Hey my guys, I made a thing for the newgrounds flash forward jam, and being the fashionable moron I am I submitted it at the last minute, give it a go here:

Some of you might recognize it from the game inside the game that you play in Bright 2, I developed the idea a little more and made it into a substantial and rather (very) challenging little game.

I made it to get back into the groove of making a game (it's been years) since flash is about the only tool I know how to use (decently). Incidentally, I've also started to learn other game engines. I gave godot a try for a while, but ended up not liking it. Now I'm trying Unity and I feel much more positive about it.

So next up, hopefully, will be another Diaphanous game, no longer made in flash and from what I have in mind, a different approach.

Depending on reception I might be able to spend more time making games, some day I want to make a fully fledged Bright in the Screen game that maybe, maybe could even be released on proper storefronts, and I also have tons of ideas for all kinds of games. On the backburner I have a horror game I never released that I will probably finish if future updates of Ruffle can properly run it.

In the mean time, if you like what I do, I made a ko-fi account so you can show support by throwing some pocket money at me.

Thank you, be seeing ya.

Flash is dead.

I updated the Bright games a bit so they can work on ruffle. Main issue I saw was that Ruffle really doesn't like the blur filter, and the games had a lot of things with the blur filter on them. I blurred the characters manually, text and other things would be too much of a trouble so they'll stay unblurred for now. There are also many projects and efforts that make playing flash games still possible, such as Blue Maxima's Flashpoint If you want to play the original Bright in the screen just as it was 12 years ago, you certainly can.

Thanks to all of you that still care. I've started work on my first nonflash game, and I sincerely hope to have that finished soon.

Be seeing ya.

So this is finally done and out

You can guess that what prompted me to release it was the upcoming death of flash, so this was the absolutely last chance to get it out there. It's about 90% what I already had done about 10 years ago, and quicly tied up loose ends. It's nowhere near what I wanted to have all that time ago, lots of levels and a couple more mechanics.

So why didn't I finish this a long time ago? I honestly don´t really know, life happened and I guess I just lost the drive along the way, there really are no good excuses.

Will I keep making more games? Have I recovered the drive? Do people still care? Do I?

I can't tell, I still daydream about games I would like to make, just silly stuff that may never happen, I do archviz full time now, but I've toying with the idea of learning new game engines.

If I had all the time and all the money in the world, then it'd certain that I would make those dreams happen. But as of right now? Nothing is certain, that is the only thing that is certain. In the meantime, just keep going, my dudes.

Just posting to let anyone that cares know that I'm not dead. I wanted to finish up a horror game for this Halloween, but I underestimated my own laziness, sorry. I'll work relatively hard on it and it will be here fairly soon. I'm also working on Bright in the screen 2, so there's that as well.

To me.

Have a comic I made about a year ago, and it's still relevant.

I would be surprised if anyone is reading this today, I'm sure someone will skim trough this in the future. Anyways, if you are not from the future (from my current perspective), I promise there will be at least one game by the end of the month.
Also, you can follow me on twitter for more meaningless updates on the current state of things.

Edit #43:
Sorry, but I couldn't get a game out in time for Halloween, I had one almost ready, but it kinda sucked. I'm currently trying to make it suck less. Also I had the brilliant idea of making another game. So now I have 2 games ( 3 with Bright 2) on the works.
Here´s an interesting fact:
Number of games I said I would do: around 6. (8 with these last 2)
Numbers of games I finished: 1 (twice)

ISN'T THAT AWESOME

I've noticed that all of my posts include me whining about something.

This one might not be different.

Long story short, Bright 2 is delayed yet again, I came up with a new gameplay change that is quite important, and I'm also trying to include some (hopefully many) animated movies on the screens.

Bucho
2003-2010

So

The year is almost over and I've made
nothing

If you check my previous posts you will see a lot of projects I said I would finish.
Now the one most people were probably expecting was the Bright in the screen sequel.
I won't be able to finish anything this year because I'm going on a trip to Argentina with my parents to a family reunion this Wednesday and I won't be coming back for 2 weeks, it promises to be an unpleasant experience.

Anyways, I really really wanted to at least finish the Bright sequel, but life's been very messy (being in a college I didn't want to go, studying something I don't want to be) and, being honest here, I've been lazy, that I kinda got a "writer's block" and it took me over 3 weeks to come up with a decent intro level for the game.

On the bright side, once I come back I will finish most (if not every) project I've started, starting with bright, and I'm making sure that it turns out great.

So, that's all...

If anyone wants to beta test the bright game, PM, but I'll only need 2 people.
Also if you have a cool idea that could fit into one of the "screens" on the game, feel free to post it.
Here's a screenshot from the game.

Hey Newgrounds,
If you've read my latest post, you know I was thinking onmaking a sequel to The bright in the screen, now I've halted every other project I was working on and now I plan on finishing this sequel for this Halloween.

So

I've worked for about a week already and done pretty much all of the code needed and a designed a few levels. (I've actually done the code myself, instead of relying on a tutorial..., so for better or worse, it's much less glitchier)

But

Halloween keeps closer and closer and now I'm not sure I'll be able to finish everything for that day.
I also want for a sponsorship(hopefully from Newgrounds), so that adds more pressure.

