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BrbGoing to Sweden for 10 days!
Will mostly be staying in Luleå and hanging out with the University of Technology, but will also visit Lapland and pass through Stockholm.
Expecting temperatures of -30c!
Blog of SwedenThis might be my longest blog ever...
Photos:
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Backstory:
My brother is studying in the city of Luleå, but he was visiting us in Glasgow for Christmas.
I headed over with him on his return.
To get to Luleå, we had to fly to Stockholm first, and then get a really long train north.
Day 1:
Arrived in Stockholm!
I've seen so many towns and cities in Europe that they don't really interest me anymore. The buildings in Stockholm were pretty and all, but I just couldn't get too excited about them. We wandered through the old town, which has the king's palace, the prime minister's house, and lots of other old/important buildings.
Got a wee tour of the area later, including history lessons. But after walking around all da
New Year's Resolutions!Got a lot of ambitious resolutions this year!
These are in no particular order:
• Get a driver's license! (This one's long overdue...)
• Get a good haircut!
✔ Get a social life! (Kinda started on this, but got a long way to go...)
• Get fit!
◦ Run 10km! (Though I'll be happy with 5km I guess...)
◦ Climb Ben Nevis! (Tallest mountain in Britain, but still not that tall...)
✔ Go to and survive northern Sweden in Winter. (Tickets already booked!)
◦ Go on at least 2 more challenging holidays!
• Go skydiving and survive!
• Grow the world's hottest Chilli Peppers and eat them!
✔ Get my tax issues sorted!
• Finish setting up my bedroom/office!
• Start and finish Bullet Heaven 2 or Adventure Story 2.
◦ Bonus points for doing both.
• Finish Epic Battle Fantasy 4 and get rich!
◦ Get EBF4 on Steam!
◦ Get EBF4 on The Pirate Bay!
◦ Get 10 million plays on Kongregate!
◦ Get Newgrounds game of the year! (Not gonna happen...)
• Get a
Progress report!I just defeated the final boss and I reckon Epic Battle Fantasy 4 is about 60% finished now.
So here's a list of what hasn't been finished (or even started) yet:
Map engine: movement, puzzles, interactions, transitions between game modes.
Map objects: Updating old graphics and making new ones.
Maps: making the actual maps, and all of their content, including treasures, NPCs, puzzles, battles.
NPC and other map dialogue.
In-battle dialogue in reaction to new foes and skills.
Tutorials and tips when getting started.
NPC parts and generator.
Fetch quests.
Animated battle backgrounds.
Cutscene slides and dialogue.
Game menus: Medals, Bestiary, Quests, Walkthrough, Map...
Main menu: start game, music gallary, art gallery, options, credits...
Preloader minigame and animated intro cutscene.
Save system.
Kongregate API: online saving, scores and microtransactions.
Background music.
Debugging and usability testing.
Balancing skills, equips, foes, difficulty levels and newgame+.
...and some othe
3mil Damage!I was wondering how hard it would be to hit 3 million damage (for the achievement) without the Newgame+ feature.
I managed to do it at level 40, but it's possible to do it at level 35 or lower.
Here's how!:
•Give Natalie all the Cake (x1.6~ damage)
•Give Natalie the equips with the highest magic attack (x2.7~ damage)
•Give Natalie Hela's Staff to boost Dark skills (1.5x damage)
•Give Natalie Black Hole (500 power)
•Find a foe that's really weak against Dark (x1.8~ damage)
•Buff Natalie's magic attack to 70% (x1.7 damage)
•Debuff foe's magic defence to -50% (2x damage)
•Give Foe weakness status (x1.5 damage)
•Use Black Hole with Natalie
•Get a critical hit (either stagger the foe or use brave status) (1.5x damage)
I hit 4 million damage like this against a Chimera Bear at level 40.
If I had managed to freeze the foe (x2 damage), it would have been 8 million!
Since player damage roughly doubles every 5 levels, 3 million damage should be possible at level 34! (with some luck and lots of p
Blog of 2012Happy new year or whatever!
As I usually do, I'm gonna have a look through my old journals and list the highlights of the year for me:
• I became a political activist for a few months, and went to some anti ACTA protests! Not many people showed up in Scotland though. I've kinda lost interest in all of that stuff now, since I'm not a student anymore.
• Went to see Dropkick Murphys. I should go to more gigs.
• Got interested in upcoming technologies like 3D printing, synthetic biology, Mars missions etc, and the idea of a technological Singularity. Still reading a lot of popular science books.
• Some notable games I've played this year: Zelda: Phantom Hourglass, Zelda: Spirit Tracks, Zelda: Minish Cap, Rayman Origins, Fez, Dodonpachi Resurrection, Torchlight, Titan Quest, Kirby: Knightmare in Dreamland, Magicka, World of Goo, Binding of Isaac, Terraria, a ton of Minecraft, and probably a bunch of others which I forgot.
• Graduated from University with an Honors in Computing Science! My f
Kingdom Fantasies: PrologueThe Slums. A series of Dark, twisting allies that consisted of diseased, poor people. But as with any Kingdom, there was always slums. Always.
Nothing was perfect in this world, he thought. There is always something wrong. Something at the back of your mind, eating away at you and your soul.
He sneered. The Spiky Red-Haired boy with the officer Uniform, standing there in the slums of the mighty Kingdom.
But this Kingdom would soon fall. It would fall by his hands, and the will of the great god that led him.
The boy rose.
"You all, see this as a goodbye gift to the Castle..."
The Red-Haired boy shot a nearby man. Then he threw several bombs a
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EBF4 status report

