A Fragmented Sanity's Throne (2008-04-25)

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[March]

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March 31, 2008
Started working on the movie part of HSMB and I was able to complete a Commodore 64-style intro for my animation group The Crystal Sunset. Following a redesign of the flash header and the addition of flash.php and a few other files relating to that system, Impure Creation will be good to go. If I decide to make Impure Creation Entertainment a video game creation agency, I might take the Intellivision approach with some of the games produced, meaning that there will be a low number of people working on simpler games. With three people or less assigned to each task (programming, character design, sfx, music, background art, storyline/plotline implementation, and so on), things get done quickly and efficiently.

April ANNOYANCE Day 2008
I zoned out almost completely last night; I didn't even think about my various projects, I just watched animations on Newgrounds all day. I think I'll remake the TCS intro tonight. I might also redesign the characters for HSMB with the line tool instead of the brush tool. My name is [REDACTED] and I am here to offer you a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity: buy [REDACTED], live over the internet. Supplies will not last, so get in on this while you still can.

April 2, 2008
Poked around in c64 demoscene archives last night and found a great Machine Language primer called Coder's World. TJ really needs to learn the meaning of 'personal space'. Seriously, it's every day with this annoying coming over and placing hands on me act, and he must think that I think it's funny or something, when, in truth, the only thing that annoys me more than him is people trying to talk to me when I'm on my way to my next class.

April 3, 2008
I started working on the intro last night and managed to create a working character set movie clip which I can control with

onClipEvent(load) {
	gotoAndStop(“letter”);
}

This way, I don't have to manually pixel in every single letter; all I have to do is place movie clips next to eachother and modify the actionscript.

April 4, 2008
I created the introduction for HSMB episode 1 and it is somehow more awesome than the previous revision's. I also did some minor work on the Crystal Sunset intro. I have a feeling that today is going to be a fabulous day, but that could just be because I had a good first period. Plus, I think I'm contracting secondhand stupid from whoever keeps rubbing their greasy forehead on this monitor.

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Unproductivity refined™

April 7, 2008
I put together an intro for the nonexistent group named the Spontaneous Collaboration Society over the weekend. Nothing much other than reading about game design and watching animations on the internet was done. That seems to be a trend with me recently. I read an article on Yahoo! News this morning about how the US is pretty suck right now due to the rising cost of living. Lately it seems that I have billions of ideas but zero work effort and concentration.

April 8, 2008
I really have no idea what to do with myself anymore, especially considering that I am beginning to see the game series in its present state as a bad idea if ICE will be taking the Intellivision approach. I suppose I might as well develop HSMB while playing it by ear, and see where that gets me. I finished a part for the [ss] we suck collab last night. Self-depreciating humor is fun to make.

April 9, 2008
Sudden inspiration allowed me to get through a large chunk of the first 'episode' of another, completely-unrelated-to-anything story which I'm working on. While I think of new header layouts for Impure Creation and loathe the lack of activity on the Socom Squad forums, I can't help but wonder what's with this constant crash-and-burn pattern of afterschool laziness.

April 10, 2008
LYK OMG I WUZ IN DA LIBRY YSTRDAY N THIS KID CAME UP 2 ME N SED, HEY RN'T U THT GUY WHO N I WUZ ALL YEAH WUTEVR!!! N THEN MS GDSN CMPLTLY DISRGRDD THT THIS WUZ A FILR THT I CR8ED BCUX I WUZ OUT OF STUF 2 WRIT N SHE WUZ ALL OMG A+++ GUD JOB [REDACTED] N I WUZ ALL sWEET DUDE N THEN SHE WENT HA J/K [REDACTED] U R FAIL THIS ASSIGNMNT AND I WAS ALL :( N THEN TERRY SED [REDACTED] AND I PUNSHED HM IN THE FACE 4 BENG A JRK N TRYN 2 GET ANL JUCE ON MY GOOD SHRT

April 11, 2008
Absent due to Orthos

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Boldly going nowhere™

April 14, 2008
REJOICE, MY CHILDREN, FOR THE BEGINNING OF THE END IS UPON US. OUR DAY OF RECKONING IS AT HAND, AND WHEN THAT GLORIOUS TIME FINALLY ARRIVES, OUR ENEMIES WILL FLEE BEFORE OUR COMBINED MIGHT. It seems as if I'm delaying stuff long enough to think of bigger and badder stuff which can take its place. Or, at least, that's how I see the website situation.

April 15, 2008
I'm gathering ideas for stories and the organization of the website. More (professional) layout ideas have popped up. The rest of this journal has been cut short because my brain has short-circuted due to all of that arduous physical labor.

April 16, 2008
I do stuff like play Starcraft all day and then wonder where the time went. While new scenarios for my stories and games pour in, I continue to fail to document them. Maybe I ought to type some of this stuff up instead of failing to do so and then talking about it to waste space in the journal.

April 17, 2008
Absent due to certain people knowing more about my teeth than I do.

April 18, 2008
Yesterday was delightfully present. I have thought of a course of actions that my new story can take. Hopefully I will begin to write it soon. I have decided that a non-full-page layout might be the way to go for Impure Creation, but such a decision requires further study. Let's all raise our glasses to the hand-in-hand connection which productivity and inspiration share!

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A parenthetical plane of existence based on mathematical equations™

April 21, 2008
I started creating a rap about school and how much I hate it last night. My aunt said that she'd pass it around the [REDACTED] office today. Flavoring excitement. I coded a small but usable layout for Impure Creation based on an old file from 2004 I had laying around.

April 22, 2008
It would seem we came down with a sudden case of the Libraries

April 23, 2008
One part of me wants to declare yesterday a miserable failure, and the other wants to declare it a success due to innovations in thinking. Ideas for platformers and sidescrolling games are now constantly being thought up, and I'm actually documenting them :O If nothing else, it will give me some test projects to work on if I ever decide to pursue a career in video game design.

April 24, 2008 – CRY BLOOD FOR ME
All I have are ideas. More website layout design ideas, more story ideas, and more video game ideas have all been coming to me. It's a pity that all I'm capable of doing when I get home is watching my brain and work effort fizzle out. I reminisced about an old game creation engine named ZZT yesterday. There exists a community named Z2 which put out a sort of compilation/magazine named ZZTV, and even though I wasn't part of the community until 2004, thanks to the older issues of ZZTV I feel like I've been there since the late 90s. Such is the power of the artist; to drag others, kicking and screaming, into the past.

April 25, 2008 – THE RETURN OF CSP
I started working on a ZZT game last night and I redid my old Cracked Skull Productions introduction screen from 2004. I am quite pleased with how it turned out. HEY KATIE STOP DOING KAHL'S WORK FOR HIM HE NEEDS TO LEARN HOW TO DO THINGS ON HIS OWN OK. We've been reading The Crucible in English class, and I have found it to be quite a swizzeriffic tale thus far. I'll see if I can manage to design one of my new layout ideas in Flash over the weekend.

[May]

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