screenshot

full view
maybe i'll show you a stage 1 example sometime soon

well, that was pretty silly

after drawing the background there was suddenly a significant lag in gameplay
so i spent a few days optimizing the code thinking there was a lot of
redundant commands like checking every frame for a hidden variable or
fetch an invisible ball that does not exist or possibly calculating positional
collision for all characters

well, fetching 100 invisible balls didn't cause the lag

after some looking around teh interwebs i has discovered that apparently
vector graphics can cause lag, whut ? i refuse to believe graphics that
require the computer to mathematically calculate every double angle of
thousands of points stretching a wide area of effect for every 24 frames
is more cpu intensive than displaying some bitmap graphics

so i tried to prove them wrong by doing so


my beautiful vector, -sniff-
and what did i get ?
oh, an improvement
daaaayuuuum,
but that does explain why a lot of games are pixel sprites

anywho, being stubborn and such i just went back
and redrew all my backgrounds so they aren't
too vector heavy ish

progress ? erm, distraction !

gaah darn

all i need to do now is draw the background,
but, i have actually no idea what it looks like,
i have such awesome planning skills

i am now at the point

where most of the code is stable,
as in no wrong sprites at wrong instances,
no accidentally walking through walls,
stuff like that, you get the idea,
that being said, i'm going to make a minigame so
that you can help me test the coding, hahaha

more of codings

as for something visible
here's some colored sprites

a bunch of codings

it may not mean much but here's a list

fixed
- stop running into wall
- waffle finish swing when attack stops
- biscuit can only smash ground if he's stationary and there's a ground in front of him
- pancake does not fire arrows like machine gun (although many would like that)
- slight sprite problem where waffle is standing in the air for 1 frame when jumping

added
- slight ease (no abrubt stop)
- enemy sight (a bit like solid snake, except 2d)
- interactive crate (yes, you can now smack a crate)
- spring (un noodle like)

erm, still no visual updates

here's some angry birds

harry potter you say ?

some sprites

oh, what have i done

http://www.nanowrimo.org/eng/node

on another note, this blog is running
slow with all these flash embeds

yet another run cycle

progress 1

well, actually i've done a lot more than this but meh,
seeing if i can inject as much animation principles
without compromising the responsiveness of the
controls, so things like acceleration and certain
ease in and out will not be coded in

i find some of those really annoying though, don't
you ? like when you want to make a small step you
have to painfully wait till the character finishes some
ridiculously absurd exponential acceleration curve

another runcycle

dang the jump

jumping should be easy right ?
yea it is

// jumping
while (varjumpfix>(-2)) {
   varjumpfix--;
}
if (Key.isDown(Key.UP) && varjumpfix<0) {
   if (_root.objground.hitTest(_root.objplayer._x, _root.objplayer._y, true)) {
     varjumpfix = 3;
     varfall = varjumpheight;
   }
}

how about controlling it ?
well kinda,

with only one button
hrrm,

a tried and true game method is holding the button determines the amount of
force propelling the character forward, although it goes against realworld
where the height of a jump is predetermined by the amount of force exerted
against the ground

only problem now is how to get it on script

was hoping he'd choose the fish

runcycle

ohloooooool

yea, stepping aside for a while, lolling

hmmm, redraw

going to make them a bit younger
3 main characters for an upcoming project

time-meraga

there seems to be a small slot open
in my time for doing something productive
like watching tv
i wish i have a tv

ohya, forgot to mention

i was in china, cannot update,
not that i do often, hahaha, ohwell

best use of youtube

i've ever seen, some strong words though

flag flag

back in miri almost every car had a flag
in kl i think i manage to count 2

i wonder if that's really his name

oh dang

wouldn't the ladies love me with this

daaaaang

oh signatures

i wonder how much i can fetch on ebay
hahaha

forget husky

i should get this as my first dog
go go tiger dog, raaawroof

oh, first time

i had a conversation with mathew chong
hahahahahaha

whut

i've been jumping through hoops with iframe
and object works just fine, daaaaaaaaaaaaah

a few weeks ago i was sick

so i started playing games which
i haven't continued for so long ago

yea, drawn to life, finally finished you after 2 or 3 years,
cute concept, but drawing on the ds feels cramped,
plus it's supposed to be like a kids game
but the bosses are like friggin hard,
oh, hippo clouds, i'll miss you

oh, woot !

