Samuka97's Blog

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2010-12-26T15:08:00.000-02:00

This blog is now oficially outdated, as is my old site. My new blog is www.samuka97.com/blog and my new site is www.samuka97.com.

Minor Update: Looking for a new host...

2010-12-17T12:11:00.003-02:00

Ugh.

Well, since I don't have anything to do today, I've tried updating my website a little bit. But I can't do jack sh*t on that site without having to open up my FTP client and edit files directly onto my site. I have been trying to make a cool blog built in my site, but it's kinda hard considering I can't change anything in the PHP properties of my site. I don't have access to write things via a PHP page, so what's the point of working on a mini-blog?

I was also thinking about making a page to keep track of my Let's Plays. You know, have a little area that you can hide/un-hide for all my LPs, etc etc. However, I don't wanna log onto my host's site everyday to update my page. I'd like to be able to just enter on my secret PHP page on my site, log in there and post a new video. No messing with PHP files or anything. But guess what? I can't configure anything on my site. It's very bare-basic hosting. And I mean very.

I thought I could maybe add a donation button on my site and start selling my good games for about $5 or something, but I only have 213 subscribers total, and normally out of 100 people that visit your site, only 1 buys it; and that only if your game is really good. I don't know exactly what I'll do. I want to have a site where people can download all my games, Mario hacks, see my videos, read my blog without having to go to a free hosting site, an outside blog like this and all, but I can't pay actual web hosting when barely 3 people are gonna visit me daily.

It would be cool if you guys could tell me: if I had a donation button or I was selling a platformer game for $5 or something, would you buy it? There's a comment section in the blog, and it should be pretty easy to figure out :P
*hint hint look below*

Minor Update: Microphone Staticnanigans

2010-12-14T22:38:00.002-02:00

Yay!

For some reason, since the the second episode of Every Level Morton, my microphone has been doing this REALLY loud static noise and cancelling out my voice, so I couldn't record for those days, which explains the absence of new videos. However, today, I was bored waiting for things to load in my computer so I used my microphone wire to entertain... well, my hands, I guess; when I somehow fixed the static magically! Not sure how I did it, but I did it anyways.

The second good news that most of the people that are subbed to my Let's Play channel (SamukaLPs) is that since my microphone is now working, I've set up an recording session with CamTheMan3245 for tomorrow.

:)

Minor Update: Let's Plays

2010-12-08T12:51:00.002-02:00

By the title, you should probably already know this is just gonna talk about my second channel. Pretty much!

So it has been some time since I've recorded Minecraft with CamTheMan3245, so I have been recording Every Level Morton & Amnesia. I've finished recording Every Level Morton, so the finale is going to be uploaded tomorrow. Tasty Static... well, I canceled that. I had an 30 minute video on me trying to beat one level, so I just gave up and decided it was too boring. Amnesia... well, I tried recording but I recorded with the wrong settings (I guess...) and the audio doesn't show up in Sony Vegas or Camtasia Studio 7. So I was gonna re-record that, but my microphone is acting weird. LOTS of static noise. I mean LOTS like *PZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ* and you can barely hear me. Whenever I get that to work, I'll record Amnesia.

But come to think of it, my camera records audio too, so I guess if the audio is good enough I can use that! But oh well, we'll see. Also check out this picture a fan sent me:

Minor Update: Let's Plays & Boat Trip

2010-12-04T17:43:00.003-02:00

Hey guys, another minor update. I think it'll take me a while to make another major update with everything that I'm working on, but whatever.

I wanted to talk about my and CamTheMan's Minecraft let's play. Pretty much, it has been going quite well, excluding that crash that made my hard-drive go bye-bye. We've recorded up to part 9 already because tomorrow I'm going on a trip with my family. On a boat. Don't know why that is so important but it is xD

We'll spend the whole day out, so I already uploaded another Minecraft part, however it's unlisted, I'll only mark it as listed once I'm back home. Also I wanted to talk about my next Let's Plays. I'm planning on doing Amnesia: The Dark Descent. And as a small twist on that one, I'm gonna have a picture-in-picture there. It'll be showing my face and the game, so you guys can see the wacky faces I make while playing horror games. I'm doing that mostly for the fact that other than my Let's Plays, I'll barely use the new HD camera that I got as an (early) christmas present.

That's pretty much it, so I'll see you guys later!

Minor Update: Computer Shenanigans

2010-12-01T18:51:00.002-02:00

Blah. My computer has been acting weird in those last 3 days, and yesterday my hard drive gave up on me. Fortunately or unfortunately, the HD that "died" was the one with all my videos + misc stuff in, so I still have all my installers & bought stuff with me.

The thing is I lost some quite precious things. The first one was the source code for Bullet Fusion. Either I'll re-make it or just continue my "journey" to write it in C++, since my C++ source code is saved in My Documents. The second thing is that I lost 3 Minecraft episodes. And those were really good, too. Also since Cam doesn't record audio (I record our parts and send my audio to him), he wont be able to get his episodes up too.

I'm thinking about this. If I plug my faulty HD in, it shows up in the BIOS but not in Windows. I'm going to format my PC as soon as I find my Windows 7 disk. But first, I'll try to make the faulty HD my boot drive and use the Windows 7 disk to try and recover some data. If I manage to, that's great, but if I don't... ouch.

Update: Tests are almost over, Special LP planned

2010-11-25T23:00:00.002-02:00

Hey guys. Has been some time since I've done a blog post, I keep neglecting this blog for some reason! Well, there are 2 major things I'll talk about in this blog post.

The first one is the end of my tests. Tomorrow (which is friday, I'm writing this at night), I'll have my last 2 tests. After those, I'm free of school for this year. One of those tests is Science, which I have a bunch of stuff to study, It's gonna be a pretty hard test. And the other one... well, I can't really translate the name into English but just think of it as "Philosophy". Yeah, it's that lame.

The other thing is my new Let's Play series coming up. It's gonna be a Minecraft one. Before you get all "myeeehhhh another boring minecraft lp?/!11", let me tell you the twist: I'm gonna be playing with my friend CamTheMan3245 on a private server only for us 2. No mods, no item spawning, just pure Minecraft with... well, a second player! I'll try to keep it as different as possible, so it wont get boring after 2 videos and I'll try to add some interactivity into it by asking you guys what we should do next on the comments & etc.

The second part of the twist is that both me and Cam are gonna record and post our perspectives on our own channels ( even though I'm gonna edit both :| ), so you can watch Cam's video then watch mine and then see we crafting our items, building, doing our things and even maybe seeing the planning of some pranks... >:D

We will start recording this Saturday morning my time, about 7pm Cam's time. I think I'll be able to get it up Saturday night my time, but I don't know. Maybe I'll only be able to get it up on Sunday. All I can say is, we're both ridiculously excited. And I've already got my pranks planned too!

See you guys!

Minor Update: Life + Bullet Fusion

2010-11-22T09:58:00.003-02:00

Phew. Finally, the last tests of the year. Starting today with Algebra and Geometry. Wish me good luck, I guess! As I've mentioned in my Bowser Rampages video that I'm not even sure if I uploaded or not, I wont be able to record any videos or anything during my tests. Yeah yeah, all that stuff I say 8 times per year.

Also second, it took me long enough, but I finally got multiple bullets working on the C++ version of Bullet Fusion! Look:

I am a happy dickens now.

News about pretty much... everything.

2010-11-15T22:03:00.002-02:00

Hey guys, sorry for the lack of blog posts... I, again, have been busy with a lot of stuff that I'll try to talk about in this post to get them out of the way. So... I guess I should start!

First off, my top priority: school. The huge work is finally done, I had to do the same presentation 14 times in total. But now I have to worry about my tests, which are coming up next week. My notes on the gigantic work wasn't the best, and the tests coming are the last of the year, meaning they're harder. And besides that, the stuff we need to study wasn't even explained yet in class, so I need to do a lot of effort to get good grades. Oh boy.

