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School...The abysmal hole that sucks all joy out of your life...If you aren't me, that is.
But nevertheless, my Senior year of school is shaping up to be pretty hard! I've got classes in AP Calculus and Physics, so those are starting to take their toll on me. AP Calculus is as hard as Pre-Cal was, but Physics...Is actually surprisingly easy. When you get down to it, it's just getting an equation like (vf^2 = vi^2 + 2(a * d)) and plugging in the numbers of the problem. Knowing what equation to use for what program is tricky, but after that it's smooth sailing.
On the less academic side of things, Band is has been pretty frustrating. Despite being a Senior and a marching vet, it's pretty hard getting Freshmen to listen to you...It's always rough when you're trying to get a point across, and people just ignore you. This year's show is fun, though. We get to dance! And by we, I mean I'm actually the only one who has the guts to do the dancing that's supposed to be in our half-time show!
Ohh! Ohh! I'm also in Creative Writing now! Since I've gotten a good grade in my English classes, I get to take a super-fun class where we learn good writing techniques! Things like "don't use adverbs when you could use a strong noun" or "show, don't tell". I already knew the latter, but I've been having a lot of fun in this class nevertheless. Very much unlike band, the students who are in Creative Writing are real artsies. Pretty much every other person in the class is into MLP/Adventure Time/Homestuck, and our nerdy teacher herself is obsessed with both Homestuck and Attack on Titan. And you can imagine what a class like that would be like.
Expect me to submit some of my Creative Writing stuff to dA, soon. A 10-page short story set in Terra Confundo is currently in the works!
Rogue-likes have always intrigued me. From the very moment I picked up "Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Blue Rescue Team", I was completely and absolutely obsessed with it. The same goes for Spelunky. Both of those games have an incredible replay value, and are challenging to boot! But what really surprised me, was that I had been playing a genre of RPGs called "rogue-likes", the whole time! Imagine how let down I was when I first picked up Rogue, and discovered that the Pokemon Mystery Dungeon series is just a direct ripoff of rogue-likes. :/
So after finding out that depressing fact, I set out to find the root of this amazing genre. After playing a bit of Rogue, I discovered a game called NetHack...And it is AMAZING! Yes, the graphics are bloody terrible (A text-based terminal version of Pokemon Mystery Dungeon) but the game has the most depth I've ever seen in a game. Games like Minecraft or Dwarf Fortress don't even remotely compare to the complexity of this 28-year-old gem. It's been in development (mostly fan-made) that entire time, and booooy is there a lot to it!
Save, I haven't actually PLAYED the game, but I've been meekly lurking on the wiki, absorbing as many spoilers as I possibly can so that I won't go ignorant into the game. Oh! And much like how I started my Fantasy Chess project a few months ago, the absolutely horrible graphics of NetHack INSPIRED me to take on a new personal project! Currently, I plan to revamp ALL 1056 TILES OF NETHACK, as well as tiles pertaining to a few mods such as SLASH 'EM, Unnethack and SporkHack. You know, the major mods out there.
School
School...The abysmal hole that sucks all joy out of your life...If you aren't me, that is.
But nevertheless, my Senior year of school is shaping up to be pretty hard! I've got classes in AP Calculus and Physics, so those are starting to take their toll on me. AP Calculus is as hard as Pre-Cal was, but Physics...Is actually surprisingly easy. When you get down to it, it's just getting an equation like (vf^2 = vi^2 + 2(a * d)) and plugging in the numbers of the problem. Knowing what equation to use for what program is tricky, but after that it's smooth sailing.On the less academic side of things, Band is has been pretty frustrating. Despite being a Senior and a marching vet, it's pretty hard getting Freshmen to listen to you...It's always rough when you're trying to get a point across, and people just ignore you. This year's show is fun, though. We get to dance! And by we, I mean I'm actually the only one who has the guts to do the dancing that's supposed to be in our half-time show!
