Ludum Dare 22

Well i attempted to participate but went down in flames. This was due to a combination of being unprepared and actually having things to do over the weekend. Soo tried to learn flash but what i needed to know wasn't readily available.. which i guess it would have been smart to just create a different type of game, using what was possible for me.

New years resolution is officially a bust, i might be able to pull off a sidescroller within the next couple of weeks. Which apparently was possible for many people in a matter of days. But i do have a long to do list to get through. So i might try to learn some flash over the holiday's but mainly i think i'm going to focus on real life stuff. Also might study a bit for my math class next semester, a month really isn't that long.

Wrote a Program

 Egadz Batman, Where have you been~ Assuming anyone has actually been visiting the whole time i haven't updated. I apologize. I tend to get less updated when i have hard classes.. And my classes this semester are most deffinitely that. On the bright side i only have a little more then a month left before i get a break :) The classes i take afterwords may be more difficult. but some of them should be easier so that'll be cool.

 Anyway i've created a program Factorial which should showcase recursion pretty well. I was working on my calc h/w and they kept asking for factorials so i thought it'd be nice to have them written somewhere... Now i may have gone a little overboard writing a program to do it for me.. but that's who i am, and what i do.

Java Sucks

Well not reaaally.. the language concept is amazing. Write some code that'll work on any computer? And you can make applets too? so it'll work on the web or as an application? It sounds like it comes out of a magical fairy tail.

I found this extremely intriguing. The fact that it's made to be a little more idiot proof with it's lack of pointers didn't really mean much to me, but it's also written to force you to be more OO conscious. which is cool too since i had trouble with it in some C++ Class. Now i'm taking Data Structures and i believe learning java was a great thing to do before jumping into it.

Buuut there's some major problems. As there has been a heated battle between java applets and Flash for quite some time.. Well it was recently.. maybe 5 years ago before java applets started getting neglected. Now Flash has apparently won this battle, And what great Strides Flash has made.

Although people still carry on making Java applets.. well Notch made the extremely famous "Minecraft" which can be played in an applet.. and then there's Runescape.. And that's about it.

But applets are about to take a pretty big hit with mozilla recently deciding to stop allowing java to be used in Firefox because of certain security issues.. This doesn't bode well for Java on the web especially considering about 30% of users on the internet use Firefox.

Now consider the fact that i believe it's every(?) just in time compiler for java is written in C++. And if you want to use spiffy new libraries written to make your life easier. you'll need to use native libraries anyway. Killing that great portability that java is known for. Plus it has that stigma of being slow which i don't believe is necessarily true. But it's got a lot working against it.

Honestly i've recently grown fed up with it. And for good Reason!!! Now as i understand it, there's great applications for server side crap that i've never gotten into. So i'm not saying this is a useless language, but i don't think it's for me. Not now anyway, it has a really cool concept behind it but i think Flash/C++ just might be the way to go.

Think my next step will be flash, i haven't decided whether Canon Attack will recieve any more attention. If it does it'll just be for death animations or something similar. I'd like to create something that i feel can go somewhere. or be shared.. or maybe i'll just put it on newgrounds. But i'd like to share. And with the kind of support Java is getting right now i just don't see that being a feasible direction to go in. Especially since i haven't sunk Enormous amounts of my time into it yet.

Well a good chunk of time has been spent, but who knows it may be useful at some point?

And School Begins again

I was really looking forward to finishing my game before the next semester started, now i gotta work on math way to often to be able to give my game proper attention. It's a sad day, i realize i won't be able to work on my game for awhile :(


I also want to do a sidescroller by the end of the year but i don't want to work on it until this game is done.. soooo~ That's that.The rate at which this game is shaping up as is, forgetting the low amount of attention it will be receiving i don't have much hope for finishing this game by the end of the year let alone manage to finish another game. But i'm not giving up. It may happen all the same.

The classes i'm going to start taking aren't to be triffuled with though.. Calculus, Data structres and Modular math. Gonna be lots of fun this semester! :D ... .. . not really. But i gotta get through it. and i would like to Ace my classes..

