Coma : Finished

Made Coma for the 2nd YYGGMCIRCRDC, which placed FIRST OUT OF SIX HELL YEAH.  Well actually it's not that great because a lot of people came in during the middle of the competition and therefore didn't have a chance to do a full-blown game.  It was a tie between my game and creativebunch's until the tiebreaker judge leaned it to my side.  The game actually sucks a fair amount; my favorite in the compo was by far Goebbels' entry.  He makes a bunch of art games, they're all pretty cool.  That one's his best, easily.

Arrow Keys, Z to do stuff, X to do stuff later.

Coma : Download Link

Films in 10 hours

Yesterday myself and 8 friends divided ourselves up into two teams and made our own films in 10 hours based on the theme "Oh God... What Have I Done?"  For those of you that actually go to my school and are reading this (first off why are you reading this), the teams were decided after several hours of debate over the IRC:

Team 1: Me (head editor), Adam (head actor), Louis (scriptwriter/actor), Eugene (actor)
Team 2: Drew (head editor/director), Brandon (actor), Arthur (actor), Jack (actor), Justin (actor)

The contest started at 1 PM and ended at 11 PM; the full 10 hours.

Programming via Pepsi binge.

The idea was to not sleep until I finished the Pannenkoekenhuis Flash port to release on MochiAds and make some money for a thing at Stanford over the summer.

Lot'so Pepsi

It was fine, the first two days and two nights I made some progress.  Couldn't carry a conversation past "mhmm yeah that's cool ahah how awesome" though.  Then the afternoon of the second day, I almost threw up and the caffeine wore off and almost passed out so I slept for ~11 hours and had some weird dream about being in someone's backyard in the future.  It was basically "wow this garden is awful and unmaintained and the grass is up to my elbows, guess I could sleep here for a while I hope the owners don't mind."

Third morning I woke up, looked at my code.  It was fucking disgusting, and none of it made any sense.

So don't try this at home kids.*

Meanwhile redesigning my blog so it's not so squashed, thinking a bird-themed one this time.

*I probably will again in a few months because above all it really was pretty interesting.

The Hat Man : Finished

For the first GMC+YYG RDC, set up by zeddidragon, Alti, ShadowLink, Pqp232, and I.  Haven't seen such a successful RDC in so long.

Download "The Hat Man":
Mirror 1: YoYo Games
Mirror 2: UpUrLoad
GMC Link: GMC

Controls are arrow keys.  No, you're not playing it wrong.  Yes, that's supposed to happen.  And no, there is no "better ending."  Hence the actual ending.

Made in four hours.  Landed runner-up alongside zeddidragon and Skarik, behind IQbrew who won with this massive freaking 3D thing holy crap.

Overanalyzing Words With Friends

I just woke up having slept approximately 50% of my weekend (am i dying i'm always tired now is this a sign of dying) and I haven't done anything productive so hopefully this will make up for it.

For those who are total shut-ins and don't know, Words With Friends is an app for iOS that allows one to play scrabble over the internets.

I'll be walking through a game of it to point out some tactics I tend to do.  No guarantees that they work but they seem reasonable enough.

Thoughts on Rapture

So rapture is in three days.  And being the non-Christian that I am (sort of a Theravada Buddhist I guess), I'm going to hell.

Since I love religious wars and I love controversial shit I'm going to write my last words.

Christian ololol:
From what I've seen, Christians are holding this as the "I told you so" moment for them to prove the validity of their religion to atheists.  Which is hilarious, because the whole point of Christianity is to save the nonbelievers before they're eternally damned to hell.  Hence why I think the religion is in pieces.

Atheist ololol:
Even more funny are the atheists that are hell-bent on disproving rapture before it occurs.  Saying "rapture is dumb and never going to happen because it's never happened before" is akin to saying "if I jump off a cliff I won't die because I've never died before."  Not to mention the "atheist Crusade" movement going around where atheists can't say the word "religion" without a derogatory word behind or ahead of it.  I smell self-denial.

TL;DR?  Atheists are aggressively converting Christians.  Christians are aggressively converting athiests.  Neither side has any solid evidence, they're just mudslinging each other.  Neither side will admit they're doing it.

Watching from the sidelines, it's all pretty hilarious.

A Happy Birthday to Orange08!

Happy birthday to orange08!  Here have a cake.

EDIT:

So uh happy birthday banov!  Does he have a blog or something?

EDIT LOOKS LIKE HE DOES YAAY