I quit! So, I guess this documents my first school year in Seattle. Thanks for everyone who has been checking this thing.
Supposedly my family will start up a community blog so we can keep up with all we're doin. Here's hopin!
Later all!
Update: Family blarg is called The Blog That Must Not Be Named. I will be posting there from now on.
Sunday, May 11, 2008
Saturday, April 19, 2008
Rawk O'Clawk
We presented our game in front of a bunch of other students yesterday and we got a very positive response. People were telling us how cool our idea was. My self-esteem went crazy, and it's pretty healthy anyway. We all compared it to Optimus Prime going super-saiyan (geek jokes). I was pretty lucky to have such kickbutt teammates.
Afterwards, we watched The Forbidden Kingdom, the movie with Jackie Chan and Jet Li. It was kind of a weird movie for either of them, and they each did great. It was kind of in the format of a Chinese folktale, but with lots of action fighting. Parts of the story weren't astonishing, but the overall story concept was still intersting. And it involved the Monkey King, who rawks all sawks. Who watches those movies for story anyway?
I probably won't blog for a couple weeks, as I am coming home for a week before summer school. Speaking of, anyone want to pick me up at the Kansas City airport? It's on April 24th at 6pm. I'll probably fly straight into Springfield from now on, gas prices and all.
Edit: Happy Four Twenty!
Afterwards, we watched The Forbidden Kingdom, the movie with Jackie Chan and Jet Li. It was kind of a weird movie for either of them, and they each did great. It was kind of in the format of a Chinese folktale, but with lots of action fighting. Parts of the story weren't astonishing, but the overall story concept was still intersting. And it involved the Monkey King, who rawks all sawks. Who watches those movies for story anyway?
I probably won't blog for a couple weeks, as I am coming home for a week before summer school. Speaking of, anyone want to pick me up at the Kansas City airport? It's on April 24th at 6pm. I'll probably fly straight into Springfield from now on, gas prices and all.
Edit: Happy Four Twenty!
Friday, April 11, 2008
Everything Right is Wrong Again
Once again, Happy Friday. So, our game is wrapping up, and it's becoming playable. Though, it seems like it only works with XBox controllers, of which I do not own. I'd still like to find a way for people to play it when I visit home. Anyway, check out the logo I made!
And here's a recent pic. If you can't tell, that piece of ground at the bottom got cut off and is now falling. Pretty neat, eh?
By the way, Digipen has a copyright on those images, so don't use them without permission!
So, the gears are already turning on our next project. It's weird being back at square one, and we have a lot of initial setup to do. This time we're a team of five programmers, and eventually two to four artists. Our team name is probably Team Satan (it wasn't even my idea!). The game is Ronin Duck. Check out some of my sketches! Taken with a crappy camera (hint hint for people who want to buy me a good camera or a scanner).
Some random sketches, including the main character, a samurai duck with a rice hat and bamboo sword. Also, a possible clunky robot boss, a punk robot, and a ghost thing.
The ronin duck hitting several robots in a row! I doodled this in class, so you can kind of see notes through the page.
So, a new Mario Kart is coming out this month. So soon after Brawl, I am barely concerned with it! It's supposed to have good internet functionality though, so it'll be another good game for playing with Missouri people. Also, Okami, a stylish adventure game, is coming out on the Wii. Even though I haven't played it yet, it is one of the inspirations for Ronin Duck's style. I bet I play it over my brief break.
And here's a recent pic. If you can't tell, that piece of ground at the bottom got cut off and is now falling. Pretty neat, eh?
By the way, Digipen has a copyright on those images, so don't use them without permission!
So, the gears are already turning on our next project. It's weird being back at square one, and we have a lot of initial setup to do. This time we're a team of five programmers, and eventually two to four artists. Our team name is probably Team Satan (it wasn't even my idea!). The game is Ronin Duck. Check out some of my sketches! Taken with a crappy camera (hint hint for people who want to buy me a good camera or a scanner).
