Dino & Cake

I've moved and so have my posts!

2012-01-11T00:40:00.000-08:00

I'm an advanced human being and the Rainbow Nightmare: Libra project has moved!

http://audiomew.tumblr.com/

Farewell my dear...............

Dino & Cake

2011-08-04T01:25:00.000-07:00

8/4/11

I have returned from the gravvvvveeeee. I have left my blog untouched for a very long time It used to be kind of a random development blog, but I want to focus on daily art and a few other things. So I'm re-working my blog YARR!

Things that I've fixed/changed:

I'm putting a date for every post, because my older posts are implemented in a way so it looks like my date posts are very old when they aren't!
New Image at the top!
New Name!
Working on a new background!
Shoutbox which was was occupied by Katy Perry earlier. She will be missed.
News has turned into Older Posts.
I'll be purging a lot of useless content on the side bar soon.
Will work on a few new side bars.

Okay, first off I'm catching up on "winter" gear, there are certain things that are crucial to my existence and now I will post said things that I'm going to make a life quests into obtaining BEFORE winter starts!

Probably the coolest pair of headphones on planet earth.

So I also need to replace my bicycle. Imatell you a lil story about my love-love relationship with old 50's bicycles and mopeds. I cruise Ebay a lot looking for exceptionally great deals on old bikes and I had bought one for like 300 jewels which is p good. Long story short I bought it, loved it, rode it forever through time and space, etc. So one day I leave it out on my porch and someone steals it. Steals a 50's girls bicycle. I'm like, really dude? Anyway, thing cost me a fortune of hard earned rupees. Take anything, man, take my wallet, my ipod, but my bike? The frick is wrong with you?

I've been gunning for this sweater for a long time. Like, last winter whenever I had the money for it, guess what it's out of stock, or the price sky rockets to like, 30 American dollars. This is like the only image, they have a really cool black one, I just hope they sell these this winter.

Finally, I usually get 3 or 4 shirts, which I've already picked out, so I can share with you and look back when I can't afford them and just, weep.

Obviously a rare jemstone of Luna in shirt form. I hear people will murder for this...

Yoshi. Deeerp.
Jem, probably the best 80's cartoon on planet earth. I am sure it is like wearing a tunic of golden silk.

♥STORY♥

2009-04-06T19:15:00.000-07:00

-Welcome to Robbin's Rest-

Hiding in the Bornskanovian Forest is a town called Robbin's Rest. A historical town that has deep ties with well known royalty. Robbin's Rest sits in between a war with Sal Siraa residence and a mechanical Neon Empire. But robots and machines are the least of the problems that the townsfolk of Robbin's Rest are worried about...

Women have been disappearing and found with their blood drained from their bodies, people claim to see giant vampire bats flying through the night, zombies roaming the Bornskanovian Forest, werewolves picking off townsfolk, and shady characters appearing in Robbin's Rest. All of these paranormal activities have been somehow connected to the towns curse of the Eternal King.

This game is not meant to be scary or spooky. I'm just using it as a theme. I happen to very much enjoy zombies, skeletons, creepy characters, etc. Someone asked me if this is fantasy or steampunk. It doesn't fit anywhere. I've added all kinds of elements from things that I like. You'll see zombies, robots, cellphones, etc.

Chrono Crisis: Grandpappa of Vaporware

2009-02-22T19:38:00.000-08:00

A few of us were talking about vaporware rm games the other day in #shmup and whenever you add the word vaporware you have to follow it up with Chrono Crisis. If you guys haven't heard of Chrono Crisis well, it's a fangame made by some guy named Chains of Fate. Originally the game was being created in RM2003, but eventually he decided it would be better on XP.

Yes, there is soo much art!

I think the dude has been floating around since the year 2003 or so. People heard of his game before that, so he's been around. Basically the general public assumes this guy is a joke and one of the kings of vaporware. You can pretty much assume the project isn't going anywhere considering it's now 2009.

Now, this chump can do whatever he wants. Nobody is losing sleep over him hyping up a Chrono Trigger fangame. The thing that gets me the most is how people on the Internet can be so stupid.

He has drug 10+ people to work on his game. A part of me thinks this is hilarious and really pathetic at the same time, because he has hired a composer, artist, sprite artist, concept artist, weapon designer, coder, and the list goes ooooonnn. While somewhere Chains of Fate is drinking Quick and sleeping on a bag of Fritos.

The site speaks for itself. It's nicely designed, there are mock ups and music floating around, and best of all TONS OF CONCEPT ART! Ultimately, you can tell there's no substance. So far the only thing available is a Youtube Video. The trailer is just still images of the game and absolutely 0 playtime. Listen bro, if you were going to release something you would have by now.

The best thing to come out of Chono Crisis!

The Chrono Crisis team is a group of Fagtrons connected to Dongnites. You group about 20 people and still have nothing solid to offer while other one team designers are producing way better content and full games. Give me a break dude, Chains of Fate, it's raining dicks so open your mouth wide.

Pretty sure my next update will be Rainbow Nightmare related. Until then, peace dawgs.

RANTS

2009-02-05T17:21:00.000-08:00

This isn't anything directed to RN, butttt I want to rant about dis shiz, since I know a few of you have heard about "Bob's game" from someone!

Let me throw down da facts on dis dickwad. Bob is some indie game designer who has apparently been working on his game "Bob's game" for 5 years and 15,000 hours. Clearly this

chump missed out on the finer things in life: kissing a girl, letting the sun hit your face, etc. All of this work in the confines of his own basement. 5 years well spent my friend.

This is directly from Bob's site:

Hello.My name is Bob, age 25.
This is my game for Nintendo DS, a 20-hour-long retail-size, retail-quality adventure title by a single human being-the largest game ever made by one person.
"bob's game" is a simple 2D adventure game, with focus on story, puzzles, item collection, and communication instead of repetitive battles with palette-swapped enemies.
Many characters (over 200 completely unique characters!) have deep personalities that evolve, and many things depend on the in-game time, day and weather.
It's the game I wanted to play when I was younger, a vision I've been following since then.

