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So I quietly disappear for a week, come back and:
> reidd has been unbanned
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somebody starts a Consoles vs PCs topic
> LAR's city is burning
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somebody else starts a stereotype 'want team, will pay bugger-all' blog.
And most shockingly:
> 64digits weekly
gaming night has become the 64digits weekly
knit-in try get stuff done night.
Anyway, I 'left' for a short while to get the internet in general out of my system.
I can't get anything done, nor can I relax, while I'm silently fuming over stupid comments I accidentally read on news sites/Youtube pages.
Turns out that turning the connection off for a bit actually
does aid the creative process. I finally managed to start work on a new piece of music:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/11942397/Alpha.mp3Also decided to screw game development for an indefinite amount of time; I have many ideas, but working with these ideas is not within my grasp at the moment; nothing new there.
I have got a few small prototypes I made during my week off that I'm not sharing until they're playable (In this case, 'prototype' meaning a mockup thingy, really).
One of them is a Columns clone. Because Columns. Got a few extra mechanics to add.
No, Cyrus. Nothing for F4D. Sorry :(
On another note, I've been spending the week playing several NES games, noting some of the interesting effects I never seemed to notice before (Ninja Gaiden 3 has multiple layers of parallax scrolling, and Megaman 5 has a scrolling background that is mixed with a static background and level pieces.)
So yeah… time to go actually read these new blogs and perhaps comment.
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I use puush for everything. It's a great little program that always runs in the background and automatically uploads screenshots, and best of all, is blocked when Kilin is taking the train.
Looks useful, though I do prefer the fact that my screenshots on Dropbox will stick around for a couple of years if they're not accessed :P
I love columns and most match3 games. (as well as tetris). I'm not sure what i'm looking at in that screenshot though :P
Not sure if 1 week counts as away, i spend sometimes a month away from here and similarly for the GMC, though i often lurk there more than anything.Oddly enough, i'm most motivated for working on games when i have the LEAST amount of free time. it's pretty weird. maybe getting a soul crushing job could help you out with working on your games lol