“Welcome the Flood” – it’s at the magazine A Fly in Amber. A long-exposure nighttime piece, shot with a Nikon D70S if memory serves me right. Another photo from the series has been up on my site for a while now. I really enjoy nighttime photography, so I guess I should make more of these!

BTW – I’m looking for venues interested in buying photos, let me know if you know of any. I’m not interested in microstock at this time.

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I also updated my Hungarian articles page.

The previous month was quite hectic, but I’m back now Amesirun is nearing completion. I know, I know… better late than never!

The main script is finished, I’m working on the endings right now (you can look forward to some strange stuff!). Because of the delay I’ve decided to make the endings lengthier and much more complex, and to add extra art in the form of “sketches” from the player character’s memories.

I still need to make a bit of art and the main menu, hopefully soon, and then it’s closed beta and release time!

More teasers, click on the images to enlarge them…

I have to admit it… the unwillingness to have an advertisement as my topmost update made me post a new teaser for the game. ^^;

Here is a strange symbol! (I turned off floating images because the image size is quite big this time.)

If you click on it, you can see a cryptic inscription in the top right corner. If you remember the previous teaser, that one also had similar elements… if you wait patiently, I might tell you where they come from and what they mean.

I finally had some time to try out ArtRage 3… I bought the new version with the upgrade discount when it came out, but I was just too busy to install it. Most of the time I draw stuff on my tablet PC, but I run Linux on it and that means I have to mess around with Wine to get ArtRage running (it’s worth it if you ask me). 2.5 is very stable right now, which is why I didn’t feel pressed to install 3.0 right away, even though I bought it and it was a bit more expensive than expected! I mention this because I just tried it out on my Windows desktop (easier install) and used the new watercolor emulation to produce the vertical lines seen in the image. So that was a new feature, and one I’ll be using excessively from now on, especially if I can get 3.0 working under Wine!

In other news, the game is progressing nicely, more than half of the graphics and the script has been made (I think I should also post a story teaser…). This means 40k of script so far, so there will be about 80k of script altogether. You can look forward to lots of branches, points-based scoring and more endings than you’d expect I hope I’ll manage to finish producing the assets and testing everything before Pesach!

My unfinished video game – a visual novel / point&click adventure hybrid – has been languishing untouched lately. I was seriously ill for a long time and now that I’ve gotten better (since January) I’ve been working very hard to catch up with work. So this meant that the game had taken a backseat… I’ve been feeling really bad about it, to the point where this was actually keeping me from working on the game!

But, but, but I think I’ve found a solution Enter NaNoRenO. This is like NaNoWriMo, but instead of writing a novel in a month, you have to make a visual novel video game in a month. From scratch. (There is also a similar event for finishing previously started games, but I don’t think I would be able to finish my original game in a month, it’s much more complex than a visual novel.)

A visual novel is reasonably straightforward to make, and I managed to come up with an idea for a game that I can hopefully finish in March. I wrote a design document (not sharing it just yet ) and calculated the amount of assets that need to be made, and I think it’s doable… though not easy. (Yes, I could just make a super short visual novel with stock art, but where would the fun be in that?)

I’ve already started working on Amesirun (working title) and there’s a bunch of stuff I managed to finish in the past 3 days. I made the core programming (quite simple, though it is a nonlinear game), wrote the first scene (quite long), and mostly finished two backgrounds.

The whole game is inspired by some concept artwork I did for Emerald Spires (my main game) several months ago, a drawing of a character I really liked, but the whole thing did not fit with the more realistic approach of Emerald Spires. So I cropped the character, who will be used as the main – and only! – character once I finish drawing the different emotions.

Amesirun will be set in the same universe as Emerald Spires, FYI. You can think of it as a teaser

Speaking of teasers, I have two images for you, a background and a (the) character. The game is set in “conceptual space”, so they are quite odd and not what you’d expect from visual novels. But I wanted to get away from realism, which led me to become completely stuck with the character art on my main game. It’s such a relief to be able to draw random outlandish things.

I made the images with ArtRage with some postprocessing using other software. They use some public domain line art from expired patents, and NASA astrophotography for the color overlay. The rest is hand-drawn.

Enjoy:

I uploaded a bunch of old photos from 2005-2007 to the image gallery (and many more are missing *sigh*) I think I’ve given up on uploading the original accompanying text and reposting the original posts, but at least I tagged the images.

I also made a new category “Lolarious” for random hilarity… usually photos snapped with my cell phone (so the quality is not particularly high) or desktop screenshots. I have much more waiting to be uploaded, but first I want to put “prezzey.net” on them, because those kinds of images are stolen all the time. I’m OK with people reposting my work – that’s what my CC license is for -, but not without attribution.

This was originally a series about the many faces of magic. Four images, and the more I think about it the more I realize that there are several equally valid orders. So, in no particular order…

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Traditional Judaism and Hungarian mythology all-in-one feature! Click now ;]

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And after the rambling system rescue post, I know I promised some art… There is one upside to reorganizing your data – namely that your data becomes organized. This means I now have a huge heap of images to upload here!

Just something really small for today’s update because I want to space things out and have something for every day – two sketches made on a Nintendo DS using Colors DS, the great homebrew application.

Images beyond the cut (one was posted on Gémeskút for our Colors DS review, the other is new, I made it on the train a while back…)

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A new entry for my photo blog, I just shot this one yesterday night in Győr. I made a bunch of nighttime photos of the current flood, you’ll probably have one tomorrow too. Special thanks to my mom who thought it would be fun to traipse through town in the middle of the night and accompanied me (it was indeed fun).

I’m back after a lengthy week. More regular updates will resume starting now :] I’m trying to find a good gallery plugin for Wordpress because everyone’s been telling me to post art and not Linux rants something else. Right now I’m fiddling around with the NextGEN Gallery plugin.

I’ll be posting my photo archives 5 pix at a time. These are either currently online somewhere else, or used to be until my previous webserver – actually a friend’s – went down. (No Bryce, it wasn’t yours!) I’ll post new photos when I’m finished with the archives.

I’ll post artwork whenever I’m in the mood. Expect lots of updates about my video game because I’ve finally solved a huge bunch of issues re: character design a few days ago… so there will be concept art and even actual ingame art.

The first five pics from the archives are right behind the cut. I think I’ll put an image tag cloud/list in the right sidebar, too.

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