Absolute, Unfettered, Madness

Been a long hectic period between now and my last posts but I guess you could say its all pretty normal for me, mostly. Still working on my novel and my games without much abatement. So…I’ve been quiet for awhile and I guess it’d be far easier if I just left it at drama, illness, and more jobsearching, and moved right on to the main reason I posted. Aquaria got a review on IGN :). Unfortunately the reviewer totally botched it, citing barely sensical points and an apparent “book” for underwater platformer music as well as blatantly ignoring the plot in its entirety giving the game a final score of 7.4 eg better than a brick to the balls. Check it out here if you want to decide whether it really deserves the score for the reasons he mentioned or whether he’s just a biased moron:

So beyond fiddling with a few different linux operating systems I’ve been working on my story(Which I posted a pastebin link to below) and my pen and paper system pretty industriously, while still searching for a damnable job. As usual people, COMMENT, its not much, its not even a minute of your time.

http://www.pastebin.ca/762935

So in a flurry of anger I tossed my previous idea and came up with this pile of lol and skates, please criticize, I need things to fix after National Novel Writing Month.
http://www.pastebin.ca/759288

Oh man, it’s time. I guess I’ll keep anyone who actually looks at the blogs updated on what I’m writing this year, it’s called “Dominion” at least thats its WIP name, I scrapped the Buckled Swash and Techno Nomad ideas for now, I’ll probably use them some other day. Keep an eye on my blog people AND COMMENT.

So, after being introduced to probably one of the most compelling audio masterpieces I’ve ever heard in my life I was inspired to write a similar rendition to the classic megaman story with my own twists. The unfortunate thing is, after writing a page and a half I had to pass out last night, as tomorrow is the first National Novel Writing Month day and I’ve gotta get blazing on that instead. A side note: The Protomen are absolutely brilliant, if you like megaman and you like music CHECK THEM OUT.

Hmm, I guess I’ll start with a bit of an explanation before i go off into detail on something no one’ll have a clue about. I’ve been working on a tabletop rpg system in the Shadowrun universe loosely based on d20. (The system that dungeons and dragons is currently using)
And basically I’ve started work on the little nuances like a realistic vehicle and health system, the thing is though I’m a bit dry on ideas when it comes to vehicular stunts. I’ve started digging through my DVDs for awesome car stunts and things. If anyone has any ideas feel free to slip em my way, other than
that though more work on that story I linked previously as well as preparing for National Novel Writing Month, thusly it’s been the busiest day I’ve had all year.

Well, to start off I’m Joe, another one of those wacky members of Team Mana Sword, though skilled in a few fields, I’m fairly lackluster in others despite my enjoyment of them. I’m an avid writer, spending hours consumed by my struggle with finishing a novel good enough to submit to a publisher and often thinking of the relationship novels and games have. Which I guess would be an interesting one, you’d assume people who play RPGs love reading, though apparently not (Mass Effect notwithstanding).
Regardless of my musings on the subject, I’ve still endevoured myself
to prove myself wrong in that aspect, attempting to put together a novel
that not only provides a compelling narrative, but can be enjoyed by gamers as well, and on that note I’d like to share a bit of the novel I’ve been writing and obviously I’m just begging for critical comments especially constructive ones, so here it is:

http://www.pastebin.ca/752738