Saturday, October 30th, 1999 (1:40 AM EST)
NEW SITE! Yes folks, thats correct. The reason, Tripod's 3 banner pop-ups are starting to piss me off! Actually, they already have. I'll keep whats left up here but I'll take it down soon, I've moved everything and made sure everything works at the new site. I'm using Webjump now. I had an account there, but never used it, now I uploaded everything from here over to there and voila! You can visit it at www.scraniel.webjump.com and please bookmark it, especially Z and Icebandit, be sure to change your bookmarks, please. Thank you! You'll love Webjump, only one banner but its not pop-up and fits inside a nice tiny frame at the top of your page, hardly visible. Once, again, BOOKMARK IT LAZY SLACKERS, ahem, Z, ahem! Anyways, I haven't gotten a new update over there but I will continue to update once i get more info, texture, ideas, and the drawings for city maps soon! See ya at Webjump!
Thursday, October 28th, 1999 (6:00 PM EST)
Not much news, but I'll list some city names which I had thought of before just to get you interested. I'll list some weapons and items you can obtain in the game. I'm fixing the problem with the stupid bmp conversion to gif and the blochiness of the maps. Z hasn't updated his site, I dunno why, but Icebandit's site is growing by the day. Keep it up guys. Here are the city names and structures:
City Names
- Ehvenor
- Faerie
- Lundeyll
- Melawei
- Aeryk
- Aeryn
- Metreyll
- Sciforth
- Holtun
- Bieme
- Aershtyl
- Aershtyn
- Khar
- Therranj
- Kathard
- Orden
- Elrood
- Bremon
- Pandathaway
- The Cirric (body of water between large islands)
Structures
- jeweler
- armorer
--- helmet shop
--- boot shop
- weapons shop
--- bow shop
- tailor (clothing)
--- hat shop
- map shop
- stables
- tavern
- inn
- trainer
- healer
- town hall
- docks
- shipright
- architect
- courthouse
- statue
- market
- school
- supplier
Thats it for now! I have a list of some weapons, items and armor I'm going to be using but its not a final list. Either is this, but oh well. Update maybe tomorrow! Most likely Z hasn't checked yesterday's update so please do so!
Wednesday, October 27th, 1999 (8:30 PM EST)
As planned, Icebandit busts out with more awesome sweetness graphics and textures from his experience and intelligent use of Bryce. God I love that program. Keep up the good work Icey. Z, send me some more texties boy, and they be posted. You can view the RPG pics of grass, beach (sand), and water (new!). I love the water the best. Looks pretty good man! Keep up the good work. I think the other two are new but I am not sure. But check 'em out. He also has some other pics such as black hole and a beautiful lake scene with mountains. I love what he can do with Bryce. I want to start considering making humans now. Can you do that in Bryce pretty well Ice? Contact me. Anyways, I'm starting on designing the city layouts and texture designs for the cities and such. I've got the city location planned out as you see below on Monday's update and I also have half of the names finished. I beg you to get in contact with me (e-mail at bottom) if you have any ideas for city names (preferrably Medieval). Thanks!
GTA2
I am so dang pissed. I went to Best Buy with my friend today in his car and we couldn't find the bloody box anywhere on the shelves so again I asked the sales guy and he goes and checks the computer. It ends up that he didn't find it so I guess they DIDN'T get it in that dropload last week like the other guy said. Damnit! I'm jealous because everywhere I see on www.gouranga.com, everybody is talking about it and editing it and makes me wanna play SO much! DAMN! I'm thinking about ordering it from www.ebworld.com because its only $34.99 and there is no shipping and handling, WOOHOO, and supposedly it comes with two extra info CDs on the production of the game which I really wanna get so badly. I think I'll order from there ASAP. Overall though, I'm pretty pissed at Best Buy. I mean, it was released on the 22nd, it should be there by now, but he told me it should be here around the end of next month around Christmas time, DAMN!!! Looks like I'll be paying EBWorld a visit, eh? I should be a critic. Update later, drive safe everybody, I know I will.
