![]() ![]() I don’t include all the time I spent on making the game as virtual money spent, mainly because that’s called an opportunity cost, and I really hate when people argue that they actually lost $60k on a game because their salary for the year would have been $45k in corporate America, etc. I budgeted about $6k for the game and only spent a little bit over: in the end, I spent $5,500 on art and music, with an additional $2,500 on equipment needed to bridge to other platforms, such as an iPad and Macbook Air, as well as a GM Studio license and iOS developer licenses. I used the same artist and composer ( Sara Gross and Jonathan Geer) as I had for the Oil Blue, as they both had excellent work in the past and delivered right on schedule. I didn’t mind as I knew Game Maker inside and out, and as a result I could focus directly on the game making process. I know very little code and Game Maker lets me make any game I really want, so I was in a sense tied to that platform. I decided to use Game Maker 8.1 in the meantime and release it on PC first, with a port to Mac and iOS once GM Studio got out of beta. I had always planned for the game to be on multiple platforms thanks to Game Maker Studio, but at the time of development the engine was still in a beta state. You can click these Youtube pics to check out the videos. I was hoping to make a big splash on launch day, and I was shooting for at least $2k in sales on the first few days. What I was hoping for also with these weekly blog posts was a buildup of interest so that people could get hyped for the release. I’m actually quite proud that I managed to do that, since I hardly ever stick to deadlines or able to stick to a regime for all that long, so woo! I was also going to challenge myself in making a weekly blog post that detailed how the game was progressing, my game design strategies, and so on. ![]() The goal was to have the game hit during the summer so I could take advantage of the slow game news/releases. Work began in March 2012 and the game was formally announced on April 20 th. What I really was asking myself was: is it a good enough concept to pin my final attempt at making a good/profitable game? I knew there was a good concept in that game, and with some polish it could turn out to be quite good. This time, I had the money, and I was going to give it a final go. A few years later I was always trying to get a sequel back off the ground, but it never seemed to come together for various reasons, mainly due to the fact that I had no money to invest in the game. The combination of cooking dishes while trying to keep customers from leaving was a fun, chaotic challenge. Back in 2004 I made a free fan game based on ONR that was filled to the brim with awful hand drawn sprites and ripped music from the Sims, and yet somehow it really took off with people. I decided to finally make the game a lot of people had requested I make since 2004: a cooking game that was influenced by the old Japanese PS1 game, Ore no Ryouri. I was making less than a hundred dollars per month on the games I had available, and had most of my income supplemented by my part time job at a coffee shop. I had already given it a go for years now, but had no real income aside from pockets of sales when the Oil Blue would get some attention here and there. I knew, with a sinking feeling, that this was likely going to be the last game I was going to make if it wasn’t successful. I had previously sold the Oil Blue in the Indie Royale bundle and had about $10k left to fund my next game (after burning through around 5k on the game I had just shelved). ![]() Let’s get to it !Īfter going through some development hell with a game that just wasn’t coming together for me, despite the terrific art and music that had already been created for the game, I decided to shelve the project altogether and work on something else in the meantime. This is less of a post-mortem in game design and more of what I learned in selling not only my biggest PC game to date, but my first Mac and iOS release as well. ![]() Today I’d like to share my sales and how I got there, where I go from here, the strategies I used in selling the game and what I would and wouldn’t do again. Since then I’ve worked on two projects, one that was cancelled after more than a half a year’s work, and the second released last October called “ Cook, Serve, Delicious!”, a management game where you buy equipment and foods to fill your restaurant’s menu and cook for people during the business hours of 9am to 10pm. Over a year ago I wrote about my experiences selling the Oil Blue ( Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3), an indie game that was released on the PC back in 2010 and garnered some critical acclaim but less than stellar sales. It’s kind of incredible how much the gaming landscape has changed in just less than two years. ![]()
