Amazing Aaron

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!

I uploaded a very early release of my Game Maker game, ‘Lost Civilization‘. I hope you head over to YoYoGames and give it a try. It still has a lot of work to be done to it, but it is playable. I would love to receive some feedback, and direction on how you think the game should go.

Okay, so I have decided that my show on hacking, modding, fixing, and all around taking things apart, is going to be called HackThat. I have already registered the domain HackThat.tv, where I will be posting all the videos for the show. I have only just started to get the site up and running, so it does not look like much right now. I am also pretty sure that I am going to be uploading the videos to the internet using MetaCafe, because they offer $5.00, for every 1000 views, which I think is pretty good! Especially sense YouTube only gives me…. hmmm…. well nothing. I also have been working on a game for a competition over on YoYoGames.com. In case you do not know about YoYoGames already, its a website where you can upload games that have been created with a program called Game Maker, that well, lets you make games. The completion is for the best casual video game based on an ancient civilization. I only have about 30 days left to complete the game, and I only have just started on it, so I am trying to make a very simple to make game. I will fill you all in on the game later on, when I get a little more of it done.