AG Showdown Results! Moving Out! on 06.27.2009
By Stevie
Posted in Other

Yaaay! The World's Hardest Game WON "Most Addicting Game" in the Addicting Games Showdown! It was on TV on Nickolodeon at 8pm today (June 27) I think, I couldn't watch it because I live in Canada and don't get Nickolodeon. So did anybody see it? Wanna email me the details?


Stiiiilllll got it.



Also, I finally found an apartment to live in, and I'm moving out in 3 days! Isaiah and I (Stevie) will be working on developing content and running Snubby Land full time! Isaiah is still kind of in the trial phase of becoming like a full partner with me on SL, and we'll see when we move and work if he can do it. But I'm not going anywhere, I'll be working full time right here on SnubbyLand.com for the next year at least, and I'm paying all the bills with money I make from the site (and I have to pay for Isaiah until he starts making money).

So yeah, good stuff. I'll get some photos of the new place (or Snubby Land Office) once we get settled in.

AG Showdown, Affiliates, Pro on 06.10.2009
By Stevie
Posted in Other

The World's Hardest Game has been nominated for the Most Addicting Game in the Addicting Games Showdown! Supertank has also been nominated for Best Transforming Character, but I think they might have ditched that category, or it's not up yet. Please vote for TWHG if you want to support us! Here is info about the Showdown.

Real quick, if you own a website and would like to exchange Affiliate images with us, please email me! I can put your image at the bottom of every page of my website, which right now gets ~30,000 impressions a day (I have no idea how many people scroll down to the bottom though, but still), and then you put one of our images on your site.



Okay, so on July 1st I am moving out of the apartment that I am living in with my dad, and Isaiah is moving out of the house he's living in with his parents, and we're moving into a 1 bedroom apartment somewhere not too far from here (Toronto, Ontario). I've already checked out a few places, and there's 20 days to go before we move out. We've both decided to take a year off of school to do Flash developement (and web design for me) professionally.

The thing is, I am the only one who actually makes money doing Flash, Isaiah is just learning. So basically, on top of the money Isaiah owes me for buying him a laptop and Flash, he's going to owe me for rent and food as well. I don't want to go like 6 months and have him owe me like 10k or something, so it's going to be in the first few months that we see if he's actually going to develope his skills enough from doing Flash all day that he's able to help me on stuff that I'm actually getting paid for (by sponsors like Addicting Games). So this is going to be kind of tricky.



Hopefully if we can work enough hours, things will work out and we can continue working on the site full-time. Right now, I'm continuing work on Straight Bullyism, and Isaiah is working on a music video for Hey Jude (which we'll get a preview of soon), and also he's making a game. Ansel and I should have a different game coming out too, before SB but still not so soon. But if I'm working like 7 hours a day or something, there should definitely be a lot more content and updates (and some by Isaiah hopefully as well).



So yeah, once again, I'm doing Flash professionally now! Dream come true! Any comments, email us.

Straight Bullyism on 05.06.2009
By Stevie
Posted in Projects

Hey everyone! I've got a lot done on my new game, so I'm going to give a brief summary and some screenshots! For more pictures/videos (eventually) check out the preview.

Basically, it's a turn-based fighting and character building RPG game where you're a bully in elementary school. You roam the halls fighting other students and stealing their homework, and you can also find other bullies and get quests in order to get more homework points. The main character is going to have a total of at least 15 different attacks, and there are many different types of enemies with their own unique attacks. And it's all done in pure frame-by-frame animation.



You can also customize your character at the start of the game, and your design is carried through the whole game, including in the cutscene animation. Oh, and did I mention there's cutscene animation? There is going to be at least 10 unique cutscenes.



I dropped out of 3 of my grade 12 courses this year, so I'm only taking 3 courses now (computer technology, computer programming and art), and I have no exams. I'm moving out of my place in a little over a month, and from there on I'm going to be doing Flash professionally for at least the next year. But since I'm basically out of school now, I'm already starting to get my work hours up. Yesterday I got 6.5 hours. I'm going to try to get the Work Hours updated more frequently from now on, but at least once a month.

I'm also going to be adding a few more photos to the Photo Album. You can also keep up to date with everything we post on the site from the Update Log.



Also, I think I'll throw a curveball at you here...

What's Been Goin Aww on 04.16.2009
By Stevie
Posted in Projects

*Melissa is awesome* Lately, I haven't been doing much work at all. I always go through phases where I work like mad and then I'm sick of it and I don't work at all, so right now I'm just kind of trying to get motivated though. However, Isaiah has had great work hours for like at least a month now, so that makes up for some of it.

So yeah, right now my main project is a new game (screenshot below), and I'm also working on another few games. Isaiah is working on like 2 movies and 2 games as well, so it should be a little slow for a bit, and then there should be a surge of releases. I (or Isaiah) will try to keep you guys updated more about our progress. I'll also try to get some previews up eventually.

GRR!!! on 03.21.2009
By Stevie
Posted in Projects

So like I said in the last post, I hadn't been working much since I finished Little Wing. In the last 3 days, I had managed to get my motivation up enough to actually start working a lot on my new game (details in the future)! Unfortunately, at the end of yesterday around like 8:00 PM, I restarted my computer because Norton asked me to. I then went to take a dump. When I returned, it said it couldn't load my desktop, and it had to restore my computer to like, the last backup or something. So when it finally finished, all the ~9 hours of hard work I did on the game were gone!

It's INCREDIBLY frustrating having to do work that you've already done, and it's not nearly as fun doing it the second time around. I also wasn't really having a good day to begin with, so that was the icing on the cake. What a piss off.

Anyway, I'm doing all that work over again, and I'm hoping my crappy laptop can handle it until I'm able to like backup all my stuff and reinstall windows. The only upsides are this... 1) My partner Ansel (for a different game) had computer problems as well, and he also (probably) has to reinstall windows, so at least we're both on the same boat. Also, 2) At least I finished Little Wing before my computer decided to rape me.

Anyway, back to the drawing board...