X Time's a Charm.
by David Montgomery-Blake · 04/22/2007 (9:35 pm) · 6 comments
I have written this...or something resembling this...three times now here at GG. I have no idea what the previous two have gotten eaten. Fear the purge machine. Or in this case, the pre-purge machine.
I don't have the pipes to reiterate what I have typed several times, so I'll just link.
Fatal Farm: http://www.godsendproductions.com/fatalfarm/
Week 1: http://www.godsendproductions.com/fatalfarm/?p=4
Yeah. It sucks, I know.
Tomorrow I begin the lunchtime modeling. Me. At lunch while snarfing down something. And making a shovel or a coffee cup or something totally sweet that takes most professional artists years to make...oh wait...it's me. Shovels. Coffee. Untextured. I'll take care of that later.
So the gist is this:
Fatal Farm is an adventure-RPG-puzzle game. It's a hybrid from hell, spawned from really, really bad ideas about which genres should NEVER cross-pollinate. And somehow it stuck.
It is a survival "horror" (in the comic tongue-in-cheek sense) romantic adventure game with big-time RPG elements. As a co-worker used to exclaim loudly "KNOW YER ROLE!" I have now idea what it meant, but he watched wrestling a lot and it seemed appropriate to reference here. Because wrestling is popular among geeks, so I'm sure this blog will be rated a 5 for how totally cool and important it is to the community. I mean really, anything less is...well...stupid. You don't want to rate as stupid, right? 5 for the win. It's like the lottery, but with a better "dude, my vote totally counted" feeling. Except the lottery's not a vote. An no one really cares who youvote for. So up-vote me, damnit!
Relevant information:
- The contest is on. There are some damn cool contestants; people whom I have no business or reason to "compete" against. And actually, I'm not...really. I guess I am in some sense since I...er, entered. But not really. I'm more like herpes. I keep coming back to piss people off.
And jilt lovers.
- I am starting a "lunchtime model" project which will have me making the art assets (as bad as my horrible programmer art can make them). 5 days, 5 models. Sat and Sun are texturing/anim days since I won't have time on my lunch breaks to do that.
- Program a Day. Crap BlitzMax programs. Not anything that people will get excited about, but the kind of things that I hope they will Google when they have no clue about something. Right now they are so basic that it probably doesn't matter (and they are explained better elsewhere...like to official documentation...not that anyone reads it...). I like this project because there are no boundaries. If I'm lazy, I can be like "print something...anything"...and write hello world. I may have done it once, but no one checks in to see if I've done it twice! (or I could change the language...hehe).
- Play a Day. If anyone who has ever written anything has sat down and tried to write a complete idea within the time constraints that they had (lunches, breaks, the 10 minutes while waiting for dinner...), then they know my pain. In the last couple of days I have written one thing that I liked. I have written more that were juvenile, stupid, and completely and totally out of character for what I want...because they were easy...
- Blogs. Blogs are a requirement, and the thing that will probably happen is that I will sit here, realize that I have 2 hours to work, eat, and live in my schedule...and write something like this when I should be taking better care of myself.
So,anyway...no one has paid for my house (bastards, all of ya'll!).
But I'm going to post this to see if it posts, finally.
Good luck on all of the contest projects. There's some damn good stuff there! I hope I make it a week with new art and scripting to make it work. But it will probably dire horribly.
How is that for a positive blog?
What are you working on? A dead project.
Oh...Er, um...How dead.
Tolstoy dead.
My kids hated Toy Story.
???????
I don't have the pipes to reiterate what I have typed several times, so I'll just link.
Fatal Farm: http://www.godsendproductions.com/fatalfarm/
Week 1: http://www.godsendproductions.com/fatalfarm/?p=4
Yeah. It sucks, I know.
Tomorrow I begin the lunchtime modeling. Me. At lunch while snarfing down something. And making a shovel or a coffee cup or something totally sweet that takes most professional artists years to make...oh wait...it's me. Shovels. Coffee. Untextured. I'll take care of that later.
So the gist is this:
Fatal Farm is an adventure-RPG-puzzle game. It's a hybrid from hell, spawned from really, really bad ideas about which genres should NEVER cross-pollinate. And somehow it stuck.
It is a survival "horror" (in the comic tongue-in-cheek sense) romantic adventure game with big-time RPG elements. As a co-worker used to exclaim loudly "KNOW YER ROLE!" I have now idea what it meant, but he watched wrestling a lot and it seemed appropriate to reference here. Because wrestling is popular among geeks, so I'm sure this blog will be rated a 5 for how totally cool and important it is to the community. I mean really, anything less is...well...stupid. You don't want to rate as stupid, right? 5 for the win. It's like the lottery, but with a better "dude, my vote totally counted" feeling. Except the lottery's not a vote. An no one really cares who youvote for. So up-vote me, damnit!
Relevant information:
- The contest is on. There are some damn cool contestants; people whom I have no business or reason to "compete" against. And actually, I'm not...really. I guess I am in some sense since I...er, entered. But not really. I'm more like herpes. I keep coming back to piss people off.
And jilt lovers.
- I am starting a "lunchtime model" project which will have me making the art assets (as bad as my horrible programmer art can make them). 5 days, 5 models. Sat and Sun are texturing/anim days since I won't have time on my lunch breaks to do that.