Hopefully i can get some work on the game in, on the weekends or whenever i have a bit of free time, but i won't make as much progress sadly.. Or i could just switch what used to be my "Web Development Day" into a "Game Development Day" That way i'm more likely to get some work done.

Cattack Progress

I've added stars and sounds when you explode things up :)

The death animations still need to.. be put into existence.. because they don't exist yet.. things just *pop* out of existence.. ergh explode and turn invisible? Yeah that's not good. Plus the ships need to be bigger.. bombs too.

I planned on using Affine Transformations to make them bigger, but lets face it. it's my first game just going to take the easy route and make the pictures bigger for now. should only make a few kilobyte difference for now. and since it's already like a meg after adding the stupid native libraries it shouldn't make a big difference.

The game can be found: here

Blog with an Iframe!

admittedly this looks kinda dumb right now.. if i can't get it to look right i'll probably end up going back to the old blog.. which isn't really convenient.. and i don't really want to do that >_>

If i recall correctly there's a whole "community" for iframes, so i'd imagine this is a feasible way to do it.. but when i looked around for finding a way to put an rss feed into a website. Php seemed pretty popular..

A lot of the tools that take care of the work part of displaying an rss feed only showed the titles.. which isn't what i want.. ideally i only want the latest post to be showing..  This all should be possible with php, and although our webserver allows php.. i'm not that good with it >_> Plus it's just something i don't want to spend any more time fiddling with.

Cowboys and Aliens

Went and saw it, It was great!

Jake our main character was played by the guy who was the new "James Bond" did a fantastic job playing the main character. Felt like i was watching a Clint Eastwood flick. Harrison Ford and the Fireworks guy from Joe Dirt were also in it.

Although Harrison Ford wasn't playing the good guy like you might expect.. although i'd have a hard time calling anyone in this movie "the good guy". Maybe there's some deeper message here? Bunch of bad guys doing good things, my kind of movie really. Deadpool-esque in a way.

Cowboys and Aliens was a general shoot em' up with some serious parts. Basically what you expect to see when you throw on a western, tough guys shooting at each other, whiskey, cards, Preachers and Indians.  Except there were aliens in it so expect a little bit of future tech.

The movie was pretty awesome, i'd give it a 10/10. It's worth seeing in theaters.

Beer

Girlfriend went out of town and brought me back a fancy beer :) Put me in a good mood. it's 8.2% alcohol by volume.. which is  a lot more then the beer i usually make.

Oh yeah i brew beer in my free time. I have about 8 bottles of Scotch ale left sitting in the fridge. Anyway this kinda put me in a good mood and i thought i'd share :D

Sound Works!!!!

Cannon Attack!!
Getting sound to play in this has been a nightmare. And i don't even have background music for it.. but having a sound play when the cannon shoots is pretty cool. I can finally make more progress.. The alien AI really needs a lot of work, and it would help if i did a lot of small things to help the difficulty rise as you go along. Among other things..

Only took over 2 weeks to get it to work and then export it to a jar.

Captain America

I saw it in theatres, i was never a big comic book fan.. but i just didn't get it.

His super power was that he was a wimp, then he took drugs and now he's a superhero? And his big super power is that he's no longer wimpy. I just don't find it all that impressive..

On another note i might end up merging this blog with my website. Not sure if i will yet though.. i have a little archive file from the last 5 years that'd i'd like to set up on here.. and i don't really want to throw that away.

Productivity

I found this great new blog on productivity!

http://productiveblog.tumblr.com/

Oh and i got sound working in my game, so that put me in a good mood :)

Went to the fair

It's pretty famous for coming up with interesting foods that would probably give you a heart-attack by the end of the day. I haven't been in about 15 years but it was fun.

While i was there i tried chocolate covered bacon which wasn't as impressive as i was hoping for. But bacon has surprised me  before, it goes pretty well on a Sunday. They also had "fried butter"(i was to afraid to try this) and at the same stall had several different types of foreign food including scorpions, kangaroo and racoons on a stick..

in other news there's a new http://www.humblebundle.com/ it comes with crayon physics and vvvvvvv which seems to be popular..

