Thursday, February 27, 2014
2/27
For the past two days, I've been working semi-diligently. On the upper right is a Beabitt. It's a beaver rabbit. I was supposed to do a Zombie Kid, but ultimately I decided to do something weird. Zombie kids have a problem where you need to dress them in different clothing, but I didn't want to have to make a lot of different clothing for them. There's some notable games out there with kids in them, but you can't kill them, like in Fallout 3. They're invulnerable. They don't want to risk a scandal with some sort of kid murder simulator... and my take on it is, I'm not going to bother, hehe. The Beabitt has an advantage in that it can possibly make a Beabitt Dam to protect his friends. I also tried to make it look scary, but I think I had too much fun with it. If we raise enough funding after the game's release, I will petition Justin Bieber to fill the role of the Beabitt's voice.
Monday, February 24, 2014
2/24
So yesterday sucked. It's okay, every day is like a new year's resolution to start over again.
7p0- Woke up.
8p1- Did morning stuff. Ate.
9p2- Ate. Internetted.
10p3- Internetted. Annd ate some more. Ready to go.
11p4- Starting off slow. Worked a little on ThreeS, internetted.
Difficulty 7/10 Efficiency 2/10
12a5- Worked on ThreesET.
Difficulty 8/10 Efficiency 5/10
1a6- Having a hard time concentrating... Worked on ThreesET.
Difficulty 8/10 Efficiency 4/10
3a8- Worked on ThreesET
Difficulty 8/10 Efficiency 5/10
8a13- Working hard. Just didn't feel like reporting in for awhile. Was fully concentrating.
7p0- Woke up.
8p1- Did morning stuff. Ate.
9p2- Ate. Internetted.
10p3- Internetted. Annd ate some more. Ready to go.
11p4- Starting off slow. Worked a little on ThreeS, internetted.
Difficulty 7/10 Efficiency 2/10
12a5- Worked on ThreesET.
Difficulty 8/10 Efficiency 5/10
1a6- Having a hard time concentrating... Worked on ThreesET.
Difficulty 8/10 Efficiency 4/10
3a8- Worked on ThreesET
Difficulty 8/10 Efficiency 5/10
8a13- Working hard. Just didn't feel like reporting in for awhile. Was fully concentrating.
Sunday, February 23, 2014
2/23
6p0- Woke.
7p1- Ate. Internetted.
8p2- Ate. Internetted.
9p3- Played video games.
10p4- Played video games.
11p5- Worked on ThreesomeElaineTerra (henceforth, "ET")
Difficulty 3/10 Efficiency 3/10
12a6- Ate a flimsy cup noodles. Worked some more, and then... computer crashed, right before I was about to save. Lost 20m of work, oh sodding well.
1a7- Re did the things I did last hour. I am bored, time to go out to grab a juicy sandwich.
Difficulty 3/10 Efficiency 5/10
2a8- Had me some fries, and a big big coke. I drink coke only every once in awhile, so keeping the caffeine addiction in check.
3a9- Worked on ThreeET.
Difficulty 7/10 Efficiency 5/10
7p1- Ate. Internetted.
8p2- Ate. Internetted.
9p3- Played video games.
10p4- Played video games.
11p5- Worked on ThreesomeElaineTerra (henceforth, "ET")
Difficulty 3/10 Efficiency 3/10
12a6- Ate a flimsy cup noodles. Worked some more, and then... computer crashed, right before I was about to save. Lost 20m of work, oh sodding well.
1a7- Re did the things I did last hour. I am bored, time to go out to grab a juicy sandwich.
Difficulty 3/10 Efficiency 5/10
2a8- Had me some fries, and a big big coke. I drink coke only every once in awhile, so keeping the caffeine addiction in check.
3a9- Worked on ThreeET.
Difficulty 7/10 Efficiency 5/10
Saturday, February 22, 2014
2/22
3p0- Woke
4p1- Exercised.
5p2- Ate. Hung out with friend.
6p3- Ate. Hung out with friend.
7p4- Worked on some things unrelated to AD3.
8p5- Wrote a long email. Ate some more.
9p6- Worked on Larissa's story.
Difficulty 5/10 Efficiency 8/10
10p7- Worked on Isabel's story. Did some dating sim work.
Difficulty 6/10 Efficiency 9/10
11p8- Internetted.
12p9- Ate. Watched some TV.
4a13- After getting sidetracked for a bunch of hours, I returned to work on AD3. Worked on Larissa's story.
Difficulty 4/10 Efficiency 10/10
5a14- Worked on Larissa's story.
Difficulty 3/10 Efficiency 10/10
6a15- Worked on Larissa's story.
Difficulty 3/10 Efficiency 10/10
7a16- Worked on Larissa's story.
Difficulty 3/10 Efficiency 10/10
8a17- Worked on Larissa's story.
