Settlers of Yahoo
Yahoo came out with a version of Settlers of Cataan. Pretty well done actually. The only drawback? $29 dollar sticker price. I think it's a pass for me, but again it's a 1 hour demo and the game is worth the demo time.
http://get.games.yahoo.com/proddesc?gamekey=catan
Thursday, February 03, 2005
Wednesday, February 02, 2005
Aaaaaaaron..
That sucks. =/
On a semi-related note.. I've got about three weeks of gainful employment left. Wow.. what started out seeming like it was fooooorreeeever away is now seeming like it's right around the corner.
I'm turning 30 next month. In a strange sort of way, I'm kind of feeling weird about not really caring or dreading it. Dunno.
Badgeofblood news: We've got some new additions to the family, including a guy that was one of the lead production fellas for the (now defunct?) Warhammer Online project. All we're really genuinely short on now are art/modeller types. It looks like we're going to be full-steam ahead here in the next month or so and really banging away on things.
Also, we're going to need quite a bit of building/architectural design modelling/artwork for this project.. which is one of the many reasons I've asked Enron to be on the project with us. Brutha, I sincerely hope you take a liking to the toolset and software and have some time to dedicate towards the effort. We aren't in a position to offer much in the way of up-front mon-ay yet.. but we are offering a compensation deal that splits the net-profit for the project amongst team members once we bring the product to market at the end of this year. If this works out how we'd like, it will also set aside enough capital to realistically open up doors on a non-virtual office and provide salaries and whatnot for future endeavors so we can all quit our suck-ass jobs and do what we love. I can't imagine a better job on this earth than to be creatively coming up with role playing systems, computer game environments and working worth people you genuinely enjoy towards such ends.
16 working days and counting..
~Cap'n O.
P.S. Anyone else knowledgable in 2d/3d modelling or interested in being involved in the Badge project in another capacity, please just let me know! As I said previously, we don't have a lot of money for up-front costs at this time until we get a little closer to having a product to pitch to a venture capitalist type.. so everything is being more or less done on the potential for being paid a share of the net profits.
That sucks. =/
On a semi-related note.. I've got about three weeks of gainful employment left. Wow.. what started out seeming like it was fooooorreeeever away is now seeming like it's right around the corner.
I'm turning 30 next month. In a strange sort of way, I'm kind of feeling weird about not really caring or dreading it. Dunno.
Badgeofblood news: We've got some new additions to the family, including a guy that was one of the lead production fellas for the (now defunct?) Warhammer Online project. All we're really genuinely short on now are art/modeller types. It looks like we're going to be full-steam ahead here in the next month or so and really banging away on things.
Also, we're going to need quite a bit of building/architectural design modelling/artwork for this project.. which is one of the many reasons I've asked Enron to be on the project with us. Brutha, I sincerely hope you take a liking to the toolset and software and have some time to dedicate towards the effort. We aren't in a position to offer much in the way of up-front mon-ay yet.. but we are offering a compensation deal that splits the net-profit for the project amongst team members once we bring the product to market at the end of this year. If this works out how we'd like, it will also set aside enough capital to realistically open up doors on a non-virtual office and provide salaries and whatnot for future endeavors so we can all quit our suck-ass jobs and do what we love. I can't imagine a better job on this earth than to be creatively coming up with role playing systems, computer game environments and working worth people you genuinely enjoy towards such ends.
16 working days and counting..
~Cap'n O.
P.S. Anyone else knowledgable in 2d/3d modelling or interested in being involved in the Badge project in another capacity, please just let me know! As I said previously, we don't have a lot of money for up-front costs at this time until we get a little closer to having a product to pitch to a venture capitalist type.. so everything is being more or less done on the potential for being paid a share of the net profits.
Monday, January 31, 2005
Motobyke Madness!
Wow. You have made it to submittal. Crazyness. Awesome! Soon you will die. When will we see your ugly mug? Mid-March was it?
Art: You know, I could almost see that joker Dick showing up there like that. Oh well, I can wish cant I? Interestingly, I have seen a few article that he was that he was the only person wearing a non-black jacket.
Oranjeboom!
Wow. You have made it to submittal. Crazyness. Awesome! Soon you will die. When will we see your ugly mug? Mid-March was it?
