Great weekend!

Saturday in London was a fantastic day! Got the train up from Bath at about 1pm ish and arrived just before 3. Immediately got lost! Had to buy a guidebook before asking a policeman which tube train to get for the British Museum. Strangely we were told to look for the guys in blue in the underground who knew everything about the tubes! No blue people but 'Assistance' were very helpful! Museum was great and free...although we gave a donation! Brilliant Egyptian section although we didn't have time to get round all of it. Underground ended up being a bit of an adventure in the end. They had shut the majority of the lines due to maintenance which caused a bit of a pickle and police intervention! Overcrowding to the extreme! Leicester Square was overwhelmingly packed as they had shut the square itself for building work! Got lost trying to find the theatre. Turned out it was down a side street! Stewart Lee as always was hilarious. Great venue. All round awesomeness! Had a lovely meal at the Italian next door before heading back to Paddington via the now-open Bakerloo Line. 45 minutes early meant a coffee & hot chocolate before our train arrived! Train journey home wasn't without a drama or two! Jen from The IT crowd appeared to be our train manager, requesting over the intercom for a policeman's presence in Coach H at one point! Delays in Reading as the driver of a train at the platform had decided to wander off rather than drive his train! Overall a wonderful day!
D did some painting on Sunday although Soothing White is apparently code for Grey!! Regarding the game we have found an alternative way of testing for glitches before actually playing the game through. Last week's method had me pulling my hair out! Have also drawn a map of the game (very rough - I'm no Picasso!) so we can keep track of what goes where. Ultimately very handy if you have a lot of levels of different shapes and sizes. Hoping to wrap up the last of the testing this week but anything can happen....

Testing

We've been level testing over the past few days. It's a lot less enjoyable and a lot more tedious than I thought it'd be. Don't get me wrong, I love Lemmy and all...I just don't like going back to the script half way through a level to check things are dandy! Would much rather play it through and enjoy being terrible at our own game! It's further infuriating when you know there is a hiccup but cannot see it...despite staring script in the face for most of the day. Note to fellow indi game developers: when you are on the verge of tears in the testing phase it's time to take a tea/coffee break! Further further disappointment comes in knowing that I am the one who has written the level script and therefore all the errors are my fault! I have now passed the testing reins over to D temporarily as he noticed I was going slightly insane with frustration!!
On a lighter note the dentist said my teeth were fine and me & D are off to London this weekend. British Musuem & Stewart Lee will be waiting...

The end is nigh...

Got the carpets being re-fitted within the next few days. My colour scheme has unfortunately been poo-pooed! A bit of painting to do as well but a lick of pink paint should cover it...
D has been finishing off the last of the levels, only 3/4 more to go I believe!! I've been writing level script over the past couple of days which I was expecting to take longer, to be honest. Once you get into the swing of things the script flows quite quickly though which works out well for me!
Next week will be the last of the levels and the remainder of the script. We'll be going over the level script together before testing to see whether there is anything we want to add or remove...
Things are looking great with the game though! Only tax forms and payment to worry about now!

Fireworks!

Had a great Fireworks party at the weekend! Stayed dry and fairly warm! D set off the fireworks along with a couple of our friends. Firework dance, re-shaped and re-worked!! Off to see Stewart Lee next week in London, just for a day trip. Should be great :)
Progress on the game has been slow over the past few days as we have been packing up and moving rooms in our shared house! Looks like I've got some painting & decorating to do in my room. Yea! Pink it is then...Should be back to normal tomorrow as order will be restored!

Batman over! Noooooooo!

Alas I finished Batman:Arkham City last night! Still plenty to do other than the campaign but it just won't be the same without the story to go with it :( It was a great ending though and I wasn't disappointed. I must confess there were a few points throughout the game where I had to look up what to do on the Internet but that's what it's there for, right! I guess I'll continue with Rage on D's PC and then on to Uncharted 2 which I havent't played yet...
Going to be working on the remaining levels today. Should be done by the end of the week, if the end of the week is midnight on Sunday!! Getting through them a lot quicker with 2 people working on them.
Looking forward to Fireworks party on Saturday! Always a laugh

Batman and Levels....

Now 39% through Arkham City! Looking forward to playing the DLC once I'm done with the Bat! D bought Uncharted 3 today. We tend to use our PS3 as a Blu-Ray player however Uncharted 3 was a definite for D! I played the second one and didn't really take to it. I think I've gotten so used to the XBox controller and the ease in which you hold it in your hands. The PS3 controller just isn't very comfortable to hold and that's strangely off-putting! Being a huge XBox fan however I might be a little biased. Perhaps time to broaden my horizons...
Lemmy-related this week me and D are finally finishing off the levels together. Up until now D has been doing all the programming and code so I'm pretty sure he's loving the level design. It's a welcome change! Only a few more to go and then testing will commence...