Yes, yes, I know I promised to post yesterday, but a lot of stuff complicated that promise, so I mentally amended the promise so that I would post again sometime this week, not yesterday. So, sorry about the delay, but hopefully I'll be able to make this post long enough to make up for it!
So, first on the list, my birthday. I had what was probably the best birthday that I've had in five years -- because I got a chance to talk to my best friend, Jaron, for the first time since July! True, it was over Skype, but Skype is still a lot better than nothing!
We played a lot of Minecraft together, so here's what we did:
First off, since he's an Admin on the server that we were playing on, we were able to have a dual birthday celebration -- oh, did I forget to mention his birthday's the 1st of December, ten days apart from mine?
We also ran around doing nonsensical things for no reason for a time while simultaneously catching up on each other's lives for the past couple months. He showed me his bank, I showed him my awesome house with all of the epic loot that I got legit, and stored some of it in his bank.
Oh yeah, you should visit his twitch channel at http://www.twitch.tv/dafireybeast! He did some live streaming with me, I believe, and it shows some of the stuff that we did together. Back to that.
So, we each started to build towns -- him in creative, me in survival -- and we had tremendous fun just talking nonsense and building! Most of the time we were online alone, without any other players on. The only reason I got the chance to talk with him was a massive snowstorm on his end, and it was the most enormous stroke of luck for me.
So, I've sort of formed a pre-plan for a 'randomiser' for the singleplayer arena of the Pokémon map that works off of the purchasing scheme that sethbling thought of involving throwing an item, but with a dispenser to randomize the options of arenas. Of course, the locks and stuff might be a bit complicated, but I'll probably be able to use the /setblock command to enable the luxury of working with plenty of space.
I've finished the Cyndaquil singleplayer stuff, so that's quite a bit of progress. I was able to theme the arena on the nether, and Jaron agrees that it's very realistic. He was able to see through Skype's screen sharing function.
I'm thinking of starting a YouTube channel, and I've recorded two episodes of SSP and I'm editing it while preparing a second survival world with an extra rule, which you can find out about if you watch it when it comes out.
So, yeah. I got Pokémon X, but since I have an American 3DS and we bought the game in SA, they're not compatible, so that's a bit annoying...
Well, overall my birthday was awesome, especially because of my Skype call with Jaron.
Well, that's the second post this week! Hope you enjoyed!
Thursday, 12 December 2013
Tuesday, 10 December 2013
Procrastination and Custom Maps!
First things first: wow. Just wow. I am SO SORRY for not posting for three months! See, the substantial amounts I post cause me to, um, not post and stuff, and anyways, I didn't promise anything...
In other words, I'm a massive procrastinator and life got in the way. For example, the things I am currently procrastinating include my birthday plans (my birthday is tomorrow), an awesome Pokémon-based Minecraft map (more about that later), a number of projects I would like to start on, some of them on the computer, some of them in the real world, and my book.
So, as I said, my birthday is tomorrow, so, as a special gift, I'll try to make a post two days in a row! (Today and Tomorrow) I'm actually not that excited this year, for some reason... Turning 14 just doesn't feel like a big deal. I mean, yay, it's my birthday, yippee, let's have some cake, yada yada, etc. just feels sort of childish. For my birthday, I just want to RELAX.
As I'm writing this, I'm at a holiday camp that I'm helping out with, so I'm effectively taking a holiday from this holiday camp. From helping to run it, that is, because the camp is for the younger kids. Basically, it's themed on Lego and 'building each other up', which is 50% cool. You can guess which half is the cool half.
I mean, they're singing songs with lyrics such as 'Encourage one another and build each other up, lalalalalalala' . Really? What nutcase tries to get kids from Grade 4+ to sing songs that are designed for toddlers?
Wait, I already know the answer to that – a bunch of mothers from our church. Including my mom. And, of course, they spent a ton of time printing out about three hundred posters, and about 40 people came, the majority of them from our church. Oh, and guess who printed them all out and cut them out, etc. etc.? Yours truly, of course.
