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.

Shove that all up in your ass

so the game is practically done. just some tweaks and then i think next week i'll be adding more buildings if i can muscle through that

i might be doing something with other intern Tyler for Robot Day. trying to think of something different to do with robots that isn't fighting or dancing or being japanese. hope that actually happens but with the whole graduating thing i dunno if theres time.

So we went to Old Man Al's Burgers n Shit for lunch. My food came out after everyone finished eating which made Jeff happy cause hes usually the one to get his order screwed up. it was a good burger though. bacon with potato bread buns. anyway we got on the topic of the NG Voicemail and how funny that cartoon by Stamper is. For those of you who didn't realize, Tom doesn't listen to those. On occasion the staff listens for a good laugh. Then i was told a story about an email Stamper sent to their 401k manager unbeknownst to Stampy that he was an actual person they knew not some kind of spammer. It ended with the best insult of "PS: I hope you die in a car fire. With your family." just think about that.

oh yeah, we were talking about this because Tom heard about how many kids die cause their parents leave them in the car and forget.

speaking of forgetting i don't remember what else i was gonna write about. probably something about Bob's awesome BBQ party and Saturday's Stanley Cup game.

Chocolate Frosty Hump Day

BAH TWO DAYS LEFT WTF

so game: playable, theres ammo, sound effects, music, artwork about 93ish% done. just gotta work out some kinks in the obstacle hit senors. i'm also gonna mess around and try to give it a more mob feel by having people run out in front of the player. this will make it so the player has to re-learn how to jump over every obstacle. since each character has its own jump height and place each jump will be different. right now it seems to be less skill and more waiting till you get the best jumpers, and even the then the cop car is too long to jump for the 4 to 6 person. i picked Gekkotech as the song.

Tom asked me if newgrounds was old. i mean its way old in internet years. a lot of kids i know, know about it and have played games but honestly i don't know much about how other highschool kids play internet games. how do they find them? i mean plenty of kids are content to Google games and play whatever Viacom has listed at the top. newgrounds' frontpage just allows for good content to be found faster.
flash games seem to still only be time killers. i don't know a ton of people who grind through long flash games. even stuff like Edmund's stuff people have a tough time wanting to muscle through. i think that the viral aspect of NG has just kinda slowed. i dunno though.

in other news Mike has Super Mario Galaxy 2 and loves it. Bob is patiently waiting for Chik-fil-a's new spicy chicken sandwich as is Josh who has the ticket to get a free one. Tom and Jeff's game gets constantly more ridiculous (sandwich building mini-game). and I haven't seen Stamper recently....

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

Last Week Begins

so this is the last week of paradise. after this i have to go back and graduate highschool, go to work, go to uni, and hopefully come back and work here. maybe? i really don't know what i wanna be when i grow up and Digital Media offers a lot of options. guess i'll see what i can put up with for the longest amount of time and stick with that. but man is my attention span short

so new intern has a name, Tyler. hes pretty chill and reads this so i'll try not to say anything weird. hes a good animator (a lot better than i am) and hes got a neat style, if he can pull it off in Flash. we discussed music and how 2D animation is not a very lucrative career path anymore ever. its nice having yet another person to sit in silence with while everyone works and Tom whistles broken pieces of Oompa Loompa Doompa Dee Dee.

so i don't have any weird lunch stories cause i brought lunch today but i'm going back over to watch the FLYERS KICK THE CANADIENS ASSES! WOOO WE GOIN TO DA SHIP BABY! DRINK OUT DAT CUP! Tim set up the cable box to the projector so it'll be sweet.

in short, flipping buses is hard.

Exhausted from all this Whaling

yo so i'm really tired so this is gonna be short. game is coming along. gotta stop being so lazy and get this art done. blah blah blah

so another intern is coming in next week. we'll get to spend my last week together. i will have to challenge him to a duel. and by duel i mean street fighter. and maybe indian leg wrestling. should be good times.

so we went to this new place for lunch. terrible service cause it just opened but the waitress was bangin and so was the food. prior to the food Rob told us about some Whaling documentary. It sounded really gross. Scooping oil out of whale heads and stuff. Tearing blubber off with hooks. All good things for before food. I was sitting across from Jeff who was nursing some moutain dew-esque beverage from the 80s and everyone was like LOL 80s and i was like what? Tom ignored us for awhile playing Trucker's Delight which is based on the popular Trucker's Delight. Bob, Rob and I talked about how average Iron Man 2 was and about how Bob's Serbian inlaws enjoy american action films so much. Mostly about how Bob's Serbian Mother inlaw goes up and down stairs on all fours looking like the exorcist. Jeff stayed pretty quiet only chimed in on Iron Man 2s lack luster fight scenes. Mike gazed wistfully out the holes in the wall that should have been windows. There were Catholic school kids selling Alex's Lemonade. They were really loud. I mostly starred at the waitress praying to god someone would say something so we wouldn't all be there starring in different directions. This tension was alleviated by the arrival of food which lead to more silence as we gorged ourselves. This little town has some good stuff in it

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.