Alright, if anything has gone wrong don’t hesitate to email me, I made sure to make a backup before running the plugin! But, if you had no posts but wanted to keep your account, just make another account, and, well, post something this time! heh.

The Great Spam Bot Purge is coming! I have like 6k users on my site, and most of them are bots, blech. Any accounts with no posts will be deleted! If you have an account and haven’t posted anything before, comment here to keep your account safe! I don’t know if it counts subscriptions, so please, all subscribers, leave a comment! Forum posts count, but you can leave a comment if you want to make sure. Yay, spam with a purpose!

Of course, if your account gets deleted and there was nothing attached to it, but you still want an account, you can always make another one later…

Cookies are saved between the two now, so if you’re logged into one, you’ll be logged into the other. Post subscriptions shouldn’t be affected, though (need to overhaul that email though, definitely).

So, if your blog account doesn’t work anymore, use your forum account, if you don’t have a forum account, you’ll have to make a new blog account (sorry).

Anyways, next Progress Report scheduled for this Friday (and hopefully every Friday after that). And no I still don’t know when World 3 is going to be released

Got some really neat new stuff for the next video though

Hey guys, so I’m trying out a new sidebar thingy, something that would allow me to make smaller posts that don’t push down more important posts (like pictures of various pets on my shoulders).

What do you think of the idea? Is the site too thick now? Should I just sell my soul and finally get a twitter to place up here?

First off, there was a bit of progress made on World 3 that I announced earlier. I haven’t really had a chance to work on World 3 much since then, but development on World 3 will begin officially after Fairly and I get back from ComicCon at the end of this month. Hopefully there will be a whole bunch more updates once that starts, as I really want to keep everyone updated on World 3′s progress along the way, get feedback on the progression, and hopefully try to involve everyone out there in the development in some sort of way. Should be fun.

Click below to check out the rest of the post. Got a pic of the Newgrounds Tank Trophy in there!

So lately, in the bit of free time that I have had, I’ve beaten Shadow of the Colossus for the first time (didn’t have a ps2 ‘last gen’), and it’s a pretty amazing game. I really dig the emotion spun throughout the game, while in no way does the game ever have a forced emotional moment (*cough* Gears of War 2 *cough*). I think most games can learn a lot from SotC, and that sense of wonder and utter epic-ness is something I’d love to be able to work into World 3. Not saying I could ever create anything as grand and moving as SotC, but still…

Been making my way through Majora’s Mask also for the first time. Started it before SotC and I think I’m nearing the end. It’s interesting to compare both games, since the two games so phenomenal with such broad similarities, but take almost two completely opposite perspectives from one other. Interesting gameplay studies, to say the least.

Oh, right, the Newgrounds Tank trophy finally came in!

Beautiful, isn’t it? Check this thread for a quick bit of history regarding me and Newgrounds.

Let’s see… Anything else for now? Hmm, Swords and Soldiers on WiiWare is quite awesome, and the Viking’s story in that game is a lot like what I hope I can have in World 3: have a goofy, overarching story with far more cartoony characters this time around that runs through the entire game, not just the beginning.

And to end this post, songs current stuck in my head:

Lake of Silver Bells by Carbon Leaf
Paint the Silence by South
Kingdom of Rust by Doves

Hm, definitely going to have to find some new music to listen to while working on World 3…

(you might have to clear your cache if nothing’s different)

That’s right, 7 updates in 7 days. Compared to my usual ‘whenever’ update schedule, that number is pretty mind boggling. On the last day, I’ll have some cool news and concept art for World 3 to finish the new post flood with.

So to start off the barrage, The Fancy Pants Adventures: World 2 won the indie game category at the Mochi award show! Most of you have probably read about it, but still, I think it’s way awesome, and just had to say it myself.

Sadly, there was some computer trouble, so there’s no video saved from the ‘what makes a game a hit’ panel that I was on

But wait, there’s more!!! Click below to read the reset of the post!

In other news, I’ve been going through DS games pretty quickly lately. I like to sit down and relax with the thing at night, so I tend to burn through handheld games pretty quickly. Just beat Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon, and I’m left wishing I would have picked up the series sooner. I’ve played Advanced Wars since the second one on GBA, but this was the first time I picked up a Fire Emblem title. The game’s a lot like AW, only your units aren’t expendable, if one dies, it’s dead for good. It’s an interesting concept to see in a video game, and I find myself reloading the game whenever I lose someone. I could care less about watching the number of lives I have go down, but there’s something about losing a unique unit that just gets to me, it’s an interesting thing to contemplate, game design-wise. I feel like it’s a much easier game than AW. Since your units aren’t expendable, they tend to be pretty beefy, so you’re usually overpowering the enemy by a good margin. That doesn’t make it an easy game, I just don’t find the tide of battle turning nearly as much as in Advanced Wars, where victory can hang on a thread for a good duration of the match.

Started playing Rhythm Heaven, and again, as a developer, the aural feedback of that game is definitely worth studying. That development team is ace with user interaction, making every single action of the player feel ‘meaty’ (or ‘juicy,’ as TommyLM likes to use to describe Fraser’s Ride’s sound effects) and responsive. I remember that WarioWare: Twisted had me psyched about the Wii, though it seems like very few other developers put nearly as much thought into game feedback, making user interaction once again more about the software than the hardware (surprise surprise).

Ah, yes, one more thing. Anyone every hear of the old SNES game Spanky’s Quest? I rented it a few times from a Major Video by my house when I was young, and bought it for a few bucks when that place was closing. Anyways, I finally beat the thing for the first time a few days ago. No idea why, but I definitely love the game. Maybe it’s because attacking in the game is so strange. You basically toss a little bubble into the air, then either pop it, or bounce it on your head to make it larger. If you pop the bubble when it’s small, it’ll just be a tiny baseball, next size will be a string of soccer balls, then some rotating volleyballs, then finally, a massive line of death bringing basketballs! It’s probably the most unique version of the ‘charge beam’ concept that I’ve ever seen.

The moral of this game: Vegetables are evil!

Anywho, remember to check back again tomorrow for another post!

And Chuck says hi!

Annnd, um Maya says AROWROWROWROWROWR!

I post pictures of my pets on teh interwebs because I can.

Playing the Too Human demo at the moment, haven’t really heard any buzz about it on the Internet (the demo, I mean, the Internet won’t shut up about the actual game).

Wow, it’s awful. Really, really bad. I’ll have to go into it a bit more once I’m back on the computer (that is, if you guys care), but all I keep hearing about is how much better the game gets every time the press sees it again. If that’s true, then the first versions must have been absolutely atrocious…

Maybe I should make a list of all the things wrong with the game and see if any of them get fixed…

While on a ‘taking care of things that I should have done a long time ago’ kick, I updated a lot of the placeholder pages to the right. Game pages now have short little blurbs about them, and links to the game if there wasn’t one before. I still need to post images and stuff like that, but it’s better.

Also, and Fairly’s been bugging me about this one, I went and put some stuff up on the About Me pages, some info, a few pictures, if there’s anything else you guys think should be up there, go ahead and yell at me in the comments.

I’m going to try to get a few new shots up of Fraser’s Ride up, also.