Difficulty 3/10 Efficiency 10/10
4p1- Exercised.
5p2- Ate. Hung out with friend.
6p3- Ate. Hung out with friend.
7p4- Worked on some things unrelated to AD3.
8p5- Wrote a long email. Ate some more.
9p6- Worked on Larissa's story.
Difficulty 5/10 Efficiency 8/10
10p7- Worked on Isabel's story. Did some dating sim work.
Difficulty 6/10 Efficiency 9/10
11p8- Internetted.
12p9- Ate. Watched some TV.
4a13- After getting sidetracked for a bunch of hours, I returned to work on AD3. Worked on Larissa's story.
Difficulty 4/10 Efficiency 10/10
5a14- Worked on Larissa's story.
Difficulty 3/10 Efficiency 10/10
6a15- Worked on Larissa's story.
Difficulty 3/10 Efficiency 10/10
7a16- Worked on Larissa's story.
Difficulty 3/10 Efficiency 10/10
8a17- Worked on Larissa's story.
Difficulty 3/10 Efficiency 10/10
Thursday, February 20, 2014
2/20
3p0- Woke.
4p1- Exercised.
5p2- Ate, Internetted
6p3- Played a few games.
7p4- Worked on AD3's lore.
Difficulty 4/10 Efficiency 6/10
8p5- Worked on AD3's lore. I better work on something else, this isn't a very good use of time to be going over the specifics like GalTeras (Galactic Tera Secs since Big Bang) . Still, it's nice to have a better system for dates than Star Trek with their Stardate system, and this is also strangely fun for me.
Difficulty 3/10 Efficiency 10/10
9p6- Took a break. Ate.
10p7- Worked on Olga's story.
Difficulty 5/10 Efficiency 10/10
11p8- Worked on Olga's story.
Difficulty 5/10 Efficiency 10/10
12a9- Worked on Olga's story.
Difficulty 4/10 Efficiency 10/10
1a10- Worked on Olga's story.
Difficulty 4/10 Efficiency 10/10
2a11- Worked on Olga's story. Words are flowing through me like magic.
Difficulty 3/10 Efficiency 10/10
3a12- Worked on Olga's story.
Difficulty 2/10 Efficiency 10/10
4a13- Worked on Olga's story. It is really long. Story's going to be a lot bigger than 2.
Difficulty 2/10 Efficiency 10/10
5a14- Worked on Olga's story, finished the chapter, took a shower, worked on Larissa's story, internetted.
Difficulty 3/10 Efficiency 4/7
6a15- Internetted. Worked on Larissa's story.
Difficulty 6/10 Efficiency 5/10
7a16- Worked on Larissa's story.
Difficulty 5/10 Efficiency 9/10
7:30a16- Worked some more on Larissa's story. That's all I got for today. I did pretty good. I just typed the whole day away.
Difficulty 6/10 Efficiency 4/6
4p1- Exercised.
5p2- Ate, Internetted
6p3- Played a few games.
7p4- Worked on AD3's lore.
Difficulty 4/10 Efficiency 6/10
8p5- Worked on AD3's lore. I better work on something else, this isn't a very good use of time to be going over the specifics like GalTeras (Galactic Tera Secs since Big Bang) . Still, it's nice to have a better system for dates than Star Trek with their Stardate system, and this is also strangely fun for me.
Difficulty 3/10 Efficiency 10/10
9p6- Took a break. Ate.
10p7- Worked on Olga's story.
Difficulty 5/10 Efficiency 10/10
11p8- Worked on Olga's story.
Difficulty 5/10 Efficiency 10/10
12a9- Worked on Olga's story.
Difficulty 4/10 Efficiency 10/10
1a10- Worked on Olga's story.
Difficulty 4/10 Efficiency 10/10
2a11- Worked on Olga's story. Words are flowing through me like magic.
Difficulty 3/10 Efficiency 10/10
3a12- Worked on Olga's story.
Difficulty 2/10 Efficiency 10/10
4a13- Worked on Olga's story. It is really long. Story's going to be a lot bigger than 2.
Difficulty 2/10 Efficiency 10/10
5a14- Worked on Olga's story, finished the chapter, took a shower, worked on Larissa's story, internetted.
Difficulty 3/10 Efficiency 4/7
6a15- Internetted. Worked on Larissa's story.
Difficulty 6/10 Efficiency 5/10
7a16- Worked on Larissa's story.
Difficulty 5/10 Efficiency 9/10
7:30a16- Worked some more on Larissa's story. That's all I got for today. I did pretty good. I just typed the whole day away.
Difficulty 6/10 Efficiency 4/6
Saturday, February 15, 2014
2/15
Sorry this is taking forever. Eventually the game will come out.
3p0- Woke.
4p1- Internetted. Exercised.
5p2- Exercised.
