Checked out the Ruse Beta- my computer is to shit to run it- but managed to get a quick game out of it.

March 1, 2010

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News - By Trent Petronaitis at 6:18 pm

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.

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News - By Trent Petronaitis at 1:24 pm

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.

Frame work of the idea:

Trail and error of the background:

February 26, 2010

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News - By Trent Petronaitis at 7:21 pm

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.

February 22, 2010

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News - By Trent Petronaitis at 5:00 pm

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.

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News - By Trent Petronaitis at 11:16 am

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!

(note: we are not affiliated with Game Informer, Game Informer Australia, there publishers or distributors)

February 19, 2010

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News - By Trent Petronaitis at 8:21 pm

So around the 7th I made “Trinest Lite”, well now a new theme has been made called “Trinest iLite”. I think its probably based around the inevitable that there would be a redesign, and approximently 12 days later, yes only twelve days later. A brand new design was made…yay I guess.

Luckily for you, I guess. You can be part of the journey, well not really- I just have a bunch of pictures which I have through the process, and like the post 12 days ago, this one pretty much shows wtf was going through my mind when I decided to redesign the site for the umteenth time. I’m sure the next design update in some stupid small amount of days will be just as pointless.

So like all ideas of late, it started off with a positioning idea, meaning nothing was behind the purpose of the idea besides “hey I wonder what the social media links on the left would look like, wow thats so ground breaking”, and it turns out it just might be.

So I designed up a concept with some blocks in paint, thinking “lol how awesome would that be”.

The second preview however was made yesterday, by that I mean on the 18th, it was just tooling around with what it was, I wanted to have the background something like whats in this artwork, but I then decided against it, well more to the fact I couldn’t figure out how the fuck to make it. And if I did figure out how to make it, it was then “how would that work on the site”.

It had the idea of where most of the things would be, also for the most part the resources used where not the final ones (even for this preview), I ended up polishing it up a bit more slightly before giving in for the night then having another crazy idea.

I decided to develop the site from scratch, because I had the awesome idea of having another single column design and something like that- you know something simple and blog like, also tiny, really really tiny, I was working in a plane about 500px, which in the end became what the content area was going to be. Also that is where the “sketched” box logo came from. Which all of the elements where there, just in a row not all nice and design like.

I then decided “hey what about that design you where working on the other day”, so I took a few elements from that idea and shoved them in, as you can see it looks like I kept going with the same design and slowly changed the elements, well thats possible, but no I was working with a new design which I had essencialy made all of the “right” part of the design, then I decided to include the “left” part from the preview design.

There wasn’t much enhansments done yet, and I hadn’t made the wordpress version.

I had now started to work with the design with all the fancy new elements, they where shoved in and I thought to myself “this isn’t half bad”. Though I decided it needed some tricks to be “one of my best works”, as I still say the best layout I made was a few years ago and was one of the first major designs I had made, if I could dig it up again I would, but I’m to lazy at this stage.

Anyway I included some code for making the font size bigger or smaller, as most people know, I like to keep the font size for some reason quite small on my designs, I also polished up the fonts. I do belive however I kept the original font in the “social” menu from the preview, because I think it looks alright, though the rest of the design went back to using Tahoma, which I havn’t used in awhile. (Previous few designs used Verdana).

I also added with the images an auto “restrict” to the size, meaning if it goes over 500px  in the content area it will be restricted to those maximum restrictions, I also added a nice little border using pretty much the same technique to give it that extra something.

I then made the wordpress version, uploaded it, and then yeah- here we are. Also I cleaned up some pages once it worked, but other then that no new content.

I have noticed that when viewing the posts with the comments, the footer jumps to a random location, I’m thinking to fix it I would have to clear the footer from other DIV’s and then polish it up a bit to make sure everything stays intact, but yeah thats on my “one day pile”, as who knows, maybe there will be a new design by the time the issue is fixed.

February 18, 2010

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Around The Web - By Trent Petronaitis at 7:30 pm

Let’s write a 20 second wrap up of the latest happings, just because I’m to lazy to throw in some sexy banners and lamas.

DS-X2 was gifted with two pieces of content by me this week, both reviews as well.

Sim City Creator Wii was looked under the mircoscop by me, and while the review is a bit shoddy writing wise, over all it encompises what I feel about the game- I’m to lazy to spellcheck this article telling you about another article to prove my point- oh and you can read it here.

Another game was reviewed from the back log, and this time written much better then the Sim City review, my review on Lost Magic shows the world that Tack of Magic would fucking come “state-side”, because its one hell of a fucking game- its spritial prequel, Lost Magic was reviewed by me for DS-X2 and you can check it out here.

Okay maybe that took a bit longer then 20 seconds to write.

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