However

This is where your help comes in. While I can get almost everything done in pretty much no time, there one thing that drains a lot of time: writing, and while I already have a defined "storyline" for this (and most likely last entry for the Bright on the screen games), I know I will struggle writing the various messages spread around screens.

Basically

If you can come up with some sort of text to fit on those screens, contact me.
It can be a poem, a short story, or some kind of advice, but following the same mood that the previous Bright(s) had.
I will still write a lot (if not most) of the screen for this one, and I'll be very demanding when choosing what I will get in, so not many submissions will get in (not that I expect many...)
Naturally you would want some kind of reward, if just having something made by you being watched by thousands of people is not enough, depending on the quality (and quantity) of you contributions, you might get a small percentage of either the Sponsorship, or the ad revenue.
Since I'm a selfish bastard, most likely you won't appear under the "Author and File information" tab, unless I'm not a selfish bastard, in which case the number of people who contributed, the quality of their submissions, and other factors will be considered and discussed.

Also, and just as important

Music

This time I will try using only music form the Audio Portal, I'm sure there are great songs over there, but they a chore to find. So if you know about some particular song or author that would fit in a Bright in Screen game, do contact me.
Even more so if you are a musician yourself and have (or is willing to do) songs for this game.

Also, a less important matter: I was born exactly 19 years ago. (Not exactly 19 years, but that doesn't matter) (In fact, none of this matters)

Anyhow, PM if you are interested and explain your idea(s).

Screenshot from the game in question:

Hey,
Well, maybe not that good, and most certainly not good for everyone, but news after all.

First:
Today I got something on the mail... a little package, with my prize for the Halloween Contest 2008!....
great, it only took it 11 MONTHS to arrive, anyways I got the awesome calendar and some nice stickers and a check I will never be able to cash in, but at least I got Tom's signature (which I can use for evil purposes). Anyhow, good job Bolivian postal service.

Second:
Last week while I was searching through my brother's CDs and DVDs for a FL installer I found one of my DVDs, the one with the backup of my animations and stuff from 2 years ago, the animations that got deleted last year and that I thought where lost forever...well, I've found it, and while it didn't have ALL of my animations (one in which I had worked for over 2 months is still missing) I did recover another one in which I had invested some time. Now I can finish and you will be able to rejoice over the nonsensical plot and overall weirdness of it. Although, looking back to when I started it, I've noticed that I changed, well, maybe not, but I would've done thing differently, but it's interesting in the sense that I was able to look at how I thought like 2 years ago. Will try to finish it this October.

Third:
Progress is good on my current games, though I haven't talked with my PO3 team members in a while, I'm still working on my personal proyect for a dream based game.
I was planning on releasing a sequel to The Bright in the screen for this Halloween, but I'm not sure I'll be able to finish it, but I could always try.

Fourth:
Nothing.

Fifth:
Filth.

Below, a screenshot from the flash I've recovered that I plan on finishing.

Hey there everybody.

For those of you that care about me enough to click this, and cared even more to keep reading, a little warning: this might be a boring news post, since it's about me, and what I do, so if you are not me, and don't care about what do I do, you won't find any kind of benefit from reading this, however, you might end up being of help to me, but if this first lines didn't catch you attention, or you found them pretentious or blatant, I suggest you stop reading.

Now that previous paragraph was totally unnecessary, wasn't it?

Anyways, here goes the post:

POWER OF THREE
The game is coming slowly, but it is coming. Most of the code, and a lot of art too. however, we have zero music, because our music guy disappeared (and that's bad, for us)

ME AND STUDIES
So, I want (really really want) to study animation, but, there is no such career available in my country, my most plausible options are either Argentina or Mexico, I have family in Argentina and it's cheaper, but I'm not sure about the quality of the course over there, Mexico sounds better, but it would be fairly difficult to convince my parents to send me over there; As much as I would love to(really really love to) go to the USA or Canada, that would seem almost impossible, given how hard would it be for me to get over there, and the pricey (really pricey) costs of the course over there.
Right now I'm studying Software Engineering, but hopefully next year I won't. Hopefully next year I'll be in Argentina, with a lot of luck maybe on Mexico, and with a miracle maybe on the USA.
Anyways, if anyone knows about the quality of the animation courses on Argentina, or Mexico, please tell me about it. If anyone has godly like powers and can get me to Mexico or the USA, or knows about scholarships or anything, tell me too.

OTHER GAMES
If you've been following my news, you might know I was working on a game (besides the PO3 one), I have almost all the code done, but I halted the project, because it was too art heavy, and I'm too damn perfectionist, I didn't like the way my art was coming, basically, it was ugly. I could ask someone else to do it for me, but would rather have it done myself, so now I'm taking online drawing lessons, so once I feel my art is good, I will continue the game.

However, I started another game, a zelda like game and this time I'll experiment around with pixel art.
This new game was inspired by Yumme Nikki, a bunch of dream articles I read, dream interpretations, the Sandman comic series, and a Borges short story, so...yeah.

So there you go, a lot of text, which probably won't affect anything, and dreams.

Below, to the right:concept art by DooDooMeat for the creature featured in our Power of 3 game ;
to the left, the main character and a house, being dreamed, from my next game about dreams.