Sunday, July 25, 2010

Dreaming In First Person Shooter

I think this could be a totally legit game. I would play it without a doubt.


There are two teams, sort of.

At first, one team was blue, and the other like a golden yellow. But that's just the color of ammunition that you shoot. That actual characters are either dressed in all white or all black from head to toe.

There are two floors, each one set up like a grid of rooms, and each room is totally different, at first. The black team starts on the first floor, and the white team starts on the second floor. There's only one way to get between the two floors, and it's just a large ramp.

Some of the rooms look more like something out of Tron, while others look like military bunkers. Here's a list of the rooms that I saw.

The ramp area, looks like something out of Tron.
The beginning area looks like a super minimalist military bunker with nothing more but cots.
There was a room with a lot of portals in it, each labeled, but I didn't go through any.
There's one room that is designed like the ice age, and everything is covered in ice and snow.
There's another room which is like the portal room, but in ruins, complete with a giant red and orange T-Rex that will chase and eat anything and anyone that it sees moving. I did not find a way to kill it.
Connected to that room is another series of rooms, I only got two rooms into them, and the farther you get, the farther into the past you get and the more and more dinosaurs there are. Some are nice, and some are not.
There were a few rooms that were like the ramp room, only it seemed to be some sort of base that you either wanted to capture or defend.
There was a room that was a forrest, and cycled through night and day in like 15 minutes.
There was an inverted room, where your controls became inverted, as did the colors.


According to my on-screen grid, there were 24 rooms, so clearly did not get to all of them, and I could only assume that the second floor was the exact same. And not all the rooms are connected like room to room. Some require you to go through lengthy hallways, in which there's no way that physically there was room for them, but I wont argue with a dream.


The weapons were so freaking cool too. I was only able to figure out the first 6, but I assume that there were dozens of them. The way I figure that it would work, is if you're playing 1v1, then you have all the weapons, and a 2v2 you get half the weapons, making sure that it's an even type for each player. And that would continue so on until you get to maybe 5v5, where there would begin to be multiple players with some of the same weapons. I'll explain the 6 that I figured out.
*I only managed to hit Bret with one weapon.

1. This seemed to be my primary weapon. It fired what looked like a colored stream of electricity, but I don't know what it did it I hit somebody.
2. This was like a nano-bot destroyer. It pretty much looked like it fired a quarter and if it was near the nano-bot, it would latch onto it and disable it.
3. This was the actual nano-bot weapon. You could either set them to activate right away, or set in a location for them to travel before activating. I wouldn't exactly call them nano-bots, as you could visibly see them. But Bret was setting locations for them, and it was like 2 small blocks that would slide across the ground until they got the to location, then link together and turn into some kind of robot. Bret's were turning into large mechanical spiders, but after I saw the first one, I was able to disable them all.
4. This gun fired like the 1st one, looked like a ray of electricity. But this one was for firing at the walls, floor and ceiling. It made these crystals start growing like weeds. I assume these were a defensive type structure.
5. This one was almost like a flamethrower, but it was firing a solid that would disappear unless it came in contact with something physical, in which case it would stick to that. Almost like a short range freeze gun.
6. This is the one I was able to hit Bret with. It was almost like a paint-gun. And I hit him with it once, and his uniform started to change.(I said earlier, there was a blue and orange team, but we were wearing white and black. The blue and orange was the type of like ammunition that you fired.) But I was turning him my color, and then he started to turn me to his color. This could very well make a player swap teams if they get fully painted.


But what was REALLY cool, was that weapons were reacting differently in certain rooms. I was in the 2nd dinosaur room, and I was trying to fire the short range thing, number 5, but it would instead place something that looked like a rams head on the ground. You could make it buck it's head and anything that was on top of it would go flying. And in another room, the gun to shoot crystals was growing Ice Cream scoops instead.


And like I said earlier, each room starts totally different, at first. The longer that the game progressed, the more that changed. Like the dinosaurs at one point stampeded, out of their rooms and were then in a number of rooms causing problems. That giant T-Rex for sure did not stay in that ruined portal room. And the Ice Age room started to freeze the rooms that are near it, so by the end the rooms next to it were frozen too.


It was a sweet dream. This was more for my record keeping, because this would make a cool video game I think. I think I would call it Dreamt. So if you ever see that game in stores sometime, you know that I made a really awesome video game, and that I'm probably rich. So you should try to get a hold of me so we can hang out.

Friday, July 23, 2010

An Honest Asshole

I admire an honest and upfront approach more than anything, because to show that kind of vulnerability to someone takes a lot of balls in my book. And that's how I like to deal with problems are have side-effects that actually get to me, by being upfront, honest and blunt about it.

This summer has blown everything out of the water with different things going on. And I finally got to the end of the things I really wanted to say this summer.

As I was searching for the way I needed to say what I was going to say for one final time, I started to feel sick to my stomach, something that has never happened before.

And sending that message made me feel great, just getting it out there and that weight off of my mind. But that kind of feeling doesn't last to the morning, and all morning I felt like such an asshole about the whole thing, and I never should have said anything.

