further than that. Sawwa had the most beautiful web designs that she even changed periodically. It is of little wonder she is such an inspiration to my own web designs. Back when she was my host would have to be the prime of by web designing as she really was the best hostess you could imagine. She was more than that even, she was a great friend I would exchange huge emails with. It was silly how long our emails were but it was always fun. These were great times. I can't remember if I complimented her much on her website but I should have if I didn't. As a inspiration to my designs it was such an honour whenever she complimented me on my site, which I do remember her doing on more than one occasion.
The saddest part, is that these two great people who inspired me with their amazing talents and websites, the people responsible for my site being here now to this day and all of my past sites are no longer a presence on the web themselves. Perhaps even worse than this is how they both faded away around the same time in the early 2000s. Some small traces can still be found on the net from way back like Lisa's old Tripod site frozen in time for example. Sawwa, on the other hand has almost vanished entirely from web existence. It just doesn't seem right, as I feel they both deserve so much praise and acknowledgement for what they did. This is exactly why I took the time to type out all of this as I want them to never be forgotten.
In the off chance either Lisa or Sawwa stumble across this or someone who is still in contact with them does, I would love to hear from them.
I remember when I 1st started out with my only tools being html and my Dreamcast on a dial-up connection. A website that completely blew me away when I was just starting out was Lisa Echidna ArtWorX. After seeing this site, my dream of expressing my self through drawing shifted to a new media, websites. I too wanted to create what I had just seen. Lisa helped me out when I was just starting letting me know the html needed to have music play in the background of my site too and her green on black theme was a direct inspiration for my very 1st website.
I started out with Tripod, which was fine back then. Set the ads to pop-up ads since the Dreamcast was unaffected by them and all was good. With the death of the Dreamcast I then upgraded to a computer. So aside from ads now being a lot more intrusive now, Tripod were now also introducing a lot more restrictions to try and get people to sign up with their new paid for hosting. This would begin a stupidly long search for the ultimate free webhost.
My search would bring me to a search engine called Tropical Anime. This would also bring me to my next major inspiration and motivation for web design. What I found was Mad-Sky.com. The web hostess by the name of Sawwa granted me the free hosting that I had always needed but the story goes further than that. Sawwa had the most beautiful web designs that she even changed periodically. It is of little wonder she is such an inspiration to my own web designs. Back when she was my host would have to be the prime of by web designing as she really was the best hostess you could imagine. She was more than that even, she was a great friend I would exchange huge emails with. It was silly how long our emails were but it was always fun. These were great times. I can't remember if I complimented her much on her website but I should have if I didn't. As a inspiration to my designs it was such an honour whenever she complimented me on my site, which I do remember her doing on more than one occasion.
The saddest part, is that these two great people who inspired me with their amazing talents and websites, the people responsible for my site being here now to this day and all of my past sites are no longer a presence on the web themselves. Perhaps even worse than this is how they both faded away around the same time in the early 2000s. Some small traces can still be found on the net from way back like Lisa's old Tripod site frozen in time for example. Sawwa, on the other hand has almost vanished entirely from web existence. It just doesn't seem right, as I feel they both deserve so much praise and acknowledgement for what they did. This is exactly why I took the time to type out all of this as I want them to never be forgotten.
In the off chance either Lisa or Sawwa stumble across this or someone who is still in contact with them does, I would love to hear from them.
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
Update on latest game
Powerslam will be the 1st ever Macintosh wrestling game. Visually the game will be very different to Soulless and in fact once this game finally sees the light of day I am planning to revisit Soulless changing many things along with its visual style to that of Powerslam as all my games from now on will use what will soon become my signature style. It is still early days for the game despite how much work has gone into it and how long development has been so far though so this will not happen for some time yet.
Friday, June 26, 2009
R.I.P. MJ
I can't believe it, I really can't. I doubt it has even sank in properly yet. I get a phone call from my fiancée this morning with the most unexpected news... Michael Jackson has passed away. Having grown up listening to his music idolising him as a child and even playing his games it is so hard to fathom.
Sadly though it is a fact, Michael Jackson passed away this very day and thus a legend has died but while the legend himself is no longer with us may his music and all he has created live on for aeons to come.
My thoughts are with his family and close friends.
Rest in Peace Michael Jackson.
Sadly though it is a fact, Michael Jackson passed away this very day and thus a legend has died but while the legend himself is no longer with us may his music and all he has created live on for aeons to come.
My thoughts are with his family and close friends.
Rest in Peace Michael Jackson.
Monday, March 9, 2009
2009
I know it has been a while since my last entry. There has been little to report until now however with the lack of support I received for Soulless. I now know exactly what MDickie meant when he said it is a thankless job being an independent game developer.
The good news however is Soulless is now available through Reflexive. Reflexive have been really great to me and I am very happy to have the privilege to have my 1st ever game sold by them.
Also I haven't let this take me out yet. I swore I would release at least two games exclusively for Mac users even in a worse case scenario so am deep into developing my next game. Not so much a solo effort this time as I have had some much appreciated help from both MDickie and Earok on this one. Not only that, this will be a Macintosh 1st!
The good news however is Soulless is now available through Reflexive. Reflexive have been really great to me and I am very happy to have the privilege to have my 1st ever game sold by them.
Also I haven't let this take me out yet. I swore I would release at least two games exclusively for Mac users even in a worse case scenario so am deep into developing my next game. Not so much a solo effort this time as I have had some much appreciated help from both MDickie and Earok on this one. Not only that, this will be a Macintosh 1st!
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