Monday, October 25th, 1999 (9:50 PM EST)
The changes today to my page include lots of pics on the Pics page. Icebandit and Z, you better not steal them! I have a feeling Z will for his use. Oh well. Two days ago, I added city locations on my maps for the RPG game but I forgot to post them. I don't know what I was thinking, but here is the large and small versions. They are so crappy because when I converted them from .bmp format to .jpg or .gif (can't remember) they cut off parts of the rivers. If anyone knows how to fix that, I desperately require and appreciate your e-mail. That kinda sucked. But anyways, here they are:
Sunday, October 24th, 1999 (9:20 PM EST)
HUGE UPDATE!!!
Wow! That was a pretty funny Simpsons episode, althought Futurama was a repeat. Oh well. I made a quick prog to show Z how we're going to do the texture moving on the screen, so here (14KB) it is.
BIG NEWS!!! More textures! Icebandit sent me beach, scarred grass, plain grass, road, and stone. They are sweet, but they are too big. Icebandit says he can shrink them but he is just showing me right now. Pretty cool if you ask me folks! BTW, he made them in Bryce3D so they are pretty cool with nice shadows and everything. Really nice, just shrink 'em Icey. This is one of the biggest updates ever on this site so I'm pretty proud. Anyways, more updates. By the way, there is a lot of updates. Also, did I mention there is a lot of updates. HeHe. Check it out boyz!
GTA2
GTA2 still hasn't reached Best Buy yet, but the guy there told me they have been pretty busy and that they got a dropload on Friday with a crapload of CDs that they needed to stock and shelve but it still hasn't reached the shelves yet. Phooey! I see the original still on the shelves, but if you are all graphics, you might as well throw the original in the trashcan. Original kinda sucks, but when it was first introduced, everything about it was all that. Especially, the idea for the game and gameplay. But GTA2 is better. If you thought the original was better, get a load of this one. Whew! Anyways, I'll update yas when I get my hands on that good good stuff *drool*! Seeeee yaaaa next time!
Site Updates
New textures from Icebandit
Updated Pics page w/more pics and better background
New Links page
Friday, October 22nd, 1999 (6:00 PM EST)
Big News! Z just sent me new pics of the textures we're are going to use in the RPG. I guess he is doing the textures and I'm doing the layout, design, and most programming, but these are ok ok textures, still needs more textures for shores and mountains and such, but I'm guessing he'll work on that, right Z? Anyways, he released today the brick stone, grass, stone, sand, and water. These he claims are some final textures but he is making more, I hope. Here is his message:
Ok here are the new tiles, there are 5 of them! These are very very likely to be the ones that we will use.I probably won't make any more changes to these! Check them out.
Well, check them out like he says. Also, for a playful joke, Z said that if we were to make separate RPG's, we would compete on whose is better, but we all know that I would blow him away! YEAH! Nice texties Z!
BIG NEWS!!! RELEASE OF GTA2! WOOHOOOOOO!!!! I just went to Best Buy but they didn't have it in yet but as soon as it comes out, I'm buy it. Go to www.gta2.com for info on the game or what have you. YES!!!
Wednesday, October 20th, 1999 (10:55 PM EST)
Hey, I just posted a new Pics page you can visit using the link on the menu. It has propositions, not actual features, of the pictures I am going to use in the RPG and what kind and what size and you'll find out once you go there. Enjoy!
Tuesday, October 19th, 1999 (10:00 PM EST)
Obviously, if anybody has visited this site in the past 2 weeks besides Z and Icebandit, which I doubt, you should've noticed that I deleted everything. All the news! Well, I guess I'm starting from scratch. I got everything planned out. Hey Icebandit, awesome ideas for your RPG, thanks for telling me that you're taking some minor details from my RPG, it sounds good. I love the storyline! Anyways, Friday, Z sent me some textures that I could use for the RPG, the only one thats good is the grass. You can't personally make the water or "brick" stone out, but you be the judge of that. You can view the textures of grass, stone, and water. I made them as backgrounds on the page because supposedly, Z says that they look better that way. Any hoo, take a look.
by Scraniel
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