Ohh! Ohh! I'm also in Creative Writing now! Since I've gotten a good grade in my English classes, I get to take a super-fun class where we learn good writing techniques! Things like "don't use adverbs when you could use a strong noun" or "show, don't tell". I already knew the latter, but I've been having a lot of fun in this class nevertheless. Very much unlike band, the students who are in Creative Writing are real artsies. Pretty much every other person in the class is into MLP/Adventure Time/Homestuck, and our nerdy teacher herself is obsessed with both Homestuck and Attack on Titan. And you can imagine what a class like that would be like.
Expect me to submit some of my Creative Writing stuff to dA, soon. A 10-page short story set in Terra Confundo is currently in the works!
NetHack
Rogue-likes have always intrigued me. From the very moment I picked up "Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Blue Rescue Team", I was completely and absolutely obsessed with it. The same goes for Spelunky. Both of those games have an incredible replay value, and are challenging to boot! But what really surprised me, was that I had been playing a genre of RPGs called "rogue-likes", the whole time! Imagine how let down I was when I first picked up Rogue, and discovered that the Pokemon Mystery Dungeon series is just a direct ripoff of rogue-likes. :/
So after finding out that depressing fact, I set out to find the root of this amazing genre. After playing a bit of Rogue, I discovered a game called NetHack...And it is AMAZING! Yes, the graphics are bloody terrible (A text-based terminal version of Pokemon Mystery Dungeon) but the game has the most depth I've ever seen in a game. Games like Minecraft or Dwarf Fortress don't even remotely compare to the complexity of this 28-year-old gem. It's been in development (mostly fan-made) that entire time, and booooy is there a lot to it!
Save, I haven't actually PLAYED the game, but I've been meekly lurking on the wiki, absorbing as many spoilers as I possibly can so that I won't go ignorant into the game. Oh! And much like how I started my Fantasy Chess project a few months ago, the absolutely horrible graphics of NetHack INSPIRED me to take on a new personal project! Currently, I plan to revamp ALL 1056 TILES OF NETHACK, as well as tiles pertaining to a few mods such as SLASH 'EM, Unnethack and SporkHack. You know, the major mods out there.
If anyone's interested and/or is into this kind of stuff, go ahead and PM me so I can get a crit on my tileset so far. I don't quiiiiiite feel like submitting my WIP to dA, yet. :I
To wrap things up, back to my programming progress! It's been...um....Well...I haven't really done much lately!
It's kind of occurred to me that I might actually never be able to program. I sat and thought for a bit, and it's like this...
A looong time ago, I always wanted to make my own pixel art, and animate sprites to make my own graphics! With hard work, dedication and a LOT of time, I'm where I am now! But I needed a story to fit all my graphics into...So I researched great resources like TVTropes, practiced a bit, and now I think of myself as a decent writer. And music...This one evaded me for much time despite being a musical person, but after a few months of work I eventually learned how to churn out a tune or two. In case you haven't listened to any of my stuff, I've got a SoundCloud for that.
But when it comes to programming...it just doesn't feel right to me. When it came to the other mediums I wanted to learn, I just put in hard effort and I learned how to work with them! But learning programming is much different...As you learn and experiment, you don't really see/hear/read any progress. Programming is a long, frustrating process where even a rough product only emerges after a few hours of work. Not to mention, to learn programming, it's not like learning other mediums. You have to practice, practice, practice doing boring things like programming Pong, or Breakout, or a spreadsheet program...It's just...I don't feel like my artistic wings can SOOOOOOOAR! You know what I mean? So...I might want to lay off the programming tutorials for a bit. I'm not really getting anywhere, and they're using up my time quite a bit. One day, if I can learn to cooperate with people and pitch an idea, I might find a nice programmer to do things for me, and I'll handle all the rest. ^.^
Programming
To wrap things up, back to my programming progress! It's been...um....Well...I haven't really done much lately!
