I think she wants me
What I want to do, and what I really want to do
This is one of my least favorite doodles. I expected so much more from it. It was supposed to show how playing video games is not the same as living. Now, don't get me wrong. I play a lot of video games. It's just sometimes when I've played too much, I feel like I could be using that time for better things. You know, like doodling or writing useless paragraphs on nothing.
Seattle, WA | 2007.06.27 | Cast of Horribles | Blue Guy, Julie, TV, Video Games
There are some dreams I can never give up
Every few years, I get the video game bug. This is not the play video game bug, which is a more constant companion. This is the write a video game and become a video game publisher--the dream usually involves lots of bags with hand-drawn dollar signs, and a large house somewhere. I usually see myself sitting on a beach thinking big thoughts, while the programming happens somewhere else, with only small amounts of input from me. That is, once I get it up and running.
This time I attempted to write a game in Javascript. The graphics in this doodle are what's left of the game. I managed to create a large, scrolling map, and fully moveable (and freely rotatable in 360 degrees) Horribles. I even added rudimentary network play, where a server allows multiple Horribles to run around the scrollable map.
What I didn't have the patience for was all the planning and programming that the game needed to work. I also had second thoughts about Javascript. While I did find some interesting games written in Javascript, it does have severe limitations, not to mention platform inconsistencies.
In the end, I decided to return to doodling, and (I keep pretending) writing. And then there's my real job, the one that keeps me knee deep in toys and video games. I need to spend time on that as well.
Until next time I get bit by the game programming bug....
I was going to post another Ziggy doodle, but I decided to spread out the Ziggies. There are only so many Ziggies I can handle, and I imagine you're the same.
Seattle, WA | 2007.09.23 | Cast of Horribles | Programming, TV, Video Games
I constantly need to know if anyone likes me
Seattle, WA | 2007.10.31 | Cast of Horribles | castofhorribles.com, Google, Google Analytics, Internets, TV
I can't stand to watch the end
I did not like Three's Company. I used to watch it as a kid, and at the end, when the big reveal happened, I hid my eyes with my hands, trying to get away from the anxiety-inducing moment of embarrassment, where Jack realizes that Cindy said that Janet was ... you get the idea.
I woke with a bad headache today. I so far resisted druggin myself. That resistance has broken down, and as soon as I finish this I'm heading over to the medicine cabinet. Tasty Advil here I come.
Mercer Island, WA | 2008.11.06 | Cast of Horribles | Three's Company, TV
Come here my sexy machine
Battlestar Galactica, oh how you started out so incredible and became such crap by the second season. Julie and I stopped watching it then. We loved the first season, somewhat enjoyed parts of the second season, and hated the rest. It murdered innocent old ladies. It did unspeakable things to polite society. It had such promise and squandered it by writers who forgot to plan ahead. The same thing happens to most animes: they start incredibly strong, but because they weren't well planned, they peter out and head in ridiculous directions. But at least BSG left us this Horrible.
It's snow-raining right now. This is by far the strangest winter. I had hopes that it would end well, with Spring sticking its colorful mug from the ground early. Hopes spring eternal, or something. For now I'll accept the snow-rain and get on with my day.
Mercer Island, WA | 2009.03.07 | Cast of Horribles | Battlestar Galactica, Cylon, Night, Robot, Stars, TV
"If I make a documentary they will believe me"
I have to get back to making that documentary.
I installed the car seat yesterday in preparation of B-day. Three weeks until the due date. Very the scary.