So I said I'd enter Ludum Dare, which I'm already regretting for several reasons. Firstly, I'm slow. I'm really slow at pretty much everything because I daydream alot, get bored and have to do something different to what I was previously doing every five minutes. I can't do anything productive at all unless I'm also listening to music or watching tv simultaneously. I'm also a perfectionist. Having no attention span or motivation with things and also being a perfectionist means you essentially get absolutely nothing done at all. At all.
The second reason I regret entering Ludum Dare is because by hosting all of these competitions, I'm feeling as if I'm almost starting to "hype" myself, something which will end up being extremely, extremely underwhelming for pretty much everyone involved. Combined with the intimidation of Mega entering Ludum Dare too and working with Rez - who happens to also be one of my favourite game artists - on an RPG4D entry, I think I have reason to feel this way. The reason my game competition output is so comparatively high to my game output is because I enjoy organizing things, I enjoy putting ideas into motion, I enjoy games, I enjoy observing games being made and I enjoy this community. If I were to ever start a career in video games, I would definitely be involved in the more managerial roles… or at least, the supporting roles. Directing, designing, marketing, that sort of thing. I think I know what works in a game and how to get people to play it, better than I can actually personally make a game that people want to play. But I guess that's the same with everyone. Everyone's a critic.Thirdly is that I'm seriously behind on alot of university stuff and this is another setback. I do feasibly have time to do all the stuff I want to do over the next month - game making, university and playing gigs - but I won't have time to do anything else, and also I'll be stressing the entire time. When I stress, there is a significantly increasing chance that I'll just go into "fuck it" mode and do absolutely nothing at all but play Playstation and drink beer. I'm pretty sure everyone can relate to that, too. But this time around I'm pretty determined to avoid that. Although incidentally the reason I'm writing this blog is probably as a justification for not writing the 1000-word essay on Ken Thompson that I'm actually supposed to be writing.I mean, what some of you might not know is that I'm actually doing Computer Science (I'm in my first year). So that means that at least I'm supposed to be good at programming. I'm currently learning Java as part of my course, but I'm pretty behind on that. We're also doing electronics and shit, which I really do not care about at all, so I'm behind in that too. The only thing I'm caught up on is the mathematics side of it, but only because it comes kind of naturally. I was originally going to do four years, but now I'm definitely only doing three. I'm not going to drop out - I'm from one of those middle-income, working families, so I was brought up to be terrified at the idea of wasting thousands of pounds like that. But I can't say I'm enjoying it right now and really just want to get it over with and pass.All of that said, I will enter Ludum Dare, and I will finish this game that I've been doing since Saturday as a practice.Anyway here's a screen of what I've been doing over the last couple of days for 3 hours a day, the time I spend on Ludum Dare will be more concentrated. It's a schmup/minecraft hybrid of sorts. Mainly minecraft, because I hate schmups (I suck at them) and barely ever play them; maybe space invaders counts. You customize your ship with parts that you craft. You get resources by playing levels of a side-scroller. There is no health or lives, if a part of the ship is hit, it is destroyed. You could say I'm just ripping off 0x10c… but to be honest, that game is such an obvious continuation of minecraft that if Notch's next game had been anything other than minecraft-in-space, the fanboys would have hung themselves.
Overworld with 3d effect that consists entirely of one sine function (star distance from center) and one cosine function (size of star) because of time constraints. It makes a 2d map look like a sphere you're travelling across. This looks better in motion for obvious reasons. It's just a bunch of circles when you look at a picture.
Yo, FJ. Don't be generalizing this shit.
"See, taunting mods is a great way to get banned."
He made an unfounded claim. I'm simply asking him to back it up.I think everyone here knows that there were legitimate grounds to his response.
If all you came here to do was stir up trouble, then you'd best be on your way. I'm sure that if you are here for the competition, you're ruining your chances."For starters. And before you rebut with "that's not an insult, just a statement of fact," consider that it is a statement made in the most provocatively rude manner possible."
Uhm… I kind of figured no offense was taken to it because Toast responded in a kind manner. I'm used to people pointing out this kind of thing with "hey man chill that's a bit rude"… and I can't even see how it would be. It wasn't just a statement of fact, that would be ridiculous to say. I just thought his profile's description didn't line up with the rest of his posting, and I was informing him of it.I'd really like you to elaborate on the "for starters" bit since there isn't anything to add, I haven't been insulting in my posts made before or after that point. So yeah, no clue what you're talking about."Subsequent attempts to call foul on others for "trolling" you while condescending to everyone here is simply further bad behaviour."These people haven't been acting appropriately. Surely the comments about "sex slaves" and "trolls" aren't how people behave normally? Calling someone a troll is an insult. I suppose it's done here so frequently that you don't mind it being said, but it is annoying (and not even true in this case)."I'm feeling lenient today. Shape up or there will be consequences."Sorry, I really don't care too much about a community where the word "troll" is thrown around so often. If you seriously mean to tell me that I can get warned for speaking my mind, I'm not going to continue posting here. That's not my problem. See ya.If you're going to get bent out of shape because of someone calling you a troll, why are you on the internet?
It's a commonly term used for anyone who is alleged of provoking negative feeling in other web surfers.Maybe they are a bit looser on the GMC and Yoyogames, but this is the "real" internet.Aww, you mean you came to a website with a specific culture that you don't like? And you decided to try to evaluate "appropriate" behaviour on it, despite the fact that your account duration is measured in days and you have precisely zero authority? And when you get called on it you run away? That's adorable.
@FJ – if you look like a duck, walk like a duck, and quack like a duck, people are going to call you a duck no matter how much you protest that you're a platypus.
Or in other words: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4e8iAofnrw:)