The second thing is... romhacking. I'm giving much more priority to Mario's Mystical Egg Search now, since I can come up with levels much quicker because well, it's not Kaizo. So far, I've got world 1 done already. I'm just gonna finish off world 2 and probably release a demo for the public. After that, I'll need to make a page for it on my site, so that's gonna be fun. As for Kaizo Land, I'm giving it less priority. Everytime I feel "inspired" I do bits and pieces of levels here and there, but now I only have 2 levels in world 4 to finish off. After Kaizo Land is done, I have an idea for another hack: a gimmigcky one, Japanese style. I'll talk more about that later.

For my third topic I have my actual programmed games. The C++ version of Bullet Fusion is, for now atleast, on "hold". I have decided to try something easier as my first C++ game. And I came up with... pong! Yeah, pong. So far, collisions and basic graphics are pretty much done. After finishing the more "advanced" part of the physics and graphics, I'll move on to making the menu, maybe a credits screeny and I'll put it up on my site. I don't know when this is gonna be finished, because I only work on this when I'm really bored, don't have anything else to work on and have the time to do it. As for the actual Bullet Fusion made in Game Maker, well, the engine's basics are pretty much done. I'm looking for people to compose music to me, TRC is re-doing his graphics and that's pretty much it. Once TRC is finished with the graphics and I find someone to make me the music, I'm gonna start making the levels. The only major thing is that I think I'm gonna cancel out online multiplayer. The way everything is being handled is just a major mess and can be super easily hacked. I'm just gonna leave the game 1-player as it is, it's fine. Nothing too much to say about that now...

For the fourth topic... my videos. I had the plan to putting them up 1 a day, but that's getting ridiculously hard to do with school, programming and stuff getting in the way. I normally spend 30-1h in a recording, so I need to find actual time for me to sit there and record, I can't just record 15 minutes, pause and then come back later. I'm going to try and have a bunch of Bowser Rampages Again stuff recorded so when I have my tests, I can upload them one day yes and one day no, so I can balance out my stuff and you guys still have something to watch to. The second thing about my videos is that, since my last login (I think a week ago or so), I already got 7 subscribers out of nowhere. I hope this continues like this, too! Seeing people are liking my videos and subscribing really shows that at least there's someone watching.

If you guys don't know, I do LPs mostly because, in Brazil, we don't exactly "learn" English at the school. They teach the very very basic stuff like "car", "walking" and stuff like that, but my level is English is way beyond that. There's hardly any kids of my age that know English like I do. But the problem is, my English is only good in text. I suck at pronunciation and stuff, so I started making videos to try and get better. And from what I see, comparing my very old videos to my newer ones, I'm getting much better like this. I post my videos to YouTube just because... well, my videos are there, done, but I can at least use them for something, so I put them in YouTube. People watch, subscribe, push the like button, favorite my videos and that really keeps me going with this. Even though I get very few views and have barely only 45 subscribers, the fact that I'm learning to speak English in such a fun way and the fact that I know this will help me alot in the future really keeps me going, along with you guys.

So yeah, I guess that's it for this wall-of-text-update. I'll see you guys next time, I guess! I'll try not to have a 1-month delay on updating my stuff again. xD

Learning C++ and Broken Website.

2010-10-25T12:17:00.002-02:00

So I have been learning some C++ for the past days, starting from my last blog post. Really, it's turning out to be much less scarier than it looked before, but I still have a lot of problems with it. I'm currently searching for a programming forum that can help me out with my problems, but so far I've found none. I'm actually trying to make a simpler version of Bullet Fusion in C++, using the SFML graphics, audio & networking library. I have the ship working, it twists around a little bit when you move it just like in the original and I've added a little... "slide" to the movement of the ship, to make the game feel smoother.

I'm currently trying to implement some kind of object system using arrays, but I'm failing pretty badly because I declare a bunch of stuff inside the main function, and when I try to use variables initialized in there inside, for example, another function such as bullet_update, it doesn't work. My compiler just shouts that the variable used was not initialized etc etc etc. So I'm stuck trying to make my object system work. The other thing is a level loading system, that I plan on making like a little "programming language". The problem has come already: I can't put togheder a string + variable + string to load the file, so I can't do like:
"./gamedata/levels/level_" + level_number + "_properties.dat", which already causes me trouble. I'm looking for a solution for both, because when I'm done with those I can pretty much start creating the menu and a few test levels. Then it's onwards to implementing sound.
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As for my site... well, it's broken. I have been working on a sub-page for Kaizo Land which is looking great at the moment, but suddenly my FTP client can't connect to my account anymore and when I try to acess my site it ends up going to Box.net! Weird, is the least I can say. I really need to move to actual paid web-hosting, I can't possibly stand this stuff. Oh well, unless I start selling my games for like $5, it's not gonna happen.

Sorry for not updating my blog so frequently as I did, I have been sick and been going through quite a lot on my school too. I have a freaking gigantinormous school project for next month, and I need to memorize 2 pages of text, then I also have to make a video for a competition, but for the video I need to buy a few things such as green-screen and etc, my tests are also close, I got a lot of homework, I have been sick so I missed a bunch of homework last week, I have to go to the doctor now every week and the list just doesn't stop. So yeah, there's my reason to not being able to update so often.

I'll see you guys next time I guess, since I have to go to school now. Bye!

Wall of Text: The Encyclopedia about Bullet Fusion's current status.

2010-10-17T10:20:00.002-02:00

No, I'm not dead. I just have been having a lot of tests and being extremely busy with school in general. To make up for it, here's another 2 or 3 walls of text. In this blog post, I'll be talking mostly about Bullet Fusion.

Menu: I've re-done the menus (again) and they look a whole lot better than before. They're not the best, but they sure are easier to use and nicer to look at. There's a little "Bullet Fusion" logo in the top, but it's just a placeholder until I make an actual one for the game. The main menus works for now, but I still need to make a level-select thingy. I'll do that later.

Online Play: I was trying to add 4-player online-play, since 2 just seemed a little... too little? Well, I've screwed up big time, so I gotta set up a whole new system to send new variables before the game starts and everything, have ship selecting for each player, show their names above their ships in-game, and etc. Removing all the fancy stuff and leaving just 4 ships looking the same, it runs normally. This is where lag might get to be an issue, but for now I can't really tell. If it does become an issue, I already have some ideas that I can implement to reduce the lag and make sure everybody is playing the same "thing".

Graphics: TRC, the artist for the game, told me he could handle making both the ships and backgrounds. So far, he only did the player sprite (which looks horrible against my bad background), but I'm sure that when he makes new backgrounds for the game they'll look a whole lot better. The graphics for the menu and etc I'll do myself, Photoshop's always my friend anyways! As for other thing I changed: the explosions and sparks previously were only animated GIFs. I now changed them to use a particle system, resulting in less embeded files in the game, smaller file-size and just made them look better overall. Again, they don't look good at all against my background, but they look just fine against a black one.

Well so that's pretty much it for the current status of Bullet Fusion! If you want to keep up with the news about Mario's Mystical Egg Search, click here. If you want to see how Kaizo Land is going, click here.

Wall of Text: The Book about Bullet Fusion's Online Play Mode

2010-10-03T16:36:00.002-03:00

So I spent a whole day working on it, and finally I managed to get the online multiplayer working for Bullet Fusion. I was quite surprised because of how well it worked out. I tried with TRC, the artist making graphics for the game and CamTheMan, the guy who I'm teaming up with to make Kaizo Land. Worked perfectly for us both. I was also working on the menus for the game, but it looks like crap so I'll re-do it later. However, I there's a little problem. I'm having tests for the whole week. I wont be able to record, and I'll barely be able to work on my game. I'll see what I can do, but I'll have to study anyways.

