Nature of Random

I've only spend some mintutes on my new project, because I got problems with the height map prototyp, which would be an great part of the project.

First I try to make the lines (I've now, out of desperation, have copied out of the XNA sample) work and make some little edits on them.
For example I want to make the height map automaticle repead itself and write the first lines of, how I call it, 'nature of random', but I don't want to say anything more about this.

I acctualy was so desperate that I even thought of changing the engine, but XNA ... just look so good ...

And I'm afread that I woun't find any time in the next week to fixt that 'no entrypoint' problem, because I'll get Mass Effect this week and I'll play it ... all day long ... and then write a review and post it somewhere here or there.


Greg the Mad

My New Project

Imagen a clear blue sky, birds fly around and the wind plam the green trees.

Now image the same landscape for 5 km above.

And now imagen you were sitting in a 6 wheeled ATV in the rear of a Ship, looking down the oppend rear hatch seeing the same landscape moveing pass below.

And now imagen a guy behind the ATV bushing the big slingshoot button, and 'zing' ... the ship accelerate, ... but you're not.

And you fall, facing the cruelty of the ground below.


And you got the basic idea of my next project.


Greg the Mad

LEGO Mako Manual

Its done!

4 month! 2 weeks! and 5 days!

It took me that amount of time to make 77 pictures of build steps,
103 pictures of LEGO bricks,
and a 79 page long Manual, all about a little (~25cm) Mako Model.

It was ther first thing I ever made in that direction. And I was the best thing I allways will have done in that direction.

Its perfekt. :-)

http://www.filefactory.com/file/fd7a04/

You can download it here.

Have fun.


Greg the Mad

Nightmare before December

I've got a great game idea today.

Its easy: the city in in chaos because it did not stop snowing the last few days and now there are meters of snow at every drive and you're the only one who can make them passable.

You can run around and clean what a drives you want, but you may have to get to the doors first to make a deal before the drive is clean, else they may not pay you.
And if you save the money, instead of buying sweet bonus points with it, you can purchase in a bigger snow shovel or even in a snowblower!

The goal of the game is a to get enougth money for your own car!


You can use that game idea for your own games :-)



... And don't ask me how I came up with this ... yes ... the snow is back again. :D


Greg the Mad

Its done!

After three month now its finaly done! The Lego Mako Manual is none!

I just finished that .zip file containing the manual .pdf, and list of all parts, and the right pictures of theis parts (if the name is not enought).

I want to release it tomorrow, but ther is still some stuff that I have to take care of. If the peopel who I've send a message respond faster it would go faster, but ... you know ... this can take time ... :-)


Greg the Mad

A little bit fortun would be nice.

My live sucks. :(

I never have won at any contest, good marks came like girls and what next?

My graficcard, the one I've send to repair, came back yesterday, I've build it in again and guess what ... :( it dose not work again.

My PC runs, I can work, but after a few minutes it suddenly stops and it restarts ... but this time vista claimse that the CPU and other stuff don't work ... man ... why dose fortuna hate me?

Why can't ther be anything in my live that went smooth?


Greg the unfortuned

Feelings

Do you know that feeling? Snow is gone. The next test in school are comming like a big red guy carrieing a bag on his back. And and the all bad school brack gives you a call which tells you that you can get your graficcard back?

Yes! My own PC will work again!

For those who've missed it: My PC used to brack down sometimes. Just 2 month ago I figured out that ther was a little copper cooling device on the grafic card ... that was gone! So I tooked that card and brought it back to the shop. Ther they claimed that they may have to send it to Asus and that it could take up to 6 weeks till I get it back.

Now, 8 weeks late I can go to the shop and get the replacement. ... it took MS 3 days to replace my brocken X-Box 360 ... just to give you that feeling.


Ja, and do you know that feeling, that you got if you onyl got 48 steps left to make, but somehow you don't even find any stupid minute on that Lego crap that I can't see anymore? Bingo. I got this one with the Manula thing.

I should get time this Wednesday till Sunday to actualy finish it and find a way to publish it in the interrnet. ... man ... can wait till this one is out and I can start my next project ... the Lego Mako Dropminigame! WooHoo! :-)


Greg the Mad

Let it snow, Let it snow, Let it snow ...

And nother two days have passed without that I 've done anything on the Manual, and it will take a while till I got time again ... hopefully I'll get my graficcard back this week, so that I can spend more time on it again.

And hey! The first snow came this night! Yes the white stuff that can fokus all your thoughts on you face, if you got some of it in you face.
The fact that snow is fallen in the november is especialy interresting, because we've got no snow last year till january. If I got luck, we'll have 1m again and I can stay at home and play Mass Effect once its out.

By the Way, I've came up with a great idea of an other blog about games, where I test games and also share expierence. But I don't got anything to write ther yet so it will take a while till I open it.


Greg the Mad

Hey I got a blog!

So thats it ... finaly I got a blog too, ... even if I'm not sure yet what to do with it, but ... I got it.

Ok ... lets start ...

The Lego Mako Manual is doing well. I just started to make the first two steps in the open office want to be word (which can the same like the real, but is free). I finaly also found a easy way to make the steps. The try with gimp showed that any drawing programm would be to slow for that application, they don't got the structure, word got.

So thats it ... for today ... I don't know how often I gona post here, but I plan to make it.


Greg the Mad