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Well DG and myself have met in the past. I also on a whim flew from Stockholm to the UK in 2002 to be part for the very first Mittens gatherings. People will travel if they feel comfortable.

I brought up the idea to DG of people in the capital cities meet up locally (ie QLD around brisbane, meet up for a day, VIC around Melbourne meet up etc etc), then later the same year have a full Australian get together.

bump.

DG Mcphee, and myself are in discussions about setting up an aussie get together for AGSers, I suggested 3 possible scenarios,

Take it to the beach (vetoed by DGMcphee straight away, I also have to agree)
Take it camping... Hmmmm maybe.
Take it to a ski lodge, and get pissed surrounded by weak arse Australian snow (thoroughly supported by anyone who has been forced to live in Queensland).

But before this can happen things need to be organised, like who wants to come? And an agreement on an acceptable location.

Personally I would like to even have a casual day meeting for those within the Melbourne area who are interested... But again we need names and details.

Last night I dreamt I walked into a well decorated new style large house with a group of people. The first thing I saw apon entering was a boy, or at least I thought of it as a boy. What it really was, was an undead mummified child with an overly large head, more like a freakish doll, no clothes, skin the colour of tea stained paper, slender body, warped bubbly texture to the skin, no hair. It only stood about 2 - 2 and a half foot tall, and its monstrously large white eyes were the size of tennis balls with unclosing lids and vacant black pupils and no irises. It was dead, but continued to move and it had a childs mind and it yearned for death. It moved slowly, feebly and pathetically, and it asked to be killed. The child had used to be a disembodied spirit but now was bound to this rotten husk of a body that still seemed to live. So we searched the house and tried to think of ways we could end its life, as we explored the house it became aparent that rooms opened out, not into parts of the house, but into parts of this childs mind... eventually in the kitchen myself and a friend found a knife, a long sharp knife that we somehow knew had been used by this child to kill others. We arrived back in the lounge to find the child, in desperation, had clawed or ripped its own left arm off above the elbow in an attempt to bleed to death, but the slow leak of red blood and yellow wasn't having any effect. And my friend and I discussed if even running the creature through with the knife would kill it... then i woke up.

Hi, this is just something really quick, I want to compile a total accurate list of Aussie AGSers.

DGmcphee and Myself would like to organise something for you guys but we need to know who you are and where you are... and GO!

Not sure what this is... I have trouble with hands... and this is the first shading i've done in 2 years.

So why don't you post what you've done on it?

Um huh? I have listed my acting resume... current anyway.

My teacher doesn't want his way with me... i hope. I am very against medication. VERY AGAINST... it is going to be a last LAST resort.

I'm trying to come up with a design for a website for myself as an actor. (the last 2 designs use photos i took myself of myself, and for this reason are not going to be used)

The thing is I don't really blame others, I blame myself. I mentally take my problems out on myself... which fuels the anxiety. This does make me easily irritated by people and comes out as mood swings.

Good news though I just got a referral to a Psychologist from my GP today, and I will call them this afternoon to see how much it is going to cost.

Hi, I've been away from the forums for a while. And for a number of reasons, most of which people prolly don't care about. The main one being Alcohol, in the last 2 years I've been drinking myself stupid. My intake has probably been equivilant to 8 - 10 standard drinks 3-5 times a week. I started when i lost my girlfriend and job in the same month, and have been drinking ever since. Over two years I put on 10 kg (approx 22lb), and spent more than 9 months unemployed. (still "officially" unemployed). But in the last 3 months I've been turning that around. I've enrolled in a Music Theatre course with the Victorian College of the Arts, one of australias leading arts institutions. And for the last 4 weeks I've not been drinking and I've been dieting and exercising and have lost a total of 6kg (approx 14.2lb) thus far.

I'm feeling good about me, but feeling stung out in general. With out the alcohol what has become apparent was how my drinking was self medicating in an attempt to get away from anxiety, and depression issues. I've started to revert to how i was in high school, I'm anxious, nauseus, and constantly freaking myself out about irrational things. I'm sick of dark thoughts and rushing adrenalin.

Also this might sound a little odd explained this way but because I've never been a blokey bloke, and because of my theatre based interests I coped alot of crap in school for being gay, which hasn't gone away that much (at an average 50% of people think I am, which pisses me off). Recently one of my voice teachers, confronted me and told me I would prolly be a lot happier if I considered being honest with myself about my sexuality, and because I was depressed I went away for a week and thought about things, add in the fact that I worry about irrational things to begin with it was not a great week. And only now have i come to the end of it with the decision that I prefer women alot more than men. And once I realised that I was thinking about the subject from a forced perspective,( that was making me forget alot of life experiences), I calmed down and I realised I'm me, and I've always been honest... just single and no girls like me (but then its hard for girls to like a guy who totally mood swings, and gives off weird emotional vibes).

My brain sucks. The other thing that is currently driving me made is the concept of mortality and the soul. I'm having trouble reconiling its existence. So it takes a extra half hour to get to sleep because I have to stop get up, and calm myself down... my mind swims, i feel like I'm falling, and sometimes i feel like being ill and my body can even tense up (like right now).

I don't know what I hope to get out of writing this, it all seems a bit random, I guess I wanted to vent and be heard. Thank you all for listening.

I suppose he does have a motion problem, he is meant to be a gangly gawky  nerd... i imagine his walking to be slightly exagerated with a bobbing motion.

wow peder... what is involved in the php conversion?

Do you offer webhosting?

http://brainkandy.web1000.com/home.htm

this is the first website I've had in 3 years... What do people think of the layout... something feels a little off...

dammit do i need a better host

I'm having trouble drawing front on and side versions of the character that actually keep the charactor of the character.

The final product will most likely be in 640 x 480, so yes it will be reasonably high resoultion.

And the game is actually planned as a tribute to monkey island. Although having nothing to do with pirates what so-ever... there will also be no monkies, or ripped graphics, or redrawn characters from other games... it will be a tribute in spirit only.

main character for game...






ARRRRGH... I can't seem to turn the character right...



I may have trouble with shading, and animating will be interesting, but i really like the style.

Mark is up for a challenge. All the other explosive techians are busy when the emergency call is put through to his departmen and he thinks he has been sent out on nothing more than a harmless prank. This is not a good day to be a rookie...

Short 3 room game, that yet again features explosives... not sure why.







Art: 90%
Story: 80%
Puzzles 100%
Coding: 50%

(I know how can the puzzles and art be more complete than the story... short answer I'm winging the dialogue. There is something to be said for improv.)



PS. Game started in 2002 directly after Little Jonny Evil, and completed up to this stage. Then I discovered drinking, and have had a little bit of an alcohol problem ever since. Now I'm free, and sober, 4 weeks and counting, I've even lost 5 kilos, and am back down to 65Kg... and looking to get back to 60kg so all my old clothes will fit.

Har Har... *glares at domino*

Ok here's how it works.

The game is played by someboby providing a sentence. eg.  "How nature says, "Do not Touch"."

Next people must drawing a "one panel" comic stip to convey the sentence in as humourous way as possible for example. Style of drawing not as important as expression of characters and situation to derive humour.

For this game I will provide 3 sentences for people to choose from.  Winner to be decided on Friday the 1st of September.
Sentence's for this week,

"It could be the meaning of life, thought geoff, but then again he had been fooled before."

"Edna like a lot of things about Madge, this was NOT one of them."

"Mark thought he MIGHT be able to get away with putting it back together."

I wasn't a great fan of "dead men don't wear plaid"... don't know why really. I'm downloading the Bob Hope movie now. Does anyone else have anyothers that that could recommend.