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3-6-11

So much for my 2 week goal, and I doubt anyone is reading this, but it still makes me feel better to say what's on my mind. I haven't been on lately, I'm losing focus in classes, and I told probably the greatest person I know my biggest secret. And to top it all off, I'm losing faith.
A birthday is supposed to be a cherished day. Friends, gifts, smiles all around. Not my mothers this year. No, she took a stand. She went up to my stepdad (Yes... stepdad) and boldly told ...

i just gone over all the new pokemon again and i got to say...
they are all pretty... Horrible! :'/ I mean really? is it that hard to
design pokemon? it's not like only one person is doing it. i hear they got over 17 people
who work on the designs. but over the years pokemon keep getting worse looking...
sorry i think its time they fire people lol really i always could fine at least 10 pokemon
i liked in every game... this time only 4 :/ and even then i only find ...

I'm currently working on the second level of World One (The first level is yet to be completed - I'm working backwards ) and one puzzle is just annoying the hell out of me. It's a simple enough affair, very similar to Monkey Island and other point-click adventures. Fetch this, throw that, and so on and so on. The difficulty is lying in all the variables.

So take this scenario. Player speaks to NPC A and hears him mention he needs a fuse. (Oh, the cliche . . .) Player fetches fuse, ...

Indulge me.

Imagine the classic twin stick shooter layout. Then take out the obligatory space theme, destroy the space ship and the asteroids and remove the anti gravity.

Add a sackbot with a white holo arrow around it to indicate direction, merge it in grey gas and floating particles with glass/colour correction making it look like swirls, make the sackbot shoot colourful balls of bright energy that cause the mist to swirl and the particles scatter, put in some incoming ...

Well, the film is finally finished (to the point where I doubt I can improve anymore, unless of course someone tells me otherwise!) and the first level is almost fully designed. I'm just short of the logic and puzzle mechanics before I start testing it.

Since I was certain that my prologue was finished, and of a pretty high standard (humble? me? far from it.) I thought I'd try my luck at getting someone from the good folks at MM to give it a whirl.

My favourite tactic ...