hahahahahaha, finally, the first result in a google search,
which ... would only be a good thing if people actually
google that strange word
the next step is just to make a name for myself, or so to say

anywho, some of you may have noticed i changed the tumblr
layout again, oh, ok, just one of you

so anyway, as usual, i think it's better,
more minimalistic, plus a cool intro post thing

actually i was finding a way to make the slider javascript
work on individual posts, i can apply it on the general layout
but when doing a div class on posts there seems to be some
auto correct function which deletes and reformats the
sentences
iframe still works though, so that was an iframe

anywho, most exciting button, the random button, hahaha
http://koleksigr.tumblr.com/

oh whut, again ?

ok ok, i can safely say this will be the last time (in a long while) the main koleksigr is now in tumblr (http://koleksigr.tumblr.com/) check it out
i'll give you the quick run though of the advantages

like any modern websites it makes use of server side includes (those are php pages which any html is dynamically altered according to certain specifications and fetches, which i can't for the life of me figure out how to code manually)

one html / css for all
(that means i only need to alter the html / css on one page and it is changed for all, unlike previously when i change one code in a page i have to make the same changes for all the others, this obviously gets more tedious the more pages i have)

everything can be edited online
(why yes, super, no more relying on ftp clients which disconnects a lot and take ridiculously long times to upload tiny kbs of files)

tags and organization of data
(oh, server side includes again, posts can be reorganized to how you want to see things, using tags, awesome, when i want to add content to a page for example previously i have to fire up dreamweaver, edit a line of coding, then reupload the new html, now i can just add a post and it'll organize itself accordingly)

auto refresh and hopefully some google
(mmm, now the currently working on is -actually- current instead of a browser cache of the same picture, plus theres a better possibility of it being indexed on google, on zymichost the chance is quite close to 0 because i dunno the code)

an added bonus is that my previous design can almost faithfully be reproduced in tumblr's advanced theme editor

the only thing is that cannot use javascript on pages (darn), no biggie, the easyslider.js for the comics are cool but not very practical so i wouldn't really miss that (sniff), and the final project page which has the prettyphoto.js is still on zymichost so that'll still work

ohya, darn, no iframe, it's not a ww3 standard but i totally abuse it, well i need it for the chatbox so i'll find a way somehow

ah, kay then, longest post i ever made

whuu, some update

well, not either comics,
final project and grad campaign hogging up too much time,
but there was a bit done for the maintenance part,
moved most of the images from dropbox to google,
the unnoticable difference is that it loads slightly faster,
also i think i've been abusing dropbox too long,
plus i got rid of the shadows after a long thought,
yea it looks cool, but it makes browser render the site slower,
but it's the content that's king right ? right ?

long time ago i googled my name

there wasn't much results
just one entry of me getting second place
in some art competition back in isa
after 4 years just for fun googled again

whuuut is this ?! there's suddenly a boom
in people called jared ramos
hogging up my beautiful google first page results
lool
one from california, another from quezon city,
another from philippines and some which i can't identify

anywho, the first result was pern's blog entry about my pudu
which is nice in a way, but i lost my competition page
from 4 years ago, darn, should have screenshottedit

i actually remember

seeing this
after so many yeaaars
whoaaaaaaaa

i've been to a&w

they've changed their trademark glass mugs
to the standard fastfood paper cups
i'm going to miss those heavy glasses
i think even their plates are paper now

besides that there was a blackout today
lightning caused some switch to flip off
the annoying bit was that it was only my house
lasted around 6 hours, that's also why i
walked to a&w, to kill time, hahaha

oh, and somehow zk knows about my webbie
probably the last person i expected to
have found out, the integrity of my
"9 people who knows my site" statement
is now compromised

