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Yesterday evening was a bit rubbish, all things considered. I stayed at work until about 8:30 doing some finishing touches to the bit of the system I'd been working on all week as it's a long weekend now (this isn't as tragic as it seems as I usually work until about 7 anyway).
When I got back to the flat it was just in time to hear the oven exploding. Well, it wasn't that bad (and that would have been quite a feat because it's electric) - it was just beeping frantically for who knows how long, flashing the helpful error message "F7", and kept coming back with it every thirty seconds after being turned off. I looked up the fault on the Internet, and it seems to be a pretty common problem with General Electric ovens that can mean anything from a button's stuck on the keypad to the circuitry is about to catch fire, so after some discussion with the superintendent's wife we turned it off at the circuit breaker and will probably be getting an entirely new one. Which is good news because it means I won't have to bother cleaning it, but I'm now going to have to try and cook without the oven.
And with the weather just now, that means I could probably just put dinner down on my desk and it would cook within about half an hour. The flat is close to experiencing maximum entropy and subsequent heat death - I'm here with a fan blowing next to me, putting my head under the shower every half hour to stay alive. And it isn't even summer yet.
But, good news - I've found an artist who's agreed to help out with Crystal Towers 2. It's Hayo Van Reek, who has worked on a few very impressive-looking games in the past, so there's hope yet for the game not looking appalling.
Further, I may not only have acquired a sprite artist but also a vocalist for my music as well - someone requested sheet music for one of my songs, and after ploughing Modplug's mad MIDI export through some notation software, I've sent it off. I'll have to see how that goes...
When I got back to the flat it was just in time to hear the oven exploding. Well, it wasn't that bad (and that would have been quite a feat because it's electric) - it was just beeping frantically for who knows how long, flashing the helpful error message "F7", and kept coming back with it every thirty seconds after being turned off. I looked up the fault on the Internet, and it seems to be a pretty common problem with General Electric ovens that can mean anything from a button's stuck on the keypad to the circuitry is about to catch fire, so after some discussion with the superintendent's wife we turned it off at the circuit breaker and will probably be getting an entirely new one. Which is good news because it means I won't have to bother cleaning it, but I'm now going to have to try and cook without the oven.
And with the weather just now, that means I could probably just put dinner down on my desk and it would cook within about half an hour. The flat is close to experiencing maximum entropy and subsequent heat death - I'm here with a fan blowing next to me, putting my head under the shower every half hour to stay alive. And it isn't even summer yet.
But, good news - I've found an artist who's agreed to help out with Crystal Towers 2. It's Hayo Van Reek, who has worked on a few very impressive-looking games in the past, so there's hope yet for the game not looking appalling.
Further, I may not only have acquired a sprite artist but also a vocalist for my music as well - someone requested sheet music for one of my songs, and after ploughing Modplug's mad MIDI export through some notation software, I've sent it off. I'll have to see how that goes...
