For 2015, I'm working on a new project entitled: Dance of the Wanderers. It's a 15 episode series that about a young woman name Kathleen Nyro who becomes cursed by a Spirit and has to find a way to break the curse or leave her home behind forever.
I'm really tired right now, so this won't be long. If you want to find out more about the project check out the Dance of the Wanderers page. There you can read updates, my insane schedule, or the just (I mean moment ago) finished Pilot episode.
Sakura Nagashi's Cover Art drawn by Evangelion's character designer Yoshiyuki Sadamoto.
Taking a break from her hiatus Hikaru Utada release a song this week: Sakura Nagashi (Flowing Cherry Blossoms). The is a beautiful piano ballad with her signature ethereal sounds and strong voice. After two years without her voice it's really good to her again. And any Evangelion will be pleased to know that she wrote and composed the song specifically for the new Evangelion 3.0 movie, out now in Japan. The song is just a stand-alone release and does not mean her hiatus is over. Watch the MV for Sakura Nagashi below.
UPDATE 1 (11/18/12): Added Evangelion 3.0 TV Spot 4 which uses Sakura Nagashi as the BMG.
Sort of. Castella In Theory: The Worst Of Derek Russell (We Always But We Never) has been turn into a printed book thanks to the brilliant guys and gals over at Blurb.com! Blurb allows people to publish myriad types of books from photo books to novel and more with various options on paper, covers, sizes, and the like. A really great site for up-in-coming writers or oldhands. Blurb.com allow content creators to keep full rights to their works as well! Found here and here. And you can also sell your book in their bookstore and earn profit off it! It's free to join and add stuff so give it a try!
That said you purchase a physical copy of Castella In Theory: The Worst Of Derek Russell (We Always But We Never) here for only $8.45 (softcover). The Worst of Derek Russell is a character drama about high school delinquent Derek Russell trying to manage through the all the boredom and problems of his life through music, drugs, and sarcasms. The story is divided into to two parts, with the first half opting for a dialog/monologue-only style and the second half in a more traditional style.
P.S.: You can still download a the pdf version of the story from my blog here or find the other Castella In Theory stories archived here.
UPDATE 1 (11/23/12): My book came today! In retrospect, I should've moved the title to the center of cover or used the above picture. Just a horrible use of space right there, well, next time. I've added pics below.
I've been playing through Super Mario Bros., All Stars Edition, for the last two or three weeks and I finally beat it today! This is my first time ever beating it. 8-3 was giving me such a hard time with all those hammer brother. I was trying to get past that stage for the better part of a week. I beat the Lost Levels two ago and decided to try the original now. Yay. Later I'll Super Mario Bros. 2, but now I'm satisfied.
Version 5.2.0.0 greatly updated Shoy Schot! adds general fixes and additions to the overall package. The short list of additions include:
Greatly Updates Shoy Schot!
Adds New Hard AI: CPU PLAYER: ELSA
Overall AI Improvements
Artificial Errors
Better Handling of Discard
Chance of Inspiration
Cleaner Interface
5x5 Game Board
More Game Modes
Unlimited Deck CPU vs.CPU
World Tour CPU vs. CPU
Best Of... Mode
(Robust) Tournament Mode
Stats
Accomplishments
Stand-alone Basework
Extra Secrets
More Grammar Fixes
A Ton of Minor Fixes and Additions
I also want to add as a special treat: How to quickly skip to the Epilogue of Still Here After Wednesday Night and quick access to Shoy Schot! Cheat. In Still Here, at the very beginning of a new game or new game + cheatcodes may be entered. To do this simply start a new game or new game + and don't move from that spot! Instead type in CHEAT and you should hear a beep. Voila. To skip to the Epilogue type in NE after CHEAT. You should hear another beep if successful. To quickly unlock Shoy Schot! type in SS after CHEAT. You should hear another beep if successful.
Ex. >Cheat (beep)
>SS (beep)
Have fun with the new update. Read the Special Message in the game (go to the About section within the Main Menu).
