Tilesets, Im up to my good gestalts in this crappy pixart, yo.

Eccentrically stupid title aside, chances are you only payed heed to the first part.

Good because thats progress, all too often im told that either my graphics don't fit in with the RTP tilesets, or that they just suck period.

Well for the latter, I don't really care.


For the former, here is some custom tileset-age of which your opinion can be concerned, I agree, the RTP tilesets clash terribly with my style.

This is new progressive content, incase you actually give a shit, its the great bridge to the Dwarven kingdoms.

To be Noted, only some of these tiles are mine, this is sort of a WIP deal.


You should be able to tell from the dip in quality.

Despite the odd time I took this capture, it is not a reference to the movie 23 or this games official release date. Because its obviously 12/12/12.

This is a subtle jab at the JRPG trope of regular towns people telling you what to do, so he's like all making excuses because you've been a babby long enough.

My pathways bring all the pills to the mill.

Modernne Arabian Nights

So yeah, Sorry I couldn't talk more on this, but I'm a little tired and don't feel like writing up a wall.

Major Progress update, Milestone reached.

To start you off, Menagerie's release is in sight, and I may get to have a short break before the scheduled 12/12/12 release date.

The Milestone is that not only are Item Tooltips complete, but Alchemy as well. Now its just linear progressive content, encounters and bugfixing that remain.

So, here are the Item Tooltips.

And here is alchemy complete.

We're making this shit work.

So those are two huge ordeals out of the way, the remainder is fun.

I can confirm 12/12/12 now, consider it an official release date, if by some bizarre mishap it isn't out by then, blame my computer.

Progress update, on two games.

I went back to working on Intel for a while, now I have something to show for progress.

Watermarked to proof my ass from plagiarists.

And now, this is probably my favorite.

Pose heavy!

And before long, I made Tristy's facesheet as well.

Her arms are tricky! :o

You might notice none of these have an outline, well you'd be right, an outline stifles creativity.

Yes I do have a deviantart account, no it isn't Bizarremonkey, I forgot the password for that one, also its using a now erased email address for it so its BizarreSheep. (Which is a sort of in-joke between Scinaya, LordBagardo and myself.

So if it was news, I was banned from rpgmakervxace.com for publicly admitting theft of overpriced resources, I was given the same treatment on rpgmakerweb.com despite not having gone there in a year.

Now you'll have to go elsewhere for when I release Menagerie, don't worry I will provide links when the day comes. As well as a trailer maybe. :o

As for the faces above, they may be utilized in Patch 1.2 of Intelligence, not sure.Not that it matters until next year anyway.

I have done some Menagerie work, waiting for a code monkey to make a small upgrade to the item scene script, once that's done I will write all of them out, and then its just storyline additions and scenes from there on, the occasional art asset I'll have to make, but I've prepared for this game pretty well, most of the art assets were done half a year ago, I have been retouching some things, a big one is this.

Fyori is classier then ever.

That is Fyori ladies and gentlemen, she like all of the Menagerie, has 8 faces, I can always addon on more later.

So in-case it was obvious, shes a younger version o---*spoilers*

But considering her old image, its pretty obvious who she really is, but I'll leave that to you to imagine until the truth is revealed.

Well that should be enough content to stop you from spamming me with fanmail for a while, not that I mind, its flattering really, it would be to get any fanmail, because despite what I just said, I don't get any. :o

Well, in a sense I do, I have had a few comments over the span of this blog, mostly related to my "rpg maker VX ace... its the shit" post, but I've had another recently on "Menagerie Progress" which really lit up my day.

Fan Mail has become a term that could apply to just about any feedback I've gotten, so yeah. :o

Menagerie Progress.

Since a lot of my traffic here comes from rpgmakervx.net, I've decided some development related info might be nessecary.

32 views on the 28th of September, and here I thought no one read this thing!

So first off, theres some decent spoiler free video footage insofar. Incase you missed it.

By spoiler free, I mean they happen within mere minutes of the game boot up, anything an hour in cannot be spoiled, because i havent made it yet. :<

I might make a checklist later, get my shit in gear and get this long overdue thing out for the date i actually said 12/12/12. This has become difficult recently because I've been getting sort of bored with RPG Maker, so this may be my last game with the engine.

I have plans to start moving up in the world, I intend to go to University once this year has passed and start being a code monkey, then all I need is my friend to compose (who has offered) and I can start making money, I'll be the artist, scripter and writer, while he'll be my beat monkey and possible pixel artist in tow. Chances are he'll be my big typo spotter and bugfinder too along with a few other friends.