Some random sketches, including the main character, a samurai duck with a rice hat and bamboo sword. Also, a possible clunky robot boss, a punk robot, and a ghost thing.
The ronin duck hitting several robots in a row! I doodled this in class, so you can kind of see notes through the page.
So, a new Mario Kart is coming out this month. So soon after Brawl, I am barely concerned with it! It's supposed to have good internet functionality though, so it'll be another good game for playing with Missouri people. Also, Okami, a stylish adventure game, is coming out on the Wii. Even though I haven't played it yet, it is one of the inspirations for Ronin Duck's style. I bet I play it over my brief break.
Friday, April 4, 2008
Business as usual
So, according to dad, it's the apocolypse in Missouri? Earthquakes and everything? Please, discuss!
Mom says, visit Remote Control Magic and look at the light heavy chest! At the time of writing, it's featured on the front page. Anyway, they're crafted by none other than master magician, Steve Corbett. Before you do any magic though, make sure you have proper witch or wizard atire. Just a suggestion.
Two weeks left of the semester, and the game is wrapping up nicely. It looks like we'll get to show it to a bunch of people the last week, and maybe some artists too to get some interest for next year's game. Of which, we're already getting excited about. The original concept was one of my ideas, but everyone has some good additions. I won't disclose anything on the webternet, other than it's an adventure game. Feel free to ask for more details. So, four person programming team and probably a team of artists, and we're hoping to get some decent attention. Next year should be pretty fun.
As for this year, I'm done with my graphics class, way ahead of schedule. One last project in math that might be challenging. And Networking is causing me problems, so it may not be perfect by the end. O welz.
Hey, I might come home for a couple weeks when this is all done. I'm going to wait and see when finals are before I order any plane tickets though. We'll see!
Mom says, visit Remote Control Magic and look at the light heavy chest! At the time of writing, it's featured on the front page. Anyway, they're crafted by none other than master magician, Steve Corbett. Before you do any magic though, make sure you have proper witch or wizard atire. Just a suggestion.
Two weeks left of the semester, and the game is wrapping up nicely. It looks like we'll get to show it to a bunch of people the last week, and maybe some artists too to get some interest for next year's game. Of which, we're already getting excited about. The original concept was one of my ideas, but everyone has some good additions. I won't disclose anything on the webternet, other than it's an adventure game. Feel free to ask for more details. So, four person programming team and probably a team of artists, and we're hoping to get some decent attention. Next year should be pretty fun.
As for this year, I'm done with my graphics class, way ahead of schedule. One last project in math that might be challenging. And Networking is causing me problems, so it may not be perfect by the end. O welz.
Hey, I might come home for a couple weeks when this is all done. I'm going to wait and see when finals are before I order any plane tickets though. We'll see!
Friday, March 28, 2008
I never go to work!
For those of you with kids (or with adults), They Might Be Giants do tons of kids stuff. They have a couple DVDs on ABCs and 123s, a kid's album, and even a book that Alli hasn't read yet. Every Friday they release a Family video podcast, so check em out!
The second song in that last video is actually one of our drinking songs. Anyway, all their podcasts can be found here and probably on iTunes. Disney handles their kids stuff too, so its weird to buy TMBG things from Disney.
To switch to the exact opposite gear, George Carlin had his usual HBO special. Enlightening as usual. He gives some parenting advice, provides some insight into American thinking, WWJD, etc. Don't watch if you don't like bad words or criticism on religion or the US. Otherwise, enjoy.
Man, blogging is easy if I just post things other people make!
The second song in that last video is actually one of our drinking songs. Anyway, all their podcasts can be found here and probably on iTunes. Disney handles their kids stuff too, so its weird to buy TMBG things from Disney.
To switch to the exact opposite gear, George Carlin had his usual HBO special. Enlightening as usual. He gives some parenting advice, provides some insight into American thinking, WWJD, etc. Don't watch if you don't like bad words or criticism on religion or the US. Otherwise, enjoy.
Man, blogging is easy if I just post things other people make!