About Kaizo Land? Well, I've finished re-vamping the whole first world. Every level now looks a little nicer and if originally was shorter than 0A (10) screens is now a little longer. I guess it just makes the game better to look at, but whatever. I haven't finished any new levels, since I'm barely working on it. I'm concentrating more on Bullet Fusion than anything.

So that's pretty much the update. It's not a wall of text, but it's enough.

Wall of Text: The Book about Bullet Fusion's deveopment process

2010-09-30T22:25:00.003-03:00

So let's have a talk about Bullet Fusion, my danmaku shooter, can we? We can? Great! I'll grab my stuff! *shot*

Well, so today I was talking to TRC (the guy who's gonna draw the sprites for the game) and he showed me what he had made for the player spaceship sprite. Boy it looked amazing! And he told me he wasn't even done yet. I showed him the video of the game in a very early stage and he said he was glad to be making gfx for it. Thanks TRC, I'm glad too xD

I also had an idea. Online multiplayer. I'm not talking about playing with 64 noobs at the same time, I'm talking about a more "relaxed" kind of multiplayer. You know, the good ol' method of sending your IP to 1 or 2 friends and playing while having a call on Skype. TRC told me he thought it was a great idea and he'd play with me if I ever implement that. And come to think of it, that would be a great feature! You know, playing against a computer might be fun. But playing against/with your friends can be even better! However, there was a *tiny* problem...

A server sending information about 500 bullets at the same time could be... you know... laggy as hell in a bucket. However, there is also a very simple solution to that. client-side calculations. The only problem would be if the level your playing is ANY different from the other player's, it would be a total fail. But I think it's still a simple fix: just make sure both files are EXACTLY the same before starting the game, when the other player connects! I'm not too sure how this will work out, since I didn't do anything about online multiplayer yet, but it wont hurt to try I guess. And besides, if it works, who knows! Maybe somebody can do a co-op Let's Play of it in YouTube!

I think for the communications between games will be pretty simple: send the your player's X and Y positions, then the other side moves you and does a little "smoothing" in the movement. Then all left would be shooting and dying. Shooting happens automatically, want you or not. Dying would be pretty simple: when you die (already implemented in the engine right now), the player object is deleted and a copy of it that already is programmed spawns. That copy turns the sprite darker, falls down slowly, spawns a explosion generator and turns around a little bit. There, problem solved!

I was also thinking if this turned out to be a commercial-quality game. If it ever does (which I believe is quite hard), I'd probably sell it for a max of $5. Because well, come on, you can get Touhou for free online, do you think somebody would pay for a cheap ripoff? Actually, I don't quite think of it as a rip-off. That's like saying oranges and apples are the same. Sure, they may be circular and eat-able, but that doesn't mean it's the same thing. And besides, I think the online multiplayer feature would really put the replay value up there.

About the team for the game, all that I need now is 1 or 2 composers, since I'm not very good with music. Well, some of my music does come out decent, but I don't think any of it would fit in the game. I still got no responses, but I do hope I get at least one. Music is a big part of the game, since I'd kinda like to do like a sync between the music and the gameplay. The music also sets you in the mood, gives that extra tension to the game.

Also... remember when I mentioned maybe I would make a level editor for the game? The news is that I probably wont need one to make my levels, since I feel pretty comfortable writing everything to a TXT and just testing it out, but I think after I'm "done" with the levels and the game itself, I might make one just so people can make new levels and, again, rise the replay value. I still have my plans of putting up downloadable bonus levels on my site, even if I don't make a level editor dangit! I don't want this game to be one of these that you play for the first time for a few minutes and say "bye bye" to it, I want it to be a game you can play over and over again without it getting repetitive or boring.

I would probably write more to this wall of text, but it's close to midnight and I really gotta go to sleep. I'll try to do some very basic online multiplayer code tomorrow, and we'll see how it goes, but for now, I guess I'll see you guys later!

Failing to write in time =P

2010-09-27T21:01:00.002-03:00

Couldn't upload a video, work on my game/hacks or put up a blog post yesterday because of all the homework I had to do. Well, now that I finished recording and editing I can write something for da bloggything. Also I wont be talking about my videos in this post kthxbai

About my romhacks: Today I took my time to revamp some levels on Kaizo Land. I decided to go back, add some fake HDMA, decorate them a little more, make them look nicer, and extend some levels. I did that for about 1/3 of World 1, but I should be doing that for most levels in the game that I feel aren't "showing my current skills". Y'know man, gotta show that skill! CamThePerson has been working on KQ2 only, but he said KQ2 is over 50% done. He should be finished soon enough so we can start focusing on Kaizo Land again. While CamTheMan doesn't finish KQ2, I'll be revamping a lot of levels. When he's done, I'll focus more on making new levels. Haven't done anything to Mario's Mystical Egg Search (previously A Nice Hack) though.

About my game: Remember when I said the patterns in my danmaku shooter weren't "complex" enough for my likings? Well, I re-wrote the engine again. Now, all the enemies patterns and everything is done in a little file which is different for every level. I also "complexified" the bullets too. I added an alpha mask to it, added some more glow in the base image and I made it like an actual touhou bullet instead of a coloured circle. Have an image:

I also talked to a friend of mine which is very good with drawing sprites and stuff. He told me he will help me with the game by making some spaceship sprites. That's good, now I just need someone to compose some music for me and I basically have the "team" ready. Maybe someone to help me with the code, but I doubt I'll need help on that =). So basically, I'll get the first level + boss ready, put up a video on YouTube and ask for some help with the music in a few forums. Oh, and also I tried coming up with a name for the game with a few friends. What do you guys think about "Bullet Fusion"? =P

Shooter Game: Planned stuff

2010-09-24T11:04:00.002-03:00

This blog post is gonna talk about my videos and my shooter game in the works, so if you want to know something about the romhacks this is not the post. Just sayin'!

So I have been thinking and I've realized that my shooter game is very basic. I write the levels in pure code inside notepad, the ships only move with a variable that tells them their X and Y speeds and... there's not that much... you know... "complex" attacks going on. I want to change this. This is probably gonna take like 3 days of work to get a very basic thing working, but working like this, writing the levels straight into notepad and not having a lot of flexibility is gonna result in levels that are the exact same thing, except for the placement and timing of the enemies. This lead me into thinking about making a level editor, and so I will. As I said, it's gonna take a while, but look at it, maybe, when I finish it, I can put the level editor up and you guys are gonna be able to make your own levels! Wouldn't that be cool? I think so. And since people would be making levels, I thought, why not make little extra levels for the game?

So that's what I have to say about the shooter game. tl;dr: I'm gonna make a level editor and add some complexity to the game, and maybe, I'll release the level editor later.

About my videos... well... if you read my other blog posts, you already know what's going on. The only update I'll give you guys is that there was a trip planned for this Saturday, so I kept wandering around school so I could get a place and go in the trip, but all the buses were full, etc, etc, then they got an extra bus, then that one got full in a day and blah blah blah. I don't care about the trip anymore, but other than that there's the super mega overwhelming amounts of homework I have. As of now, I have (total) 21 pages of homework, a painting I need to do and a 2-page-long text about a book we've read at school. I couldn't keep up with my videos this way, since the time I normally used to recording videos I was working on my games or doing some stupid homework. However, yesterday, I rushed some of the homework I could do and took 2 hours of my time to record with a friend of mine. We've played "Every Level Morton", sequel to "Every Level Iggy". And we still haven't beaten it yet! I'm uploading part 1 and rendering part 2 as of now. I hope to get 1 video up per day, and then I think I'll have time to record again, but I still have to edit part 3, 4 and 5... and record even more! But oh well.

So that's it for this huge wall of text guys. See you next time.

Everything Update

2010-09-20T21:32:00.002-03:00

About my shooter game: I added a new multi-layer scrolling background system, and it works great. The only downside is that the "technic" that I was using ended up not working with the background system because, for example, a yellow bullet against the blue water = completely different color bullet. So I just facepalmed there and thought: "why don't I just add the glow to the base image?!" and so I did. The result? it's not as amazing as the other glow, but hey, it works and is much... "easier" on the computer.