Pretty harmless, right? Welp, Bob needs a Nitro SDK, software that Nintendo works with licensed developers. And they gave him the cold shoulder, hmm I wonder why! Anyway, in his

response he is doing this until Nintendo gives into his demands.

I cannot finish "bob's game" for Nintendo DS until I have the Nitro SDK!I am supposed to receive a decision in 6-8 weeks. It has been 16 weeks!I don't really know what else to do!I'm beginning to think someone at Nintendo is insanely jealous they didn't think of it first and wants to keep me from releasing "bob's game!" I've got my eye on that "Reggie" guy, he's suspicious for sure! I heard he beats people up and writes down their names or something.. I'm onto you, Reggie! ;}The Rules:
I cannot leave this viridian room. The door is locked and barricaded from the outside.I am sleeping behind the camera, and yes- I've got a shower. Food is delivered once a week by a friend.I have no internet access, television, or game consoles besides those I am developing on.I can receive and send email on my Android G1, so I can get Nintendo's reply and update my site with tether.The LED counter will be incremented once a day, and sometimes it will display hints and secret messages.

Man, haha. So, this guy locks himself in his moms basement with his landline of Doritos and Craddle of Filth cd's hoping that Nintendo will allow him to purchase the SDK software. He plans to do this for 100 days. Whew, good thing mom is paying the bills! First of all, how mentally retarded would you have to be to lock yourself in your room for 100 days in a pathetic and pointless attempt at getting a company to give you software? I mean, if you honestly believe by sitting in your piss stained room that somehow word will get to some suit at Nintendo and he will go "WELP THIS VIRGIN HAS GUSTO I'LL GIVE EM' THAT!" you're just..crazy, man.

You're protesting because you can't get your god awful game on the DS.

So let's flash forward, he ends up locked in his room for 30 days and ultimately quits. I don't see how him being locked in his room for 100 days is anything EPIC considering he spent 5 years developing some trash in that very spot. I'm not shocked that he could do it for 30, he does look like a rotten pumpkin that has been out in the sun for a month.

Nintendo has done nothing. Shocking! As a general rule of thumb Nintendo has been awful for quite a while, but they're smart enough not to give some jerk-off some software simply because he complains and bitches. I'm pretty sure any suit at Nintendo would give it one look and slowly vomit in their throat.

So, if you check his site, after living 30 days in his room like the tool that he is, he's given up on trying to get the SDK to finish his game and had some mental breakdown. You've really taken it to the suits, bud. You know why I don't like this guy? Because he seems to do everything the wrong way. This is exactly why designers stay in their cubicles with stains of broken dreams. Plus, he's an incredibly arrogant dick about how his game is the most amazing piece of material because it's made by one virgin.
Where did I place the bottle and bib? Looks like Bob self destructed his fortress of dicks because he couldn't get his hands on his precious...p..precious SDK!

Anyway, if you read the posts from his site he gets progressively worse and the cops raid his room to find out of he's still living. That's cool. I need to post this video of him promoting his
game too. It's just way too hilarious for you guys not to see this shit. The video is Bob driving to a Nintendo store in New York to promote the release of his new game BOBS GAME! (Not really)

If you haven't established already, Bob is a cunt. He basically raids the Nintendo store dumping his awful business cards all over the floor, getting his clowns to walk around the store and plaster stupid posters of a character sprite all over, and claim to a bunch of nobodies that he's some game designer is just incredibly pathetic. Not only that, it's just hilarious how he probably paid off a couple Asian girls from the gutter of Myspace personals to go around saying "Kiwaaa BOBS GAME ^__^".

Clearly he picked these girls off the street for a quick 20 to go around and act like complete fucking tools. They obviously have no clue who the hell Bob is. And I highly doubt girls like that would hang out with a skidmark like that without some kind of money drop. The video ends with them probably getting kicked out of the store after you hear police sirens. So badass....

What's he doing now? Welp. You can now find Bob still idling in his mom's basement which he now constructed into an alien spacecraft updating his Okcupid profile and lack of Vitamin D. When you think Indie Games you think creative, fun, interesting, etc. Bob's game will never be Alien Hominid, or Cave Story. Sorry Bob. Go outside the graphics are great.

This is Bob. Spending his days in his Lair of Cocks.

So Bob spends his time in his fortress of dicks spinning posts on his website about being abducted by aliens and crying himself to sleep. Enjoy the horrible publicity buddy, you're truly a cunt.

gingerbreadsaurus rex goes nom nom nom

2008-12-24T01:27:00.000-08:00

LINKS!

Links that I visit often or use. If you want to be posted just hit me up on aim!

Ghost's Blog (Game Dev)

Ocean's Blog(Game Dev)

RPG'S Blog( Game Dev)

Add me to Myspace only if you're tight. K thxs.

Nessiah's Blog (Game Dev)

The only webcomic worth checking out. EVER!

Side 7

2008-11-23T15:21:00.000-08:00

Phaser Head

The original name for this character was Scatter Brain and then I switched it to Phaser Head. This Neon Empire resident was apart of the original force that was used by Neon Empire against Robbin's Rest at an earlier event. A platoon of G-15 units were designed to fight off this new undead threat. Unfortunately, it was an utter failure and few robots survived the slaughter.

The surviving robots were scrapped and the G-15 units ceased to exist, except Phaser Head. So, in a sense he is a relic from the first encounter with Robbin's Rest's undead. G-15 were deemed unpractical against the undead due to their slow movement and stockpile of weaponry, and they were discontinued. With that being said, Phaser Head has a stockpile of countless weaponry that can level a small city.

Phaser Head is cool and collected. His personality exceed the usual Neon Empire residence, and he is very cocky in the heat of battle, casually throwing remarks in threatening situations. He could very well be the Robotic version of Hopkins. They have a friendly rival type relationship and seem to go back beyond the current mission. Phaser Head respects Hopkins ability to deal with Hamvitch, as they're both disgusted with him.

Phaser Head also collects rare oils as a hobby.

Mathew Hopkins

Hopkins has been pushed to the limits in his career. He is a retired vampire hunter. Although he doesn't act like it, Hopkins always has any situation under control and within his abilities. If not, he will backtrack and re-group until he can figure it out. He has been "hired"(more like forced at gunpoint) by Neon Empire to stomp out the undead threat.