So, next on the list is reasons that I ended up procrastinating so much. First off, my grades were dropping from As and Bs, so I decided to quit Serebii, because I was addicted to it previously, and there really wasn't much incentive to go online afterwards. It did help my grades a lot, though.
Then I had Exams, and at that point I was buried under homework and studying, so there was obviously no time to blog at that point. When exams were done, I needed a break, so I started listening to a lot of music and sleeping a lot more because I was tired.
Then I had Term 1 Control Tests – which is stupid because it was only Term 4. My school is just weird like that. Then again, seeing as my school gets top academic results, it might not be that bad of an idea.
But now it's the holidays, and I'm FINALLY free from school! I really don't dislike school, but I don't especially enjoy my time at school either, so holidays are always welcome.
I believe that I said that I would talk more about that Pokémon-themed map, so onto that!
The general idea is that you are the Pokémon in this game. My favorite generation of starters is Gen. II, so I've given the option to be either Chikorita, Cyndaquil or Totodile. The map is compatible for 1-3 players, and works in singleplayer mode and multiplayer mode.
In singleplayer, you basically run around a mob arena themed on your Pokémon, kill them and level up. Not only do you get experience from killing mobs, but I've set a scoreboard objective that acts as a point system for 'evolving', which is basically getting a better kit.
You can use experience to enchant, fix and rename items in your home (which coincidentally looks like a Pokèball), which makes it easier to kill the mobs (or the other players in multiplayer, more on that later), making it easier to get experience, etc. etc. etc.
I'm also considering the option to play in multiple arenas, but that'll require a bit more thought and planning than I'd like, including a mechanism for a cycle between multiple arenas, and some serious World Editing on MCEdit, which isn't that desirable.
Then we have multiplayer. As I said before, up to three players can participate, each one a different Pokémon, and I'm seriously considering adding more Pokémon than just the starters so that more people can play at once – of course, I'll have to finish Cyndaquil and Totodile, and we'll have a heck of a lot of work to do on the multiplayer arenas.
Now that we've brought it up, I might as well finish it: multiplayer arenas. It's basically just what it sounds like, arenas for multiplayer. They should be about the same size as the singleplayer arenas, but with a division so that each player can have their own themed arena section – lava and netherrack for Cyndaquil, water and lilypads for Totodile, and grassy plains with a single tree for Chikorita.
Oh, while we're on themes, for singleplayer, we have grassy plains with a couple of trees for Chikorita, a Nether themed arena (no lava) for Cyndaquil, and a lake with some dirt around the edges and some lilypads for Totodile.
Anyways, in multiplayer there will be a button that gives each player a boost – such as speed, fire resistance or jumping – for about five seconds, so as to work better in the other player's territory.
I think that's about all you'll need to know for now about the map! Oh, and just a quick hint: you can tame the wolves that spawn in the singleplayer arenas. They might come in helpful!
So, that's about it for now! I've got to save all other topics that I've thought of for tomorrow's post! Oh, and I'm really sorry, once again, about the lack of posts, and I'll hopefully be able to post more often now that it' style holidays!
It's been good to blog again, and thanks for listening to my musings and ramblings!
In other words, I'm a massive procrastinator and life got in the way. For example, the things I am currently procrastinating include my birthday plans (my birthday is tomorrow), an awesome Pokémon-based Minecraft map (more about that later), a number of projects I would like to start on, some of them on the computer, some of them in the real world, and my book.
So, as I said, my birthday is tomorrow, so, as a special gift, I'll try to make a post two days in a row! (Today and Tomorrow) I'm actually not that excited this year, for some reason... Turning 14 just doesn't feel like a big deal. I mean, yay, it's my birthday, yippee, let's have some cake, yada yada, etc. just feels sort of childish. For my birthday, I just want to RELAX.
