9-4-08

The last month at my job was full of overtime so I've only been able to do bits and pieces of projects. The zooming application for my friend is waiting approval is definitely in a demonstrable state right now. One of my new applications for the Wizard101 site is also now viewable. Finally I've been working on the site itself again. I added filler background image and finally got around to center aligning the site. No more awkward amounts of space on the right side of the screen for users with large monitors. I also fixed up a few buggy areas which I won't mention in the hopes that no one saw them.

7-27-08

Just a quick update for the game. I've got the pixel art in place for Wobble and Mr. Stabby. I thought doing the pixel art was going to be a tedious and horrible process but it's turned out to be tremendously fun. I'm still learning a lot and the process becomes faster and better with every finished animation. It won't be too much longer before I can consider this a finished project.

The other bit that I'm working on is a freelance job for a friend turning my little zooming test and turning it into a full application. I was just going to modify the original code but it's a pretty open timeline so I decided to convert it completely to ActionScript 3. I have the base classes in place and I should have a working version up by next week. It'll be fun to see it turn into something useful.

7-13-08

Hey, how about an update for this year? I've been a bit busy with the job and with my game (the only thing to still receive regular updates on this site) but I thought it was about time to actually put together a real update.

Added a new application and a new website to the Flash gallery. The former is a pop text display widget thing that was developed for the corporate site of my employers. The other is the website of their first game that just went into beta. I'll be having another round of updates for that site soon but I can't put anything in my gallery that hasn't been moved into the live site yet. The game has, of course, had about a billion changes to it since the last time I posted. It's looking much more like a game. Very much someone's first attempt at a game but a game none the less. I had hoped to be further into it by now but I had a space of several months where I couldn't work on it because my laptop was dead. Right now I'm doing the final graphics push, which is tremendously fun. I've also moved the game itself onto its own page; I'd had complaints that ducking was causing the page to scroll in one of the browsers (Firefox I think).

I know I updated the 2D gallery at some point or other with some new paintings.

The web gallery has also gotten a couple new additions from my projects with KingsIsle.

No 3D love this year. I've been focused on the game and moving it towards a finished state. I have a project that's in preproduction right now but I feel it's important for me to bring my current project to a complete close before moving on to something else. I have to say that the game has been one of the best experiences I've gone through. It may not look for much but I've learned a ton about art, animation and programming through it all. Hopefully it will even be fun to play when all is said and done.