oh, so sad

eeee

shing shing like my cat and dog
happyyyy, hahaha
which means my webbie is somehow getting
attention from ppl outside dg
waitaminute, what am i saying ?
6 of the 9 ppl who knows my site is not from dg
puh

yes yes yes

i now has rounded corners, how awesome is that,
anyway, i've been reading a lot about iframe and why
it should not be used cos it's not a valid w3 standard,
but i've been using it a lot and it seems compatible
with all the major browsers, so i don't really know
what the big fuss is about

anyway took out chunks from the header and footer to
keep to my minimalistic theme

also, tried looking around for methods on how to auto
refresh or auto clear browser cache so the end user
(you) don't have to but failed miserably
so i guess you're stuck to manually refreshing the
pages from time to time, yea

ohya, if you're still using the old rss feed, do
change to the new one, feeds.feedburner.com koleksigr-twitter

pooh

spent the whole day with a friend from miri i haven't seen since 2004
around 830pm walked him back to the train station
that was the furthest i walked away from sunway pyramid
felt so proud

oh, deviantart website layout changed
looks zoomed in but any artsite that shows more of the artwork is welcomed

ohya

did i mentioned i have suddenly become-ed co president of a group of 145 students ?
on another note, this batch is doomed

puh, school

seems zymchost is down on my side for a while
(edit) oh ok, seems to be back now

sweet peas, finalleh

http://koleksigr.zymichost.com/index.html

whoa whoa whoa, i can't even begin to say
what are the things that has changed since i last
uploaded the files to the server
all i can say is look around and see if you can find
the new stuff on your own
for those using css3 complaint browsers
(those using webkit or gecko rendering engine)
(or less savvy, latest safari, firefox and chrome)
some buttons has gradients, yes, if you look carefully
and other mish mash
plus most of the comics are now unflashed
(nyeh sofia, you has no reason not to see my comic anymore, hahaha)

anywho, totally neglected my responsibility for final project
probably should get back to that soon

site update

http://koleksigr.zymichost.com/index.html

nothing too obvious though
rewrote all the pages to make use
of div and css and totally scrap tables,
in theory this is suppose to help in
the long run

can totally check it out by right clicking
and view page source, or view source, or source,
whatever browser you're on,
yes, very exciting

anywho, just wanted to write something
oh, new favicon too

oh awesome

http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2010/04/adobe-creative-suite-5-brings-sexy-back/

photoshop can du 3d you say
sweet no need to model in maya anymore
hahaha

darn you internet explorer

just realized my site was rendered crappy ly
on internet explorer,
firefox, safari and chrome was all ok looking,
well, opera was a bit funky,
but not as funky as ie
but no matter, i think i fixed that somehow

poop da whoop

so anyway freehostia's ftp is a bit messed up
and their web uploader has a cap of 500kb a file,
now then ben indirectly introduced me to zymichost
whose ftp's ok but there seems to be no other way
of uploading files to their host,
plus p1 seems to be having an unusual amount of
maintenance days causing internet lag which effects
uploading to freehostia zymic and even dropbox,
but anyway just to let you know there's now
http://koleksigr.freehostia.com/
http://koleksigr.zymichost.com/
so if there's no content on one there should be
some on the other

weebly was fun

i kinda knew this was coming, just not so soon
moved the koleksi to freehostia, where i get to
fully edit all html and css scripts
it's like a proper host kinda thing

but at the same time i'll miss weebly
i've had almost absolutely no complaints while i was there
it really was the 'make your own website for the average guy'
kinda site,
but that meant you have to use the sites page builder
it's like stripping down a scientific calculator to its
bare numbers, you're sacrificing advanced options for
ease of use,

i guess overall, i was quite happy using weebly, and if
anything should ever happen, i'll just move the site back

can junk food be considered addictive

according to the article
a few decades ago, the drug cocaine was likened to junk food,
meaning it wasn't a serious problem and a simple measure of taking away
the drugs can stop people from continuing to abuse it,
years later cocaine is considered a serious addiction problem,
now junk food is considered a serious addiction problem,
theres studies linking the addiction of cocaine and junk food are caused by similar effects,

