Slacker...

Oh man. These past few days have been so so SO so busy... Ahhhh...

First, I didn't study coding at all this past weekend because I was lazy on Friday night and Saturday. Shame... I can't help it though, I get home from work for the weekend and all I want to do is lounge like a lethargic kitten who just drank too much milk...

Sunday was a very exciting day because Andrei and I announced our engagement to a big group of our friends and family! I know a bunch of people took photos, but I've only seen a few so far... Not everyone has emailed them to me yet. But, one of my favorites...

Andrei wasn't expecting to have to give a speech, but he moved us all with his words, regardless. That's me getting all teary-eyed over what he's saying. Ahh, I love this man.


Anyway. I may end up bogging down some of my posts with messy pseudo-code. I'm going to be using my knowledge with C to design a text game (I've mentioned that before). I need to get some of the main functions down for features I want to offer, and in the process, I'll be trying to figure out if they're going to be possible.
Things like save-files that are password protected for characters... Garages or stables where they can store animals/vehicles for mounts or minions... A leveling/storage system for minions that allows them to gain experience and skills alongside their masters (it is SO Pokemon-y, but I hope that the end product won't feel like that at all)... Crafting that actually makes it feel like you have complete control over how a piece of armor looks, instead of making the same shirt/pants/boots over and over... Not to mention, items that give invisible flags, like comm-links that allow a character to talk into an IC channel that is only available to other characters with that comm-link item...

Idk, I just have so many ideas. I didn't ever ever EVER think I would get into game-design... but if I can get good with this coding bit, or find someone who likes the ideas I have enough to help me... Oh man. Ohhhh man. I just get all excited thinking about it.

I've got note-taking on my list of things to do today, if I can tear myself away from Facebook and Tumblr. I've got to keep my goals in sight. I know I can do this as long as I keep myself motivated!!

GW2

Finding myself entranced again by the beauty of this game. Just wanted to share.

Of course, it's not nearly as pretty as it could be. My computer is rather dated. But it gets the point across. Meet Yvinne, my evil sylvari mesmer. She serves as the equal opposite of my favorite character, and causes trouble for the sake of storytelling. So nice to have an evil little plot device.

Yvinne's probably neutral evil, but borders on chaotic evil. Silvaria is true neutral, but can sometimes be neutral good, and other times, she's chaotic neutral.

I have some feels for the two of them. Silvaria, in all her incarnations, tends to be drawn to the darkness, and Yvinne is there to show her what the darkness is capable of. It's interesting... to me, anyway.
I might come back and post a pic of GW2!Silvaria, or I might come back and take more notes. Not sure presently...

More Filing and Getting Ready to Take Some Notes

I'm procrastinating again... I really don't want to do this filing.

So I'll make a blog post instead.

Yesterday was odd. I don't know why I was hit with such icky feelings all of a sudden like that. I just know that I felt somewhat like I did back in College Algebra... "This should really make sense, and I feel like this should really work... but it doesn't." From what I understand, there's a lot of that in coding as a whole haha.

It makes me nervous, though, because if I don't have the mind to wrap around these things, my project with my fiance is up in smoke before we can even start on it. He has already determined that he's not a coder. If I can't learn this and get good at it, we'll be a couple of really creative people without the means to produce what we want. Puts on the pressure. :(

I'm also nervous because I'm afraid that these ideas we have aren't going to be interesting to other people. I'm scared that our scope is too big, and we're trying to do too much... Is all of this work going to pay off with a product that is thoroughly enjoyable by everyone, or will Andrei and I be the only ones enjoying it?

Anyway, I'm going to reward myself today. Once I'm done with this filing, I'm going to start taking notes from my textbook in between answering the phone and checking emails. I'm still working on the DG Scripts and triggers for my zone in TBA, I just have to step back from them and tackle something different for now.

Ho Hum

Quiet because of Mother's Day. Not too much happened in the coding area, though I did have a good time with my family today. Fiance and I went to Mom and Dad's for amazing italian take-out, but before the evening was over, Grandma lost her balance and fell. She's been complaining about vertigo, and I think that's what did it. She hit her head, but seemed okay after drinking some cold water.

Fiance and I came home and we've honestly been playing ToR all night. My 'Sin is almost 55, and we're enjoying being beastly together on our mains (he has a Sorc). I totally love playing our toons together, because we can sit and banter back and forth about RP things. I have this tendency of being knocked off of the edges of platforms by knockbacks, and so we were laughing earlier about how his character would be constantly scolding mine for falling all the time.

"Silvaria, we're going to be fighting on a Gravity Hook. DO NOT stand near the edges."
"Okay, okay! I got it!"
"Are you sure? You've almost plummeted to your death how many times? Ten, now?"
"...Eleven, after the last one in the mining shaft....."

We have a lot of fun with our characters, heehee.

Here's Silv with a kind of incomplete set... She's 54 right now and I'm not sure what her gear will look like when she hits 55, but I know I want to change it. We affectionately call this set "swamp beast" lol.

Anyway, not much is going to happen tonight. Just going to enjoy the evening with Fiance and be happy. :)

Some Off-Topic Things While I Wake Up

Today is going to be a good day.

Yesterday was good, too, but full of filing and rushing. It left me exhausted and unwilling to do anything but curl up with fiance after movie and sleep.

Speaking of movie! Iron Man 3 was pretty damn good! I won't spoil anything, but we both enjoyed it thoroughly more than #2. Anymore, I judge stories by how well they suspend my disbelief, and after seeing the mindfuck that was Dark City and being seriously messed up for a good two days after that, very few movies are capable of instilling that feeling anymore...

But the action was good, and the story was interesting, even if some parts were not explained very clearly in words. Sometimes it is good to leave things to the viewer's interpretations, but important plot points shouldn't be on that list of things, lol.

Anyway, today is going to be good because it is Saturday and we are being lazy kitties and only doing what we want to do. For me, that is scanning over my C textbook, testing and writing triggers in TBA, and possibly playing some ToR later on. Fiance seems to be pretty happy playing his Sith Sorcerer at the moment, but he told me earlier that we'd be able to write some today, too! Whether that means we RP or world-build, I'm not sure... But either would make me a happy camper!

Anyway, going to go finish my coffee and be lazy. If I take notes today, I will make another post. :D