His support crew is: Hamvitch, Phaser Head, and Bones(He will be revealed later)

Hopkins is a celebrity of sorts, due to having apprenticed under a legendary vampire hunter that could defeat undead with a simple crack of his whip. He has a common respect with Phaser Head. It should also be noted that Hopkins is in love with his axe, using it in the third person, kissing, and talking to it often. "Why would you ever need a woman, when you can have a piece of heaven at your hip?"

His weapon the "Neck Wrecker" has decapitated many ghastly zombies, werewolves, and vampires. Too many to count. Hamvitch and Phaser Head tease Hopkins for using such primitive weaponry to fight against the undead. Holy cross, stakes, garlic, etc. Little do they know these are ideal for fighting forsaken creatures.

Hopkins is designed off the famous witch hunter matthew hopkins. Hopkins has stayed true to his design one way or another. He was originally designed as leader of a group of thieves infiltrating Neon Empire. He could speak to animals and control them in combat and talked very little. I never used any of this and I dropped the concept. The original support crew can be found in Robbin's Rest just hanging around.

I also sketched out that Hopkins would use a giant chain cross whip, but I decided the axe was more appropriate.

Dr Gregory Hamvitch

A long time resident of Neon Empire with class A citizenship. This allows him to openly work in Neon Empire. Hamvitch is the director of Weapons Development in Neon Empire. Unlike most scientists who tinker and obsess over their work, Hamvitch is more involved with the finer things in life: exotic jewelry, the most expensive clothes, food, the creme de la creme.

In the circle of scientists human and robotic, there is a constant struggle of power for funding. Normally, Hamvitch would never be in the field, but somehow other scientists who have conspired to take his position have found a way to put him in Hopkins support unit.

Hamvitch is a weapons designer, so it should be noted that he will have nothing to do with robotics. You won't be seeing him repairing anything outside of a funky weapon. Hamvitch is overweight and an IQ of 299, he is constantly being talked down by Hopkins(Who can't stand him). In his younger years Hamvitch tried to amass his success as a tarot wizard but failed miserably.

Hamvitch is designed based off Palmer from Final Fantasy 7. Perhaps the most underrated character in the game.

Renders

2008-11-22T17:59:00.000-08:00

Renders

Kitarians are a race of cat people who live all around Sal Sirra long before man. Renders is a Tarot Wizard prodigy who has mastered many useful elemental Tarot Spells. Kitarians by nature are skilled, proud, and strong willed creatures. Sadly, Renders hasn't inherited this ability. Despite being a powerful Tarot Wizard, he's a coward at heart. The only thing that keeps him him from running away is the skill of his comrades.

Renders looks down on everyone. He is critical and to the point, and often mocking people in the process. He thinks he's better than everyone else. Having this frame of mind has left Renders with few friends and many enemies. Still, he travels will Granin and Myth to face certain doom. Perhaps to overcome his fear of being a coward at heart.

Traveling to the capital of Sal Sirra to assist as a teacher for other Tarot Wizards. During this time the Slave Act was still fresh in the minds of many residents of Sal Sirra. Renders has faced many bitter and racist people due to this. Except Granin.

One night during a walk home, a group of thugs had pushed Renders into an alley with the intent on robbing him, or worse when Granin had accidentally stumbled out of a tavern drunk and right into the situation. Having Granin pass out in a family of garbage cans and causing a loud noise that alerted the town guard to investigate the situation and save Renders.

Granin and Renders have been friends ever since. Although, Granin doesn't remember any of it. Renders thinks of Granin as an equal if not better.

Lamberton Corp

2008-11-21T17:32:00.000-08:00

Lamberton Corp. North Shore elite

A platoon of North Shore soldiers who died long ago. Revived to help Raddlefuse obtain the power of the Eternal King. These guys will get in your way and are the main force you'll be up against.

Lankin

The leader of Lamberton Corp. One of the first Recon Ninja to step foot on Sal Sirra soil. Died on the castle walls by grenade blast.

Breach

Lamberton Corp's scout specialist and an ex-member of an exclusive group of legendary investigators. Calculating all moves before hand, sadly he couldn't calculate the storm of arrow fire that killed him.

Killdread

The last member of Lamberton Corp to join before it's ultimate destruction. He's also the lowest rank and is often found scouting and grunt work with little pull. His maniac type attitude contributes to this. In his former life he was accused of overkill by burning down towns and murdering civilians

He was transferred to Lamberton Corp from North Shores regular army due to his mental stability.

Paper Doll

Lamberton Corps medic. Along with her medical skills she is a master manipulator with dolls. She is apparently more skilled than Lankin.

♥CAST♥

2008-11-20T23:02:00.000-08:00

Granin Estell

Granin Estell is a failure of a Foot-Knight in every sense of the word. Granin always keeps his helmet on to impress the local children and tells them he has to wear it because of a brutal scar during a legendary battle. When in reality, he wears it to look cool.

After taking(and failing) countless tests to become a Foot-Knight, and endless gracious donations from his father, Granin finally obtained Foot-Knight statues. Which is the most standard of class for a Knight. One below Squire. Granin's dream has finally came true, and he was able to obtain his dream career as a town guard. Loving it, because it's the least amount of work and effort any Knight could have.

Family Tree

♦ Gavely Estell(Father). A retired Knight with an obnoxiously large ego.

♦ Rauna Estell(Mother). A songstress who often plays in the local theater. She's a regular celeberity and loves a good drink.

♦ Tybalt Estell(Brother). Granin's over achiving brother, Granin often spits on him from the family roof before he goes about his duties as a Knight.

♦Sasha Estell(Sister). Granin's sister, she herself finds it hard to live in a world where boys are heroes.

♦ Eric the Low. Not directly connected to the Estell family, but he has trained every generation of Knight. His only failure, is of course, Granin. He lives in on the Estell estate.

Granin's change of heart

Granin isn't the deepest thinker, infact he only thinks about himself and how his life revolves around himself. Polar opposites seem to attract, because that is what Granin's girlfriend is. They often sit on a special hill and talk about the downfall and rise of the current war between humanity and Neon Empire.

