Devilish Laugh Blog

Hey everyone! Welcome! Thank you for sending my site through a spin! Most of you are here because of Line Simulator, I supposed. I finally got it up here, no thanks you to all graciously crashing my site. It will still probably be on and off for a while. Just keep trying!

Thank you all for enjoying my game, for what it’s worth. If anything, you’ve all inspired me to keep making point-and-click adventures. As complementary as it is, you guys are visiting my site so much, I had to upgrade my hosting account and it’s still fragile. I can’t think of anything else to say other than thank you!

Here’s how crazy my weekend was:
On Saturday around 1:00 my time, I submit Line Simulator to Newgrounds. I watch it for a little bit and it’s doing pretty well, but at 3:00, I left for a short vacation in Chicago. We finally get there around 9ish, and I hook my netbook up to their “high-speed” 40 kb/s internet connection and respond to some reviews. Most of them were positive and I was happy to see the average review score hovering around 9/10. Come Midnight, I’m watching SNL (not a regular practice for me…) and my friend texts me telling me it placed second on Newgrounds.

Next day, I go to a Blackhawks game (they lost but it was really awesome anyway), Sears (Willis) Tower, etc. When I return to my hotel room it turns out the game is on the front page of Newgrounds! I look at my site stats and they’ve gone up 400%, and I go to sleep, very satisfied. I drive 5 hours and finally get home. I log onto my site to update my post and lo and behold, my site is crashed! Best 3 days of my life, regardless of how hectic…

I’m just glad you all enjoyed it so much!

So while I’m very happy that you all are here, I had to spend some extra cash to get it back online. I don’t think it’ll work, but I’m supplying this donation button. Why would I put it up if I don’t think it’ll work? Because I had banner ads. I thought about it, and I thought about putting ads at the beginning of the game, but it doesn’t work for me. It doesn’t fit the flow of my website or the style of the game.

If you have an extra $2 even, just laying around… I mean, it’s no big deal…

Hey everyone!

I think my website crashed. If you manage to get through the the site, I’m very sorry it’s down. I had a heck of a time myself just trying to get into here. I’m trying to find out what I can do. If you want to play Line Simulator, you can click here to go to Newgrounds.com for now

Thank you all very much! I’m overwhelmed with the influx of visitors, but some times your love is just too much! Turns out I have to upgrade my hosting now…

Well everyone. I’ve had a great day. I go to bed at 3 to find out I’ve placed 2nd on Newgrounds’ submissions on the day. I wake up, head over to the United Center for a great Blackhawks’ game. Even though they lost, it was still amazingly awesome to be there… I go to the Sears Tower, I eat some great deep-dish, and I return back to the hotel, overwhelmed by the joy that has knocked over the door of my brain and exterminated every other emotion I had come into contact with.

What do I find waiting for me in my hotel room? That’s right. Front page of Newgrounds.com.

Thank you all. Even if you don’t know who I am or if you didn’t vote for it. Thank you very much for being here. You’ve made my three day vacation this much better. Wait.

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Hello everyone.

The game didn’t come out when I planned it to, but it’s out now. It’s not up here yet because I’ve taking a break from home right now. Feel free to follow the link below to Newgrounds.com and rate it a 5/5. It’ll be up here when I get back home.

Bet you can’t wait to wait…

Remember way back in the day when point-and-click adventures were enough for people? We didn’t need revolutionary technology or 300 employees for one game. All it took was one guy in a basement! That’s all beside the point, really.

What I’m getting at it my new game that I’m releasing either this Saturday or next Saturday, depending on which works best for me. I have volunteer work to do in the morning and work in the afternoon. If I get the 15 minutes I need in between, it’ll be this Saturday.

The premise of this game is simple. Just image yourself standing in line for the Playstation 4, (I only used the PS4 because that’s the only future console we can know the name of,) but you’re 7th in line. What are you going to do? That’s right! Kill of everyone else in line so you can be first!

Point and click your way to the front of the line, as easy as that. I’m really excited about this game. Even those who tested the originial for me will get some new things from this game. Help me celebrate its release this Saturday!

