Well that was fun! At least until it ended. I really should've taken more photos, but whatever. I got to see my old friends, and do stuff, and things. No one cares, this whole post thing is pretty dumb... I guess I'll just skip the personal stuff and get to stuff that you might care about.

Anyway, I'll get started on the new Go layout sometime soon. I think I'll do some sort of bubble theme, since I'm out of great ideas. If anyone has any suggestions, just leave a comment and let me know! I'll also try to spend more time with "Spoon! to the Beach!" and that game project, although I hardly know any actionscript at all. Whatever, I can probably learn.

Oh yeah, and to my comrades in Sweden, I can not bloody call you. Seriously, just send me an email. That, and Tack för fett grön skum mjölk dricken. (I picked up my Swedish from the Matrix and a milk carton. )

I was busy working on this nifty blog system. Anyways, just so you don't miss all 3 of them, here they are:



Anyways, feel free to leave a comment, you can always log in as a guest if you don't want to register, and there won't be anymore Go problems for a while because my vacation starts tomorrow! I'll try to post pictures and things, and I'll have my super awesome Gameboy Camera setup with me, so I can at least post those photos. I don't know about actual photos though, since I'll have a cruddy computer without image editing software.

I've spent a lot of time working on this, and I think it's ready to at least post. Hopefully I'll be able to add a comment feature before we leave, so you guys can say something here.

Boy, wouldn't that be cool! Anyways, as you now I can't post Go problem while I'm away, so there'll only be about 3 more before I leave. I'll end this post here, tests shouldn't be so long!

It was pretty cool this time. I didn't see Microsoft's whatever, but I don't care much because I think their company is pretty bad nowadays. That's not to say that other companies can do a good job. Assassin's Creed 2 looked really nice, and Metal Gear Solid Rising sounds awesome! But I (of course) only own Nintendo consoles for some reason, and I still need to find a PS2 to play the second MGS. Then came Nintendo with their usual bundle of games that'll be fun for a while but won't have much replay value. Followed by, oh, I dunno, Galaxy 2. I LOVED GALAXY. Now I'm going to spend yet another entire month of my life playing Mario. Then came Metroid Other M... that looked pretty awesome! Next year should be pretty good. I mean, Sin and Punishment 2 could be cool, I'm getting Starfy since I enjoyed it in Japanese and think the older games would sell better. (If this one sells well, they might port over the older games which are actually less childish.) Oh yeah, and New Super Mario Bros. Wii looked like it could be fun, although I was hoping for a new Twilight Princess type game. Aww well, enough Nintendo stuff. And don't even say anything about being a fanboy. Like I said, I only own Nintendo consoles, and I don't have enough money for other consoles. That is my explanation or only really paying attention to Nintendo. Oh yeah, and Sony had some awesome games. I don't care much for shooting games, but MAG and Uncharted seemed pretty cool. Uncharted has looked really nice, with the scenery and expansive looking areas. Anyways, enough video game stuff, I need to get back to my SNES!

Oh, and before anyone asks, I get bored every once in a while and change the background here, and I just happened to want something underwater-ish.

I really should have something to show for this summer, but unfortunately I don't. I've spent all my time working on TaxiChat, which is this communications system that'll power blogs and forums, except I'm focusing more on the blog part because my friend wants one and I could use it to write these articles! Right now you can register and log in, but it's not that bad of a start.

Anyway, I really should work on "Spoon!to the Beach!" more, but this scene is bothering me because of it's angles. That, and that I haven't worked on that animation in a while, and I haven't really drawn Spoon much either. Ugh! And that game project has come along kind of... ok. The main character's walking animation looks sort of... strange and the code is a bit glitchy right now. I'll try fixing it up though, when I'm tired of working on TaxiChat! (Which will be never at this rate.)

Oh yeah, I'm thinking about getting Punch Out, too, but I should really play those SNES cartridges first. I've been stuck on the second dungeon of Link to the Past for 2 months now! Ok, I'll end this post here since I doubt anyone cares. Oh, but once I get TaxiChat set up to work (And by work, I mean minimally) I'll use it to power these posts and you guys will be able to post comments, which I doubt anyone would want to do either.

It's about time, that year was long and boring. I have no idea what my grades were, but I'm sure they can't be too bad. Either way, I plan on getting most of "Spoon!to the Beach!" done, and working on that game project, catching up on that Go compilation, making Go problems daily, taking Gameboy Camera photos, taking regular photos, composing music.... fun stuff to keep me busy. Oh, and of course playing video games for once. I always start playing again and then somehow forget about it only to realize I'm behind on Zelda again.

