ghost-a-no-mics, noun, [1] The art of blogging of Black Ghost Studios. [2] Total miserable Failure.
Well it's been fun while it's lasted here on the blog, but now Black Ghost Studios has moved completely to our forums, join us there for more fun and games... and of course, Han and Beckett flaming each other...¬¬
On behalf of all the staff at BGS, thank you, and goodbye.
James Black Ghost Staff
Bleh...
I'm stuck for something to do... ><
And the massive amounts of Homework my parents have set me isn't helping...
Anyone any ideas? Or am I stuck with tutorials?
Over and out
James, Black Ghost Staff
Graphics:
Scene 1 preloader: 100%
Scene 2 introduction [60 secs]: 17%
Scene 3 meeting: [20 secs]: 0%
Scene 4 road: [66 secs]: 100%
Scene 5 shrine: [80 secs]: 83%
Scene 6 Credits: [10 secs]: 0%
Total: aprox: 3 mins+ and 300/600 [50%]
Sound:
All scenes: 0%
Total: 0/600 [0%]
well, the last scene is longer than I thought, but worked a good 3 hours on the flash today... :/
Well, I done the logo. At 20fps, and 400x300 dimension, I think it came out pretty well. I really like the font, Can't remember what it is though :/ I gonna start the banner and then the ads plus the 88x31 buttons like the ones I'd done for DL. Wonder what name to use, BlackGhostStudios is kinda long... maybe just Black Ghost...
Well on another note, most of the components for the PC has arrived. Just the Gainward geforce 6800GT *Golden Sample* hasn't arrived yet. The manufacter don't know when they can get the board produced and sent to us, LOL cos its so rare. So, the ppl at XFX are ever better at selling rare graphics cards. The Geforce 6800 Ultra Ultimate Edition (LOL @ the name already) is so rare that potenial buyers must enter into a ballot to be drawn to even buy the card...
at an cost of $600
X-D -=ROFLMAO=-
Only 100 cards have ever been sold. Its only ever faster than the normal 6800 ultra in extreme situations, like Far Cry 1600x1200, ultra high settings, 4x antialiasing 8x anistrophic filtering and Unreal II 3200x2400 (LOLOL @ that res) max details and 4XAA and 8x AF. But its $100 more expensive.
I also have a 486 chip and 16MB EDO memory stick in my bedroom randomly, and I compared it to the opteron 64 242 and a 1GB ECC DDR PC4000 stick. 10 years of technology side by side... Not much difference in terms of shape and colour and stuff...:/
Jamie, Black Ghost Staff
Again, everything seems to go very well so far for BGS. Beckett's being doing some good work on the site, while Han's working hard on his flash anims. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to finish my animation on time for the new deadline. However, the movie is still going very strong and I plan to finish it before August 20th. The temp. frums will have to do for the meantime, till we get our new invision one from ABP. One of the affiliates on the site should be BGS offical blog which would like to this! I also need to create a new 33x81 button for BGS and BGS Ofical Blog and some banners, plus a new logo :/ Hopefully, that will be soon. I will also create a new revision of BGS terms and conditions and a doc with Future Info as soon as I have free time. Otherwise, thats all from me right now.
Jamie, Black Ghost Staff
Note to Beckett: Post your name underneath each post and freakin' check your posts before you post 'em, most of them have at least one typo! Can you go through your last posts and edit teh typos! :P lol
Anyways, heres a progress report of my flash anim:
Graphics:
Scene 1 preloader: 100%
Scene 2 introduction [40 secs]: 0%
Scene 3 meeting: [20 secs]: 0%
Scene 4 road: [66 secs]: 100%
Scene 5 shrine: [60 secs]: 60%
Scene 6 Credits: [10 secs]: 0%
Total: aprox: 3 mins 6 secs and 260/600 [43%]
Sound:
All scenes: 0%
Total: 0/600 [0%]
ETA: August 2004
Yes I know, its pretty late, but its gonna be damn good... Well at least I'm gonna try to make it as good as I can, and if it turns out okay, I'll submit it to newsgrounds. Well, maybe :P
Jamie, Black Ghost Staff
But... er... Will Be... Eventually...