Granin's girlfriend, Sophia Reinholbert made a promise to the world. A vow to end the war, an epic quest. Being incredibly reluctant, Granin agree's to escort her in hopes she would quit and return home once she understood how the world works. Granin ends up dragging his best friend, Renders and the three set off for the ultimate adventure.

Auger D

Auger D is a Recon Ninja from North Shore. Like most, Auger D has came to Robbins Rest to end the curse that has a deathly hold over the town. Auger D is, as most ninja are, a mystery. Auger D pops in and out giving Granin and crew helpful advice in the most cynical of manner, but he seems like one of the more friendlier type of ninja. He seems to have a deeper connection to Robbins Rest.

Auger D has his own agenda, and although he might not welcome the party with open arms, he does his best to help. He's just like every other ridiculous character in Robbins Rest trying to end the curse and make a name for himself. Maybe?

Recon Ninja

Auger D is a Recon Ninja that are originated from a large island owned by a shipping company called North Shore. While Sal Sira adopted Shield and Buckle Ninjas, Recon Ninjas are used to scout out and usually not an offensive type.

Roach

Roach is a zombie who was "unintentionally"buried in a military burial ground for North Shore Elite. When the Tarot-Mancer revives them he's also revived. Not too keen on the whole "take over the world" thing, he refuses to comply with the events taking place. The Tarot-Mancer ends up feeding Roach to a giant undead worm.

In his former life, Roach, despite his appearance is a deep thinker and a philosopher for the most part. His design is based off 80's English Punk Rockers. He has an assortment of incredibly weird moves spanning from shooting lazer beams out of his mouth to a cannon made out of crossbones.

-The Antagonists of Rainbow Nightmare-

-Raddlefuse Del Embargo-

The leader of operations, Raddlefuse is a rare class that can sustain his life through frowned upon research. And the main Villain of Rainbow Nightmare. Research of this sort has been highly banned in Sal Sirra and these people are called Tarot Mancers. There is a growing number of cult followings revolving around the research of re-animating the dead. Most of these groups operate in a Island trading company called NorthShore.

Raddlefuse has been researching Robbin's Rest's curse and has hired a unit to navigate through the maze like castle where the Eternal King is supposedly buried. Raddlefuse is a high ranking member of the Tarot Mancer cult, and it's rumored that he's made a deal with some demi-god to slow down his aging. It's speculated he's 150 years old. Raddlefuse has spent 10 years in NorthShores prison facility after being caught stealing information regarding ancient gods.

Raddlefuse has also been rumored to have a worldly ability to summon a large number of undead.

-Mr. Meer-

A race living under Sal Siraa for thousands of years. Meer people keep to themselves. They prefer to keep themselves far away from the human race. Occasionally meer people will travel outside of their villages to explore the outer world.

Mr. Meer set to travel to Sal Siraa to become a Shield Ninja. NorthShore has 0 restrictions for who can join their military, unlike Sal Siraa's royalty. Strangely, Mr. Meer often has maggots falling out of his boots and reeks of death...

Clearly I haven't written too much about Mr. Meer, but he looks pretty cool. Originally I had a different character that I planned to use, but he just came out so boring that I decided to use something more interesting. I think the hunchback one eyed creature is a lot more appealing.

-Statz-

A silent killer. The product of extensive training as a Buckle Ninja.(under construction.)

-Professor Cobblepot-

An ex-resident of Neon Empire. Originally created to be a data collecting robot. He's the leading source of information when it comes to the paranormal. Professor Cobblepot has been researching and chronicling all paranormal activity in Sal Siraa. Neon Empire has a strict law against socializing with creatures without the proper authorization. Eventually the Professor was caught stealing large amounts of funds for his outlandish expeditions to the most remote places.

Cobblepot is currently being held in Neon Empires maximum security wing. He's been found guilty for smuggling information and using unauthorized funds. He's set to be dismantled.

This is my favorite character out of the group so far. I really think his design is fun and the colors are totally goofy all the way up to his bowtie. He's going to be a important support character for both parties, and I have a lot written for him. My two inspirations for this character is from the Lost in Space robot, and The Return to Oz character Tic-Toc. It's a more mobile version. I haven't really decided on what kind of personality or mannerisms I'm going to give him yet though.

♥RAINBOW NIGHTMARE: SHORT STORIES♥

2008-11-17T00:06:00.000-08:00

Smoking his exotic cigar he peers to the edge of the
wall. The figure touched the wall and rubbed his finger
across the ancient runes crafted from the robot
architects of ages past. A Robot Paradise. As I peered, I
wiped the crust from my lips from the cigar which was
imported from North Shores finest.

Humans were slaving away on the lower platform
constructing some kind of Robot Idol in the center
of the area. Surrounding the slaves were robot security
with electric batons beating them systematically. I
spit in disgust. As I looked on above the platform of
workers I saw it, a spiral of death, a tower made out
of exotic metal.

I flicked my cigar in no particular direction and it slid into
it's new home, a pile of garbage. A small fire started to
burn. I smiled. Wrapping myself in my coat I made my
way to my own death

"Neon Empire" I whispered...

I just wrote that so people would get interested. It's actually pretty awful writing. Which is the point. Okay, so if you're clicking this blog, you're looking at RAINBOW NIGHTMARE SHORT STORIES! Which in essence is a bunch of short stories I've written that are put and tied into one game. I plan to update this once a week, sooo- if you're interested in this stuff, stay tuned.

♥Conceptual Art4♥

2008-09-07T15:53:00.000-07:00

♥Conceptual Art3♥

2008-09-06T14:20:00.000-07:00

♥Conceptual Art2♥

2008-09-05T00:27:00.000-07:00

Killdread (Enemy)
Phaser Head
Hopkins
Bastard

♥Conceptual Art♥

2008-09-04T01:45:00.000-07:00

CHARACTERS/ENEMIES/Friends/NPC'S

Hamvitch Sketch (This character is confirmed)

Coon(Also confirmed character)

???(Confirmed character)

Mayor of Robbin's Rest

NPC

NPC(Town Guard)

Boss

♥Media♥

2008-07-01T18:28:00.000-07:00

Videos/Screenshots!
Here you can view recent screenshots and video's(bottom)

♥ JORBS!♥

2008-06-01T18:58:00.000-07:00

I'm always looking to join new and exciting projects!

