Renewal! Can I get some high fives over here?

Got back this weekend from the annual Renewal Ministries gathering in Ypsilanti, Michigan, and it was FAN-TAS-TIC.  Just sayin'.  The Lord did some awesome things with me there and I'm rearing and ready to go to do God's work!

I also attended there an event for a new group that they're starting called, "i.d. 916", which is a sort of youth program which intends to help equip young adults to gather and discern how God is calling them to evangelize.  It seemed like a pretty neat idea, so I was telling one of the guys there about Team Orthodoxy, (for which I contribute currently with my weekly Gospel reflections).  I sent a message afterward to Chris to let him know I was plugging Team Orthodoxy at the Renewal Ministries event, and he replied with, "SICK!!!"  Then later I left a message on his answering machine with the line in the picture you see above.  Heh, fun times.  Anyhow, I'm all revved up now and I've been thinking as well in what other ways I might be able to use my website to continue to have fun as a hobby and animate and draw and stuff, but also to draw others to Christ.  So, all ye who read the Slightly Orange News, might ye care to weigh in on this?  Opinions?  Suggestions?  Recommendations?  Offerings?  Spam?

Get it?

eh?  ehhhhhhh?  Bad joke I know, but I was out last week with my sister and we took a walk through the marsh and I just had to do this.

Turning 30 Feels Weird

This Week's Tuesday Update:

Caveman Dan

• Mr.Spock  

Tee hee.  I enjoyed making the updates on Caveman Dan this week.  I like it when characters go a little bit insane.  And keep posting commands, keep Caveman Dan busy!

So I turned 30 this weekend, and I had some most wonderful friends (including my sister) who put together a fun shindig for me in which we had a "Baco de Mayo", Mexican-themed, Bacon Day style party, which was a lot of fun.  Everyone was super great, and my sis, Jen, even wrote and read aloud for us "30 Bacon Facts vs. Steve Facts", which were pretty hilarious.  I recorded it on video, and I'll see if maybe Jen will be so kind as to let me post it to the youtubes.

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?