Havn’t bloged anything for a while but I have been busy with schoolwork and other projects. In school we had our last Flash lession last friday and our teacher was happy to see all of our projects and thought we have done well as his padawans. There will probably be a presentation next week or the week after that, I hope that we’ll get to present the blender games to, would be fun to see what people have made. Even funnier is that half of the class isn’t done yet and hand in was a little more than a week ago.
It have been an intresting period in school, we have learned how to build simple or advanced game prototypes depending on how much time you are ready to put into them, I have made 4 games this period, 3 Blender and one flash and working on an other flash project at the moment but its in the concept stage where I’m trying out what works and how to draw different stuff but I’m looking forward to get it ”done”.
My flash game in school is called Ozelot on the Run, a game built on an old game idea from a course we had before the summer, Interactive Storytelling. Even the new game is about this ”license” but from another perspective and style but if I get it done right it will be cool. But Ozelot on the Run is a top down runner where you avoid stones, logs and fallen statues while running thru the jungle. It’s an okey game, not much to a challenge and so but it works as a school project I think or as a prototype. Gonna try and pull my finger out of my *** and get some pictures up from all my projects someday.
On the other gamingfront which is what games I play and not what games I make, I’m currently in GTA4 which is really good. I bought it at its release date but didn’t play it that much before the summer break due to some girl, then during the summer I couldn’t play it since I wasn’t at home and when I got back to Skellefteå I started it but got dirty disc problems but now when I finished de Blob and didn’t have anything else to play I took it up and now I’m liking it. Liberty City is a wonderful city and I’m really impressed over Rockstars work with the game. All from dialogs and photos to missions and atmosphere is on top. I’m still on the second Island but working my way forward.
I upgraded my PSP last week to Sony firmware instead of Dark Alex firmware since I wanted to play a lot of games from playstation store and to use the conectivity between the PS3 and PSP. Sure it can be done with pirate firmware to but I had a older version and since I am against piracy of games I decided to get Sony firmware instead. So now on my PSP I’m playing Crash Bandicoot mostly but I’m thinking of getting Patapon. I got a hold of the demo from PS Store and its sweet and it only cost 150SEK at VideoGamePlus which isn’t much money for a nice game. I bought Crash Bandicoot last years summer but havn’t played it at all since then, why I don’t recall but I didn’t find it funny at the time being but now I’m in to it and liking it. Like their leveldesign and have got a lot of thought for my own platform game.
The last two days I recieved two new Nintendo Wii games, Resident Evil 4 and Zack & Wiki. Resident Evil 4 might not be my game but it was cheap and I got 2 games for GB£30 which is what one of those games costs here in Sweden but I might sell RE4 in the future but gonna play some more of it first.
Zack & Wiki then, a point and click puzzle solving game which I have been playing for an hour or two today. Its cute, fun and damn annoying. The wiimote isn’t always as responsive as you would like, an example is just reasently and before I quit when I was going to catch a big fish with a fishing rod. To catch the fish you have to do a certain motion as in real life but it didn’t register the motion when I did it and the fish got away. Tried a couple of times but nothing happend. That’s when you wish that they would have used something else then motions. But the game will probably take a while to play throu since the puzzles will get harder with time.
In the end I also wanna tell the world that I’m blessed with the best girlfriend, she doesn’t mind me playing games at a normal degree and she play games herself, somegames atleast, she plays Hellgate London on her computer at home and at my house she plays Mass Effect on my 360 when I’m working in Flash/Blender/Photoshop.
Lisa you are the best and I love you <3
