I had this tune stuck in my head while walking back from class a few days back. The visual I somewhat saw as I was making this was mostly rain and then the ocean. It seemed calm and the water looked blue, so that’s where the name came from. It’s bad, I know.

Blue Calm

     I originally spent about 2 hours playing this out just to put out ideas before I forget them. Afterwards, I kind of did forget… and I haven’t really been able to pick up on it since. People tell me it’s repetitive and I’ll even admit the whole second half is just a rehash of the first (the whole song even loops), but I haven’t been able to come up with anything else to add to it. Ideas are welcome though.

     It’s somewhat of a work in progress, but not a work I think I’ll be getting back to any time soon.

I’m going to be pretty bored this summer… so I created a new section on the site, a sub-section to the Blabberbox/blog, called Thought of the Day (right-hand side of the Blabberbox page).

Here, I will just post short snippets or random quotes I make up. They can be thoughtful and enlightening, or they can just be random. I guess it’s just me being too lazy to actually write a full post so I’ll just be writing up short (or long) sentences.

Should be interesting to see what I come up with - and to see how long I can keep it up.

Under the request of one of the users in the forums, I’ve added Korean font support for the Gameshow Maker.

Gameshow Maker 1.04

As with the Chinese font, simply make sure you set the font to Korean for parts of the program you want to display in characters. Unlike the Chinese font, you may or may not see the characters in the text files themselves - but they’ll still be there in the program. My suggestion is to open the text files in a program that does support Korean characters, such as MS Word, if you are worried about whether the characters are being input correctly.

Not as many drastic changes as before, but a few strong and fundamental ones. We now have the addition of “custom buttons” that form a frame around the actual game as well as the support of Chinese characters.

Gameshow Maker 1.03

Here are the some of the new features:

1. Chinese Character Support - The function was there before but you had to dig a bit deep; the end user had to have the same fonts on his machine and you had to know the exact name of your own fonts without using Chinese characters to name it. Well not anymore; I’ve included a Chinese font into the game itself so you’d just have to use the font name “Chinese” to call it up. However, this significantly increases the filesize of the game, so the web-version (SWF) will not have this available.
2. Custom Buttons/Frames - Maybe I’ll figure out a more decisive name later. This basically allows you to place buttons along the edges of the game; you name them as well as decorate them. These buttons have no function but are useful for check-offs for ideas like lifelines, ladders, etc.
3. Title can now be shifted horizontally - you’d think this was here to begin with but I guess it was overlooked.

As stated before, the webversion will not have multilanguage support due to the size of the fonts; it would take forever for someone to download online. I currently do not know a way to lessen the filesize or allow for Chinese characters without embedding, so it may or may not be solved in future versions. Then again, I didn’t know how to write Flash before I started making Gameshow Maker, so maybe I might come up with something. If anyone knows how to solve this problem; do tell though - I definitely wouldn’t mind the help.

  Ironically Zoo Tycoon was perhaps the first game I really designed for.  It’s only fair I give it due respect with its own page, and I guess that’s why I waited this long before adding it (wanted to make sure I could pull it off nicely ).

  Sadly, one of the nicer looking pages on this site is not one I created solely myself, but based it off the previous design of the Zoo Admin site (which is no longer up btw - not the original at least).

  I’m still building on the section; most of it will be what I experienced during my time.  Some of you who knew me way way back will recognize some of these I hope. It’s definitely been a while.

Zoo Tycoon - Main

  Seems kind of disgraceful to have neglected this page for so long.  Ah well - now the site is one-step closer to being complete. (!!! )