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Hello my friends! Sorry I’ve been away for ages, exams hurt brain. :c
Anyhoo, I’ve been doing more programming in my spare time: my latest project is a sort of roguelike puzzle game (which is far, far from completion.)
The source code is up on google code, at this address: http://squareassault.googlecode.com
Have a look, play around, and give me some tips! 
I recently decided to buy a remake of the Sega Megadrive from Blaze. When it arrived, I was really surprised at how tiny it is! The wonders of miniaturisation!
Sadly, the built-in games sound is of a poor quality – it is slow and distorted from the original. However, cartridge games work like a charm!
Whoa! Tiny tiny!
Well, my webcomic appears to be taking off! It’s great news for me, and has really given me a confidence boost!
In three days, I’ve had 275 hits, and 40 of those hits were from unique visitors.
Hooray! What happiness!
Yes! I have started my comic. Here it is!
http://bsomm.thecomicseries.com/
Yesterday, I drew a group of Mexican Ninjas on some paper. Today, I aim to produce vector art from it. And then begin my ambition of making a webcomic. I’ll do that last, of course.
Yes, I’ll be using inkscape after scanning in my piccy. This’ll be my first foray into converting hand-drawn into digital art.
Well, well, it’s coming up to Easter. Hooray!
However, this brings me to a point – why do atheists celebrate Christian holidays? Christmas, Easter – even Thanksgiving, if you’re American.
I don’t see the point of them celebrating it at all – after all, if it weren’t for Christianity they wouldn’t even have the holidays in the first place.
Yes, I know that they were taken over from pagan holidays, but the fact remains much and such the same: these holidays stem from belief in some deity. Were the world atheist from the beginning, there would be no holiday – especially since the word “holiday” stems from the two words “holy” and “day”. As a matter of fact, without paganism, halloween wouldn’t be here either.
So, Atheists of the world; you’ve got religion to thank for your holidays! 
I really want to start off properly in game development – but there’s many things I just can’t find information on how to do. Like game states, or map formats. What about camera scrolling?
The simple answer is there aren’t enough easy-to-follow tutorials about this sort of thing. There’s billions about how to make an opengl or DirectX window, but none about how to actually make A GAME.
So, I thought I’d try making a roguelike ~ after all, they are awesome and contain all the major things a simple game has: and way more besides, what with items and magic and stats and so on.
So I figured I’d write it in Python. Cross-platform, easy to use, and there’s a roguelike engine for it (libtcod).
FracturedPsyche over and out.