- Program a Day. Crap BlitzMax programs. Not anything that people will get excited about, but the kind of things that I hope they will Google when they have no clue about something. Right now they are so basic that it probably doesn't matter (and they are explained better elsewhere...like to official documentation...not that anyone reads it...). I like this project because there are no boundaries. If I'm lazy, I can be like "print something...anything"...and write hello world. I may have done it once, but no one checks in to see if I've done it twice! (or I could change the language...hehe).
- Play a Day. If anyone who has ever written anything has sat down and tried to write a complete idea within the time constraints that they had (lunches, breaks, the 10 minutes while waiting for dinner...), then they know my pain. In the last couple of days I have written one thing that I liked. I have written more that were juvenile, stupid, and completely and totally out of character for what I want...because they were easy...
- Blogs. Blogs are a requirement, and the thing that will probably happen is that I will sit here, realize that I have 2 hours to work, eat, and live in my schedule...and write something like this when I should be taking better care of myself.
So,anyway...no one has paid for my house (bastards, all of ya'll!).
But I'm going to post this to see if it posts, finally.
Good luck on all of the contest projects. There's some damn good stuff there! I hope I make it a week with new art and scripting to make it work. But it will probably dire horribly.
How is that for a positive blog?
What are you working on? A dead project.
Oh...Er, um...How dead.
Tolstoy dead.
My kids hated Toy Story.
???????
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#2
04/23/2007 (8:51 am)
Fantastic blog, David. Good luck with the project(s)....does this mean you'll eventually make it to a Utah Indie Game Dev night to show off your work?
#3
Fatal Farm has to be one of the stupidest ideas that I have ever heard of. Who in their right mind would want to play a farming sim with zombies and vampires and love stories? I mean...really. David is just living in a fantasy world where Sakura Taisen's robo-love-sim-lobotomies French kiss Animal Crossing. Friggin' perv. If he had taste, he'd wear women's panties. As it is, I think he just goes commando.
I wish he would die a horrible death in a combine or a wood chipper. Especially a wood chipper.
Here's how much I hate that guy and why.
When I was in fifth grade, he sat next to me. I could play the recorder with wild abandon. He couldn't. His playing sounded like Mike Tyson being repeatedly kicked in the balls while a stray cat was tortured in the background. That's how bad he was. But the teacher, Mr. Smith, always thought it was me. I slaved day-in and day-out to make my playing count...and Dave...I don't think he practiced at all. He often would leave school at recess and walk home because he hated the place. But it was me that got blamed and critiqued for not being able to play the recorder...when it was Dave who couldn't play it! I hatehatehate Dave!
Sometimes when I pee myself and let the cockroaches bathe, I find myself thinking about Dave and his plans. And I think...why? Why did he do so much better than me? Why didn't I make a game before him? Why did he decide to make a model a day at lunch or write a play a day when I'm sitting here with the roaches in my own stink hating him and staring at my broken recorder shrine?
Why?
04/23/2007 (9:01 am)
David Blake is an insensitive prick. And this is my reply to his "project".Fatal Farm has to be one of the stupidest ideas that I have ever heard of. Who in their right mind would want to play a farming sim with zombies and vampires and love stories? I mean...really. David is just living in a fantasy world where Sakura Taisen's robo-love-sim-lobotomies French kiss Animal Crossing. Friggin' perv. If he had taste, he'd wear women's panties. As it is, I think he just goes commando.
I wish he would die a horrible death in a combine or a wood chipper. Especially a wood chipper.
Here's how much I hate that guy and why.
When I was in fifth grade, he sat next to me. I could play the recorder with wild abandon. He couldn't. His playing sounded like Mike Tyson being repeatedly kicked in the balls while a stray cat was tortured in the background. That's how bad he was. But the teacher, Mr. Smith, always thought it was me. I slaved day-in and day-out to make my playing count...and Dave...I don't think he practiced at all. He often would leave school at recess and walk home because he hated the place. But it was me that got blamed and critiqued for not being able to play the recorder...when it was Dave who couldn't play it! I hatehatehate Dave!
Sometimes when I pee myself and let the cockroaches bathe, I find myself thinking about Dave and his plans. And I think...why? Why did he do so much better than me? Why didn't I make a game before him? Why did he decide to make a model a day at lunch or write a play a day when I'm sitting here with the roaches in my own stink hating him and staring at my broken recorder shrine?
Why?
#4
I'm hoping to at some point. Sadly, in July I'm fist-deep in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf performances. But I keep wanting to head down, meet the peeps, and see what all-a-y'all are working on! (and put in money for pizza). I schedule my self way too thin, way too many months in advance, sadly. I've been meaning to come down since the damn thing began!
04/23/2007 (9:08 am)
@RubesI'm hoping to at some point. Sadly, in July I'm fist-deep in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf performances. But I keep wanting to head down, meet the peeps, and see what all-a-y'all are working on! (and put in money for pizza). I schedule my self way too thin, way too many months in advance, sadly. I've been meaning to come down since the damn thing began!
#5
04/25/2007 (5:36 pm)
hey dave, I think you should consider loosening up your restrictions on posting replies to your blog a bit :P I dont have an account, and I dont see any way of creating one? 
#6
05/05/2007 (11:20 pm)
Incredible... Your *friend* has a name David...?
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