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Alright, I’ve finished all my coursework. Only problem is I feel creatively drained, can’t really use MMF2 right now. But I managed to whip up a little Tormishire poster.
Click for the full resolution pic, as always!

I’ve almost finished my coursework. Just another few more pages to my essay, lets stick in some fancy graphs. Oh and finish my HCI application and I can get cracking on the more joyous things in life. I’ve finished both of my other projects now (research and game engine design).

I can’t wait to get cracking on Tormishire now. Rest assured this game will be finished. It’s beyond the point of no return now. Think I got to this stage with Sam just after I showed my dad the hamster ball and he said “you fool, it’s on a slope, it has to roll down”. I’ve had some mind blisteringly good ideas for it over the past few weeks. Got madly inspired by some mad landscape photo of somewhere in Australia.

And me iPod Shuffles performing excellently. Hasn’t been on charge once. Turns out I only like to have my utter fave songs on the go with me! Once my works done I’m heading up to Dovestones. Hopefully with snow! Make a nice change from all the ruddy gale force storms smashing into our little island.

All’s good. I’m 21 now, btw. Have been for 12 days no less! I just forgot to mention it. I think.

Actually… no! I broke my hifi amplifier. This was a while ago now. I tried rewiring my speakers so I could reposition them and I ended up blowing 3 internal fuses. I’ve got the damn thing in pieces here trying to find these ancient fuses in specialist shops. So my 2 new Rega Alya speakers are sat here… muted… Such a sad thing really.

Managed to sneak into town today as Paul was looking for a flat in Didsbury… Picked up this beauty to go alongside my iPod Mini. It’s 1gb, but I’ve squeezed on 270 tracks, 17 hours of music, still more than the battery life! Not much else to say. It’s just tiny, clips onto friggin *anything* (currently use it tied to one of the belt loops on my jeans).

I think this is the best, or at least the most impressive iPod I’ve ever bought! No point in doing a review as nobody will listen to it. But it’s good. I just stick this on and go for a run. Apple – the masters of convenience.

Just a quickie… Due to the spam I’ve been getting I’ve decided to turn on some protective measures. Comments will only appear if you have a pre-accepted comment. So to my regulars just post something in here to get approved. Obviously I’ll keep an eye out for legit posters in the spam bin.

That’s it!

Just to fill you guys in, seeing the planned launch date was 2 days away. Tormishire is being delayed and not in the “Hey he’s delayed it but thats cool I can download it in the next 12 hours”. Talking around July now. But the game has grown from a little demo into a full blown game, at this moment in time replacing Satan Sam 2. *Now* you can expect a proper game with all the bells n whistles (wonder where that saying came from?). I’ve learnt a lot about gameplay and art in general over the last year since Sam so yea, I bloody hope this works!

Anyways. The game will have an online highscore too, due to the nature of the game it’ll probably just be a timed highscore.

Have some lovely screenshots. I’ve got 7 days now to package all this together into a lovely presentable piece of coursework. Graphics and everything are almost finalised. But much can change still.