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Prismatic Vodka #50 Monday Apr 17th 2006
"A noteworthy handshake" copyright 2005 Rik Davnall, all rights reserved
Rik_the_Riff@hotmail.com - email me!
Ugh. I'm really not happy with the art for Tink on today's page. It's just bad; particularly
in panel 5, even with the digital editing. Other than that, however, I'm pretty pleased with
it. Sorry that the joke is so obscure (if any of the six people on the planet currently
capable of getting the joke read this, please don't give it away; it'll be really important
later on); this is the bad page of this week's three. The other two are better (I hope).
What else is going on in my life? Well, AnimeYuki have finally gotten round to subbing more
episodes of Cluster Edge (after something like a five month wait). I'm still torn about
Cluster Edge; I love the slowly-emerging premise of the series (which I won't spoil), but the
execution is slowly falling towards the ghastly. The writers are *still* suffering from the
delusion that recap episodes and recycled footage constitute watchable and entertaining
television. They don't and they never have. Even Evangelion couldn't really get away with it.
And Cluster Edge, for all its intelligent political and philosophical commentary, for all its
impressive art, for all its imaginative ideas, is no Evangelion. I can't say I disliked either
of the episodes (though episode 13 is wooly and unfocused until near the end, and almost
nothing happens in episode 14), but I do wish the writers would get their act together; if
the series could get away from its pathetic reliance on underdeveloped secondary characters
and situations incidental to the plot and return to the bold, striking, gripping opening
salvo of the first four or five episodes, it would be a really great show.
I'll stop grumbling about that now... I'm still programming. I'm engaged in work on what may
be the most boring bit of programming I'll ever do. I'm planning and building the map of the
city which will be the setting of the text-based adventure I'm currently working on. About
the only good thing I can say about it is that it will drastically improve my skills in
typing odd key combinations; for example 'int rrtcd4(void); /*Reph River Trading Company
West pier*/'. Dull and frustrating, but once it's out of the way I'm on to the fun stuff;
making the game difficult. *cackles evilly*
Hope you had a good Easter (if you celebrate it). I spent yesterday holed up in my house,
working on this game (though I did manage to find time to watch the first episode of Fruits
Basket - the anime - with my mum, which is every bit as delightful as the manga, to which
it sticks quite closely). Today, I'm hopefully meeting up with Helen to... watch more anime.
Maybe I should get a life... I realise this is actually going to be the first time I've seen
Helen since possibly months before she and I began work together on Little Heart. What it
is to be a student, huh.
Oh, does anyone know how to set up a website so you can download programs from it? I have a
demo of Morg (that's the game I'm working on) that I'd like to share, but short of emailing
it to people on request - not out of the question, since it's quite a small file - I don't
know how to. Help/advice would be appreciated.
That's about it for now.
Wub, Rik
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