Freelance Work

Hi, I'm back from the dead.

I've been neglecting this Blog for a while, but by popular request (that's Robert) it's going again in full force! I think the last time I wrote something for the Blog was 30th August, which is actually a really long time ago. Almost three months.

I won't go into why I've not been writing, but one of the reasons is starting college. And to be honest the work load isn't really that huge, I just can't be arsed at the moment. Anyway today I can be arsed, so I'm going to get this down quick before all motivation deteriorates.

On the issue of my little sprite man, he's come on a little since I last wrote, he nows walks... mostly, and is looking quite good. I've also been looking at developing the story of my game a bit recently and that is coming on fine. I haven't however looked anymore into the programming side of things. I realise this is immensely stupid as the programming is the largest aspect, or at least the fundamental one. I have really enjoyed the art though, so fuck it.

As for the title, and the accompanying sprite then... Whilst at college I have bumped into this rather insane trio who are planning to create there own MMORPG entirely using Visual BASIC. Yes, I laughed too. In fact I laughed a lot. But this didn't seem to deter them from allowing me to do the art for the project. It's great actually, I think the game idea is fairly mad, however they have the vision to make it work... A bit anyway, and so because I only have to worry about drawing generic fantasy RPG top-down sprites it doesn't matter how shit I think it is because at least my sprites will look OK.

For the game, entitled (rather amusingly) Wizards and Mages there will be three character classes: Wizard, Mage, and... hang on, Warrior. I have drawn the three character sprites and done 32 rotated versions so they can freely move around the map. Sorted. Gives me something to do, and I can deny any responsibility for the game if it's crap.

Great. Now on with embarrasing myself with my game...


Seriously, Martin I really do like the way Wizards and Mages is going. Honest. It's just, like some politians I have to bend the truth a little to please the masses. You understand that, don't you?

No, honestly, it looks great. I'm honoured to be a part of it.