Another day of Breakage

I had fun yesterday. I was playing some Toybot Diaries 2 and zombies tower defence game giving comments and some personal reviews to my buddy Sean. Sean is the friend I graduated college with. He works with Iugo mobile and assists in making games and levels for the iTouch and iPhone.

Well I was playing TBD2 and I found a lot of stuff that I wasn't supposed to find. BTW these small things are far from easy to figure out unless you know how to brute force your way through puzzle games. And to put an afternoon short, I was called a jackass a lot because I kept doing things that weren't supposed to be done. It was fun.

On this one level where you have to magnetize yourself to a bar and find a way to move it out of your path. What is supposed to happen is the bar is moved then gets caught so you can't move it any more. What I did, and Sean got a huge kick out of it, was manage to find a way to take that bar with me through the entire level. I even used it to break some of the death traps. I then completed the level using the bar as skis.

Over all a very fun day. I have an uncanny knack for breaking the physics of games and make some of the most challenging puzzles or obstacles and find the most easiest way of achieving the goal. Which usually means I broke the game. On the other hand, I play the most simple and easy of levels and play them the most difficult way possible until it does what I want it to do. That also causes the game to break. Usually I have to restart from a checkpoint again once I'm done breaking things. There is the occasional time where it'll let me skip so much of the obstacles and grab achievements or collectables incredibly fast.

All my friends have asked me why I haven't gotten into the industry yet with my knack of breaking games and finding major bugs that should have never gotten through to final. I did the same thing testing FIFA09 OTP. I found a major bug that the DEV guys didn't find and it was a major bug that extended my job for another 2 weeks.

Higher EA execs were fuming. Not because the bug was found, but because it was so major and one of their guys didn't find it.

Anywho I have to header again. Grab some FFXI discs. If anyone is reading this I urge you to get Toybot Diaries for the iTouch or iPhone and Zombies. They are incredibly fun and addicting. Also get FIFA09 because it is really fun as well. EA has really improved on its sports titles. There was a day and age where 2K sports were better but the title best sports games is veering towards EA once again.

I should start writing game reviews on my web site or something. But that's just more work on a massive plate I already have. I have also put into pre-production of a flash game of mine. No title as of yet, well no finalized title, but I'll have that posted on my site by next week. Remember to Visit www.IANTORN.com.

Messing Around with Adobe

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Well this adobe contribute is a pretty nifty program. I'm testing and learning how to use it at this moment. I always think the best way to learn is to get your hands dirty, so here I am. I have absolutely no clue how to use over half of this adobe stuff and I'm learning as I go because it looks cool.

Bare with me people, I'm a geek to the bone. More importantly, I'm a tech geek. Not some comic book geek or a random gamer geek, but a Tech geek. I love gadgets and programs and would buy every single one if I could. Now to explain things more thoroughly about geeks. Geeks love all things geeky, but there are areas we specialize in. Yes, I'm a game designer because I like games and I could work on them all day. But computers and gadgets and new programs, they feel almost like pets to me. As sad as that is. I could play and tincker with gadgets and computers all day and have fun doing it like I was playing a video game.

I love gadgets!

Now back to this adobe stuff. IT'S SO COOL. So cool in fact that I'm in awe and completely lost. I'm glad I put my urge to test out silver light on hold. CS4 has made things a hell of a lot more organized and it makes me as happy as a kid in a candy store. The only downfall of it however, is the amount of space it takes up on my computer... I desperately need a new computer. I've upgraded mine as far as it can go.

Oh well. I'm off to fiddle around with adobe some more. Next week I'll go dabble in some flash game programming or something. I desperately need to learn that... Also I need to finish designing3 new documents I've been doing. I'll post them up when I'm done with them. They are completely out of my box in terms of design. Well two of them are.

Anywho, I'm off.

My girlfriends tasty buns filled with meat

Well my day started off buying a new pair of pants because my old pairs had holes in the crotches. I met up with my friend Cory who is a short Chinese guy I graduated college with. He's a character modeler.

We came back to my girlfriends place and started a whole day of making Banh Bao which are buns filled with vermicelli and ground pork steamed. My girlfriend is a cute vietnamese woman named Huong but people can't pronounce it properly so her english name is Juno. I never thought asain girls were attractive before and I didn't know why every guy was hyped up about snagging a hot asain chick. However, she grew on me like a cute little puppy you just want to keep. She'll probably bug me about that remark now lol.

Anywho back to my story, I'm getting side tracked. Uhm right Banh Bao (Bang-b-ow). These buns take all day to make. We started making them at 2 and we finished at like 8. 6 long hours. We also made large amounts of cheesy pepperoni stick things. They are soooo good.

The reason we went on this endevour was to feed our friends tomorrow for dungeons and dragons. Yes I play Dungeons and Dragons.... 4th Edition campaign. And yes so does my girlfriend. She plays more hours of games than I do. She's playing Final Fantasy 11 right now, as she does almost every day for like 4 hours. She's getting mad at me and throwing excuses at me.
"I have to check on my plants and my chocobo, gawd!" as she just quoted.

As I go back to my original topic. Those buns and pepperoni things are sooooooooo good. I want another couple. What else did I do today... nothing besides write this out. MY FIRST POST! I R IS PROUD OF MESELF!

Well I'm heading off to bed and play some Final Fantasy Tactics Advanced or should I play Space Empires 5. Now i'm not sure. One this is for certain however, I'm finished blogging. I hope I can eventually get like a good political rant or something, because that would be cool. I may also start some random typings and calling it "Ian's history in a nutshell" Oooo I should totally put audio in it and turn it into a flash. I need to touch up on my flash skills, I'm rusty.

Anyways goodnight to anyone who is reading this...if anybody is... or ever will...