Game Plan day 1: sprites -_-

As much as I dislike the tedious work of
drawing repeatedly and coloring in those pieces.
It's time to start making the sprites to our
game BlackHat, which is about a hacker that has
been wronged by his previous employer and his
revenge/saving the world, and get started on the
actual world that the game will take place in.

Even though the story is not fully complete
I personally am having problems picturing
everything and if i can get an idea of exactly
how the game will look then that will make the
locked decisions a lot easier to make.

Mikaljr is working on the main character. We
are going to test just the movement for now, and
get an idea of everything. I really need a drawing
pad :P.

So hopefully the scenery and everything come
out like pictured, or we'll just have to make it
come out like we pictured it! :) My main idea
is to draw out the city, but after much thought
I'm struggling on if we should make the game
level to level or just go with the original plan.

Burnley if you could just comment your thoughts on
it and what you envision for the game, it would
help a lot! :)

Cybercow on game making

I've recently had a revelation about us(cybercow)
getting into the gaming industry. Now this is nothing
new we've been planning this since high school, this
is our dream, but we have been lagging it lately. Of
course with recent events that life throws upon the
world some of it could not be help, but there is still
a lot we can do, more than we thought exactly.

Basically what I'm saying is that we already have
the ideas and the plans, even if they were just far off
thoughts, but now its time for us to put them down on
paper, and mail them into action(haha i just came up with
that XD). Even though it felt like we needed something
more to get started, but we don't need anything, we just
need to get started, we're already established.

So enough about the background(lol), it is time to get
down to business and start making the games, the ideas that
we already have now, right now. As of now We are officially
Cybercow productions, and will make with the producing!

So keep a look out for our gaming and game making updates
we'll be posting them soon, and info about our first project and game, blackhat, about a...well I'll leave the details for
later ;)

Something to Think About

When browsing through 4chan I saw this and found it (after a quick Google) in its entirety on the forums at Grasscity (this site for stoners, or those that are "counter-culture"/lame)

21st Century Syndrome

You ever feel that no matter what you do, your never fulfilled? Never completely happy?


You could be suffering from early 21st century syndrome. Don't bother googling it, I just made it up. But the symptoms you describe are typical of the new malaise.

You should be happy. You have fulfilled the requirements of a media driven life. You have your own place. You have a 'decent' job. You have a woman. And yet, underneath it all there is this dissatisfaction. You can't quite place it but it is there nonetheless, gnawing in your brain.
You flick randomly through internet pages for hours after dark. The TV chatters in the background. Every world developement is known to you a few minutes after it happens. You are the master of an external world that appears and presents itself through text and pics and vids.

You go about the business of living as it has been described to you and you can check all the boxes for relative success. And yet it doesn't feel like success. Not the way it does in the movies or on TV. No orchestral music chimes in when you do something good, no ominous montage depicts things negatively when your performance is not up to par. Life itself is removed from you because consciousness itself does not match up to the way 'we' are used to receiving information; that of third person observer through a cam. The P.O.V. first person view is somehow limiting, it limits us to this space and time which is not in keeping with how consciousness can effortlessly cross time when 'connected' to the internet.

Life today in a modern industrial society has an air of rigidness about it. Everywhere you go, you run up against barriers and rules. Speed limits, parking restrictions, decorum, social rules (unwritten but bearing on the mind), myriad exacting laws. All of them supposedly designed for the collective benefit of everyone. But no individual feels like everyone, each individual feels like you. So you end up being oppressed by the collective rules designed to protect you. This is called the "system".
There is nothing "wrong" with you brother.

You are merely suffering from the collective malaise of having all that we are supposed to want. Supposedly, human existence today is the best it has ever been. The 'facts' bear this out. Life expectancy today for the average person is higher than it's ever been, right?

And yet you long for the hunt. The risk. The hunter gatherer life, buried deep somewhere in your hypothalamus, longs for that time when your own ingenuity resulted in food for your group. When you could exploit your human genius for real and direct gain...feeding yourself and your tribe. Going to the office/cubicle today gains you money to obtain these things. But it does not offer the thrill of the hunt. The risk. The adrenaline rush of the successful raid on the enemy camp, the high of the perfect kill.

Homo sapiens sapiens is not a very old species in relative terms. But it is a cunning one and the greatest force this planet has ever seen. But, the amount of time we successfully gathered as hunters (2 million years) is far longer and evolutionary significant in comparison to the existence of human civilisation (8 thousand years). Yet, all cogent information tells you you are better off today than anyone in human history.

And yet, on a quiet walk outside the city, you stare at the moon through leafy glade and can almost touch the truth of a different life. A life you were designed for but no longer is.
There is nothing wrong with you brother, that is not wrong with all of us.
Disregard those who tell you your problem is solvable through the use of some 'drug'.
If you need to alter your consciousness self medicate with whiskey or weed. Do not touch the shit the "experts" have formulated to suppress the spirit.

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But before we all jump on the same boat with, hoorahs, amens, and other explicatives let me tell you: I don't agree. We still live in a society where we can take what we want, we just have to do it and not look back. This year, I will be returning to Santa Barbara without the help of my parents and without their consent. I will lose a home in Chino and may never again be able to return to it. It's scary, but if I'm going to take control of my own life I need to do it now. What's the worse part is that I know my parents have done me no wrong and that they are just trying to help/protect me. But I'll hurt them either way. That's whats lame... :[

I don't know if I agree or disagree more that we cannot have what we truly need to live a good life. What I do know is that we just have to take it. I'm learning that now, and I realize that this is the only way to live our lives: being safe does us no good but to leave us with regrets. "It is better to die on your feet that live on your knees" as Emiliano Zapato has said. So maybe these potheads and reddit-users are on to something. But maybe they aren't. Just something to think about.

CBP Pick of the Day

Haha, I love Hollister's... :P
The mannequin outside the store was flashing us.