About my Mario hacks: I have been working on Mario's Mystical Egg Search (previously A Nice Hack) today. Made a new level, finished the World 2 map and a halfway through making World 1. Haven't worked on Kaizo Land for quite a while, CamTheNoob is not making levels at all because he's busy with Kevino's Quest 2, and I'm not making levels because I'm busy with M.M.E.S. I'll wait until CamTheMan is done with KQ2 then I'll start dividing my focus between Kaizo Land and M.M.E.S. Even though M.M.E.S is gonna be 8 worlds long and Kaizo Land's gonna be 6, I think I'll end up finishing M.M.E.S first because making Kaizo levels takes SO much longer you have no idea. But we'll see.

About my videos: I didn't upload today. I'm ridiculously busy with school. I never thought I would be busy to the point of not even being able to record, but I have been. I'm sorry, but I'll try to record more so I have some backup content to upload whenever I can't record.

Shooting Updates!

2010-09-17T08:53:00.002-03:00

I was too tired yesterday to put up a blog post, so here, have a one-day-late blog post.

So yeah, I was adding some more stuff to my shooter game. I put up a video of it on my main channel, but that's an "older version". On the past 2 hours I have been updating the graphics, and so far I made the bullets actually glow and have a little trace behind them. The trace is not perfect, but I don't know how I can make it actually be where the bullet was without creating fake bullets. But hey, it still looks a whole lot better than before. Want some proof? Well here, have a comparation:

Shooter Game Update!

2010-09-13T20:12:00.002-03:00

I have been working super-mega-ultra-non-stop on my shooter game. I completely re-wrote the game, made it more efficient and implemented a very basic level system. I'm just in the need of a few spaceship sprites for the enemies, and I think I can make a full level. My plans are that after I make the first level, I'll tweak the graphics so they look nifty-er, add a menu system and configuration system so you can disable the fancy effects in case you have a low-power PC or something and then I'll start working on the second level. After that, I don't know what I'll do, since that plan is pretty far away already =P

Haven't done anything big to my site though. Still can't put my stupid blog in it because the permission controls are offline and I haven't added anything new. Just changed the name of my newest hack that is still not released, but nothing else. I'll start working on the blog already, even if the stupid automated-posting-page doesn't work, because if the permission panel starts working again, I can just change my settings and boom my blog's ready. But for now, we'll have to live with this one.

Updatething

2010-09-10T12:07:00.003-03:00

So I have been working on a new game that I still haven't showed anything about. It is basically a space-shooter, with a twist: normally there is about 500 bullets on screen at the same time, and it's pretty intense.

I haven't released any screenshots or anything, and I'm not going to until I have some very basic level 1 or something done. For now, most of the sprites are placeholders and there isn't even a LEVEL done. I have been working on some math with the bullets, effects and etc. I'll start working on a scrolling-level-system and boss-system when I come back home from school. After I get A working level + boss I'll start recruiting some help for graphics, music, etc. But for now, that's it.

I haven't done anything to my website today, I feel it's O.K the way it is right now. I was planning on adding a page system to the mini-blog there so I didn't need this blog, but I don't think that would work out too well. Maybe I can make another PHP page and use that as my blog, so I don't need to use Google's services. And also because, well, having your blog in a totally different host with a totally different skin than your site doesn't feel too "professional", in my mind at least.

However, that would require me learning some extra PHP, which is not a bad thing, but might take a little while. Meh, whatever! I'll try to do my best. I was also thinking about paying for actual hosting hosting, not some free hosting on the web, so I could have my site be "www.samuka97.com". That would be pretty neat, and even though I have enough money to do that, I better leave my site as is until I start selling my games for $1,99 or something!

[b]Edit:[/b] I just finished writing a mini-blog system. I can make posts, and they'll go to a PHP file which can be embedded in my website, HOWEVER, apparently, I don't have PHP Writing permissions activated, then I tried to do so, but apparently, the Control Panel for my host is "offline until further notice". That's what I get for using cheap free web-hosting. Wait, if it's free, then it can't be cheap... er... oh well.

Thanks for reading this update, and feel free to check out my site!

www.samphp.uuuq.com

Total Website Revamp!

2010-09-07T11:28:00.003-03:00

Hey guys. I have been working non-stop for 2 hours, and I am now finnaly done with my new website. Since the last one sucked so hard, I was like "myeh, this is the first impression I'm gonna leave with this site? a pecie of crap like this?", so I decided to completely re-make it.

Now it's "completely" finished, using some PHP for the first time so it's WAY easier for me to edit it. It even has a embedded "Website News" section, what more can you ask for?! Go visit it!

wow forgetting to blogpost

2010-09-04T22:15:00.002-03:00

Well, so I finnaly have time to record again and managed to fix the problem with my second channel. Apparently, Camtasia corrupted the file I was trying to upload while it was rendering, kinda weird...

Well basically, expect videos at my second channel again!
www.youtube.com/SamukaLPs

Oh noo, tests!

2010-08-29T17:42:00.002-03:00

Well so tomorrow my tests start. Starting monday and ending friday, I have my tests at school and I take a lot of time to study for them.

I don't know if I will be able to record videos, but I have a few here in my computer I still have to upload, so at least half of the week will have something in my second channel.

Stuff!

2010-08-24T10:31:00.002-03:00

So Nightmare House 2 was released. And I am already doing a Let's Play of it, go check it out in my second channel! I had to re-record a few Mega Bomberman parts, so I got 2 new guests with me: MetalBenderJem (known as The Bear) and Sharky2107 in my lastest Mega Bomberman video.

I hope I can keep changing the guests and stuff just to make it... different. Every other Mega Bomberman part is done, all I have to do is edit them and put them up, but I'll do that slowly. I'll try to get 1 Nightmare House 2 video and 1 Mega Bomberman video up per day, if I can handle it.

Uhh... yes, my romhacks. I was working on a new romhack just a few minutes ago, since I can't come up with anything for Kaizo Land for whatever reason. The other romhack I'm making is a nice romhack, easy, playable without save-states and all that jazz. I didn't do anything other than the first level in that one, and I still am working on Kaizo Land.

Well, that's all I really have to say for now, so see you guys next time!

Ooopsdate!

2010-08-21T12:15:00.003-03:00

Kay in this update I'll be talking about my videos and romhacks.

Videos: I've finished recording all the Mega Bomberman Parts, however I still have to edit some. The problem is part 6, for whatever reason, corrupted itself. Every other part is fine, just part 6 corrupted itself. I'm not very sure why or how that happened, but I should be re-recording it later. I already put the 2 videos up for today, HOWEVER, my next project will be something special. I'll be doing a ASM-filled Mario hack and a horror game.

Which horror game, you ask? Well my friend, Nightmare House 2. That "game" is actually a modification for Half-Life 2: Episode 2 and has been in development for 3 years and something now, and according to 2 developers, they're so ridiculously close to releasing it they might release it tomorrow.

Also, why a horror game? Well, since I played the first Nightmare House, I was awaiting a sequel because the first one was so good. Also, I am easily scared by anything, so it's probably gonna be hilarious to see me scream like a little girl and run away from everything in the game.

Romhacks: I am still working on Kaizo Land, I am close to finishing world 4, I haven't worked on it for about 2 or 3 days, I couldn't come up with anything creative to put in my levels. CamTheNoob's back to making me levels since he's being more active now. kthx that's it bye

Another update

2010-08-17T18:27:00.002-03:00

It's time for another blog post, yay! Okay, starting off with my LPs: The next 2 LPs I'm gonna be doing are gonna be Mega Bomberman with BanjoKazooie13 and Nightmare House 2. NH2 is still to be released, but according to the author it is ridiculously close to being released. He stated it is already done, he's only waiting for the beta-testers to finish their job and then he'll release it. Mega Bomberman... well, all I can really say about that one is that I'm gonna try to record it still today in about... 2 hours.

