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Zombie Creator

Happy Halloween everyone :)

My gift to you is Zombie Creator dot com! Turn your usually beautiful face into a decrepit zombie :)

Made with ZombieCreator.com

Also check it out on newgrounds if you’re of the voting type: http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/552036

I’ve really enjoyed seeing everyone’s creations in the gallery.  Really cool to see some people use this :)

There’s still lots to be done with the website PHP stuff and adding more zombie features.  I’m hoping to at least commit to adding a few new things each week.  I owe it to the horde.

Commando Drop

A game I worked on has dropped onto newgrounds.  Check it out here: http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/552040

It’s like pacman except you pick up guns and knives to take out enemy soldiers and then you steal the gold!  I based the enemy movements on the way the ghosts move in pacman, I can’t find the link to the article right now but I’ll post as soon as I do.  It’s very interesting and simple to achieve.

I made it for cutefreegames.com, a buddies’ site,  check that out here:  http://www.cutefreegames.com

If there’s one thing I’ll definitely do better with the next one it’s the level designs.  It ended up a bit rushed but I’ll make up for it with the next one :)

Sketch Mine

Ack!  Sketch Mine is completely wrecked.  I don’t really have time to stuff around with buddy press so I’m going to slash and burn the site and start it again fresh the way I originally planned it to be.  No signing up for anything, just uploading your sketches without signing up for another website.  I might make it a facebook connect site?  We’ll see how we go with time.

Other news.   We had a baby!  (nine months ago)  It’s a boy!

So not much time to work on any fun projects, but getting better organised every day :)

Art

I’m moving all my art here: http://sketchmine.com/members/thistler/album/

SketchMine is a new website that is especially for lo-fi art.  No photoshopping, no CG at all.

I recommend it :)

Tony Abbott is Iron Man

This will make more sense to people who are from Australia, but if you’re not from Australia, you might still get a laugh from this site:  pollyROFL.com

Tony Abbott is Iron Man

uploading content

I’ve started to move games across from the old layout.   This might take a little while, but it will be worth it to  have all content in the once place finally!  I’ll be setting up a redirect of all the old URLs, in the meantime, play some clown killer! :)

P.S.   If anyone knows how I can change the wordpress URLs to look more like this:  thistler.net/games/clown-killer ,  would be eternally grateful for advice.

Seem to have figured it out.  Onwards and upwards!

site backup

In all the excitement of moving servers I forgot to move the old site.  I’ve been noticing a lot of 404 errors from people linking to the old site, so I’ve left it up for prosperity.  You can access it here.

click here to poke around the old site

click here to see the old site for thistler.net

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Hello world!

Here I am.   Finally going to have a website happening again!   Give me a few days to re-skin and upload all the content.  Lot’s of projects have been worked on since last time we met :)

In the meantime,  here’s a picture I took today to try and win Heavy Rain on Kotaku:

someone chopped up my shed!

Heavy Rain image for comp

:)