Tuesday 29 April 2008

Finished Fatal Frame 3!!! and some other crap

You might be asking, what's Fatal Frame of which I speak? It is a PS2 game, a scary PS2 game. "Released only for the Playstation 2, the game follows Rei Kurosawa, a 23 year old freelance photographer. While on a freelance assignment taking pictures of a supposedly haunted mansion the image of her deceased fiancé appears in the photographs. Afterwards, Rei begins having strange recurring dreams of an old Japanese manor during a heavy snowfall and observes her fiancé entering the house. She follows his figure into the house, where the dream becomes a nightmare." (Wikipedia). It's damn nice, except that I most of the time ask my sister to be on the controller, because, when there is a ghost near by, it'll vibrate. The game's quite cool and especially at the end when there's the boss fight. I shouldn't say too much because it might spoil some people who wanna play it. It is just a game about killing ghosts with your Camera Obscura. Wahh!!!

Oh, you wanna know what happened today? I got chosen as a leader for a group for the NiE poster competition thingie. Is my art that good??? One look at my previous arts and you'll puke. Sigh... nvm. It seems that no matter how disgusting you draw, you can get pizza. Well, that's what I asked my English teacher lah, and she said "Yeah"! But obviously, there should be a better prize for the best art right?? Oh, it is a trip to Disneyland, Hong Kong I think. Yeah, should be HK, since it is closer to here than USA. Pizza is good enough for me. Ahh... can just smell it right now. Hawaiian Chicken!!! My favourite (just because it has no mushrooms or Agaricus bisporus (Button mushroom)). I hate fungi. Don't know why. Just hate them.

One more thing. I have finally finished making the birthday countdown thingie for the 3 Dahlia blog. So annoying, especially during debugging time. Sheesh. And also, Blogger had to rub salt on the wound by screwing up my Javascript code when I place it on a HTML/Javascript widget. So, what I did was go to my old Tripod account, put my javascript code there and use it from Blogger. Oh, the problem hasn't stop there. I don't know what was wrong with the widget because it wasn't displaying anything there, and also the Mozilla Firefox "error console" (available at Tools>Error Console at the menu bar) says it has something to do with syntax error <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
I was like "what the hell???" But soon, the problem was rectified by my "good" tembak-ing skills. Haha. So that's it.

Sunday 27 April 2008

Mr Ball Arena Website!!

Oh my god!!! I've finally set up an official website for my game!!! Hopefully it works on your comp, if you wanna see the site, because on my comp, the ADSL modem prohibits me from seeing it. Stupid modem, being so pilih kasih. Yeah, so the website is http://mrballarena.no-ip.org. I terpaksa use "no-ip" as my domain name. I've got to pay if i want to make it www.mrballarena.com. Nowadays, things don't come cheap.

Thursday 24 April 2008

Oh dear, 13 more days!

13... the bad luck number... and the number of days left to mid terms! Whoa!!! Where's the panic button when you need one???? Sigh... what else can I post ah??? I seem to concentrate more on the 3 dahlia blog than my own blog. Must invite more people to 3 Dahlian's blog!!! Oh, I also plan to make a birthday list in that blog. I'm always busy... sigh.... sigh again... OMG!!! It's gonna be 9!!! Hannah Montana is on!!! But lazy to watch lah. Me gonna continue setting up the official site for Mr Ball Arena!! Yahoo!!!

Wednesday 16 April 2008

Erm...

Okay, I know this is weird. You might be wondering why I decrease Shannentown's price by 95%.
Like what I said, 90% because of deflation, and 50% for terminating the agreement. Here's the math:

Let A=Price before termination of agreement (which is RM9.80)
After termination, the deflation thing decreased that by 90%, so how much is the cost now?
Cost=(100%-90%)A
=10% x A
=0.1A

So, because the agreement got terminated, 50% is deducted from the cost:
Cost=0.1A x 50%
=0.1A x 0.5
=0.05A

So, the final cost will be 0.05 (100%-95%=5%) of the original cost (RM9.80), making it RM0.49

Hopefully there won't be anymore "arguments" about this? I guess Shannentown's mayor is quite unhappy with my "cara pentadbiran". Lol

Tuesday 15 April 2008

Back to my own blog!

Yes, so I've not been paying too much attention to my own blog these days, because of:
  1. Lazy to post
  2. Spend too much time tweaking the layout of the 3 dahlians blog. Oh, to all 3 Dahlia, remind me to invite you to the blog okay.
  3. Got to "study". (Can't really study much these days, got too stressed out by Sejarah)
  4. Spend too much time learning XNA Framework
What's XNA Framework? Okay, it is a framework for developing games, well, at least that's what I think. Here's what I got from my good ol' friend, Wikipedia:

"Microsoft XNA is a set of tools, complete with a managed runtime environment, provided by Microsoft, that facilitates computer game design, development, and management. XNA does this by freeing game designers from writing "repetitive boilerplate code", and brings all aspects of game production into a single system."