6p3- Showered. Ate.
7p4- Ate. Internetted
8p5- Took a nap.
9p5- Played some games. Okay, totally ready to get this going.
10p6- Worked on Elaine's story. Thought my way through some logical story problems during my exercise, so I'll be able to move quickly through this now.
Difficulty 8/10 Efficiency 7/10
11p7- Worked on Isabel's story. Getting through this.
Difficulty 8/10 Efficiency 6/10
12p8- Took a break hour. Speculated on having AD3 made with RPGMaker XP. Just a thought experiment... This isn't actually happening. The game would work great on the system... It'd probably be more fun than your average RPGMaker game. I wrote some notes down, and remember, these notes are just for fun.
Adapting AD3 to RPGMaker
Limited resources: Unlike your average final fantasy romp, surviving against aliens and zombies is about resource management. Instead of casting spells that cost mp, you fire guns that cost ammo, ammo which must be found, and finding ammo costs time.
Daytime mechanics: The player plays a group of characters that can venture out of base and try to collect ammo or other resources. He'll fight monsters similar to how RPGXP works, but with the catch that actions cost time. Examples of actions that cost time would be entering a fight, entering a room, attempting a skill check that takes a while (like hacking a computer). The player is expected to return to base before nightfall, and failing to do so results in a difficult combat which would most likely kill the scavenger group. This part is superior to the current iteration of AD3, which at the moment is simply assign tasks to survivors or date them. Another cool addition is partially destroyed rooms that don't have atmosphere, costing time and oxygen to enter.
Impending threat of loss: Most RPGs encourage the player to grind their character levels so that they can beat a boss. In AD3, you're welcome to grind monsters, but grinding costs time. You can't really lose in a normal RPG because you can just backtrack and level up, but in AD3, attacks happen every night and strain resources. Mistakes are more costly this way, and typically require the player to entirely restart their game.
Night time mechanics and Fighting: Night time is played as one plain combat fight. Rest assured, AD3 need not use RPGmaker's default first person fighting (like Earthbound). Characters will fight from a side perspective like in Final Fantasy. It lacks the complexity of AD3's current area attack mechanics, so actually, apart from the fact that the player is managing his resources (barriers, character healths, stamina), the night time combat is inferior to the current iteration.
Hentai: Unfavorable to implement; not using flash for animations means that animations will either have to be compressed or take large amounts of space in a video file format.
Hypothetical Review: The game would be much more fun to play in terms of the day time mechanics, but would suffer from the loss of the night time mechanics. The game would also lose most of its relocation features (where the player chooses where to set the base), but the daytime mechanics more than makes up for this. The game would graphically look more complete, since using stock RPGmaker art is preferable to the game's current blank looking map system. Sales wise, the game would definitely suffer from a lack of exposure that AD2 enjoys from being on several websites, but being able to market the game on Steam Greenlight is a definite plus. Other than the slight negative about the hentai, the dating sim part of the game would be largely intact. Overall the game is vastly different, but I can't forsee if it'll be better or worse.
1a9- Did some game design. Yes, it's pretty late in development, so it's questionable if what I'm doing will be implemented.
Difficulty 2/10 Efficiency 10/10
2a10 More game design.
Difficulty 2/10 Efficiency 10/10
3a11 More game design.
Difficulty 2/10 Efficiency 10/10
4a12- Same.
Difficulty 2/10 Efficiency 10/10
5a13- Worked on Elaine's story
Difficulty 4/10 Efficiency 10/10
6a14- Worked on Elaine's story.
Difficulty 5/10 Efficiency 10/10
7a15- Worked on Elaine's story.
Difficulty 6/10 Efficiency 10/10
Today went well. Just a crap load of typing. I feel like I didn't use my time very wisely, but at least I was consistently working.
3p0- Woke.
4p1- Internetted. Exercised.
5p2- Exercised.
6p3- Showered. Ate.
7p4- Ate. Internetted
8p5- Took a nap.
9p5- Played some games. Okay, totally ready to get this going.
10p6- Worked on Elaine's story. Thought my way through some logical story problems during my exercise, so I'll be able to move quickly through this now.
Difficulty 8/10 Efficiency 7/10
11p7- Worked on Isabel's story. Getting through this.
Difficulty 8/10 Efficiency 6/10
12p8- Took a break hour. Speculated on having AD3 made with RPGMaker XP. Just a thought experiment... This isn't actually happening. The game would work great on the system... It'd probably be more fun than your average RPGMaker game. I wrote some notes down, and remember, these notes are just for fun.
Adapting AD3 to RPGMaker
Limited resources: Unlike your average final fantasy romp, surviving against aliens and zombies is about resource management. Instead of casting spells that cost mp, you fire guns that cost ammo, ammo which must be found, and finding ammo costs time.