Art: You know, I could almost see that joker Dick showing up there like that. Oh well, I can wish cant I? Interestingly, I have seen a few article that he was that he was the only person wearing a non-black jacket.
Oranjeboom!
Myke: congraturation! You have certainly earned your day-long pee (I guess you must've gone a long time without a break?). It'll be nice to have you back in the same nation-state. Let me know when you're in town and I'll fly down for some Crossbows and Catapults.
I've been up since more-or-less 3:45 AM due to insomnia. Hello! On the plus side this has allowed me to do some nefarious plotting for the Action Team Action Weekend (hope you guys are still coming up!). First of all, you guys are free to stay at my place. There's a big floor in the living room, and there are carpets you can lie on providing minimal protection from the hardwood floors, but I don't have much in the way of bedding so you guys will want to bring your own shite for that. I think that while you are up here we should live by one simple rule. At any given time we have to be doing at least one of the following things:
1. Gaming.
2. Travelling somewhere to do gaming.
3. Drinking.
This rule applies morning, noon, and night. I call this the Law of Oranjeboom.
I've been up since more-or-less 3:45 AM due to insomnia. Hello! On the plus side this has allowed me to do some nefarious plotting for the Action Team Action Weekend (hope you guys are still coming up!). First of all, you guys are free to stay at my place. There's a big floor in the living room, and there are carpets you can lie on providing minimal protection from the hardwood floors, but I don't have much in the way of bedding so you guys will want to bring your own shite for that. I think that while you are up here we should live by one simple rule. At any given time we have to be doing at least one of the following things:
1. Gaming.
2. Travelling somewhere to do gaming.
3. Drinking.
This rule applies morning, noon, and night. I call this the Law of Oranjeboom.
SUBMITTED!!!!
News flash: Myke Myke Motorbyke has just submitted his thesis!!! Now all he awaits is his ritualised hazing session from grumpy old men for the whole thing to finally be over!
Just thought you'd all like to know! This means I might actually have time to post once and a while, (though 60 lectures for UCLA by April will be no mean feat!)
More soon (i.e. tomorrow) I have to pee now.
Myke
News flash: Myke Myke Motorbyke has just submitted his thesis!!! Now all he awaits is his ritualised hazing session from grumpy old men for the whole thing to finally be over!
Just thought you'd all like to know! This means I might actually have time to post once and a while, (though 60 lectures for UCLA by April will be no mean feat!)
More soon (i.e. tomorrow) I have to pee now.
Myke
Friday, January 28, 2005
Oh man.. comedy GOLD..
A very solemn occaison indeed.. Dick Cheney represents the U.S. of A with dignity and sincere respects paid to the victims of the holocaust at the 60th anniversary of Auschwitz concentration camp closing.
http://www.patrickdavie.com/cheny.jpg
(LOL)
A very solemn occaison indeed.. Dick Cheney represents the U.S. of A with dignity and sincere respects paid to the victims of the holocaust at the 60th anniversary of Auschwitz concentration camp closing.
http://www.patrickdavie.com/cheny.jpg
(LOL)
Thursday, January 27, 2005
Damn
Wow Ry. Sorry to hear about the female problems. Let me give you a hint that I have given to Johnny a hundred times, although he doesnt seem to heed it anyway: Never date Women in their early 20s. They are not ready for shit and they dont know what the hell they are doing. Good example? Lets just put it this way, my sister is now dating a drug dealer. Fucking brilliant! What the Hell? My bonehead brother has a more brains than that, and he's an idiot most of the time.
Ragnar: I actually have had the software since just before I left for LA, I have just been getting a chance to try and work with it. No luck yet. I just shot off an email asking Art a question about why I can not launch the program. I donno, maybe I can work well with 3d design, maybe not. Also, any roleplaying is interesting to me. Besides perhaps Art, I think I have the longest running dry spell for roleplaying in the group (Among those who actually care to roleplay) dating back to early/mid-2002. I was so lame at one point I resorted to spending whole work days rolling up D&D characters and fleshing them out.
D>M>
Donald Gibb: "Nerd!"
Wow Ry. Sorry to hear about the female problems. Let me give you a hint that I have given to Johnny a hundred times, although he doesnt seem to heed it anyway: Never date Women in their early 20s. They are not ready for shit and they dont know what the hell they are doing. Good example? Lets just put it this way, my sister is now dating a drug dealer. Fucking brilliant! What the Hell? My bonehead brother has a more brains than that, and he's an idiot most of the time.