Download from Log: Here
Go to Still Here After Wednesday Night Page: Here
Version 5.1.0.0 is a huge update for Still Here After Wednesday Night. It adds two major features and well as a slew of additions and fixes.
The first of the major features and most visible is The Little Sheep Arcade. The Little Sheep Arcade house the fully featured Virtual Gaia Games Matching! minigame and maybe even more(?). The additional of the Little Sheep Arcade now only bring with it an entirely new and different gaming experience from the main game but also increases the overall playable content of the game by over 65%! And that's taking into account the Main Game + the unlockable Epilogue (which you should play)!
The second major feature to the update is the Ability to Back-up and Retrieve System Data. This feature can be found under the options menu. What this means is that when a future a future update rolls around you no longer have to sacrifice your hard earned Accomplishments or reset you configurations over again. Now when a new update comes, all you have to do is go to this option, back-up your system somewhere, install the new update, and retrieve your old system data from the new version of the game. This feature can also be used to set this game up on different computer. No need to unlock things you've already unlocked.
Finally, and like always, there been fixes to small issues, such as grammar/spelling errors, a minor fix to the cheatcode input, and a fix to the quicksave (Sav##) error at the end of the Epilogue (seriously, play it--it's not that hard to unlock).
I’m finally done making my Text-Based Adventure: Still Here After Wednesday Night (Version 5). I want to give a very special thanks to my Quality Assurance Team. Thank you very much fo helping me out. To keep this short here is the features list:
New Game +
33 Accomplishments!
Redesign Main Menu
Filing System! Keep Notes and Letters With You!
Game Options
Ability to Manually Change Save Location
Unlockable Epilogue With Multiple Endings
Secret Events And Hidden Features!
A Ton of Secrets
Check for Data has Evolved! Now Shows Save Information!
Has a Real Icon Now!
Improved Error Checking
Improved Balancing
Special Messages from Creator
New Actions Added
More Think Monologues
Time Errors and Other Related Problems Fixed
Switched Room Error Fixed
Hole Error Fixed
A Ton of Minor Fixes and Additions
UPDATE 1 (5/15/12): Production notes are up: Here.
Have fun with it. If there ae any lingering problems: DO NOT TELL ME UNTIL JULY 28, 2012—I’m serious. I need a break from this. Anyway, I hope you all like it. Here is where you can download it:
Last few notes. To the QA Team… Remember that idea you had about the Creepy Doll. I added a special hidden scene. Also, to everyone. I might upload all my notes to this page to show all that went in to this little thing. Production notes are up: Here.
Production Time Frame: October 21, 2011-April 23, 2012. Main Game ~ 3 to 7 weeks; Epilogue ~ 3 to 4 months
I'll be brief. I forgot to post that Nintendo revealed in will release Hironobu Sakaguchi's The Last Story Stateside! It's due sometime in Q3 of this year. Operation Rainfall worked!
I'll be brief. Hooray! Atlus has announced that it with be releasing Persona 4: Arena, Persona 4 based fighting game, Stateside this Summer! Yeah! The story is being done by the Persona Team and the gameplay is being handled by the awesome guys at Arc System Works (BlazBlue and Guilty Gear fame). Great News--I'm so tired. Good night.
In other gaming news...The demo for the new SSX released to today on PS3 and X360! Double Yay!
Boss: "There's a saying in the Orient: 'Loyalty to the end.' Do you know what it means?"
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Okay, school's been really tough this new semester and I've been working like crazy to keep up with the demand and that will most likely continue throughout the semester. This blog might go through some dry spells again. What can I do? I need to get my degree.
