Yes, I am going to post new years resolutions! Yay! I bet nobody'll read them! And so on and so forth... Actually, will likely to be a "long term todo list" of things I need to do, hopefully this year, maybe not. I suck at approximating time anyway...
Finish DuskWolf
Yep, this year I plan to finally finish off my game engine thing, and have it ready and waiting to create both RPGs and Platformers. Hopefully I will manage it, it can't take THAT long. Although I have a habit of abandoning projects, which is... Annoying... I have not released any real games. Ever... Hmm... I don't know if I mentioned this before, but I MAY make it so that you mortals can upload your games to my site, and we can get a community going! With forums and everything! It'll be wonderful!
At least start my "Single player MMORPG" thing
Yes, I still want to do this, it'll be interesting! It will be possible with DuskWolf, most likely. Uh, read an earlier blog post about it if you like. This will also bring in a community, as well! So hooray for that then!
Make an RPG and/or Platformer
Hmm... I don't think these'll take very long, but I KNOW they will... I almost forgot about these when writing this list... For some reason I don't see these as difficult, even though I know they are... Tsk...
Improve the site
I am not a big fan of how this site looks or acts... And people keep getting lost... (Helpful hint: the left bar thing occasionally has new buttons added to it depending on the page). I think I shall have to rewrite it from scratch. Maybe make it look like the sexy Google and GitHub, with pixelated images. I'm not sure how well that'd mix, but still! Ha! I might even PLAN it, and make MOCKUPS! And maybe even OPEN SOURCE!
Improve spriting skill
Hmm... What does "improve" mean? When well I know I've improved? I just want to be able to draw without it looking horrible... IS THAT TOO MUCH TO ASK!? Any tutorials and suchlike are appreciated. My best option would be to practice, which I lack the motivation to do... I seem to not do anything unless I can do it easily, which is annoying when trying to master a new skill...
Improve composing skill
Uh, same as spriting skill, read that again if you want!
Be more social
As anyone who has listened to my childish whining is aware, I am not the most skilled in social stuff. This year I hope to become more "social" and so on... This actually seems POSSIBLE, surprisingly, which is a surprise... I am going to uni hopefully next year, so hopefully that'll boost it even further. I might even find "love", or whatever people nowadays are looking for.
Be happy
I should "lighten up" or whatever, life isn't all that bad... Maybe... Actually it is quite bad... Hmm... Oh well, that failed.
Don't do this resolution
Ha! Try to complete that!
Anyway, looking back, it is quite a lot of stuff, but it all seems somewhat "do-able"... Or I'm just overestimating myself... Or I'm underestimating myself there. SOMETHING LIKE THAT!
Hello, I am Ross Brunton, and I sometimes go online under the name SavageWolf.
I am a programmer, and I make games. Very slowly. This website shows everything that I have made. There are also community features because, well, why not?
I am a programmer, and I make games. Very slowly. This website shows everything that I have made. There are also community features because, well, why not?
I'm not going to comment on how far apart my updates are now... Hmm...
Uh, as you might have noticed, the site was down for a while about a week or two ago, and the database was erased. So, uh, it wasn't my fault! And such! You will have to recreate a new account (Create a new account? Recreate your account?) and such. Also, if anyone for some reason has the times of the old posts, I would like them back.
Anyway, as you obviously know, what with your psychic powers, I have been working on an engine that lets me create Flash games easily. Actually, it probably doesn't, but I've been making it anyway! Uh, this morning Adobe announced that they were discontinuing Adobe Air on Linux, and I refuse to work using Flex again! How impulsive! I have put up with far too much from it, which I will not complain about now, that'd be boring.
What I DO want to do, is to port it to JavaScript/HTML5, maybe using that Python to JavaScript interpreter for the OOP stuff. So, uh, yay! Unfortunately I don't know any of them, so if anyone has a tutorial or something, it'd be very useful. Also, using those things, it would be fairly easy for me to make it so that users could upload their own creations... Hmm...
Another thing which I just thought up in a fit of thinking, as I often do, is a "periodic table" of silly elements. Sorta like this, only it'd pick random elements from a list, and put them in random places, and such. I'd also let you, the Generic Faceless Masses, upload your own elements, and such.
So uh, yes, I'm alive and such. And I made a post, yay.
Uh, as you might have noticed, the site was down for a while about a week or two ago, and the database was erased. So, uh, it wasn't my fault! And such! You will have to recreate a new account (Create a new account? Recreate your account?) and such. Also, if anyone for some reason has the times of the old posts, I would like them back.
Anyway, as you obviously know, what with your psychic powers, I have been working on an engine that lets me create Flash games easily. Actually, it probably doesn't, but I've been making it anyway! Uh, this morning Adobe announced that they were discontinuing Adobe Air on Linux, and I refuse to work using Flex again! How impulsive! I have put up with far too much from it, which I will not complain about now, that'd be boring.
What I DO want to do, is to port it to JavaScript/HTML5, maybe using that Python to JavaScript interpreter for the OOP stuff. So, uh, yay! Unfortunately I don't know any of them, so if anyone has a tutorial or something, it'd be very useful. Also, using those things, it would be fairly easy for me to make it so that users could upload their own creations... Hmm...