so yea, don't blame the fat people

http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1977604,00.html?xid=rss-topstories&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+time%2Ftopstories+%28TIME%3A+Top+Stories%29

oh, creative suit 5

http://www.downloadsquad.com/2010/03/25/adobe-counts-down-to-april-12-launch-for-creative-suite-5/

i hope they make it faster instead of more features though
and less crash prone, yea, that too
although i'll still stick with cs3
i misss flash mx, sniff

computers are sexist

hahahaha, kinda true though
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/8548131.stm
probably the easiest solution is to just
read the brainwaves so computers can directly
understand the thoughts of people
1984 anyone ?

sweet, i got my bag back

going home from kedah to kl
bag broke at the airport
so like, sad la, my mom ask me to file a complain
so went to some department which is in the lost and found
waited for quite a while and filled out some forms
then went home, later a few days an agent come
and take a look at the bag
oh, he said, see if i can fix it, then he stole my bag
few more days later he came back and said well,
turns out i can't fix it, here's a new bag
sweet
besides the fact that it's like an unknown brand and it
looks like it has been in the storage for years
it's actually much better quality than my broken one
which the agent stole

darn you ben

vandalizing my wall
get off my lawn

6% of twitter messages are in malay

50% english
14% japanese
9% portuguese
4% spanish

http://mashable.com/2010/02/24/half-messages-twitter-english/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+Mashable+(Mashable)&utm_content=Google+Reader

went back to kedah

for cny
there's no internet connection there
so there wouldn't be any updates

this notice is bought to you
2 weeks too late

the taxi driver asked me whereabout
was i in alor setar, i have no idea,
all this time i thought it's just
a small city

burger king fries

are salty
usually their fries are quite unsalty
but yesterday it was particularly salty
in fact i could see all the salt particles on it
burger king... whyyyyyyy ?!?!

on an unrelated note i just realised that
i was praised by a canadian web comic artist, wooo

"Guest week #3! Oh geez, has it been that long…?
:s I adore these two comics, as the first one by
Intruder Geradr is SO FUNNY."
http://woweh.com/?p=689

well, ya, it's a short comment but it's good enough for me
but of course she was referring to this la, not my comic
http://woweh.com/?p=694
i would like to keep my comic like a you've discovered a secret
passage sort of thing and people stumble on it and be like whoa
instead of being forced to go there
or they can stumble on it and be like meh
i'm ok with that too

vlc faster faster

got a bit fedup of how the windows media player handles playlists,
miss my itunes but i don't use it cos it doesn't look nice on the
windows side and i'm an interface fuss pot
anyway, exported the bunch to m3u playlist data and opened it on
vlc and was pretty contempt for that moment,
then came the exciting part
those 2 arrows at the side of the timeline ? by common gui standard
it means next and previous song but when i pressed it, it makes the
current song speed up and down
which gave me a complete laugh for about 20 minutes as i sped up
my songs by a factor of 1.5 or 2
it was awesome, it gave the effect of extra steroids to the music,
plus crack
not all of them had the effect though, but i found it works most
effectively on classic slow rock musics like hotel california
(the eagles) and have you ever seen the rain (credence clearwater
revival)
edit - ooh, riight, the previous / next media in playlist buttons
are actually sandwitching the stop button, oh duuh

new rm50s are fake ?

real or not i want my old rm50s back
http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2010/2/8/nation/5634765&sec=nation

woo, position 263

in trackmania, malaysia
just a bit more
but like 691 277 th in the world
pooh, doesn't sound so hebat anymore

i have failed

in trackmania
only position 403 in malaysia
2 platinum medal and gold for all until
blue flag, 4th race, silver
of which i will not go to the next race
till i get gold for that one

torchlight

is so awesome
i usually have some bias about games which are 3d
because they can never run in their full potential
unless you have a really good computer
but i guess that's old school thinking
got the game working on my windows7
(framerate is low, enhancements are all off,
and it lags a bit when there's a lot of enemies,
but that's not the point)
what really appeals me is the graphics and gameplay
or more specifically the style and the feel of the game,
style wise, well, it's 'stylized', kinda along the lines
of comical, simple, and cartoony, although not exactly,
i always liked art like that
game wise, whoa, it plays like diablo2, without the
tedious and unnecessary factors, a big plus on my book,