(Because I need Hot Topic money)

So, if you've stumbled upon this section you might be looking for something. I'm always happy
to work on game projects, but I work in very low-res. That doesn't mean I can't help, but it's
usually a project to project based thing. I'm usually always available, I'm cheap, and I don't use generic anime.

I can do an assortment of things:

Sprite
Concept Art
Monster Design
Character Design
Faceset Art

I will seriously work for:

Belts
T-Shirts
Sunglasses

Anyway, yeah if you're serious, just get in touch with me on Aim(Grrwoofiecakes) but, please only add me if you're serious, because I have a TON of people on AIM already and I'm trying to regulate.

If you're rich and would like to see Rainbow Nightmare done, feel free to donate to my PayPal(ronda@sonnet.com) All of it will go to art materials for RN. Every penny helps!

PEOPLE I'D LIKE TO HIRE!

Do you like Rainbow Nightmare? Do you want to join the team? Well, you're in luck because I'm looking for a few good humans!

Battle System Coder(CBS): I'm looking for someone to code a CBS out of scratch that is a classic sideview system. We can work out the kinks and figure out just what it takes to make a fun and exciting battle system.

Composer: A talented person who can compose music. I'm trying to focus the game around three musical realms: Rock, Techno, and Classical music. This position can be applied to more than one composer. To give an example of what sort of music I'm looking for, Final Fantasy Tactics, Castlevania, Mega Man, and Advanced Wars Dual Strike.

Mini Game Coder: I have an assortment of crazy mini games that I want to include, but I need someone capable of coding them. If you're a smooth operator and want to code these, get in touch with me.

Again, if you're serious, just get in touch with me over Aim(Grrwoofiecakes).

~TFT

GEE GEE GEE GEE

2007-07-12T20:10:00.000-07:00

~MONSTER DESIGN IS MY PASSION!~

That has always been a big draw in for me when it comes to video games. You'll see giant robot dinosaurs, undead flying dragons, floating cities with eyeballs, things you can not imagine. It's always been about cool bosses, clever enemy design, even vehicles. Most of the time the bad guys get the best things possible. They get decked out rides, flying robotic fortresses, the works. Rarely do the good guys get anything as cool as what the bad guys get. So many games have pulled off such incredible assortment of bosses and enemies, obviously the two that comes to mind is the Castlevania Series, as well as Contra. I can't forget Amano's monster designs either. I think I am well around average artist at best, but I feel like my ability to create interesting monster designs is my strong point.

It's fun to get a txt from someone who writes something incredible vague and just says "make something" out of this tiny blarb. It's like constructing something creative out of your own mind from thin air with only a base to go from. Something like that feels to me, when your imagination and your artistic ability kind of flows together to create something neat out of nothing. You aren't being asked to create a stupid Anime portrait that can be done by anyone because Anime art can be taught in tutorials. When you get good at Anime, that's the extent of your creativity. If someone asked you to draw something beyond that, I'm sure it would be difficult. Personally I would find that less satisfying. There is a difference from creating your own art and creating something you find in some kind of Anime tutorial. I am sure anatomy design is very useful, and there are a lot of artists who actually blend Anime and different styles to construct something new. Something like that I can appreciate very much. It always sounds like I am knocking Anime artists, but I'm not. It is still impressive regardless.

It's like, being a musical composer. Being influenced by other composers and creating something but still retaining your own sound. I'm sure there are a lot of different examples that can be applied. But, I am sure there is a difference between having an influence and simply taking a song and changing a few notes and saying it's "my original piece".

~Technobabel~

I've been focusing all of my energy on this Android Shmup Firas(RPG) and I are working on. I prefer this project over RN for many-many reasons. Essentially with Technobabel I can do whatever I want from a creators standpoint without the hindrance of RPG related content(battle system, story, characters, etc). I've touched the RPG genre, it's fun for a while, and I plan on releasing RN on Android in the future, but I'm just done with it. Eventually you just want to expand your creativity. I want to make platformers, puzzlers, beat em' ups. I'm being honest when I say making an RPG is god awful. If you want to burn yourself out, try to make an RPG. I do not understand how people can churn out the same thing over and over when it is essentially the same thing. We call those people "Chumps".
Technobabel is not a normal Shmup. We want it to go up-down-left-right- we want you to dodge enemies, and terrain, we want to add obscure and abnormal bosses, a card system, an endless supply of support characters to enhance the replay value. I feel stuff like that is real game design, not laying down tiles and going "hurr". I'm starting to value spriting a lot more because of this project, slowly learning how to create bigger sprites. I get back more than most people, improving yourself artistically while creating something.

Basically, when we finish this project we either know a lot about Game Design or jack shit about it. If it's successful, we might be onto something, if not, well maybe it's not our thing. But, games aren't exactly rocket science in the first place. A game that is a Shmup/Contra hybrid with some cool jams from Chef.

~BEAD ART~

My good friend Kim has been working on bead art recently. The stuff is really neat and thought I would post a few since I find it interesting and creative. We've done a couple projects together, and she is very fun to work with. Few people get my vibe I guess! Someday I want to just, sip tea and surround myself with artistic and creative humans and just talk the day away about art. But alas, tis a dream.. Kim has an Artfire account selling these for fun in the form of jewelry and other cool stuff in the future. If you have a nerdy girlfriend it would make a pretty rad gift. So check that out.

As an Artist

2007-07-11T20:13:00.000-07:00

I was 6 or 7 when I drew this. I started off terrible.

Well, growing up I got into art at a very young age. I think I was around 6 or 10 my parents would buy me those lined paper note pads to draw with(I still have most of them). What I would do is make comic boxes and draw inside them, they wouldn't really make sense but I would just imagine a story along with it in my head. Like, when you're young your parents can't afford to buy you every single toy on the planet! So I found it was just as fun to draw them on paper and make them do things instead. So most of my little art doodles revolved around 80's toys like Transformers, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, GI Joe, stuff like that.

