littering

I just drove through 3 states yesterday, and here's what I found out:

In California, there's a $1000 fine for littering.

In Oregon, there's an up to $6892 fine for littering.

In Washington, the signs just say, "Litter and it'll hurt."

The Washington policy definitely leaves me with the most questions.

The History of Fuzzy Robot

Fuzzy Robot is the studio name I do my games under these days. I've changed studio names a lot over the last 7 years, but I think it's time to settle down. I started out in 2003 with the name Enoki House. Enoki is a kind of mushroom, and the logo was a house made out of mushrooms. Under that name, I developed the game Tiki Slide which was a mix of Super Monkey Ball and snowboarding.



After that I got a few friends together and we worked on a few projects under the name Enoki Games, since Enoki House was really weird and the new name said what we do. None of those projects made it very far. After that I started working on Havoc Ball (a 3d breakout game), but I wanted to use a new name to distance myself from the the failed attempts at Tiki Slide 2 and Battle for Claymore. For that game I used the studio name:



I really liked that name, but soon after, a certain "Harmonix" started making Guitar Hero games, and I thought it was too close and I wanted to be more unique. I first started Stabbing in the dark at this Fuzzy Robot idea about a year ago. Here is my first go at it:



I guess the idea of Fuzzy Robot is that he is a fun happy robot, a blend between the creativity and spontaneity of humans and the Sci-fi techy awesomeness of robots. After much revision, I ended up with the logo design we have today!



I think this is one I can keep for the forseeable future.

Sundance Trilogy

These are a few of the latest songs I have written, mostly this year. The three songs kinda go together and tell a short story. I guess it's not that much of a story; it's more of just portraying the feeling of certain circumstances. Anyway, my mom has been wanting me to record myself playing my songs on and upload them onto youtube for a long time, so I finally did. Happy Mother's Day, mom!

Sundance 1: Just a Walk in the Park


Sundance 2: You Can't Beat This Weather!


Sundance 3: Sun Turns into Rain Turns into Wet Clothes, but that's OK.

Funny Bug

This happened when I tried to flip around a few faces since I decided to start using backface culling. It won't be hard to fix, but I thought it looked pretty.

For those of you who don't know, this is a screen from the project that I currently call my senior project (although I have been working on it for longer than I have been a senior). I's a fun 2.5D puzzle adventure game where you play as a shepherd who has lost all his sheep and must find them. The project includes a level editor and a scripting language for defining levels and events, and I'm doing all the art, music, and level design from scratch by myself, so as you might guess that keeps me all kinds of busy. Maybe I'll upload some nicer-looking non-buggy screens in a few days.

So it goes.

To the four questions you currently have in your head, I have four perfectly reasonable answers.

What is the science of love, you ask, and what's so cold and hard about it? Nothing. It's just an oxymoron. I thought the juxtaposition of rigid science with human nature could do either one of two things, clarify the gaping chasm separating the two, OR suggest (what I have in my own personal experience come to understand as) a complementary relationship between the two. It's a name. Don't worry.

More importantly, why am I doing this (starting a new blog), you ask? You are right to ask, because I have plenty of other things to do, enough on my plate in fact that I often don't sleep as much as I should. Not only that, but the last two blogs I've started have been left almost completely untouched for the last year. What makes a new blog any different?

you're probably right. Maybe I just thought this was a good idea because I didn't sleep last night. but when did anyone ever have to justify starting a blog anyway? Forget it! I'm starting a new blog because I want to, and we'll see in a few days whether I'm serious about this or not.

This blog will hopefully bridge the gap between my projects and my "normal life". Those who know me well but don't know much about what I really do with my life can find out here, and those who know my projects but not me (a population I hope will grow steadily, since I would rather have my works soar to the heights of fame than myself) can find out about me, I guess. Maybe someone will even respond to my Kurt Vonnegut references. Or maybe no one at all will read this and maybe I don't care.

Either way, this is going to be epic.