The Geek Strikes Back

It's been awhile since i left my blog. Well I've been busy, or you can call it lazy, to do anything. Yes literally anything. My academic is quite messed up, no game finished, and my programming skill not improved at all.

Okay enough with my personal story. It's not important actually.

Back to the business, I've been busy learning XNA and Windows Phone 7. Thanks to my mom from giving me new Laptop. It's I7 with 4gb RAM and 2gb GT 540m, and of course i can launch the WP7 emulator with this one. I named it Sylvannas, such a wonderful lady :p.

I know it is a bit late but this thing http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff402528(v=vs.92).aspx made me amazed. The ability to combine Silverlight and XNA really awesome. I mean, i can make button, awesome screen transition, draw some text with custom font easily (if you used XNA before you already know it was hell to do that). Hopefully i can make some awesome game with my team :).

Hmm, i think i will write some tutorials in this topic, need to increase my skill in Silverlight first.

Okay that's all, I need to go to some place called Skyrim, the people need me.

WULD!

Dude and Zombies

Title : Dude and Zombies
Developer : FunCrow
Platform : Flash
Genre : Survival Shooter

Imagine when you're the only survivor from zombie's attack. Only with your guns and a broken car. You need to survive all zombie's attack while repairing your car. Also to make the condition worse, the car's parts is scattered around so you need to pick them up while running for your life.

Dude and zombies offers a rather unique gameplay. We need to survive the zombie waves while repairing our cars. It is not an easy task of course.

You play as the 'dude', started with a gun but without any coin left. Also the coin dropped from the zombies is very cheap, fortunately there is a skill to increase the number of coin dropped from monster.

The first enemy the dude will face is something like rabbit. I think it is the hardest enemy in this game because of it can evade your bullets by jumping. I've only played until the 30th waves, so i only know about 5 zombies in the games, maybe you can try until later waves before finishing your car.

The first weapon is pistol, it is really weak and the accuracy is terrible. Although there is some skill to increase your accuracy, i prefer to get the skill "Business Man" and "Quick Learner" until the 3rd level before spending on the other skill. Business Man increases the coin drops from zombies, and Quick Learner will make your level capped faster. The are total 10 weapons like uzi, ak-47 even minigun. Also a personnel mine (land mines) will mike your life easier if a lot of zombies coming for you.

Beside the creepy 8bit-like graphics and no music in the game, the gameplay is somewhat addicting. But i think the graphic also some unique point from this game.

Finally, after spending hours to finish my car, here is the final score from me for this game.

Gameplay : 5 / 5

Graphics : 4 / 5

Sound : 3 / 5

Final Score : 4 / 5


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End Of Scanlation?

A coalition of manga publisher already made its movement. They succesfully forced OneManga.com offline.

One Manga posted an announcement

It pains me to announce that this is the last week of manga reading on One Manga (!!). Manga publishers have recently changed their stance on manga scanlations and made it clear that they no longer approve of it.

We have decided to abide by their wishes, and remove all manga content (regardless of licensing status) from the site.

I think this will have impact on the publisher too. Honestly, I also read manga scanlation regularly because i must wait about 2 years or so until the manga avalaible in my area. In worst case, the manga i read will never come to my area. So sad. -.-