I made a new comic yesterday. This one was inspired while watching the movie Paycheck. Good movie too, if you're into action, mystery, tech films.
Everything always seem to go perfect in car chases...just as planned. In real life, I doubt you would be that lucky.
Also a semi-cool announcement: Our company Iceburg Inc has released a flash game on Newgrounds. This is the game I have been talking about the past few months. If you have enough patience and/or want a good laugh go check it out: Hitler's Strawberries.
I say patience because this game was specifically made for Clock Day, a day for Newgrounds where nothing can get bad ratings. Everyone takes advantage of this, including us. So this game is intentionally supposed to be bad and make no sense at all. It turned out pretty good for a majority of it being done in three days tops. Rik and Batto are designers, artists, and composers of soundtracks. I programmed it and added weird text in places.
A lot of things have been going on in the last few weeks.
The first thing being the UI. I have stopped working on it. My tags somehow got corrupted, and now I can't use my editing programs. I'll be able to fix it, but I kind of took a break from it for now. It seems like the perfect opportunity to do so anyway.
The second thing being the comic. I had some downtime from the game programming, so I whipped this one up.
We had a huge storm a few days ago, and this was exactly what I was doing while modeling in 3DS Max.
The third thing I started doing was modeling a Ferris Wheel in 3DS Max. (In a way, all these sections in this blog are interconnected.) I got the model finished and rotating. However my intention was to destroy it in a demolition type animation...of course. So I still have some work that needs to be done. Here is a bad quality preview of what is done so far.
YOUTUBE LINK - FERRIS WHEEL.wmv
The fourth and final thing was quite last minute. I am programming a game, as I mentioned above and back on May 26th, for my friends Lineman and Batto. I can't give away information about it, but it will be ready very soon. Once it's released, I'll post a link in here.
So that's about it. Summer is winding down. and I'm trying to finish all my Work in Progresses, which wont happen. Also I'm curious as to who actually reads the blog, rather than look at all the pictures. So if you see this sentence right here, let me know.
I told you I would finally do another one. An idea that sparked from last time I was at the theaters and how the screen ALWAYS freezes on the "silence your cell phones" bit.
Funny how he is the only one being yelled at. Almost as if the other people's ideas aren't stupid or moronic. Wait a second...
UPDATE #3.5
Here's a video preview of the UI and what is done so far:
YOUTUBELeave comments.
UPDATE #3
I guess this one is about done. I was going to add some extra buttons to the game to take you back to different sections, but I thought that would be kind of useless. I have discovered that the text input screen is hard-coded just about everywhere, so you will barely see any changes to that because I am very limited with what I can do. Besides that, nothing really special here...just new buttons and graphics that follow the theme.
SERVER SETUP SCREEN
TEXT INPUT SCREEN
UPDATE #2
PEOPLE SHOULD TRY READING THE BLOG FOR A CHANGE IF THEY WANT QUESTIONS ANSWERED. OK?
Here's the newest update, since everyone keeps buggin me about it. The gametype menu is pretty similar to the map menu. I made some custom images for each gametype, all of which wont be shown in this picture. Also I got a new font for buttons, so the map menu screenshot below has been updated as well. I need some sort of graphic in that empty space at the bottom. Any ideas? Let me know.
GAMETYPE SELECTION SCREEN
People are asking when it will be done. I don't know. I don't have a deadline. It'll be done when it's done. Seriously, I just work on it when I'm bored. When college semester begins again, I might lose more of my free time. The updates should be enough.
UPDATE #1
First time I think I ever used color in this blog. Oh well. Here's the newest update on the Halo 3 UI. The map selection screen, which I must say looks A LOT better than the original. Also as a bonus to these awesome graphics, you get to hold 14 maps on a screen at once, instead of 9. Convenient? I don't really know. Well without further ado:
MAP SELECTION SCREEN
Next thing I will be editing is the gametype selection menu. This update might be quick, because this page uses similar tags as the map one and half my job will be done. You'll also notice I started using my actual alias in the profile name, Lightwave is just another one I use.
Finally, apparently I am starting to get a little fanbase. X-fire helps a lot. So let me say this, I am not taking any beta testers at this time. You can bug me, spam me, or even threaten me (surprisingly I have gotten that) but you will not get an early release. I will take suggestions, but nothing else. One example is the descriptions for the maps. I will take creative descriptions for the maps and maybe even put yours in it. So let me know of any you think of. The first one, in the pic was done by me.
And if you're one of those people who just looks at the pretty pictures and doesn't read the text along with it, well I'll just ignore you for your ignorance.
ANNOUNCEMENT
I am making a new UI for Halo CE that will closely resemble Halo 3. Some parts I will make up for the sake of simplicity, but overall I will try to make the colors and theme match that of the game Halo 3. Here are some beta before/after screenshots of what is done so far. And no, I will not release until it is complete. Only a select few will be my beta testers.
MAIN TITLE SCREEN
PROFILE MENU
NETWORK SETUP MENU
Click the images they enlarge the picture. I still have much more that needs to be finished. My next part I will be working on is the select map menu.
Also yeah, I realize it has been a while since I released a comic. Expect one soon. I have an idea for one, I just have to draw it.
Xfire = gamerkd15
Yes, it's 4 AM and I have nothing better to do. So I made a follow-up comic to "Airport Fears". Interesting enough, I have oddly timed the release of this comic; my friend will be returning from her trip soon as well. I guess events trigger ideas for me.
That contraption there is probably not structurally possible. Most of it I just made up.
It's been a while since I released a comic. I guess I have been busy. Editing a movie or maybe it's the trying to find a job. Which is damn near impossible to do when you have no previous experience and the economy is at it's worst in 60 years. Anyway, if anyone hates those Mac vs PC ads, you might like this comic. I don't mind the commercials, but one of my friends does, which gave me the idea.
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