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![]() Fall foul on a stage or damage the Focus beyond immediate repair and you'll be retired from that particular rally without the all-important championship points. Like the professionals, you'll compete in the full year and drive in every rally. The championship game pummels players through a three-year deal. The main championship game is a gruelling series of races across eight international rallies: Japan, Spain, USA, Sweden, Finland, Greece, Australia and the UK are all included offering tarmac, gravel, dirt, and rain-soaked road surfaces. Also featured are classic and bonus cars. Featured cars include: Mitsubishi Lancer EVO 7, Subaru Impreza WRX 44S, Citroen Xsara Kit Car, Ford Puma Rally, Citroen Saxo Kit Car, Fiat Punto Super 1600, MG ZR and the Ford RS200. Beyond the main championship mode, you can drive all of the game's featured cars, implemented to the same standard as the Focus. However, it's not just the Ford Focus RS WRC that gets this incredible in-game replication. McRae's co-driver while with Ford, Nicky Grist, personally pace-noted every stage featured in the game as he would for a real rally. This level of detail effectively gives players a Focus simulator to take on the rally stages, which are all designed exclusively for intense gameplay. It provides a breathtaking sense of being on, and often, off the road in a fully weighted and authentically functioning Ford Focus RS WRC. Above all, it delivers a game that captures every drop of sweat, the 150 decisions a minute, and the teamwork that goes into actually being Colin McRae in recognition of his three years with Ford Rallye Sport.Ĭolin McRae Rally 3 has a level of visual and technical detail that surpasses any other racer. The Colin McRae Rally video game series has shipped 6 million copies to date and is recognised as one of the games market's most valuable and acclaimed motor sport franchises.Ĭolin McRae Rally 3 makes a massive leap in terms of playability, motor sport detail, rich visuals and the perfect rally car handling the series is renowned for. It's an unbelievably personal gaming experience, as you become the globe's greatest rally driver - Colin McRae himself. ![]() Colin McRae Rally 3 is set to give PC gamers the professional rally driver experience as this massive console hit gets a special PC edition.Ĭolin McRae Rally 3, coming to PC in June 2003, captures the emotions and consequences of being a professional rally champion. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Arcade mode is an exact conversion of the original arcade version of The House of the Dead 2, whereas the Original option features acquired items and bonuses. ![]() There are a few different game modes: Arcade, Original, Training, Boss, and Ranking. Players assume the role of either James Taylor (first player) or Gary Stewart (second player) in their quest to find Goldman and stop the genetic terror that is threatening the once peaceful town. Ported directly from the Arcade, The House of the Dead 2 is the Dreamcast's first light gun shooter. After hearing the news, James Taylor and the new AMS agent Gary Stewart enter the city with their guns blazing. Using the research, he has re-created the horrific scenes found within the Curien mansion - only this time, an entire town has been overrun by monsters. Curien's plans were realized.įorwarding to the year 2000, we find that Goldman has done just that. After they left, he took the dying scientist's research and swore he would see to it that Dr. A mysterious man named Goldman had been tracking the two AMS agents all the way to Dr. Curien, they executed the scientist and left the premises.Īs it turns out, this was their big mistake. Their hellish journey took them through the depths of a mansion full of dead zombies, snakes, bats, and other creepy mutant creatures. In it, players assumed the roles of G and James Taylor, two of the best government agents in the business. This was the premise of the original The House of the Dead (released on both the Sega Saturn and arcade platforms). His research opened a gate to the afterlife, and the dead rose from the grave. Curien, a somewhat deranged scientist obsessed with experimenting on the dead and the living. ![]() S ti 8 PSection 3: Definitions, Abbreviations, and Acronyms Will hi hli ht f f th i ifi t Will highlight a few of the significant addendaĪSHRAE Standard 90.1-2007ASHRAE Standard 90.1 2007Sections New systems and e sys e s a dequipment in existing buildingsĪSHRAE Standard 90.1-2007ASHRAE Standard 90.1 2007ExclusionsĪSHRAE Standard 90.2 covers low-rise(3 t i l )(3 stories or less)īuildings that do not use either electricity g yor fossil fuelĮquipment and portions of building Equipment and portions of building systems that use energy to primarily to provide for industrial, manufacturing, or commercial processes New portions of buildingsp gand their systems Provide minimum requirements for the energy-efficient design of buildings except low-rise residential buildingsgĪSHRAE Standard 90.1-2007ASHRAE Standard 90.1 2007Scope baseline building per 90.1-2004Minimum 14% improvement (2 credit points) isĪSHRAE Standard 90.1 andASHRAE Standard 90.1 andLEED-2009ĮAp2: Minimum energy performanceMandatory provisions of 90.1-2007 andPrescriptive requirements of 90.1-2007 or Energy Cost Prescriptive requirements of 90.1 2007 or Energy Cost Budget method of 90.1-2007 and10% improvement over 90.1-2007ĮAc1: Optimize energy performance1 point for 12% savings3 points for 16% savingsUp to 19 points (out of 100)ĪSHRAE Standard 90.1-2007ASHRAE Standard 90.1 2007Purpose IECCChapter 8 adopts 90.1-2004 by referenceIECCChapter 7 describes an alternate path for complianceĪSHRAE Standard 90.1 andASHRAE Standard 90.1 andLEED-NC Version 2.2ĮAp2: Minimum energy performanceMandatory provisions of 90.1-2004 andPrescriptive requirements of 90.1-2004 or Energy Cost Prescriptive requirements of 90.1 2004 or Energy Cost Budget method of 90.1-2004ĮAc1: Optimize energy performanceAwards points for improving performance rating of the design building vs. International Code Council(International Energy Conservation Code) Murphy, LEED-APHunton Trane VP/GMASHRAE Houston Chapter ASHRAE Houston Chapter PresidentĪSHRAE SSPC 90.1 ChairManager, Trane Applications EngineeringĪSHRAE Standard 90.1 andASHRAE Standard 90.1 andModel Codes ASHRAE 90 1 2010 ASHRAE 90 1 2010 ASHRAE 90.1 2010 The Evolution ContinuesASHRAE 90.1 2010 The Evolution Continues ![]() ![]() ![]() Meanwhile, At The Drive-In reformed in 2017 for a new album, in ter ali*a. That group's ambitions only metastasised, until they went on hiatus in 2012, at which point Rodríguez-López formed Bosnian Rainbows with his regular foil, Le Butcherettes' Teri Gender-Bender, and later began a new project with Bixler-Zavala, Antemasque. Rodríguez-López and Bixler-Zavala exited the group to found their own project, The Mars Volta, a Grammy-winning arkestra whose bold, fearless albums allowed Rodríguez-López to touch base with his earliest inspirations – primarily, the traditional Latin music he'd grown up with – and celebrating the friends he and Bixler-Zavala lost along the way. But At The Drive-In dissolved while touring the album, in part to ensure that their own story didn't end as tragically as Nirvana's, and in part because the group had been engulfed by internecine tensions, exhaustion and, chiefly, conflicting creative ambitions. This town on the US/ Mexico border was where Rodríguez-López first discovered punk-rock, starting a slew of bands of his own before joining At The Drive-In, the project of his best friend and enduring creative partner, Cedric Bixler-Zavala.Īt The Drive-In's electrifying post-hardcore tumult propelled the group from gruelling no-budget tours along America's punk-rock underground railroad of club-houses and dives to something approximating the big time, their 2000 album Relationship Of Command seeing them tipped as the next Nirvana. It was in Puerto Rico that his parents met and he spent the earliest years of his life, before his family moved to mainland America, eventually settling in El Paso, Texas. He's calling from his current bolt-hole in Puerto Rico, where he's waiting out the pandemic. “I always get anxiety about stuff like this! Only 13 records? It's hard to narrow it down.” That Rodríguez-López has struggled with this process is hardly surprising, given the kaleidoscopic nature of his own output, fuelling his muse with punk-rock, traditional Latin American music, avant-garde sounds and an infinite galaxy of further influences. No, the guitarist/ composer/ film-maker/ producer/ polyglot's tension today derives from having to choose his 13 favourite records, a task he's approached with a seriousness and focus that has characterised his entire career. It's not even the fact that he's just released his first new music under his own name in three years, The Clouds Hill Tapes, a triple-album of music recorded at the Hamburg recording studio that's