Saturday, March 22, 2008
I'm a particle man?
I seriously don't have anything to talk about! I'll show some pictures from a few of my projects though. Hey, maybe we should have some kind of community blog for all of us. If I was seeing Seattle more, I'd have more to blog about, but it's hard to blog about homework.
Graphics class:
Ok, this might not seem impressive, but usually when people do graphics programming, they use some graphics tools. In this program, I'm finding the color of each individual pixel on my own. So, lots of lighting, 3D geometry, and algorithms. This class has several projects, but I like the way this one looks.
Networking:
A semester long project to make a networked game. I finished the game pretty quick, it's very simple. The networking part of it has me pulling hair though. Maybe when I finish, we can play via internet!
Our semester game project:
Schizm Fighters! It's a multiplayer battle game where you cut the ground and try to get other people to fall off. I did all the graphics stuff (including the particles). Since it's just a semester game, we probably won't be able to finish it, but we're going to try to have something playable at least.
For next year, it looks like we may be making a Zelda-style adventure game (smaller though, 3 dungeons or so) with cool mouse-gestured-based action system. For yearlong projects, they usually assign some art students to it too, so I think it could be really fun and stylish. We plan to win all the awards.
Graphics class:
Ok, this might not seem impressive, but usually when people do graphics programming, they use some graphics tools. In this program, I'm finding the color of each individual pixel on my own. So, lots of lighting, 3D geometry, and algorithms. This class has several projects, but I like the way this one looks.
Networking:
A semester long project to make a networked game. I finished the game pretty quick, it's very simple. The networking part of it has me pulling hair though. Maybe when I finish, we can play via internet!
Our semester game project:
Schizm Fighters! It's a multiplayer battle game where you cut the ground and try to get other people to fall off. I did all the graphics stuff (including the particles). Since it's just a semester game, we probably won't be able to finish it, but we're going to try to have something playable at least.
For next year, it looks like we may be making a Zelda-style adventure game (smaller though, 3 dungeons or so) with cool mouse-gestured-based action system. For yearlong projects, they usually assign some art students to it too, so I think it could be really fun and stylish. We plan to win all the awards.
Friday, March 14, 2008
Happy Pi Day!
It's Pi Day! A very important day of the year for people who like Pi or pie. At the very least, each some pie today, to celebrate a popular number. It also happens to be Einstein's birthday. I myself don't believe this to be a coincidence.
So, as everyone knows, at MS&T (previously known as UMR), St. Pat's is a big deal. This year marks the school's hundredth anniversary celebrating the holiday, so it will be crazy. I predict a few casualties, no joke. Many recent alumni across the country have even migrated to Rolla this week to go crazy. While it was tempting, I am bound to my homeworks. This will actually my first year in a few years that I won't be partying for an entire week with others that understand the holiday. A few of us are at least going out on Saturday, hopefully finding a good drinking establishment, as I haven't found one yet. I will probably share stories of past St. Pat's adventures, possibly inspiring the saint into others. Like St. Pat, most people don't like snakes, so I imagine it will be easy to relate to him.
Also this week I will probably be getting a visit from Sam and Dustin. They are both considering moving to Seattle, so they want to check the place out. I'm planning to power down some work this weekend so I can dedicate some time to them. We will probably visit Downtown Seattle and Pike Place Market, and Sam probably wants to visit the Digipen art campus. If weather permits, we may go hiking. These will be the sort of things I will take all visitors to do, eventually refined into "Kelly's Seattle Visitor Guide For People Who Are Only Here A Few Days". It will be a grand guide of 3 or 4 things, and even some bonus stuff like "Feed Kelly" and "Do Kelly's Homework", and of course "CHORES". It's great to have visitors!
My are Riley fought online, and it was a worthy duel. Dumb as he is, he has a good handle of Sonic, Pit, and ROB. They were good fights, even though he is stinky, fat, ugly, and idiot.
You heard me.
Update: No visitors! Sam got screwed by a teacher or something, so the trip is postponed.
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