WTF (RhysAndrews)

Posted by RhysAndrews on Dec. 20, 2009, 4:20 a.m.

Well, shaith.

I haven't touched this site since June 10th, 2008. Well to be fair, I *tried* to touch it but 99% of the time, you guys were doing some sort of server move or suffering some sort of hack-attack. Looks like things are *working* once more.

I must admit, this place feels pretty baron now that it's fairly defunct. It reminds me of Good Burger - the big guns come in (YoYo Games / Mondo Burger) and offer bigger services (burgers, game publishing). The only difference here is, Good Burger was a shit movie with a boring storyline.

How am I? Glad I asked myself.

I am doing really well. I finished school in 2008, around September. I LAN'd like there was no tomorrow (even though most lan parties continued into tomorrow) and suffered a few personal issues, before having a job thrown in front of my face to distract me from those issues - a bit like distracting a fat guy with a sausage.

I now work full-time at a private school, as the "IT Maintenance Douche" as some like to call me. After all my years of hating Apple, I never knew I'd be managing a school with 95% Mac and 5% PC. And admittedly, they ARE much easier to manage than a PC network.

And what of game design, I ask myself?

I'm still passionate for creating games, I just have no freakin' time. I miss my days and nights of acting professional with GameCave, and later my own solo projects (or collaborations). I still have a fanbase for Caveman Craig, and I'm still (very surprisingly) getting daily sales of CC: SE - with a seemingly large anticipation for Caveman Craig 2's release.

Tim and I are still planning to complete Caveman Craig 2, I am just waiting for Game Maker 8 (PNG support, sweet mother) and a bit of juicy motivation.

I've also been doing bits and pieces on a zombie game (any developer has to do it) called "Oh No More Zombies!" (Lemmings reference). It's a basic wave-based survival zombie game, like any other. Buy weapons, look at gore, rofl at the lack of intelligence the zombies have… y'know, nothing new.

Beyond that, my main focus is getting my driver's license, working on maturity (not that it's a problem, but there's nothing wrong with trying to mature more.. . . ), and just consolidating my future. Appopriately titled by 64Digits, I am an "Old bean". =(

-Rhys

Comments

Jackzill4 14 years, 4 months ago

Haha nice.

I like your writing style, and you have lots of little jokes thrown in that I love.

Hopefully you have enough time to make another amazing game :)

Juju 14 years, 4 months ago

Good to hear you've got a nice life worked out. Maybe you should contribute some smaller projects? Might help with the motivation. And what did happen to GameCave? I can find nary a reference to it on the interwebs, seems to have literally vanished from the face of the Earth.

Also, spot the newbie.

Grand-High Gamer 14 years, 4 months ago

GameCave is now living inside a literal cave.

sirxemic 14 years, 4 months ago

Yay, you're back :3

PS, remember me? (as GC's musician)

Mordi 14 years, 4 months ago

"Good Burger was a shit movie with a boring storyline"

Not to mention shit humour, poor production and terrible acting.

Jackzill4 14 years, 4 months ago

And it was produced by Nickelodeon, hahaha. That's a dead-giveaway to shittiness.

Kaz 14 years, 4 months ago

I remember loving Caveman Craig. Didn't know you made it though. Glad to hear there's another being made!

RhysAndrews 14 years, 4 months ago

@Juju

Eh, the team just sort of dissolved. People left, motiviation killed itself, etc. The domain name / website is long gone and I guess time just whisked it away.

@sir Xemic

I love you, Pim.

How's the music going?

@Mordi

I must admit, Ed had a few lulzy moments. But the moments were raped by Nicklodeon. =[

@Kaz

Yep - Tim (my brother) and I created it in 30 days for the competition. We both designed it, Tim did the graphics and I programmed it. We both worked on the sounds and music together.