As for why everything was uploaded late today, I spent the first half of the day at school and the second half at my friend's. It was awesome, we got out his bow and shot at this small wooden target, messed around with an oscillator (I played some of O.lamm's music into it, that was pretty funny), and uh... did something else. I forgot already!

Yeah, but I'll be spending some of tomorrow getting my hair cut and going shopping. Oh, and playing Go again for once. I always stop playing 3 months into the school year! I'll hope for a local or online amateur tournament, and I'll accept any challenges from you guys! Anyways, I'm going to get back to work on that game project, I've made plans to include a bow as a weapon!

Today marks the 365th Go problem! That's a year's worth of problems there! Sadly, I've been doing this for over a year now. There should be more! Anyways, I've been working on a communications engine thingy that I call "TaxiChat", and basically what it'll do is create a messageboard system. It's kind of annoying though because I hate CAPTCHAS and don't want to support them, so I've been thinking of other innovative ways to prevent spambots. And all this stuff will take a while to get set up. Did I say a while? I meant to say a lot of my time, as in it's ruined that game project I had so far. I'm hoping I'll be able to shift between Spoon, that game, and TaxiChat over the summer. Oh yeah, summer. I have study guides to do and stuff.

Oh, but I started playing Fire Emblem, too. And that, of course, is also taking up my time. If I didn't have to go to.... no, wait, if I learned anything useful or relevant in school, maybe it wouldn't be so bad. I mean, I work with shapes and I still find geometry useless! The French class is terrible so I'll have to find another way to learn the language, and things like gym aren't really worth it. At least our vacation should be worth it! This year we're going to Sweden, although I'm a little disappointed that I'll have to stop working on TaxiChat, Spoon, and that game I'm making while I'm there..

Anyways, whatever. I need to finish some geography stuff today, and then tomorrow I'll work on geometry. Actually, let's try something here:

Computer Science:

Excellent!

English:

Fine!..

Geometry:

Fine!..

French:

Sorta good...

Geography:

Fine!..

Biology:

Sorta good...

Gym:

Excellent!

Well, I hope I'm not overestimating anything here. I'll end this post now, I'm wasting time! Oh, but I might as well explain the wrapper thingy. Swiss chocolate has some pretty interesting wrapper technology! And stuff...

I've spent so much time messing with it all but, I guess it's time to open it to the public. If you look at the last item on the main navigation bar here, you'll notice a new button marked "Chat" and well, it's a chatroom! Well, more like a message board/comment system. But still, it's a nifty little thing I managed to throw together after learning PHP a few days ago! It took forever to make, and it's got quite a few features, even if you can't see them.

Let's see, it's got text formatting, name recognition, stickies, single-message deletion, chat clearance, and moderators! Actually, the mods are me and my friend, so... I'unno. Anyways, why don't you check it out? It's actually pretty cool, and I doubt it'll stay here because I feel like it doesn't belong on this specific site. I plan to turn it into a forum for my friend's site, though, so this is just a shell waiting to expand! Anyways, enough of this, enjoy it while it's here! (Oh, and my parent's may use this to communicate, so I may turn the chat to private every so often.)

My, what a proper title. Anyways, it did. I spent some of Wednesday looking over PHP syntax, and then spent all of yesterday creating some nifty contact pages for this site! Try it out, it's cool! Sort of.

Anyways, with all the fun and commotion from that, I forgot to make a Go problem. But I made up for it just now. OH! And while I was checking my site statistics, I got to see from where people visit my site. It was awesome; I saw Moscow on the list (Russia sounds cool, although my geography textbook doesn't like it because it's not America. ), Greece (I think I know who that was)(No, not you Alex.), lots of Europe (Europe is awesome. I want to live there again and do web design for a living!), and even some from India. And someone in California with the most annoying dynamic IP ever. Seriously, dude, it's been logged like, 20 times from the exact same place, you using a laptop over there?

Anyways, enough of my fascination in where my visitors come from. I need to make the walking animation for that game I'm planning on making, and the program doesn't have onion skinning for animation! (Nevermind, it was there. )

Oh yeah, before I go, I bought some O.Lamm music (shut up, I like AS!), and I swear it is the weirdest thing. It sounded like uncomfortable blips and bloops at first, with every song sounding the same, and no real melody. But hearing it again, I get a better feel of it and, well, it's actually really awesome. Different at least. Anyways, I'll leave you alone now, this post has gone long enough!

Well, today the 350th Go problem was released along with a new layout! And with music, too! Anyways, it was going to look more glassy and reflective, but it came out more like a smeared grey scale image, or an x-ray! Music was added, and hopefully I'll be able to make the "Sound Off" button bake you a cookie and remember your choice. (As in if you had the music turned off and closed the problem, and then came back to it later, it'd still have the music off.)

