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Final Fantasy Vs Final Fantasy 7

mrmortisland — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 01:43:10 +0000

Well. We were all young once. Right? Somehow I have found this one the most difficult to watch so far. I obviously thought it was funny at the time or I wouldn’t have put effort into it. The world may never know why though. On the Newgrounds page for this one, it mentions that I like FF and FF7 equally. Modern day me has to disagree. FF is fairly unplayable today. It’s very archaic. FF7 is also very archaic but less so. In conclusion, they’re both bad games?

Also, a note: a bunch of comments were removed due to user error. I have now rectified that problem. This site gets a surprising amount of spam bots attacking it and some legit comments were lost in the struggle. I should probably slap a captcha on the comment form. But a different day.

Black Belt Vs Thief

mrmortisland — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 22:19:30 +0000

I very nearly misspelled Thief in the title just now. Embarrassing.

Man! Look at the production values on this one! This is the second short I ever made and it it a whole hell of a lot better than I remember it being. Figuring out that higher frame rates look better, rotating guys, better tweens in general. Still didn’t quite master editing images in MS Paint though. A few white pixels peeking out there. I remember thinking how I was going to blow everyone’s minds!! when the Mortal Kombat song kicks in and the guys start running around. Even though breaking the Final Fantasy battle system convention was the exact same joke from the original. Maybe I thought record scratches were still novel and interesting. It is still the default dimensions for a Flash animation. Adorable.

I just went digging a little deeper through my Ye Olde Flashe Shite folder and there is a lot of stuff in there. A couple unfinished, unreleased things. Also lots of 8-bit Theater derivative jokes.

AYB Vs FF

mrmortisland — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 05:14:05 +0000

I would wager this is probably the fourth thing I made, if I were a betting man. I probably thought it was oh so clever at the time. The Lion King soundtrack is still real greal.

Crono Vs Black Mage (Boy Vs Sprite 3)

mrmortisland — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 07:02:36 +0000

Ever so briefly, here is the third in the “BoyVs Sprite” series. Except, as the loading screen mentions, it does not focus on them at all. It’s a number of characters I like. Some of the spell effects made me realize I am not a very good graphic designer. Also a lot of the end parts feel really tacked on. But I do like the slow motion impact of the scythe. There was a note in the credit about sound effects but this appears to be one of the first ones where I was dropping all sounds effects because they were time consume. Weird.

Oh, this one’s plot was fleshed out by a set up short from a fan and I feel kind of strange about if I should throw that one up here or not since it’s not really mine. I’ll leave it up to Future Me to figure out.

Boy Vs Sprite 2

mrmortisland — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 04:56:17 +0000

Man, this is some pretty nerdy stuff. This one starts on another common co-op problem in Secret of Mana, standing at the edge of the screen like an asshole. And then a whole lot of unrelated violence happens ending with Crono showing up for revenge. His motives were only revealed in a separate short that I did not even make! Real nerdy stuff. It’s a definite improvement over the last one. I was really excited about the arrows flying in from the side. I remember finding sound effects for all this stuff was really annoying. That’s why I ended up transitioning to more music-video-y kinds of things. No responsibility for audio design!

Video gaa-aaames

mrmortisland — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 18:34:45 +0000

So sometimes I have opinions about video games and then those opinions are later altered through new information. Something along those lines has happened with the new Syndicate game Starbreeze is working on. For those who don’t know, they are making an FPS that seems generally inspired by that ancient DOS game Syndicate. I was pretty bummed initially, because I figured it would be Deus Ex being made by a different company. But then this new trailer was released that seems to show a way more responsive version of Deus Ex. Having played a bit of DX:HR recently, I find myself pretty excited to play a jackbooted future-thug bad guy counterpart to DX:HR’s not-asking-for-this heroic protagonist. I enjoyed being the cyber-good guy, but both facets of the corporation-controlled dystopia spacefuture are interesting to delve. So now I am kind of excited about it and mad at myself. Same thing happened with that new XCOM game they’re making.

Further reporting on Giant Bomb makes it sound like the thug/player character/agent Miles Kilo will eventually break free of company control and stare at his hands in a very dramatic way while the crushing weight of his crimes washes over him before he sets out to take down the corporation – from the inside! - but that is somewhat expected, I guess. Expected but disappointing. The original Syndicate’s end goal of worldwide corporate domination might be a hard sell to people who do not think that darkly of the future. Who knows, though, people love the fuck out of all that zombie stuff.

Boy Vs Sprite

mrmortisland — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 04:12:48 +0000

This initial Boy Vs Sprite thing was based on a very real situation I’m sure everyone who played Secret of Mana “co-operatively” encountered. Whenever a chest would show up, everyone would abandon their duties and race to get it first. Although you couldn’t hurt other players, it certainly led to some people getting killed by monsters that should have been dealt with first. The world really could use some more co-op action RPGs. This is also one of the ones I put up on Newgrounds that was actually rated pretty ok because everything on Newgrounds at that time was garbage.

Fighter Vs Black Mage

mrmortisland — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 02:51:38 +0000

Here’s an oldie and not necessarily a goodie. This is the first thing I ever made (that I uploaded to the internet). Unbelievably basic work on display here. It’s funny that one of the frames for the Black Mage has tiny white pixels at corners where I was trying to edit out an overfill in MS Paint. Another interesting note, this is made at the default width and height for a Flash project circa version 4 (400 by 300 for those curious). Didn’t even take the frame into consideration. Very rudimentary stuff. At the time, I was probably very proud of it. We were all young once. Except for those who are young currently.

Zombie 2

mrmortisland — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 04:04:22 +0000

Alright, we’re back!

Continuing in descending order of how much I like them, next comes Zombie 2. This is the largest file-size-wise short I made. Not the biggest in length or the most intricate tweening, just file size. There’s some good timing and a little use of ease in/out in this one. It’s starting to look a little professional. I wonder what might have happened if I had stuck with it instead of programming? This one ends with an OCR song from IronSword that I still really like.

Already breaking promises

mrmortisland — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 23:25:10 +0000

I told myself I wouldn’t put any excuses posts up here if I tried this again. But here is one anyway. Between PAX and moving everything I own in the world to a new apartment, my life has been pretty busy. Once I get internet hooked up at my new place, I will continue re-assembling this place.

Sorry.