And then to have it come around and wind up like it did-

---------I have to say that I think I hate the word wind the most, because I type something like I just did and I see wind, as in a breeze, but I know that I want wind, like a twisting or rotating motion, or in this case a finishing.------------------------

-like it did just makes me feel even worse.


I have to go back to what I constantly think though. What happened, happened, and it wont change because it's already been done. And now I have to deal with the reality of the situation that I've put myself into.

I really hate this feeling.

Tuesday, July 20, 2010

I Am Who I Am

Confessions.

I was at Target, and once again tried to use my telekinesis powers to bring a cart closer to me because I didn't want to talk to it.
That was a week ago.

I had a dream three nights ago that I was playing Quidditch, I was the Captain of the Griffindor team and I was a beater and I smashed the Ravenclaw keeper in the shoulder with a bludger and he fell off of his broom.
That's the 11th Quidditch dream that I remember. I'm usually either Ravenclaw of Griffindor. Always the team captain, and almost always a beater.

I had tried using spells in real life if there's nobody around.

Monday, July 19, 2010

Cleaning Chemicals

I just finished cleaning the shower that my sister and I share. It took the better part of two hours. It terribly disgusting sharing a bathroom with her. She simply doesn't care if anything is clean or dirty.

The one ledge where I keep my things: Water spots and a little soap build up.
Cleaned in maybe 3 minutes.

The whole rest of the shower that Julie uses: 7 old razors, ranging from rusted, broken, covered in black stuff and any combination of the three. Black mold, no doubt about it. Some strange orange/red residue from where ever she puts a conditioner bottle.
Easily took an hour.

The rest of the cleaning was just simple normal type cleaning for a shower. But I know that if I had the shower to myself, it would never get that dirty. When we built this house, she said she was going to save money and then tear down a portion of her bedroom wall and build her own bathroom, because I was such a disgusting person to share a bathroom with.
She's only cleaned the bathroom once in 7 years, and the one time she did, she used what ever cleaning solution she wanted, which explains why we have some spots with the paint and chrome destroyed.

I also got the toilet, which was gross too, but just because it was a toilet.

I haven't gotten to the sink yet.
The sink started to drip earlier this summer, and I haven't had the motivation to tighten whatever is loose under the sink. So the sink is even worse than normal.
On the rare occasion that Julie does brush her teeth, she rinses most of the toothpaste off before it even gets in her mouth, and then doesn't rinse the sink after she spits.

I got really light headed from chemicals too for the first time, so I'm pretty spaced out.

Life:
Life goes swimmingly. I think that I have more figured out now that I did during my last post. Some of the problems I was stuck with have been resolved, but then I end up just going to a new problem to fix.

Though I'm down to simply 1 interest for now.

Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Here We Go Again

It's been such a long time since I updated this thing.

I've graduated, turned 18 and done a lot more since I last posted.

The night of graduation seemed to fly by. I had hardly even realized what had just happened by the time it was over. Then we all still had to go back to school.
And it never hit me until just now, just I never realized what a huge deal my last day of school was, I had just spent the last 4 years in that place, and I walked out of it like it was any normal day.
My open house was a ton of fun. The weather was perfect in a week of storms, lots of people were able to go enjoy the park and lake and stuff.
I had my adult hug-virginity taken within minutes of becoming an adult.
I gambled within minutes of being able, and won 23 dollars.

Summer rolled on in it's usual way. I found myself with the band a lot, I am getting paid. It's not hourly or anything, it's a flat out check for what I've done this summer.
I've been trying to keep up with everyone that I can, but it's really hard, and I feel bad knowing that I'll possibly never see some of these people again in my life.

There's been lots of social drama this summer too, and I've caught myself opening up to more and more people, so I guess that can be seen as a good thing. The drama definitely has a center point though. Part of me wants to work it out for the better, and the other part wants to leave their sorry ass for being such a two-faced bitch all the time to everyone, not just me. Maybe spending some time away from people during college will do them good.

And I've actually managed to work myself into quite a mess of a summer as well.
I have a collection of interests, not meaning hobbies, but persons that are interesting.

One is a little older than me, but I've probably spent the most time of all my friends with her. It would be really complicated once school starts up though.
One is my age, like 7-8 months older whatever, but she's impossible to read, and I don't know that it would work like I hope it would.
There's another my age, but I know she's off limits. But.. Well.... In my defense, she usually texts me first to ask how I am and how my day has been. And with my Nana passing and all, she's been there for me if I needed anything at all. Like been there more than a normal friend.
One is a tad younger, and she too is taken. But I don't know how long that will last, and I know she's into me. So I see no harm in seeing what's there should they break up.
And the last one is a bit younger than me, and she's cute and all, but I think I know enough to see what she needs. She thinks it's a guy, when she really just needs a supporting person for her. If she wasn't so young, I would most likely consider it to be more than it is right now.


And I would have sworn there was only 4 like a week ago, oh well.

I guess that's all for now. Maybe I'll try to keep this more updated this summer.