Hi everybody

I haven't really spoken for a while, ay? Course the 64digits 'power down' contributed - also been busy with life. Non-single life is more of a chore than you think. I'm starting to like that Girls = Time * money formula. But she's worth it, or am I pubescentally blind?

Anyway! I've been doing a few things in life. Conflict: Online, believe it or not, is one 'thing'! I spent half of my holidays implementing some new structures into the current CO engine. I've even rewritten the AI for what was to be online bots, but we're considering just having them as offline practice bots. I've produced a class-like system for players / targets, and have rebuilt the weapon system. I am pretty much getting the game ready for online coding.

Another project is a game I'm producing with/for my brother, called The Treasure House Game. He's an animation writer and as he is getting his latest work released through a publisher, He wanted me to make a little game for him. For those crazy rhys-blog fan(s), you'll have seen an early screenshot a few blogs back. Well yeah, it's going well. The aim of the game is to throw books at a bookworm that pops up in various places in the room, without hitting customers (this is a toy shop) or anything on the shelves. It's a basic score/time method, so yeah. Fairly enjoyable putting it together.

I've also been working on getting my band started a bit more. We've been jamming weekly at our church (has tons of amps, PA systems, recording gear, and a sick keyboard and drumkit) and we're getting into the writing stage, though we're not brilliant. I can't really express what type of band we are - probably Blues-Rock, but we're aiming for Prog Blues-Rock. We like fiddling with punk and metal sometimes too but don't want to slack off and start playing lame-arse power-chord songs. As for band names, we'd sort of settled on "4 minutes to midnight" but it doesn't really fit our style.

I'd been writing up some lyrics too, trying to stretch on beyond lame emo lyrics I used to write. Tell me what you think of this - it's devoted to an awful mall/plaza that I go to to shop.

S'lata

-Rhys