As I'm writing this, I'm at a holiday camp that I'm helping out with, so I'm effectively taking a holiday from this holiday camp. From helping to run it, that is, because the camp is for the younger kids. Basically, it's themed on Lego and 'building each other up', which is 50% cool. You can guess which half is the cool half.
I mean, they're singing songs with lyrics such as 'Encourage one another and build each other up, lalalalalalala' . Really? What nutcase tries to get kids from Grade 4+ to sing songs that are designed for toddlers?
Wait, I already know the answer to that – a bunch of mothers from our church. Including my mom. And, of course, they spent a ton of time printing out about three hundred posters, and about 40 people came, the majority of them from our church. Oh, and guess who printed them all out and cut them out, etc. etc.? Yours truly, of course.
So, next on the list is reasons that I ended up procrastinating so much. First off, my grades were dropping from As and Bs, so I decided to quit Serebii, because I was addicted to it previously, and there really wasn't much incentive to go online afterwards. It did help my grades a lot, though.
Then I had Exams, and at that point I was buried under homework and studying, so there was obviously no time to blog at that point. When exams were done, I needed a break, so I started listening to a lot of music and sleeping a lot more because I was tired.
Then I had Term 1 Control Tests – which is stupid because it was only Term 4. My school is just weird like that. Then again, seeing as my school gets top academic results, it might not be that bad of an idea.
But now it's the holidays, and I'm FINALLY free from school! I really don't dislike school, but I don't especially enjoy my time at school either, so holidays are always welcome.
I believe that I said that I would talk more about that Pokémon-themed map, so onto that!
The general idea is that you are the Pokémon in this game. My favorite generation of starters is Gen. II, so I've given the option to be either Chikorita, Cyndaquil or Totodile. The map is compatible for 1-3 players, and works in singleplayer mode and multiplayer mode.
In singleplayer, you basically run around a mob arena themed on your Pokémon, kill them and level up. Not only do you get experience from killing mobs, but I've set a scoreboard objective that acts as a point system for 'evolving', which is basically getting a better kit.
You can use experience to enchant, fix and rename items in your home (which coincidentally looks like a Pokèball), which makes it easier to kill the mobs (or the other players in multiplayer, more on that later), making it easier to get experience, etc. etc. etc.
I'm also considering the option to play in multiple arenas, but that'll require a bit more thought and planning than I'd like, including a mechanism for a cycle between multiple arenas, and some serious World Editing on MCEdit, which isn't that desirable.
Then we have multiplayer. As I said before, up to three players can participate, each one a different Pokémon, and I'm seriously considering adding more Pokémon than just the starters so that more people can play at once – of course, I'll have to finish Cyndaquil and Totodile, and we'll have a heck of a lot of work to do on the multiplayer arenas.
Now that we've brought it up, I might as well finish it: multiplayer arenas. It's basically just what it sounds like, arenas for multiplayer. They should be about the same size as the singleplayer arenas, but with a division so that each player can have their own themed arena section – lava and netherrack for Cyndaquil, water and lilypads for Totodile, and grassy plains with a single tree for Chikorita.
Oh, while we're on themes, for singleplayer, we have grassy plains with a couple of trees for Chikorita, a Nether themed arena (no lava) for Cyndaquil, and a lake with some dirt around the edges and some lilypads for Totodile.
Anyways, in multiplayer there will be a button that gives each player a boost – such as speed, fire resistance or jumping – for about five seconds, so as to work better in the other player's territory.
I think that's about all you'll need to know for now about the map! Oh, and just a quick hint: you can tame the wolves that spawn in the singleplayer arenas. They might come in helpful!
So, that's about it for now! I've got to save all other topics that I've thought of for tomorrow's post! Oh, and I'm really sorry, once again, about the lack of posts, and I'll hopefully be able to post more often now that it' style holidays!
It's been good to blog again, and thanks for listening to my musings and ramblings!
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