Turning 30 tomorrow

So yeah.. I know I havent updated this in ages. But, starting today I will start to repost again! YAY. Lets not bother me trying to make an excuse for note updating it. Instead lets just get into it.

So according to my wife I am "OLD!" While I fight this argument that I am not really that old I remind her that she will be the same in November. I dunno, I suppose I had more aspirations of where I would be in life at this point, but really this is just the middle of the 20's timeline for me. I only have 2 more years of college to go and I will have my bachelors. I wonder if I should go into teaching programming at high school. I think that would be kinda fun. And it would allow me to have 3 months off a year.. to work on other things like my game! Maybe then I could finally publish something!

Anyway, I hope to see you all on the other side of this hill tomorrow.

Bike

Well, a couple days ago I miffed it on my bike. I was riding down PG Blvd and went over the rail road tracks like normal, but this time my tires decided that they should act like a train. That was a very unfortunate decision for me because I was still going straight. I got a physics lesson that I didnt want. An object in motion tends to stay in motion unless acted upon by another force said Newton. The earth tends to be one big force that likes to act upon us when we are being stupid and such. So I banged up my shoulder and scrapped up my knee a little. (sorry no pictures)

Well, back to other things. We finally got those new carpets in and they look great. They are not quite as soft as the old ones, but they are a tad bit on the cleaner side. Which I would prefer anyway, and they look WAY better. This weekend me a Rach are going to gut Mikaila's room and the Front room and rip the carpet out of them. The funny part of this is that after we passed the carpet out onto the lawn... well they are still there. They haven't moved in days. I find the entertaining for some reason, but am too lazy to move them to a location that wont kill the grass. So instead I go out and roll them over a turn or 2 so that they dont kill the grass. I guess I will have to buckle down and do that today. Well, that is all I have to say for now.

Oh yeah.. Odoyle.. GubiD is because of my MSN messenger name and the fact that Gubi had already been taken on many of the forums.. so GubiD which was actually Gubi:D .. which is code for smiley. Whatever though. Here is a screen shot of something that I programmed yesterday during the down time. Look if you must.
Image Link!

Long time no see, eh?

Well, I decided that I would try to take another crack at blogging and see if I can keep it up. We will see, eh? Anyway, life this year has been very interesting. I have been sucked into the many things that development does here at work. Much of it actually isnt that bad. Regardless it is something that I dont mind doing. Not to mention, I am still hourly so if I work long hours I still get paid for it. Anywho, I try to spend most of the day working on my SHPR's and what not, but find myself delving into video game programming to fill the gaps. I am sure that I could probably do a little more to keep myself busy, but sometimes this can be a very stressful job. Mainly when its release time and I have over 50 shpr's and half of them are stupid questions from stupid people.. (i am not going to say names... cause they are special and might get offended) Life at home has been good, me and Rachel are in the process of replacing the carpets in the house and we will be doing the cabinets within the next month... I hope. So in otherwords, we are replacing about half of the house and it isnt going to cost a huge fortune... not huge, but a small one. I have also been quite active in game programming websites, most notibly CreationAsylum.net and RMXP.org. I am known as GubiD to all the gentle folk.. unless its GamingWorld, there I am GemeniX13. Anyway, working on some pretty shnazy new updates for my system, and have undertaken a project with someone else, because my art skills suck. I need some good realish/anime type characters and stuff done for mine, however I dont have the time to learn how to do all that now. I have given myself a goal for the year though... and that is to get better at doing graphics. I think my first step is to start drawing again. I used to draw all the time, but I was always more of an observation artist. I cannot really draw from my imagination as well as I would like to think. Usually I start it as one thing... then think, that looks more like a... and then start drawing that and realize that it does look like the first thing and then continue playing bad mitten like that until I get a finished product. Well, I suppose that is enough of my mindless talking and bad punctuation and run-on sentences.

Laters

~Gubi

Its finished!

You guys all know that I have been working on my RPG Maker XP project for quite some time. About 2 months ago I released it officially to the world. I have since made 2 updates to it that allows for some sweet additions. Although it still isnt complete it is so close to being there that it isnt funny. I have started on a couple of the other systems, but I have enough to get moving with the game. I am still sticking to the storyline, although I want to mix it up a whole lot. Instead of just starting out by accidentally jumping to a different world, I am thinking that I will make it like some power mad king that unlocks the realm and because of you he succeeds. At which he didnt understand the power and now something greater is behind it and trying to destroy the world and using its power to destroy all things. Anyway, story happens to always be in flux, but I will pin it down eventually.

Here is a screen shot: (although this feature isnt available yet)


Here are the downloads:
Non Animated
Animated

Oh yeah.. to use it you must have RPG Maker XP installed. Here is a link to the demo. LINK

OK ok...

alright, I know I am a slacker for not updating my blog regularly, but sometimes it is just a little hard to find the time to do so. Life has been busy, what with working at Hee Haw farms, Scouts, Family Events, and the standard work. I think I may have part of sunday to myself and that is about it. But hey.. what can we do? Not much but live with it. Other things that are going on.. I am getting a refi on my house.. a 30 yr fixed.. (which will be nice) having that out of the way will be a big relief. I am hoping that within a year... maybe 2 that I will be completely debt free, but that all depends on how I spend this following year. Well, enough of the ranting etc. TTYL

Makings some improvements!

Check out some screenies of the battle system that I have been working on for RPGXP. You can now fully control the characters and what they do, although the enemies havent been setup to do anything but be there yet.. That is the next part of all this.

I got my wish

So last week I commented about wanting to go on a hike, well on Friday I got my wish. Me and 6 scouts hiked to Silver Lake which is about 3 miles above Silver Lake Flat up Tibble Fork Canyon. It was fun and the view was just as cool as it was last time I hiked it. I am hoping to get out and hike timp sometime within the month. I know my feet probably wont be that happy with me, but it is something I enjoy doing. I am thinking that I will pack my tent and stuff in and camp up at the top. At least that sounds fun to me. As far as other things going on... well there isnt much. With Rachel working here at D3ntr1x with me we are saving a little money and have about 1/3 the available time to do about anything. Its alright though, because it keeps us busy and to me that is usually enough to keep me happy. The only time I really get annoyed and so on is when I have absolutely nothing to do, thus I work on the yard or find some other project. I have been programming a lot lately I have noticed and playing card games is going pretty high on that list as well. I have 3 games I would like to get that are card or board games that are quite fun, but require 3+ people to play. (Bang!, Citadels, Sabbitoirs* not sure how to spell that) Overall I would have to say that life is treating me pretty well(belaying memories. . ...**COMPETE**) Well, if you would like to drop me a line, please feel free to do so.