Boots in games and the hat behind them.

The heavy hand of reality lies upon my mind, crippling the communication between soul and body. Overcast clouds the view and I can no longer see a direction only reel from anything I touch.

Confined to a self-indulged prison I cry at the bars to let me out, but the door is already open. The only reaction seems to come from the inner instinct that all the bad lays without, not within. If only the truth could compel me to see the twisted matter that is bottled up inside, then perhaps the chains of freedom wouldn’t be so contusive to my current arrangement.

They once said the devil is disguised to be the most beautiful thing you would ever see; then why is hell on earth reigning with no beauty behind it, is this the conclusive work of what some call God? That would make the only sense “ live in hell, reign in heaven” – It’s a wonder the world has fallen from any sort of true religion, how can you believe that hell could ever be worse than this.

Every moment seems to be a waiting moment – you know where you’re waiting for it to pass so that you can go on with the next miserable moment that will tie to the next; a chain of misery that is tied together by some sort of woeful hope that is only discouraged by the coming moments.

The rope that climbs you out of the hole is covered with oil and the light is laughing and taunting you from the top as you tumble back into your miserable existence, covered in the mud of yourself loathing. Bathing on the floor after every tumble down to the cold truth, that you will never have anything you’ve ever wanted, because by the time you get it you’ll just want something else.

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How to define a time period of your life: it seems so strange to dub a ’section’ of your life, “No No, I’m not that person anymore.” Well, than if you’re not who you where, who are you now? Just you, but you where you then.. .right? right..

I mean, no matter how you look at your life and try and segment it off and cut it up into some sort of module base existence; it all comes back to the same thing – You wouldn’t be you now, if you weren’t that you then.. So you’ll always be that person. You can’t just pluck a module out of the base package and have it still work, that part of you will always be there.

Now that’s not to say that we can’t go and ‘not’ do certain things that we use to do, right?

Just seems so petty to remove past regressions from our lives, bottle them up and act like it wasn’t ‘us’ that did that, that was another person – not who I am now. I call BS. Grab that memory out, dust that bugger off and come to grips with who you are – not who you where. These are pieces of the continuous puzzle that builds a person – One person, not a segmented, diced and sliced multi-person…

Right? Right… Okay .. Ramble out.

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Setting Up Joomla Part 1

Setting up your Portfolio Part 2

Howdy Everyone,
So I was doing my tutorials for the students over at our development club and decided to make some videos for setting up joomla, rather than just typing out the tutorials. So, I decided I’d go head and share here on my blog as well.

I plan on doing some more advanced tutorials as I go showing the way to get around good Ole Joomla and some of the more advanced features.

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Obviously before you can even start your portfolio you need a place where you can host it!

Now, I’m going to of course do a shameless plug and tell you the best place you could host is with me (www.springshosting.com). Infact, if you’re a student we do offer a discount, so feel free to get in touch with me.

But, alas I’m only going to plug my work – there is many places that you can host at that will probably be more then adequate for your needs. The important thing is that you get enough space to store all your photos/videos, bandwith is important, but don’t fool yourself into thinking that you’re going to get a 100 people a day watching your video’s – Hope you get a 100 a month! So, bandwith most likely is not going to be a huge issue.

Now we know that we’re going to be building our site with Joomla! So there is some important aspects we must keep in mind – such of those that Joomla needs to run.

So, when picking your host lets ensure we have a few things.

To make things easy:

Run your portfolio on a Linux server.

Ensure that the host you choose is running:

• PHP 4.2.x or above
• MySQL 3.23.x or above
• Apache 1.3.x or above

This most likely wont be an issue if the host has the prior running, but you might want to make sure  that they have MySQL, XML, and Zlib functionality enabled within their PHP installation.

Also inorder to follow along with this tutorial you’re going to want to make sure you have FTP access

That’ll about wrap up our ‘host’ section, there are tons of hosting companies out there, just make sure you choose one that is willing to help you out along the way.

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So, I thought I’d share one of my game idea’s with everyone called ‘Shiny Coins’.  Shiny Coins came to be as a Student game some of us where going to develop for the 2009 IGF, unfortunetly problems arised with team members and we lost one to many people to actually have a chance of completing it.

I still plan on one day picking up the torch and finishing the prototype as we came along way in pre-production. I thought I’d start off with a quick 30 second pitch to tell you about the game; then from there you can decided if you want to keep reading about it as I put up more on the game… So here you go:

Shiny Coins is a puzzle based action game that takes place on a made up world. The world is the ‘vortex’ of all wishing wells in the universe, in which a few races of below-average intellect reside (think.. jarjar binks like intellect). The whole world is crafted of coins from the different worlds, huts, tree’s, bushes, Everything is essentially made from coins from all the different wishing wells.

A Tyrant (the main antagonist) fell through the well years ago and has levaraged his above average intellect to capture artifacts that where placed in labyrinths that control ‘mother nature’ in this world. He then being the smartest man on the planet hid these artifacts in his own labyrinths knowing that noone was smart enough to get them.

Along comes Franky (the player, the hero). Franky is shoved through the well against his well, it turns out he’s the ‘chosen’ one in this world. When he lands in the world, small special coins seem to be activating. Through a series of events Franky is conviced to recover the articfacts, banish the villian and restore the artifacts and the world to normal.

The player will use an assortments of collectible coins  and world coins that they find through their journey to pass puzzle, defeat enemies, and recover the artifacts. The game doesn’t actually have “death” as the goal is to make it feel more like a puzzle game than a actionkillallthebagguysandsavetheday game.

Some of the coins

World coins aren’t collectible but activate when Franky is near – Such coins as

reverse gravity coin

Gravity coin

pathing coins

spinning coins

clone coins

Collectible coins

Exploding coins

time phase coin

hover coin

catapult coin

black hole coin

I’ll go into further detail on the coins, game play, introduction stories.. etc etc as time goes on!!

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