So summer has begun, and you’d assume that would mean more posting here on my behalf. But, well…no. Truth be told I just don’t have anything to say. Or rather nothing I want to say. There’s this whole problem of me leading a boring, boring life ya see, and kind of gets in the way of me maintaining an interesting blog. Especially with me using up all my material elsewhere. I’ve kind of given up on this being my personal blog right now. Though we’ll see where I stand inside of a year or so. Things can change quickly. For now though, I will try and get at least one post a week up.

Other news, I’ve being super busy writing the backstory to an online game myself and a few friends are working on. Nothing I can say yet, but if all goes well it shall be epic. I’ve put a lot of effort into this story, creating a backstory for each individual team as well as an overall history. It’s taken up a lot of my time and it’s still not done, but soon…soon. Needless to say Remnants has taken a bit of a bakcburner. I work in spurts you see. I’ll work solidly for a week or so and then forget about it and move onto some other project. I’ll eventually work my way back round to Remnants after two or three weeks of being an asshat really. But it *will* get done. I have people waiting on this.

In case you ever need anything to read, I’ll try and update here every Sunday. That’s Sunday, my time. I’m in Ireland, so if you’re an international reader you’ll have to work it out yourself.

And now…to work!

Today is a sad day for me. Why?

Because my PS3 died.

Please, please. Hold back your tears. Weep not for me nor my valiant entertainment system. For we have a new one! And, as an added bonus, we’ve set it up with a 240GB hard drive. Power to the system! Unfortunately all my saved games, videos and music are gone. But it only gives me an excuse to play the thing non-stop for a couple of weeks. Which is fine, because I’ve got way too much spare time on my hands.

College is over, and it turns out I am severely unemployable. All this means I’ve had time to work on Remnants! Jubilations! If I get down to work on it, and skip a few nights worth of sleep I should be able to have it done mid-June, which is perfect. Just before I leave for France for a week.

In other news, my posting frequency has dropped dramatically, and apparently some people actually enjoyed reading my blog. Well, there’s a reason for that drop in activity and interesting content. I will try and post some more stuff you’ll actually want to read as opposed to me just telling you why I’m so far behind on my projects. But my own self-inflicted censorship will slow me down.

For now though, my readermonkeys, so long.

For those of you too dense to notice, I recently placed a page devoted entirely to my writing up in the main menu. A long time ago I used to not have my own website, and I wrote articles for various other websites like Bukisa. Even now, I still write for these websites (Bukisa only really). Why? Because I need to make the hosting costs for this website and I sure as hell aren’t making it from the ads on this site.

Anyway, every little story, tutorial, review that I’ve written has been linked to in the Article page. Take a look, and if it’s not too much trouble, Digg and/or Stumble them. Running a website isn’t cheap you know.

So I’ve been making some small progress with Remnants, though exams have kind of ruinedany momentum I had.

Anyway, rather than leave all the playtesting to the end whereupon an early mistake would mean the entire thing would have to be redistributed I’m going to be playtesting everytime I make a decent advancement into the game.

I’m looking for three or four people willing to do the tedious job of playing the game over and over again. I can’t offer any monetary gains for it, but I can put your name in the credits along with a url to any website you happen to own. If you don’t have one of those, we can work something out I’m sure.

What this will entail:

• Playing the game as you normally would. Save points will not be used, so you can save however often you want.
• Recording any bugs you find, however minor. Spelling mistake? Can’t move onto the next map? Computer spontaneously combusts? Okay, I have nothing to do with that last one, but it’d be funny to hear about.
• Email me whenever you have bugs found.
• Download updates as I release them and play on.

You might have to play the game several times to ensure that all the bugs/mistakes are gone.

Interested? E-mail me: games_at_violentsleep.com (I don’t want spam. You should be more than capable of decoding that.) Put the following in your subject header: Beta Tester application. Include the following:

1. Name/Alias
2. Email address
3. The URL you want to be gven recognition in the credits.

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*I do not condone the act of not paying attention in meetings or lectures and take no responsibility if you fail or get fired.