A New Video

Continuing off the success of OMG Extreme Story Time - Episode 1, I have uploaded a second episode to YouTube you can download here. In this episode, a girl get captured by aliens. I go on a mission to save her. Let me know what you think!

Who is Mark Erickson?

A while back, I posted some of Mark Erickson's "Infinite Solutions" videos. What some people may not know is Mark (who's real name is Zachary Johnson) can actually be seen in other videos done by Fatal Farm. Below are two hilarious videos:

- (Alternate) Designing Women TV Intro
- (Alternate) Doogie Howser M.D. TV Intro

Long live Mark Erickson! He is a true genius, and I am always looking forward to more of his videos.

New ProSonic Engine Demonstration Video

As I promised, I put up a new ProSonic demonstration video. You can view it here. It focuses mainly on the menu system, interlacing, and zooming. It's a little over 7 minutes in length to assure I cover these areas in good detail.

ProSonic Updates Coming

It's been a while since I last mentioned ProSonic on here. I am still working on it, and I have a few things I'm pretty exciting about. Most people won't be as excited as I am because the truth is, I usually get more excited about the things I do with ProSonic than other people do. Something I didn't plan for at the time that I did my outline was integrating level editing into the engine itself. Recently I have decided to expand on the idea of integrating utilities, and now I'm working on a cellular filter editor. A cellular filter contains data used to deform the background of a level to simulate multiple layers scrolling among other things.

My plan to making this kind of editing possible is to first design a menu system that will allow designers to select the variable associated with the cellular filter data and allow them to change it. So right now I'm designing the menu system, and it's quite complex. It'll be flexible enough to recreate the level select menu in Sonic 2 with no programming required on the designer's part.

I plan to upload a video of the progress I've made on YouTube sooner or later. I'm not entirely sure what the video will and will not show, but it'll be whatever I think will be most informational and interesting to people.

Paul Sanchez & Dyslexia

You have to appreciate what Mr. Paul Sanchez is doing. He's sending an important message out there for millions of people. For anyone who doesn't know what I'm talking about, it's this. I did a response available here. Basically I told him that he is a role model for a lot of children and he should keep the incredible will power that he has close to his heart. He probably won't get all 8 wishes by his deadline, but he's certainly accomplished a lot more than most of us could. I think the 10,000 miles was worth the trip!