So I went to open up the Inkman file yesterday, now that I actually had some time to work on it. For those of you not familiar with Flash, basically all of the code for the game is stored in .as files, which are basically just plain text (meaning you can read them in a program like notepad).
I opened up the file, and I got this:
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…is not incredibly active, in case you haven’t noticed. Why is that? Well, I’ve been using Twitter for all of my little updates (and other random musings), instead of making a post here. And yes, Inkman is moving along, but my Christmas break ended and with exams coming up I’m not going to have a lot of time to work on it.
Anyway, I do have some updates planned for this site. I’ve updated the theme that this site and all my AMP sites use, which I think looks really nice (or at least sucks less), and I’m also going to be launching AMP Universe soon. I don’t remember if I’ve talked about this before, but it’s mainly going to serve as a RSS reader for all of my sites, including Twitter, Youtube, and these WP sites. But this got me thinking after a while, do I really need to have another separate site just for these games, or for my plugins? Considering I’m talking about AMP Universe and a new theme on my games site, I started thinking I should have just one blog that I use for all of my internet-related output, for AMP Home, Games, Plugins, etc. Of course, after a while this would become like my andrewanimation Youtube channel, with just a ton of stuff that won’t interest most of the people that visit. And I’m also making plans to turn my WP plugin site into a place for WP and Chrome plugins, since I’m doing both now. But I don’t want to restructure that and then shove everything on to one blog.
I don’t know, maybe I should just leave things the way they are, maybe I shouldn’t. What are your thoughts on this?
Basically this post is all talk, but I just thought I’d mention that, after AP and I were talking the other day, we really want to get this game finished up, mainly because we’ve been working on it for so long. So I’m going to spend more time than I have lately working on it. For the last month or so, it’s kinda taken back-burner to my other projects, even completely taken off the stove if you extend the metaphor. But I’m setting it as a higher priority now, so maybe you’ll actually get to play it someday.
*sigh* First Post: January 17, Second Post: February 14. But I’ve been busy, sortof.
Okay, so for starters, I’ve made a bunch of changes/fixes on the site. The most noticeable feature is the tabs at the top of pages. You can’t see it here, but go to any of the pages through the Flash header and you’ll see them in action. It looks a bit strange where there are no subpages (specifically on the contact page), but I can’t really do anything about that. The only other noticeable thing I changed was my history manager sidebar plugin (it just says ‘Post History’ here, but I coded it myself. It doesn’t look all that great when there is no post history, but once I actually post news here more often, it should look better. I’ve actually been trying to get that into the Wordpress plugin list, but the process for doing that is really complicated.
Now for the news. My latest project has been creating a new engine. My reasons for doing this were:
So, Engine 6 is a lot more organized, uses better methods (WHILE loops instead of FOR loops), and runs fine on my old computer (which was actually fast when I first got it 5 years ago). I don’t think I’m going to put it online, since it plays a lot like the original engine (with some minor enhancements), and I think I’ll wait until I make the Inkman demo. Which I first mentioned back in December.
Oh, and one more thing. For those sites linking to me, could you please change the RSS to http://andrewanimation.biz/games/feed or just this site, as I won’t be using the old one anymore.
Welcome to the site! This combines the old Andrew Animation Games page (which was really just a list) with the other site I had to post updates on the games I was working on. Anyway, this isn’t really a blog, since I won’t be talking about my personal life or the weather (at least, I hope not), I call it a news site, as that will be the only thing I post. Probably. It’s based off Wordpress, so it should be pretty stable and secure. If
So I guess the first piece of news I have to post is the updates for this site and the main andrewanimation.biz. If you register here, please leave comments about your thoughts on the site and the regular one. Note that this area is still in progress a bit, but if you see anything that looks odd or find something that shouldn’t be, please let me know.
I’ve installed a few plugins to get this site looking the way I want it. I’m not 100% satisfied with them (and never will be), but if there are any other things that you think the site should be able to, leave a comment and I’ll see if I can find something to do that.
