Well that was quite a long nap, guess I'm back though. Gatta remember to check up on the NDU and how all things have been in my absense. Maybe review some of those games I've played and rant more on the forums about topics no one cares about. Lots going on, and I'll sum everything up in 1 giant run on sentence. If you don't care about my life, which I assume is not why you read this, skip the next paragraph.

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I am doing well in school, I finally decided to go to college for game design, I found some amazing games to play including little big planet and world of goo, my costume for Julius Belmont at Anime Detour is almost done, I still suck at rock band... badly, my compy got a new graphy, I am still 360 and ps3-less but play them at friends houses a lot as they play wii at my place a lot, I made a Videlectrix shirt in my printing class just to have the biggest inside joke ever, I saw Coraline which is an awesome movie, and finally, I rejected a girl to the dance! Take that annoying prep who hated nerds but for some reason liked me.

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I started working on a game finally so feel free to skip the next 3 bunches of text if you don't want to hear about it. I will release it for free eventually just to prove to some friends something. The project was started 3 months ago when I started critiquing mirror's edge and someone told me to make something better. I figure a side scroller is a very easy place to start, so basically I'm making a really weird mix between Mirror's Edge, Jet Set Radio, and Sonic. Mirror's Edge in the amazing capabilities of the character, to leap over and through obstacles in a realistic parkour like manner. Jet Set Radio in the enemies. Guns are an annoying addition to the kind of game mirror's edge was and so I've taken a sillier approach to it, making the enemies simply try to tackle and slam your character to the ground, not to say simple cops are your only enemy. Lastly, Sonic in the side scrolling sense of speed and momentum you have to keep up. A mission should rarely have to bring you to a halt if you know what you're doing.

My 3 main goals are:
1. Never to be called repetitive as each of the many levels will change gameplay drastically one way or another, or simply do things right.
2. To lack control issues. The character should control how you think it should and not be a chore so much as a joy to fly around the city with.
3. To be simply more fun than mirror's edge. It was an ok game, but seriously screwed up in too many places, as will be addressed in the next batch of text.

Ambitious, very much so yes, however, it's going smoothly so far. Not having a terribly high amount of experience in coding, I'll just be using game maker. Many will be turned away by that alone, and I will probably port it to real code a year or so from now. However, I'm putting a lot of detail into getting game maker to work for me, and it hasn't been as disobedient as I expected. Not that it's professional or anything, but it's certainly functioning. As soon as I get media I can actually show off, I'll be sure to show you guys here at gamespot first.

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I am amazingly let down by one of the silliest games this year. Many of you have probably seen the advertisments for "Eat Lead" and I'm sad to report it's not what I hoped for. I was expecting crappy gameplay and most people were. What I was looking forward to this game for was it's sense of humor. It was advertised to be catered towards hardcore gamers, but sadly has about all the hilarity of a brain dead halo fan making fun of things for not being halo. It's comedy mostly comes off as cheesy 1 liners that can't even raise a chuckle, and jokes that essentially are about as clever as airline food jokes. Honestly, who in this world, even in the furthest back regions of your minds, hated ellipisis as much as this Matt Hazard guy does? Even their knowledge of games is limited to nothing more than your average halo fan's knowledge. No offence to halo fans on gamespot, I just use it as an example when talking about the public who has played maybe a total of 3 games really.

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So thats been all I've been meaning to blog in these past few days. What should I review: Advance Wars: Days of Ruin, No More Heroes, or World of Goo? Those have been games I've been dying to write stuff on.

Oh also, manditory new picture of myself, now featuring my stylish 3d goggles! The red and blue will never die: