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Posted by ESA on Sept. 8, 2008, 10 a.m.

finally got my lazy self to finish the first layer. I've been taking long enough to do it, so binge-shading finished the job. There is still more to do

Oh, and I'd like to make this blog a pixel dump, at least sometime in the near future

Now rip my head off

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12/9

I had marmite on toast a few days ago. It tasted really metallic and salty, but I enjoyed it. But there is going to be a lot less sodium in my house because of these damn injections my bro is going to take because of his epilepsy

I'm going to slowly add to this blog and see how long it'll end up

I went on a field trip today to an old power plant that operated through the 20th century. The architecture was so fucking steampunk I nearly shat myself on the spot. And nearly kicked myself for not bringing my dad's cybershot

It's gritty, but not too gritty. I made far too little windows on our layer, serpy, and need to add more. There are loads of rivets and welds that go through the walls and act as supports. Windows are arched at the top and structures are very warehousey with lots and lots of pipes

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13/9

Happiness. I made it onto the football team at school (in a way). 30 people try out, 22 stay. 16 being the

'A' team. The coach wants us 6 from 9th grade (I'm one of the 6) to come once a week to train, so he seemingly sees something in us

I've been thinking about -punk media. The best and only steampunk movie I've watched is Steamboy. It is a decent movie for me, especially an Asian one. The only other Asian movies I've bothered to watch are Miyazaki's stuff, which is decent as well

Watching text shrink into nothingness is decent as well =)

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16/9

Leaving for class trips in about 15 minutes. Remember kids, don't bring alcohol

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19/9

Aight back. I had vodka

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20/9

I've been practicing some jazz tablature on my guitar. Jazz isn't my favorite music, but I play the ones that are fun to play

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21/9

Tomorrow is my birthday

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29/9

It's been two days already. I WANT MEAH ZOMBEAHZS!

Comments

s 15 years, 8 months ago

Beautiful, does this mean I have to stop sitting back and enjoying the breeze yet?

ESA 15 years, 8 months ago

Quite possibly. But, it's likely that won't because I'll be away next week on a school trip to Gallipoli

s 15 years, 8 months ago

Good, I might think about setting up clockism or something though

Got to work on it, cropped image to 599x60 and noticed that it wasn't continuous. Setting to 543 makes it more tied, but it'll need some patch work on shading consistency. Also, it made me realize that around x130 it looks like a shearing in the buildings. The second building's vertical shading also seems to make a gash in the shading

s 15 years, 8 months ago

New blog new comment

Yes, we probably could use more windows. Big windows and stuff. We need gears and all that crazy stuff. But how to do that without making huge filesize is to question. Should we drop the use of JS?

I've just started playing cyberpunk (Deus Ex and am getting System Shock II)

There's not enough steampunk games

ESA 15 years, 8 months ago

Big windows are a definite yes. I think a few extra pixels and some moving around of things won't affect the filesize greatly, on the visual. Entirely up to you, you have more knowledge than I do in that area

Ha yes, there are quite a few cyberpunk games. It would not be that hard to make a side-scrolling shmup out of this animation, but I don't know whether you'd be up for that. I don't even know if I would :/

Is the clockwork going like clockwork?

s 15 years, 8 months ago

I've got it scrolling, but the JS line drawing isn't working too nicely. I was thinking oddly though and didn't decide to test if it was the time code working oddly, so I should probably check up on that now

(Edit: Seems I declared my date object as tim and refered to it as time. Silly me, though can I at least blame dev being in Notepad?)

Huzzah!!

What do you call American Football, American Football?

There's a steampunk game that seemed interesting but too buggy and ugly in interface to me called Arcanum

ESA 15 years, 8 months ago

If time was a guy, Tim wouldn't be a bad name =)

We don't even have a name for it here, probably because if some silly began talking about it, it would lead to a heated debate on the relevance of the sport's current name

Well American football, I guess :/

I searched it up. The site has apparently been archived and I can only view thumbnails as screenshots. Seems a lot like a Diablo-esque interface to me :I Hm.

Well Verne is the man

s 15 years, 7 months ago

Don't bring alchohol, bring drugs

ESA 15 years, 7 months ago

I brought neither, a friend brought half a liter of vodka. Made some nice cocktails with it, and we were responsible enough not to get wasted in front of teachers

I learned things there, so it wasn't a complete waste of time (trust me, it was pretty close)

s 15 years, 7 months ago

You should of gotten drunk with the teachers