Thursday, September 28, 2006

Kris is back in the house...

It's been an inexcusable absence, but the dude is on the scene once again.I've been pressed between finishing The Damned and YouTube. It's incredible that in a periodically short amount of time, YouTube now has videos on just about everything. I even discovered one containing out-takes from Vamp, one of my favourite childhood horror movies.Progress with The Damned has been,...

Wednesday, September 6, 2006

Okay. Today, bad movies..

Just a couple of horror flicks that've come out in recent years that are don't deserve the praise.HostelDamn, well this started off pretty good, but the last 30 minutes killed it. And thinking about it, the only reason is was good in the beginning was not because of any horror element, but just enjoying the adventure that the 3 young guys were having getting laid in Slovakia...

Monday, September 4, 2006

Photoshop does the trick...

I'm feeling more optimistic today. Just got 250 quid remitted to me as a wedding present, and I just watched the new "Hills Have Eyes" movie which was hachet-in-your-skull sweet.Hell, let's skip video-games for a minute and let's talk about horror movies. If you're not into them, roll on down the page some. Let me tell you, I am more than qualified to make a zombie-game due my Tarantino-esque obsessiveness for gore flicks. Here's a presentation of a few superb movies for you guys out there with *BitTorrent*...ahem....sorry I meant 'time to see'.Texas...

Don't you just hate it when you spend a great deal of time on some element within a game, only to realise it'll never work?I came to this conclusion the other night after irritatedly trying to piece together a decent animation.After discovering that Flash could embed avi's and compress them into satisfyingly small files, I thought I might try to make some decent CGI for The Damned - some death-scenes for when you get killed by the bosses. However, I got as far as a Snakeman animation with him pulling the main character out of the boat and down...

Saturday, September 2, 2006

New Weapons

BEAT-EM-UP TUTORIALSIt seems like the beat-em up tutorials I wrote on GotoAndPlay() are gaining in their popularity or something because recently I've had quite a few folks out there sending me their own home-grown examples of their own fla files complete with a million bugs and a beg to save their game. I'll likely make a FAQ, because it's always the same problems that...