A new video and Google+!

Howdy!

I went camping over the weekend, just for one night, and I filmed the first day plus video of my family leaving! Here's the product of about 50 minutes of editing:

I Went Camping!

We went to a little private camping spot in Oberon, that some friends own! Overall it was pretty enjoyable.

But anywho, in other news, I'm now on Google+! I've been giving out some invites to some friends, so if anyone wants one, you can go ahead and comment and you might get lucky. I'm enjoying it so far, and I really like the idea of the circles, it gives it a more personalized feel and sharing things with people is a lot better, when you know which circle will appreciate it more (for example: grandma won't enjoy that picture of you making out with a dog while drunk, as much as your drinking buddies might).

That's all for now, sorry for the lack of writing, I'm kind of tired.

Back.

Sorry for that long pause, guys (I don't know who I'm talking to at this point).

I got a little caught up on things to blog about, seeing as my Linux life was boring. Windows is running again and things are back to normal. I've gotten back to work on my Gmod gamemode, and right now I'm just making some basic framework.

Two teams, loadouts, and a few menus. From there, I'll move onto the more complex stuff, like setting up the different classes and maybe an in-game jukebox.

Mmm! Painstakingly slow UI creation!

In other news, my band is progressing nicely. I do believe we should be able to record very soon! That should mean at least a single shall be released. Look out for that, because I am amazing and you know you want to hear my sweet, sweet music.

Until next time, dudes!

Nostalgia... Mm...

So I'm currently playing some Warcraft 3! One of the few games that runs with ease on Linux at the moment, I'm going to try some others later... I'm sticking to some of the classics, because they're more likely to run.

Gooey nostalgia!

I'm going to try and pull an all nighter, without caffeine... Or I'll make some tea, who knows?

Amazingly, I don't mind playing some of these old games, it's really started to remind me of how much games have changed over the years. It's especially reminded me of how many carbon copies there are out there! I think next I'm going to go for something a little newer. The old WH40K maybe? After that, I'm going to try and get Battlefield 2 to run! Tonight should be fun!

EDIT (9:58 PM): So it seems that Battlefield bugs out, because of the graphics. I'm working on finding a fix, should have it working soon, if not I'll find another game.

A quick update on my gamemode:

I've hit a bump in the road, with my Windows partition breaking. I can't test it, and all my friends that own Gmod are lazy/not in the same timezone. Really sucky, but I'll get around it somehow! If anyone would like to help with simple tests, just to see if the UI and such works, please let me know.

I'm still alive!

THANKS FOR NOTHING, JESUS!

The End Is Nigh!

So yeah, I'm waiting until 12:01 AM, in order to survive the end of the world.

Judgement day is apparently at hand, and I intend to greet Jesus (and his sword mouth) with a cold glass of water.

Expect two videos on my channel. One for 12:01 AM and another later in the day, when I'm celebrating either the apocalypse or the other thing... Y'know. The not apocalypse thing...

Bring it on, Jesus!

I'm just now deciding the soundtrack for judgement day; I believe at 10 to 12, I'll play something amazing.

Happy Judgement Day, 2011 guys!

Portal Videos

Earlier in the day, I recorded some Portal, and made two videos. I used the super basic, super vanilla, super regular video editor that comes with Linux; which has basically no editing capabilities.

Here they are!

I'm going to do one for all the challenges; should be dandy, just gotta get my technique down.

That'll be all!

Game Mode! Whaaaaaaaa~t?!

I'm starting work on a Garry's Mod game mode. I'm just tossing some ideas around now! This would be my first project, and so far, it's mostly for practice. I'm going to try and encompass what I've learnt since I've started learning Lua.

I'll be making making Derma for it, and setting those up with their own personal hotkeys; hopefully I can make some SWEPs specific to teams/classes; I've got an idea about abilities that you can use, to help your team; and then I've got an idea about custom maps. It should be fun!
There might even be a few Easter Eggs for you to find in the game mode, so if I ever actually release this to the public, maybe you should check it out.

The basic idea is a team death match, with 4 main classes:

• The main combat oriented class; a warrior/fighter/soldier type of thing.
• The support/combat class, that uses ranged 'magical' powers, if you will.
• The main ranged class, which sits back and picks off enemies.
• And a healing class, to y'know... Heal stuff.

I'll make updates about it until it's done, so stay tuned for those!

Aside from the stuff I'm doing on the PC, I'm starting work on a film. I'm still wondering whether it should be a web series, or feature length, but I'm leaning more towards a web series. The idea is too hard to drag out for an hour and have a final ending, but as a web series I wouldn't have to make a definite ending after an hour or so of footage.

I'm also going to make a new video, because I haven't made a good one in a long while; I'll link that on here when it's done.

That's all for now! Thanks for reading.