Kay romhack talking thing about time now things. I have been working on World 4 of Kaizo Land, CamTheMan just made me a level today and I am working on another one. More 3 levels and we're done with World 4 and can move on to World 5. Again, it's not dead or anything, it's still making progress.

I really don't have anything else interesting to talk about, so I guess that's it.

I am not dead thank you very much.

2010-08-13T11:17:00.002-03:00

Hey you guys, it's me again... yes, I didn't post anything for like forever. My vacation was over and I started doing videos daily, so I kinda didn't care about my blog.

About my videos: I made a second channel just for my Let's Plays. In that channel, I try to upload daily. You can check it out here, watch my videos, subscribe, etc.

About my SMW hacks: Yes, I have been working on Kaizo Land. CamTheMan still doing no levels, but I am already working on world 4. Progress is being made, just a few levels remaining in world 4 so I can start working on world 5. However, I think world 6 is gonna take a while. Even though it's only 1 level, it's a hell of a long level.

About my games: Nothing so far. Haven't been working on them. I'll wait until I finish Kaizo Land and then Search for the 4 Switches to work on something that is not a Mario hack.

So that's pretty much it guys. See you next time I guess...

LBP, Late Blog Post?

2010-06-29T10:44:00.002-03:00

Well, I didn't post stuff in my blog for a while. Gah, just screw the explanation and let's move on to the news.

[b]Romhacking stuff.[/b] I've been working a lot on Kaizo Land. I've got the puzzle for the last castle done, I am finishing the second world's castle, and CamTheMan is already working on the first level of world three. All I can really say is, it's making progress.

[b]Things and stuffs about my actual GAMES:[/b] I am not working on any games right now, the golf game from like 100 years ago was cancelled, the platformer is on it's place there doing nothing, the rest I haven't bothered working on. I'll probably start making a new semi-abstract game after I finish Kaizo Land (well that's not really too soon), I am just making things one at time.

Well, that's pretty much it for this update.

Things and stuffs.

2010-06-22T21:14:00.002-03:00

Okay, time for another blog post. Alrighty, let's start with the stuff about my life. Well, the finals are over, most of my notes are above 90 (out of 100) except that... something apparently went wrong with the school's system. 2 of my results are wrong for some reason, even though I'm 100% sure they're not supposed to be like that. I mean, do the math. (100 + 90 + 100) / 3 OBVIOUSLY does not result 50. I'll take a look at that in my school next week.

Now, the romhacking stuff. I've been working on Kaizo Land, finished off another level since the last blog post and I am really close to finishing another one. My co-op buddy, CamTheMan3245 isn't doing anything at all, he didn't log in forever, I don't know what's going on with him, but I can make most of the levels myself right now until I run out of creativity. Search for the 4 Switches, as stated on my site, is still on hold UNTIL I finish Kaizo Land.

And last (and probably least too), my videos. I was too worried about my finals, had to study a whole lot and didn't get time to record anything at all. The latest video I uploaded is a Lunar Magic tutorial, done in about 10 minutes or so, but now that my finals are over, if the stupid school fixes up whatever they messed up any soon, I can start recording my videos again.

Woosh, big wall of text ends here. See you guys next time.

I'm still "working"!

2010-06-19T14:20:00.002-03:00

Well, it has been some time since I've done anything to my SMW hacks or any projects at all, so today I decided to work some more on Kaizo Land (my very hard SMW hack): I'm close to finishing more two levels in the second world. After these two, I'll make the world 2 castle and I'll be ready to start working on World 3! Finally some progress, hey?

I got some people already waiting for the hack, but I don't know if I'll release like a demo or just make them wait until the full version. CamTheMan3245 (the guy that teamed up with me so we can make the hack) is pretty inactive, the last level he made was like a month or so ago, I don't think he's gonna get a new level out soon.

That's it for today's update, so see you guys in 3 days again.

Busy-ness.

2010-06-16T15:49:00.002-03:00

Yeah, got final exams now. Today I had the three first, gonna have them for the rest of this week and 2 days of the next week.

Since they're pretty much the tests that decide if I still have to go to school or not, I'll take more of my time to study for them, so there probably will be no work on my projects at all in this time.

Site up & updated.

2010-06-09T18:19:00.001-03:00

Yeah, my main site is up again, and while it was down I've made a few modifications. Now when you go to the Super Mario World hacks page, each hack now has it's own mini-page with 4 screenshots, a description, current status and it's download.

Downtime

2010-06-09T08:51:00.001-03:00

Yeah, my main website has been down for some time. Keep in mind it's not my fault it's down, neither is it because I want it to be. It's because of my hosting service, but then again, it's free and besides, the site should be back up soon.

blah

2010-05-24T20:13:00.002-03:00

I haven't really worked on any of my games, kinda lost inspiration. However, in the mean time, I made this video: Will it Blend: Blender inside Blender. If you don't get this, you better watch another Will it Blend video. Here's one, if you want.

end

2010-05-21T19:17:00.002-03:00

After a week, the tests are over. Maybe now I'll get back to doing... actual things? I was trying to make a map for Half-Life 2, but Source SDK doesn't seem to work. Well, you asked for it stupid Source SDK and Valve breaking you!

English and Geography

2010-05-20T21:43:00.001-03:00

Yeah, both English and Geography tests today. English, pff, I'm 100% sure I got max score. Geography, I think kinda. Not too sure, maybe 95/100?

Site Polish

2010-05-20T10:27:00.001-03:00

Well, I got some free time in my hands so I added a new section to the "Downloads" page in my site, called "Work In Progress". There I list the games (not romhacks) that I am working on, give a few screens and talk about the current progress.

If you want, go check it out: Link to the WIPs page

Also sorry for not making a blog post yesterday, I had to go to a party, then study and then I was just too tired to come close to my computer.

Grammar and Text Production

2010-05-18T20:33:00.002-03:00

Okay, today I had both Grammar and Text Production tests. I studied about 3 hours for the grammar test and... nothing about the text one.

Grammar was WAY easier than I expected, and on top of that I studied 50% of things that didn't even make it to the test, yay! yay? Well, text production... I have nothing to say about that one. I made up some story about a guy walking into the wrong shop and getting himself in the weirdest situation ever, the teacher should like it :P

That's about it for today folks, so see you later. Oh! And just in case, I did another video of me playing a horror map on Half-Life 2:

HL2 Map: Torment [Part 1]
HL2 Map: Torment [Part 2]

Math and Geometry

2010-05-17T16:53:00.000-03:00

So today I took the math and geometry tests, both were - compared to what I was thinking it would be - very easy, I didn't even study for geometry.

Honestly I think I got 10/10 on both (A+, 100% whatever you want to call it)

Tests

2010-05-16T19:11:00.000-03:00

Well, tomorrow and for the rest of the week I'll have tests. First one is gonna be math, so basically I wont be able to work on my projects or anything. I'll probably make blog posts about how the tests went but I don't know.

Just updating you guys.

Kaizo Land: Update

2010-05-13T20:47:00.003-03:00

Alright. So I am working on ANOTHER Kaizo romhack. So far I've almost finished doing the main world (which is also the first), and I done a few submaps. Heres the submaps:

As for the platform game, nothing yet. I didn't even open it up in the past 2 days. Oh! Other than that, I "spiced up" my SMW hacks page (on my main site), now the pictures are bigger, non-blurry and you have information on the current status of each of my hacks! I also deleted Total Kaizo from there, since it was very old and does NOT show at all my hacking skills.

Filler Poll

2010-05-11T21:59:00.001-03:00

Poll: How often should I post in this blog?