Another thing which I just thought up in a fit of thinking, as I often do, is a "periodic table" of silly elements. Sorta like this, only it'd pick random elements from a list, and put them in random places, and such. I'd also let you, the Generic Faceless Masses, upload your own elements, and such.
So uh, yes, I'm alive and such. And I made a post, yay.
Here is a mandatory link to Descend: LINKITY
My last blog was last year, I should post more often... Maybe once a week or month at least!? Anyway, I should go over what I am wanting to work on in the future! Maybe! Note that these could change at any time, or disappear completely. You have been warned.
Descend
The more observant among you may have noticed that Descend is in public beta, yay. There is also a rating thing below it, PLEASE rate it, I have no idea how popular it is otherwise... Another thing I should mention is it's "open source"-ness, I have no idea whether it should be OSource or not, I shouldn't bother if nobody'll use it (or use it for malicious means...). Hmm... Anyway, the main engine is more or less complete! I am running out of features to add to it! If the game does get popular, I might add some paid content to it. IF it gets popular... Who knows!?
Flash RPG
I want to make a flash RPG next, sort of like MARDEK, only it'll probably use a tactical battle system like Fire Emblem. I also what this game to really engross the player, or something. Like branching storylines! Uh, I also had the idea of an "interrupt" button, where you could interrupt a person to ask for more info, or to recap a story, or just feel like someone is listening to you... Like most Flash RPGs (Of which there are VERY FEW), it'll probably be in multiple chapters... To make this game, I'll have to finish making my universe thing... I may upload an "encyclopedia" of it on the site or something...
Single Player MMO
This is an interesting idea... I like MMORPGs, but prefer to play them alone (I have no friends...). This will be a "Single Player MMO", there will be content updates, new items and such, every week or maybe month, and you will be able to download (or buy) "mission packs", these are like storylines, and contain a list of "missions", which add up to make a story. You could do the missions in any order (So if the world is about to end, you could go and save Mrs Puadem's cat from a tree), and such. I was planning to do this in Java because I though it had a better virtual machine, but AS3.0 is pretty powerful, and has lots of libraries, such as Mochi. So who knows!? Again!?
That Platformer Class Group Thing
As detailed in the that post. I don't want to do this anymore. How predictable.
AS3.0 Tutorials
As I am typing this, I am writing an AS3 tutorial, which tells you how to write AS3.0 in Eclipse. Hooray! Uh, I can't really write anything more about this, can I?
New Domain
I hate the domain name of the site, it's far to long and just TERRIBLE, once I get enough money I may upgrade my hosting and create another domain, and redirect this one to that. Then, the world shall be mine!
So yes, lots of plans. Now you can wait as they all get abandoned...
My last blog was last year, I should post more often... Maybe once a week or month at least!? Anyway, I should go over what I am wanting to work on in the future! Maybe! Note that these could change at any time, or disappear completely. You have been warned.
Descend
The more observant among you may have noticed that Descend is in public beta, yay. There is also a rating thing below it, PLEASE rate it, I have no idea how popular it is otherwise... Another thing I should mention is it's "open source"-ness, I have no idea whether it should be OSource or not, I shouldn't bother if nobody'll use it (or use it for malicious means...). Hmm... Anyway, the main engine is more or less complete! I am running out of features to add to it! If the game does get popular, I might add some paid content to it. IF it gets popular... Who knows!?
Flash RPG
I want to make a flash RPG next, sort of like MARDEK, only it'll probably use a tactical battle system like Fire Emblem. I also what this game to really engross the player, or something. Like branching storylines! Uh, I also had the idea of an "interrupt" button, where you could interrupt a person to ask for more info, or to recap a story, or just feel like someone is listening to you... Like most Flash RPGs (Of which there are VERY FEW), it'll probably be in multiple chapters... To make this game, I'll have to finish making my universe thing... I may upload an "encyclopedia" of it on the site or something...
Single Player MMO
This is an interesting idea... I like MMORPGs, but prefer to play them alone (I have no friends...). This will be a "Single Player MMO", there will be content updates, new items and such, every week or maybe month, and you will be able to download (or buy) "mission packs", these are like storylines, and contain a list of "missions", which add up to make a story. You could do the missions in any order (So if the world is about to end, you could go and save Mrs Puadem's cat from a tree), and such. I was planning to do this in Java because I though it had a better virtual machine, but AS3.0 is pretty powerful, and has lots of libraries, such as Mochi. So who knows!? Again!?
That Platformer Class Group Thing
As detailed in the that post. I don't want to do this anymore. How predictable.
AS3.0 Tutorials
As I am typing this, I am writing an AS3 tutorial, which tells you how to write AS3.0 in Eclipse. Hooray! Uh, I can't really write anything more about this, can I?
New Domain
I hate the domain name of the site, it's far to long and just TERRIBLE, once I get enough money I may upgrade my hosting and create another domain, and redirect this one to that. Then, the world shall be mine!
So yes, lots of plans. Now you can wait as they all get abandoned...