[CJA]

wheres the beef wahahah

[Lachesis]

uh wat is it lol

nice background

[NoahSoft]

cool journal cka:)
well sstop by mine if you get the chance

[CJA]

hyou yube

here's a demo of doors and keys, as well as a sample of how the game will use this thing as a puzzle mechanic!!!!

[Lachesis]

fuck yeah

you'd better finish this game

[nooodl]

Dude, make the clouds animate by shifting the edge characters left and right

EDIT: this but slower:

This post has been edited by nooodl: 17 December 2010 - 03:34 PM

[CJA]

they use the same characters as the status bar. that'd look ugly

progress update: Kom's played it and he noted that the first world is basically repetitive and redundant. But I don't really mind since it's for easing the player into the game, and you only need to beat 4 of the levels to get to the next area.

[Lachesis]

You should use my editor to make levels for this :3

[CJA]

here's a project i started working on last night. i expect this to be the last board i make

[CJA]

(Ever)

[Lachesis]

uh wat is it lol

nice perspective

[KKairos]

Concur with the perspective note.

[CJA]

hey, that WAS the last board i ever made

goodbye forever!

just kiddin' i'm making a game about lasers and the ruins of Helike

expect a release in August 2058

[CJA]

fuk

[Lachesis]

Coll screenshot lol! maybe needs a new font tho

I assume this is a progression thing, you can only select one adjacent to another ability you've already gained. (please don't make the user waste points just to move the cursor back over old abilities)

[CJA]

Lachesis, on 07 June 2012 - 09:09 PM, said:

I assume this is a progression thing, you can only select one adjacent to another ability you've already gained.

correct

also i have 7/9 of the levels done. also yeah i need a new font. steals one of guy's

[CJA]

i'm working on another game. it's called 7

it deals a lot with the number 7

it's also a ripoff retexture clone spiritual sequel to bombin' dude

'cause, you know, bombin' dude was good and i think i didn't do enough with that concept, so, i guess i'm trying to squeeze some more out of that game

This post has been edited by CJA: 20 September 2012 - 07:29 PM

[CJA]

Hi

I'm really ruminating over the idea of making a little inventory game but I can't seem to start because kid, job, job search, random kitten that followed us home, etc. It'd probably be set in the places around my local area (like ZOMGame was, but that game doesn't count and in fact never existed), except with the names censored and butchered of course, because well, otherwise that'd count as a cameo and I probably ought not do that anymore. I'm trying to figure out a way to make this a success before I start. By success I mean finished at all.

Also I'm never going to do this but for some strange reason I have this weird urge and/or fetish to make a game that is a procedurally generated version of my local area. It'd take some rough map data and just roll with it, or maybe even be hard-coded. But it'd be a massive map, and to make that make sense, it'd probably have survival oriented gameplay (which would mean basically it'd have to be set in a post-apocalyptic or pre-civilized time period). Landmarks and things (that are important to me) would be hard-coded as well, so to accomplish that sanely I'd probably have to go the Lancer route and use external utilities (gasp! yikes!) to generate MZMs (screaming! tomatoes!) to use as a base plane.

PS: I am never going to do either of these and this post was entirely pointless

[CJA]

Yeah, uh, I don't know...

I've opened and closed MZX three times today without ever opening the editor. I'm examining my thought process as I do that, and it goes something like "I want to have made this game, but the process of being in the middle of creating it is appalling." In other words, I am willing to conceptualize a game and to release a finished game, but not willing to do anything between, which is ultimately stopping me from doing anything in MZX. I just don't want to work on games anymore. I used to do things entirely backwards. Make a cool engine and draw graphics, then figure out what the game is supposed to be. Now I know what the game is supposed to be and it is entirely impossible to even start the journey to get there. Ugh. Sorry to be so depressing, but I am the guy that calls in to work and tells them I'll be 15 minutes late if I'm actually running two minutes late. I'm just communicating, for what that's worth. Bleh......

Looking at what I'm doing now (as opposed to MZXing a lot), I feel like I'm on the other side of the tracks now, like I enjoy using and consuming more than doing and creating. The best thing is probably to just take it in stride, move on, and see if creating and consuming ever cross paths for long enough for me to make a game. Someday I will I suppose.

Remember when this thread was all about screenshots and now it's just wistful sloth central? for what it's worth I love reading these old threads and looking at MZX history. It's one of my favorite things to do, ever. Selfishly, it has to involve me or it's sort of boring, but I extract an unusual amount of pleasure from reminiscing and looking at old images and documents from a time when I actually worked on stuff because I wanted to work on stuff. I'd pay thousands of bucks to get my hard drive restored (and I will if and when I get thousands of bucks) and I guess I should say thanks, everybody, for making my experience here so great. It'd make a great coffee-table book for me to peer into from time to time, is what I'm basically saying. Boy, this sounds sad, but it's just that my head's stuck in the past and unwilling to do anything in the present community-wise. I can still write long boring posts that don't really say anything, though.

[Graham]

Man, it's hard to see you so down on yourself. For what it's worth, I've been where you are. I've gone through phases where I want to create but my heart just wasn't in it. I've taken years off from doing anything productive and just played.

I don't know if it's just a phase for you, time will tell. But I hope it is just a phase because the games and music you've created are very well done, amazing, prices of artwork.

On a side note, I just wanted to thank you for the music you created for my game. It has helped keep me motivated to finish it, because when I go to play test something and hear that music, it fits so well with the game and makes me feel like I'm playing a finished game! I just want to get it finished and out there so bad so everybody can play it and enjoy those tracks while there roaming through the levels I created.

[asgromo]

CJA you are the finest kind of person and it's actually not your fault or your sloth that you don't have the energy to commit to complex creative projects with the complicated job and life commitments of your twenties.

[CJA]

[Lv. 2] Thread Necromancy

you know a game project is getting serious when cja links the starting board properly

[CJA]

[Lv. 1] Thread Necromancy

goddamn i just gotta share some stuff and doom myself

this is the same game btw. i'm trying to get over my level & plot design slog by introducing a lot of sub games that sort of form a larger variety game.

[CJA]

asgromo, on 25 June 2008 - 02:35 AM, said:

If people thought they were bad with no responsibilities, wait until they're getting home from minimum-wage labor and making friends with 20-year-olds who talk loudly about how they just saw Pulp Fiction and "it was a fucking great movie but fucking weird as hell"

I don't know why, asgromo, but this one thing you said this one time eight years ago is something that my mind constantly brings up at random for no good reason

This post has been edited by CJA: 04 July 2016 - 04:57 AM

[Dr Lancer-X]

Having a really limited amount of time is in one sense good for getting you to actually do stuff and use your time wisely-- but it can also be paralysing in that you want to make your time count as much as possible, so there's less desire to just screw around with things, even though screwing around with things is the main way you progress as a designer.

If Pixel could work on a game in his spare time while working full time, and work on that same game over the span of 5 years, you can too! At least in theory. Managing that in practice is another thing entirely.

[asgromo]

CJA, on 04 July 2016 - 12:53 AM, said:

I don't know why, asgromo, but this one thing you said this one time eight years ago is something that my mind constantly brings up at random for no good reason

that's a super unreadable sentence so i can only chalk it up to having unintentionally programmed a brain worm

[CJA]

here's something from this game

[Dr Lancer-X]

that's a spicy tune

[CJA]

https://soundcloud.c.../after-axis-ost

I've decided to post up an OST listing for the game to keep myself motivated. I made the BGM for one of the towns yesterday and now I'm chock full of ideas for what to do with the game.

[Lachesis]

these are really good music...