It's kind of occurred to me that I might actually never be able to program. I sat and thought for a bit, and it's like this...A looong time ago, I always wanted to make my own pixel art, and animate sprites to make my own graphics! With hard work, dedication and a LOT of time, I'm where I am now! But I needed a story to fit all my graphics into...So I researched great resources like TVTropes, practiced a bit, and now I think of myself as a decent writer. And music...This one evaded me for much time despite being a musical person, but after a few months of work I eventually learned how to churn out a tune or two. In case you haven't listened to any of my stuff, I've got a SoundCloud for that.
But when it comes to programming...it just doesn't feel right to me. When it came to the other mediums I wanted to learn, I just put in hard effort and I learned how to work with them! But learning programming is much different...As you learn and experiment, you don't really see/hear/read any progress. Programming is a long, frustrating process where even a rough product only emerges after a few hours of work. Not to mention, to learn programming, it's not like learning other mediums. You have to practice, practice, practice doing boring things like programming Pong, or Breakout, or a spreadsheet program...It's just...I don't feel like my artistic wings can SOOOOOOOAR! You know what I mean? So...I might want to lay off the programming tutorials for a bit. I'm not really getting anywhere, and they're using up my time quite a bit. One day, if I can learn to cooperate with people and pitch an idea, I might find a nice programmer to do things for me, and I'll handle all the rest. ^.^
Post Drought and Plans
It's a secret to nobody that I haven't been posting very often. I've been drawing every day, but nothing has been submitted to my deviantART account. There are a number of reasons for this. First off, more of my time has been dedicated to programming. I want to work as a programmer so much of my time has been spent learning game development, GUI applications and mobile apps. Obviously, I can't submit any of this to dA. And when I do make art, I rarely have the patience to submit it.
Which brings me to my next point. dA just isn't convenient for submitting art. Everything needs a description and tagging which feels like a chore. Most of my fr
Teachers and Reflections
You know, it's kind of odd. I used to loathe writing these journal entries, and had to kind of force myself to write them as a sort of scrapbook. But later, I kind of started enjoying it! But no matter how much I hate or love writing these, I always seem to output a journal entry about every 20 days. Hmm...Well, lets get to things!
Senior Year
Guess who started their senior year of high school today! Tons of people! Oh, and me. :shifty: But I really don't feel like a senior. I'm still bossed around by seniors a bit and there are kids in way lower grades than I with like a kajillion times more charisma. It really makes you wonder...but I've
Stories and Finishes
Wow...these past few weeks have been wild. Despite the fact that only a week or two has passed since my last journal, a LOT has happened...
Echoes of Eternea
Firstly...some absolutely amazing news, people. I've got a legetimate job now! It doesn't pay fantastic, but it's a very "cushy" home job that lets me just sit at my computer to earn cash. And what might this job be, you ask? I'm now a character spriter for Echoes of Eternea! :squee: Now, before people start harping on me, no. This is not "Tales of Eternia", and I am most certainly spelling that right...with an "ea".
Echoes of Eternea is a modern 16-Bit JRPG revival of SNES series suc
Returns and Programs
San Antonio
To kick off this journal, let's see what I've been doing this past month, hmm? Well, for starters, I took a family trip down to San Antonio! (Southern U.S. for all you non-Americans) And it was great! Headed down there with my bro, sis and pop, and things went just great. On the way down there I mostly just slept and played Pokemon Black 2, but stopped intermittently at 2 or 3 hotels. We got to see wicked-a things like a fancy hotel, the Alamo, the Ripley's Museum (entrance only) and the trip there was overall very memorable. But what made it best was...The San River Walk! My gosh! Probably the highlight of the trip! If you've eve
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Lots of stuff goin' on, eh?
Yeah, don't get into something you don't like to do pretty much. I think I'll never do rigs on 3D modeled characters, because I find it overwhelming so far and I don't find anything that interests me about this... I'll let someone else do the rig (or the scripting), cuz I just can't. Besides, it's best to have a whole team behind you that are good at other things that you aren't.
I know you're a 'I work alone' type of guy, Platino, but a little help from someone else can save ya some troubles if you need it. Don't just underestimate someone else just because you think you know everything or perhaps more than them... they might know other things that you don't... you never know.