sledgehammer-venable

Christmas was wonderful! Pretty much, it was a food marathon, got to hang out with family, and got great things for Christmas.

- got a flatbed scanner so I can scan in drawings!
- got a 500GB Hard drive!
- best yet, i got a new laptop! Way faster than my old one, so it'll handle my applications much better. Hurray for dual processors and 4GB of RAM!! I may soup up a desktop computer once I get a second job, but this will handle all the stuff I'm doing, and I'll learn to put stuff in a different partition. My 500GB, seems like Windows 7 already partitioned it. It asked me after i plugged it in.


I think more artwork will be on the way. I still need to check out everyone else's work as well!

Dinner marathon was:

Thursday - roast
Friday - steak, potatoes, yams, macaroni and cheese
Saturday - ribs, green bean casserole (it's so good that i just about ate the whole pan singlehandedly!), pie, and homemade pineapple sherbet
- coming up: we're making fried chicken and breadbowl soups.


It's definitely been a great holiday. I'll be back in Pittsburgh on Monday, and what do you know!! Another 3 day weekend coming up!!Most of it will be devoted to working on stuff and getting the instruments set up.


Should be asleep now!! Seeya!

I still need to look at everyone's stuff. Been getting behind.

One thing: random name/word generators are useful, but DANGEROUS!!!

haha. I learned the hard way. Within 30 minutes of using it, I was able to construct a random idea. I think it'll help others as well when they get in a block.


So, I'm working a a Flash right now to enter into Newgrounds in hopes to win some money! :cD

Still working on comic stuffs. Probably will start posting stuff after I run everything through writingwise and hit Illustrator.

Paz.

I guess I'll submit stuff AFTER I resize crap that DA can accept.lol. I have new Latch and Pull stuff done. Not a lot, but what stuff looks like currently.

I can almost show a prototype of one of the games I'm making. After I do some clean up work today on it, maybe I'll make a youtube video of it in action of what it looks like currently. I do have a pic of the main character I tried to upload, but then again, resizing!LOL! I'll get to submitting stuff in a bit.

Also, I finally got my recording interface so I can start the electronic/alternative/EBM "band" (well, project). I post the logo of it here in a bit. Eventually, I'll make a Flash site for it. I have the overall theme put together. Stuff is written, ready to be put together. I'll post links to demos probably in a month or so.

I have other stuff to be scanned in, tons of it. That'll be on here soon.

Lots of other things, too. Exciting stuff going on in the creation world.

Okay, I better go resize the stuff. Be back later!

Let's see, last update was last year!! HAHA.

But, good stuff's been going. New fresh stuff coming out the oven!! Here's what's going on:

- working on TWO Flash games right now. I planned these out for the last six months. I'm laying out rough stuff though. For both, I roughly animated run cycles for the main characters and fine detail will be later, since I prefer to do that with a mouse. I'm just laying things down with the Wacom. I find it much easier for me.

One game is called "Sharkey". It's about anthropomorphic billiards balls. Yeah. The main character is a cue ball who retired from the police force. He's bitter as always, enjoys a beer and a cigar, and loves to fight dirty. His wife prevents him to fight, for she worries about his health. One day, he gets a call from a source that the Pyramid Gang he locked away a few years ago are back. Lucky the 7 ball, Sado the 8 ball, and Ennea the 9 ball have recruited random people in the city of Cuesport to cause trouble. They've only done this upon hearing the news in the paper about Sharkey retiring, for he's the only one in the force with such brutal power. Sharkey doesn't let retirement get him down, and he tells his wife that he's going out to "get that carton of milk she asked him to get hours ago". The Pyramid Gang is shocked. "I thought you retired!" Sharkey laughs. "Yeah, I did, but not from this."

The other game is currently untitled and its a Metal Slug type of game, though I was inspired by Megaman: The Power Fighters for this one. You control Dorotea, a grocery store clerk and shoot food zombies and the like with a barcode scanner gun.

These are going to take a while to make, I'm estimating until September, the way I'm going. Art will take the longest, of course. Coding will be a snap once I get to it.

- Latch and Pull has been much more fleshed out and I have decided it WILL be a Flash series. Voice acting will be searched upon for this in the future. I have new pic for Latch and Pull I haven't uploaded yet. www.pragmagon.com/projects on my site, which needs fixing, there's SOME Latch and Pull stuff, not a lot yet.

- On the side, and a break from games in down time, I thought of two small flashes to make. Look for those soon.

- I've been working on a small novel.


I've been busy! Hopefully it stays that way! I hate being bored!!

I'm kinda back! Sort of, but not really. Somewhat. To an extent. Perhaps.

Working, and trying to get school crap together. Still waiting for my dad to bring up my synthesizer.


Still trying to do some Flash crap, er, I mean stuff!! hehe...lol


I beat Pokemon Mystery Dungeon, Red Team, and the ending made me tear up.lol. I tried to man it off, but I couldn't help to feel sorry for Torchic.lol. Now I won't finish the game because I was that connected to the storyline, which ended.lol


Anyway, enough of that.lol

Um....I'm going to try to do more art related stuff soon once I get more money saved up, and thinking about doing a huge project after I graduate and asking for a grant to do it. It's going to be based on research upon what is it that people really need. Like product/demographic analysis, so to speak.




Okay, time to submit stuff and to stop being bored.lol