I'm trying to be better at updating this thing (although I'm thinking of soon converting to WordPress, ssshhh, don't tell anyone. But I'll be sad about losing all the posts I've made...I know nobody reads them, but they were nice just for me to look over! I like looking back over the year and seeing what I was up to a few months ago and stuff...then I get to re-live the feeling of joy/terror/exhaustion!)
Work for the Ariel has exploded all over the place, but I'm somehow getting on top of it. Just having trouble adding videos to pages now. Cause if you go Full Screen, the whole FLV is like 'I don't care about any other info on the page, I'm the ***STAR*** and blocks everything out. And yes yes, invisible Actionscript gremlin I have tried using FullScreenTakeOver = false, but to no avail! So thats my job after lunch! Wa-hoo! I hate the little problems (that actually turn out to be pretty BIG problems if you're as dense as I am), cause you think 'righto, I'll just do this, this, and ...WHAT? WHY WON'T YOU WORK, YOU BLOODY B-, NOTHINGS EVER SIMPLE IS IT?!' And then ensues Claire's angry meltdown and she has to go sit in another room incase she throws her computer out of the window. Anyway, lots to do, but there is sort of an end in sight, which is nice!
Tatty Bye!
(Fable 3 is sort of addictive, but I find if I play it for a big chunk of time, I can cease from playing it for a few days, which is quite good! I read the Edge review, and I do have to agree with it really...but the little side quests in the game keep you playing (as Edge said!), so its all okay!)
Yes. Hello. I have come back briefly. A lot of work has come along in the past couple of months so I haven't been able to update as much, I'm afraid... (sorry to the imaginary people out there...) So have been very busy, which is good and bad, as I haven't had much time to work on my business plan and I've got a meeting with my business advisor in little over a week. She gonna be mad. (Actually shes very nice, so I think I'll be okay!)
Lots of work for the Ariel Trust, feels like I'm chugging out games constantly, but its satisfying to see a greater selection of games in a short space of time (although it would be nice to spend longer on them to tweak and perfect, but thats a deadline for you!) So here are a couple of shots of what I've been working on!
Sorry about the bombardment there. But yeah, its been busy. Theres all sorts in there about drugs, fire extinguishers, alcohol, and fractional distillation (which sounds rather dry, but it was an animation, so it was quite nice to just make a simple animation for a change rather than programming things and such! Although having said that, I have learnt a lot more about Actionscript 3 since last we met, and I am getting used to it a bit more, plus I generally have learnt abit more about stuff to use just in Flash! So its all good! I'm hoping over Crimbo to blitz a load of my instruction book just to teach me a few new things! And this has turned into the longest chunk of text in a set of brackets ever. I wonder if theres a World Record for that? Stopping now.)
And apart from that I'm trying to get my Christmas shopping polished off (as I have a big project I wanna work on for Christmas...I'm quite excited about it!) And I need to get my Christmas cards printed off so I can cut them down and send them this year. (Note: I was talking about making and sending my own xmas cards this time LAST year...so I really want to do it this year!) I bought dinky envelopes for my cards about a month ago, and it was shocking about how much those envelopes arriving perked up my day! Plus I found some really cool websites were you can buy lots of different stationary/paper. It was rather awesome! And lets not forget my business plan, which is telling me to create a mini portfolio, a website and re-do my proper big portfolio. Wow. No wonder I feel slightly stressed. Oh well!
I saw Scott Pilgrim a while back (can't remember if I mentioned this before!) and it was AWESOME. (I think I have mentioned this before...sorry!) Um. I went to see Back to the Future at the cinema. I've had a little go at Fable 3 (and hope to have many more little gos of it!). I went to a talk about Arabic Maths and got lost after 10 minutes as I realised I have a short attention span when it comes to smart things. I went to the Liverpool Film Night at FACT and saw the animator Chris Shephard speak. It was uncomfortable. Saw the Biennial exhibition at the Tate but can't remember much of it so it mustn't of been that good. I went to see my friend Emily in Cambridge and got to see the super cool place where she works! Which was super! I made a cottage pie...then tried to make a variation by mixing a can of haggis in with mince...it tasted good...but once it went cold it smelt like dog food, which was not pleasant. I made my first ever English breakfast and it was GOOD! Aaaand, I've seen the films: Uncle Buck, Forbidden Planet, Logans Run, Reign over Me, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, Nutty Professor 2, Addams Family Values, Planes Trains & Automobiles, Brother Bear, Julie & Julia, Bride Wars, Dragonball Evolution (on fast forward because it was so BAD), Coraline, The Others and thats that. Yes. (I also replayed some old SNES and Mega Drive games the other week...Quackshot was still AWESOME. For shame to anyone who has never heard of it...which is probably a lot of people...so maybe not so much shame...but its totally worth playing!)
(Why do retro games have creepy music..theres just something about it...Not the music from the clip up above...thats great music...but take a look at the intro music and you'll see what I mean!)
