Clowning around
So, on this day...
I did some animation work, added the first Entity class and tweaked some stuff in the file format and the editor.
Other than that I had a busy IRL day so again, didn't get to do much. Sadly.
I baked muffins though, so that's a plus.
Anyway, on to the news.
Remember how I said I'd do a lot more today?
Ahahaha, oh you silly nick.
silly silly nick...
...
FUCK.
Ok so, I won't make any excuses here, I just didn't do much at all today.
I got no one to blame but myself.
I got two little things done though and some concepts...
Honestly, I haven't done much today.
I'm still busy with re-organizing my room and I haven't had much desire to work on the particle system.
There's still some stuff that I got ready though.
Well here we go.
The first of the hopefully daily following updates about Transcend.
There's a lot of catching up to do of course and there's already a lot of things done.
Technically, you could already make a game with this.
So, let's dig right in.
About time I talk about this.
Well, right off the bat: What the hell is this?
In all simplicity: It's a project of mine to program a game, including engine and graphics, from scratch.
This project is, at the same time, also an obligatory school project, called the \"Matura-Arbeit\".
It will play a part in the final score of my graduation.
Now, what is the \"Matura-Arbeit\"?
Here in Switzerland, you have to complete an individual project of your own, about a topic that is pretty much free to choose, for the graduation. Depending on what kind of project that is (scientific, artistic, combination), you have to write an essay of 7-20 pages.
That's surprisingly little, I know. And I could easily fill 20 pages with the programming stuff alone.
Either way, you also have to hold a dissertation about it at the beginning of the second school semester, which will also influence the mark you're getting for it. You also get two teachers that should accompany you in the process of the project and help you with stuff you don't know about.
The topic I chose was to simply build a game from scratch.
Sounds easy, right?
Just put in some OpenGL commands, plaster some animations onto the screen and build your level and with that your game.
Well. The truth is far from that.
Just giving a quick heads up because these ridiculously old blog entries are also ridiculously out of date.
The short version is: I am one happy person.
I'm a bit stressed out, but I am happy. No more depressions, no more bawwing.
This is about what I feel like most of the time nowadays:
Yeah!
So uhm, it's been quite a while since I last posted here, ehehe.
Or even produced any content at all. :/
Yeah, thing is that I've had a pretty big crisis and I just couldn't get myself back in. I hope I can fix that asap.
I have been working on TyNETv3 though so at least something is making progress. :/
Now for other things... Portal 2! Yes! I got it, I played it, and in all shortness: It's awesome.
No really, it gave me everything I expected from it. A good story, nice puzzles, cool physics tricks and nice graphics.
I really highly recommend you to buy this game.
I know this isn't a review or some shit but I'm no reviewer. It's just my personal opinion, in case anyone cares.
Oh, I shouldn't forget to link to this website here: http://spaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaccee.com/ (you'll only get it if you've beaten Portal 2)
Lastly I've got some more video updates...
So.
I'm busy.
Yeah I know, I always say that but I think it's pretty much always true too.
As for stuff: I'm working on TyNETv3. That's all I'm gonna say. I don't want to write boring blogs about what I'm gonna do or what not and neither do I want to write more bawwwing or bluh blogs. It has to stop.
SO! Starting now with that, the question of course is, what to write about otherwise.
I'll leave out the question if it's even worth my time because I'd say no, no matter how much I think about it.
I guess I could talk about what interesting stuff I found on the nets and so on.
Well, for one I started an image gallery where I dump pictures to that I find interesting or funny.
The gallery can be found here: http://img.tymoon.eu
Then I found some lovely videos on youtube. You can find them at the end of the full length post.
I also found MLP (My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic).
Now, if you DON'T know about this yet, then you seriously have to go check it out. Despite the name and all, this show really is really good. Here's the first episode: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeJ6-gN0eB4
I don't think I got much else to say, sadly.
Oh well.
The last few weeks haven't been good ones for me.
I don't think I got much done at all and I have the feeling that I took a huge step backwards in terms of art because of this.
I'm trying to get back on track somehow, get my life sorted out.
I guess for me it's that instead of having to sort out my life out in terms of other people and such, I have to sort it out with myself. I have very high expectations of myself and having so many things going on at once doesn't help it at all. In the end it just feels like I only get bits and tiny pieces of one of the projects done. However, reducing the amount of projects doesn't work either. It just makes me depressed because it means giving up on an idea I developed, found time investment worthy and already invested time in.
If I drop a project, it always feels to me like it was an even bigger waste of time now that I don't even have the slimmest chance of finishing it or getting anything worthy out of it.
I guess that's one of the reasons why I cling myself to whatever I start and just add to the stack and add and add til at some point I realize that the stuff at the bottom died without me noticing. Of course, that always makes me angry about myself.
I feel like I don't have any sense of planning or organization. Everything is just a blur of wild things, ripping me from one part to the other.
The worst thing is that resistance seems futile. Any means of adding a schedule or some sort of plan or to do list have only worked for maximum a week til I forgot about it again.
It's sort of ironic to think that I can force myself to cling to all these projects but don't have the slimmest chance of getting myself to cling to a schedule.
Not to mention that I always push school aside, even though it should be way more important to me than [link=Shit nobody cares about]my silly little projects[/link].
I just hope that you can do better than me.
Don't take me as an example.
You'd ruin your life.
Anyway....
I know I haven't posted anything for quite some time now, but I have been drawing some stuff even if it's very little sadly. I never got around to do it or just didn't feel like it so yeah... I'll see that I catch up with that asap.
I'll also see that I blog more again, just to have something to spout my mind out at and to distract from my loneliness.
That's it for now.... have a chill day like cool guy here:
Well, it's time to put out plans for the new year.