But fret not, I shall have it done...
Soon...
Over and out
James, Black Ghost Staff
Bleh...
Found quite a nice tutorial on Flash and shaking browser windows
Slightly over excited, but anyway,
Now to find some way to integrate it into my flash...
Over and out
James, Black Ghost Staff
I sent you an email recently, sould tell you about the deal. You know the terms about the email. Hopefully, the deal will be finished, and be successful. Until then, keep up the good work lads. I have every bit of faith in you (well, ermm, maybe :P)
Jamie, Black Ghost Staff
Bleh...
Okies Becket, problem is though, I don't have any decent pics I can use, I ain't at home, so all my stuff is unavailible...
:/
Where is our board anyway?
Over and out
James, Black Ghost Staff
Bleh...
DEAR HOLY FUCKING MOTHER OF GOD NO, NO, NEVER, NOT THAT STUPID DOG AGAIN
Got it?
Over and out
James, Black Ghost Staff
Got a chance to post before I go and play footie with some friends. For the site, I ask Beckett to send me all the .html files in a zip to my gmail, I want to make a few minor changes, such as font consistency, parts of the writing, and some other shit. Dont expect it returned soon, though, maybe in 1 or 2 days maybe. I'll spend 5 minutes a day trying to fix that all up. Also, all the PCs are the QUB computational PCs my dad has, and he has decided to replace his old networking/try out a new one, with a new switch, so he told me (phoned from China) to look at possible configs. I also decided to reformat the other old athlon 600 pc and install a fresh copy of XP for no reason.
Anyways, theres a slight problem with the forum business. The forum was suppose to be for all 3 sites, dragon-tail.tk, blackghoststudios.tk and dbeckett.co.uk, so it cant be just called "Black Ghost Studios Forum". It has to be for a name for all three sites' forum. Maybe like "3Fusion" and the motto "Synthesis of Dragontail's Lair dbeckett.co.uk Black Ghost Studios" or something like that. Go to our current forum mentioned by Beckett below and post ideas. I also think if we combine the news/improvements/general talk section of all three sites into each main section, so instead of 3 news, 3 general talk, etc, we have 1 news, 1 general talk, etc and each section is for all 3 sites then we can get more posts in each section, thus making it more busy than each seperate one. Get me? Anyways, the forum needs to be split into boards and sub-boards like the following:
News -> Whats new?, Future updates
General -> General chat, Flameyard (ie spam can, no rulez), Recycle Bin (ie, all moved topics gets put into here temporarily)
3Fusion chat -> Suggestions 'n' Comments, Content (talk about content, ie flash, games etc), Affiliation (sorta like where ppl post to affiliate)
What do yers think? Anyway, I'll email fish now for the forum and the extra webspace in a new account for "bgs" with a password which i will send to you via email. I'll ask for 200MB (which is well enough, considering an avg flash anim is around 1-2MB, thats like 200/10 anims), and I'll pay him a fiver for that and the new forum, if he is a bit unhappy. Unless you are all meanies, everyone pays a measily 50p and I'll pay £3.50, in the senario. actaully, I'll email him when I get back. Easier. Respond here with your ideas,
Jamie, Black Ghost Staff
Next Wednesday eh?
I will have to cut my movie short, but okay, I've done it in the form of Kill Bill, which means chapters, which means everything is fairly short and compartmented, so it won't be all that difficult for me to finish for next Wednesday, can't promise anything all that long though, its sort of a prelude, I still need to think up a proper storyline for the main thing, :/
final verdict: deadline is no problem for me
Just don't expect uber.swf that's all
Over and out
James, Black Ghost Staff
Sorry my friends, I will defianately not get my flash finished by then. Seeing that its somthing like 2 minutes, most of it which is total co-ordinated sword fighting. I want something to be quality, not a rushed piece of crap. As you can see, I haven't been on the net recenty due to the fact I didnt have time, having a job, then the CDRW drivers failing and crashing as I watched The Matrix: Reloaded in the drive, and then to find out the flopply drive had done a kari-kari and died on me, randomly. So I had to get a new floppy, try to fix the problem unsucessfully with the CDRW, etc etc. I wont be on the next few days either as I have to work out the optimum method of networking my dads 30+ pcs which includes PIII500s, P4 1.4s, P4 1.7s, 2.4, 2.8, and many more, some on linux (different versions), some on windows 2k, some on XP!!!And then I have to build my dads new PC when it comes, which is good :) At the moment, the deadline is far too unreasonable for me, sorry folks, though if you really want, I'll send you what I have. I want it to be good, and I do not want any work rushed to achieve the deadline, though I do admit it is not a bad idea. I'm glad Beckett did this to motive the team.
