October 13th, 2009Who’d have thought? First real snowfall in Calgary, and the entire driving populous become cavemen. Lots of people can’t seem to drive properly. Ah well.
Heheh… Well either way. I did get A PS3 Back.. Lost all my saves. So I gotta build them up again…
hum hum. Yeah! got a few pictures I’m working on in the background, but still busy with work. Bleh! Sprites. :O I do a ton of spriting. Does anyone else out there know how to sprite…?
September 25th, 2009WOW!
Yay for Megan Fox! Never thought I’d be saying this. XD
Megan Fox and Jimmy Fallon have just announced their love for “Sally’s Spa” for the iPhone!
Check it out!!:
http://www.megansafox.com/2009/09/25/video-of-megan-fox-on-late-night-with-jimmy-fallon/
And TouchArcade even did a quick post of it too, check it out! This is so freaking awesome!!
http://toucharcade.com/2009/09/25/sallys-spa-and-the-megan-fox-effect/
September 23rd, 2009Well! Life’s a bit hectic lately, getting it ironed out as we go.
The game I’ve been working so feverishly on is finally coming to fruition! “Sally’s Quick Clips” by GamesCafe.com!
Sally’s Quick Clips is by the same company that brought the original “Sally’s Salon”, and “Sally’s Spa” Time-Management games, except with a whole new twist! No, this isn’t the next Sally SEQUEL, it’s a PREQUEL. Meaning, that this game is a “Before Sally’s Salon”. And in doing so, GamesCafe decided to mix up the original Time-Management genre, and added in a Match-3 element to spice things up. Again, we’re trying something in between games, something to play with!
The initial Time Management aspect of the Sally games remains, in that you need to give services to customers, and play the Sally-styled unique minigames to satisfy their needs before doing the next task. The only catch, is that you need to make Matches to make your services!
The story goes like this, before the beginning of Sally’s Salon, Sally was a fresh-out-of-college student who just finished getting her Esthetician’s degree. Not knowing exactly where to go immediately, Sally found out about a new Reality TV show about Hair Styling, “Styling America”! Grand Prize is enough money to start your own Salon business!
Rushing to enter, Sally dragged along her best friend Nell, and the two of them entered together to try and win the prize money. Sally was quickly chosen to participate in the competition along with Nell, and now faces 10 other opponents! But before she can face them to win the Grand Prize, she must Wash, Cut, Style and Primp customers along the way! Each episode takes Sally across the city on her way to stardom!
September 20th, 2009Damn it all!!
I get back from my Business trip to find out that Sony destroyed my NEW PlayStation 3.
The new 3.0 Firmware update was released before I left, and we got to play with it. Looked alright, but some of our games didn’t run. Promise’s of a new firmware update to fix this came out, version 3.01. So last night my boyfriend thought he’d update for us. It looked like it was working. The PS3 downloaded the update PERFECTLY, then the system restarted to install the new firmware. But it seemed to have encountered a hiccup at 17-18% of the install. So it said it needed to be restarted to fix and continue.
6 Restarts later, and we’re still getting the same problem. Constantly freezing and dropping an error message at us every time at 17-18% of the install.
“8002F14E – Cannot complete installation. Contact Technical Support”
ARGH. Of course, now the damn thing is toast so I can’t backup my save games! I never realized that you had to back this console up so goddamn often (Read: Every day) because it could corrupt itself WITH IT’S OWN STUPID UPDATE! This thing is more volatile than a Windows operating system on a HD with bad sectors!! AND THAT’s A FRIGGEN LOT.
How was I supposed to know the stupid thing would choke on it’s own vomit?? Worst thing is, is the System Recovery is not available! You can’t do that when the system is stuck in a Updating Loop! No matter how many times you try it, it still resorts to the Firmware update, and still hangs itself! RGGHGH!!! *BANGS HEAD AGAINST WALL*
Of course Sony customer support is no help, they don’t know anything! They don’t care, either, sending you canned messages that REALLY make you feel like you’re patronage is NOT WELCOME. It’s like they go out of their way just to piss you off, because they know you were a sucker enough to buy the expensive thing, and now they have your money, and there’s nothing you can do about it but bend over and take it up the ass!