I had a thing for Mega Man when I was 10.

Stuff like that influenced me a lot when I was young. People have commented that I draw a lot
of Zombies and Robots. Well, when I was young I couldn't get enough of Transformers stuff. So
I would draw them almost constantly doing crazy things or TMNT/Transformers crossovers.
Then Mega Man was introduced on the NES so Transformers took a back seat and then EVERYTHING was Mega Man stuff.

As far as Zombies are concerned, I think after watching Bruce Campell, in Army of Darkness and some really old Clash of the Titans movie where this guy had to fight all these skeleton zombie things so I thought that is super cool and I would start drawing Zombies and Skeletons. Just like MegaMan, Castlevania shortly came out and pretty much enhanced my interest in them. So, I don't draw them because I'm morbid, because I'm the opposite of that, but I just find them interesting because you can do a bunch of goofy things with them.

I didn't improve much starting Highschool.

So I have stuck with those two things as my primary sources of inspiration ever since I was super young. So in a way I think those two things are kind of my "thing". I've expanded my
art in other areas over the years but those two are always the primary things I draw. That's why you see a lot of undead and robots in my games. Not because I like scary or Cyberpunk games.

As far as other artists who have inspired me, I've taken a few styles and worked them into my own. YoshitakaAmano is one who has inspired me greatly. He creates beautiful pieces, that I first got to experience in the Final Fantasy games. I can't get enough of his sketchy abstract work. Yoji Shinkawa has a similar sketchy style that is just simply incredible. I love the pieces he's done for the Metal Gear series. I am a big-big-big fan. That's probably why I always put some
kind of military equipment on my characters. When I am casually drawing I'll usually use black
ink pens or sharpies(markers). I feel markers are as close to a paintbrush as possible, and I get
the best control and results from using them. It's like when you go in the shower and you have a sliding glass door and you start to sketch things out with your finger on the glass.

I use normal pens to sketch conceptual art and I avoid using pencils as much as possible. I don't like the feel of pencils at all. And I think finding what tool works best in your hand takes priority over anything.
I must admit, I don't really like to color much unless it's with sharpies. I adore bright and abstract colors vs standard darker colors. I hate coloring with Photoshop, but it's cost effective
and practical, so I deal with it. Sharpies are by far the ideal coloring tool for me. I'm still a big
fan of traditional cheap coloring tools like Markers or Crayons.

A lot of people think you're born with the art talent. I used to think this too when I was very young. After reflecting off everything I have experienced, I have just got decent at art simply because I spent a lot of time doing it, not because I was naturally good at it. Having fun putting something to paper isn't a gift. When I first started I was terrible at it up until Highschool where I started to refine my style, and I am still learning how to make it better on my own, and I will probably continue to learn how to improve it up until I just stop drawing. It's just something that comes with time, not tips from other other people, not art classes, just time. Infact, in High school I failed every single art class and I had to make up for them in Summer school. I didn't agree with the methods used, and I felt it was a cookie cutter class. Art is something you produce with your imagination and creativity. I don't think you can be a good artist without a big imagination.

I highly respect anyone who decides to pick up a pen or pencil and expresses themselves. In fact, I have noticed a surge of artists now then what I saw from when I was growing up. I think it has a lot to do with mainstream anime being apart of peoples daily lives. That's the difference I've noticed between my art and younger people. When you grow up surrounded by anime naturally that is what you'll want to draw and get inspiration from. When I was growing up it was from 80's American cartoons.

Finally, my advice to artists is, no matter what style or skill level you have if you enjoy it keep doing it, f-u-c-k what anyone else says. Even if it is some art celebrity art snob telling you your work is bad. Just tell him to go SUCK A DICK, because anyone can tell you what is bad about something. No matter what it comes down to art is subjective, what one person sees another person won't. I think that is the only useful thing I have learned from my art teachers.

Summer Lovin' ~Hiatus is oversaurus Rex!

2007-07-10T20:16:00.000-07:00

Lady Libra would like to have a word with you!

So let me explain something. I'm from California. I was born in Ca, and I will probably expire from this this planet in Ca. The thing we love the most is the summer. It sounds sort of like a stereotypical thing but it's really accurate, we love summer. We're like lizards searching for
a cozy heated rock to lay on top of and let the death ray sun vapors hit our skin all day, everyday.

Now, during the winter I do absolutely nothing. I usually sit in my room huddled in a blanket with some hot tea and my laptop and couch surf the day away playing World of Warcraft or wasting time on IRC. My work computer that has all of my art, game docs, etc, is on the other side of the freezing cold room next to the bathroom, so it totally enhances the freeze factor. During the winter I try every other day to open RN and work on it, but I just instantly click it off and float back to the heater.

A huge issue I had was this scene that I kept kicking around all winter trying to figure out how to
pull it off, and I just couldn't find any way to do it. So, basically this 5 minute scene prevented my progress all winter.

scene that took me all winter to finish (-\\)

So it's currently summer, things are totally different. Why? Because now I'm warm. When I'm warm, I go out more, socialize, and when I socialize I get ideas, and draw, and do all sorts of things. ALL BECAUSE I HAVE THE SUN TO KEEP ME WARM! Like, I cannot accept any weather that is not 90 something. Weather is a huge deal to me, because I am moody, and the weather has almost everything to do with that.

So with RN lately I have been just hitting it hard, like I've been getting a ridiculous amount of content and scenes done. Everything looks good, story is cruising, characters developing, it's just all great right now.

So, to sort of recap on the game, I'm working on one full game that contains a bunch of short stories. Like Live-a-Live. Except it's in the same universe and all of the stories connect to each
other from different time frames, like Sukioden 3. Now, when I created my first game in RM, I thought, well it was a nice test to see what the program is capable of and if it was for me, so then I created the Rainbow Nightmare with Wolfie and Lush, and it won a few Misaos, few interviews, people seem to overall enjoy it despite the many bugs and stuff. I didn't like the game, really. I thought it did a few clever things, but overall I thought it was a really stupid game. At the end of it I just thought I could create something better.

