The General Babblings of Chris Wild
I know these things do the rounds, but this past by me and I had to remind myself.
What was #1 in the UK charts on the day you were born?
Well it seems that both Victoria and I must have comedy or novelty lives – because Grandad by Clive Dunn was #1 for me, and Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep was #1 for Victoria.
I got the mist from Jure today, so here it is in all it’s glory. I’ve tried to get a few variant shots but the location that mist is in at the beginning isn’t great – and I have no night button working at the moment! The first shot is the opening screen, you will notice compared to the same screenshot posted the other day, the old mist has gone from the bottom right of the terrain, and the new improved one is in place. The other shots show off the mist more dramatically. I also managed to do some work on that bottom left panel for nootropic supplements, not to mention fixing a few UI bugs.
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It’s a brisk frosty morning this morning. The temperature is down and Jack Frost has painted the world his particular colour of white. It seems the spiders have been productive over the course of the night, my house is covered in webs. This is a view from my bathroom window… click on the images for a closer look.
Autumn, Frost, Spiders, Spider Web, Jack Frost
Jack Frost, Autumn, Frost, Spiders
Well today has ended on a real downer! Over 5 years ago Fergus McNeill and I designed a game Happy Soccer Boss – it’s a football game with a difference. There are a number of special things about it that I don’t want to go into here, mainly because they are still “secret” and the other is that we have a patent pending on part of it. However, a big premis of the game still revolves around football, and a particular way the football is played. It has a lot to do with powerups, 5 aside, special moves, cute characters, and much much more…
Over the last 5 years we’ve hawked it around to pretty much everyone who is anyone in the games industry, and everyone has loved it… just not enough to sign us to develop it. And because we can’t afford to just develop it ourselves, it’s been one of theose projects sitting on the sides waiting for us to get the chance to do it.
Tonight I saw an advert for Super Mario Smash Football on the TV… and it’s pretty much Happy Soccer Boss; a quick search online for some pictures, and the confirmation looks like it’s there… Smash Football looks to me like Happy Soccer Boss – I’m gutted!
This is not the first time this has happened to me, but it is definatley the most annoying!
Mario Smash Football, Super Mario Strikers, Happy Soccer Boss Mario Smash Football, Super Mario Strikers
I am going to try and get this project going by blogging about it. I’m going to tell you want I am up to, and what I achieve a little bit at a time. And hopefully that will keep me building the project, one bit at a time.
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