@tracyandmatt the footer or my large collection of photoshops? If its the footer- yeah it just dosn't flow as well as the one in the header -View the Tweet-19 hours ago
I think my math is off, because if the date of March 10th 2004 is to be beleved from when I joined Geocities then that means well it might be 6, and I want 7 years because 7 is a better number.
But because I also had a few geocities accounts (and since the service is long gone I don’t think I can check) such as HM Swamp, Swamp Island, Harvest Trinest and possibly even more combinations along those lines- then I think the first website I ran was much much ealier then that.
While not a year ealier- the year is much easier to tack on then working out the fintite details, also for example I do belive I posted the original DS press release on my site, and I think that came around Feb or March, also my site had long since started because it used one of the many designs I made using Mircosoft Publisher of all things.
Which means there would be at least a few extra months tacked on from that- also I’m pretty sure it was more about November or something the year before.
Essencialy I don’t even know, so lets just use this date I found and say its 7 years instead of what it should be 6 leading onto 7. You know the crazy stuff like that.
This week- possibly leading more onto the week after, depending on how bored I get- I’ll be posting articles on the past sites I’ve worked on etc, I’ve done this before- but I’m trying to post more about them before I forget and have hassles like this stupid date thing.
We all like reading GAF? You know the site all for those numbers, status and horrible fans for video games raving each game they like is “totally the better one”, but for me I go there pretty much all the time for the information I wouldn’t find anywhere else.
So imagine my surprise when I click from reading the Off Topic section to the Gaming Discussion and scan the list of topics to find “CING files for bankruptcy”.
I think it kind of clicked that “hey thats why Cing’s website was down when I wanted to link to it for the preview on Again”.
So what kind of numbers are we talking about? Well they are up for about ¥256 million yen (around $2.83 million).
Back to the GAF thread, moderator duckroll had posted some Japanese sale numbers check this out:
2003 -- Glass Rose (Capcom) -- 6k
2005 -- Another Code (Nintendo) -- 105k
2007 -- Wish Room (Nintendo) -- 212k
2009 -- Another Code R (Nintendo) -- 10k
2009 -- Little King’s Story (Marvelous) -- 6k
2009 -- Again (Tecmo) -- 1k
2010 -- Last Window (Nintendo) -- 31k
and then lets compare that to say Capcom’s Phoenix Wright series:
Basicly the point here is they sold and Cing’s titles just petered out.
But that means that they are not bad titles- that just means they are well, unwanted by the general public- as sad as it is to say.
Some predictions are either Nintendo buys them for developer assets and closes the company (which if the company does close then I would assume a few developers would jump to Nintendo anyway), Nintendo buys them for the developer and uses them as a 2nd party for their bidding. Well thats basically it- fanboy wise, otherwise nothings most likely going to happen, but on the same token, it might disappear it might go off with a bang, maybe who knows.
Again sold only 1k in Japan, and is still set it come out in America this month
Oh and there was a fake video made by some GameSpot member awhile ago for Last Window- I’m going over to their forums now to see if the news has reached there and if their tribale ways have backfired for the person who made the video.
Fake American Trailer which shows what Last Window could or will be?
On that same token regarding Last Window, it is trademarked in Europe, but not in America. An Another Code: R release in both America and Australia is unlikely as well as Last Window- expecialy now. If it does get release in my opinion it would be in Europe and Japan only (Last window was released in Japan, and so is Again).
There will be more discussion on Cing in my following articles about past websites I’ve made etc.
But anyway some further reading if my explanation is just horrible (which it is):
Possibly is the answer, but otherwise it looks like a layout which has one design attached to the other- which its not, so I decided to remove some stuff which didn’t make since since I “re-skinned” the layout. Most notably, the “social” bar which was to the left.
So with that I added more black then the usual well- light gray, so it kind of looks off- but I also gave the background the original (meaning it isn’t lightened) to give it a tad more boldness.