So I don't talk about Libra's Story much, because when I announced I would be working on a new game which was Granin, Renders, and Myth falling into this town that is filled with undead, and it was very grim and spooky, and the bad guys were different undead, and you met all these cool characters and you join together to enter this vast castle. I like it a lot, and I still write about it and it's being worked on sometimes. I started to think about it, and I went well, I already did Granin in one game I don't want to feel like it's a re-used kind of deal, plus I still had new characters that I wanted to try out.

So I created Libra's Story which goes side by side with Granin's Story. Libra's story is by far my favorite out of anything I've designed or came up with so far. When I started the RN games I wanted to be more robots and machines vs fantasy, and when I created the game with Wolfie and Lush, practically the whole demo was in a fantasy setting, and I eventually started to really hate the game. It just came out like that, because that is where the story went. So instead of just quitting I finished it and told myself I would try something new, instead of working on something I felt was flawed in too many ways.

Libra's story works into everything I ever wanted. Fantasy characters going up against machines and robots, advanced cities, trains, etc. So as far as game progress goes I'm tying up the first introduction area up. It's very simple, so people will get a feeling about how the game will play. The areas are so simple, but they're filled with so much content that I want people to be more excited about what they'll see, instead of how the characters react, or how the story plays out.

I feel like rambling about a specific character in Libra's story. Alternate 6 are Lady Libra's main Antagonist in the story. And what they are is sort of like the machine core of Neon Empire. Cyborg humans. I originally created 6 from the start and thought for sure I would use the 6 I started off with. As time passed by I thought, well what else can I do with them? So ultimately I dropped 3 out of the 6 and introduced 3 new characters.

Anyway, I came up with this old man in a hat and cane, named Deacon the Suspicious. And he started off with like, NO personality whatsoever. And I thought, well as long as he looks cool I guess it doesn't really matter much. So I threw him in while I was creating the game and started to write dialogue for him. And I just decided to make sure he threw out stupid things like "kid" and in my "age" because he was old, and that is what old people do I guess and that will be his "thing".

And I kept writing dialogue about him and I had accidentally typed "Welcome to the performance, friends" and I looked at it for the longest time and I just said to myself what if I just made him into a classic magician, not a wizard or mage, but just a magician who uses card tricks so I started
writing references about a magician and he started to develop into this really fun character that I loved to write for.

What's cool about this character, and I didn't plan this out at all it just happened, was when he is first introduced he comes off as really arrogant and he has that "Well, you're going to get owned kthxbai" attitude and an event happens and he doesn't directly get to fight you. And as you progress through the dungeon he starts to doubt his abilities and loses the arrogant attitude, and by the end of the dungeon he's at his wits end. It was just very crazy how it just wrote itself.

Again, for old content worth checking out look at the News section.

Hiatus thus far!

2007-07-09T16:42:00.000-07:00

I have returned to the game making scene! Just kidding. I actually have time to update my blog, how shocking! I have just been so burnt out from the holidays and everything else in life. I want to give a big FUCK YOU to the guy I did commission work and gave him a lot of original content and then he didn't pay me!

People ask me the process of which I work on my game, which is really odd because my game is very stupid/not cool. But yeah, I thought I would kind of indulge myself and show people how I come up with stuff.

This is the vault of Rainbow Nightmare crap. I keep all my designs, concepts, whatever in this cabinet. It's pretty big, so there is no lack of ideas. I just, collect so much content that I can use later.

Yeah, it's totally all RN junk waiting to be used too! It's hard to imagine never getting ideas, and even when I do I can just

pop this open and randomly pick something to use. In fact, I am running out of room! Basically all the content I can't quite

figure out what to do with at that time I just toss it here to be used later. So people who say I do not take game design seriously, fuck ya'll

When I come up with stuff I don't really do it from a writers perspective. I start off using storyboards for everything I want to do instead of writing out what is going to happen. I usually do my storyboards on an actual story board on my wall, but I had to take it down for a while, so I use regular paper to create mini-story boards.

After that I come up with designs focusing around the theme for the specific scene, just sketching out random content and seeing what sticks is probably my favorite part. Because for one scene I will have about 60 different things to choose from and usually use only 4 to 5 pieces.

I came up during the end game you ride on a giant robot's arm that is themed after a highway. It's still a work in progress but I try to make it accurate to the concept. what in theory is suppose to happen is you shoot riders using the mouse when they appear or get too close. and bigger vehicles appear throwing out enemies that you also have to shoot that progressively gets more difficult. Iwould like it to have the boss slowly pan in the background as you progress across the highway(arm) I figure if it's coded correctly could be incredibly fun. it's just a simple mini-game masked with a bunch of content happening at the same time to give the illusion that it's really good. that's all games really are, masked with over the top things happening while the core gameplay is simple. you can do plenty of things with push "A" or move "up and down" but people are too stupid and not clever enough to figure that out.

Concept1

Concept 2
Concept 3

I've been toying with the battle layout of the game too. This is what I've come up with so far. It's really rough and it doesn't have much yet. I want a major focus on the ability to use cards that are randomly generated by the enemy and player so I am for sure going to keep the card shuffle on their respective sides, but as you can see i have no space for hp for the 3 characters. I think at the top instead of enemy cards i will display their hp and it will change depending on which enemy you select to attack. I also don't like the character sprites. It's just, really traditional looking, and it doesn't seem that fun at all. If I could somehow make it so the camera enhances the screen to give it a closeup shot when they go and attack I think that would make it 100 times better.

I am in freaking love with sharpies!

Hmm, I guess that's all I have to offer for a while! Keep it on the low, ya'll~

Dissidia Sucks!

2007-07-08T22:47:00.000-07:00

Yes, it's true...this game is very VERY stupid. I just got done playing this and it's incredibly frustrating to play. The game dynamics are very shitty and the level design makes it really hard for you to win. I think this is a good rental...but I wouldn't buy it.

I think people will buy it if they're really die hard Final Fantasy fans. Seriously, the only reason anyone will play this is for the re-touched Kefka and Terra. The voice and overall way they did Kefka is really spot on and cool, and it really makes you wish they re-did FF3 for PS3 or something. I wouldn't be shocked if they did this eventually. Visually the game is beautiful but the play mechanics are clunky. They have a lot of pointless extras too. I don't know, I sort of liked the game but be expected to get REALLY FRUSTRATED at losing because of the weird camera angles/level design being shitty.