Daytime mechanics: The player plays a group of characters that can venture out of base and try to collect ammo or other resources. He'll fight monsters similar to how RPGXP works, but with the catch that actions cost time. Examples of actions that cost time would be entering a fight, entering a room, attempting a skill check that takes a while (like hacking a computer). The player is expected to return to base before nightfall, and failing to do so results in a difficult combat which would most likely kill the scavenger group. This part is superior to the current iteration of AD3, which at the moment is simply assign tasks to survivors or date them. Another cool addition is partially destroyed rooms that don't have atmosphere, costing time and oxygen to enter.
Impending threat of loss: Most RPGs encourage the player to grind their character levels so that they can beat a boss. In AD3, you're welcome to grind monsters, but grinding costs time. You can't really lose in a normal RPG because you can just backtrack and level up, but in AD3, attacks happen every night and strain resources. Mistakes are more costly this way, and typically require the player to entirely restart their game.
Night time mechanics and Fighting: Night time is played as one plain combat fight. Rest assured, AD3 need not use RPGmaker's default first person fighting (like Earthbound). Characters will fight from a side perspective like in Final Fantasy. It lacks the complexity of AD3's current area attack mechanics, so actually, apart from the fact that the player is managing his resources (barriers, character healths, stamina), the night time combat is inferior to the current iteration.
Hentai: Unfavorable to implement; not using flash for animations means that animations will either have to be compressed or take large amounts of space in a video file format.
Hypothetical Review: The game would be much more fun to play in terms of the day time mechanics, but would suffer from the loss of the night time mechanics. The game would also lose most of its relocation features (where the player chooses where to set the base), but the daytime mechanics more than makes up for this. The game would graphically look more complete, since using stock RPGmaker art is preferable to the game's current blank looking map system. Sales wise, the game would definitely suffer from a lack of exposure that AD2 enjoys from being on several websites, but being able to market the game on Steam Greenlight is a definite plus. Other than the slight negative about the hentai, the dating sim part of the game would be largely intact. Overall the game is vastly different, but I can't forsee if it'll be better or worse.
1a9- Did some game design. Yes, it's pretty late in development, so it's questionable if what I'm doing will be implemented.
Difficulty 2/10 Efficiency 10/10
2a10 More game design.
Difficulty 2/10 Efficiency 10/10
3a11 More game design.
Difficulty 2/10 Efficiency 10/10
4a12- Same.
Difficulty 2/10 Efficiency 10/10
5a13- Worked on Elaine's story
Difficulty 4/10 Efficiency 10/10
6a14- Worked on Elaine's story.
Difficulty 5/10 Efficiency 10/10
7a15- Worked on Elaine's story.
Difficulty 6/10 Efficiency 10/10
Today went well. Just a crap load of typing. I feel like I didn't use my time very wisely, but at least I was consistently working.
Friday, February 14, 2014
2/14
Didn't feel like reporting in the work yesterday. Reporting into the blog with great frequency is stressful but it admittedly produces better results. Over the past few weeks, I've been more concerned for my well being. And so we continue.
1a- Did proofreading on Elaine's story, added in bits.
Difficulty 5/10 Efficiency 6/10
2a- Wrote some design stuff for fun in my big computer journal. Sometimes you get an idea...and you gotta write it down.
3a- Ate. Showered.
4a- Worked on Elaine's story. Searched ebay for scanner...will have to buy syringe later to fill ink tank with water, in order to fool printer.
Difficulty 3/10 Efficiency 5/5
5a- Worked on Elaine's story.
Difficulty 3/10 Efficiency 8/10
6a- Worked on Elaine's story.
Difficulty 3/10 Efficiency 10/10
7a- Worked on Elaine's story. Must have been a good hour since I forgot to report it.
8a- Worked on Elaine's story.
Difficulty 5/10 Efficiency 10/10
9a- Worked on Elaine's story. Had a difficult time with a problem, as my new lore seems to be contradicting this old story I'm trying to flesh out.
Difficulty 8/10 Efficiency 7/10
10a- Took a good hour and a half, but I found the solution to that problem.
Difficulty 7/10 Efficiency 10/10
11a- And finding that solution has opened an entirely new problem due to compatibility issues with the story... So I spent another hour working on that new one... Man, shit's tough.
Difficulty 9/10 Efficiency 10/10
2p- Woke up from randomly falling asleep. Don't have a good track of my body clock at the moment. I think I'll get some more sleep. I've got a board game meetup tonight.
1a- Did proofreading on Elaine's story, added in bits.
Difficulty 5/10 Efficiency 6/10
2a- Wrote some design stuff for fun in my big computer journal. Sometimes you get an idea...and you gotta write it down.
3a- Ate. Showered.
4a- Worked on Elaine's story. Searched ebay for scanner...will have to buy syringe later to fill ink tank with water, in order to fool printer.