Ragnar: I actually have had the software since just before I left for LA, I have just been getting a chance to try and work with it. No luck yet. I just shot off an email asking Art a question about why I can not launch the program. I donno, maybe I can work well with 3d design, maybe not. Also, any roleplaying is interesting to me. Besides perhaps Art, I think I have the longest running dry spell for roleplaying in the group (Among those who actually care to roleplay) dating back to early/mid-2002. I was so lame at one point I resorted to spending whole work days rolling up D&D characters and fleshing them out.
D>M>
Donald Gibb: "Nerd!"
I found this amusing...
E-MAIL SHORTHAND THAT CIVIL WAR SOLDIERS WOULD LIKELY HAVE USED IN LETTERS HOME HAD THE TECHNOLOGY BEEN AVAILABLE TO THEM
w/o:roht
Without reward or hope thereof
ryahud;)
Remaining your affectionate husband until death
iop/loc
(With/by) Impulse of patriotism and love of country
iawap:)
I am well at present
s't
Shan't
iaotl:)
I am among the living
y:(
The Yanks
More here, along with a lot of other silly things.
E-MAIL SHORTHAND THAT CIVIL WAR SOLDIERS WOULD LIKELY HAVE USED IN LETTERS HOME HAD THE TECHNOLOGY BEEN AVAILABLE TO THEM
w/o:roht
Without reward or hope thereof
ryahud;)
Remaining your affectionate husband until death
iop/loc
(With/by) Impulse of patriotism and love of country
iawap:)
I am well at present
s't
Shan't
iaotl:)
I am among the living
y:(
The Yanks
More here, along with a lot of other silly things.
Hey, thanks so much for that! You can only vote once every 24 hours, I think it tracks by IP address. I do my click in the morning when I get up and check email and hit it again when I get to work. Hehe..
When we get the role-playing end of Badge of Blood ready for testing/publishing I'm going to make sure you guys get a copy to beat up a bit if you're interested! Hell, being that I'll not be working March-August I might even get to come visit you guys in South/North bay often enough to get some gaming done in person!
Things are going pretty well with the software FPS project.. We have three programmer fellas with lots of experience signed on for it. One was on the AIM development team, another has been a lead project guy over at the Target:Hanoi simulation and the third dude is a astrophysicist/programmer from Denmark. Yeehaw!
The artists we've contracted with are just starting to submit their first sets of finished sketches. Our back-history timeline and geo-political landscape is being flushed out as we speak by our writers and the RPG is progressing.. albeit slightly slower for uncertainty as to what system we're going to be using for our universe. Unless we get some kind of confirmation back from Jackson Games here pretty quickly, we're likely going to just develop our own flavor and pursue a publisher/distributor when the time comes.
What we still need are people that can do 2d/3d modelling and/or are willing and able to design and develop map levels. *nudge* *nudge*
=)
Anyhow.. thanks a ton again for the support! One click a day is all we ask. Hehe.
(Less than a month to go amonst the world of the employed!)
Best,
~O.
When we get the role-playing end of Badge of Blood ready for testing/publishing I'm going to make sure you guys get a copy to beat up a bit if you're interested! Hell, being that I'll not be working March-August I might even get to come visit you guys in South/North bay often enough to get some gaming done in person!
Things are going pretty well with the software FPS project.. We have three programmer fellas with lots of experience signed on for it. One was on the AIM development team, another has been a lead project guy over at the Target:Hanoi simulation and the third dude is a astrophysicist/programmer from Denmark. Yeehaw!
The artists we've contracted with are just starting to submit their first sets of finished sketches. Our back-history timeline and geo-political landscape is being flushed out as we speak by our writers and the RPG is progressing.. albeit slightly slower for uncertainty as to what system we're going to be using for our universe. Unless we get some kind of confirmation back from Jackson Games here pretty quickly, we're likely going to just develop our own flavor and pursue a publisher/distributor when the time comes.
What we still need are people that can do 2d/3d modelling and/or are willing and able to design and develop map levels. *nudge* *nudge*
=)
Anyhow.. thanks a ton again for the support! One click a day is all we ask. Hehe.
(Less than a month to go amonst the world of the employed!)
Best,
~O.
Speaking of whoring..
