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Theres a new page here for music!
some old youtube videos of horrific things i did throughout high school as well as a player for my bandcamp which is also currently shit but hopefully will have good things coming soon.
the concept sketches for Trek Montgomery are coming along, but will take a brief back seat so i can crank out something for Robot Day

Last Day

so i know this is now technically Saturday and i should have posted already but i watched Dance of the Dead, House of the Dead, and Insanitorium. Only one of them was good, take a guess.

Anyway today was my last day interning at Newgrounds. very sad to leave. but hey, i can visit them any time. So i managed to wrap up most of the game. I think programming its 99& done, just some final adjustments but i don't think i'll add any mechanics. then i'll work on more buildings to destroy so that should be up some time next week.

i brought in muffins for the gang but Jose, Rob, Josh and Mike had taken the day off and Stamper left when i got in. Sucks for them, my mom's muffins rule. We went out to lunch at Kitchen Bar. I tried to explain my goofy Quaker school graduation to them. Its weird because I never think about it anymore but its so different than anywhere else. we got on the topic of Disney World which Jeff says sucks and told us about how as a kid he accidentally grabbed a cockroach there and it ruined him for life. He argues for universal as more fun. Bob figures both are fine. We talked a lot about amusement parks that allow you to frighten or attack children. Tom mentioned someplace where you can shoot balls at kids and Tim mentioned the scuba tanks in Disney where you can freak out the kids eating by them.

Tim and Tom went to get their pictures taken so Tyler, Luis and I had to cram in the backseat with Bob driving and Jeff comfortably in shotgun. Bob had told us this ridiculous story about this dude and then Luis told us a really funny story about the same dude which i'm afraid to type in case of the person it was about ever finds this. But it sent Bob into a hilarious fit about wondering if gout is like herpes and how so many people have herpes simplex one and fearing that one day he will have both. Jeff also told a funny story about the same dude playing Red Dead Redemption and leaving to buy a new mic. And then Jeff throwing dynamite at him when he got back. I wanna make that a cartoon cause its fucking hilarious.

anyway, my time at NG has been eye opening. its amazing how much about the site i was able to learn. so for everyone who thinks they are slackers and that NG has lost it, those dudes work hard. Theres no place else to go but up for them and theres a lot of good stuff coming down the line so hold on to your butts as Samuel L Jackson in Jurassic Park would say.

Lonely Tuesday

So Tyler wasn't in and Tom left to talk to some big wigs downtown about some Cloud Game stuff. Its hard out there for an indie dev.
So I was left alone for most of the day hard at work on the awful looking run cycles. please do not look at them too hard cause they are weird and i got so bored doing them. but the art is mostly done and the coding just has some loose ends to tighten and tie.

i spent lunch with Bob and Tim who i also watched the FLYERS WIN THE CONFERENCE SHIP!!! WOOO FUCK YEAH RICHARDS AND CARTER AND LAPE! Anywho, Tim asked me about didgeridoo (correct spelling BTW) because apparently Dan Paladin's concept for "Game 3" was going to be Australian themed and be called Didgeridudes but Tim argued that that was the worst name ever and was impossible to spell if looking for it online. Bob argued Hominid was also strange. regardless BBT looks like a lot of fun and apparently we have the level editor, hush hush, whisper, maybe design a level whisper squeeeeeal :3

anyway i got to spend some of Bobs money, sorry i didn't finish all that pizza Bob but it was way to hot for that much buffalo chicken. i promise i'll bring a surprise on my last day

PS check out my blogs new art page. i'm using cooliris which i saw on Comlock's blog

my advice: lock the doors and burn the house down

so the programming elements of the game are all coming along nicely. after tomorrow there is only one more week D: that blows. i really don't wanna do anything else but this. at least i know i'm in the right direction for college. 3D rigging and stuff looks like a bitch though. but i digress. the game now allows for picking up new items to attack the buildings with and i even replaced the default weapon. thats right, bricks are valuable now. instead your default weapon will be the ever popular spray paint. the game will conclude with a mini game of Tip the Bus. its pretty exciting watching it come together. i still don't know if i could sit down cold and make a full on game now. i'm sure with some practice i'll get it.

so i'm looking around for music for it. this is what i've dug out of the Audio Portal and if anyone reads this please vote on them, you can comment even if you don't have an account. but check out these songs and artists:
e991e
Lenny C
Shadowfox2
DJ InTheDark

i'll prolly dig through more later but thats what i found first. i'm worried about the sounds being too much as buildings collapse and burn down. but Canabalt did it.

so i reinstate my hypothesis about Jeff. While i did get to see the basis for his cartoon Facebook Twitter as he went on a rant about how you need to cut ties with friends who aren't friends anymore while Bob told him that it is such a convenience to stay friends with this people on facebook so he doesn't have to go to New Jersey.
A valid argument. While Jeff continued to be a "ray of fucking sunshine" I still think he is like Aragorn, waiting to claim his castle and tap Steven Tyler's daughter dressed up like an elf. But with a probably less specific metaphor. For most of lunch we discussed Bob's inlaws moving in for a while from Siberia. Jeff offered the same advice he apparently offers about everything: cut your losses, lock the doors, burn the house down. His cheerfulness is contagious. Personally I couldn't stop looking at the hostess. Then the table next to us got cover in food with no one sitting there. I guess we missed some VIPs or something. In other news Mike is learning the piano YAY MIKE! pianos rock as do all keyboards and synths.