Anyways, feel free to email me about the new layout, like if the text is too hard to read or something bothers you. Or just say "good job" or something, I don't mind. It really is too bad though. Think about this, I started making one of these a day around January 2008, and I skipped so many that I'm not even at 365 over a year later! Oh well, at least I didn't give up on this project!

Speaking of projects, I made some music for that platformer game I plan on making and I've been working pretty hard on the character's standing sprite, which would serve as a starting point for animating him jumping and running. I really should think of a name for the game though, but I know the character's name will be "Iven". I also know some game mechanics that I want to have, like being able to wall-jump (but only once. I think Iven will have a slight wall-cling time, too...) and use directional attacks in air and on land. And I've ironed out the plot and some sub-plots, I have level ideas, and some character designs planned out. The thing I like about this game is that I set up the plot so I can add levels without messing it up! And for anyone wondering why this isn't on the Projects page... I haven't added this because it has no name, and, well, I'm too finicky to upload a banner saying "Project image coming soon", I'd rather wait until I have Iven drawn out first.

Anyway, enough of that. Enjoy the 350th problem! Only 50 days until 400, and 80 days until the halfway point of all these life and death problems! Then I need to make those compilations, which will not only have 50 of these problems in them, but extra ones of a different type! Like, compilation 1 will have problems 1 to 50 (which are all life and death), and 20 vital points, 20 tesuji, and 10 joseki problems added as a bonus. So I've actually got a long way to go until I'm done making Go problems! Ok, well, I'll aim to finish all life and death problems by 2011, and I'll try to finish all the compilations by 2013... hopefully....

I was busy all week working on a biology project, and then ate dinner out with a friend last night. So, as usual, the Go problems got held back by a week, only this time I made them up! So make sure you don't skip any of the problems!

Also, as for that game I'm making... I have some DEMOstage tiles drawn and, well, hold on, I should explain this. I'm going to use a dull looking level called "DEMOstage" to set up the coding, instead of spending forever on the graphics and then programming everything! Plus, I can use DEMOstage to show off the gameplay without spoiling any of the levels or anything. So, right now I just need to create the character sprites, and get coding! And I'm going to try to make a fairly advanced gameplay system. You know, multiple attack types, like directional attacks, aerial attacks, maybe crouching attacks... and hopefully combo attacks. Only problem is I'm not much of a programmer when it comes to Flash, so we'll see what I can make.

Oh, and it's almost time for Go problem 350, so I need to work on the layout for that, too. And I was skimming through my files and noticed "Narau Kanji!" again. I actually fixed up the drawing engine on there, and I plan on doing some more for it sometime. After "Spoon! to the Beach!". ARGH, look at this. Making a Go problem everyday until around mid 2011, a colorful and fairly well done animation, a platformer/adventure game, and a learning interface.... that's a lot.

Oh, speaking of projects, a neighborhood association wants a site, and I might get to do it for them, so that's fun. I'll just end this post here... I have the feeling my biology teacher might start wandering around here!

Project projects projects, blah! I finally finished the research part of that overly large biology project, which is awesome because it took forever! Really, she gave our class half as long to do twice as much as the regular classes. And it was over my spring break.

Anyways, enough of that. I'm planning out this adventure game that will be styles like an NES game, but I can't really make NES music and don't want to commission anyone. So maybe it'll just look like an NES game. Or, maybe I'll just make it all vector, as in "Spoon! to the Beach!" quality. Either way, I want to make this game, and I want to make it good! I've got a reasonable story and everything, I just need to draw some graphics and code everything. That should only take a year! I have no idea if I'm being serious or not, but I think I am. ANYWAYS!

I've been thinking about "Spoon! to the Beach!", and realized that I probably won't get started on that again until mid-summer... even though I really want it finished this year. I'm actually planning on submitting "Spoon! to the Beach!" to a local animation festival. That's part of why it's taking so long; I want everything to be in good quality!

And, finishing up my completely project related post, I'd like to announce that Daisuke has been canceled. That thing was cool at first, but it had no story, went through hundreds of plot changes, had way too much to be added, and all sorts of things that didn't work out. So it's canceled. Sorry for anyone who liked it, but that adventure game I plan on making will have a battle engine somewhat similar to Daisuke's, maybe.

Scraps is basically just a page to put huge chunks of silly text that I somehow get. Like, from chats and whatever comes up in my head. Oh, and I guess I could post dreams there. And game concepts I've come up with... maybe... oh well, it's basically a junk page, but if you've got nothing to do, it's worth looking at for a few chuckles.