Jamie, Black Ghost Staff
Bleh...
Thanks for the comments Beckett, it was just me doing something different for a change, plus I get to use some AS I'd just learnt, You're prolly right that it's not the best for the format of the site.
Do we actually have a deadline? ie. Next Tuesday?
Just checking, cuz I'm gonna be away during the weekend, will still try and make it though
That's me for now,
Over and out
James, Black Ghost Staff
Bleh...
Hold yer horses there Beckett, I am indeed in Canada, so there's no reason to celebrate yet.
Anyway, didn't get that much time on the computer today, so I decided to make some buttons for the site instead of my usual project, they look okay to me, but will probably need refining for the particular colour scheme of the site.
I'll send them to Jamie, and he can decide what to do with them.
James, Black Ghost Staff
Bleh...
In respect of Jamie's various purchases, I have this for him:
*One finger salute*
*mutters* lucky b******
Ah well, I'm not to argue, the fat mess has returned, so if all else fails I have a new guy to get sheesh kebabed in my flash :)
I think I'd better go back to my own blog now, need to get the formatting fixed, and for Jamie's benefit I've changed the layout back :/
Hmm, this is the first time I've tried something that isn't Trebuchet, but I can't say much
Never trust a font that can't do colon forward slash properly...
Also (pay attention now Jamie) I've had a look at the site, and it looks pretty good, just a coupla points though
I know that was quite a few points, but just some stuff for our "Glorious Leader" to consider in his free time...
And when he has more free time he can go see wtf is wrong with the formatting in Life Eh?... :/
Over and out
James Black Ghost Staff
I can almost say www.blackghoststudios.tk is finished! Me and Beckett (mainly Beckett) have worked on it for a long afternoon and evening, and its looking pretty l33t! All credit goes to Beckett who adapted the layout, and design most of the site, while I suggested this and that, and did some of the table layouts.
Everybody is working:
Good work done today, pretty happy with all the progress.
Jamie, Black Ghost Staff
My dad ordered all his stuff today, for you who don't know, he had £2000 [up from 1500 I said before] to spend on various stuff. He let me decide what to order. I may have posted before what I wanted to order, but that has changed now, this is what he has ordered:
(btw, if you don't understand, just ignore and move on:/)
Pretty good, no? Plus hes gonna use the 19" Sony TFT he had bought earlier. Ever better, is the fact that I get to swap my crappy Geforce4 Ti4600 with his Geforce6 6800GT! Thing is, I could have got a 6800 Ultra! It was only £20 more, so my dad agreed, but then I realized that my power supply only had 1 more molex connection free, while 2 molex connections were needed by the 6800 ultra (a molex connection is the thing you power your optical drives/hard drvies with) 1 F£%ing molex connection away from a 6800 ultra! Son of a b#$&h!
otherwise, I'm getting a DAH-1000 512MB MP3 player:
and a Dita V3KC (Korean Curve) hockey stick:
Heheheheh, any time soon, I will buy. Kinda need to work on my Flash anim again.
Jamie, Black Ghost Staff
Whoever invited Beckett is indeed very smart. Good thinking :) Just a bit retarded for not doing it myself, lol. I changed the link, so Black Ghost Staff indeed goes to the new URL :) I'll alos work on a small logo hopefully less than 500k, to stick in front of projects, and such like. I also gave Beckett admin access like everyone else. I sent beckett an lengthy email describling several topics we were discussing, and everything looks well. So i'm happy :)
Han's doing work on his articles, Becketts working on the site, I'm working on my flash, and james on his (which is quite a bonus) All I can say is good good good :)
Hopefully something will become of this, but theres a 99% chance of everything becoming like Hiroshima '45, ie: everything F$%ked up. As long as people are prepared to work, I think It will become the 1% chance of a success. Maybe I should be less optimisitc and look at the defination of ghostanomics: [2] miserable failure...