Uh-oh. Nicholas got bored again…

Believe it or not, I have a friend who had never seen the original Star Wars trilogy. So this Christmas I bought all three of them for him and we watched them last Wednesday night. It reminded me how awesome the original movies really where, and why movies should be shot on location with minimal special effects.

But it also reminded me how amazing the special effects where for back then. I couldn’t help but feel like all you could do back then was make word documents on the Apple II. This made me very curious, so I did a little research and made a little list of some of the greatest technological advancements (in my opinion) from 1970 to 1990.

So to put things in perspective, I compiled this:

(The whole thing about the 800 number isn’t great, but I found it interesting.)

I’m sure this kind of thing has been made before, but I’m too lazy to find one I found interesting, so I made my own.

Well, I’m back on the animation highway… Boy, that was lame. Let me start over.

So, I spent all yesterday animating this cartoon. It’s about a penguin who wants to be a pirate. Spoiler! There is a happy ending. I’m very proud of it, and I hope you enjoy it as much as I do. You can watch it here or you can watch it on YouTube!

Also, if you live in Iowa, I hope you’re enjoying this snow as much as I am.

Been thinking of putting a full fledged story on here. One that I wrote just a while back. Submitted it to my school’s literary magazine but was rejected because it mentions emo kids which some may find offensive. (I say is one living that life style, they don’t care if they are made fun of. Plus, as some of you know, I have no problem with emos…)

But I’m feeling a story coming on. Have fun:

Now it’s not so crazy, is it? Is it so bad that I’ve fallen victim to this dangerous love? There’s been worse cases. Stupid Lenore’s parents thought it was a good idea to have a kid.

Okay that was out of line. But maybe if she would let me love who I do, I wouldn’t be so hostile!

It’s not their fault an infection caused most of their brains to shut down, and the only thing they have left is the will to stay alive which usually gives them a bad image.

The next day, I broke a big rule. I left the city to go to an abandon library 1/3 of a mile out of the northern safety wall. I needed something to read and the school reading was not cutting it. I couldn’t get my mind off my new found love.

So I grabbed a book about theology of the living dead. It was a pre-war book, and some of the pages were really messed up. Turns out the idea of the living dead started out in a continent called Africa (which I found out the next day at school, is the old New France Republic.) They came from a religion of sorcery called Voodoo were a “witchdoctor” would resurrect a “zombi” (a person who was once dead, which they have brought back) to do their bidding.

Over time, cultures changed the zombi into almost what they are today. Eventually they became know as “Zombies” who fed on flesh, blood, and specifically brains. Nearly half a century ago, the pop culture turned them into these horrible creatures, not completely indifferent from a city rat.

But the original concept is the one I believe in. Except the zombie (or zombi) is the one that resurrected my heart from the dead. It is now in his control, and I to do as he pleases.

Been thinking about doing this for a long time. Making some clothes. I have a bunch of designs drawn up and not ’till today did I finally get one finished on the computer. Above is the design. I sent out an email to get a quote, so we’ll see how soon it is ’till I get them to give to all of you. STAY TUNED!

I can’t wait to wear my own clothes…

You may notice that in my last post I mentioned a new cartoon about a cat. Well, I changed my mind and now I’m making a game with the same idea. To the right here is a screen shot. Not much to show except for this 8-bit kitty being held up by a single balloon. This is all I have at this point… Finally got what I needed working, the hard part is out of the way. Now on to making enemies and obstacles… But that can wait till the morning.

Got a chance to play the new DJ Hero that’s coming out. It’s a completely stupid idea, I know. But the more I thought about it the better it got. It’s filling in a completely missing demographic of gamers, and its just simple fun. I played it on medium and its pretty dang hard. Unlike medium in Guitar Hero, there’s so much to do and handle.

The most appealing thing about DJ Hero is that you don’t even have to like the music. What they did was take two completely different songs like Gorillaz’s “Feel Good Inc.” and Marvin Gaye’s “Heard it Through the Grapevine” and mix them in a very awesome sounding way. As white as I am, and as against rap as I am, I had a fun time playing this game and that’s all it’s meant to provide.

More so excited about Brutal Legend……….