Blood, Guns, Yelling, and Naps
The title pretty much sums up my day. Also, as of writing this, I should really be in bed. However, my adrenaline levels are a little shot through the roof at the moment, due to the intense nature of NeoTokyo scrims - of which we had two.
I'm a little disappointed with the results - the first one we played a little poorly, losing 4-7. Highlights included me blowing up people with cunningly-placed detpacks, and a sneaky nipplebot cap. Neph, Murm, Jez, and Shadow all played quite well, although we were lacking the pants-wettingly-terrifying Saffron, due to him being at work (PRIORITIESWTF!). Shadow definitely improved int he second game - he's jsut started playing with us for NeoTokyo, so he's still getting used to me yelling out things like:
"Two bulletproofglass, one overpass, two basement. ShadowJezMurm push garage, Chris stick with me - detpacking basement," of which I do at a near constant rate. It's prety impressive the difference it makes when we don't have the nipplebot and I fail at issuing orders/info - it's a situation that can qutie well be metaphored with "headless chickens", or something of that nature.
We performed far better in the second game - pulling out to an early 4-1 lead. However, we managed to screw things up in such epic proportions - including two rounds where we failed to kill any of them - that we only just managed to scrape out a 7-6 win. There was also one round where we basically killed ourselves: Murm threw a nade, which bounced off of Shadow's shoulder, and landed at his feet. The result of which can only be described as SPLATCH.
In other news. I'm severely sleep deprived - enough so that I napped at MDS today. I managed to get about an hour undisturbed with my head on my jacket infront of my computer, before people returned from getting food, and Keegan thought it would be great fun to make loud noises with an inflated Subway bag. That is, until the tutor from a class in the room over complained.
I didn't know we could complain, cause although we can be pretty noisy at times, we're not nearly as bad as the GD (Game Development), artists on the other side of us. I'm convinced they spent the majority of their time on youtube. Slackers :P
In otherother news, I'm making good progress on MEGACANO (my sprite-based game). I have my volcano launching rocks around, and I have objects spawning that it can destroy. This means, tomorow = COLLISION DETECTION.
Oh, what fun. So much fun. Ludicrous amounts of fun.
In yet more news, Chris has introduced me to the wonderful sounds of Pendulum. They make for excellent programming music - upbeat enough without being too distracting, lyrics nonsense enough that you don't need to pay attention to them, and the songs have just the right amount of in-chair boogie.
Here's an example: LISTEN. Just in case you have yet to subject yourself to their auditory awesome.
Now, I desperately need to try (and succeed) to go to sleep. I can get almost six hours if I try hard enough!
I'm a little disappointed with the results - the first one we played a little poorly, losing 4-7. Highlights included me blowing up people with cunningly-placed detpacks, and a sneaky nipplebot cap. Neph, Murm, Jez, and Shadow all played quite well, although we were lacking the pants-wettingly-terrifying Saffron, due to him being at work (PRIORITIESWTF!). Shadow definitely improved int he second game - he's jsut started playing with us for NeoTokyo, so he's still getting used to me yelling out things like:
"Two bulletproofglass, one overpass, two basement. ShadowJezMurm push garage, Chris stick with me - detpacking basement," of which I do at a near constant rate. It's prety impressive the difference it makes when we don't have the nipplebot and I fail at issuing orders/info - it's a situation that can qutie well be metaphored with "headless chickens", or something of that nature.
We performed far better in the second game - pulling out to an early 4-1 lead. However, we managed to screw things up in such epic proportions - including two rounds where we failed to kill any of them - that we only just managed to scrape out a 7-6 win. There was also one round where we basically killed ourselves: Murm threw a nade, which bounced off of Shadow's shoulder, and landed at his feet. The result of which can only be described as SPLATCH.
In other news. I'm severely sleep deprived - enough so that I napped at MDS today. I managed to get about an hour undisturbed with my head on my jacket infront of my computer, before people returned from getting food, and Keegan thought it would be great fun to make loud noises with an inflated Subway bag. That is, until the tutor from a class in the room over complained.
I didn't know we could complain, cause although we can be pretty noisy at times, we're not nearly as bad as the GD (Game Development), artists on the other side of us. I'm convinced they spent the majority of their time on youtube. Slackers :P
In otherother news, I'm making good progress on MEGACANO (my sprite-based game). I have my volcano launching rocks around, and I have objects spawning that it can destroy. This means, tomorow = COLLISION DETECTION.
Oh, what fun. So much fun. Ludicrous amounts of fun.
In yet more news, Chris has introduced me to the wonderful sounds of Pendulum. They make for excellent programming music - upbeat enough without being too distracting, lyrics nonsense enough that you don't need to pay attention to them, and the songs have just the right amount of in-chair boogie.
Here's an example: LISTEN. Just in case you have yet to subject yourself to their auditory awesome.
Now, I desperately need to try (and succeed) to go to sleep. I can get almost six hours if I try hard enough!