Tuesday, 15 December 2009

Talk about cataclysm!

I just updated Mr Ball 2. I just made a new "special" attack, but it's not for Mr Ball (boohoo!)



Yea, it took me a total of 5 hours to finish it (and that includes 1-2 hours of constant testing). It wasn't easy, but I managed it. This "special" attack uses a new system.

Usually, the "special" attacks that I have made before this are all controlled by a single "controller". The Controller does all the work like moving the camera and timing the special effects and the voices.

This time, I split the work to 4 different "sub-controllers", 1 for creating the glyphs (my proudest work! =D), 1 for moving the camera, 1 for creating the random laser beams and 1 as the "master", which basically starts the whole process.

So, all that increased the source code by about 1MB. gg.com!

Tuesday, 8 December 2009

Tales of vesperia FTW!

Though it's in Japanese, it's still fun! I guess spending some time learning Katakana is worth it. I love to use spellcasters in Tales games, especially Rita Mordio. Gosh, when you start to spam her most powerful spells, you'll know what I mean.

I'm gonna try Grade Farming, so when my sis and I start a new game, we can get more bonus. Seriously loving the game!

Anyway, I just came back from a scouts camp, and it was fun, if not amazing! There were so many firsts for me during the camp, like walking on burning charcoal (yea, that's right, I walked on burning hot charcoal!!) and surviving in the wilderness. Though, I have a very BIG phobia of the jungle, not because of the creepy noises and the darkness, but it's because of the insects and spiders. Really, I don't like insects at all. I can practically scream like a girl when I even think of it. Leeches, well, not too bad, but they are a little freaky to me.

The best part of the camp was the campfire. We did one of the longest sketches in our campfire history. It's basically a long musical/sketch thing where we spontaneously insert a music/parody of a music randomly. The list of music is in mah friend's blog.

Hmm... 30 over music in a single sketch.

I came back all battered up and bruised, with cuts and slits all over my hands, all because of my carelessness while cutting the bamboo. Never knew bamboo was that, erm... sharp. To tell you the truth, I never really felt anything slicing my epidermis and through my dermis while I was cutting the bamboo. It was when I saw my hand bleeding, then I noticed something just opened a wound on my hands (wait, make that 11 wounds!)

So, through out the entire camp, I had to endure the sharp and intense pain from the cuts. It was worse when I dipped my hand into the river water and touched salt.

Did I mention how much fun chopping logs can give you? Though it may be tiring, but when you feel the satisfaction from breaking the log into two, the tired feeling seems to fade away. You feel all pumped up.

Too bad I do not have any photos as I did not bring my camera along. To summarise it, it was really awesome! Encountered 5 leeches, but only 2 of them managed to suck my blood.

Tuesday, 1 December 2009

The power to conquer demons, Fatal Circle!

My Mr Ball 2 is still suspended as I do not have the mood to continue, but I won't give up on it. I still have 3 more levels to create before I can make the final build of the game. In the meantime, I'm trying to make an "extreme" version of Breakout. It won't be the normal, move platform, bounce ball, hit brick type of game. There'll be more and I'll probably incorporate stuff from my Mr Ball game (don't worry, there won't be Mr Ball).

Mr Ball 3 will be a very "highly unlikely" game to be made, as I do not have plans for it. But who knows? Anyway, if I were gonna make it, I'm gonna have to remake the Battle System as it's getting quite old (2-3 years old to be precise) and it's too sophisticated to the point that it's very hard to add new things into it.

Well, that's basically all about my progress in Mr Ball.

You may have noticed that I'm not that active in blogging anymore. Actually, I just have too little time these days and everytime I come back from school, I'll doze off.

I'm kinda overdue for another Math Twister post, where I make everyday math a little bit more complicated for no apparent reason. Well, I will be digging something up, so you Math freakos out there who can't live without numbers, hold yer horses.

Wednesday, 25 November 2009

So....

Well, I know I haven't been blogging for quite sometime because of the holidays and all the EdBoard/Interact stuff. School life hasn't been any easier. At least right now I can relax a bit.

Recently I terkena Conjuntivitis, at least on my left eye. My right eye is partially infected, it hurts but it's not as red as my left eye. It's not very pleasant, but it's better than getting canker sores, or in other words, mouth ulcers. Yerr...

So, now that my eyes have almost recovered, I hope I can go for the Senior Camp later at 4th December. This would be my second time camping in a jungle (sorta). The first time was back in Standard 6.

Meanwhile, I shall ....

drink more coffee! (bet'cha didn't see that one coming!)

Thursday, 5 November 2009

Hot headed Bee Lee

Gah! What in the world!? Even if you're out of the committee already and your more so-called "senior" then us, that doesn't give you the rights to order my friend, and even me like that!

