Finished BioShock!

Well I just finished BioShock and it was AWESOME (though the final battle was a bit on the easy side). Everyone play it. Really. It was my first FPS, and it will *not* be my last. :) I really enjoyed myself, and it's the kind of game that everyone will think is super cool (story-wise, setting-wise, visuals-wise, gameplay-wise--everything!).

Anyways, uh, back to Moonshadows now! :) Also, don't forget to vote for Module of the Year 2007 over at the vault if you haven't yet!

MotY Voting?

I held off posting anything all yesterday in favor of waiting for the voting for Module of the Year 2007 to begin over at the Vault; it was advertised that this year's awards would kick-off on the 3rd. It seems that voting has not started after all, so I'm not really sure what's up with that. I'll provide a link when I see one.

In other news, I had a strange episode with BioShock/SecuROM over the weekend; basically, there was a bug in the SecuROM software accompanying my BioShock install, so it cut me off from playing (which, when I am at Prometheus Point chasing Fontaine, was not exactly my idea of "cool"...luckily, customer support from both BioWare and SecuROM were remarkably helpful and prompt with their replies via email, so big kudos to them both. Ironically, the issue just outright vanished when I loaded up the game to try out their fix (figures...), so I didn't even get to actually try said fix out, but hey, I'm not complaining! So, BioShock is back working for me. :)

Ok, off to hand in my Gov paper and take a math midterm...matrices are funnnn. ;)

Writing, writing, more writing!

In case the message didn't come across in this entry's title, I've been doing gobs of writing over the past few days. It makes me feel productive, and it's also a lot of fun...so yeah. Also went running today for the first time in about 2 weeks, which felt very good. I think I'll finally take a break from writing/BioShock/The Witcher to go visit my old high school again tomorrow...we shall see. :)

More Screens from Chapter 2

Well, I've spent the past few days working almost non-stop on my final project for my computer science class (designing a website for the satire magazine I'm part of, including submission forms for articles, headlines, fake personal ads, and a bunch of page templates which load information from databases dynamically--it's fun!). I've been working on it for a long time, and my demo of it is tomorrow, and I just finished making the last few features "work"--there'll be time to fancy things up later, after I've showed people that it all at least works. :)

In addition to working on the website and doing a good bit of running, I've tried out BioShock, and I'm completely hooked. It's fantastic! I'm not one for shooters, usually, but this is just outstanding. In the first 5 minutes of the game, I gasped aloud in awe for the first time in my gaming career!

And, in all the rest of my free time ( :P ), I've even done a little bit of work on Moonshadows. I've put a few new(ish) screenshots up, so enjoy the eye-candy.