As it can be noticed the site was a bit of dead lately. That’s because my primary PC had some problems with itself. I’ve been sitting on my brother’s Notebook since then working on one project, but I am not sure when I will be able to “communicate” in regular period. It is quite pain in the butt you know? Considering there are around 20 online comicses I read regularly (ie. per day) and few people I talk to regularly which I can’t now (Sorry to all of you). The comp shall be fixed by the end of next week.

Now as for the works… As it was guessable pretty much, I was working on Mario Forever Flash all the time. Created in Flex 2 ActionScript 3.0 with FlashDevelop. To be honset, the project was really irritating at times, ActionScript is completely user-hostile, especially separating Graphics from Code. I hate lack of simple DrawAnything function without having to create separate object for it and embedding it into screen. Bleh. Anyway, the Percents look like that:
Engine: 95% - It just needs cosmetic fixes, and changes
Sound: 50% - I will have to download some Mario Sounds Pack to be able to finish it
Music: 0% - But it is not me who will prepare it, and coding it will be just a matter of minutes
Levels: 75% - Three out of four worlds are finished. And beware, third world is quite difficult - fourth will be like Hell’s Threshold.

Besides of that all I have to do is title screen, loading screen, “Created By” screens and that would be it.

Wish me luck ;). The game should be, if I am lucky, finished this week.

For all the curious ones, we are not dead yet! Even though there are… 3 projects on our heads which we are still working on, but one of them has quite big priority, and I am working on it for 3 days straight. What is left to do are hmm… Levels? Levels… Some more levels, one enemy and boss… And lots of lava.

It might be week, it might be two weeks, but what I can promise you is this - before the Summer break ends, at least TWO new games will be released. Until then, wish me luck!

Watch out, this news may contain spoilers about the movie - And yes, today I present you with completely different kind of news. Nothing related to game development and games :).

Yesterday I had a chance to experience something completely new. For two months I’ve been waiting for this new masterpiece of Pixar. “Sixteen hours and fifty two minutes to Hour Zero”, “Twenty Five minutes to Hour Zero”, “Zero Minutes to hour Zero”. For last 16 hoursof waiting I’ve been talking oddities like that. But so It began finally…
First of course lots of ads. Madagascar 2 which is going to be in 6 months so it’s really great time to advertise it. But considering that I didn’t like Madagascar and sequel seems to be filled only with jokes of erotic meaning I am completely fine with it. They also showed Mummy 3 which I will surely see in cinema as I liked first two parts.
And then it started. Before the actual movie, of course there was splendid short one. “Presto”. The bunny was cute, the gags were funny, the graphics were splendid and overall it was great.
Short credits…

…And the story of a bit rusty robot, who have managed to find in himself more will to live and joy than Humans do. It was the first movie I’ve ever seen to make me feel so touched. It is difficult for me to concentrate on anything, as the combination of everything - graphics, sounds, effects, story, characters, feeling - it is what creates this great movie. If I were to say what was the greatest movie I’ve ever seen, without hesitation I would say “WALL-E”. It was beautiful. It was touching. It was happy. It was joyful. Optimistic. Sad. Real. True. If I were better at English I could use even more adjectives to describe it. But there is only one thing I should say - Watch it yourself, what this Movie is cannot be explained with words.

And to make today’s news a bit more colorful, we have got a nice little marmot picture for all of you, because internet does not have enough Marmot pictures in it. If you are reading this put a Marmot on your website! This Marmot Awareness Campaign is (yet to be) started by Zolyx.co.uk.