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Friday
20Mar2009

Been busy doing nothing!

I've been wanting to make a video update, but haven't gotten around to it. I've been busy doing other things. I haven't even had time to update my twitter profile much! Also my camera, is not working. I think it needs to be cleaned. I've had it about three years now. Its a mini DV camera, and I have never cleaned it, so I'm in the process of finding a cleaning cartridge for it. I should have it fixed and a video up soon! Its starting to really warm up outside, and look like and FEEL like spring, which has been really nice! The only downside is that the grass is starting to grow, which means I'm going to have to cut it soon! Which is no fun, because we only have a push mower. I got some video earlier this week of a tiny wood pecker, eating out of one of my bird feeders, and a video of my goldfish pigging out after I feed them. I'll put it up on YouTube later for you guys. I wrote a few posts months ago about a project I started, making my own video game. I really haven't made much progress lately, what with all the moving, and everything. Plus the winter weather (which was extra wintered this year) really gets me down, and tired :(. The thing is that I wasn't working on just one game project, I had two going on. One was for GameMaker, an easy to use program, that lets you make fairly sophisticated games to play on your computer, and online in a web browser at YoYoGames.com, and the other was for a game for the Xbox 360 Community Channel. If you haven't heard of, or played any games on the Xbox Live Community Channel. Its a place were indie developers can upload there games, and let other members check them out, and even buy them with Microsoft points, if they like them. I don't know what I'm doing with either project. Both take a lot of time and effort. The Game Maker game is about half done, and the other game, for the Xbox Live Community Channel doesn't even have the first line of code. Its still in the planing stage. Making games for the Community Channel is a lot harder than GameMaker, but still pretty easy. I hope to get both done sometime. I just need to get in the mood to start coding, and editing image files :). I'm sure the spring weather will bring me out of it. If you want you can check out my half finished GamerMaker game at YoYoGames. Tell me if you like the concept or not, and what you think I should be doing different. Just remember that it really is only half done!
Tuesday
25Nov2008

NXE Commuity Games Channel Update.

I got some feedback from the post I wrote earlier about the Xbox 360’s NXE. I wrote that there where only 2 Community Channel Games available, but it turns out that I was looking at the featured list, and not the whole list (oops). It turns out that there are a lot of games already available to download and play. I have been playing a few of them, including one called Being by Jesse Chounard (which is the one who gave me the heads up, Thanks). Being is the only platformer I’ve found so far (and I love platformers), and found it fun to play. So give it a try, along with all the other games available! I’m still playing though them all myself. Below is the trailer for Being. I love the music, and sound effects. <br/><a href="http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?vid=a9e179e9-ed6f-473e-b63d-456c6a77c3b9" mce_href="http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?vid=a9e179e9-ed6f-473e-b63d-456c6a77c3b9" target="_new" title="Being Trailer">Video: Being Trailer</a>