· Daily · Every 2 Days · Every 3 Days · Every 4 Days · Why do you even bother posting? · (Results)

Platform Game: New story-telling system

2010-05-10T20:30:00.003-03:00

For the past days I've.. well, played lots and lots of SMW hacks and worked on this:

I've successfully programmed a "story teller" which is also very easy to change the text, image and what comes next. Well, that's one step forward in the game, isn't it?

New "Sam Plays" videos

2010-05-08T19:30:00.002-03:00

Hey there guys, since I haven't worked too hard on my adventure game since the last post, I thought I'd record another Mario game playtrough. This one is called "Special Forces" and was submitted for the Kaizo contest in SMWCentral. Took me about 19 minutes to beat it, I edited some parts out (like the part where my sister comes in >_>) and I had to split the video, so here is part 1:

Link to part 1
Link to part 2

nothing new

2010-05-05T20:35:00.001-03:00

Yeah, I have been working on my hard Super Mario World game, but other than that I have absolutely nothing to say. I haven't worked on the arcade-like platformer since the last video I put up in my YouTube channel, I'm just gonna finish my hard Mario game, then I'll work on the platform game.

Yes, I am working on it.

2010-05-03T17:59:00.003-03:00

So it has been 3 days since my last blog post, and I feel now I have something to show so let's write this small-wall-of-text-thingy.

I have been working on both my Super Mario game and my platform game. Recently, I added a HP system, made a death sequence, scripted some very basic enemies and I also drew, pixel by pixel, a new and small tileset for me to use in the game's beta stages.

They say a picture is worth a thousand words, right? Then how much a video is worth? I'm uploading a video for YouTube right now, should edit this post when it finishes uploading (will take a while since I'm also uploading another Sam Plays video).

oh man it's like raocow them talkstyle day

2010-04-30T18:34:00.002-03:00

Hey there guys, just quick blog post: I am working on the plateformer game you saw in my YouTube video, just yesterday I added a health system, and today I plan on scripting basic enemies and death by falling into a hole, so no, it's not dead.

KTHXBAI now I have to go eat.

Pagefix

2010-04-28T19:58:00.002-03:00

Hey there guys, since I don't have anything else to talk about, I thought I'd just let this out: I fixed my website, so now text wont stick out on smaller resolutions, plus I have some great looking buttons now! I love them. I also fixed the border on the images, sorry about that, it's because I use Opera so they wont show up.

Welp, I guess that's it for now folks, so see you later.

Nothing new :(

2010-04-26T09:28:00.001-03:00

Well, I know I kinda broke my "rule" to post in every 2 day or so, but I really haven't been doing anything interesting so far. All I did in the weekend was make a simple platformer game:

Also, I've noticed my site is having problems with different resolutions (text sticking out) and some images I forgot to remove the border, making it look very ugly. I'll be working on that for now, I guess. So see you later guys!

Ah, peace.

2010-04-22T20:59:00.003-03:00

Finnaly. A week full of tests, then a week full of homework, then another one full of work for physics, computing, geometry... now - well - tomorrow, I wont have to go to school - the professors will be in some kind of reunion, I really don't care - and then there's the weekend. Some peace now.

As for computer-related things: My mini-golf game is... well, I haven't done anything to it at all since the last blog post because my level editor just keeps crashing for no reason and I can't figure out what it is. It's like.. I make my level, export it... I make another one, and then when I'm making it BOOM IT CLOSES!! And it's not like I get a Windows error or anything, it just abruptly closes and that's it. While I can still make levels with that, It's kinda of... well, you know. Uncomfortable knowing your level might just be lost in a few seconds.

But I guess I'll have some time tomorrow + on the weekend to do at least one thing to it.

Poor's Pool #2

2010-04-21T16:46:00.000-03:00

Do you like the new site? Vote below!

Ready to go?

2010-04-20T11:34:00.002-03:00

I just finished re-making my site. Looks very cool because it's so simple and clean, and now even my downloads are divided by category! Go check it out: link

Poor's poll.

2010-04-18T11:46:00.001-03:00

Welp! Hey there guys. I kinda want to ask something to you guys... do you think I should re-design My main site? I think it's looking kinda... meh now. It's also very hard for me to add more content, so it's just a matter of you guys wanting or not so...

Friday + Weekend = Probably no blog

2010-04-15T20:10:00.002-03:00

Well guys, I don't think I'll be able to do anything - and that means ANYTHING - on this weekend + friday... because I wont be home.

*quick post because I'm typing with 1 hand*

Game Update #I can't count anymore

2010-04-15T10:20:00.002-03:00

So as for the Mini-Golf game, I still haven't came up with a name yet. The thing for now is that I am re-programming the whole game, I have already finished the menu where you can select winch map you can play, It's pretty cool!

Now I have to program a level editor for the game, not the hardest part of the programming, but it's not the easiest either. I think around after tomorrow I'll have a basic level editor working, can't expect it to be all super-duper cool since I will barely have time to program it, but whatever. I hope it at least will work and do what it needs to do for now.

Welp, that's it for now folks, see you later.

Tests Over

2010-04-12T16:03:00.002-03:00

Yeah so my tests are finnaly over. So for the other news: I got the new Camtasia 7, it works very nicely with Windows 7. The best thing is I can record both game sound and my mic now!

As for the mini-golf game, It's on hold because I'm working on my Super Mario World Hack, Search for the 4 Switches.

Well... I don't know, what else can I say? Oh yeah, my site yesterday got 22 visits, In only 12 days I got 100 visits. Kinda surprising, since I used to only get like 1-2 visits per day.

Game Update #5 + Mario Game

2010-04-10T17:39:00.002-03:00

About the Mini-Golf game: I decided to go with another form of levels. I modeled the pieces in Google Sketchup and then programmed a simple level editor, now I can make levels easier and so can anyone else who's gonna work with me on this game.

Mario Game: I don't know if you guys know this already, but I am a semi-famous Super Mario World hacker in YouTube. I am in the process of making another Mario hack (edited version of super mario world). If you want to check the progress: link

Game Update #4

2010-04-05T20:17:00.003-03:00

So I'm here with another quick update on the golf game - I got 2 tests tomorrow so let's just get this thing done with.

Long story short: Shutting down and opening again the 3d render window two times resulted in crash, reason is unknown. Not even Houdini (creator of GMOgre3D) knows what is wrong and doesn't have time to look into it now so I'm re-making the game completely.

Now I have to make everything in the game "stuck" together, but whatever. So far I'm working on the hole selection menu. The menu works as of now very simply, there are 2 arrows (one in each side) and a big picture in the middle which shows what hole you will play.

You can click the left arrow to go one hole back, the right one to go one hole forward and you can click in the big picture to play the hole (winch isn't programmed yet so don't worry). Now that I am almost finished with the holes menu (just gotta add some sprites on the screen), I have to do the main menu next!

Game Update (and 101th blog post!)

2010-04-02T10:37:00.000-03:00

So as for my mini-golf game... the menu was a total disaster so I worked on a new one. Came along kinda nicely if you ask me. You can see a picture of the stage your going to play, the name of it, and to the left and to the right other stages you will be able to play later.

Game update

2010-03-31T19:33:00.003-03:00

Well. So while I'm not doing anything else (other than playing Burnout Paradise and Penumbra), I guess I'll make a blog post.

So far for the mini-golf game:

-I fixed the glitched up force meter
-You can "hit" the ball harder
-Now you can complete a hole and another one unlocks in the menu

and a few other things I forgot about. I had another idea while making the game and I kinda thinked about abandoning it, but nah. I'll just make a decent play-able demo and then I'll start working on my second idea. Here's it:

In the game, you control a little ball, and you have to maneuver through obstacles, push boxes, "touch" switches and stuff in order to proceed in the game. I didn't start it yet - However, the idea seems kinda solid and very easy to program. I think for this one I'll have to make a decent level editor for it and just use pre-built pieces, not a big deal tho - since I already got my "beta" level editor. (lol it's barely use-able)

So that's it for this update guys. See you next time.

...and possible progress.

