Stefan Gagne (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} twoflower) wrote,@ 2008-04-07 09:00:00 |
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Random Doings and Goings On
I have no overarching theme or thing to discuss. I just haven't updated in awhile and feel the need to.
SL™'s been yo-yoing, as usual, with one impressively hard crash Friday night on into Saturday. Fortunately I'd already arranged to watch movies with an RL friend all of Saturday, so that took care of that, but it did delay the launch of Freestylers:Rock again. Good news is: Launched. Done. I can put that one in the bank and call it a day.
That leaves only the Trivia game left unfinished in the arcade project. Problem there is that I still need trivia. Lots of it. Copyright free or creative commons, because if I have to resort to buying trivia from a service, I have to lock the notecards so nobody can expand their trivia selections manually. I've already tapped my friends, my LJ, and myself and it's still not nearly enough, so this project is on hold until I can find somewhere I can MINE FOR TRIVIA more. All suggestions (other than "Durr, copy questions from insert popular game here illegally, durr") welcome.
7Seas seems stable. I haven't had many IMs about it other than SL™-induced non-deliveries, from people who SAW the big flashing neon "Do not perform transactions, SL™ is borked" signs and went ahead and tried to buy fishing gear anyway. *sigh* In a way I wish that Linden Lab™ would shut down SL™ more often... leaving it open for business when everything is broken and screwy just makes life harder on all of us. ...anyway. Point of this paragraph should be "7Seas Seems Stable" and that's a good thing. We still have massive goodwill from our fanbase, and thank god for that.
With one project in the can and another swimming semi-easily I can now turn to more leisurely projects. Specifically, DJing. I'll be DJing at Extropia's "Yuri's Night", celebrating the first man into space, this coming Saturday at 6pm SLT/Pacific. I put together a good space themed playlist including a few first-run tracks.
I am hitting a wall for "upbeat/danceable" songs, though... my library seems heavily focused on contemplative, chillout, aggro rockout, hiphop, etc... all stuff nobody wants to hear from a DJ in Second Life™. I gotta expand the roster, but never at the expense of buying songs I myself wouldn't care to listen to... I'd rather not play a bunch of clubber electronica I have never heard of. People hire me because I pick the oddities other DJs don't pick. I just wish I had more party songs amongst those oddities.
Tried making a pinball game, now that Havok 4 is launched. This may be a futile task since I doubt I can do it any better than Meteor Storm, the only other pinball game in SL does... with its non-moving flippers (since you can't do bat-whacking-ball style physics, even under H4) and too-large game table and so on. It's not worth doing if I can't do it better. If I can find a good fake-but-looks-right solution for flippers and bumpers I may go with it, though.
Gaming news... TF2 updates hit next week yays, City of Heroes I12 launches soon which is good because I'm in the mood to level some new concepts and new powersets compared to my tired standbys and already-kitted-out level 50s, Rock Band fanboys have severe entitlement fixations, no other major games coming out soon I care much about as we enter the summer doldrums.
Aaand... guess that's it.
Edit: Forgot to mention, Jen's SL™LJ™ has several entries with links to press articles about 7Seas. Good reads. I'm glad we've got the hearts and minds of our fishers, despite the bugs and troubles. Since I only see the backend code of the project, not the frontend fishes and social, all I see are the problems -- all they see are the awesome.
I have no overarching theme or thing to discuss. I just haven't updated in awhile and feel the need to.
SL™'s been yo-yoing, as usual, with one impressively hard crash Friday night on into Saturday. Fortunately I'd already arranged to watch movies with an RL friend all of Saturday, so that took care of that, but it did delay the launch of Freestylers:Rock again. Good news is: Launched. Done. I can put that one in the bank and call it a day.
That leaves only the Trivia game left unfinished in the arcade project. Problem there is that I still need trivia. Lots of it. Copyright free or creative commons, because if I have to resort to buying trivia from a service, I have to lock the notecards so nobody can expand their trivia selections manually. I've already tapped my friends, my LJ, and myself and it's still not nearly enough, so this project is on hold until I can find somewhere I can MINE FOR TRIVIA more. All suggestions (other than "Durr, copy questions from insert popular game here illegally, durr") welcome.
7Seas seems stable. I haven't had many IMs about it other than SL™-induced non-deliveries, from people who SAW the big flashing neon "Do not perform transactions, SL™ is borked" signs and went ahead and tried to buy fishing gear anyway. *sigh* In a way I wish that Linden Lab™ would shut down SL™ more often... leaving it open for business when everything is broken and screwy just makes life harder on all of us. ...anyway. Point of this paragraph should be "7Seas Seems Stable" and that's a good thing. We still have massive goodwill from our fanbase, and thank god for that.
With one project in the can and another swimming semi-easily I can now turn to more leisurely projects. Specifically, DJing. I'll be DJing at Extropia's "Yuri's Night", celebrating the first man into space, this coming Saturday at 6pm SLT/Pacific. I put together a good space themed playlist including a few first-run tracks.
I am hitting a wall for "upbeat/danceable" songs, though... my library seems heavily focused on contemplative, chillout, aggro rockout, hiphop, etc... all stuff nobody wants to hear from a DJ in Second Life™. I gotta expand the roster, but never at the expense of buying songs I myself wouldn't care to listen to... I'd rather not play a bunch of clubber electronica I have never heard of. People hire me because I pick the oddities other DJs don't pick. I just wish I had more party songs amongst those oddities.
Tried making a pinball game, now that Havok 4 is launched. This may be a futile task since I doubt I can do it any better than Meteor Storm, the only other pinball game in SL does... with its non-moving flippers (since you can't do bat-whacking-ball style physics, even under H4) and too-large game table and so on. It's not worth doing if I can't do it better. If I can find a good fake-but-looks-right solution for flippers and bumpers I may go with it, though.
Gaming news... TF2 updates hit next week yays, City of Heroes I12 launches soon which is good because I'm in the mood to level some new concepts and new powersets compared to my tired standbys and already-kitted-out level 50s, Rock Band fanboys have severe entitlement fixations, no other major games coming out soon I care much about as we enter the summer doldrums.
Aaand... guess that's it.
Edit: Forgot to mention, Jen's SL™LJ™ has several entries with links to press articles about 7Seas. Good reads. I'm glad we've got the hearts and minds of our fishers, despite the bugs and troubles. Since I only see the backend code of the project, not the frontend fishes and social, all I see are the problems -- all they see are the awesome.