Difficulty 3/10 Efficiency 5/5
5a- Worked on Elaine's story.
Difficulty 3/10 Efficiency 8/10
6a- Worked on Elaine's story.
Difficulty 3/10 Efficiency 10/10
7a- Worked on Elaine's story. Must have been a good hour since I forgot to report it.
8a- Worked on Elaine's story.
Difficulty 5/10 Efficiency 10/10
9a- Worked on Elaine's story. Had a difficult time with a problem, as my new lore seems to be contradicting this old story I'm trying to flesh out.
Difficulty 8/10 Efficiency 7/10
10a- Took a good hour and a half, but I found the solution to that problem.
Difficulty 7/10 Efficiency 10/10
11a- And finding that solution has opened an entirely new problem due to compatibility issues with the story... So I spent another hour working on that new one... Man, shit's tough.
Difficulty 9/10 Efficiency 10/10
2p- Woke up from randomly falling asleep. Don't have a good track of my body clock at the moment. I think I'll get some more sleep. I've got a board game meetup tonight.
Tuesday, February 11, 2014
2/11
3p0- Woke up.
4p1- Ate.
5p2- Ate. Did chores.
6p3- Internetted.
7p4- Reviewed work. Looked for another scanner for 30 mins...Kind of embarassed it took me so long and I couldn't even find a good cheap one yet. A lot of people are still trying to sell off their non-compatible Win XP era scanners.
8p5- Exercised.
9p6- Worked on IsabelH1. Pressuring myself to work.
Difficulty 9/10 Efficiency 4/10
11p8- Whoops, real life got in the way.
12p9 Worked on IsabelH1.
Difficulty 9/10 Efficiency 6/10
4p1- Ate.
5p2- Ate. Did chores.
6p3- Internetted.
7p4- Reviewed work. Looked for another scanner for 30 mins...Kind of embarassed it took me so long and I couldn't even find a good cheap one yet. A lot of people are still trying to sell off their non-compatible Win XP era scanners.
8p5- Exercised.
9p6- Worked on IsabelH1. Pressuring myself to work.
Difficulty 9/10 Efficiency 4/10
11p8- Whoops, real life got in the way.
12p9 Worked on IsabelH1.
Difficulty 9/10 Efficiency 6/10
Monday, February 10, 2014
2/10
2p0- Woke up.
3p1- Internetted, cleaned up.
4p2- Finished cleaning up. Showered.
5p3- Ate.
7:30p3-Woke up from a deep nap.
8:30p4-Worked on Zoe's story.
Difficulty 5/10 Efficiency 5/10
9:45p5- Exercised. Ran to store and purchased supplies. Bought some unhealthy snacks to lighten the mood around here.
10p6- Ate.
11p7- Ate some more (barely ate yesterday), internetted.
12a8- Worked on Zoe's story.
Difficulty 5/10 Efficiency 5/10
1a9- Worked on Zoe's story.
Difficulty 6/10 Efficiency 3/10
2a10- Worked on Zoe's story. What a grind.
Difficulty 5/10 Efficiency 9/10
3a11- Worked on Zoe's story.
Difficulty 5/10 Efficiency 5/10
3p1- Internetted, cleaned up.
4p2- Finished cleaning up. Showered.
5p3- Ate.
7:30p3-Woke up from a deep nap.
8:30p4-Worked on Zoe's story.
Difficulty 5/10 Efficiency 5/10
9:45p5- Exercised. Ran to store and purchased supplies. Bought some unhealthy snacks to lighten the mood around here.
10p6- Ate.
11p7- Ate some more (barely ate yesterday), internetted.
12a8- Worked on Zoe's story.
Difficulty 5/10 Efficiency 5/10
1a9- Worked on Zoe's story.
Difficulty 6/10 Efficiency 3/10
2a10- Worked on Zoe's story. What a grind.
Difficulty 5/10 Efficiency 9/10
3a11- Worked on Zoe's story.
Difficulty 5/10 Efficiency 5/10
Sunday, February 9, 2014
2/8
I'm having a horrible week. Hopefully I'll be able to get back up to speed next week.
8p0- Woke up. As for waking up really late... past two days were rife with IRL stuff.
9p1- Ate, internetted
10p2- Opened mailed package containing scanner. Scanner did not come with power cable. Found 24watt power cable in garage. Ran scanner test. Scanner broke after one scan.
11p3- Filed request to return product on ebay. Ate more.
12a4- Internetted.
1a5- Worked on IsabelH1.
Difficulty 8/10 Efficiency 5/10
2a6- Worked on IsabelH1. Having difficulty concentrating, considering changing task.
Difficulty 8/10 Efficiency 5/10
3a7- Took a break, worked on some unrelated stuff.
5a9- Worked on some story elements.