PLUS THEY HAVE A PET ! WHO DOESN'T LIKE PETS !
WHICH CAN HELP ME CAST FIREBALLS AND HEAL ME ! WIN !!

whoa, flash mx

still works on windows7
awesooome,
except for the fact that most
of my flash files are now in cs3
and is not backward compatible with
a program which is 3 iterations behind,
it still starts up in less than a second,
which is THE best reason i miss mx,
anywho,
after much hassle i finally got windows7
set up, which shouldn't be the case,
so i tried launching all my collection
of windows programs on it,
can't say i'm not shocked,
almost all works, even those from
like windows 98,
(but my diablo 2 chucked out some crappy
colours, pretty sad there)
so i guess redmond did a good job on that
area (so that businesses would upgrade)
but considering the whole thing feels like
windows xp with a few shiny bits i probably
shouldn't be all surprised
i mean even a lot of key icons are still
win95 ish, common people, you guys are
rich enough to hire a few designers,
anyway, yea,
TRACKMANIAAAAAA ! TEH MAIN REASON I HAS
WINDOOOOWS, I SHALL REPLAY ALL THE TRACKS
AND BEAT MY OLD RECOD OF BEING POSITION
204 IN THE WHOLE OF MALAYSIA

need a new one ? he says

it would be safe to assume there's a high degree
of rivalry between the two CEO's of microsoft and apple
steve ballmer and steve jobs
(hey, they're both steve's what gives ? do you have
to be a steve to be a CEO of an OS company ?)
anyway, i think those students did that as a joke but
steve (the ballmer one) handled the situation very well,
kept his cool and even humorously followed along with
them, and even asserted his dislike for his competitor
in a creative way

do you ever wonder

why all the major web browsers are circle
(well, opera is kinda elliptical but it's still circle)
maybe they're trying to say the internet is round
like the world, hmmm, plausible

played around with

the site design again,
hopefully turns out a bit more professional,
plus it has a footer ! who doesn't like foots ?

i kinda gets to me

that the colour is different for
different monitors, and even more
so if compared the screen to print,
an example i shall take my site, yes,
the one at http://koleksigr.weebly.com/
the base theme hex value is #ddddcc
universal to all my sites and derivatives,

it's like my theme song, in colour,
so like what if my theme song is composed
using a ukelele and then when played
somewhere else they use a drum, not
the same as if i played it back home,
same here, on my screen it's more of a
sandy kinda yellow, but most of the
school monitors display it as some kind
of mist blue, whuuut ? noouuu

but then again, it's a universal problem
all monitors are calibrated differently,
and it's probably like how someone with
lets say deuteranopia views the world
differently as those with normal full
RGB colour vision, i guess it all boils
down to colour relation to its neighbours,

for the screen to print problem however,
you can actually purchase a colour
calibration thingamibob that guarantees
the colour you see is the colour you print,
all for the low low price of 140 pounds sterling

holy sniznicks

spent the whole day making my desk awesome
and clean *cough* somewhat *cough*
would like to take a picture but
afraid my mom would see it
or even worse, my dad
anywho, didn't du any pudu kamudu today
i'm saaaaaaaaaaaaaaad

no comic updates

for a while
working on pudu kamudu
while there's still a bit of time

mirror site

ooo, weebly seems to have improved
considerably in speed since the
last time i was there
so now i think i'll move the site to the weebly bit
mainly cos the flash is more native than in the
google site because they actually don't allow flash
and i had to use a workaround to get it on
two disadvantages of the workaround is
1 when it's loading the flash but you're on another tab
on the web browser it will just load a blank box
2 it takes 1/3 of a second longer cos it has to load
the iframe before loading the flash itself, plus
there's an ugleh white box
anyway using around weebly for a while but the g site
is still there, good thing is
i update the swf from dropbox which is referenced to both
sites so both gets updated at the same time