Somebody let me sleep!

Posted by oddbob on May 8, 2006 · Lovingly Filed Under Personal 
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Looks like C4 is starting to sleep again at nights, he only woke himself up once last night and thankfully that wasn’t coughing - so with a bit of luck I might be able to resume what most people call “a normal sleep schedule”.

Not that I’ve had much chance to pause for thought - finally gave Mersey Remakes the overhaul it needed and I’m in the process of taking screengrabs of all the games - which considering the amount of the darn things, is time consuming and uber tedious - and thats being polite about it.

Had a few other things I wanted to do over the past couple of days, but my FTP pipe was running full steam upping Smila’s excellent music video’s so I’m a little behind on a few things again. If I get chance, I’ll knock up some divx copies of them which should be easier to download for those on less generous broadband speeds than myself.

So, I used that time to put some work in on Devil Rides In, there’s only 6 levels to reproduce and as its just a quicky and nothing too special, I’m going to leave it at that - with the multiple difficulty levels in place, of course. Got the title screen done, dusted and finished and it looks pretty good - I’ve gone for the Hammer Horror opening titles look, works for me at least. Both levels 1 and 2 are working fine and all 6 levels worth of enemy behaviours is dandy, but I really need to get round to adding some animation frames to the enemies as I’m just using statics at the moment.

I’ve now got a pretty much final list of competition prizes, all sorted into their appropriate categories - we’re still waiting on one sponsor but “the bigwigs are gearing up for E3″ and so, I doubt we’ll see a definite list of bumph from them until very close to the competition start, possibly even during the competition itself. Not to worry though as we’ve been informed that its a definite goer - so I’ll just tag anything onto the categories that we already have. I’ve been pretty much overwhelmed by the reaction to Caff’s requests for sponsorship, a good percentage of companies that we’ve contacted have all come back with prizes above and beyond what we could have asked for - so this week, we’ll start unleashing the list of sponsors onto the board and begin gearing up proper for the competition launch.

The only downside to the weekend was reading a rant from another remaker about “nitpickers” and “people who don’t understand what the game is about” with regards to criticisms of one of their recent remakes. I’m hoping that its just letting off steam, but it certainly made for depressing reading when they claim that some of the comments were only made out of “sour grapes” and “because [x] make better remakes [than the complainers]“.

I’d like to hope that no-one actively criticises a remake for either of those reasons really, and it saddens me that anyone could perceive any complaints that way - never mind perceive themselves to be in a superior position to other remakers. I always thought that for most of us, it was just a hobby and a bit of fun and being the best never came into the equation? By all means, strive to do the best you can - its all anyone could ever be asked for, but perceiving yourself as “the best” is quite disturbing for a small-ish community that thrives on peer feedback, and is certainly a way to put peoples backs up from the off.

Maybe I’m wrong and/or maybe I’m just reading too much into it, but I can’t say it impressed me anyway.

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