Yeah, hopefully that helps. If that interests you to go start learning game programming, you should start with Game Maker, or go start learning the C# Programming Language. Search around the net for tutorials, simple eh?

I wonder if anyone in school knows programming. I'd be so happy if anyone I know can help me code some stuff.

EDIT:
If the "Deflation Thing" is still carried out, and your CPA agreement has just been terminated, two things will happen to your ticket cost:
  1. Drop down by 90% due to the Counter-Inflation Procedure (or basically known as deflation)
  2. Decrease again by 50% - Termination of CPAI Agreement
Because of those two "perkara", your ticket cost goes down by 95%.

Saturday 12 April 2008

CPAI Anyone?

Okay, my secretary has just came back from vacation and now is ready to start printing! So, if you wanna get a CPAI signed, ask me. But remember, anything that looks good isn't always good. If you were to sign the agreement, you'll face a 50% drop in your ticket price if it were to be terminated, as stated in the terms and conditions of the agreement, written in my previous post. Haha.

Oh, now, about my game. Erm... not sure when and where to start. The Battle System of Tales of the Abyss is incredibly hard to recreate. But I'll try my best. I'm planning not to use Game Maker for this game and plan to code from scratch, which means it'll take me months to develop the game. If I were to get desperate, I'll use Game Maker. Oh, if possible, I want to find some people who can draw stuff nicely on the computer and know some stuff about "alpha transparency". Go google it if you're asking what the hell is that. Why do I want some nice "drawers"??? Here's why:



I'm planning to add some of those attacks in my game. You see the graphics!!! So chun!! I especially like the one in the end, "Fragmented End" and the "Indignation". So nice. Haha, that's it for today.

Thursday 10 April 2008

Exam... the bringer of despair

The mid term is just 3 weeks from now. I'll have to cram my studies in that time frame. Sad... Ok, this is a list of things that I need to study:
  1. Sejarah - Form 1 (11 chapters) + Form 2 (8 chapters) + Form 3 (3 chapters) = ±22 chapters
  2. Geografi - Form 1 + Form 2 + Form 3 = 20+ chapters maybe??
  3. English Literature - Phantom of the Opera + Dr. Jekyll = Erm...
  4. BM Literature - Not sure what to study, so, I'm gonna include all three novels.
  5. Science - Form 1 + Form 2 + Form 3 (until Chapter 4 i think) = 15+ chapters??
  6. Moral - Yes, I know this isn't that important, but I so do not want to get another D. Erm... 10+ moral values to remember
  7. Arts - Another not important subject, but again, I do not want a red mark on my report card and let my daddy/mummy lecture me. What to study? Just the note book.
  8. Maths - Oh come on people, I'm not a pro in maths. I still got to study.
  9. KH - Form 1 + Form 2 + Form 3 (2 chapters) = S#!t!
I guess that's all I want to list out. Siviks, PJK and anything else that I didn't include in the list don't worry me too much, not to say that they are easy. (Hey come on, I'm not Einstein!)

Oh, I guess some of the BRT Committee want to sign the Counter-Counter-Inflation Procedure Agreement I eh? Erm... Consider yourself unlucky because my secretary went for a vacation in Chingapore and unable to help with the paper work now! Just wait for a week. If you wanna know about some of the contents of CPAI, here is it:

Counter-Counter-Inflation Procedure Agreement (Version 1)
  1. The mayor who has signed this agreement shall be granted an exclusion from any Counter-Inflation Procedure that may be carried out.
  2. This agreement, unless the mayor were to be given the Continue CPA Permit, will be terminated after a week.
  3. This agreement can also be terminated anytime without the consent of the person who signed this agreement by the Prime Minister.
  4. Any mayor, unless stated otherwise in future revisions, can only sign this agreement once in his/her lifetime.
  5. The station of the mayor who signed this agreement may be subjected to a decrease in price of 50% after termination of the agreement.
"Decrease in 50% after termination??? That's like not fair!". I know it's not fair. Like I've told you, I'm one evil PM! Muahahaha!

Monday 7 April 2008

A bug on site

Okay, I am not sure why, but for some reason, my BRT Map doesn't show up in IE in a popup window. It only works in Mozilla. I'm too lazy to find out what causes the bug, so if you wanna see the BRT Map, it is here: bee_leeong.pitas.com.

Ok, anything new today? Hmm... not much. Poor Shannen, she was quite blue just now when I saw her. Felt so helpless. But anyway, drama's on Wednesday!! Omg!!! Seems to me that Neil quited our drama team. I wonder why? Sigh...