Edit: i sketched something up, then redrew it in the computer.. so yeah.. it takes me awhile to come up with this stuff.. i think it's because i'm just out of practice.

My art style is somewhat inspired by jhonen vasquez. In all reality i sort of end up drawing this way anyway.. buut i'm not so great with adapting things to toons. So i hope this will work out in the future. The idea of using goemteric shapes to make up the character kind of makes things look better without giving it to much thought.

All the same i still need practice, so hopefully this blog will kind of force me to do it.

War

it's the theme for the next mini-ld which i "might" enter.. i don't know.. if i can get sound working i should be able to manage a top down shooter.. so "war" would be possible.. but it's a tough call.. i really don't know.. I'd like to give it a shot.. but i still haven't gotten the moving sprites thing down.. so i have a bit to learn and only a week to do it..


Anyway i came across this article and thought i'd share::Bad Ass Soldiers


I managed to doodle a bit, it isn't all that impressive but i'm not going to share right this second, i'd have to go figure out the scanner. and i have a large todo list today.. plus i want to add sound in my game today if i can swing it. tomorrow will probably be mostly studying for a test in physics.

So much to do so little time..

Sound

It's surprising how hard to add sound to a game can be. I was hoping to have this done by the end of the weekend(it is now the end of the weekend.) Given i only spent an accumulated 3-4 hours on it within the past 3 days..Things come up.. mostly drinking with friends and family so i can't really complain.. I haven't made a sketch yet so i should probably get one done within the next few days.. Forcing yourself to draw is really the only way to get any better.. so it's 1 step a time.

Anyway i hope to fix my sound tomorrow.. Just 1 sound.. that's all i'm asking for, then i'd be happy :) Then i'll build a class to handle said sounds and expand upon it. Afterwards i can get into particle effects and menu's and stuff. should be fun.. well kinda.. sort of.. It will be for me.. i want this game to be fun.. but right now it's kind of lame. and exceedingly difficult.. i could just make the pictures larger but i was hoping to do an affine transformation.. because it kind of made sense.. And i should probably learn how to do them anyway. Making bigger pictures is just be running away from the problem, i still wouldn't understand them and i probably should take the time to learn them.

Was also looking through notch's Breaking the Tower code hoping it would impart onto me some cool coding wisdom.. and i was hoping he'd have a good example of how to do sound.. which he might. I don't know, his code is still pretty difficult for me to grasp. But i feel i'm better now.. i might be able to decode it to some level if i spent some time on it. But the way he handles sound is still a bit above my head, i think he's streaming it.. he said it's generated on the fly somewhere so i just can't manage that.

So apparently Slick2d has an easy way of managing sound.. or it's OpenAL or something like that which is accessible by lwjgl which is accessible through Slick2d and there we go :) Once i get sound done i'll work on fixing the gameplay to be more entertaining and i will try to add some cooler effects. Right now it's rocking the Classic Asteroids graphics.. which i have no intention of changing mind you. But some cool explosions and particles effects should make things cooler.

Anyway, till tomorrow. Hopefully i'll get a sketch done and put something up.. since that's why i made this blog..

G+ really seems to be kicking off

http://technolog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/07/22/7143310-kickoff-of-google-stomps-facebook-twitter

G+ really seems to be kicking off. Although lets face it, Google is basically a modern day Midas. Given Apple might be doing better in the phone market, but that really is their forte.. And they have the trust of the people.. from selling them overpriced over secure crap.

Over security is nice when it comes to phones, keeps people from being able to make free phone calls and doing things that would otherwise make them happy. Which is a no-no in the world of electronics. Look at Microsoft they hate their Customers.. Loathe them. Don't trust them to be able to look at their own system files among other things.. But that's how they get ahead in this world. Hide everything behind the scenes, tell you it's good for you and charge you for it.