Anyway, more on that story as it develops. For now menagerie has seen a sort of unwanted Hiatus because of a recent mid-life crisis (that has come a decade too soon) and I am terribly sorry, but even if not for 12/12/12 Menagerie will happen, I've gone too far with it not to finish now.

its not that its the linear content holding me back, that's what I want to work on! But I've gotta get tedious shit out of the way first. Item tooltips, getting a code monkey to patch the item tooltips script a little, as well as writing out those tooltips and applying the colours. Also I've got to fix up recipes and make more random encounter enemies.

WHAT!? RANDOM ENCOUNTERS!?
I know right? This was a decision I had to make based on necessity, this game involves a fair bit of crafting, and since I don't want to limit players or make them feel stupid by only letting you make a few trips to the blue sun for the primers in that awesome weapon they want to make and realize they were needed for the late game time-loop completion, I've decided that encounters will be the way post completely deforesting, stripping, and depriving the planets and suns of resources.

Its complex making a farming system for extraterrestrial materials, while I *could* have trees grow back, its a lot of extra-work and I've already given myself too much. the things is, Lumber is going to be among the most common and hard to run out of commodities there is, if you find out a way to make uranium nuggets reform, please do say so!

Uranium is a fairly rare resource, and is used heavily in a lot of technological items, including the Kitty Caboose. *Mysterious wink*

Main Characters:

Anyway, to give you some dirt on the characters.

He looks Derpy on purpose.

Fatty McLarge is based on my english pal Eagleeye11. He shows a paranoia about Technology and is a retired alcoholic, so chances are his flaws should define him well as a character.

I mean based on personality wise, not looks, do you honestly think I know anyone close to this pretty?

Fyori Felicee is based on a good friend from the states known around as Sjunior, and hes the only candidate because none of my friends are girls. But anyway, the character is cheery and outgoing, she is a tad autistic though, and doesn't like killing natures fauna, and acts the other three characters overlook she can often be disconcerted by... such as taking all of the materials from a recently killed mans house.

Unlike Fatty, she is happy to indulge in technological theory-crafting and design, and often debates with Spooky on subjects which fly over Gerald's head and usually end up in Fatty leaving the room.

Yeah, goblin paladin, fuck you archetypes D:<

Gerald Gelati is based of a good friend from Holland, Orcram or more commonly nicknamed Orcz, which tied in well with the Greenskin aspect. He says Jow now and then and comes off as the friendly outgoing group member. A tad naive and untrained in higher learning, but he serves as a great chill buddy. He's prone to being an impressionable doofus though, easily manipulated by his three friends into doing something he wouldn't do without their prodding.

I only recently realized how racist his name is. Thank you Beat monkey for giving me something to worry about.

Spooky Schema (Wayward branded) is based off of me, obviously. Why do I even need to explain this?? He has a fair few faults, talking too much, being a massive god damn troll to those stronger than him, and he manipulates a lot. Usually just to turn things in his favor, he also lies solely with omission, which is odd for a Galaxion, but the antagonist does it too, so its not a unique feature.

The Galaxions
Okay, I'm not going to go into a whole lore sect here, since this is going to be long enough, but here are the Galaxions (outside Spooky) that are here so far.

Want to know a secret? Her original drawing is eerily similar to this one, and I drew the original before I knew of Homestuck.

Tac Talismina (Traitor Branded) is loosely based on Kanaya Miryam from MSPA personality wise, plot wise shes a lot closer to Tak from Invader ZIM, and many parts of her design were drawn with Tak in mind. My head-canon for her is Kanaya's from Lets Read: Homestuck on youtube, thank you Homestuck Colab, for making head-canons easy.

"Hey! That is creepy, you're creepy; Vind."

Slik Velverti (Director Branded) is based off of Tallest Purple from Invader ZIM, he is a fair bit more forgiving than Vind is, and usually doesn't revel in violence if not necessary. Hes a fair bit more Kooky too, and serves as the comic relief to Vind's dark stern countenance.

The first to feel Regicide at Zardari's hand.

Vind Sollihst (Director branded) is based off of Tallest Red and is much more serious and on base with matters that Slik wouldn't usually think on, he is far more perceptive, and usually subtly tests the honesty of his subjects.

That star is all wrong!

Zardari Zitei (Archbishop branded) is the only Galaxion in the game who will still be alive by the end. He is based off of Jack Noir essentially, but he does have other inspirational guidance. He has a severe weakness to cake, and does feel remorse for Spooky and Tac after he stabs them both. (to the point of reviving them.) I didn't base his personality off of anyone I know, because I have yet to meet someone this frightening. For now his head-canon doesn't exist, even I haven't thought of one.

Originally these were the only Galaxions, but I added some new ones recently.

Ante matter lightsabers, why not?

