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Hectic weekend. I'll spare you the details (until later).

Well, I was playing around with drawing another dragon, potentially for an avatar, but I hated the coloring and messed it up:

Confounded Ponies, look what you've done to my palette!and eye-drawing methods

*cough*

Anyway, I've been working on sprites for the game (Since the gameplay takes such a short amount of time to complete), and came up with these:

Snowman Boss

Yes. It's yellow. No, that's not a scarf around it's neck.

Cute Bunny

Until it kicks you in the face.

Blue-belt Bunny

Just had to make an enemy that turns into a tornado of fury.

Title screen

Which is partially animated (Silhouette of player leaps out of second-floor window and

starts running the the left).

Name has stuck.

Yellow Snow

And motion trails to make your snowballs easier to see (Looks better in game, I promise).

Yes, that's still the same test room. No, I'm not changing the redness levels. >:3

IN OTHER NEWS

Been reading a book entitled "Essential Mathematics for games and interactive applications, Second Edition: A programmers guide".

I always thought I had a head for math, but it seems I need to brush up a bit.

Just added Mantissa and Quaternion to my list of nerdy sounding words to use when annoying relatives try to hold normal conversations with me. =3

*gets attacked by cat*

ARRGH GETITOFF… whew… >_>

… Cat wants milk. Well it can wait; writing a blog that makes some sense is more important than getting the cats milk 10 minutes early for once. Bah.

Actually, not much of an attack. But a cat kneading you in the leg and giving you death-gazes can be said to be attacking you.

Oh yeah. Applied at Mojang. Why not. Some stats:

Likelihood that Mega gets the job: 0.1992%

Awesomeness factor if Mega did get the job: 192.2%

But that's a 1000:1 difference. So no matter how awesome it would be to get the job, and regardless of the fact that I'm… qualified… I have one minor problem:

I haven't exactly been doing what I was supposed to be doing this year, and that's creating demos in C++ that can be used in a portfolio. Nope. I've been mucking around in GM. *sigh*

So, my new-years resolution has been changed to:

"Ditch GM this year. Create some cool looking demos in C++/Java"

Anyway, roll on Saturday. Why? 'cause. 11.

Why my weekend was a strained one, and the Monday after it…

Well, it all started on Saturday… it was a fine day, until I decided to try and install a Linux distro on my Windows PC again (Alongside Windows, of course). Now, this has never been a problem before (I just politely tell Windows that I'm resizing it's extended partition, which fortunately had nothing on it. Besides Apache).

and it looked to be moving along just fine. I was trying to install Sabayon 5, Gaming Edition. And it installed perfectly. And all was well… until I tried to log in, at which point the system mysteriously froze.

I deleted Sabayon and tried Fedora 12. Nearly an hour later: Same thing happened.

"Curious," I said, "now why would it do that?"

The cat continued to give me that pointed look that seemed to say "Because it's YOU trying to do it."

Next morning, when my head was clear once more, I tried twice more with both OS's, and with Kubuntu, but the same thing happened each time. It was then that I figured out that it must be a hardware fault that's causing this problem.

I was further annoyed when I put Windows into standby mode later on (I always do when called away from the keyboard), and it froze when I woke it up.

The next day I had somebody around for a LAN game (Warcraft 3, Quake 1 and UT2004). I first tried the USB Wi-Fi connector I had, but once again (And this is in Windows), the PC froze when I tried to install the drivers. (we ended up using good ol' reliable LAN cables anyway).

Anyway, by the end of the day I was fuming, and by 10PM I finally got pissed off enough to unplug the computer, take out my screwdriver and rip the thing apart.

Turns out that the problem was quite simple:

I have two sound cards, one internal and the other a PCI one. The PCI card packed up last month, but I didn't get around to removing it from the motherboard. After removing it, everything worked just fine.

I also happened to find out the reason that the PCI sound card broke: It was placed in the slot right next to my GeForce… and the IC (Integrated Circuit) on the Soundcard was in direct contact with the GPU's heatsink, which is nearly 2 inches think…

The soundcard was pretty much blistering my fingers when I took it out… reminder to self: Don't use that PCI slot again.

So… I've now got the Sabayon distro working 100% in conjunction with Windows (I had to tweak the audio settings though), my Sleep button works the way I want it to again and the cat is still telling me it's all my fault. And it was right.

JID 12 years, 11 months ago