Reimu Party Announced
Soku Lobby v0.7.7 Released
New Stream Series - Alan Wake
New Stream Series - Banjo-Tooie
Donation Goal Reached
New Stream Series
Posted on May 15, 2012 in Ramblings by dotMaiku
I’m going to be starting up a couple of new streaming series. I ordered some components last night that will improve the streaming quality by strapping two computers together (in a way). In a nut shell, it takes some load off of my main computer (the one doing the rendering) and puts it onto another, which will be dedicated to streaming.
The first is one that I receive a lot of requests for. It is Banjo-Tooie. The first episode of that will air on Thursday at 5 PM PST. I haven’t finished the game, so parts of it will be blind. I will be doing a Q&A while I play the game.
The second series is a bit different. I will be streaming a play-through of the game “Alan Wake.” If you’ve never heard of it before, it is a game written as a horror story. The first episode of that will air on Saturday at 4 PM PST. Be sure to turn the lights off for this one.
Hope to see you there!
Unexpected Downtime
Posted on May 11, 2012 in Ramblings by dotMaiku
The host for this website and everything attached to it (Soku Lobby) went down unexpectedly this morning. While I was sleeping, I received a couple emails notifying me that there was an issue on the machine this host was on. My host provider rebooted the machine and brought it back up. They claimed the “state” it was in was restored, but that is not true. What they did was effectively the equivalent of pulling the power cable and putting it back in. When I found out this morning, all of the services were down. That includes this blog, the databases, and the lobby. Everything is back up now and appears to be running fine. Hopefully no data was lost and there is no corruption.
Announcing Reimu Party
Posted on May 8, 2012 in Projects, Reimu Party by dotMaiku
As I mentioned in a previous post, I will be working on at least one game this summer. It is very clear which game you guys want me to create. I knew which one it would be before I even gave the options. I didn’t really want to do another Touhou-themed project this summer, but oh well. This summer we will be developing a game called Reimu Party.
I’m finally going to have some free-time again this summer. In that free-time, I want to work on at least one project. I’ve already got some smaller projects and non-programming projects planned out. I would like to make at least one game during the summer. There are some ideas which I have thrown around. Whichever seems to have the most interest is what I’ll go with. To start off, I’ll discuss the smaller projects and save the bigger (and good stuff) for the end of this post. Most likely, I will write posts about each of these projects as they happen.
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$200 in Donations for Soku Lobby
Posted on April 25, 2012 in Soku Lobby by dotMaiku
Thank you everyone that donated for helping keep Soku Lobby online. The server was migrated a while back. Now it’s running on a less powerful host, but much cheaper. It was $200/mo. and now it’s $20/mo. – a tenth of the cost.
Just a heads-up for anyone interested. I am now accepting requests for commissions. Really small projects are free. Larger projects will cost more, but the pricing is fair. If you have an idea or want to find out more, check the Commission page.
News About My Employment
Posted on March 16, 2012 in Ramblings by dotMaiku
A lot happened at my job today, and I figured I would give an update. We found out some more information about the new policy for contract workers.
Server Migration
Posted on March 14, 2012 in Soku Lobby by dotMaiku
The Soku Lobby server was recently migrated to a new host. The new host has significantly less resources, but enough to run the server easily. The migration happened on Monday night, and took a couple hours. No updates are needed for the program, no need to re-create accounts, custom welcome messages, or anything. Everything was backed up before the move. Read More
My Employment Situation
Posted on March 12, 2012 in Ramblings by dotMaiku
Just today I found out about a new policy put into place at the company I work for. I work for a company that was recently purchased by a much larger, and well-known, company. The bigger company has been pushing a lot of policies on us. I will leave both of their names anonymous. The new policy does not allow contract workers to work for the company for more than a year. I have worked for this company for almost three now.
Sequence – A new kind of RPG/Rhythm
Posted on January 11, 2012 in Ramblings by dotMaiku
Recently I bought a game called Sequence. At first I wasn’t sure how good it would be, since it was a PC rhythm game and it had 3 panels to hit arrows in. From my experience, PC rhythm games are just bad, made by some DDR fanatic that doesn’t fully understand the game mechanics or can’t write code. And the whole “3 panels” thing made it seem like the developers liked rhythm games a little too much. I read some reviews on the game, and they said it was good, funny, and had quite a bit of play-time. I figured I would give it a try, and it turned out to be quite a good game.
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