Adashi Aknius (Zenmaster branded) is the only Galaxion not seen in a robe, his personality is based heavily on Asha from indie game sensation "IJI" by Daniel Remar. He is the first Galaxion you fight, and he is planned to be fought again.

"That's more like it Schema, I've got a surprise for you!"

Orsa Ortonius (Juggernaut Branded) is the leader of the Juggernauts, he is based heavily on Sizz-lorr from Invader ZIM (seen in the episode: The Frycook what come from all that space) and his demeanor generally unimpressed, though he does show appreciation when his opponents put up a decent fight.

Its surprising how well I unconsciously planned his rehashing.

Asarath Azara (Vizier Branded) is an incredibly powerful Galaxion spellcaster, and is feared by the High Council itself, he is based off of Asarath from Terra (an old VX game I wouldn't recommend) and shares his eye. He would be younger than that Asarath, since he is exiled and winds up there. His original inspirations were Richard from the Looking4group comics and Seymour from FFX.

Ain't got much dirt on this bitch, yet.

Mayeena Milda (Martyr Branded) has bugger all for inspirations yet, I drew her up from a Tac model, and I've had no implementations of her yet, so for now, the dirt on her is very little. All I know is, she has lashes, she works for Galaxia (and thus apposes the players somehow) and that her brand contains the M, A, T and Y of Martyr.

Well!
That certainly is enough exposition for now.

The dying freedom and privacy of the Internet

I decided to make a post to discuss this, because I'm all for hopeless causes. The Internet has become much less of a private place, I want to use my Bizarre Monkey alias for good reason, but every single cretin has crawled out of the woodworks since CISPA came around, I'm not saying privacy was bad before this act was passed, but I still remain angry that it did at all, even with Avaaz.com and other freedom-fighting sites this one got by.

Granted, its not nearly as bad as SOPA or PIPA or ACTA, which were all shut the fuck down, but its still disconcerting.

Facebook always asked for a real name, I just use my Pep Cookiedoe proxy alias because i never go to facebook to talk to people legit serious, because that would warrant me actually using facebook, which is something I refuse to do. Its awful.

But now, Google+ and everything google has its fucking claws in (this includes Youtube) is now asking me for a real name. Ofcourse, I dont tell just anybody my real name, that's dumb. A fool move on the internet.

So yeah, at least youtube makes it optional, but this is still getting to me, if I want to make a Google+ Account to explain that this is my dev page and infact NOT the Pep Cookiedoe who trolled all your media asses, then yeah, it gets difficult, it wouldn't even allow Biz Monkee, I mean... fuck. What is your name in real life was Rolly Paulie, would it even allow you to use your birth name? That sucks.

I think this infectious real name crap needs to stop, let people use the name they want to.

Well, that's all there really is to say on the matter. This must have been my shortest rant ever!

Here comes another one.

Yes, another wall of text you might end up feeling ill about yourself after reading, rest assured if you do feel ill with yourself after reading this one it means your a sane and rational being, it means your own flaws digust you, you're fucking welcome for that by the way.

So I've come to drop some mad wisdom on all of you ungrateful tits and open up a can of wicked knowledge based on opinions and kick the wicked shit out of this marty mcfly, yo.

The first thing you might notice, or did previously is that I am now fully encompassing my Australian Heritage and have stopped stereotyping britain because lets face it, being rich, wearing dapper suits and being classy upright gentlemen is probably the best stereotype ever, and its too good for me.

First Subject: Ace gets decent scripting support.

I mean, really god damn decent, out right uncanny really. My only disdain is that some of these hella-rad systems arent on VX as well, Victor Sant has blown my mind with his Platforming scripts, FREE JUMP and MOVING PLATFORMS basically eliminate any need for contempt that not a decent platforming script exists for VX.


Because now I can simply make Platforming games in Ace instead, I've been switching back and forth between VX and VX Ace for sometime wth Menagerie, but Mr Bubble's TACTICS OGRE PSP CRAFTING SYSTEM, has answered the call for a simple crafting system that doesnt have stupid mandatory addtional bullshit like GOGO TOTORI'S FORGING FUCKWADDERY, sure I can see that being great in the right hands, but it aint for me, so to show I have actually been making some progress, heres some RECIPE BOOKS FOR THE MENTALLY VOID.

Icons are placeholders now, maybe.


Thankfully this frees up my item list a fair bit, 10 codexes for a bunch of alchemy recipes rather than 98 of the fucking things, will drop my item list to a much more managable scale.


By my request and his mad respect the coder is going to have an optional picture be ably to be displayed in the currently void right panel. I have already started work on making covers for these CODEXES OF INGLORIOUS WISDOM.