AWW Hump Day: blogs now have titles.

So i can't believe that i'm already half way through this. i'll prolly drop by the office uninvited all the time now though. but today was a lot of art but also some good design elements. the upgrades are pretty much decided and will be implemented tomorrow hopefully. the game will end with a button masher similar to wario ware or resident evil 4 where the player will attempt to tip a bus, the more followers the easier the tipping will be.

so we went to lunch (tom, luis, josh, rob and jeff [woo lunch with jeff!]) to willow grove mall for chik-fil-a and master wok. i'm always amazed how much i enjoy chik-fil-a. but i digress. lunch was weird as josh and tom talked about babies, then everybody reminisced about being kids and looking in magazines for new toys and stuff. they have a good point though, cause i grew up like that. but now kids are all about video games and there is so much media on it. do kids still get excited about action figures? do kids go to a store to see whats for sale or do they research? then we made fun of Rob for being a tea and chess nerd (he later explained to me why the Departed is a bad movie which i, being irish, refuse to accept) and thats when i realized something. Jeff Bandelin, of bandyhates.com fame, has really really pretty eyes. They are really round and a pale blue. The way he looked out from under his hat brim looked as if he were some lone wolf, weary of his life looking for a mate and quiet life in the country. Then we went back to the office and he started punching out all the black people and women as well as knocking the sheriff over again and again in Red Dead Redemption and i realized my hypothesis is probably wrong.

day 6

today was kind of slow. i spent about an hour trying to fix the pressure sensitivity on my tablet since i updated the driver and it stopped working. thanks wacom! i spent a lot of that time watching Tom play games. one was about getting out of rooms before they fill up with sand. he complained that the controls were floaty and slippery. its kinda weird working next to him. cause for one thing every couple of minutes i'm like HOLY SHIT TOM FULP <3333 and two because he plays stuff all day and the game he is working on has really weird sound effects. so its just weird noise, it doesn't bug me but its like stuff is exploding and ringing and zapping all the time. its kinda a dream come true really.

i didn't go to lunch cause its getting expensive. so i had a ginger ale outa that crazy vending machine (Mike is on the ginger ale button LOL). i listened to Tom and Bob discuss the t shirt issue. If you have been living under a rock and didn't see newgrounds is having a shirt sale to get rid of old stock before the new line up. the problem with shirts is that people usually buy them in waves, they are expensive, and its hard to sell things that Tom wants to sell. its a question of moving from selling NG related shirts to selling artists shirts. Its something no other community really does. but Tom wants to have sort of like a marketplace for artists to sell goods via NG. Bob suggested that it be something entirely separate. I can totally envision it but i can't see it being super successful in the face of so many shirt sites like threadless, busted tees, shirt fight, etc. I wanna help cause shirts are something i know (i sold a design to JINX and have submitted several to threadless as well as done large scale printing for school and my own functions.)

anyway the game is coming along slowly still. i really want there to be a lot of variety so the art is taking forever. i may have to dump some of the animation work on friends. Rutger? Arnar? but yeah. games.

End of Week 1

So Tom and Tim were up in New York at barcade so they got in late. this meant i got to chill in one of those big ass bean bag chairs and watch a couple episodes of SpongeBob with Stamper. we cracked jokes about people with glasses (Rob and Stampy) and how ridiculous it is for people with good vision (me and Josh) to make fun of impaired people. then we remembered Rob is a nerd and continued to make fun of that four-eyed weirdo chess player.

later when Tom came in he helped me wrap up a lot of things so now i have a sorta "first build" to the game. the player is still invincible but pretty much everything but power ups, some more variety, and less shitty visuals is there.

so yeah go check it out. feedback would be rad.
Philly Phlash Mob v1.0

then we ordered out for Indian food from Tiffin(which is pretty great) and kicked backed and watched Troll 2. its one of those so bad its good movies. if you search youtube for "worst acting ever" a scene from it comes up first. it was a great way to kill time although i don't know what happened to popcorn kid. i guess he got laid? or turned into vegetable goo? but yeah go watch that movie if you're looking for a good laugh.



can't believe the first week is over already. ffffffffffffffffffffffffffff
five days gone by and i still haven't talked to Jeff. wonder if any of them actually read this. if any of you guys do make him feel bad for not going out to lunch with us. unless he has a good reason, i'm trying to be a dick in the future in case there was something serious. i guess i'll end this convoluted post now