Difficulty 3/10 Efficiency 6/10
6a10- More story work.
Difficulty 3/10 Efficiency 10/10
7a11- More story work over some science stuff... I'm going over if the station is tidally locked or not. It seems unnecessary, and it might as well be, but I'd be too embarrassed if I didn't cover it.
Difficulty 4/10 Efficiency 10/10
8a12 Finished up story work, worked on IsabelH1, making good progress finally.
Difficulty 7/10 Efficiency 8/10
9a13 Worked on IsabelH1. Took a nap.
Difficulty 7/10 Efficiency 6/10
8p0- Woke up. As for waking up really late... past two days were rife with IRL stuff.
9p1- Ate, internetted
10p2- Opened mailed package containing scanner. Scanner did not come with power cable. Found 24watt power cable in garage. Ran scanner test. Scanner broke after one scan.
11p3- Filed request to return product on ebay. Ate more.
12a4- Internetted.
1a5- Worked on IsabelH1.
Difficulty 8/10 Efficiency 5/10
2a6- Worked on IsabelH1. Having difficulty concentrating, considering changing task.
Difficulty 8/10 Efficiency 5/10
3a7- Took a break, worked on some unrelated stuff.
5a9- Worked on some story elements.
Difficulty 3/10 Efficiency 6/10
6a10- More story work.
Difficulty 3/10 Efficiency 10/10
7a11- More story work over some science stuff... I'm going over if the station is tidally locked or not. It seems unnecessary, and it might as well be, but I'd be too embarrassed if I didn't cover it.
Difficulty 4/10 Efficiency 10/10
8a12 Finished up story work, worked on IsabelH1, making good progress finally.
Difficulty 7/10 Efficiency 8/10
9a13 Worked on IsabelH1. Took a nap.
Difficulty 7/10 Efficiency 6/10
Wednesday, February 5, 2014
2/5
5p0- Well, yesterday was horrible. Might as well have called it a sick day. I'm feeling a lot better now though. Woke up.
6p1- Internetted, ate.
7p2- Played games, ate more.
8p3- Errands.
9p4- Spent an hour organizing all of the different stories I'm working on semi-simultaneously.
Difficulty 6/10 Efficiency 8/10
10p5- Worked on Zoe's story. I'm hung up on a story problem.
Difficulty 7/10 Efficiency 9/10
11p6- Worked on Zoe's story, found an OK solution to the problem.
Difficulty 7/10 Efficiency 8/10
12a7- Worked on Zoe's story.
Difficulty 4/10 Efficiency 10/10
1a8- Worked on Zoe's story.
Difficulty 4/10 Efficiency 10/10
2a9- Worked on Zoe's story.
Difficulty 3/10 Efficiency 9/10
3a10- Worked on Zoe's story.
Difficulty 5/10 Efficiency 5/10
4a11- Switched over to IsabelH1. I started feeling nausea again, I think it started last hour. This is the third day this has happened, and I guess it's nice I keep a log about it. I've been drinking plenty of water. I don't know why I'm feeling lightheaded, and I'm disappointment in myself for being so. My sleep has gotten a lot better since it was last really bad in November, so I'm making progress here. I'll take a break hour.
6p1- Internetted, ate.
7p2- Played games, ate more.
8p3- Errands.
9p4- Spent an hour organizing all of the different stories I'm working on semi-simultaneously.
Difficulty 6/10 Efficiency 8/10
10p5- Worked on Zoe's story. I'm hung up on a story problem.
Difficulty 7/10 Efficiency 9/10
11p6- Worked on Zoe's story, found an OK solution to the problem.
Difficulty 7/10 Efficiency 8/10
12a7- Worked on Zoe's story.
Difficulty 4/10 Efficiency 10/10
1a8- Worked on Zoe's story.
Difficulty 4/10 Efficiency 10/10
2a9- Worked on Zoe's story.
Difficulty 3/10 Efficiency 9/10
3a10- Worked on Zoe's story.
Difficulty 5/10 Efficiency 5/10
4a11- Switched over to IsabelH1. I started feeling nausea again, I think it started last hour. This is the third day this has happened, and I guess it's nice I keep a log about it. I've been drinking plenty of water. I don't know why I'm feeling lightheaded, and I'm disappointment in myself for being so. My sleep has gotten a lot better since it was last really bad in November, so I'm making progress here. I'll take a break hour.
Tuesday, February 4, 2014
2/4
11a0- Woke up. Strangely very tired last night.
12p1- Housekeeping.
1p2- Housekeeping, part deus.
2p3- Ate.
3p4- Dozed off on accident. Had a nightmare.
4p4- Woke up half way through, ate, internetted.
5p5- Worked on Olga's story.
Difficulty 5/10 Efficiency 5/10
6p6- Worked on Olga's story.