been his refuge and inspiration for many years, exploring a vast sprawl of the myriad sounds swimming around inside Rodríguez-López's head. And it's not the news that, in the midst of his disastrous and suspicious bid for the US presidency, rapper and fantasist Kanye West has tweeted that Omar's currently-inert group The Mars Volta “need to finish the album” West seems to believe they've begun together, stirring a tornado of internet speculation (Rodríguez-López' own response to the tweet is an exhale of exasperation along the lines of “This is why I'm not on Twitter”). But today, the source of his anxiety is not the global pandemic, which has put a dampener on his globe-trotting creative process but doesn't seem to have hampered his prolific work-rate at all. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() We chat all things life before they met, career highlights and lowlights, how body image has changed in the industry, the moment Fiona realised she in fact was more interested in women than men, navigating coming out to their friends, family and Australia, dating in the public eye and of course their fertility journey. Hayley is a very well respected sports journalist working in a male dominated industry. Half an hour later he came back to see how I was. ![]() She then went in to host the show and to forge a very successful career as a model both locally and internationally.įiona is now in her third trimester after undergoing IVF (but not before they had a few attempts at home on their own ) ) He dragged the big swine out of my cell and locked me back up. So this week we are chatting to Fiona Falkiner and her fiancé Hayley Willis!Īustralia first fell in love with Fiona when she graced our screens many moons ago as a contestant on the biggest loser. This has to be seen as the coming-out parade for Brandon Cronenberg. We’ve done some big episodes of late regarding egg freezing, fertility and IVF, so we decided it was the perfect time to get someone in that can talk about it first hand. Riseborough, Abbott and the rest of this small cast enhance Possessor: Uncut tremendously. ![]() ![]() ![]() To save your work, this software has color sorting technology within itself.Ĭreating continuous borders that are appropriately aligned is a feature that has made this software stand in the crowd. You can create creative borders and labels. You can also recover your designs for future references here. This software has an outstanding quality editing and removing features. You can use this cool software for free for the first 21 days. ![]() This software runs on Windows 7/ 8/ 10/ Vista/ XP. ![]() But, with time, it is now a popular software to create creative designs and embroideries. BuzzEdit v3īuzzEdit started its journey as an ordinary stitch edit. Fill it using the paint fill tool, and once it is done, export it to the Cutter. Import the cut design or make one make paper craftwork. Using the cutting needles, the machine will be converted into a cutting machine eventually. You can also craft with cuts and stencils using this software.Ĭut the area that you want with the cutwork tool, and the embroidery machine will work accordingly with the information provided to draw the area you want to be cut. It has the new automated monogramming tool and, as an extra benefit t has hundreds of frames including borders, corners, and sides. You can create your very own design, add text, edit, that too in a 3D designing mode. This software has the latest and updated technology. It is perfect for Windows 7,8 and 10 and MAC OS. DRAWings Pro Xĭrawings Pro X is the software that is suitable for graphic design, screen printing, and embroidery design. This is a perfect software to start your digitized embroidery with. You can view your design in different ways using this software. The formats this software offers are Preview3D, Toggle grid, Grid options, Guidelines. This software also has a toolbar that is placed vertically and manipulates the design. It has a color managing tool, a color palette to adjust the colors, removal, or insertion option as well. The Editor software also has some specialties. This software allows you to see with the actual thread color, and you can also make changes as per your taste. My Editor has the toolbar with features like Opening, editing options, scaling, etc. And all because, in addition to the standard features of reading and re-saving the file, the developers have provided users with small additional convenience. If we look at the functions of this converter, we will notice that My Editor by WingsXP is even more than the converter of formats. If you are a new embroiderer and you are looking for easy editing software for embroideries, this can be your go-to option. The special features have made it a unique one. It was options and tools that have made the whole process a lot easier and convenient. My Editor by WingsXp is one of the most popular free embroidery software. See More: The Best Embroidery Scissors – Top 10 Model Reviewed 1. Here, we are introducing to the best ones for you, that too, completely free. Many software companies are updating their embroidery software and introducing the latest one. However, there are constant developments in the market. There is software available for both machine and hand embroidery.