I like the art though.

RN-

I haven't updated because I have almost no content to update with. I am out of art supplies and I'm struggling to finish my commission job to get paid. So, I've been focusing on that. I'll have more stuff to update with next time. Shitty update, I know. I apologize.

BZZZT!

2007-07-07T00:21:00.000-07:00

Hmm, so there isn't too much to update you on Rainbow Nightmare. I've been writing and doing charsets and comic book type animations. I've been working more and more on the intro, and I'm not happy with it unless it goes smoothly. The intro's are fully animated in a comic book fashion so, it takes a lot of work!

Sections, yes, go take a look at the Cast section. I've added the Lamberton Corp, enemies you'll face in Robbin's Rest, the profiles of the characters in the RN video, and Renders bio. I'm still constructing a bunch of stuff. I'm doing monster design for
Nessiah so, that should be good to add to my references. If you want to see her project it can be found here.

-Ghost in a Bottle-

This is a game I made for a contest a long time ago that won me 15 american dollar bills. You take the role of a young lad named Chester Cobblepot attending ghost school(jr college) to become a GhostBuster. But that seems like a pipedream until he meets up with a time warrior called "Dark Babby" and must fight the off the demon lord Vigo to save the ghost world.

Peter Venkman is called from retirement to take revenge for his fallen comrades...

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Got to give a shout out to all the homeboys who made this. It's a funky puzzle game made by some of the creators behind Barkley, Shut up & Jam. GZ & crew really outdid themselves on this one. Pretty rad, game. If you have the time, check this out.

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FUCK SCIENCE!

2007-07-04T04:09:00.000-07:00

AHWOOOOOO!

Hmm, it is 4AM and I haven't updated this in a while. I have been sort of busy with things...Myspace isn't letting me log in and...I am running on some weird Mountain Dew hybrid. I would be asleep by now but...that shit gets you wired. You know what sucks? I am totally running out of my colored pens. And I'm on my last black ink pen too. I am totally broke so I am being really selective with what I do with them!

To top it all off, I have to go on a date with this slaag I met at the coffee shop tomorrow. Look, when I go out, I don't want to socialize, man. I had my laptop, and she asked what I was doing. And I automatically said "research for India refugee's" I don't even know why that came out, because in reality I was downloading a WoW patch. I wanted to sound important, heh.

So yes, somehow I got strung into this date thing that I don't even want to go on. There goes 20 bucks at Denny's. I'll probably bail on her in the middle so I don't have to pay for anything.

I'm still putting together Robbin's Rest piece by piece. I'm currently working on a station type area where you'll have to access to reach this giant castle that hangs over the town. Think Castlevania or something, I don't know.

I don't want to spoil much, but this is a boss you'll fight while riding the trolly everyone in town keeps talking about. I have a few scenes planned out for it. I'm going to finish RPG's concept designs sometime tomorrow for his "secret project" he won't do anything with.

I don't mind doing things for people, but, if I do it for free you kind of expect something productive out of it, but whatever. You got to throw people a bone sometimes I guess.

I've changed Renders portrait, it looks a lot better now. Before it was really clunky and ugly looking. I'll post that along with a bunch of character bio's sometime soon.

Hmm, also, I just read Silver4donuts blog, and that dude is such a hambeast. I don't even want to link his blog because he is just too awful! It's weird how the guy can be this master coder, but be a retard at the same time. I think it's called "The Aten" effect. Like, you can create amazing things out of a useless program like RM and outside of that you're a society reject.

*lights cigar* Heh, look, fuck Silver4donuts okay. I got yer Monopolo right here buddy *throws da bird* collect on dat.

PS: All the old front page updates can be found in News.

It's a BLAAAGG!

2007-07-03T19:24:00.000-07:00

Enemies are all around you.(Backround is a placeholder)

Running from the enemy(Mini Game)

As you can see I posted a few screenshots. This is going to be a mini game where you jump/attack while being chased through a forest. I've been spriting and drawing a lot for RN, I've been very productive with RN lately, I have no idea why. It's becoming visually appealing so it's so hard for me to stop working on it, because I want to see what I can come up with next. It's exciting. People in the RM community bitch and whine so much about RM being restricting. The reality of it is, it's not the program, it's the lack of creativity from the person using it.

The blog has been updated in a few sections. There's new art in Concepts. The Media section is now up if you want to see video's and screenshots. Jobs section is also up, check that out too. Remember, all of the old news goes into the News, section.

~TFT

Video of Robbin's Rest

2007-07-02T20:26:00.000-07:00

Yeah, I am really irritated that Youtube will disabled the audio from my other video, totally defeating the point in watching it. I'm looking at an alternative way to upload the other, since Youtube has became a landmine of faggot sellouts.

Things are still being moved around and tweaked in the blog, so it's going to stay a little messy for a while. There's character art uploaded in the Concept section. I'll upload the media section with some screenshots later. I am way too fucking irritated with everything computer wise right now!

Anyway, comment the video tell me what you think. Whatever.

~TFT

about the upcoming update

2007-07-01T20:34:00.000-07:00

Hey, the blog is going to go through a few changes soon. There will be specific sections about the game, news, rants, etc and the front page will just have news. It will make everything here easier to navigate.

Why am I doing this? Because I am going to be making a lot of updates soon and I need space for a huge amount of content. I'll be updating this next time with a few videos and a lot of media. So stay tuned.

I'm starting to shop around for someone to code a battle system and someone who would be interested in creating music. I am not looking for another Brandon Abley though, I would like to find someone fresh or someone nobody has heard of. But I'll post more about that later.

A few sections are up already, but they will be a little messy for a while as I am putting everything into their respective posts. Expect the media section to be up tomorrow.

Also, if you haven't played Paradise Blue by Oceans Dream, go do it naow! It's super fun, super cool, and super custom! I also did a few monsters for that game. Go play it, it's great.

Here is my team: Red Mage, Paladin, Archer, and Summoner. We bomb, yo.

~TFT