I put VX Ace away for a while while I worked on recently released games such as Hellcat and Intelligence Patch 1.1.9 and the unreleased a while to come MCP for Intelligence, 1.2


So I just casually decided to have a look around the scripts board on VXace.net and wow holy shit.


Last time I looked there were 9 pages of scripts, its now extended to be double that.

Now for something completely different.

ACTA is dead for good, good work everyone.

Oh yeah, some teenager whos younger than I am found a cure for cancer back in December, though I only heard about it recently.

So yeah, thats pretty cool. Even if it took us 28 years.

The future is coming my fareweather friends.

Though I dont think we could truly call it the future until we have reached a few large milestones, flying cars and easy transport, perhaps teleportation.

And Virtual Reality Games, yeah that'd be pretty cool.

But thats just novelties at this point, really.

What would categorize the 'future' would be cleaner eco-friendly transport, (hybrid cars help this, but they are still more expensive than gassy pieces of shit most people use.) easy stressless cures for pretty bad diseases, cancer is nearing this, and once you have that big bug squashed, the others become more understandable, their complex stonewalls broken down by the study of and eventual flunking of the stonewalled prison that surrounded the cure to cancer.

Gradually we will have enough knowledge to painlessly treat Lukemia, Aids, HIV, Hepititous C and perhaps even mental illnesses, like insanity, severe depression and... hey lets be optimistic here, human stupidity. But actually I'd rather that wasn't curable by a simple injection or pill, i'd rather you cure that through experience and learning how to not be a divine retard.

I'd also probably consider the future 'so modernne' if we could relinquish our retarded penchant for religion. Like, yeah, we still totally beleive the earth is square or flat, come ON people, you cant dismiss somethings in the bible and not others, if you looked into it god is complete dick, "so delectably evil" as Stewy from Family Guy puts it. And he's right, God is mean douche, only about 25 pages in its revealed that hes killed thousands of people, and if he is responsible for eveything that exists, then why doesnt he do us a fucking solid and stop entering his fingers where they arent needed.

You could say i see a lot of christian practises blessedly retarded, such as praying, I think Bruce Almighty best illustrates this as a pointless practise, here, i'll quote it.

Bruce: There were so many, I just game 'em what they wanted.
God: Yeah... but since when have people had a clue what they actually want.
Bruce: So what do I do?
God: Parting a Soup isn't a miracle Bruce, its a magic trick. A single Mom, who works two jobs and still finds the time to take her son to soccer practise-- thats a miracle. A teenager who says no to drugs and yes to an education-- Thats a Miracle. People want me to do everything for them... but what they dont realise is, is they have the power.
God: Don't make Miracles, son. Be the miracle.
Bruce: Wait, are you leaving?
God: yeah, I think you can manage from here.
Bruce: But what if I need you, what if i have questions?
God: Ah haha, thats your problem, Bruce. Thats everybody's problem, you keep looking up.

This is perfectly logical, God's all busy making more planets and stuff, he cant afford these intrusions, and if given no other option, you'll do it yourself anyway, because you, I-- nay, everyone, has the power.

If there is some benevolent force out there, a puppetmaster of impeccable and unfathomable pulchritude, intelligence and vim, he's not going to give a satanic shit what we think or what we do, honestly, you people think the creator of galaxies millionfold has time to give each some attention? That would be a proposterous waste of time he/they/it/she/whom could be better using on galactic birthing.

While I am certainly not religious, I'm far from ingnostic. I have witnessed miracles happen, and I beleive magic is real, and if me beleiving hard enough makes it slighty less fake, then i will beleive as hard as I can, I have witnessed circumstancial oddities that could not be accredited to mere coincidence alone, I have seen the smug cowl Gal'vana shows, the bitter face Heldath shows, the neutral complacence the Necropolis shows, all have been foils for my curiosity, and all have assured me that no matter how much people disbeleive, there is always magic in the world, no matter how primitive the life forms, or how stone set their ideals of science.

But yeah, beleive what you want if you so badly need a godly father figure to look up to. Thats basically what religion comes down to, if your religious, chances are you suffer from insecurity issues, and beleive you arent whole. Not everyone gets to feel 100% happy with their existence like I do I guess.

I think thats it for now. I dont feel the need to break my old record yet.

Happy Independence Day America.

Enjoy your day of pissdrinking and dangerous fireworks riding, while we over here in Australia do that on a daily basis and the day in which it is only more excessive is 28/1 or 1/28 for your country, which marks Australia day, the day where you can get pissed to absolution and eat snags/shoot fireworks and no one will think less of you. In other words its everyday except without work and with more angry butthurt natives.

I love this country.