Due to HDD problems. I have lost pretty much everything I have ever worked on. I will not be redoing Barbarian Bob AGAIN. Nor will I be finishing Terrence the Armless Ninja. After putting so much work in to both, it really makes me angry that I didn't back up my shit.

On the plus side, I'm working on a new project...got to look forward! To new and better things!

Jesus...

I thought things would get easier after my horrible housemate left. Yet she continues to irritate me from her new premises...

I've decided I need a break from everything so Im going down south for a weekend and a bit to do some fishing, snorkling and cave exploring. I'll be sure to take many pictures.

Had my 20th on Saturday. Got to see one of my old teenage favorites, Marilyn Manson. Man is he shit now. He played 50% good stuff, 50% shit so I can't really complain. Anywho...I have an almost working engine for Dreams Ch.2 and I intend to finish Barbarian Bob after I finish reading The Trouble with Lichen; good book btw. So expect to see it very soon.

Sorry for the slow updates guys. A lot has happened in the past few months which has prevented me from doing much work. Mostly consisting of my fuck-head of a house-mate making my life a living hell! But she is moving out in a small amount of time so I'll be back to my creative inclinations in no time.

Barbarian Bob 07 is soooo close to being finished, everything is done! I'm just bug testing and making sure everything works well enough. So expect to see it very soon. Terrence the Armless Ninja, I've decided, is too messy for me to continue scripting, so I'll be reprogramming it from scratch. This means better controls and functionality! My scripting skill has increased 10 fold and I thank my new job for that.

Also, I'll be working on Dreams Ch.2, a game which I think is going to be very sweet. The gameplay and art direction is very nice and also unique. I'm sure everyone will love it. No ETA on the completion of that though.

Terrence the Armless Ninja is platform adventure game dedicated to the awesome and totally nonsensical game on sega 'Shinobi III'. Much love to that game. Anyone whos played it will recognize some similarities between it and Terrence.

All levels will have an array of different enemies, powerups, friendly helpers etc. You get to go underwater, through a jungle, into an Aztec Temple, space, a volcano and more.

It's release was set for sometime this month, but that definitely wont be happening. I predict sometime in the next 2 months it will be completed. I've programmed the engine to a nice playable level and all thats left is content creation. So it all depends on whether I feel like drawing/animating or not ^__^

So I was going through my flash folders and I came across Barbarian Bob; the game Brandon and I made over 2 years ago now. I opened it and played it.

Let me say I was disgusted at how I had programmed that game. Bob handles like a retarded monkey trying to do a math problem, the gravity is all over the place, randomly speeding you up or down, the enemy AI is a piece of shit and the boss was incomplete.

This game took me just over 2 weeks to complete.

Last night i spent 5 hours recoding the entire game from scratch, including a new menu with a couple of cheats, new and improved movement, controls, gravity and fighting style. As well as new enemy AI that isn't so moronic that you can stand still and block to win. The health was also changed to a bar instead of a 3-hit-death system and the enemies now have more life. Not to mention a secret new level (that isn't finished yet)!

I'll chuck it on my thumb drive as soon as the new level is finished and I'll upload it next time I'm at work. Yeah, I just thought it was interesting that I was able to code something 20 times better in 5 hours, when it took me over a fortnight at first. Sometimes it's nice to see just how far you've come ^__^