I sometimes wonder if video games were designed for Linux, and it wasn't so scary for the non-computer literate to start up, whether we'd have a larger trend of people walking away from the corporate giants that hold all the strings..  Well one step at a time.

Anyway it's cool to see google+ doing so well. The circles are kind of awesome so i'm looking forward to it getting more popular. No sketches as of yet but i'm going to work on it.. At some point i'm going to have to get better if i want to design games.

So it Begins

Going to try my hand at making a sketchy blog thingy.. I hear all of the cool kids are doing it.. Plus it'll give me an excuse to sketch more which i think i might end up getting some use out of in the future so it's important to keep those skills up.

Nothing to show at the moment, i don't really feel like trudging along to the printer and i haven't drawn anything yet. i'll try to do something at-least once a week though.

Java Calculator and Cannon Attack

Wow it's been 20 days since my last update. Okely Dokely. I've begun my Conceptual Physics class which won't help my coding at all. Because it's conceptual.. Little to no math involved. I really want to make a side scroller and i have a feeling physics will help in it. but some of the principles seem pretty simple. Like gravity has a downward force of 22mph/s and Acceleration is Force divided by mass. I believe even that should be enough to put some interesting effects to use.

Of course i haven't made much headway as of yet. I'm currently working on a sort of Space Invaders Clone i named it cannon attack. Probably going to have one ship. I'd put up an example but sadly at the moment i'm having trouble exporting a jar file and getting it to work. I keep getting an error because i believe the jar is having trouble finding the images. So i exported my calculator i made in java instead. I'll keep trying to figure out what's wrong with Cannon Attack though. It's kind of pointless to make a game if no one can play it.
Java Calculator. I'd suggest checking the source code out if your into java. it's not that complex but i thought it was somewhat clever..

Etch and Sketch

Made an Etch and Sketch while i was trying to learn Java. It is a start.. i've made something with my own hands instead of recreating other peoples code. This is the beginning of a journey of a million miles, or however they said it in Kung Fu.

This thing actually turned out kind of crappy, but i don't think it's really worth the effort to fix any of the bugs.. It works, but i could make it better if i wanted to. I just don't think anyone would enjoy it enough to bother.

Replacing Tables with Div's

Good news and bad news. Good news is that i replaced a bunch of tables with div's which are more lightweight, sleeker, faster, better looking. They load faster and take up less space on the server while looking exactly the same as the tables did.. well where they're being replaced anyway. The bad news is i have a lot more tables to get rid of and it's not really "fun" going through the code to replace them. On the other hand it makes my website look more professional and of course that's a good thing.

Killing time on break, hope to find a job and get some projects done while waiting for the next semester to start. And of course i have to work on Calculus for the second class. (I got a B in Calc 1!) I think i might make Tic Tac Toe, and put up a couple of old game projects in a game section.. i know tic tac toe isn't very impressive but we all gotta start somewhere. Currently reading a Java game design book, but it seems to have been written for beginners so it teaches about the language java which i don't really have a problem with. It's fine though, i have a lot to learn about java Graphics and Game design, and the table of contents is intriguing.. Apparently it gets into multiplayer games which as i understand it is a bit of a nightmare, so it's cool to have a book that gets into it.

Finals Coming up

Once again i have made alterations to the website.. i started out by adding padding to all tables.. and then getting rid of a bunch of tables in log and archive. you can't tell the difference by looking at it but it's a lot of extra weight shedded.. didn't realize i could make it look EXACTLY THE SAME. was worried about that but we live and learn :)

Finals coming up.. fun.. Actually i've already taken care of all of my classes except for one already. Calculus my arch-nemesis. I might walk away with a B in it if i do well on the final. It's perfectly feasible. And since the class is 5 units i'd really rather have a B in it then a C. But of course that will take a lot of studying over the coming week. And since i'm missing the first week of Calc 2 once the semester is over it's not like i get to stop studying calculus lol. I have something worked out with my Calc 2 teacher but it requires me to study Calculus over the summer. So yeah.. for better or worse i'm going to get better at calculus. Of course on the bright side i'll be better at calculus so i can't really complain in the grand scheme of things.