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Epic Battle Fantasy 4 is around 95% complete!

Things that need to be finished before beta testing:

• A proper Newgame+ feature, with higher level enemies. This will probably support 3 playthroughs per file, up to level 50.
• A bunch of stuff still needs to be translated and proofread.
• Music needs to be added to the game, but most of the music is already finished.
• Lots of debugging and balancing.

Things that need to be finished before the Kongregate/web release:

• An intro animation, similar to the one in EBF3.
• Writing up the walkthrough.
• Implementation of APIs for tracking achievements, stats, etc.
• Implementation of premium content API and items.
• Lots of debugging and balancing.

Things that need to be finished before the Steam release:

• Greenlight!
• Fullscreen settings.
• Ads and file compression will be removed, premium content will become normal content.
• A rearranged loading screen and a bunch of other little changes.
• Steam's APIs and whatever.
• ???
• Lots of debugging and balancing.
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Mood: Eager ~Diamonddislike97 Mar 4, 2013  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Please release EPF4 on steam! It would be awesome if you could do that!
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~xxxTACOSxOFxDOOMxxx Feb 20, 2013
Loved the third game, heard about a possible fourth a while ago and then decided to play the third one again and saw all of this stuff, AWESOME!!!!
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~snizman Feb 15, 2013
wait, so when this wonderful gift to mankind comes to steam it won't be on free to play, but instead on that fancy greenlight thing I keep seeing?
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~1337Maister Feb 11, 2013
Steam, i would buy it without testing.
Wow, would be kickass to have EBF on steam, maybe even with updates and patches..?
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~donca5 Feb 8, 2013
Kupo, you should really add the full screen setting for the kongregate release as well!
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*kupo707 Feb 8, 2013
Doesn't work in browsers.
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~JPVR-150296 Feb 9, 2013
I just saw this [link]
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~bond674 Feb 21, 2013
my eyebrow rose and then i began nodding along :D
also i am bad at drawing so you guys can look at this bad drawing
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~Kallori Jan 30, 2013  Hobbyist General Artist
woah, 95? I really have been gone too long...
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~ZEGMAN Jan 29, 2013  Student Artist
For Steam API's you'll need to embed the flash player in a C++ app so that you can communicate naively from Flash to c++ allowing for the Steam API's to work :D
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