Dead Men Tell No Tales

Posted by elmernite on July 15, 2008, 2:30 p.m.

Ok, another long time without a blog. Seams to be a habit now, but a summer job and a summer semester at college will do that to you.

Another reason for the lack of blogging is the total lack of progress with any game of mine. I had about three different ideas that all just kinda fell through. So I haven't done anything lately with GM.

Partly, I'm put off by the last YoYo competition. I mean, sure, I can see my game not making the top three, but it didn't even make an honorable mention? I mean, that makes my game lower than eighteenth. I didn't think it was that bad. It sometimes makes me wonder if they even played it? Which for the record, none of the YoYo games staff's names ever came up in the high scores. Not even the weeklies from what I saw. (Perhaps I just missed it)

I need to make my site more standards compliant. It doesn't display quite right in Firefox 3. I have the fixed site ready. I just need to apply the fix to all of the pages. I bit time consuming. I need to just spend the time to do it. Plus, once it's done, It will be easy to change the look of the site. (CSS sheets) so maybe I can have a layout based on the seasons. A Halloween theme would be fun to design.

I've taken a new approach to blogging. I'll slowly work on my blog for a few days whenever I have the time, as opposed to trying to find the free time to type up an entire blog. (In openoffice) For instance, I started this blog on the tenth of July. Using this method I may be able to blog more often. I certainly plain on trying.

I have been still hanging around the GM scene, so I'm not out of touch. I just haven't had much time to participate in anything. Maybe I should try to spend some time to get exclusive information and post it in my blog. Hmmm….

-Elmernite

Comments

flashback 16 years, 5 months ago

Ah yes, Cascading Style Sheet sheets.

elmernite 16 years, 5 months ago

Oh, har har, you got me.

My mistake.

Funny that out of that entire blog that is what you would latch on to.

-Elmernite

SixWinged 16 years, 5 months ago

Quote:
CSS sheets
CSS sheets = Cascading Style Sheet sheets.

elmernite 16 years, 5 months ago

Yes, flashback already pointed that out.

-Elmernite

Distortion 16 years, 5 months ago

Your game was good. It looked nice and it worked perfectly. But it is different from other games. And seemingly the YoYogames staff doesn't put any interest in originality. Only in standard action games.

But hey, other people do appreciate your games!

elmernite 16 years, 5 months ago

Yeah, that's nice to know. It's pretty much the only thing that has stopped me from totally giving up. I know that it was only the YoYo Staff.

Thanks!

-Elmernite

mesenberg 16 years, 5 months ago

I definatly thought your game was of high quality and definatly should have at least been considered. Oh well, and its just too bad that cell burst was released a while back because otherwise you could've used it for the co-op competition.

elmernite 16 years, 5 months ago

Thanks! Yeah, I thought about that when I saw some team ctf game in the comp. I was like, "Hey, CB already has that!"

Oh, well, I bet it would have lost anyway!

-Elmernite