Well killing off all the tables in my archive page has dropped the size of the file as well, which i'm happy about. i hope to change most of my tables into div's at some point. I also talked to someone about contrasting and colors and hues.. which sounds like a big headache but i may be changing some of the color scheme soon. After finals of course.

Finals coming up

Fixed the website up slightly, didn't manage to do anything to it last week so i wanted to get something done this week. Got finals coming up though so i might neglect it for a little while. Just added something to the D&D page when you go to it and tweaked the archive. The border of the big table was a color in IE but not in Firefox.. i don't really care for that kind of incompatibility. That and i don't like IE so i don't feel like altering my website to do something cool in an explorer i don't use. And according to recent statistics you probably don't use it either.

Luckily i'd say it looks good enough not to be embarrasing though. Once i get through the list of things to update i might read up on javascript and some other things instead of doing a weekly update. Javascript seems popular these days. Might as well figure out what the big hub bub is about right? Plus i'd kind of like to have multiple backgrounds i think that's a CSS kind of thing so i need to learn more there too.

I haven't done much in the way of Java for the last couple of weeks. I'm helping my dad work on an old project he did in a class a long time ago. but i'm thinking of suggesting to him that we just work from the ground up. The code is a bit complicated and i don't think it would be that hard to start a new using his old code as a base for how to write it up again. Anyway.. just things to think about on the side. I need to concentrate on the things at hand. Calculus might not be as fun but it's gotta get done.

Learning Java

Well the text was changing color but no longer. Hopefully many things will change in the future. Haven't made a lot of progress in java this weekend. I just added a bunch of tutorials to my java worload list thingy. that way i can check them out easier. I'm planning on going over a couple of java 2d tutorials and swing kit tutorial. Then i'm going to pull out a java game programming book i found.. then i thought i might check out the slick game library.

i had some trouble with lwjgl last time i tried to install it, i think it's supposed to help you do hardware accelerating tricks but i just don't think my gpu can handle that as i'm on a laptop. The stationary computer isn't as accessible to me as it once was so i'm not really developing on there. I let the family cannablize it into some sort of "house computer" it has it's uses that way too.. so i don't really have any complaints i just wish my laptop came with better graphics chips. You'd think they would have been putting better gpu's in laptops by now but maybe the extra cooling involved was a factor they had to get over? I don't know.

Spring break's almost over and i'm not done with everything i wanted to do.. but no worries, i'm getting there.

Java Game Dev

Ok, i edited the speed ot the color switch so it's much Sloooower now. so slow that you probably won't be on long enough to see it happen unless your reading through the archive.. which acording to google analytics no one is ever on here more then 9 minutes so i doubt it's read.. but i like to keep it up all the same.

Currently following tutorials here for java game development, but i plan on going over the java 2d tutorial afterwards, to be honest i think this game one is a bit over my head, never actually did a proper learning of 2 dimensional graphic stuff in java during my class. it was pretty much like C++ this whole time, except with java.. so it's kind of not as fun. Buuut~ i'll carry on all the same, with an inferior education on the subject i'll find a way somehow! Anyway, i kinda get what's going on with the graphics, but some things baffle me so i believe his 2d tutorials will do me some good.

A lot of it doesn't feel like learning how a proper instructor or book would teach me either. It's just a bunch of code that he throws down and trying to explain chunks of it here and there.. or he just thinks we've reached a certain level(So i guess i'm sneaking in under the radar?) Now i usually spent sunday nights working on it but lately i've just picked up wherever and started working on it. Getting through it quicker this way.. it was all a part of the master plan, the sunday game dev thing was just to get me working on stuff. The schedule works.. MUAHAHAHA!!!!

yeah whatever, Personal Life. Played Golf today, Rode my bicycle on a bike trail for the first time. 5.7 miles. It's not impressive by bicycler people but they wear stretchy shorts so what do i care how they feel about it? I'm making my first steps, that plus weight training and i might bring my weight down. Here's hoping. Then i came home, ribs, crappy facebook game, Developin' Game time, And i thought i'd update my log. Now it's either nap time or Calculus time.. i'm leaning towards calculus. Test on monday. Hard to study at home but i think i'll manage today.

