“And it’s true we named our children
After towns that we’ve never been to.
And it’s true that the clouds just hung around
Like black Cadillacs outside a funeral.”
Drove another 200 something miles Monday night to see Modest Mouse in Orlando, was at House of Blues which is a great “venue”. Good concert.
Having some memory leak issues with iPhone game “Master of Cards: Magic Squares” (sorry I find it funny to type it out). Buddy doing most of the work to fix it. Should hopefully be done shortly.
Set up Darkwater Studios domain with yet another WordPress install. Reused the same theme and logo styling as Opiate Media. Lazy plus no one is going to look at any of them so why kill myself.
Messed around with Android app stuff yesterday. Interesting. Figured it was probably better to put time into another iPhone game right now. Of course probably a ton less games on Android so maybe it gets noticed quicker and sells more on it.
Working on iPhone/web project with previous people I have worked with. Beyond learning more iPhone stuff will probably have to figure out geospatial stuff. Fun.
Sleep cycle still screwed.
Kind of looking for job. Should probably look harder.
“This is not how we planned it
But we’ve gotten ahead of ourselves
Computers rule the planet
And the moon and mars as well
We lost the fight”
Drove 240 something miles (round trip) tonight to Orlando to see Tokyo Police Club. Small small club, great show (besides one guy behind me yelling).
With time change it was 4:15am when I got home.
No wonder I have problems sleeping on a normal cycle.
Driving back over to Orlando on Monday to see Modest Mouse.
For probably 6 years now, once or twice a year a friend of mine and I will decide to do “something”.
Programming based something, not shaving all the hair off of our body and going to Burning Man (I only vaguely know what Burning Man is).
We have never finished any of our projects. The last one went one for a year and a half, dragged in two other friends and never reached completion. We were kind of done once but rewrote it in another language (god knows why) and after being close to being done again, the idea that was good the year before we started was popping up all over the place.
So we all eagerly quit.
Shortly afterwords the iPhone app store thing was picking up steam so most of us ran out and book a Mac of some sort.
One friend actually got an app out 2 or so months later, another friend did nothing, and I tried for a week or two but honestly just didn’t care for Xcode and Objective C so I moved on.
I had a job at the time so the money for the laptop was not a huge deal.
Fast foward several months, I have no real job, no real income.
So the two of us start up yet again.
Tomorrow will be three weeks from when we started and we are done with a game for the iPhone.
Read something today saying there is like 7 or 8 THOUSAND games on the app store.
Lot of the are well crap.
We have put a fair bit of effort into the game to make sure it looks clean and relatively professional (hopefully).
It’s Master of Cards: Magic Squares!
Check the website to read all about it and see screen shots. I would type more here but I had to write all stuff for it and I am tired.
Should be done tomorrow and submit to app store Monday.
Hopefully that will go fine.
I guess everyone who puts an app hopes to make millions.
I would be happy to sell one copy.
After that I would like to pay recoup the money invested in the laptop.
After THAT I would like to make enough to beat what unemployment pays.
Anyway we start on the next game next week. Idea with the name is to build a “series”.
March 8th, 2009 in
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“Where are my amenities
Tell me my sanity
Ain’t no analogy for individuality, I got immunity from multiplicity”
General posts get cool song titles and nifty lyrics. I bet that is original. Right?
Posted another review on Opiate. This time for Dead Space. Took about an hour this time. So faster but probably not any better.
I was trying to sleep but apparently the noise ordenance is my area is from 6PM to 7AM. So at 7AM on a Saturday your neighbor is free to use as loud of a saw as they want on their front lawn. Yes yes I actually called the police department (non emergency line) to find this out.
Sometime in the last year my father has become a reader. Seems to be baffling him as much as the rest of us. Growing up I read books like a junky has to have a fix. All the time. My mother read fairly frequently, and my brother and father pretty much never cracked a book. I do recall while I was in high school my father did read one book about Vietnam and we got him other books hoping to get him hooked but nothing came of it. Now though he is a junky and struggling with it. He can’t get past the fact that as soon as he finishes one he has to get another book right that minute and start reading it. It’s all rather strange.
Friend stopped by my house last night, hadn’t been over in a while so he had to look at the LEGO stuff that is scattered around my office. I was showing him some of it and handed him a Mario I did. Like every other person I have ever handed one to he held onto OK for about 2 minutes then dropped it on the ground breaking it into ten pieces. So I need to rebuild it, not a huge task since it’s small but it got me thinking it might be cool to do a guide/tutorial on how to build 8 bit LEGO game characters. Probably too much trouble.
Been working/looking into iPhone programming. Really not that excited by it. I like the platform but the programming seems a pain.
So this has been a random smattering of stuff. Weeeeeee.
February 14th, 2009 in
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