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Starting the Journal over, College crap, Projects, etc. |
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Okay, so I'v decided to delete all my meaningless, previous entries from my journal and start this over again, and actually USE it. I'll go by something of a DeviantArt format with this journal just for fun, so let's begin.
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Currently listening to: "Dreams of an Absolution" - Lee Brothertion & Jun Senoue Currently playing: "Puyo Pop" - GBA Currently reading: "Brotherhood" - Ciel the Hedgehog on Fanfiction.net Current mood: sad Upset
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Okay, first off, I'm having College problems again. For once, they're not financial problems either. These are problems I caused myself by not studying and working harder at my lessons. I misunderstood one lesson in English class that counts for one quarter of my grade but, thinking that I did understand it, worked hard at it... only to get a big fat 0. Now my English GPA is 69.3, but I may have two more points coming from an ungraded peer review, which would bring my GPA up to 71.3 if I got full points for it. However, my professor isn't exactly clear on his grading scale, so I'm not sure if 70 and above is a passing grade or 75 and above. If it's 75 and above, I'm sporked. See, I wouldn't mind taking the class again, but the problem is, they disallow financial aid to pay for retakes of failed classes; in other words, if I have to take this English class again, it's 745 dollars that has to be paid out of pocket. The money isn't the real problem though; see, I don't have a job yet because of this stupid community I live in where it's hard as heck to get any kind of a job, and so my Dad is paying my College expenses until I can catch a break and get a job. My Dad is having health problems and all already, and having such a big cost laid on him PLUS the disappointment of my failure in a class is the last thing he needs... so if I've failed English, I'm sporked in more ways than one.
On a lighter note however, I have a few projects going... which will hopefully keep going if my English grade is actually a pass. I'm in the process of assembling a sprite-based dollmaker for use in MSPaint, I have a few fanfics in the works, I'm working on an online card game that will have forum-based play, and I'm rolling some other ideas around in my head.
The sprite-based dollmaker is something that got inspired by Gen8thehedgehog's Furry Dollmaker Flash Applications on DeviantArt. At the moment, I'm using some pre-rendered sprite bases by DBurakki and Cylent Nite for testing purposes, but once finished, the dollmaker will include parts for making one's own, special character. The general purpose for this is to help newbie spriters see what their characters would look like in sprite form so that they could have something to work off of as they continue to create their own sprite sheet. I originally intended to make the clothing pieces in several different poses so someone could use the dollmaker to make an entire sheet of their character, but after giving it some thought, I felt that wasn't wise. Something like that would just make spriters lazy. I feel it's better to give newbies an idea of what they're working on and get them started with a single sprite than give them the means to make an entire sheet. Pieces I have complete so far are T-Shirts, Tank Tops, Dresses, Jackets, Vests, Skirts, a few Gloves and many Shoes. I intend to make more Gloves and Shoes, maybe some more Shirt variations. I also, as far as clothing goes, intend to add jewelry, headbands and hats. After all those pieces are done, I intend to work on the base parts, such as faces, eyes, ears, tails, torsos, hair, mouths, etc. After that, the female version of the sprite-based dollmaker will be complete, and then a simple tweaking of it will allow me to present you all with the male dollmaker. n.n
I can't give many details on the fanfics i have in the works, but I can tell you a bit about the card game I'm working on. It will be a forum played card game with coaches overseeing play. I would LIKE to flash-base this card game, but 1) I have no flash publication applications I can work it on, and 2) it would be murder for anyone on Dial-Up if the whole mess with Cartoon Network's Cartoon Orbit card game was any sign. (Yes, I actually used to play that.) Anyway, the card game will have many characters from various video games, anime, etc. such as Sonic, Sailor Moon, Escaflowne, Tenchi Muyo, Puffy AmiYumi... (Yeah, you heard right, they're in the card game.). The playstyle is loosely based on the Pokemon card game, but has elements from the .Hack//ENEMY card game, plus other stuff. For example, instead of flipping a coin like in Pokemon, you roll a dice. Or rather, if it's a sanctioned game on the forum that's overseen by a coach and added to the public scoreboard, then the coach will do most of the dice rolling to ensure no cheating has taken place, as we can't see what you're rolling over the computer. So, yeah, hopefully that'll be up and running when I can get my lazy butt back to it.
So, anyway, that's... about it for me. Hope I pass English now!
Bridgette Wolf · Mon Oct 22, 2007 @ 03:43am · 0 Comments |
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