• Sep27

  I’m Back

  Flash Launch 11 Comments

  Sort of.  Still adjusting to leaving at 10 A.M. from Sydney and somehow magically, 13 hours later, arriving at 6 A.M. the same day in Los Angeles.

  Had a lot of fun, honeymoon definitely deserves its own post as well as some forward looking posts about future games and such, but for now I am going to enjoy my home once again.  And Muffin and Bagel, my very happy-to-see cats.

  

  And I almost killed an Echidna with my car, running over it between my wheels as I was driving.  Carlie will never forgive me.

  Tags: australia, wedding

• Sep13

  Okay I’m Married Now

  Personal News 26 Comments

  Holy crap.  Half marathon, RPG done, getting married, then off to the wild of Australia.  Life is great sometimes, if not completely busy.

  Carlie and I were officially married at 5:40 pm yesterday.  It was a beautiful ceremony, I had to really work hard to fight back the tears but I luckily made it through my vows, photos, and reception quite nicely .  We’re super excited to REALLY start our life together.

  Sadly I don’t have any pictures yet… we just got to the airport to head home and we’ll be seeing the Muffin and Bagel cats shortly (they get super depressed without us).   After that, we’re off to Australia starting tonight!

  And with that, we’ll see how often the site gets updated for a while, I’ll be busy trying not to die from all the poisonous creatures and rabbid koalas.

  Everyone have a wonderful day!

• Sep11

  I’m Getting Married Tomorrow

  Personal News 13 Comments

  

  Well, tomorrow is the big day.  Have lots of preparation before hand.  Got my tux picked out and ready, the music is queued, and all we got to do is pull it all together.

  I’m not exactly nervous.  This is something I feel strongly about so I’m not freaking out.  Others are.  Not me.  I’ll enjoy the entire event as it goes.

  Might post something tomorrow, might not, but I’ll be on Twitter either way updating the day and such (@jmtb02).  All in all, thank you all for your support and wishes that have been sent over the past week.

  Okay, lots to do!

• Sep09

  Frontier 1.0 Live

  Flash Launch, Flash News 42 Comments

  

  Hi friends,

  A long, long time ago I started an RPG and recently I finished it.  I call it “Frontier.”  It’s my first RPG.

  I think of it as my “hey I’m a kid with Flash so I want to make an RPG” project.  Every game developer gets that itching to make a massive overly-difficult project and this was mine.  Any visit to a Flash game site can result in at least a handful of “I’m making an RPG!” threads and sadly a lot of these fall apart.  To be honest, this project followed suit.  After working on it for about 2 months I got terribly burnt out on the project so I pursued other projects.  But I was eager to finish it, even if it was nearly 1-2 years late.  So I picked it back up off and on between projects.  And today it’s done.

  Enlisting the help of The-Swain for art and the musical talent of Mohammad Fikree for music, we managed to pump some life back into this thing.  The-Swain did all hand-drawn artwork and managed to bring my imaginary world to life.  Mr. Fikree managed to capture the emotion in the music and score the game quite well.

  It’s fifty cities, trading, two quest lines, battling, and world conquest… and some other stuff.  Either way, it’s baked into a trading game.  Buy low, sell high, travel, and survive.  It should take you nearly 4 hours to complete all four endings (not including your death!).

  I also call it 1.0 because one day I’ll continue working on it again.  The engine is open enough that I can continue working on this when I feel like it needs another go.  I have so many other things I want to do to the game, so many ambitions that can’t be fulfilled in just this release.  Maybe I’ll channel it into another project but for now I’m calling this project as done here and one day, one year, I’ll visit it again as a fun side project.

  I’m sure there are bugs, I couldn’t find them all.  But I’ll revise a file once I get back from the wedding and Australia (which is this weekend!).  I’ll be gone for a bit, so I’m sure many will crop up.

  I’m proud of it, and I’m proud to get a large project done.  And I love making something that is not my typical bread and butter.

  Enjoy.  Go play.  I’ve got many things to prepare for.

  Tags: frontier, rpg

• Sep09

  Holy Crap It’s a Busy Week

  Flash News, Personal News 4 Comments

  

  Trying to beat up this RPG, trying to finish up last minute trip prep… life is busy at the moment!  Not stressed, really.  Just busier than usual.  Haven’t even touched the 22 emails in my inbox yet.

  If you want to see what I have to say about Flash games and games development, check out my Q+A transcript from the Flash Game License (requires login).

  My plants at home are infested with fruit flies.  My plants are outside today.

  Kinkos (copy and printer store) charges 20 cents a minute to use their computers.  However what they don’t tell you is that both Firefox and IE hang for about 1-2 minutes before opening when you double click them, meaning that you are taxed 40 cents merely to open the web browser.  On top of that, it took nearly a minute to login and logout of basic email webpages, meaning that we got taxed on that as well.  I see what they did there… ultra-slow computers means ultra-high revenues…. got it.  I had to print out two pieces of paper and it ended up costing me way more than what I expected.

  The website posts will start slowing down next week due to trips and all.  But I’ll be posting updates until Saturday!

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