If you fellas have nothing better to do and would like to help me out with a 30 second daily task.. visit the www.badgeofblood.com website and click on the MODDB linky which says "support us" on it? Once at the moddb website, create a login and have it remember ya. Then, evey time you click the "support us" image/linky on our website, it gives us a bump up in the top 100 listing. If you have a spare moment, it'd be greatly appreciated! If not, no worries.. but it never hurts to ask for a little support/help.
Ciao!
~O.
If you fellas have nothing better to do and would like to help me out with a 30 second daily task.. visit the www.badgeofblood.com website and click on the MODDB linky which says "support us" on it? Once at the moddb website, create a login and have it remember ya. Then, evey time you click the "support us" image/linky on our website, it gives us a bump up in the top 100 listing. If you have a spare moment, it'd be greatly appreciated! If not, no worries.. but it never hurts to ask for a little support/help.
Ciao!
~O.
Pimp of the year!
Sorry to hear it Ryan. Women, can't live with them.. can't have masturbatorial fantasies without them. Well, unless you're into sex with livestock, inanimate objects, or Captain Brown Eye anyway. I whole heartedly recommend a year's subscription to Maxim magazine to cure your woes.
I leave you with the immortal words of Flyguy, Pimp of the Year:
Bitch better have my money,
Not some, not part, but ALL my cash.
Bitch better have my money,
Through rain or sleet or snow.
Or I'm going to put my foot straight up her ass.
Chin up, brutha.. you'll be back in the game before ya know it.
Late,
~O.
Sorry to hear it Ryan. Women, can't live with them.. can't have masturbatorial fantasies without them. Well, unless you're into sex with livestock, inanimate objects, or Captain Brown Eye anyway. I whole heartedly recommend a year's subscription to Maxim magazine to cure your woes.
I leave you with the immortal words of Flyguy, Pimp of the Year:
Bitch better have my money,
Not some, not part, but ALL my cash.
Bitch better have my money,
Through rain or sleet or snow.
Or I'm going to put my foot straight up her ass.
Chin up, brutha.. you'll be back in the game before ya know it.
Late,
~O.
Sorry about your women problems Ryan. I hope that you don't give up on them entirely (although I guess you could turn to guys, which would be cool, because your partner probably wouldn't mind if you played lots of video games). Anyway, that's tough. Sorry.
Earthdawn, the best game ever
Ah, the game that Hemo once aptly named "The FASA Juggernaut" has re-entered my life. I'm gonna run this game for my roommates and possibly Aaron (you in?) in a month or so. Basically, despite only running this game twice in my life I love it. I know that the few times we played it we never really got into what is so cool about the setting (although Eric's windling Gleek and Rudy's warrior Shlelvor Kull were pretty cool), but somehow I internalized the entire setting and rules set, so even though I haven't touched the game in years, it's all coming back really quickly.
To show the extent of my desire to play RPGs, I recently had a dream in which I was trying to get all of you guys together for a campaign. It was basically a Blues Brothers "let's get the band back together" -type series of miniquests to get everyone in. I had to do a line of cocaine with JP, etc.. I woke up with a vaguely sentimental feeling.
I know there's at least one other Earthdawn fan in the house. C'mon Denis, let's hear some love. I mean, riverboat lizardmen in dashing hats! A dozen pages of complex magical theory! What's not to like!?
Earthdawn, the best game ever
Ah, the game that Hemo once aptly named "The FASA Juggernaut" has re-entered my life. I'm gonna run this game for my roommates and possibly Aaron (you in?) in a month or so. Basically, despite only running this game twice in my life I love it. I know that the few times we played it we never really got into what is so cool about the setting (although Eric's windling Gleek and Rudy's warrior Shlelvor Kull were pretty cool), but somehow I internalized the entire setting and rules set, so even though I haven't touched the game in years, it's all coming back really quickly.
To show the extent of my desire to play RPGs, I recently had a dream in which I was trying to get all of you guys together for a campaign. It was basically a Blues Brothers "let's get the band back together" -type series of miniquests to get everyone in. I had to do a line of cocaine with JP, etc.. I woke up with a vaguely sentimental feeling.
I know there's at least one other Earthdawn fan in the house. C'mon Denis, let's hear some love. I mean, riverboat lizardmen in dashing hats! A dozen pages of complex magical theory! What's not to like!?
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