Difficulty 4/10 Efficiency 6/10
7p7- Internetted, worked on Olga's story.
Difficulty 4/10 Efficiency 2/10
8p8- Worked on Olga's story... Eugh.
Difficulty 4/10 Efficiency 4/10
9p9- Ran.
10p10- Exercised more. Internetted.
11p11- Ate. Worked a little while eating.
12a12- Felt nauseous. Played video games.
1a13- Still feeling pretty crappy.
12p1- Housekeeping.
1p2- Housekeeping, part deus.
2p3- Ate.
3p4- Dozed off on accident. Had a nightmare.
4p4- Woke up half way through, ate, internetted.
5p5- Worked on Olga's story.
Difficulty 5/10 Efficiency 5/10
6p6- Worked on Olga's story.
Difficulty 4/10 Efficiency 6/10
7p7- Internetted, worked on Olga's story.
Difficulty 4/10 Efficiency 2/10
8p8- Worked on Olga's story... Eugh.
Difficulty 4/10 Efficiency 4/10
9p9- Ran.
10p10- Exercised more. Internetted.
11p11- Ate. Worked a little while eating.
12a12- Felt nauseous. Played video games.
1a13- Still feeling pretty crappy.
Monday, February 3, 2014
2/3
12p0- Woke up.
3p3- Got home from the dental hygenecist.
4p4- Ate, internetted.
5p5- Ate some more.
6p6- Read a book, napped.
8p8- Worked on Olga's Story.
Difficulty 6/10 Efficiency 6/10
9p9- Worked on Olga's story.
Difficulty 5/10 Efficiency 8/10
10p10- Worked on Olga's story.
Difficulty 5/10 Efficiency 7/10
11p11- Jogged a far distance and carried back water.
12a12 Exercised some more. Ate.
1a13 Played video games for an hour. I am spent...
3p3- Got home from the dental hygenecist.
4p4- Ate, internetted.
5p5- Ate some more.
6p6- Read a book, napped.
8p8- Worked on Olga's Story.
Difficulty 6/10 Efficiency 6/10
9p9- Worked on Olga's story.
Difficulty 5/10 Efficiency 8/10
10p10- Worked on Olga's story.
Difficulty 5/10 Efficiency 7/10
11p11- Jogged a far distance and carried back water.
12a12 Exercised some more. Ate.
1a13 Played video games for an hour. I am spent...
Sunday, February 2, 2014
2/2
2p0- Woke up. Did not sleep well.
3p1- Ate, internetted.
4p2- Worked on Olga's story. Felt a bit of nausea, ate some more.
Difficulty 5/10 Efficiency 3/10
5p3- Found two scanners that didn't support windows 7. Bought a scanner online.
6p4- Relaxed for an hour.
7p5- Worked on OlgaLabcoat.
Difficulty 3/10 Efficiency 7/10
8p6- Ate.
9p7- Worked on Olga's story.
Difficulty 5/10 Efficiency 5/10
10p8- Worked on Olga's story. Pretty sluggish today.
Difficulty 5/10 Efficiency 4/10
12a10- Played games for a few hours... whoops.
1a11- Worked on Olga's story.
Difficulty 5/10 Efficiency 4/10
2a12- Worked on Olga's story.
Difficulty 5/10 Efficiency 5/10
3a13- Worked on Olga's story. Meh.
Difficulty 5/10 Efficiency 2/10
Report: Today I was just really tired and I slowly got through it.
3p1- Ate, internetted.
4p2- Worked on Olga's story. Felt a bit of nausea, ate some more.
Difficulty 5/10 Efficiency 3/10
5p3- Found two scanners that didn't support windows 7. Bought a scanner online.
6p4- Relaxed for an hour.
7p5- Worked on OlgaLabcoat.
Difficulty 3/10 Efficiency 7/10
8p6- Ate.
9p7- Worked on Olga's story.
Difficulty 5/10 Efficiency 5/10
10p8- Worked on Olga's story. Pretty sluggish today.
Difficulty 5/10 Efficiency 4/10
12a10- Played games for a few hours... whoops.
1a11- Worked on Olga's story.
Difficulty 5/10 Efficiency 4/10
2a12- Worked on Olga's story.
Difficulty 5/10 Efficiency 5/10
3a13- Worked on Olga's story. Meh.
Difficulty 5/10 Efficiency 2/10
Report: Today I was just really tired and I slowly got through it.
Saturday, February 1, 2014
2/1
Okies, I'll go back to regular blogging for now. Splitting a little bit of time of art, but mostly still working on story.
1p0- Woke up.
2p1- Did waking up things. Ate some.
3p2- Finished eating. Cleaned up a little.
4p3- Worked on Isabel's story. Solved a story problem that took me a few days to think through.
Difficulty 9/10 Efficiency 10/10
5p4- Worked on Larissa's story.