Jamie, Black Ghost Staff
Bleh...
This is wingdings, try that for minimalist :P
Props to you if you can read that without pasting it onto Word and changing the font to something normal...
After an hour of work, I've got about 20 seconds of bugger all... that's the bad news, the good news is that I've got a storyline, and I can now work on it properly...
Jamie is soooo lucky he can just do his randomly coloured background, I actually have to make my own in Photoshop, which can be a pain in the neck when the damn computer freezes every 2 seconds, even you open something like ****ing notepad...
I'm moving into rant now aren't I...
Btw Jamie, you can help me with this... How badly will having 1Gb of RAM cripple a Chinese version of Win 98?
until next time...
Over and out
James Black Ghost Staff
Hmm, Blogger seemed to have updated the GUI once again. Now I don't need to look up the "img src =" for images HTML tag again, woohoo! Also, you can change font, but the funny thing is, the default font is Georgia which is my preferred font, so no changes there! I see James has changed to a smaller lighter font, being minimalist again >_>
Haven't got any Flash done today, just couldn't be bothered. I hear James is actually working on hid Flash project... That's good news, no? Note to James: They are NOT eggs! They are blobs :) Also noticed the gif image stretched out which screws up the layout. In the future, don't do that, notice that James. Thing is, although I have published the whole blog a million times over, I don't see the changes for at least an hour or two, unlike Life Eh? Which does it immediately :I've actually got 1700 frames in the Flash of the movie in the 1st scene. There will be 1 more full scene, and a credits scene and a preloader scene. I also have the basic storylines for the sequels, parts 2 and 3 of the Flash. Pretty l33t, huh?
I'm also thinking for running a Invision board jacked up with some nice cosmetic hacks with Han admining it, running for 3 sites, Black Ghost Studios [run by Beckett and me], Dragontail's Lair (Build II) [run by Han and me] and dbeckett.co.uk [run by Beckett]. At the moment I'm trying to persuade Fish aka Daniel to do it. He hasn't responded yet ):/Once that happens, I'll try to get all 3 sites on a webring. Heheheh }:]
Gotta make most of the l33t idea before Fish says no. Probably. Heh, must plead some more.
Jamie, Black Ghost Staff
Bleh...
Works begins on my idea of flash version of Kill Bill (I still have to name the movie, but plenty of time for that), or Jamie's gonna want my ass on a silver platter.
I currently face the problem of figures, I have a choice of stickmen or the eggs like in Jamie's katana dudes.
2 problems, the stickmen will require a lot more work as their various body parts will have to move... Eggs have the opposite problem, they don't show enough movement, how the hell am I supposed to show a kick? Eggs going in with their bottoms???
Bah...
I'll try and get a trailer up soon for you to look over...
(Just so it'll look pr0, as Jamie likes to say)
Over and out...
James Black Ghost Staff
'sup folks,
<------------Got a small gif animation ------------>
[EDIT:] - i'll explain why i removed the image
click here to view
Well, rather large, but still, pretty neat, no?
Waiting to see what James comes up with :/ Maybe hes working on something? Or maybe hes doing nothing (99% more likely) >: Meanwhile I continue to wokr on the Flash (I've shown Han already 2/3 of it)
Jamie, Black Ghost Staff
Part of the movie:
Look at all the motion tween in the layers! Arghh
More on this later? maybe? :/
Jamie, Black Ghost Staff
Worked on some Flash today. The result is 31.3 seconds of pure kantana action :) At 24 fps, this little flick is rocking, with kantanas, dai-kanatanas, throwing knifes, shrunkiens(might remove this later on), short swords and axes mixing with blood and little dudes. Theres like 24+ layers, so I had to switch resolution to 1280x1024 to get more stuff on screen. I will post a screenie later.