Come on, like you said, it's simple to do the task that you asked me to do. Why can't you do it? As least say like, "I'm sorry, but I can't do it", instead of "It's YOUR responsibility...". Don't try to think that since you're already out means that you don't have to do anything anymore. Don't even try to act all "professional" over me. What the f*** is that? And you call your self a (jawatan). Really? Do you even deserve to be called that?

I don't like the way you're treating the current (jawatan). Don't make me resort to physical means just to teach you what's respect and what's responsibility.

Clearly, you're just using the excuse of "Oh, Imma out of the committee, byes!" just to use the current committee. It's your task, so YOU do it. It was YOUR committee's issue, so YOU do it.

I always thought you were a person I can look up to, but apparently, I could not see through your skin. I have my own rights, and I'll fight for it.




I hope the person that I'm hating ACTUALLY read this, but I think that'll be highly unlikely.

Anyway, I'm just voicing out just how much I hate that person. Damn it! I feel like slapping him, oh wait, better yet, PUNCHING him, but then again, I have to control my anger. Physical attacks are really a no-no in public.

Seriously, some people just don't know what's responsibility and what's respect. This guy here, really no respect AT ALL. And he expects me to respect him. I ask, what for? If it's a war he wants, it's a war he shall get (yea, that's right, I got that from Narnia)

I can't reveal out who is that though, just to preserve his identity, omg, I don't even know why am I even doing that for him. Might as well let his name be known around the globe. Nah...

Anyway, to that most-hated person on my most-hated people list,
What President?

Monday, 2 November 2009

Gimme a break...

Seriously man, people are spamming my mail with chain letters. Especially my Hotmail account. ...

Now my Gmail.


I need not tell you that this is just another one of those hoaxes. Don't get fooled so easily. MSN won't be closing down anytime soon, don't worry.

Internet is definitely a place of knowledge and abuse. Don't believe everything you see on the net.

Monday, 19 October 2009

It's not just mail, it's deception!

Well, I wanna try to raise awareness among those who read my blog here on how dangerous the cyberworld can be.

As technologies become more and more advanced, with so many capabilities, exploiting them could mean a lot of ka-ching. A lot of people today just wanna get their hands on easy money by fooling other people.

Ever received this in your mail?


This "YouAreBlocked Team" claims that this is not a spam, well, yeah... right...

Remember to think twice before hitting that "Click Here". Sure, it may be fun if you could know who blocked you, but is it worth giving out your email account details to other people? Very dangerous...

Oh, and read this:

Dear,

How are you today? May this emergency appeal finds you well, I am sorry that I did not inform you about my travel to Africa

for a program. The program is taking place in three major Countries in Africa which includes Ghana, Nigeria and South Africa.

It has been a very sad and bad moment for me that the present condition i found myself is so intoxicated to explain.

I am stranded in Nigeria because I forgot my little bag and my ATM card in a Taxi where my money ,documents and other

valuable things were kept, I am so confused right now that I do not know what to do or where to go. I need your urgent help

and i want you to please loan me the sum of $2,000 USD to enable me sort-out myself and confirm my Basic Traveling Allowance

fees back home, but if you could not come up to the requested amount due to the short notice, kindly go ahead and send to me

any amount you can afford right now and email me the transfer details I will be so grateful to receive it. However, I will

return the money back to you as soon as I get back home I promise.
.....

Below is the information where to send me the western union.


Receiver's Name: (...............)
Address: 45 Methodist Church Avenue
City: Ikeja
State: Lagos
Zip Code:23401
Country: Nigeria
Test Question: Who is the receiver?
Answer: (...............)

After you have sent the money email me the western union transfer details such as:

MTCN (Money transfer control number)

Amount Needed: $2,000 USD I will check my email soonest to pick up the western union transfer details to enable me return

back home with the next available flight, I need the transfer # MTCN (money transfer control number) as soon as possible.

Thanks,
(...............)



Recently, my friend's email got "hijacked"... (Poor guy), and now, these idiots are using his email to spam other people (his contacts). I replaced parts of the email with "(...............)" to keep him anonymous, but anyway, the "(...............)" were actually my friend's name.

By studying the mail, there are a few "flaws". I doubt my friend has any relations or any connections with "45 Methodist Church Avenue". And Nigeria? He's currently having exams in Malaysia, and you tell me he's halfway around the globe? Really?

Anyway, here's a tip: Just delete spams. Don't read them. Leave them alone.

Oh, some spammers are smart. They disguise themselves as a large company staff, such as Microsoft or the email service provider and asks you to provide your account details for things that are "related to your account" and if you refuse to do so, they threaten to shut down your account.

Yea anyway, keep your account password to yourself. ;)