Colorful text

Ok i'm going to try something new, possibly even today. FuzzYspoOn of ludum dare gave me some code to help me change the color of my text. hopefully i'll be able to implement it later today. Example
Later that Day: I said some stuff. And this is what it was/is. The text coloring is working, but i'd like to limit the hues to a certain range.. which may take a little more effort. I slowed it down so people won't notice at first(hehe i'm sneaky) On another note, i learned stuff in math. Haven't eaten for the last.. 9 hours. I R hungry. and learned that my library carries books. Which you know.. i already Kind of knew but i never checked em' out or looked into any facet of the lending book thingy. Apparently most of them are online, so i might use them for java. :) They gave me the tools to learn, lets not focus on what classes i have and what books i'm actually reading. It's there. that's what matters.

I also spent a large amount of time trying to fix up the DND section. Haven't touched story but the actual profiles. Technically the only ones that are up to date are clickies who was played by a good friend of mine, and Gray's whom i edited.

Archive

The projects section is probably going to stay the way it is for awhile.. i want to add descriptions with javascript, but i don't really want to take the time to learn javascript at the moment. If i run out of other things to do in the meantime i'll probably come back to it though.

I've decided to make my java calculator an applet so i could share it on here. figured i might get a little more use out of it that way. Plus it'll be something else to put up on my java projects section. Although i just got through the moving sprites section of a tutorial and now i'm in the Collision detection section. I haven't really built anything from it yet that involves any of my own creativity.. So i just don't feel right sharing. But the tutorial seems to be extremely well put together based on the other tutorials i've read up to this point. I'll post a link when i finally hit a point with it that i feel comfortable with sharing.

I think the Archive might be my next project, it takes like 64 kb's which is a lot for just text, i think these tables take up more space then is really efficient or smart. So i can atleast take the outer one out, i don't want to get started on it now though and find out it has become some great big thing. I'll save it for web dev day(Wednesday)

Dropbox = efficient

I fixed up my projects section, that arguable looks better now. I'm also setting up a dropbox for all of the computers in the house. It's pretty neat if you haven't heard of it before. It's like a free 2 gigs sitting out on the web that you can hook your computer up to. Then i put some files i have to edit constantly on there and drew a link from that to my grandmothers website. :) it's all kind of nifty. Now whenever i edit the file i don't have to move it between computer or upload it to the interenet, it's all done simultaniously.

Missed Game Dev day last week :( which is sadness. but i did a little on the website yesterday so i feel somewhat accomplished. It's raining pretty bad here right now not looking forward to class later.

Think Geek background

Well i spent over 4 hours today working on the website, which is nice after math i must admit. It needs progress in the long run and i like taking care of it in small installments instead of losing a few days to it..
Anyway i was trying to think of a new background image that could work for the website, help uniformity and cut down on the file size of the old one. Which really wasn't much of an issue. It's not like i don't have the space for it but having a lot of large images on my website is something i'd like to avoid as a practice. This way everything will load much faster, and people using phones can acess things much faster. Ideally someday i'd like to use this as a part of a portfolio and if anyone is going to check it out i'd imagine it'd be on a phone for the convenience of it. Anyway here is what i WANT the background to look like: Think Geek Rip-Off don't forget to scroll to the bottom!

I mean ideally it's not going to have the robots and the same color scheme, not because i don't like them.. Zombies and Robots are pretty awesome after all. But the people who made it had a pretty clever idea, and i'd feel wrong copying them to closely. But i do like the idea and would like ton incorporate it into my website when i can :)

Anyway, the people from Ludum Dare have been helping me out a lot recently on my web dev day's and thanks to them i'd like to think i'm making a lot of positive changes to the look and functionality of the website.