Also, I never mentioned anything about a site I was doing for my friend, did I? Well, I'm making it, and... uh, it's going to be a game review site but... OK, I'LL JUST SAY IT. That nuclear explosion looks like a screwed up Cheeto. Ok, sorry about that. I need to work on that logo more. But the navbar looks pretty cool, eh?

Oh yeah, I was playing Megaman 9 a bunch. It's hard, but it's one of those games that you still see as "completely fun", no matter how annoying it may get. OH! Speaking of old styled games, I found an idea for that platformer I wanted to try making! I might post more about it sometime, but, we'll see.

Anyway, I'll end the post here because I should find something for lunch. I completely touch typed this entire sentence and the last one. Wow, that's cool!

I made a new background for Easter, and it's also available as a wallpaper because I drew it so large! Anyways, it's sort of early in the morning here, but I've still got stuff I want to say.

I still have no idea as to what I'm going to do about that platformer I wanted to make. I want to at least get the backgrounds done, just so it's not another wasted idea, but if I could think of a good plot with characters to fit these backgrounds, that'd be something worth playing! Maybe.

Anyways, I guess that's all I have to say for now. I have cherry pie waiting for me!

Since it's Spring Break, I decided to get some site stuff done early so I could sit around and have fun. Oh wait. I have to do that biology project, nevermind. Anyways, I just got a boatload of stuff done this morning. Let's see...

• I added a more stuff to See
• I also added Photos, although I only have 1 right now
• I put up my Wallpapers for download, now with more sizes than I used to have
• I added Brawl Stages to be downloadable for Smash Bros. players
• And I put up a page to help those players download my stages properly!

Whew, that's a lot. And, like I said earlier, it's not even afternoon yet!

Oh, and I was listening to Hypo while doing all this. It's not as bad as I thought it was at first. It's not even bad, it's just... interesting and different than what I thought I was buying, which is cool with me. Of course, if iTunes hadn't gotten rid of this other CD I was going to get, I wouldn't have bought anything by Hypo anyways!

Well, I'm going to uh... do stuff. I've been on the computer for way too long today already!

I got some stuff added to See, although I should add some more photos and stuff later. I have some new images that were never on the site, and I plan on making a tab for "Photos" and "Wallpaper". Then I'll add some stuff and make it an interesting page on this site.

I also bought "Karaoke A Capella" by Hypo.... it's pretty interesting. I like how "Birthday" is the only song I love on there, but it's so short. So I set my mp3 player to loop it, and what do you know? The song loops into itself, making 1:07 take up infinity!

Oh, I need to get my Brawl stage downloader set up, and find more videos worth adding to this site, and get mp3s of some music I made, and upload videos of mine to the video section... and.... and... and... zzzzzzzzz....

EDIT:
Oh! Sweet, Domotic's playing with O.lamm at this year's Les Siestes électroniques! Too bad I can't go. Hopefully their performance will be on the web. That'd be cool. Also, since I'm doing some pictures for that biology project digitally, I may upload them when I get See set up.
We'll see!

OH RIGHTRIGHTRIGHT! I was going to announce that I'll be canceling Daisuke because I don't have a real name for it and it's just a pointless fighting game with a fairly messed up battle phase... I'll update the Projects page later, it's late right now. Either way, that original platformer I hope to make (And probably won't, with the way my games tend to go) should be good, if I could only come up with character designs and a fairly good plot...
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Next week is spring break, which is great if my teachers wouldn't be assigning so much work! It's a break. That means time to do nothing, not time to assign massive projects and give out worksheets. That ruins my plans for sitting around going "Gee, it sure is great having nothing to do! Its nice to be able to do nothing without feeling like you're wasting time!" Boo.

On a higher note, if there can be OK. LOOK. THE BIOLOGY PROJECT'S GOING TO TAKE AN ESTIMATED 16 HOURS TO DO AND IT'S DUE THE FRIDAY I GET BACK. ARGH!

Anyways, I wanted to try to make a cheery platformer game, and if not a game then at least make the backdrops, but I don't know if I'll be motivated to do that. I'm also getting back into Kirby, or at least Kirby graphics... and music. Well, I've always been into Kirby, but I literally spent an entire morning looking at the backgrounds in Kirby games. I don't know. I need summer, but that means final exams to study for beforehand. And I swear, if I get some dumb summer assignment, I'm dropping out and buying a PHP and mySQL manual...

Just thought I'd just let you know. Short post because spring break is coming up and blah blah I don't have much to say... enjoy yours, if you have one!