Watch it here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rbeAGdYk_0
Make sure you ratchet it up to HD (720p) and watch it FULL SCREEN...LOOKS SWEEEEEEEET...and that song has grown on me!!
I'll be playing on Tuesday!!! Woo Hoo!!
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Dante's Inferno Superbowl Spot!! There is too much going on, but at least I'm enjoying lifeI've been having a pretty good week. I visited my mom again over the weekend and each day since then I've gotten through another chapter of my required reading (homework) and I've managed to get some web dev work done and even fit in some couch time with the family (watched the very first episode of The Addams Family last night and part of a movie called The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Smarter Brother starring Gene Wilder through NetFlix).
I added some new web stat functions to Yacht-Shots and on Fuel Radio there were some adjustments made to the Premium Fuel page to help people keep track of their QuickPlay points available. I'm still formulating the idea for building another game for Dragon's Hobbies.
The request for another game came from TylerChuit, and he is encouraging me to use Flash for the game. (I say another game because a few years ago I built an online version of Conquest of the Empire. It was the first in-depth game that I had ever programmed. I learned quite a bit about PHP from that project, and this one might just be what I need to get into Flash more. I know that I can use PHP behind the scenes to provide information from the database, but I still have some experimentation to do to see if it will be beneficial for me to use Flash. For my final project in my "Introduction to Flash" class I built a website for my dad using Flash, but even though it met all the requirements of my assignment and my dad seems to like the site, it's not a very good example of what Flash can do.
This weekend my wife and I will be celebrating our 15th anniversary! Can you believe it? I guess to celebrate my wife wants to go look at some houses (her choice)... then we can go out to Carrabbas (my choice)! My grandparents and Uncle Sheldon (the guy who got me playing Conquest of the Empire, Cathedral, and BattleStar Galactica, among other games) will be coming to Florida for a little while, so we'll have to make some time for them too. And hopefully next Tuesday I'll get some game time in with my friends.
So... I have lots of things in the works, lots of ideas floating around, and lots of things that I'd love to do. Unfortunately, there is only so much time, so I'm trying to do my best to balance things.
I added some new web stat functions to Yacht-Shots and on Fuel Radio there were some adjustments made to the Premium Fuel page to help people keep track of their QuickPlay points available. I'm still formulating the idea for building another game for Dragon's Hobbies.
The request for another game came from TylerChuit, and he is encouraging me to use Flash for the game. (I say another game because a few years ago I built an online version of Conquest of the Empire. It was the first in-depth game that I had ever programmed. I learned quite a bit about PHP from that project, and this one might just be what I need to get into Flash more. I know that I can use PHP behind the scenes to provide information from the database, but I still have some experimentation to do to see if it will be beneficial for me to use Flash. For my final project in my "Introduction to Flash" class I built a website for my dad using Flash, but even though it met all the requirements of my assignment and my dad seems to like the site, it's not a very good example of what Flash can do.
This weekend my wife and I will be celebrating our 15th anniversary! Can you believe it? I guess to celebrate my wife wants to go look at some houses (her choice)... then we can go out to Carrabbas (my choice)! My grandparents and Uncle Sheldon (the guy who got me playing Conquest of the Empire, Cathedral, and BattleStar Galactica, among other games) will be coming to Florida for a little while, so we'll have to make some time for them too. And hopefully next Tuesday I'll get some game time in with my friends.
So... I have lots of things in the works, lots of ideas floating around, and lots of things that I'd love to do. Unfortunately, there is only so much time, so I'm trying to do my best to balance things.
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Update: After reviewing the logs, it appears that most of the spammers were coming from 83up.com. Their accounts have been blocked and deleted, so hopefully we won't see any more of their kind around.
A Weekend with MomAfter two days of just seeing my mom sleep or barely awake, Sunday morning she started waking up again. Eventually she wanted to get up more, and even started joking around. It was GREAT to see her coming back to her senses. By the time we left she was still weak and occasionally saying something that didn't seem to make sense, but for the most part, she seemed to be recovering.
