Flash Game: Forgotten Myths

This game is an excellent kid icarus clone game done in Flash. I have a reason to like flash gaming :) The pixel artwork is also excellent as well. To all you pixel artists out there - anyone up for helping create an (egad! yet another) RPG - only not like any RPG you've probably played... although similar to many games.

Anyway back to this game - give it a try - you know you want to. Go on... click that link...

New Game: Land of Legends

Take a core of GBA's Advance Wars gameplay, add a smattering of fantasy characters and card-style UI, mix in some nice multiplayer scenarios and you might get a game similar to this one. It's refreshing to see flash and flash style games (I have no idea if this game uses flash) starting to pop up. You'll have to install .Net and Managed Direct X just to get the game to play - which might be too much for most folks, but if you are willing - give it a go. Click the thumbnail below to see a bigger screen.

First Unlmited Realms screenshot

Here's the first screenshot showing some UI sketches of the main Unlimited Realms MMORPG screen. Looks exciting right? Well, ok, at least it's something.

Casshern update

Looks like Dreamworks is going to handle releasing this film in the US. I cant wait - it looks to be something like Ultraman meets Matrix with some Brazil thrown in as well.

Philosphitizing and Laszlo IRC meeting next week.

Welcome to a new day. Every day has its own stockpile of challenges
lined up for you to encounter every day. I believe that we are
equipped to meet every challenge put before us - if we are just
willing to believe, and have a little faith. Faith is pretty much
what has been keeping me up and running and the lights on at my
proverbial "store".

Gah, enough philosphitizing. There's going to be a virtual Laszlo
Developers meeting on IRC on the 19th from 5-6 pm PST (California
time). You can hook up with other Laszlo developers and Sarah Allen
from Laszlosystems will be there too to answer questions about how to create applications using Laszlo. You can go to the link above in Chatzilla or just
log into irc.freenode.net and go to #laszlo

ScrapBook - Mozilla Firefox Extension

When I first looked at this extension, I thought - psha - what's so great about something that saves webpages. But then I realized you could just select anything in any webpage anywhere and save it for reading or reusing later - be it images, tables, html tricks, css stuff, and then be able to search all the text of your hoardings ... it's very cool! I think all it needs now is some kind of Wiki style interface to complete the picture. This is one of those extentions that 'grows' on you. Try it out!

Achaea - Dreams of Divine Lands - text based MUD

I've been starting to do some bit of research for my graphical meta mmorpg/mud and ran across this gem of a MUD. You dont even have to download any software to give it a try, and the tutorial levels are interesting so far... it's interesting to see the crossovers from interactive fiction and muds.

From the site:

Welcome to Achaea! Here you'll find an extraordinary, original world of high fantasy, epic conflict, and exciting gameplay. We've been called "the only text MUD that still matters," and one of the co-creators of Doom has said he "doesn't believe there is a deeper game in existence."

TinyWorld Konfabulator widget for windows

Given that Konfabulator has now been released for windows, I thought I'd give my TinyWorld widget a try on the windows side. And - can you believe it - it works!
I included a link to this on my homepage as well.

Firefox - taking the world by storm - releases 1.0

Mozilla.org's site is "refusing connections" - which is tech speak for "melting from all the hits" today. Today is Firefox the browser's birthday - and 1.0 is released. Check out the links via del.icio.us and see if you can find the download link since you'll not have much luck on mozilla's site for a while :)

Congratulations Mozilla - I'm glad to see a project I worked at so hard for so long is prospering, and perhaps will finally get some of the recognition it deserves.

An intense day

Gosh, what a day. I had to take a day off from work to deal with insanely bad tax issues. Believe me, dont ever ever fall behind on taxes or you can have your life, your hope, and your piece of mind taken from you in a heartbeat. I've never had such a sequence of huge challenges in my life as I've had in the past 4 years. *sigh* Yet there are many many good things too. The trick seems to be to not let the daggers of conflict and adversity strike at your heart, but merely glance off of your resolve to find joy in your kids eyes, or 20 minutes of peace on the train. I feel like I've been holding my breath all day - driving down to San Jose in a car that really needs new breaks, and a tune up - then sitting nervously in the tax attourney's office shuffling papers around - hoping I've got the right combination of documents to magically create a finished tax form.... then the tension of coming home, getting my wife's signature and racing to the post office before the cutoff time of the day. Plus feeling ill, achey, and downright spazzed about having your finances attacked. And the worse thing... feeling your creativity trickle out your ears like a boxer that's taken one blow too many to the head. Guess that's why I'm writing this. I'm not expecting anyone to actually read it :)

Look for happy dappy sappy posts about games and stuff tomorrow. Today I have a headache.