GA finally works

Google Analytics is finally working. only took about 6 hours. I filtered out my ip adress.. so i'll probably have less hits now :( i also did a bunch of other shit.. it was a productive Web Dev Day. As you may have noticed all of my links are now html-ish. I plan on having floating drop down lists in the future.. i just haven't done it yet. It's going to be a lot of work when i get around to doing it..

I've also made it so you can bookmark specific pages if you want to.. except the D&D section.. which i'm contemplating leaving like that.. That way it feels more like an application.. and it all just loads in the same page.. like "magic" i don't know.. might be dumb i'll think it over later. For now i'm just gonig to imagine that i'm done with the links and come back to it later.

Google Analytics

Moving over to google analytics.. so i'm really going to miss the stat counter that told me that i was popular.. kind of.. i miss it already. hopefully the new one will give me better reports.. and it's by google so obviously they know what they're doing. I don't know if it'll ignore my ip adress though.. my old one did..

Crushed Pride

This Web Dev Day invovled a lot of hurt feelings and crushed pride as i asked for suggestions. Next Web Dev day will involve much demolition and reconstruction. In all fariness it was time for me to rebuild it, i just didn't expect it to require so much of a difference right off the bat, but i guess there's no helping it.

The Layout is going to change immensely.. and it might look crappier at first.. But i think in the long run everything should end up more "Stream-lined" I have a rought idea of how i want it to look but web dev day is over. So it'll start next time..

Invention of "Web Dev Day"

Well I've decided that wednesday's after class will be my "Web Dev" day. Website certainly could use some work after all so i think it'll be awhile before it reaches it's final stage. I do have an idea of how i would like it to look, and i had a huge burst of creativity the other day about how i wanted it to look but i forgot to write it down.. so i don't remember now..

Well first update down, for the weekly updates. It may not have any obvious impact to any visitors. But i cut the website up between several webpages. So 1. it's possible to bookmark a section not a particular page yet though. and 2. there's a lot less code on each page. Which should make everything i alot simpler.
Before everything was looking like spaghetti code.

I have made a ball bounce!

Alright well i haven't actually done anything since i created the bouncing ball as featured. here . and in all fairness that wasn't even REALLY my creation. And what i hope to do next won't be my creation either, it's just getting someone elses creation to work and therefor feeling better about myself because i will have learned another essential step on the way to making my own games. Happy Days... not the show more of a way of saying i'm happy? i guess. Err right.

Christmas was nice, i don't know if it was the weather but it didn't really feel like christmas you know? But i feel older, more mature somehow. As if the very act of getting older has something to do with it. Or maybe it's just the next semester of classes coming up. I finally made it to Calculus 1! starts up in a week, sadly i've taken all available programming classes for this semester.. so i won't be able to do any coding classes. I took a database class so i could atleast have some excuse for being on a computer at school.

I reformated my computer, but i've been wanting to post something but i had a lot.. i mean ALOT of reinstalling. The computer is running in a more "lean" way. The viruses that i had were gone, and i got rid of a lot of programs that i wasn't really using. I've connected my stationary computer out in the living room up to a big screen tv :) it's pretty neat to have. Works as a dvd palyer too so there's that. Wireless keyboard/mouse FTW plus a new keyboard for my laptop.. which has really ceased being "portable" at this point. I could do it if i really wanted to, but it's kind of hooked up like "phillip"(Shawn of the dead) was hooked up to blood lines in underworld.. Victor? He's an awesome actor!
 
Well i guess that's about it, going to be taking a lot of classes, which i'm genuinely looking forward to, nothing like a break to make you feel useless for a few weeks. I had a few ideas for the setup of the website, and i'm not entirely sure what i'm going to do yet but i might do an overhaul soon. Might take a few days and cut the fat on the website. and change how it works, plus change the "design" a little bit.. i really like the wallpaper to this page and i might use it for every page.. or i just might find a new one, something I can call my own creation.. I'm not a bad artist when i put my mind to it.