today i picked it up. tonight it is being tried and certainly from a sensory perspective is huge sucess. look in mirror test is a medium success. look in camera test is pending.

apologies to those who were waitign for me to get back onto chat, it crashed and stupid program won't reopen.

also, mood is not sadness, stupid thing won't change.

sigh. will find out at noon NEXT friday if this time they can do it RIGHT.

WHY did we spend half an hour talking through details, hashing out what could and couldn't work, repeatedly referring back to how what was on the paper was wrong due to my inabilities with a pencil if she was just going to make things exactly to the clearly labelled "poor sketch intended for communicating general thrust of the idea only" picture?

What part of "kitty ears, starting in front at top and bottom and curving back behind the actual ear underneath" means "glue supersized Spock to either side of my head"?

apologies to those who expect me online for chatting fridays, most likely see you in two weeks, though i may be on some tomorrow if i'm feeling better. with luck next week's going to be lost to celebration rather than me having precious little to share besides screams and tears.

REDACTION: on the offchance that those responsible might read this and put timings together, it's not meant personally, but merely as venting, because i've been pushign through the last several days quite heavily, and the past few weeks to a lesser extent, on hope about this hood, and so to have so critical an element to the aesthetic be so very very wrong... venting was needed.

tomorrow at noon i will find out if waiting on Evil Schemes has paid off. i'll also find out, whether it does or not, if it manages to pull me out of the funk of a truly terribad week at work... 27 of 40 hours completed so far, and 6 autistic meltdowns. if things aren't better today/tomorrow than they were yesterday, likelihood of doing somethign regrettable is... dangerously high. guts are too roily to keep anything down due to stress. i really REALLY hope that the Evil Schemes pay off.

Warning: this idea is Powered By Mint Oil, and may make No Sense Whatsoever.


had the notion for a pokemon game on the wii, where the wii game itself is just an interface client, up to ten DSes with a pokemon game inserted simultaneously connect to downloadplay the client (possibly from within the 'World' menu of the pokemon games to speed loading), which then connects them up for a multiplayer Realtime Strategy brawlfest with their currently saved team, control system simiilar to Revenant Wings as the most recent version of the system i'm thinking of that i've played.

What the TV (or ideally, 2 TVs) connected to the Wii would be doing would be between two modes (switching if one screen, one for each with two).
1: birdseye tactical overmap. 2: LucasCam filter swinging a point of view over "dramatic events".. which it would be easy enough to program a filter for 'drama' triggers of various tiers of priority to determine where to swing the camera to. Hell, Empire At War did it easily enough, which is why i called it LucasCam

i don't see there as being much single player content to it if any, if only because writing an AI to realtime any of the various combinations of pokesets would be prohibitive, which would mean rigidly scripted enemy encounters with tailored AIs for their individual configurations. sod that for a joke. Be much better as a party game.

one other notion tidbit was a 'tournament mode' for conventions and such where an appropriately powerful wifi broadcaster could cover the convention grounds, and you could preregister (by friendcode, my goodness, every DS -does- have a unique ID, doesn't it? ) however many people wanted to participate, have the thing random-allocate a tournament table and actually have it poke people's sleep-moding DSes to ask if they want to take their turn wherever they are on the grounds, with option of "no", "i'm coming, dammit" (give them a few minutes to get closer, i'd say starts a timer after which if more than half are "ready now" they can override remaining "i'm comings" and boot them back to the pool) and "ready now" to start.

it's not QUITE as enticing as if they made an eevee-scratch fever game with demented social-sim aspects for the option of building your team without pokeballs, but hot damn i'd play it

the Evil Schemes mentioned in previous journal are coming to fruition, going to refrain from too much detail as circumstance forced a LOT more compromise than was desired in the design, but with luck i will still be acquiring a face i can stand to look at in the mirror (custom hood ~_^). here's hoping.


the and: had a truly horrible mental image, the notion of a Transformers Animated docu-drama, "Evaluating Organic Fetishism" hosted by Blitzwing, Blitzwing, Blitzwing, and Lugnut.