CM10, SB, Money... on 02.10.2010
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I finished the 10th Coozy McMillan comic, "The Coozian Brotherhood". You can also now see all the CM comics on Snubby Land since I set up the Art page. I'm also going to be putting random art shit in there over time. I originally was just going to have the CM comics on CoozyMcMillan.com because I wanted to get it sponsored and do one a week for money, but the sponsor I was going to contact after finishing the 10th one just stopped taking new people, so I figured I mind as well just put them here as well and just keep doing it without pay just to practice drawing.



I now have to go back to working on Straight Bullyism, which is at a stalemate because the file uses up the maximum amount of memory that Flash allows, so I can't do what I need to do and it's a huge problem, etc etc. One of my current plans to get the filesize down is as follows...

Even though I've been going through and deleting things from the main file, the size of the file I work in continues to get bigger (while the file I export that people will play gets smaller). The file I'm working in is the one with the problem. So basically, I have a ton of elements of the game that I'm going through and deleting the ones I don't need and whatever. If I make all of the hundreds of symbols have different names, then collapse it into one folder, then I can copy/paste it into a new file without having confusion with the symbols. I wouldn't be able to just copy/paste it once, I'd have to cut it into small pieces and do one at a time. If I do that, then in theory the file I'm working in will be smaller, because right now it doesn't make sense how big the file is.



So I've been trying to do that for the last few weeks, once I do that I only have a few more ideas to cut down size, then basically I'll just make a final decision on what I'm actually doing with the game, do it, and hopefully level one will be out soon.

Originally when I moved out and started doing Flash professionally, I thought I'd be making smaller-sized games and be able to live off of the sponsorship money I get from finishing the games. However, SB probably won't even have a sponsor now (either that or only the first level will), and it's going to take over a year in total to make. So at first I was kind of worried about not having money, but it turns out itsss awwwwlll gooooodddd. I get a good amount from Google Adsense for displaying ads, I also get a bonus every 3 months from Addicting Games for TWHG2, and Addicting Games developed an iPhone ap that I get 5 cents on each sale, so that should help too. But with that and the other stuff that I legally can't talk about, *COUGH*, I am easily able to support myself financially and actually I'm saving money. So that's pretty sick, because all of that stuff that pays my bills doesn't actually require any work, so I just work whenever I want and hopefully when I finish SB I'll get rich.

Also I'm working on a cartoon after the first level of SB is done, then back to SB.

I'm not going to bother spell checking this and I'm pretty high at 5:21 AM as I write this, so be impressed if there are no major errors in gram/spelling.

Last Comic for a While on 10.22.2009
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Okay so I finished The Denta Bone Corp. Contrivance (the 7th installment of the new Coozy McMillan web comic), below is the first frame, click here to read the whole thing. Please subscribe to the mailing list, I will need more than a few "readers'' before I can get sponsored.

I'm really going to try hard now to get lots of work done on Straight Bullyism, the fact that it's been taking so long to make has added a lot of stress to my life because I actually have to finish it.



Yup.

Coozy McMillan #6 on 10.15.2009
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Not much news, just finished the 6th installment (took me 16 and 1/4 hours, which is getting pretty quick) of my new webcomic Coozy McMillan, and I'm really happy with the result so I'm going to post the whole thing below, but from now on it'll only be a preview and you'll have to go to the site. You might ask, why don't I just put them on Snubby Land since it already gets hits. The answer: having it's own site helps a lot in getting it sponsored.

I'll try to get more work done on Straight Bullyism in the next few days, and then I'll probably start CM7 cuz it should be pretty good and helps carry the plot.

Coozy McMillan #5... on 09.25.2009
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Just finished Coozy McMillan #5 - The Game, and have written the scripts for the next two, so I'll probably draw those soon, but the problem is, I really should be working on Straight Bullyism... which is what I'm actually being paid to do, but I don't really enjoy working on it as much. I can afford to do a few more though, but I've spent 85.5 hours in the last month on Coozy McMillan and only 21.75 hours on SB.



I really could be doing more work, so far I've only got a 3.13 hour/day average for September. Aside from laundry, dishes, grocery shopping, loafting and skateboarding, I could probably squeeze in another hour or two a day, but it's haaard doing Flash so much. Still better than school or work though! It's fun now that everybody's back in school and I don't have to go heh heh.

Coozy McMillan Web Comic! on 09.02.2009
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I've started a new website called CoozyMcMillan.com, which is a web comic starring my dog, Coozy. CM will hopefully grow into much larger-scale project, but right now I have 2 comics already made. I'm going to try to put out a new comic every week, seeing as I'm doing this stuff full-time that sounds possible, but we'll see if that actually ends up happening. I suggest signing up for the CM Mailing List.

Edit: Got the August Work Hours up. Making the CM website and comics took 38 hours and 45 mins.

I haven't given up on Straight Bullyism obviously, the Coozy McMillan web comic is just a good way for me to release small things along the way of making whatever big thing I'm working on. Also, I'm oooobbbbviiiously not ditching Snubby Land to work on CM, I just thought "pff why not make a whole new site, what eva I do what I want!" I'm going to integrate the 2 sites together more over time.

Anyway, I'm going to post the whole first Coozy McMillan comic below, there's also #2 - Crazy Bitch.



Also in other non-SL news, 4 guys tried to fucking rob me on my way home a few days ago, lucky I was able to outrun them. I really shouldn't have been walking around outside at 4:30am, but I was coming home from a friends house. And, 26 days ago my super-cute girlfriend broke up with me, lol. We dated for 9 months and I was pretty sad, but I'm over it now. Still, thanks a lot life, you asshole.