I’ve tried and attempted so many different “fixes” that people have tried and got theirs working, but mine doesn’t respond to any of them. I even went as far as buying a new HD to see if I could re-install the old 3.0 firmware instead, but after it finishes formatting the HD it goes to install the firmware, AND EVEN THE OLD FIRMWARE FREEZES AT THE SAME SPOT. I definitely know it’s not a Hard drive problem, not in the least! It appears to be related to either the NAND, or the initial 3.01 that fried my system first.
Theories of people talking about why their consoles bit the biscuit talk about the updates causing power spikes in the system, frying their chipsets. Other people say that the older chipsets weren’t meant to handle the new firmwares.. Bullcrap. Another person talked about how his was fixed by sliding his HD in and out while the console was on, just before the magical percentage, then sliding it back in after it. It doesn’t work! This is so infuriating, that I haven’t even had this console for less than a year, and even my brother had terrible luck with his PS3 before I bought mine. What a sign! But I wanted a couple PS3 games, >_<
So now I’ve lost save files for Batman: Arkham Asylum, Dynasty Warriors 6, Eternal Sonata, Fallout 3 (got really far in this!), Folklore, Little Big Planet, and Metal Gear Solid 4 (80+ hours!!). *ready to throw console at wall* So now I gotta mail this thing to Sony directly, because there’s no bloody PS3 service depot in CANADA, so it’s going to the ‘States, which means it’s going to take 2+ weeks to get there and back. And chances are SUPREMELY high that I won’t get the same one I sent to them, because it’s just more convenient to replace a borked system with a new ‘refurbished’ one, than to actually fix the damn thing that an owner BECAME ATTACHED TO, AND HAS SAVED FILES/DOWNLOADS ASSOCIATED WITH THE CONSOLE ITSELF.
Big screw you, Sony… Just… ARGH.
September 17th, 2009Wow! I’m actually at an official Game Developers Conference place! ^_^
I’m currently sitting in the Austin Convention center, on the 3rd day so far. They have two days of panels, then the convention really starts. I’ve been sitting in on Sessions and Panel’s for the last couple of days, so I’m learning lots!
The main theme seems to be mostly about MMO RPG’s and iPhone. I also got to sit in on some story panels about how to write good stories and things! Lots of programming talks as well, and a neat Expo downstairs!
The Expo has companies such as CRI Ware (ADX Dreamcast/Saturn Audio format creator), Bioware (Showing off Dragonair I think), Microsoft, Sony’s Online department, Valve / Steem, Intel, DeVry, DigiPen and a whole bunch of other cool places.
Last On Tuesday and Wednesday there were iPhone Mixers, where people with shared interests in iPhone and iPod touch’s could talk about stuff and meet other people. And free booze. 
It was all beer so I just drank coke. Then last night (wednessday), we managed to score tickets to the Valve/Steem Party at a local club called “Moltov”. It was fun! We didn’t actually get there when it started at 8p, we got there at about 10:30p, but it was still fun! After that, people started dispersing, and we were invited to a bar called Chugging Monkey. The Valve guys let us ride in their limo there, it was so cool!
This trip has also been full of food, which was pretty good. TGIFriday’s is beneath our hotel, and lots of neat food options. I ate at La Cafe Crepe, and had a Swiss cheese, Egg and Bacon breakfast crepe. While I was eating it, there was this small black bird that walked into the cafe and started grabbing scraps. O.o it was funny actually. XD He was just walking around, then finally the staff realized, and one of them went to chase the bird out. The bird got cornered behind the door, and attempted to fly through the window. But it was just glass, XD Just like that windex commercial.
While meeting lots of people, it was kind of sad that when we described the games we made, we had to keep mentioning, “Diner Dash” or “Bejeweled” as comparison. o.O;
Well, I suppose I should get back to my sessions, my next one is at 1:30p/ ^^ See ya!