Anyways, last weeks (or earlier this week--it's all starting to blend in) Capcom announcing Resident Evil 6, but to with some little press release, but one of the most exciting and awe-inspiring trailers I've seen in long while. I'll keep this short as most of the gaming site on the Internet have cover this in extensive detail. It looks awesome! Like revitalizing the franchise (cough, cough, like RE4, cough) awesome. The game will one of my personal favorites RE protagonist Leon S. Kennedy, Chris Redfield, and mystery third guy. It aims to blend classic RE horror with the action-pack-ness of RE5. I'm thinking Leon section will play like RE4 (a good blend of horror and action) and Chris' part will like RE5 (action-packed block buster movie). It looks really good. Also, normal zombies are finally back!
Today Mars Volta announced the name, Noctourniquet, and date, March 26th 2012, of their next album, as well as the track list. I'm super excited about this album. I can't wait to hear more. Check TheMarsVolta.com and back here for more details in the coming weeks.
Short but sweet post! A sequel to the amazing Eureka Seven anime was announced Friday entitled: Eureka Seven: Astral Ocean! It going to be about a youth named Ao who set 'destiny' in motion again when he held the 'power.' Both a manga and anime series will be produced for January and April 2012, respectively. This is great end of the year news! Check out Eureka Seven: Astral Ocean website here.
P.S.: I know what The New Year's Best Quote of the Week is going to be!
Last month my blog reached a magical 777 hits! A crazy 418 more hits then my blog has ever reached in a single month! Also, 777--that's pretty special. Yay!
Has nothing to do with my story, but I'm loving this song.
Hey, Vahsol here. I just finished the fourth installment of Castella. This time it's the promised light story. It's just a fun tale of rumors and the crazy kids at Castella High. That's it. Please read, enjoy, comment.
Lastly, I'm seriously going to take a break from writing Castella for awhile. At least until 2012 (I'm thinking summer), so I can focus more on other projects, school, and work. Mata ne!
Very short musica es musica: I love the song, especially the strong refrain, and the video is unique and interesting. Watch the video, buy the single or the album: Mylo Xyloto.
This has been a big week for Persona and its fans with not one or two games announced but three as well as the launching of a new Persona website! Japanese magazine Famitsu broke the story this week with their interview with Persona 3 and 4’s director Katsura Hashino. The new games are: Persona 4: The Golden, Persona 4: The Ultimate in Mayonaka Arena, and the now 100% confirmed Persona 5. Hit the jump for a ridiculous amount of news and information and pictures!
UPDATE 1 (9/9/11): The debut trailer for Persona 4: The Ultimate in Mayonaka Arena has released! Find it after the jump near the bottom of the page.
Hey, guys, I just finished the third story of Castella in Theory: Self-Righteous Suicide (in just under 2 weeks. Only 11 days!), it's a continuation of the first story. It takes two months after Ecila's passing and is about how Greg is dealing or not dealing with her death. I don't think that summary quite fits, but it's okay. Please read and comment! Hope you enjoy. The link for the story is below.
I'm so glad I now know I can write a full story in less than 14 months or even less than a month! The first story actually took 30 days to complete. Fun fact: this story was originally going to be the second story, but I was having a lot of trouble writing the opening scene and had just come up with some ideas for the current second story and thought that that story was going to be an easier write. Wrong! Anyway, here's the third story.
This story can be surreal at times--this is just the picture to use
After God knows how long, Galaxy Express 999 and it's sequel Adieu Galaxy Express 999 have finally been given another American release with both Japanese and English voice! I'm so happy. These are two great films and deserve being watched whether or not you like anime. If you like film in general or a good heart wrenching story -- buy it. The are both cheap at only $17.99 each. No one knows how completely jacked I am right. I needed this. Amazon links below!
UPDATE 1 (7/26/11): Deepdisount.com is even cheaper with Galaxy Express 999 at $14.71 and Adieu Galaxy Express 999 at $11.99. Also, for those who don't know, Deepdisount.com has free standard shipping on all items and Amazon has free standard shipping on all orders exceeding $25.
UPDATE 2: Amazon lowered the price of Adieu Galaxy Express 999 from $17.99 to $16.99. Deepdisount.com still has the best deal.
