Particle Accelerator

This Week's Tuesday Update:

Caveman Dan

• Invent Particle Accelerator  

Yep.  What you just read above? ... yes, it's totally happening.  Caveman Dan is going to cast of the shackles of the stereotypes that plague those of his era, and show that cavemen can invent beyond the club, or the wheel, or the club on wheels—for our friend Dan shall create a particle accelerator.

Wipe your tears.  Caveman Dan doesn't want to see you cry, even though he knows those are tears of amazement and wonder—tears of hope for the downtrodden.  Caveman Dan wants you to know that you can do it too.  He believes in you.

So make sure you help Caveman Dan embark upon his new quest to build a particle accelerator.  Submit your commands!  Forget about finding his precious meat.  The meat can wait.  There is SCIENCE to be done!

Don't hate me

It's really hard to gage how people feel about my regular updates considering I have only about 3 people who will post responses to me on occasion.  Though, from the stats I read, it sounds like I have a good number of followers, it's just nobody actually INTERACTS with me.
So whether sometimes my "slow to update the games" tendency is something that is bothering people, I have no way of knowing really.  But... today I am slow to update the games, so sorry.

This, instead, is my gift to you this week... if you recall a certain "dignified horse" I once posted... well... this is COMPLETELY different, okay?  This is a rather dignified unicorn, which, as I am sure we can all agree, is something of a different nature entirely.  Enjoy.

Team Orthodontist

Hey all!

So while I could count this as the Tuesday Update, I don't want to, because I'd like to do some more Caveman Dan.  So I will.  Later today.

However, I thought in the meantime I'd tell you about our awesome Team Orthodoxy meeting we held last night (the first one I've had the privilege to participate in).  So for fun and fellowship, I made us some commemorative t-shirts to wear:

In case you're wondering, "what's the deal with the face?" this joke sprung out of a facebook conversation we had about some Team Orthodoxy shirts that Chris and Julie had made and were wearing in a picture they posted.  Here's where it all went downhill:

Remember the Adventure Games?

This Week's Tuesday Update:

Unfettered Discord

• continue (3 new scenes)  

Well I sure remember my games: Caveman Dan and Unfettered Discord!  It's been a while since I've done any updating there, as I've been busy with bacon day videos, drawings, and animations.

I know it's not the best for these games to leave such a gap in between commands, but I've updated Unfettered Discord, and next week I plan to update Caveman Dan.  The stories are both coming to a point of real development, so if you don't know what's going on, now is a good time to do a quick read over, and if you're lost, just post some comments on this thread and I'll fill you in.

Since I know I've acquired some new viewers of my site, in case you're confused about how these games work, or about how they're actually games at all, I'll explain briefly:

If you're an uber computer nerd, quite simply put, in these games, I replace the computer as the parser.

For everyone else who has no clue what that means, I offer a slightly longer explanation:

The games are meant to resemble those old command line video games, but it reads more like a comic.  So where you see the part that says, "> start_" under the picture when you open the game—that's the command line.  On every page, you just click the command line to see the next screen, and you read it more like you would read a comic book, to catch up on the story.  It's basically like a comic strip to have the feel of a game, because you have an image, a description of the action going on below, and then a command line where you would (normally) type in your next command.  And it's a story comic, so you can't really just jump in anywhere, because each panel is hardly meant to be read/viewed all on its lonesome.

Where the gameplay actually comes in is that eventually when you're caught up, you'll notice the command line is blank, and below it are a whole mess of commands submitted by people from all over.  Now when you click the command line, you can actually type in your own commands for what you want to happen next in the game, and it will be added to the list.  Then I pick a command that I like from that list, and draw up the next panel in the game.  So from then on, you're participating in "playing" the game with everyone else who visits my website!  Neat eh?

Friday in the Octave (part 2): Bacon-Treaded Angus!

As there are many new people who have become aware of my website lately, you probably didn't know, but I update my website by every Tuesday (I post Tuesdays to say what's been updated in the last week).  Normally, I have a post on my blog with the updates cued for 12am on Tuesday, but I'm running late today due to a failing computer.

BUT HERE IT IS!  ANOTHER BACON DAY VIDEO!

I never expected we'd make one so soon, but on the same day I posted the "Friday in the Octave" we were inspired to make sure we ate meat on Friday, and so we held another Bacon Day.

I finally finished the video and uploaded it to YouTube, so here it is!  We made bacon-wrapped grapes as an appetizer, then for the main course had bacon-threaded angus, some bacon-fried veggies, and rice.  .... regular rice.  Sorry.  Here it is!

Friday in the Octave

Here's a little Catholic joke I put together.  For all you hardcore Catholics out there, you know you've made this kind of mistake before and remembered half-way through the day!  Here's to making sure your Friday isn't baconless!

Be Careful What You Ask For

I always find requests people make for website design (or any other programming/computer-related requests) to be somewhat amusing.

My friend James recently received such a request, and he was sharing with me what was asked of him: "Make the background kind of like the feeling of water being hit by moonlight while the night sky is still light, so not a dark, navy blue, but a light one".  The moment he told me this, I said, "I am going to make this background.  I know exactly what this guy wants.  So I drew this:

You're welcome.

You can also see this background applied to the website in question, because James actually humoured me enough to put it up.  Though it's up there secretly so the guy doesn't actually know, 'cause as it turns out, he doesn't like awesome things.  YOU on the other hand, know something awesome when you see it.