Holy crap I could make so much money as a freelance 3D artist.
Questioning my decision to not go to an art school right now. But only a little.
Now Saving: Yoshi’s New Island Bots
We’ve started working with BOE bots programmed with Basic Stamp Editor. Took me a bit to realize the language is Basic. Had some errors when dealing with subroutines that set us back more than we should have been. (Forgot to put an END command at the end of the main loop but before the subroutines.)
Yoshi’s New Island comes out tomorrow.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=0vJvNkuXiYo#t=278
When I saw Eggy Pop, I figured they had gotten rid of the Popping Balloons minibattle from the original, but there seems to be a new variant in Ground Pound Pop. I’d really like to have that as a silly little fun thing to play on bus rides or short breaks. BUT. I don’t yet know if it’s possible to play those minigames solo or with an AI. It looks like it may be required to have a second player on a separate 3DS, and I simply won’t buy multiple 3DS systems just to play a balloon popping minigame I could probably recreate with more features relevant to my own interests *to run on my own phone* in maybe two or three months. Heck, maybe a few weeks if I wanted to take the $250+ I’d be dropping on two 3DS and a $40 game and instead spent it on getting a good 3D Modeler to make some custom characters for me and a sound and music guy to make mew a new BG tune and soundeffects for the characters.
… I’m kinda freaking tempted to do that. Make a balloon game for android and PC. Flesh out the modes…
Or. I could wait for Super Smash Bros. for 3DS to come out, and pick up that and YNI on the same day. Aside from that one minigame I really want to toy around with, the rest of the game looks like a passable tribute to the Yoshi series since YI, YS, YIDS, YTT, and YTaG.
(Man, I wish someone could recreate that highres Yoshi model Nintendo uses for the promo arts. That’d be fun to pose around~<3)
We did some stuff with Blender in Digital Multimedia. I spent the time trying to make a 3D bunnyperson model. It went OK. I’ll have to post a render sometime.
Spent some hours trying to revise the HLD, LLD, and Code Listings for Snr. Soft. Engineering in prep for the upcoming presentations and notebook review. Most likely, our team will change the role assignments for the upcoming phase. Hand off graphics to the guy who’s familiar with texturing and whatnot better than the both of us. Split GUI, PlayerBehavior, Camera, and UnitBehavior between me and the other guy’s who’s been great about troubleshooting code he wasn’t even tasked with writing to begin with. Not looking forward to fixing up the rest of these docs, but eh. It’s gotta be in the books. Because reasons!
Now Saving: Black Liquorice
Spent most of the day wanting to curl up and go back to sleep, but got into the swing of things… by nightfall.
Filled out new spreadsheets for SSE. Tried to animate an SVG hexagon. Didn’t work out. Traced a Griffon screencap and added a balloon. Because reasons.
Planning to take in my resume tomorrow for live crit.
Tried Black Liquorice for my first time. Was given to me by an acquaintance who usually works one of the shops I tend to buy snacks from every 2-4 days. He got it from someone else. The feel was akin to that of mouthwash, but the taste reminded me of black jellybeans, rootbeer, and salt. It was interesting. The one I had was shaped vaguely like a curved fish. Was offered one that came in the shape of an *, but my teeth were kinda hurting from the first candy, so I declined. It was an interesting experience.
Now Saving: Heading Back
Heading back to residence halls first thing tomorrow morning. Spent all day working on the game tentatively titled Resonance Reaper https://github.com/TeamNoContest/ResonanceReaper and filling out more documentation for Stable45 http://retl.github.io/stable45/ . If I have enough time, I might have to scramble to make a dev-diary for TheSeasHaveEyes before leaving for dorms but immediately after waking up. Or I can sit on my haunches and hope my team member makes that up.
Now Saving: Bleh
I talked up a case for buying pizzas so we’d have something to eat for the weekend. Aaaand after going through with it, we ended up spending $30 or what was completely consumed within minutes. So I feel like I picked it all wrong. And apparently my mother’s sugar level had dropped down to around 54. Seems like she was mistaking the breakfast she had yesterday for breakfast she had today. Tried to talk [family member] out of throwing a fit because reasons. Which just made her throw a fit about me talking to her. My right hand hurts. I think I’ve played too much Awesomenauts and may have carpel tunnel syndrome or something going on.
On the other hoof, I drew some stuff. http://sta.sh/2k9ffob9m3l
Now Saving: No Meal Plans Here
Learned about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maltesers for my first time. Added author’s note to B fic from yesterday. Played a LOT of Awesomenauts. Played with 3D Ponymaker and Inkscape.
IRC was unusually quiet for the majority of the day today until late night. Making progress in a FoE Reread. Just now finishing the Shadow of the Ministries massivehuge chapter.
Ran out of TV dinners and hotdogs and whatnot in the fridge for the week’s stay. Need to go shopping for more food at some point. I miss having my meal-plan on-campus. Kinda wish I had bothered to learn to cook.
Now Saving: Fish for Lunch
Had fish for dinner actually, not lunch. Fic has been finished and revised. You can read it early here or you can wait for the full compilation to be complete (it’s about 23/26ish done).
It was PnP day. We found New Unicornia. Getting the ‘free night’s stay’ treatment. It’s obviously going to end in plot progression.
Now Saving: Plan B
Rough-drafted a fic. Drew a thing. Played some games. Learned the procedure for blood-sugar testing with the lancet and test machine.
My mother fell again. While trying to get icecream. Again. But I helped her get back up and it was OK. PnP day tomorrow. DST starts on Sunday.
Saving: Gregory Horror Show
Just watched first two seasons of Gregory Horror Show. It was goofy and surreal and mindscrewy and kinda fun and not very scary at all. Also wrote 500 more words into my fic. Slow progress, but some. And talked with mother.
Now Saving: Adjustment
Back with the family. Love having my soft bed again. Don’t miss a certain trouble-causing family member and her drama-baiting. Glad to see mother again, but worried. Walked in on her kinda half in the fridge and struggling to fix icecream. Played tons of Awesomenauts. At Pres9 Level 80ish. Could Pres10 by tomorrow.