I wonder how Beckett is getting on with the site? Also, I have decided to have a full forum (invision prob), and I also putt Tull in charge. I also advice him to look at this skin resource site. Its pretty l33t for Invision boards :) James better start to create some stuff in Flash, his wee exuse of no access resources is rubbish >:| I produce 0% resource content Flash, with 100% of my own work, all drawn inside Flash.
Have to go to work tomorrow, must earn cash for l33t hockey stick and mp3 player.
Have fun the rest of you,
Jamie, Black Ghost Staff
Long time no post :/ Mainly cos of Morrowind. Anyways, Beckett should be back soon and us two will try to work out a site for Black Ghost. I decided the blog can be related to anything, so it doesnt have to be with Black Ghost. Hopefully, that adds freedom :) Added Tull a long time ago, but he hasnt posted. His time is short. I mean it!
Dads got a £1500 to spend randomly on PCs. I have convinced him to spend it on a PC which I will build. Here are the the specs:
Pentium 4 3.2ghz | 1gb cosair PC4000 memory | 2 x 120gb Hard disks in RAID 0 | 875P Albatron motherboard >:) | geforce 6800 GT | 19" TFT Sharp
time to overclock it to 3.7ghz muwhahaha
Meanwhile must go back to messing around with Flash :)
Jamie, Black Ghost Staff
Set up, well tried to set up Apache on my computer. It works, but there's a slight problem. My router seems to stop all incoming traffic, even though I open port 80, enable DMZ on my IP and disable the hardware SPI firewall. Meaning everyone part from me get a 404 error. Its enough to make me throw it out the window. I even registered http://dragontail.serverbox.org, which directs all traffic to my IP. Shame it all gets blocked though >:(
Me and Beckett have agreed to develop a template site for Black Ghost, while James is continuing to fiddle about with Flash trying to create his pr0 movie. Only problem is he is on a 56k, and hes never gonna get the right resources. Well, thats his excuse. Han is, well, not doing much. Great. I'm having some doubts to see what he is willing to produce. Better late than never I suppose.
I swear, this stupid router is gonna piss me off till I throw my ultra heavy goldfish bowl 17" monitor at it. What else can I do?
Jamie, Black Ghost Staff
Did a small change to the template. See if you can spot it :) Also give James admin control, dunno if thats smart, but I trust him... :/
On a side note, kinda expect this sorta crap to pop up now on my old laptop since we got win98 installed :)
Tribute to thy l33tn3$$,
Jamie, Black Ghost Staff
Meh...
Tis me... again...in all my bleh and meh glory... :P
Yes... I appear to be on the payroll (in expression only unfortunately) of this Black Ghost Studios...
I'll be doing random VB proggies and Flash... Flash being more likely for the time being considering my Aunt (whom I'm staying with over most for the summer) has no VB... ah well, tis an opportunity to brush up on Action Script... assuming the cousin doesn't scream too much...
*sigh*
Bleh...
James,
Black Ghost Staff
Dear Lord, asked some friends if they wanted to join Black Ghost Studios, providing that *insert huge list of details here*, and so far a pretty +ve response. Quality, quality.
James is added as a member in this blog, but it will take him another couple of hours before he realises, cos he is kinda like 5+ hours behind the GMT time in Canada. Grrreat!
More later. Maybe.
Tribute to thy l33tn3$$,
Jamie, Black Ghost Staff
The 1st post is always the hardest one. It is my job to make it less hard for myself. First, you may be wondering: [side note: you, like, someone else apart from me is readings this?]
what is the purpose of this blog?
The simple answer to that is to act as a jotpad for ideas and thoughts for the staff and friends of Black Ghost Studios.
Erm, Black Ghost Studios?
Yeh, Black Ghost Studios is a Studio dedicated in indie development, by indie developers. It started as a hobby for me, and it still is. I have to wait and see how far the rest of my friends are willing to stay with Black Ghost Studios.
Yeh whatever, you're just a bunch of losers!
Thanks, just read the meaning of Ghostanomics :)
