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So where were we? Oh yeah Travis vs Troy (competion 2)

Administrator — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:16:30 +0000

I had Troy vs Troy running at a decent speed. I had 3 players almost working. One player was controlled by the user, the second player was controlled by AI(Randomly running in a circle) and the Third. Well the Third was going to work via network. That was until I went to Wizard World East(in Philadelphia). After that happened I shelved Troy vs Troy and decided to focus solely on Travis vs Troy.

In my infancy(my actual experience) regarding AI programming, I’ve been trying to figure out a better way to do things this time around. I’m not going to lie or hide anything that I’m doing this time around. I’m going to try and document/blog better this time around and talk of my mistakes and shortcomings. So here’s a few things about this competition.

The Rules
1. Travis got a two week head start on me because …
2. It has to be a platform game. (I’ve built one before so I had an advantage)
3. The game has to work within a website. (This loose rule has me scared what Travis may pull off)
4. The competition ends on August 31st.
5. The game has to be written in Flash. (This was a damper because I was going to try something very slick.)

The Game
So with these four rules I’ve decide to revisit the concept of a literal “Travis vs Troy” concept. The main character is going to be Travis (voices by yours truly) and the antagonist is going to be MrTroy (voiced by Mikey McFly). And since I’ve already had experience with building a platformer, I want to dedicate more time towards building something very polished. As I was saying above I went to Wizard World East and I saw the New Grounds booth and thought to myself. Maybe I should make something very polished instead of thinking of only functional.

So… at the time of this writing I can only say this…
“Abuse” – Look it up. It’s what I’m attempting.

WTF Theme!?

Administrator — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 04:35:28 +0000

I was going to update wordpress and I accidently erased my Theme because Filezilla crashed before downloading the previous site. Hopefully I can find an archive elsewhere and reinstall it.

New Gear for the site

Administrator — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 15:13:12 +0000

I’m going to make a new gear of the site. Currently there’s only “Computer” “Game Related” “News” and “Websites” each represented by a color… I made this site so long ago I don’t remember which color is which. I think white is news, red is game, other than that. I dunno. Anyway! I’m gonna make a new gear, and I’m not going to use a color.

I’m making a gear that’s going to be about concepts. After Squdi went halfway through his “300 game idea” challenge. I figure “Why hold back on concepts I never plan on actually making anyway?” so I’m going to talk about them more. I know I’ve said this on at least 2 of my other websites(prolly even said it here once), but this time… IT COULD BE THE ONE.

And… this site actually gets traffic while my other sites don’t.

Popsknot version 2

Administrator — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 13:20:28 +0000

Holding it down while I was at Otakon, Efrain worked on the website. Now I’m going to create the second theme for this ol’ site of mine to match Popsknot.com

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Popsknot

Post Otakon

Administrator — Tue, 23 Aug 2005 15:43:57 +0000

Hey there and greetings. Otakon was once again a blast. If you’re here looking for someone elses site be it Marc, Che, or Pete(coming soon). Each have been given their proper linkage. Otakon this year was great! I hope everyone had as much fun as I did. Unfortunately I lost every single business card I gathered this year on the way home. I’m not too happy about that. I tried my damnest to remember everyone’s links but alas, I failed.

So I’m gonna start searching again for those of you I promised to email with more information. Talk to you soon.

Finished FD’s page

Administrator — Sun, 07 Aug 2005 02:52:08 +0000

I finished Subway Scribble today. Besides a few tweeks that may happen due to user error(heh) I think for the most part I’m not going to have to touch it for a while. *thumbs up*

SGC store… end of Summer.

Administrator — Tue, 26 Jul 2005 15:59:13 +0000

I’m going to begin working on a store interface for Studio Griz this Summer and hopefully by the end of September we’ll have a few things for sale. At first it will be simple links to Cafe Press and Ebay, then later it will evolve into us actually selling from this site. In the mean time I need to get back to work.

First REAL entry

Administrator — Thu, 07 Jul 2005 14:29:24 +0000

This entry is just mainly to test out a few of my icons(for my first theme Cog1). But this site is up and ready to go, and I thank you for visiting! For now I lack content still. Forgive me.