But yeah! Overall it seems I’ve fucked the design up- which in some ways is good, as that means I now need to make a new design! yay! I mean wtf.
Anyway March 10th is the 7 years of “trinest”, meaning 7 years of personal sites, video game sites, etc. So a banner was put up as well to “honor” that I guess you could say.
So it seems I decided, well “a week a bit” is enough with this current layout and then decided, lets start working on a new one- good thing I stopped it because thats just silly talk- lets keep this current one for least two weeks.
Though what I was looking at desiging I’m now going to show- I was going to go back using sprites, and its been awhile since I designed anything using sprite techniques, so it looked a bit rusty- and was one of the reasons why I ditched the idea.
The layout was going to return to been one coloum, and if I did have social links they would be in the footer and only limited to twitter, facebook etc. The ones people accuarly use sort of thing- not everyone under the sun like the “social bar” in the current design has.
Oh well, so I coined around with some other ideas as well in this design, the background would be for example a X-Axis repeat only of a spirited senary section, possibly a desert, grass or wheat, something like that.
The top of the “content area” was also going to contain sprites, but more centered around objects and other things, instead of landscape- but yeah.
Also I was going to make the A+ a- Top etc. in a circle and be more stylish- I might still do that, but on this current design. Give it more character and life before I move on to another one.
Tonight on Ten, during their repeats of Simpson episode time slots, the episode “Bart Get’s Famous” was on. The episode deals with Bart getting famous because of one of his many catchphrases.
This got me thinking, what is my catchphrase? At the end of the day what is one of the most used phrases I say- what is my Bart Simpson moment?
It got me thinking that the exact phrase used in this episode by Bart- I didn’t do it, was possibly the closest thing I had to a catchphrase.
I’ve said it many a time during various situations, and even recently when I gave the car a little hole in the door.
But other then that what else do I have catchphrase wise? Probably nothing much really- its just a small “apithany” of sorts.
Well I wouldn’t really go right for something like that, but maybe I should blog as they say more often.
Theres even crazy people who do one post a day, what kind of people are they? I don’t know, but dang why the hell would you try and do that, its just so time consuming.
The only reason why I’m writing something now is because I have chicken legs, and they store so much heat, and I don’t want to bite into one and have a little bit of chicken slap me in the face and burn my lip. It sounds stupid, but it happend before- as these are leftovers, I’m not taking no chances.
Well a little bit about what was originally cooked was crummed drum sticks- I really don’t think theres much more you could say about that.
I’m posting this as news, mainly because well- its an informative post about what I did. You see I coloured up some of the div’s, inserted a few more design changes, cleaned up a few things and shoved in a Buzz it and Facebook it button. (though Share it does FB as well).
But if I just posted that it would be only one paragraph, and thats pretty boring.
When Game Informer Australia was released, I decided to give it a chance, and after reading the first issue I sent along something to the Editor- a shot letter to the editor about the world of PC gaming, and how Steam is kicking it back as one of the players- least sales wise.
So an issue passed and I heard nothing from them, then before the third issue I was told that my letter would be published, and sure enough I subscribed to the magazine and what do you know- it was published.
Game Informer Australia is a clone of the original USA version with a bunch of Australian content. Okay its not a clone, as most of the magazine is written for Australians, and the only things which are copied from the USA version seem to be the cover feature.
It is quite obvious that PC gaming would have died years ago, but services like steam seam to have given it a leg up in the right direction. I doubt many PC gamers would have spent such money during the holidays if it weren’t for such services. It would seem that people are moving more and more to consoles. The Wii is the family console and the 360 and PS3 seem more gunned on taking the PC’s spot as the “hardcore” option. But the annual sales on Steam have kicked a lot of my friends back to the PC. Given this, I think it’s obvious now to what sells and doesn’t sell on the PC, so it seems clear sailing from here instead of a stormy ride.
Buy the magazine in stores now to see the editor Chris said about my letter, as well as read up about L.A Noir the cover’s feature article- and a bunch of other Australian Goodies!
