Friday 12 December 2008

a new guy dragged into this mess

So here we go with the infamous, introductory blog. I am Tetris229, the dude that was hired by these two rambling dudes to make some moosik for their Vidja game "Zombietopia". This of course means i love video games and play them all the time and love music and write it all the time but when it comes to coding I'm about as useful as a paper-paperweight. To conclude this matter i will by posting with stuff like "dude i got so baked last night and made this awesome tune" or "whoa man i was so drunk that i feel on my guitar and made this kick-ass sound". Further more you will only hear from me once Iced and Balai actually start making this game...exactly so see you in the next life.

PS: almost forgot I'm also making the SFX, (that's sound effects for those special people that couldn't guess), and I made a delightful mathematical discovery last lunchtime: plastic tray + refrigerator = Gunshot noise.
Expect all handgun noises to be made from my Fridge.

My internal organs: A life story

There haven't been many posts this week, and what has been called forth to this bleak manifesto has been posted when I have been... improperly equipped to make fair or impartial judgements. There has also been a total lack of relevant content, which is not to be unexpected when I am the sole poster for a week.

For all of these things I blame Balai.

You see, Balai has been ill for the whole week, the local news indicates that his dwelling has been infiltrated by a modern day analog of mustard gas. Not so much that he couldn't make a public appearance yesterday, but enough to put him out of commission for the rest of the week, today included. Then the bastard had the cheek to take the time I saw him yesterday as an opportunity to propagate his foul lurgy, so now I've spent both today and yesterday groaning and clenching my stomach.

It actually feels like the left side of my brain and my small intestine have been having an affair with each other, and have now decided to run away. My large intestine has given chase of course, that's what he does, it is all he knows. Meanwhile, the remaining, right half of my brain is busy sulking in a corner, and constantly reporting to my consciousness that is actually on fire, regardless of what my eyes are telling me, because 'Screw them man, our eyes have always been liars'. He does have a point there, I will give him that.

We had hoped to have a rough outline of zombietopia's tutorial done by the end of this week, this hasn't been achieved, I'll leave the details down to you guys.

You should have seen the curse that flew right by you

Wednesday 10 December 2008

Uh...

I just re-read that last post I made, it was a lot harsher than intended. I mean, I went in there intending to be an arse hole, but I let it go way too far. For this I apologise.

In other news, trying to come up with instrument based weaponry is actually quite hard. Instrument weapons isn't zombietopia related, I was recently contacted by the military to work on a secret program. That isn't secret now, I guess.

It took me 50 years to swallow all my tears

Sunday 7 December 2008

An open letter to the developer of 'RPaints'

Dear Mr/Ms/Mrs Remyremrem

Could you please explain this to me? Because the whole thing in general boggles my mind. Because it appears that you are asking 400 Microsoft points for your product, I just want to double check if this is the actual case, you see, I haven't had the prescription for my glasses updated for a while, so I cannot be sure that I am not completely misreading that page.

Price point aside, I do still have a couple of enquiries to make. Is the shitty MSpaint half-arsed rip off the entire game? Do you understand the concept of a game? Or is it just a sordid joke reserved for those playing the trial game?

Look, I'll be fair, I am not opposed to people using the Xbox Live community games feature to make interesting apps instead of games. I would go as far as to say I welcome it, but not only is RPaint's presentation shoddy - at best - someone had the cheek to set it the undeserving price of 400 Points, the same price as small arms, which is far from a perfect game, but it is, at least, a game, and one that can be pretty fun to play with friends.
Feel free to come back though, should you get an equivilant of photoshop running on an Xbox.

This is why even community games should either be free or have at least some quality control.

-Iced Inferno
Lead Complainer, Space Walrus Games

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