I have bought, for a grand total of 600$US, a new laptop. Not just any laptop, a good laptop. The Acer Aspire 5102, with a 120GB hardrive, 1 GB DDR2 RAM, AMD Turion 64 TL-50 X2, a built in webcam, and a 15 inch screen.

Hooray for Thanksgiving Sales!

Here's mah baby:

*NOTE* That is not my actual laptop, it is a picture of someone else's of the same model.

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Woohoo!

Wonderous awesomeness. I will have a nice little demo of that tentative idea I am working on - it is functioning very nicely, and isn't a usual text-based game. You will see why when I let you test out the beginning bit.

I successfully sprited a walk animation, and it was the devil to get a smooth walk animation on a character only 32px tall, especially the north/south animations.

I've also sprited a nice spider-thing - a 2 frame animation played at about 2 frames per second that makes it come out beautifully. Yes - it is a text-based game, but you aren't stuck with typing every command. You will have to attack and defend against monsters too.

Enjoy, and speculate upon the storyline.