2010-03-27T19:11:00.002-03:00

So I talked to my friend FrozenArmageddon and he said he would help me make maps for my mini-golf game. That's cool and all, but whatever. That's not the thing I want to say.

For now, I've got a VERY basic menu working, all you can do is click "Play" and then select the first hole, which then brings you to.. the first hole? Yeah whatever. I just haven't been able to make a "trigger" that fires up when your ball is inside the hole, but I'll do that later.

About the sound effects and music, I think I'm gonna leave those for last, when I get a decent engine running (that is an actual game), then I'll concentrate on getting another DLL to play some music in the background and sound effects.

But now see ya guys, I have a party to go to!

Possible new game?

2010-03-25T10:05:00.002-03:00

So while I was bored, I made a game that let me throw a little ball around an 3d world. Then I got Google Sketchup and modeled a mini-golf course. Then I found a golf ball texture, worked a little more on it... and now I plan in making an actual mini-golf game.

So far the progress is only a level that you can throw the ball around, but I'm still working on this so...

2 for the price of 4

2010-03-20T10:07:00.001-03:00

Uh. So while I was trying to fix my computer, dad figured out the problem was not ONLY the button, but also the socket it was plugged into was fudged up.

Eh, but the only other socket in my room is WAY to the other side and... I have no extenders or whatever they're called this long here, so I guess it's a few days more using this PC.

oh, so...

2010-03-19T19:07:00.001-03:00

So I'm back home, and apparently the problem with my computer is something that for me, would fall under the category "silly problem".

According to the guy who came here while I was in school, the problem with my computer is that the on/off button isn't working "properly". He says the button turns on the PC and doesn't "stick" to the place it's supposed to, making the computer shut off.

So while dad is having his horrible-humour section, I don't think it will be fixed exactly in this week.

So that's it for now guys, so see you later.

school project + horror game upd.

2010-03-19T11:51:00.004-03:00

So my Geometry teacher asked us to make a game using math, I think it's kinda of a sucky idea, but whatever.

So I think I finally found a use for my programming skills in school. I'm making a program that let me design boards for my game, then I can draw some cards or something and there I have 2 extra points in my test.
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Now for the game, I am "moving" back to using Ogre3D as the rendering engine. Why? Apparently, BSP files are not as efficient with today's GPUs. And also Irrlicht also has some... misses. Whinch I can't list right now because I have to go to school in about 5 minutes.

Well that's it for now, so see ya later guys.

New engine? (horror game)

2010-03-15T20:01:00.002-03:00

So after taking a closer look at the ups and downs, I've decided to "move" to another game engine for... now, I think I can say. For this very early devlopment stage, atleast. I also think it's a good idea to think as the final product being freeware, since it's only like my 4th serious game. And this is the first 3d one I make, so I'll take a look later. If it's good enough, I'll think about making it paid, else I'll leave it freeware.

But yeah, I think for now I'll stick with the Irrlicht 3D rendering-and-game engine. Honestly, it can load BSPs (less trouble for me making maps), it's cross-platform (Windows, Linux and Mac-OS) and other little details that got me interessed in it. The biggest "down" I have so far with the Irrlicht engine is that... You program "for it" in C++, and I have no experience in C++ whatsoever. I guess it's gonna be a fun learning curve, huh? I can only imagine the trouble I'll be going through. But it's gonna be fun, I bet. Especially for my first contact with C++, hahaha.

...not!

2010-03-15T18:56:00.003-03:00

Okay apparently my PC is doing the same thing as before. Shuts down, doesn't want to boot up. Explanation on how exactly it is from my post on Facepunch:

"Whenever I tried to turn on my computer, the little green light in it's front flashes for a quarter of a second and turns off again, then if I try a second time it does nothing at all. The fan doesn't spin, I don't hear any beeps [etc, the usual]."

Still today, little do I know about this problem. Any help would be appreciated: http://www.facepunch.com/showthread.php?p=20681439#post20681439

working

2010-03-14T20:57:00.002-03:00

Ok I got my computer working again, hope I can post progress on thingy majiggers here again now. Just thought I'd let ya know.

What?

2010-03-11T11:05:00.002-03:00

This is getting ridiculous. First, my computer keeps shutting down because of the bad electricity here. Second, the internet keeps going off and I have to wait about 30mins for it to come back. Now, my computer wont turn on. I don't know exactly why, bu this is why I can't post so often in my blog anymore.

Just to give you an idea, I'm writing this from my phone right now.

And I am also having tests in the school... So that's why I am inactive. Sorry guys, see you later.

If you want more information on how exactly my computer is behaving: http://www.facepunch.com/showthread.php?p=20681439#post20681439

Video out

2010-03-08T11:21:00.000-03:00

The video I prommised is finnaly on my YouTube channel, so feel free to go visit it.
linky

new video soon

2010-03-04T11:06:00.001-03:00

So I was playing with my friend (FrozenArmageddon), and I had left Fraps open so... I started to record every single minute of we playing (the end file was huge but whatever), so I took the video in Sony Vegas and started editing it. The end result, you ask? A hilarious 3 minute video.

When It's going to be in youtube? As soon as Vegas finishes rendering + YouTube uploads it, duh!
I'll make another post when it's on YouTube.

I'm sick

2010-03-02T10:27:00.000-03:00

I think I got a cold but I really don't know what caused it, however mom still forces me to go to school even in the state I am right now :\

Well, I had nothing else to post so I thought I'd post this.

Upload finished

2010-02-28T10:07:00.001-03:00

Click here to listen to my new song.

waht

2010-02-28T10:00:00.000-03:00

Well, so I was having some fun with my level editor that I had programmed some new stuff in it and I got bored and decided to make a song. Surprisingly, it turned out to be pretty decent. I'll post a link for the song once YouTube finishes uploading.

Fixed.. Or is it?

2010-02-25T12:37:00.001-03:00

Well, since Camtasia is still bugging me, I decided to find another recording program, and after that I found out that Snes9x had a built-in recording system that was very nice! Good FPS, great quality...

Well, I guess I can start making my TAS videos again, I'll look onto this new screen recorder later.

See you guys, going to school now.

About my rom-hack

2010-02-24T11:14:00.002-03:00

So I just thought I'd let you guys know I'm working into another Super Mario World rom-hack!

I allready submitted a 1-world demo to SMWCentral, but I don't know if they will accept it. However, I am allready working on the second world, almost finished. I probably will then finish the third world and post another demo in SMWCentral, but that's for later.

See you guys.

Boring

2010-02-24T09:13:00.001-03:00

It has been 4 days I don't do anything in the blog. And that's because:
-I am still waiting for Houdini to release a new version of GMOgre3D
-Camtasia still de-syncs all the videos I record
-I don't have time to do things like make a series of me playing a hard game or something
-I have a LOT of homework every single day T_T

But I just came up with an idea for my level editor that doesn't require a GUI system, so >:D

Yeah, nothing yet...

2010-02-20T21:27:00.002-02:00

Honestly, Camtasia isn't doing anything now. I don't know what I did to make that de-sync other than changing the recording FPS from 30 to 60. I changed it back but guess what: It still de-syncs horribly! Yay!

But other than that, I just finished making another Mario hack, this one got submitted into SMWCentral and I sent it to the youtube user Goron50 so he can make a video of it.

The level editor, still, is on hold. For the same reason as before. But whatever - The whole thing is "in hold". For now I'm just trying to find a few textures so I can use in my game and I'm also trying to make... music for it. But I have to say I am horrible at making music, but still, it wastes my time with something I like to do so - eh.

See you guys later.

last news b4 school

2010-02-18T12:41:00.002-02:00

Well, I've added a few couple more features to my material editor, but nothing too big. I tried using a Windows API dll but man, that slows down alot. And it's also very complicated T_T

Right now I'm just... browsing the internet, I have nothing better to do other than wait for the time to go to school. I don't even remember if there was homework, but whatever. Thankfully, after tomorrow it'll be saturday allready. By then I hope I have allready fixed Camtasia's de-sync so I can make new videos, but while I can't, I maybe will TAS It's Just Mario and record later.

