Man this kid is whacked.

I’ve switched domains temporarily (now www.animagnum.com) but the old animagnum.net will soon redirect to this site once I get it switched.

I just finished re-designing the Asym (Grade440) website. It was a lot of fun and now we have a website that isn’t so-four-months-ago. We’ll be moving it to a new URL in the next few days.

GameSetInterview: Halo Screenwriter DB Weiss

Given the content of his book, Lucky Wander Boy, I think it is absolutely hilarious that Weiss is writing the screenplay for Halo — a game that means so much to Adam Pennymans all over the world. As noted in the interview, Weiss once said:

“Far more work went into the LWB screenplay excerpt than any other section of the book, except possibly the end. I think someone ought to hire me to write terrible, techno-mystical action screenplays. I think I have a knack.”

Weiss could easily bring his multi-ending story style to the big screen in the Halo movie that would leave jaws dropped to the floor. In between each ending we’d (Halo gamers) would hear the anticipatory beeps before a respawn, which would remind us a new ending is on its way. If you’d like to know what the hell I’m talking about, read Lucky Wander Boy.

You’re going to play… POLE POSITION!!! (YouTube link to the above video)

I’d like an Atari with everything!

Have you played Atari today? (Berzerk ad)

Are the Pet Shop Boys secret Nintendo fans? – (link goes to Discopop Directory)

Animal Crossing‘s own K.K. Slider seems to be a featured artist on the latest Pet Shop Boys album. I hope this doesn’t mean that dear old Slider is selling out to the man. You know, those industry fat cats are always trying to put a price on his music — music that wants to be free.

Pet Shop Boys – Minimal

K.K. Slider performing live at The Roost coffee shop

When he’s not jamming with the PSB you can still catch Slider every Saturday night at The Roost (located inside Blather’s Museum). He’ll take requests and hook you up with bootlegs after the show!

Video Game Music on the Organ

The Super Mario World stuff at the beginning is very well done. “Rain” from Cowboy Bebop ain’t half bad either.

I had a fun time looking at Charlie and Kurt‘s Flash stuff that they recently posted to their blogs. Very experimental stuff with deep meaning that goes way over my head. I have a few Flash creations of my own that I figured I’d share. Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you my World of Flashcraft:

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Mario runs and runs and runs. He’ll never find his princess.

Disco Fantasy II

Grab your E and a $10 bottle of water and hit the dance floor! Unfortunately this pixelated warrior is hogging the spotlight and he’s scared everybody away.

Glacies Ex Machina

My magnum opus and comment on the treatment of janitorial service workers in the United States today. Actually, that isn’t even close. I was just trying to create a Myst-like game demo in under 8 hours.

TinyQuest

I made this for an assignment in T570. It was initially too easy so I ramped up the difficulty to near-impossible levels. It’s at cell phone resolution which was a real pain to design.

Lucky Wander Boy

A tribute to a wonderful novel by D.B. Weiss. I actually received an e-mail from Mr. Weiss a while back and he asked me if I could figure out how to make a Flash game that “reads my mind and gives me a vectorized version of my deepest desires…” If only!

I am waiting for you, Lucky Wander Boy!

Games.net presents “Game Series That Jumped the Shark”

Where the hell is Sonic the Hedgehog? It jumps the shark every time Sega decides to introduce some lame-ass character who nobody cares about and who sticks around for an average 1.5 games. It jumped the biggest shark when they gave “Shadow” (the series’ badboy… wait, wasn’t that Sonic?) a pair of handguns. There are two new Sonic games coming to next-gen consoles and Sega has already anounced a new hero. Why can’t we get Sonic and Tails and nobody else? Why not raise the stakes? Have Dr. Robotnik (He will always be Dr. Robotnik to me. Not ‘Eggman’) kill all of the other characters. Especially Big the Cat. I want that feline ripped apart by 10 mecha-Sonics. With all of the characters out of the way, we’ll be back to old school Sonic and we won’t be forced to play as sub-par characters.

http://www.goodtogarden.com

The artwork featured in the two previous posts is on the above site. I had a lot of fun making the pixel art despite going almost 24 hours without sleep. When Will, my teammate, brought up the idea of a gardening site, the first style I thought of was pretty much what I ended up using. I really liked the Atari look of Junior Senior’s “Move Your Feet” and I had been looking for an excuse to try something similar.

Big shout-out to Will for doing the code. And for getting our team together and, ya know, coming up with the idea and everything.