Gingerlink’s Blog

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.

Ok, I didn’t update Monday because i didn’t have access to a computer, but yesterday was just moronic…

 Anyway, today I’m going to go fully over the controls of the whole game.  I may detail a little tutorial video at one stage, because I’ll need instructions in-game, but I’m leaving that for now.

Firstly, basic movement, as done by the WASD keys, AD for left and right, S for duck, W for jump.  Currently you can only single jumo, but I may later implement in the game (i.e. after the demo) a double jump in order to be able to use the aerial sword attacks more freely.

Secondly, sword attacks, these are controlled by clicking at certain point on the screen, for example, clicking at the point up and infront of link will cause him to do an uppercut, wheras directly in front will cause him to do a stab.  You can attack while on the ground, crouching, in the air, or while running.

Now for the items.  For the Arrows, Boomerang and Ball and Chain, once you bring them out with the respecting number key, all you need to do is point the mouse where you want them to go (a crosshair will appear) and click.  For bombs, you bring them out with the 2 key, to throw them, click in front of link, to just drop them, click link.  You can also put them out by pressing the spacebar and away again by pressing the space bar again.  Finally, once activated, the spinner travels forwards of its own accord, jumping lets you attack and there’s several other things you do while on the spinner too….

Ok, back to work.

For starters, if you’re the completely oblivious type and havn’t noticed the new Banner at the top of the page,  I have announced/am announcing now, the Proper name for Zelda 2d (not the codename like that is).  The game shall be called:

The Legend of Zelda: The Other Side

Not too shabby eh?

I’ve decided that daily updates to the site is pretty much a waste of topic considering I very rarely make sufficient progress within a day, so I will now be updating the blog on a biweekly basis, probabbly every monday and friday.  Hopefully I will be making plenty of progress to show you.

I am also going to keep a permanent site for all info I release (still under construction really, the whole system is going to be updated soon , so once that’s done, everything so far will go up.  That can be found here: http://my.hyrule.net/gingerlink/
As you can see, not a lot at the moment, that will all change soon

Also, I will be keeping my newgrounds profile active, hopefully this will also increase the traffic and any possible hype from newgrounds, which ought to be great.  My newgrounds profile can be found here:
http://gingerlink.newgrounds.com/

Finally, if you came here by some strange link that didn’t actually originate there, you should visit www.hyrule.net

Phew, Long post

I’ve been working down the restaurant for the past three evenings which is why I didn;t update anything yesterday and havn’t got anything to show you or say today.  Luckily I shouldn;t be working tomorrow so I hope to make a good deal of progress then.

It looks like once the first song is complete, the other songs will be much easier to add because I’ll have most of the animations, except the crazy combos that are likely to be unique to each song, most of the background objects, apart from special ones like item boxes in a mario song, all of the actionscript and also the experience of having made the first one.

I hope i can finish this in time…