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 Due in part to the success of XenoTrader I have been contracted to develop several new flash games. One of them is due in a VERY short while. By that I mean the whole project has to be wrapped up in about ten days... Total. Not ten days from now. Anyone could do it if it was ten days from now. The disembodied head to the left is one of the characters I have developed for the game, the rest should be coming along shortly. When the game has a name and can be played by the public I will post it here, then you can head over there and kick my ass. I'm getting used to building games and having other people beat me at them.
Even with such a short deadline I still found time to go to the Edmonton Flash User Group meeting on Monday, and it was really good. I learned a lot. One of the key things I learned is that I am a bit of a hack. You see, the chair of the meeting was Grant Skinner, a local flash developer. Did I say developer? I meant guru. Wait, G-U-R-U? Is that how you spell, "God"? He took us through some of the code for a project he is working on and I was a little stunned. I had no idea that there was code in the real world that looked that tidy. His code was like an upper class hospital, everything was clean, organized, efficient, sanitized. By comparison my code looks like a 14 year old boy's bedroom complete with sweaty socks, dirty underwear, and a month old cheese sandwich. But I learned some great little tricks while I was there to help speed up my code, which will help considerably on one of the games I am working on.
This past weekend I went to see Dawn of the Dead again. The first time I saw it was a free sneak preview, so I didn't mind actually dropping some cash on it to see it a second time. During the movie there is a lounge version of "Down with the Sickness" by an vocalist who calls himself Richard Cheese. I have to say, his songs are damned funny. Seriously, get over to his site and listen to some clips. If you are feeling rich buy his album. If you are feeling really rich buy me a copy, too.
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