Įvery embroidery machine company claims to have the best software that suits their machine the best. Apart from the designs, it also works to add additional characters, letters, numbers, digitized pictures. The embroidery software will help you to bring up a new and unique design on the fabric. Now it is time to take benefit of the software available to make it a lot easier, less time consuming, and to add a professional touch. If you are doing the embroideries regularly, then the mainstream embroidery patterns might already have been done by you. Here, we will be showing you the top 10 free embroidery software that is available in the market. Have you already chosen embroidery as your dream occupation? Do you want to take your embroidery on a whole new level by adding some of your very own personality reflected and by adding a professional touch? You have just came to the precise place. ![]() ![]() ![]() When drawing with any of the frame-based tools, you can divide a frame up into a grid of frames easily using the new gridified tools. The resulting caption extracted from the Description field of You can determine which metadata field that InDesign uses as well as other options by right-clicking (Windows) or Ctrl+clicking (Mac OS) and choosing Captions > Caption Setup.Ĭhoosing Static Caption from the contextual menu. A Live Caption will update when the metadata of the file updates, where a Static Caption will pull the current content of the caption for one-time use. When a graphic is placed in an InDesign CS5 document, you can right-click (Windows) or Ctrl+click (Mac OS) and choose Captions > Generate Live Caption or Generate Static Caption. InDesign CS5 takes full advantage of the ability to view and utilize metadata that is embedded within a graphic file. That are linked in an InDesign CS5 document. The Bridge provides a convenient way to see files Note, this section will not display for older versions of InDesign or for a document that contains no linked images. This allows you to quickly see any files that are linked to the selected file in the Metadata panel under the Linked files category. By going to the File Handling section of the Preferences dialog box, you can increase the number of pages that a preview is generated for within InDesign.Īnother very useful feature that has been added is the ability to view files that are linked to the selected InDesign document with the Adobe Bridge. By default, InDesign writes previews for the first two pages of a document. In prior versions of InDesign, only an InDesign template provided page previews within Bridge, but now normal InDesign documents can be previewed. Bridge Enhancementsīridge now can preview the first several pages of an InDesign document. Both the Bridge and Mini Bridge also allow you to see multiple pages of an InDesign file as well. Mini Bridge allows you to control the size of the image thumbnails and also allows you to place files directly from the Mini Bridge panel as illustrated in the figure above. Mini Bridge allows you to view and place files directly from a panel within InDesign CS5. Instead of switching to a completely separate application to browse and view files, a separate panel called Mini Bridge has been added that alleviates the need to exit InDesign to view and place files. Since Adobe Bridge was introduced back in the original release of the Creative Suite, it has become a powerful tool for searching, navigating, and placing content into other Adobe and non-Adobe applications. Some great new options have been introduced in InDesign CS5 that make it much easier to layout your document and design more freely. This lesson provides an overview of the new or modified features in InDesign CS5 and does not require any lesson files. ![]() ![]() The character would later reappear in Season 6, portrayed by Brooke Shields. She is portrayed by Eve Plumb this time she's a realtor.
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