IFL game and other excuses

Ok, so it has been well over a month since I posted. So to all my imaginary readers, I apologize. So, just what in the hell has kept me from dutifully documenting the daily deeds of my drab days, you ask? Well first of all it was the IFL game.

Check it, bleed.

For years, I have been dying to do a StreetFighter based in Flash. I have designed many StreetFighter and Punchout based games...with many different characters and different names. Unfortunately, there is too much work in creating one of these games from scratch, on your own, without any budget.

It has been a hard idea to push. There are not too many companies that you can convince to make a fighting based game either. Not really something that your standard corporation would want to sell their services or products. But then I met up with Gareb Shamus and Pat Miletich at the New York licensing fair and finally found a company that could actually use a fighting game, the International Fight League.

Special thanks need to be given to Mr. Phillipe, Jason Yandell, and Sam Deats for working with me on this project. A majority of the work was done at night, most night we worked till at least 1am together. I think the final product turned great though.

Play the game and let me know what you think. Hopefully we will get a chance to keep updating the game with more functionality and characters as the IFL grows.

After the IFL game, I took a break from late nights for a few weeks to get back in shape. I have a black-belt test coming up in 3 months or so, and started a conditioning regimen.

A couple weeks back, I went to a fellow student's (Ronald's) black-belt test to check it out first hand. The first part of the test is a timed, two-mile run. I was allowed to make the run with Ronald, and we made it in about 12 minutes. I was pretty proud, but luckily I got to stop. Poor Ronald had to immediately do about another hour of endurance tests (including sit-ups, push-ups, pull-ups, toe-jumps, 5 minute long stance holds and more). That was followed with many form demonstrations, and then culminated with 30 minutes of fighting. Every 5 minutes a fresh opponent would get introduced.

I'm not really ready for the test, but I am trying to get a few hours of excercise in 6 times a week to get ready.

But, I am also working on Captain Capitalism again. I really missed the big lug, and after finally getting past some other issues with character, I have re-dedicated myself to cartoons.

The plan is to have the Christmas piece, (Nightmare of a Red Christmas), I wrote last year done by the end of November. I have the new voice work in an animatic, and have done a good amount of work on the cartoon.

So, to get back on track, I am going to update the good ole' blog in order to get back in the habit of keeping track of things...but I gotta do a little bit of catching up before I get caught up to the present day.