machinarium

Besides the fact that this is my most-anticipated game since about 10 minutes ago, the first bit of concept art on the website is now residing in that special place of glory and adulation known as my desktop (reserved only for photos and artwork of the highest caliber).

via TIGSource

knytt stories is out!

Nifflas has released Knytt Stories. That's all I really need to say. Oh, and it has a full level editor, so people can create and share their own level packs. Besides, I helped with the development.

For those that just need to know more about the game before downloading it (yes, hard to believe) it's a free, much more challenging successor to his exploration-based Knytt. Here's the blurb from his website:

In Knytt Stories, each level is its own little adventure. One level is included with the game, where you have to stop a machine that draws the life out of the planet. An official expansion pack is also featured at the website with four original levels.

Knytt Stories is a 2D platform game that runs on Windows 2000, XP, and later. Current version: 1.0

Note that compatibility with Wine has not yet been confirmed, as far as I know. Keep tabs on this thread from his support forum though.

the adventure of a lifetime

I'm sure my brother doesn't think that right now.

Last Wednesday, my older brother (Nathan) moved to Madison, Wisconsin. He's living there for a year before going to college, so as to get residency and save a butt-load of money. I've no idea how I would survive something like that. I'd be too terrified to even get a job!

this is why i like legos

dynamic/intelligent resizing

Once again, Wohba delivers. Go here to see the future of image manipulation: context-specific scaling. What this means is you can resize and stretch and squash and otherwise humiliate an image or photo, all the while keeping everything that you want intact. You can even seamlessly erase animals, people, even buildings and make it look like they were never there. Heh, you'd better prepare yourself for a deluge of industry news 'leaks': "ZOMG TEH IFONE V2 NOT GONNA HAV TEH EMAIL!!!1!!"

haitus

Hello again readers (reader?). The wait is over: I'm back in action, or at least back from vacation. Just so you know, school starts September 6th. That either means that I'll have very little time for writing, or that I'll have lots of interestingly mundane things to blog about.

If I remember, I'll put up some of the few pictures that I took up in the Adirondacks. Maybe I'll even get around to finally scanning some of my drawings and other cetera!

4:11 - 8.17.07

'His voice leapt up around the spiraled sunlight.'

4:11 - 8.16.07

"HTML is easy to learn, but it's quite time-consuming to code."

4:11 - 8.15.07

'… animals have a full system of cautionary signals …'

4:11 - 8.14.07

I'm twiddling with an SLR lens. It's a Nikkor 28-80mm f/3.5-5.6D AF.

4:11 - 8.13.07

I'm playing Gunstar Heroes on the Sega Genesis.

4:11 - 8.12.07

"They're like big, long, contrail things."

4:11 - 8.11.07

(Maybe I should name it.)

4:11 - 8.10.07

'Seven five and a half.'

4:11 - 8.9.07

'Do they plan to buy Stonehenge in bulk and sell them
like Stacktors?'

4:11 - 8.8.07

I was taking a nap, and slept through the alarm.

the fog horn

"The mysteries of the sea," said McDunn thoughtfully. "You know, the ocean's the biggest damned snowflake ever? It rolls and swells a thousand shapes and colors, no two alike. Strange. One night, years ago, I was here alone, when all of the fish of the sea surfaced out there. Something made them swim in and lie in the bay, sort of trembling and staring up at the tower light going red, white, red, white across them so I could see their funny eyes. I turned cold. They were like a big peacock's tail, moving out there until midnight. Then, without so much as a sound, they slipped away, the million of them was gone.

- from The Fog Horn, by Ray Bradbury

4:11 - 8.7.07

"Yeah, get rid of the green herbs. But you can only eat the fish once."

4:11 - 8.6.07

I'm eating a bowl of curry and rice.

4:11 - 8.5.07

I'm trying to ride a road bike.

milk meets coffee

I didn't take these, but they're still cool.

counting down the minutes that you've wasted

Temporal Consistency

4:11 - 8.4.07

I'm watering some dead-looking peonies.

And I think that all my posts are off by one day. Though I'm not sure, it just may be that the clock's messed up.

four-eleven

These four-eleven posts are taking over my blog. Maybe I should start (gasp) a new blog? At least that way I can keep 'em all together.

4:11 - 8.4.07

'"Stop it!" I almost shout it.'

4:11 - 8.3.07

I am carefully placing a couple of windows in a picture I am drawing.

4:11 - 8.2.07

"Knife 'em!"
"I can't. He's not close enough."

4:11 - 8.1.07

"Do you ride the same horse all the time, or different ones?"