Well… I’m bored.
I don’t know why.
I have so much to do.
So many things to enjoy.
But I’m bored.
Posts published during September, 2008
The WAR servers are down giving me some much needed time for personal projects.
This is a lamp post… without it’s textures or it’s light sadly enough. But hey, progress!
Some of you may have noticed the addition of the mascot (probably NSFW) in the last couple of days. Between it and some scale issues I’ve noticed some problems in terms of readability and ease of use. Today I expanded the image, exacerbating the problem, so I decided to make a few modifications.
- Colors have been adjusted to retain readability even when overlapping the mascots.
- Fonts have changed.
- Sidebar now scales.
Hopefully this will also be helpful for people attempting to view from iPhone as the title is now the only part that doesn’t scale.
The colors look fine for me, but I know monitors differ drastically. I’d appreciate any feedback you would care to give on the color scheme.
While I’m dealing with site stuff…
For the month of Aug 6-Sep 5, I’d like to thank these sites for directing some traffic my way.
GAX Online – Where this blog was initially established.
Stylish Corpse – Ysharros writes about MMOs and other things…
Dragon Chasers – Pete.
The Ancient Gaming Noob – Wilhelm was actually one of the first blog authors to actually drum me up some hits. I greatly appreciate that.
Anyways, just thought I’d drag them all into the limelight, as it were.
The loading bar inches across the bottom of your screen. A muted news report plays on the screen, the lower ticker bar reporting rising tensions in the inner worlds. The video of a battleship in low orbit over Luna. After a few seconds a commercial starts playing, espousing the wonders of one of the more recent colonies, Eiro. “Beautiful vistas dominating a fully terraformed world, where a settler can peacefully carve out their own path or enjoy the luxuries of one of our five great cities! Home to one of the galaxies greatest engineering marvels, the flying city Balseri!”
The loading screen disappears and the scene opens, you are seated on a space shuttle that has just landed. You walk out into the Eiro space port, a relatively busy place where on the other side of a glass wall cattle and sheep are being herded either onto or off of freighter shuttles. An AI tour assistant, next to a rack of brochures, directs people to their destinations. As you walk into the chaos your PDA beeps.
You’ve just been given directions to the Eiro Corporation recruitment office, as well as the Travel Union’s local branch office. At the bottom of the mail are also a few links, one to Rennington University, one to the Union Directory, and one to the government’s New Resident Adjustment material.
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My latest idea on how to introduce players to a non-combat world in such a way that they understand what sort of play is likely to be encouraged. (Namely economics, construction, crafting, social and exploration.)
The project I’ve been spending the majority of my time on recently has had a significant bent towards slowing things down. The irony is, I’m pushing myself harder and harder to try and get more done on it.
I have been watching through an anime named Aria lately. I know anime isn’t everyone’s cup of tea, but at this point it is my major inspiration. I’ll go ahead and embed an episode, probably not the best example of what I’m looking for, but the one I really wanted I can’t seem to find.
I don’t think working hard and appreciating life are diametrically opposed. Still it feels like I’m trying to walk a fine balance that I don’t have much experience with. Having to balance how hard I’m working with how much I’m taking the time to appreciate the world around me. I’m thinking there is something else I should be doing, just can’t really decide what.
Part of it could be the wanderer in me, rearing it’s head again. Part of me really would like to just start walking and see where I wind up.