These plans are long term plans and can change heavily since I'm more of a guy depending on dynamic reaction to the situation at hand rather than trying to have a fixed future. Still, planning is important and it's basically just here to tell you guys what I'll be doing.
The topics needing discussion are:
[e]Tymoon and general comic schedules
[e]Pesterchum/TinyChum
[e]TyNET
[e]FruityRumpusAssholeFactory
[e]Side quests
[e]General arting
I am pretty sure that I have all the right to say that I'm different. A bit too different even as it sometimes seems.
I mean, I'm probably the weirdest guy in our class, I have a weird way of thinking, do weird stuff and generally just act weirdly most of the time.
Some people may call it "extraordinary" but that just sounds way too positive to me. Sure, sometimes it's a good aspect to be different and take another way of approaching a problem, but that shouldn't mean all the time.
Now, why am I writing all this? Well, possibly just to put out there that I'm realizing all the time just how much I don't really belong anywhere specific. I'm not an artist, I'm not a programmer, I'm not a musician, I'm not a mathematician or physicist, nor am I a biologist or even scientist in general. I don't really fit any of these characteristics well enough, nor do I have a similar way of thinking any of the people who belong to one of these groups have....
OK so, here are most of the presents I got for Christmas and my birthday:
Firstly, I got the Problem Sleuth books...
BLAH BLAH MERRY CHRISTMAS BLAH HAVE A GOOD ONE BLAH BLAH BLAH.
So now that we got the usual shit out of the way, let's get down to business.
Christmas has been a lot of stress for me mostly.
I didn't finish my presents on schedule and basically everything began to tumble down on me.
However, now that that's gone mostly, I'll hopefully be able to continue my holidays more efficiently.
I got a shitload of homework to do so I can't just invest everything for projects. Oh well.
I'll try to put up the occasional comic now and then, to see how it goes.
I don't have any fixed plan or schedule on this so it'll just happen when I feel like it.
However, I do have the strong urge to make some Spherae related stuff. It's really about damn time too for that.
In other projects:
TinyChum will probably release a short version update along with NexTVersion, a new update manager.
I started up the project I mentioned earlier, together with gingerale. The project is called [link=code.google.com/p/fruity-rumpus-asshole-factory]Fruity Rumpus Asshole Factory[/link] for now and is a pre-project composed of mini games to test out libraries, concepts and tools. I'll tell you more about that when it gets interesting.
So yeah, that's pretty much it for now, enjoy your holidays and have a sweet time!
-->Nick away!
E: before I forget it: I'll post pictures of the presents I got for my birthday and christmas when I get up.
I'm sorry to disappoint again, but a friend of mine convinced me to pause comic creation yet again for some time to concentrate on other stuff.
Yeah I admit, it wasn't easy to get the three comics a week done again, with a lot of other stuff going on.
On another note, my mental health hasn't been the best the previous week long but I'm not gonna whine about that.
I've said the same shit enough times.
Yeah. That's that I guess.
Oh right, as to what I want to concentrate on:
Finding something that's actually fun for me to do. Some of you might know that I don't really enjoy making comics or drawing or programming for that matter. As to why I don't really enjoy doing it or why I do it anyway: I have no idea. I just do it anyway.
I won't stop drawing of course, I still got a long way ahead of me and since I already began, why should I stop now?
So yeah, that's it for now.
-->Nick away!
Schedule change:
I'll try (emphasis on try) to make the Ty comic on Monday,Wednesday and Friday again.
Wish me luck.
Tracker update:
The tracker now has bugs, requests, questions and praise tickets.
Wiki update:
Fix'd a few bugs, added Categories and Portals, created a few pages and finally added more [[markup]] possibilities.
Paster update:
Fix'd a few bugs, made posting public and restyled it.
Gallery update:
Made the gallery look nice.
What's yet to do: [[TY:ToDo]]
I SUCK.
[words]
more tomorrow.
. . . BEGONE!
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Hey guys, here's the one and only tutorial that teaches you everything about drawing.
Just follow these simple steps:
You ready? A'right, here goes:
1) Get pencil
2) Get paper (lots of it)
3) Sit down
4) ???
5) PROFIT!
OK so.
I got some apologies to make, both to you guys and to myself.
First apology:
This one is obvious. I mean. Seriously. I have schedule problems again.
The Tymoon comic is seriously not being continued as it should be and I'm really sorry for that.
I don't know why I can't even make two comics a week.
Agh. I'll have to find a way to solve this problem because it's bugging me really bad.
Second apology:
I've also been lazy on Spherae as well. I wanted to get shit done with this and finally get it rolling but what do I do?
Jackshit.
>.<
Third apology:
Server issues and stuff. This isn't really something I directly should apologize for but I will nevertheless because I'm sort of responsible for making backups. Which I obviously didn't. So yeah, I'm really sorry for all the lost comments, blogs, bug reports, forum posts and so on. I'm also sorry for the server's instability lately.
Fourth apology:
This is more for myself but I'll write about it anyway:
I haven't done much schoolwork either lately. Which makes me angry since this is of high importance now and I still waste time on useless shit.
So yeah. That's it.
Now I'll... I'll just go over to that corner there and be all miserable because I'm so screwed for the Maths exam on Wednesday.
Yeah that's all I got.
-->Nick away!
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DO IT! >:U
Anyway, I don't have much to say. Gonna work on the site some more today.
Most of my presents will tumble in later because of delivery shenanigans so I can't say what kind of sw33t l00t I got yet.
I'll VLog about it though as soon as I have everything.
Also, apparently I'm not a good enough programmer to call myself "experienced": http://comments.deviantart.com/4/11322144/1746529207
So yeah, apparently making a CMS and Chat Program equals a "Hello World" Program nowadays. Whadda I know.
