Gingerlink’s Blog

Red grapes are completely rubbish, I’ve always thought white grapes are FAR FAR better.  In fact I’m not a huge fan of red wine either, I only drink white if I ever have any wine.  There’s something about red grapes which aren’t quite as sweet and it just doesn’t work.

Of course I was thinking the same for olives, although I had some REALLY nice red olives today, far better than the white ones on offer.  Mind you, they were seedless and it’s normally the seeded red olives I don’t really like…

Back to grapes, why are they called red and white anyway? “Red” grapes are more purpley and “white” grapes are most definately green, what’s up with that? 

P.S. I wasn’t ever going anywhere with this
P.P.S I am not trying to be racist to grapes/olives

Do you reckon you can buy a calender for the current year in march? Probabbly, o welll, I’ll write some of my stuff down here, because I’m picky with the stuff I buy (yes I have been buying other random things, but that’s besides the point).

So currently planned (well, except the first one really):

• 9th March, US Brawl release date — grrrr
• 20th March, JoCo Concert in London — wooo!
• Sometime after, Probabbly an episode or two of lone wolves
• Sometime between, paintballing, most likely, tis good fun
• 15th August, Finish work
• 20th August, Video Games Live Concert
• 20th-25th August, Leipzig games convention (biggest consumer show, TGS and GDC are devs only and Leipzig is bigger than E3 now)
• Early October, Start Uni at Cambridge

I haven’t forgotten about this blog, not in the slightest…

See? I’m posting wirte now!

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Ok, all my recent posts have been about Grifball, that’s not about to change, although be prepared for a bit of a rant…

I’ve reported Team Marvelous for being so impossible to organise a game with, despite the fact our first game of the league was against us, so although the gets us a free win, there’s no scores for that and while trying to get a wild card place, getting a good score will be important…

Also, our whole team is messed up at the moment, basically until the playoff period, so our chances of making that stage is hindered.  Jamie’s Xbox hard drive has packed in, the dreaded single red light of doom, ok could be worse, but still, he has to play splitscreen on my xbox until he gets a replacement.  I’m going to be at home this weekend, as will Jamie, but there’s a small slot we can play on saturday which involves me being at Jon’s house playing splitscreen while we use our reserve for the game.  Simialr story for the week after when although me and Jamie will be at the flat, Jon will be at his dad’s so it’s Gavin’s turn to grifball again.

Also, programming grifball is just being a bitch, even the simple stuff…

Ok, getting on this is just plain awesome

http://files.redvsblue.com/grifball/vids/GBWL_WeekTwo.mov (right click and save as, it’s in .mov format).  It’s currently on the front page of grifball, but it ought to end up in the videos section at some point, it’s week 2’s highlights.

Well, wibble failed, it worked out to be boring and rubbish, but I only spent maybe 20 mins on it, so that’s ok.  TSAH 3 people were actually announced 2 ays ago now, which is annoying, but it’s probabbly a good thing I didn’t get involved…

So, other than The Other Side, which I’ve decided I want to finish something else before going back to, it’s just grifball left, so I’s be working on that now…

I don’t seem to be getting to bed too early at the moment, normally about 1 o clock, might manage earlier tonight, but we’ll have to see…

Grifball seems to be going well (I havn’t mentioned that here yet, just go to www.grifball.com, I’m the team captain of Team Chupathingy and I got the first Captain of the week award, yay!).  We won our 5th game, which was against one of the teams I was worried about, the other game we played against a team I was worried about, we lost…  We still have the chance at a playoff place, but only if we win the rest of the games, which would be a nice surprise if it happened.  To be honest, I’m really quite surprised how well we’ve done, but I geuss a lot of people have been in the same position as us and have been completely new to the sport.

Working on something called Wibble at the moment, which was working how I thought it wasn’t, I dunno, some crazy coding I’d come up with which made wierd things happen and now I’m trying to do something.  I thought I understood it, but looking back, I have NO idea what I’ve done.  I’m quite happy with how the Master Chief model (sadly didn’t finish it over the weekend, but o well) and the grifball are going, hopefully neither will take TOO long.

Now I’ve removed the link from hyrule.net (which I’ll probabbly need to replace at some point) the visitors here has probabbly dropped significantly.  Hello Jon!

DIm of Super Flash Bros. was advertising for flash artists to help create TSAH 3.

Only problem is this was 3 months ago and I havn’t been to their site in ages.  Luckily, there was no deadline (and still doesn’t appear to be), so I may still stand a chance.  All that I need to do is create a character model for Master Chief, no biggy, but I say that about a lot of things.

In fact there’s other things I should really be getting on with, The Other Side, another undiclosed flash project, an undisclosed drawing, a 3d modeling idea and another secret project (this is far too secret for just a blog really).  Hopefully I’ll finish some of them up so anybody paying attention will be able to see them all.  Anyway, that’s my plan for the weekend, make and awesome master chief character model.  Even if I don’t get into the TSAH 3 project, I’d be able to use it for other things…

From now on, this will just be my blog, I’ve wanted somewhere to vent the odd thing every now and then, so I’ve felt this would be the best place to do it.  Not sure hw many people will read it like this, but at least it will be being used.

However, this is not the last you will see of Zelda: The Other Side, I’m working on something that I hope will be finished within a week or two and then all the information and updates will be there.  Keeping to any sort of routine just wasn’t possibly considering how goddamn lazy and disorganised I can be sometimes.

Well, today I’m moving all of my Other side and other Flash stuff onto my laptop, so I can take it away with me when I move at the end of this week.  If it doesn’t work, well, I’m kinda stuffed, so let’s just hope it does…

This also means there probabbly won’t be an update again this Friday, because I won’t have made any progress and I’ll probabbly be a bit busy on that day anyway

So fingers crossed for transferring this to work out…

Yes, i managed to make an update on time again, luckily, although it’s not with much new info on the game, I geuss there isn’t really much I can tell you other than the fact it’s continuing on slowly, it’s not like SSBB for example with billions of tiny little elements to it, the fact I’ve done barely any work isn’t a contrbiuting factor *shifty eyes*

I do have one thing to do however, I want to point out something I’ve spotted in my site visits.  When the site was first updated again, I got a rather healthy 34 visitors, sollowed by a slight dip the next day and another small increase  to about 36 for two days(this isn’t really important, I’m babbling).  However, although I’m updating on Mondays and Friday, the peaks aren’t on those days, so it’s obvious that the visitors to the site are slightly eratic and are most likely newbies on hyrule.net clicking on my shiny sig (I’m watching you!)

What I would like, if possible, would be possibly a bit more exposure for the Site and Most Importantly, the game.  I don’t have much to show at the moment, but If i start getting tons of visitors, of course I’ll have to get on with it.  Of course it still seems unlikely at the moment that I’ll miss the release date I’ve set myself, but every little bit of motivation helps.