So, I set up a projects page that you can see what I have been working on. The first thing I’ve put up is a little Zelda Arkanoids game that I made for school a little over a year ago. I’ll be adding a few more old projects over the next couple days so I can actually have some content on here (both in terms of stuff to download as well as posts to read).
In other news, the city of Orlando put a big green sticker on the window of my car today, saying they were going to tow it in ten days because it’s been abandoned. Just because I have Virginia plates on it and all the stickers are at least 6 months out of date doesn’t mean it’s abandoned. I mean, honestly. In truth, I already had all the new stickers (except emissions, which Florida doesn’t need anyways). The window sticker has been in my room for a while and I had recently found the stickers for my plates in a pile of mail that never made its way to me for four months somehow. I was actually even thinking of putting them on today, now that it’s stopped being damp or rainy all the time. Even before my roommate even told me about the sticker. Honest. Anyways, they’re all on my car now, so that problem is solved. The best part is, I’m moving back to Virginia in about seven days now anyways, so it would have been gone before they could tow it. Sorry Orlando, no free money for you.
Development, Games, News
I read practically every entry on Wikipedia about Greek, Roman and Japanese mythological creatures and characters while I was trying to decide on the domain name. It was great fun rediscovering some creatures I knew, but had forgotten about, like the Leshy and Rusalka from Quest for Glory IV.
It was also fascinating to discover the actual root of some other ones whose names I had seen used, but for symbolically similar characters. For example, Briareus, Cottus and Gyges are the three Hecatonchires giants with 100 arms and 50 heads that helped Zeus overthrow the Titans after Zeus rescued them from Tartarus, the hell below hell itself in mythology. If you’ve read the Ghost in the Shell Appleseed manga [edit: Wow, I'm retarded. I can't believe I mixed those two up, much less that it took me almost two years to notice], most of these names should be familiar.
Briareos is one of the main characters, a Hecatonchires type cyborg who are known to be able to connect to an incredible amount of systems and control them (the hundred hands the mythos talks about). Kottus is one of the police robots who tends to surpress enemies by splattering them on walls and such (Cottus is supposed to mean “the striker” or “the furious”). Gyges means big-limbed and sounds an awful lot like Guges, the type of landmate that Deunan uses. Finally, Tartarus is the section of Olympus that the bioroids of the city are created and raised (I wonder what Shirow is trying to say there). Probably the definition for the diety Tartarus makes more sense since it says he is the “unbounded first-existing “thing” from which the Light and the cosmos is born”.
To be honest, I was about to make this part of the first post, but it ballooned way out of control (I have a tendency to do that when I get talking about something I’m interested in) and it didn’t really fit in with the rest of the post which was supposed to be an introduction, not a history lesson. Just beware when I finally start getting money again and I can actually start buying books.
Anime, Games, Mythology
Appleseed, Quest for Glory
Well, after agonizing over the domain name for nearly 24 hours straight (with a short break to eat fondue and play games at a friend’s place), I finally settled on Teumessian Fox. Wikipedia has the slightly longer story, but the short one is that the Teumessian Fox is a creature from Greek mythology that is destined never to be caught. I thought the full story was pretty interesting and it kind of expresses my hope for the future, to run madly ahead of everyone else for all eternity ;).
So anyways, what is this blog going to be all about? Well, I just graduated from school with a Bachelor of Science in Game Development which means I need to start looking for a job. I’m hoping having a nice looking blog that I can use to showcase what I’ve done and how awesome I am (I kid) will help in that regard. Hopefully I can at least convince people that I’m intelligent, easy to get along with and know what I’m doing.
I’ll also probably spend some time geeking out over games, programming and anime. I like my opinions and I adore telling people what they are, especially if they don’t agree with me, so I pray I can find some insightful things to expound on.
Games, Mythology, News