Clearwater 2 day event - It was FUN!The day started a little later than I wanted to (12:45) but it wasn't all that bad. As I waited for Chris to arrive, I popped in Vanilla Sky and started watching it with director's commentary. Chris arrived and offhand mentioned the Arkham Asylum Batman demo...which I've played (and enjoyed) on the PS3. I mentioned Dante's Inferno and invited Chris to play the DEMO, which he did. I think he enjoyed it, but his quote was "That is a game I think I'd like to watch while someone else plays it". The graphics are simply STUNNING as the 9 circles of hell are rendered incredibly...
After that we decided to play a new game board of Power Grid to kick off the weekend. The board for Portugal/Spain with it's section of “no nukes” area intrigued me and Chris agreed to play on that board. It was a nice game of back and forth with me attempting to cause Chris grief by causing an oil shortage, with him just deftly stepping aside and purchasing a replacement plant so that my shortage didn't inconvenience him at all! In the end, we could power the exact same amount of cities, but having more cash in the end gave me the victory!!
From there we decided to play St. Petersburg. It was a very cool game with me being a bit rusty and making a few poor choice. Chris made some very good moves and utilized the pub brilliantly and came up with 10 unique nobles which was enough to win the game by...3 points!!! VERY nice finish.
From there Chris brought out Galaxy Trucker. Don't know why, but the pressure of time and trying to make the best ship gets to me and I never do a good job of it. Well...last night was the exception! I made it to port on EVER SINGLE trip. On my first trip, however, I had a horrible meteor strike that took off ˝ my ship. Good thing I had the Max 8 cent insurance policy!!! I lost that game by...3 points.
We played pirateer and gammon over dinner at KFC, I believe Chris won at gammon and we traded games of Pirateer...
We decided it was time to relax for the evening and watch “Class of 1984” which is a violent movie about a School teacher that goes into a really tough school and has run-ins with the students of a gang there. VERY cool. Not sure what Chris' thoughts were.
RING....RING...who the heck is calling at 6:57am??? “Hullo...?” It was Mac. He had just dropped his cousin at the airport and was ready to come over. I said, we'll be ready for your and got Chris up and hopped in the shower. We had enough time to grab breakfast before Mac showed up at the front door.
We spent 2.5 hours reading through the instructions and learning to play Twilight Imperium and then we played until 3pm when my victory was imminent and we had to break up the party. As that game is Chris' game, I'll allow him to post about that...but it was fun. I would like to play it again!!
After that we decided to play a new game board of Power Grid to kick off the weekend. The board for Portugal/Spain with it's section of “no nukes” area intrigued me and Chris agreed to play on that board. It was a nice game of back and forth with me attempting to cause Chris grief by causing an oil shortage, with him just deftly stepping aside and purchasing a replacement plant so that my shortage didn't inconvenience him at all! In the end, we could power the exact same amount of cities, but having more cash in the end gave me the victory!!
From there we decided to play St. Petersburg. It was a very cool game with me being a bit rusty and making a few poor choice. Chris made some very good moves and utilized the pub brilliantly and came up with 10 unique nobles which was enough to win the game by...3 points!!! VERY nice finish.
From there Chris brought out Galaxy Trucker. Don't know why, but the pressure of time and trying to make the best ship gets to me and I never do a good job of it. Well...last night was the exception! I made it to port on EVER SINGLE trip. On my first trip, however, I had a horrible meteor strike that took off ˝ my ship. Good thing I had the Max 8 cent insurance policy!!! I lost that game by...3 points.
We played pirateer and gammon over dinner at KFC, I believe Chris won at gammon and we traded games of Pirateer...
We decided it was time to relax for the evening and watch “Class of 1984” which is a violent movie about a School teacher that goes into a really tough school and has run-ins with the students of a gang there. VERY cool. Not sure what Chris' thoughts were.
RING....RING...who the heck is calling at 6:57am??? “Hullo...?” It was Mac. He had just dropped his cousin at the airport and was ready to come over. I said, we'll be ready for your and got Chris up and hopped in the shower. We had enough time to grab breakfast before Mac showed up at the front door.
We spent 2.5 hours reading through the instructions and learning to play Twilight Imperium and then we played until 3pm when my victory was imminent and we had to break up the party. As that game is Chris' game, I'll allow him to post about that...but it was fun. I would like to play it again!!