Now, it's been quite long since I blabbed about my game. Erm... Project "J-Balls" isn't quite ready, and will not be ready until my friend Shamand actually makes the levels for the game, which is after mid-terms. I might as well start off with Mr Ball RPG!!! Yahoo!!! Now, I just need to do some testing so that I can put more special effects in the new game. It's gonna take long to finish because there's a lot of things to do for RPG. First, you'll need to plan the storyline, then you need to draw the characters. Obviously, the character-drawing part shouldn't be much of a problem because most of the people in the game are just round balls! Then I need to plan the battle system. I'm trying to imitate Tales of the Abyss battle system into my game, just for fun.\

So, anyone unhappy with the ticket price?
I lower it down so that the residents will be happy. Come on people, don't be so greedy! If another inflation were to happen, I, as the Prime Minister of Billnation, shall pass the Ticket Price Limit Enactment (Oh, insert any dramatic music here, with the lightning effects). Hahaha. Don't make me do that!!!

Some of the contents of Ticket Price Limit Enactment (*lightning!*):

Ticket Price Limit Enactment
  1. Ticket price of any station can only be raised until RM10, or £2.00.
  2. Mayors can only request a raise once every week. One raise must be not more than RM1.00 or £0.25.
  3. PM reserves the right to alter any station's ticket price anytime to any amount he desires without the consent of the station's owner. The PM's decisions are final.
  4. This enactment is only effective to those who are not involved in the Counter-counter-inflation Procedure Agreement I (CPAI) that may be carried out.
  5. If any mayor who has the "Counter-counter-inflation Procedure Agreement I" signed and were to be listed a Counter "Counter-counter-inflation Procedure Agreement I" List, or Counter CPAI List, he/she will be included in this enactment.
Yes, so, to prevent the ticket price of your link dropping because of the counter-inflation measures, you might want to sign the CPAI agreement, like Shannentown (which expires after a week). A mayor can only sign CPAI once in his/her lifetime only. Yes, I know. I'm one evil PM! Muahahahaha *Coughs*

Sunday 6 April 2008

BRT Map finished!

Ahh... I finally made a map for the Billy's Rail Transit. It looks very ugly, I know. It is a very bad imitation of the LRT map. Haha. I could not fit it into my sidebar, so I used my old Pitas account and modified the HTML of the page to place the map there. I'm finally finished! Spent quite a lot of time on that when I could've been studying Sejarah. After I switched on the comp, I just couldn't pay attention to my book. Hmm... me got to go do homework at 4pm, then study sejarah at night, like what I've been doing for quite a while already.

Saturday 5 April 2008

ECC is so loud!

My ears are suffering from permanent damage after the concert. The loudspeakers are so loud, you can even feel the vibrations on the floor. But overall, the concert was ok. The lighting was cool! Lighting effects+Smoke screen=OMG!! So beautiful. Just when I'm gonna leave the college hall, the whole place was filled with ..err... mosquito spray. Yeah, some people were fogging the area. So, this is what happened on my way out. At the entrance of the hall:

Me: I wanna go out, my father is here!
Guy: Sure. *opens the door*
Me: *Takes deep breath*

From here onwards, "me" refers to what I'm thinking, since I couldn't talk much.

Me:Whoa! So much smoke.
Me: *Run up the steps then to a corner* Eh, why am I at the 1st floor and not the ground.
Hmm... strangely, this place looks familiar. OMG!!! I made a wrong turn!!!
Me: *U turn. Then goes down stairs, gasping for air* Yes, almost there!!!
Me: *Reaches the front entrance* Hallelujah!! *Heavenly light shines down upon me*

Yup, so that's what happened. Oh, you wanna see what I wore? -->

Yes, I know it looks awkward. I felt awkward when I wore that because I rarely wear long black pants with a t-shirt (a collared, kikilala t-shirt to be precise). Oh, if you're wondering about the pose, well, I just did it for fun.

A concert to attend

ECC, or Euphoria Charity Concert, is gonna be held today at 3, but me must go before that time. Why am I going? Erm... for Interact club, or maybe, for fun lah. I'm in the middle of making a layout for the 3D blog (that's 3 Dahlia, not 3 Dimension). I just made one template, but find it quite boring, so I plan to scrap it, after 1 day of hard work, sigh.... It is a little frustrating sometimes when your stupid Javascript doesn't work and you are like "what did I do wrong?". But it's kind of fun and satisfying when you see your layout working in the end. It is just a way of testing your patience. Be sure to check out BRT for the latest news on the weird ticket pricing!

Tuesday 1 April 2008

Another drama!!!

Thanks to Shannen, I'm acting as a Chinaman in the drama. Sigh... changing my accent is quite hard. Anyway, what's the English Drama about? Well, I'm not so sure, but is is sort of a cracked version of Phantom of the Opera!! Cool!!! I love the Phantom of the Opera!!! Then, it also combines Death Note, which can be seen through the usage of 'Shinigami' and the Death Note, wielded by the one and only, Erik "Bond"??? Yup, that's right, a parody of James Bond. Then there're the stepmother and glass shoes??? Hmm... I'm thinking Cinderella..., what else??? Star Wars' Light saber thingie... Wow, this is like OMG!!! So funny. Hopefully we'll win lah this time.

To the people I have linked:
If you keep asking for a raise in your ticket price, there's going to be an inflation soon!!! Not good!!!