Todays achievement was merely whipping up a little menu screen for Zombie Stories Prototype Thingy. I don’t think it came out too badly, so the game has been updated, naturally. Right now clicking Info does nothing, but later on as the game gets more defined I’ll write a page for it.
The title font is Earth Kid, made by some guy.
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Today I’ve updated the Zombie Stories prototype game thingy. Thanks to the genius behind http://uselessprogrammer.blogspot.com.au/, the issue of zombies sticking to solid objects is now gone, and progress can be made as a whole. If you’re into Game Maker I suggest you give his site a look.
The other changes to the game are fairly simple. Now when the game starts it takes you to a primitive menu where you can decide between using the arrow keys to move, or WSAD. Related to that, I made the character look in the direction of the mouse only when shooting the gun. When not shooting, he’ll look the way he’s walking. I got sick of moonwalking about the place just because I didn’t point the mouse in the right place.
If you would be so kind as to give the game a go, I’d be really happy. If you think of something that would be awesome in the game, feel free to comment and mention it. I have plans to eventually add different enemies, maybe some item pickups, and eventually make less bland levels. There’s lots to do.
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Lately, I’ve been playing lots of Realm of the Mad God, a co-op fantasy mmo shooter that has recently seen itself added to the Free To Play list on Steam. It’s fairly addictive. When I get time, I’ll probably write a post thing on it. For now, all I can say is that you really need to get it and play it; it’s amazing (Also free, and only 39MB to download.).
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What in the fuck is the point of that? Thanks Konami, you’ve successfully talked me out of a purchase.
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Draw Something is essentially the Pictionary equivilant to Words With Friends, and it’s damn fun. Above is me demonstrating my mad skills.
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Tonight1 was Joypad –a monthly event involving chiptunes, retro games and alcohol. I played lots of Tetris, listened to music by the genius Xandox (He makes and plays his music on old gaming machines, the is nothing not epic about this man.), and had drinks. Overall, night was awesome.
I am undefeated at Tetris2.
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It’s my birthday in a little over a week, and Pokemon.com have given me –like they do everyone– a Togekiss. I love getting “promotional” pokemon, so it’s neat getting this one as well. Question is what to name him…
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Age of Empires Online has been added to Steam’s ever increasing list of Free to Play games. To celebrate, all the DLC is 66% off. This meant I was able to buy the three civilisations I didn’t already own and the skirmish pack for $17.
A Steam friend of mine has also started playing again, and as such we’ve done a couple of co-op missions together, the screenshot above being from a match we did. Our armies meshed together and created a clusterfuck of destruction for the AI enemies. It was awesome.
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Last week rumours of a massive sale at Dick Smith Electronics appeared, the sort where Nintendo DS games are $1, current generation consoles are $100, and all sorts of random prices for other things (Some big Xbox 360 games were meant to go for $5). Apparently Dick Smiths were clearing out their warehouses and current stock in preparation for whatever they’re going to start doing with their gaming products (Rumours have to do with next generation consoles…).
Needless to say, people were psyched. You had people like myself excited to be able to grab a couple of games cheaply, and then you had others prepared to load up on lots of stock to sell on Ebay.
Image lovingly crafted by a fellow enraged shopper.
My experience.
Being the weirdo I am, I was so excited for this sale that I was fucking dreaming about it. I stayed up all night after finishing work (In fact, I still haven’t gone to bed.) so I could get there early. I get to my local store half an hour before opening, to see there was already a crowd formed of around thirty people. Funnily enough, it was made up primarily of kids skipping school.
Over the half hour, the crowd grew bigger and bigger, until there would have been about fifty or sixty people. It was the nerdy equivalent of a mosh pit.
Ten minutes prior to opening, the customers waiting at the door were saying staff were taking stock off the shelves, probably for themselves. At this point the feeling I was going to come out of this with less than I hoped started to wash over me.
The doors open, and the employee at the door lets in five customers first. Two minutes later, he lets the rest of us rush in. We do. We’re pushing, almost running, to the game section. We get there, and my heart drops. I could count the DS games on my fingers, and they were all shitty ones like crossword games. None of the Xbox games I wanted were there either. To top it off, none of the items had sale prices on them, so no one could tell what was actually on sale and what wasn’t.
When I realized I couldn’t buy anything, I couldn’t get out anyway. The games aisle in my Dick Smiths was barely wide enough for two rows of people, and in this situation it was so cramped I’m surprised I was able to breath. Why couldn’t they put all the gaming stuff on tables in the middle of the store, like EB Games does for every sale?
I ended up walking out with nothing, and talking with people, discovered they were refusing to sell consoles at the sale prices, and so on.
It was a terrible experience, and a really badly put together sale.
Facebook tells a story.
Looks at Dick Smith’s Facebook page, it was clear everyone was getting similar treatment, or worse. The horror stories were amazing, and out shadowed my own.
First stories concerned the online store, which was meant to begin it’s sale at 8am AEST. Apparently despite announcing that time, they started the sale half an hour early, costing many people any chance of getting what they want. This in itself caused lots of rage.
Most stores had staff members taking items for themselves only to leave the worst ones for customers, but apparently one store’s manager bought all the sale items in his store for himself, so he could sell them on Ebay. That to me just screams unprofessional.
To continue the subject of unprofessionalism, many people report staff being exceptionally rude and unhelpful for customers. One customer even claims that when she went to the checkout with the game she wanted, the staff just took it from her and wouldn’t let her buy it. If this is true, fuck everything forever.
Dick Smith are Dicks?
I was never a regular customer at Dick Smith Electronics. I check them out occasionally, but they were never high on my list of favourite places to shop. After this terrible fucking PR disaster of a sale, I can say that even if they offered me a fucking blowjob with my next purchase, I’m not shopping there. I know many people feel the same way now.
Whether or not the company and staff were allowed to act like this or not is irrelevant. Just because you can act like a bunch of fuckwads, doesn’t always mean you should.
Their Facebook page, which is full of rage, is here for your viewing displeasure…age?
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My waifu.
I finished Mass Effect yesterday as the default John Shepard, playing as a paragon that couldn’t get laid. I’ve been told that I need to play the game multiple times, as both male and female Shepard and going down the paragon and renegade path for both. For my second play through I’ve decided to go with a female Shepard, and the renegade path. I wanted a reason for her to be a complete bitch to everyone, so I made her…less than attractive. The end result is above, and it scares me a little.
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