Entries from September 2005 ↓

I don’t know who these people are but, I braved the crowd of small teen girls, large police officers and fat mall security to snap off a couple of pictures.

250 Woodbridge Center Drive
Woodbridge, NJ

Yup. That’s the spot this weekend well… ok… actually only on Saturday between 1pm and 6pm. Why is that? Well, my good friend Matthew Robert found out that some of the cast of Degrassi
( http://www.the-n…php?id=67 ) are going to be there. It’s going to be a hell of a good time watching the Matt harass *cough* I mean ‘talk to’ them (I have no idea which cast members will be there). Anyway, I’m going to be sure to bring the SLR so I can get some good pictures of the trainwreck in progress. Check back later for some pictures.

*edit* oh and one more thing… I hope to get some time in this weekend to work on the sites code so don’t be surprised if I break something.

“Urban Dead ( http://www.urbandead.com ) is a browser-based, grid-mapped, free-to-play multi-player game where you play the survivor or victim of a zombie outbreak in a quarantined city centre.”

As I mentioned a few days ago… I started on a similar project a while back. Unfortunately, I just didn’t have the time to work on it to much so it didn’t every really come to much. I think only one person has seen it in action the movement system wasn’t even done.

Anyway.

Let’s get to making a character. Classes are broken into four sections: Military, ‘Science’, Civilian, Zombie. The living classes are further broken down into sections to choose from. Zombies of course can only choose corpse as a sub-class. If you choose military for instance you can then choose between Private, Medic, or Scout. Each sub class gets some sort of little bonus. I went with ‘Private’ so I got to start with: “Basic Firearms training, a pistol and ammo”.

You start out with 50 action points which will get used quickly. With my first 50 action points I quickly found a zombie (-2 action points finding it) and started shooting like crazy (-48 for shooting and some punching). “You attack the zombie and miss.” That’s pretty much all I saw. I think I earned maybe 10 experience points and maybe caused 8 points of damage. So I logged out for the day to give it another go on the next. Opps. Upon logging back on I see a quick replay of what happened well I was gone. It seems your supposed to end your turn inside a building so the zombies can’t get you. I was quickly killed by someone lost my 10 whole experience and started life (death?) as a fresh zombie. Ok. Well, that can’t be that bad except I haven’t been able to get back over 5 experience without being killed… or brought back to life… and then killed again. Maybe I’ll re-read the FAQ again, maybe I’m missing some fine detail somewhere. Actually, maybe I’ll start working on my version again if I get a few minutes (yeah right).

If your at work and bored I suggest you check it out anyway. Who knows you might have fun.

So, it looks like my lappy finally died. Well, I’m not 100% sure it might just be the hard drive. I’ll have to wait till I get home from work to check it out. I’m a bit upset at the damn thing since I don’t have a backup of some of the pictures that were on it. *blargh* I hope that laptop hard drive adapter is in the pad somewhere… Damnit.