Well, I'm going to eat now. See you after school guys.

:(

2010-02-18T10:05:00.001-02:00

Bla. School started again and I didn't:
-Fix Camtasia's AMAZING desync
-Work on my level editor
-Work on my horror game

But what can I do about it? Nothing. I'll start re-working on my material & particle editor to see if I can do them better. I'll post some news when I come back from school.

Explanation

2010-02-16T12:34:00.000-02:00

Sorry for the fact I'm not uploading videos. I don't know what the hell I did, but I managed to make Camtasia COMPLETELY screw up the videos after they are recorded. I'll look onto that problem, and after that I'll hopefully be ready to make new videos again.

But for now, no videos for you guys, sorry.

o geeez

2010-02-14T21:56:00.000-02:00

Well, since Houdini is taking way longer than I expected him to... I'm going to work on my level editor again but keeping all the GUI items the same, unless I really need to update them.

Okay, the video is up

2010-02-13T15:12:00.001-02:00

There we go. Here is the TAS I promised

Sony Vegas screwed up a "little" bit. Hahaha, get it? little bit, because it rendered too much... Nevermind.

double-post

2010-02-13T13:48:00.001-02:00

So I just finished TASing, recording, editing and rendering a new TAS video for It's Just Mario. However, since YouTube's sever is slow as a turtle, it's still uploading. I'll edit this post with the link for the video when it's done tho.

Well, that, if I remember about it. xD

I just got Opera

2010-02-13T11:38:00.000-02:00

Yeah, so I saw this thing about the new Opera web-browser that it was the fastest in the earth and bla bla bla. So I downloaded it, installed and all that good stuff and realised my site had a *slight* problem on the Games page, but now after a few minutes of tweaking it I managed to fix it.
And I have to admit, Opera is pretty darn fast and it looks very nice. The only thing I have to say bad about it are 2 things:

-When you take a sneak-peek at a window in Windows 7, Opera does not show YouTube videos
-I cannot make blog posts with Opera O_o. As strange as it is, Opera gives me an 404 error when I click to make a new post.

Well, now let's talk about my level editor.
For now, it's still on hold. I mean, I made shadows work and export it whatever but since Houdini is working in a GUI system, I'm not saying no to that! If I continued to make my level editor right now, I'd have to re-write the things I wrote since Houdini is coming out with this new system. So basically, I'm waiting for Houdini to release a new version of GMOgre3D and then I'll continue the level editor.

See you later guys!

whheeee

2010-02-11T18:44:00.000-02:00

Hey guys. Let's just skip all that fancy introduction and jump right into the news, even though if you think about it this is a fancy int.. nevermind.

So basically, after tomorrow there isn't going to be school for 3 extra days. Maybe in these days I continue making my It's just Mario TAS, but I really don't know.

I would use that free time to program my level editor, but I have to wait for Houdini to give me the *secret* version of GMOgre3D so I can continue doing my level editor. Why I choose to do that? To make it WAY more user friendly.

progress

2010-02-10T13:40:00.001-02:00

Just another post before school.

You can watch the progress of my level editor here: clicky

v0.12

2010-02-10T08:23:00.000-02:00

So far, my level editor is going pretty well. I allready made a few icons in Photoshop and imported them in. Now you can move, scale, rotate, delete and create objects!

Now I have to let the user create spheres, cylinders, cones, lights...

kay

2010-02-09T22:20:00.000-02:00

So apparently, the sprite wans't showing up because there was a glitch in GMOgre3D :P
But thanks to my good friend Houdini, I got it working now.

Allright I'm starting

2010-02-09T21:42:00.000-02:00

Ok, I finished my homework, now I'm restarting the project trying to make it more user-friendly this time.

However, I am stuck in the process of making the move, rotate and scale buttons. They don't show up at all, but I allready made a help topic in the GMOgre3D forums. Hopefully someone will awnser me and I'll be able to make the Graphical User Interface.

But for now, I'll continue programming other things in the level editor.

aw crap

2010-02-09T20:14:00.000-02:00

So... I corruped the source code for my level editor. That's amazing.

Oh well... Now that I've learned a few things from it and how user un-friendly it was, I guess my option will be to start over, trying to do everything that I did wrong last time right this now.

But I'm not going to start now, Ima going to watch MoltovMarioWorld (Kevin) play some more Vip4! He just put a new video up a few hours ago!

If you want to watch it, go ahead:

school ;(

2010-02-09T11:04:00.000-02:00

God dang it

The weekend passes by too fast. Let's list the things I did: homework, going to medic, finishing homework, going shopping with mom, watch raocow.

That's it. And today I allready have school again :<
But atleast next week I'll have 2 extra days to stay home :D

As for my horror game, the level editor works, I think I'll make a few tweaks to it later.

TAS video uploaded

2010-02-09T11:03:00.000-02:00

Watch video in YouTube.

it's rendering

2010-02-08T20:41:00.000-02:00

Ok, I just finished doing the TAS, mounted it all on Sony Vegas, now it's rendering in HD by accident ;\

yay, 22%...

al'rite then.

2010-02-08T19:52:00.000-02:00

Hey guys!

Nice to "see" you guys again. I'm back from school, just finished my homework. Going to do a Tool-Assisted Speedrun of another Super Mario World hack and then I'll post the link here.

Cya.

blublublu

2010-02-07T22:05:00.000-02:00

Yeah... Let's talk about new things, shall we? Because that's the point of using a blog. Atleast I think so.

Well so I have been working in a level editor for my horror game, and so far I can make simple levels, but it doesn't export anything yet. That's because I didn't program it so far, I'll program after I "spice" it up with more features.
So far you can make little blocks, scale them, rotate them, delete them, texture them and spawn simple lights. I have to do a bunch of tweaking and put way more items, but that's for later. I'm not really trying to finish it like uber-fast-hurry-mega-omega because OgreNewt isn't going to be updated really soon, I know it. So better just make things calm, than hurry up and have to wait without doing anything.

But that's all I have to say for now. School re-starts tomorrow, I'll have another sh*tload of homework, I'll be very busy so don't expect me to make YouTube videos everyday and post huge walls of text for my blog, altho I will still post here, don't worry.

This has been Samuka97 and see you guys later!

Cat Mario 3 Makes it into YouTube!

2010-02-07T15:29:00.000-02:00

So apparently a YouTuber under the name "icymangoes" found my Cat Mario 3 game! I have no idea how he did that, considering I am the least popular person in the whole internets. But just to prove you, I will embed the video here. Feel free to click it and watch the actual thing, leave comments, ratings and such.

oh look I have more news

2010-02-05T12:52:00.001-02:00

I am barely having time to use the computer now (relatively to the time I had before) because of school, so if I don't update my site / blog or whatever for a while, don't worry, I didn't die or anything like that (even tho' I highly doubt you care)

Also GMOgre3D opened a forum! And I was the second guy to join it!

omg

2010-02-04T18:39:00.000-02:00

So I was returning from school with mom (we go on foot) and while we were passing a street one car hit other one on the street that got pushed on our direction and we just didn't get hit by the car for like 1.5cm, I could even feel the little air being pushed O_O

The only reaction I had was

oh man

2010-02-03T13:15:00.000-02:00

Sorry for no post earlier, my internet wasn't working at all :\
But now that it's working, I might aswell post it before I go to school.

I still have nobody joining me in my 3d horror game team... If you can do 3d models please contact me at samuel97@gmail.com

I'll be very gratefull if you can do so! [/obviousjoke]
But while I wont get nobody, see ya after school guys. I'll be watching raocow for a while too

See ya later!

hello

2010-02-02T20:21:00.001-02:00

hi there im back from school but i have no time to make decent blog post i have 48 math questions to solve bye