Difficulty 7/10 Efficiency 8/10
6p5- Stomach ached. Worked on Larissa's story.
Difficulty 7/10 Efficiency 5/10
7p6- Worked on Larissa's story, played a little bit of video games while my internet was down. Stomach ache relieved.
Difficulty 7/10 Efficiency 5/10
8p7- Worked on Larissa's story.
Difficulty 6/10 Efficiency 7/10
9p8- Worked on Larissa's story.
Difficulty 5/10 Efficiency 9/10
10p9- Worked on Larissa's story.
Difficulty 4/10 Efficiency 10/10
11p10- Worked on Larissa's story. Calculated word counts. Currently I have about 60,000 words, and I expect the full game to have 130,000 words. I'm not saying 130,000 is a number that I want to achieve in terms of quantity. 130,000 is a good guesstimate because of the way I write synopses before I write them out in full. Also, 11k of that isn't actually story, but just a mini wiki about the game's lore and timeline info. I'll probably make it accessible outside of the game.
Difficulty 4/10 Efficiency 8/10
12a11- Worked on ElaineH2. Ran into computer problems... problems fixed.
Difficulty 5/10 Efficiency 4/6
1a12- Worked more on ElaineH2. More computer problems relating to driver issues.
Difficulty 5/10 Efficiency 7/7
2a13- Worked on ElaineH2. Stressful evening, but getting through it.
Difficulty 7/10 Efficiency 9/10
3a14- Finished ElaineH2. You can see it here. You might notice it looks a bit different from my usual work, and this is because someone else animated it. I'll take partial credit for doing some adjustments to the face, breasts, and hat. I redrew the face in my style. I hear in the animation biz is pretty hard to conform to another animator's style, so one animator does all the faces for a show, unless the show has very easily drawn characters. Breasts were redone because they didn't look natural enough before.
Difficulty 7/10 Efficiency 10/10
4a15- Worked on Isabel's story. Slacked off a bit. Curse Canon's printer division. My pos color printer will not even scan my drawings anymore if the color ink tanks are empty. That, and the inks dry up on their own. I'll have to grab a scanner soon.
Difficulty 5/10 Efficiency 5/10
Report: I made a lot of progress today. Other than computer problems, it was uneventful, and I am happy with the outcome.
1p0- Woke up.
2p1- Did waking up things. Ate some.
3p2- Finished eating. Cleaned up a little.
4p3- Worked on Isabel's story. Solved a story problem that took me a few days to think through.
Difficulty 9/10 Efficiency 10/10
5p4- Worked on Larissa's story.
Difficulty 7/10 Efficiency 8/10
6p5- Stomach ached. Worked on Larissa's story.
Difficulty 7/10 Efficiency 5/10
7p6- Worked on Larissa's story, played a little bit of video games while my internet was down. Stomach ache relieved.
Difficulty 7/10 Efficiency 5/10
8p7- Worked on Larissa's story.
Difficulty 6/10 Efficiency 7/10
9p8- Worked on Larissa's story.
Difficulty 5/10 Efficiency 9/10
10p9- Worked on Larissa's story.
Difficulty 4/10 Efficiency 10/10
11p10- Worked on Larissa's story. Calculated word counts. Currently I have about 60,000 words, and I expect the full game to have 130,000 words. I'm not saying 130,000 is a number that I want to achieve in terms of quantity. 130,000 is a good guesstimate because of the way I write synopses before I write them out in full. Also, 11k of that isn't actually story, but just a mini wiki about the game's lore and timeline info. I'll probably make it accessible outside of the game.
Difficulty 4/10 Efficiency 8/10
12a11- Worked on ElaineH2. Ran into computer problems... problems fixed.
Difficulty 5/10 Efficiency 4/6
1a12- Worked more on ElaineH2. More computer problems relating to driver issues.
Difficulty 5/10 Efficiency 7/7
2a13- Worked on ElaineH2. Stressful evening, but getting through it.
Difficulty 7/10 Efficiency 9/10
3a14- Finished ElaineH2. You can see it here. You might notice it looks a bit different from my usual work, and this is because someone else animated it. I'll take partial credit for doing some adjustments to the face, breasts, and hat. I redrew the face in my style. I hear in the animation biz is pretty hard to conform to another animator's style, so one animator does all the faces for a show, unless the show has very easily drawn characters. Breasts were redone because they didn't look natural enough before.
Difficulty 7/10 Efficiency 10/10
4a15- Worked on Isabel's story. Slacked off a bit. Curse Canon's printer division. My pos color printer will not even scan my drawings anymore if the color ink tanks are empty. That, and the inks dry up on their own. I'll have to grab a scanner soon.
Difficulty 5/10 Efficiency 5/10
Report: I made a lot of progress today. Other than computer problems, it was uneventful, and I am happy with the outcome.
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