Did you know it's possible to down an apple tree -- or half of one, at least -- merely by the weight of the apples itself?
It is.
Here's the reasons I have been very inactive in recent weeks:
1) Half of the apple tree in our backyard fell down a few weeks ago. Remember I said I was dogsitting? Exactly one day after the dogs went back home, the tree fell. During that week before it fell, I had spent hours upon hours trimming the low-hanging branches, cutting off tons of weight, and then
Bionicle Paracosmos: Enigma Pacman
Inspired by Pacman, taking place in the Bionicle Paracosmos location Twisted Island (from my fanfics), this is a one-map arcade game with a short "Adventure Mystery" storyline. You play as Enigma, a good-guy shapeshifter, collecting energy fruit to get Attack Mode, and earn points to earn more Attack Mode forms and other unlockables. The storyline parts can be skipped and played later if you prefer to get right to the gameplay.
After the story end you can
Attention all Paracosmos fans! Twisted Island is now fully reposted up to where I had left off before the "Dataclysm". The never-before-seen Chapter 18 is up!
Speaking of Twisted Island, Ojhilom and my FCG contest entry, Enigma Pacman, is coming along great (it is set on TI in late 2006 story). The gameplay is pretty much finished; I just have to complete graphics, especially enemy graphics.
For that, the smaller winners of the Beasts MOC blog contest (the creatures used in the epic
Alright, got tons of updates. TMOMN, Twisted Island, Endless Blue, Monster Mystery, FCG entry... tons. I've also had a Dreaded Real Life delay... well, two if you count the garage door opener that conked out, but I'll save that for a later entry; got photos to upload for it.
1) TMOMN. We were a-gonna wait to re-upload after the "Dataclysm" till we finished V4, but we've given in and just put up V3.2 again. See the edit added to the firstpost of the topic: BP: The Map of Mata Nui. (Begins wi
In order to keep my blog from dying a long and painful death, I'm taking an hour or so today to launch a feature that I've been meaning to post on BZP for several years but never got around to it... This is a hand-drawn comic series I began drawing for fun many years ago (before I knew of BZP, I think, though my memory is faulty). It's based around a news reporter who is, how shall I put it... less than top-notch... Originally planned to post this as a COT topic, but I figure a regular feature i
Today the Bones Blog brings a walkthrough of tips to consider when drawing vector art with Powerpoint. This is Part 2 of the two-part feature begun here: Vector Art In Powerpoint: Quality, Inexpensive, Easy. That entry focused on the inexpensive and easy aspects. This entry should help with the quality aspect, listing many important concepts I use when I "coolify", though they can be used for original artwork too. I will use an avatar request from Great Being #1 to illustrate these concepts. Enj
Today the Bones Blog presents the method I use to produce quality vector graphics with Powerpoint. I'll organize this by basic tools and concepts you need to understand, using screenshots to illustrate key aspects. Click image thumbnails for full images -- these contain important details too. Also note the cursor is auto-removed in these printscreens, so sorry for any confusion that causes.
Part 2 is now available here: Coolifying With Powerpoint Vector Art
Powerpoint as a Vector Graphic
Alright, the judge submissions are in for the Name the Expanded Multiverse Contest, and Swert and I have discussed them. We are decided for the names for Central, Industrial, Tribal, and Tyrant; those will be announced later. For the others, we have narrowed the choices down and need you guys to select the final winning names. Here we go.
Multiverse Tiebreaker:
Comment which name you like best for the overall multiverse.
1) Aethion
2) Scionus
3) Olmania
Warzone Tiebreaker:
C
Here are the instructions for judging the Name the Expanded Multiverse Contest.
Step 1: Judges (RKs and BS01 staff only) open a notepad file (or Word, etc.), and go through the entry topic, copypasting the "Multiverse/planet name: Blahblahia" lines you like best into your note file. In the case of a rule-breaker entering more than three planet names consider only the first three (if more than one multiverse name, only the first).
Step 2: From this list, select your top three favorites for
Updates:
-- S&T5 Ranking Poll. Congrats to the ten winners! (That poll is just to determine order of listage in BRC. )
-- Ojhilom and I love the theme of the first FCG contest so much we decided to go ahead and enter. We've got a test level about haaalfway completed -- the basic gameplay is already playable and it's addictive.
I don't want to say too much, but I can say it's set on Twisted Island, will be the fifth Paracosmos Bonus Series episode (takes place after Mindfire in la
Sorry for the delay in working on the ranking poll. We've got someone tying for 2nd place in one of the Media polls. You have until midnight EST tonight (May 25) to choose which one of these two entries will be a winner:
Entry 1: Bionicle 8 Years, by island master, Video
Entry 2: 8 Years, 8 Haikus, by Skullkid, a series of poems in Audio form [Audio file] [Topic with text]
Post here which one you select for the tiebreaker.
Random occurances, updates, and interesting stuffishness: I have decided to change my "every entry has a banner" tradition, and say that update entries like this will generally not have banners. It takes time. But major entries will always have banners, if I can help it. 'Twill make it easier to fulfill the "weekly blog" rule. These will be called "ION" entries -- "In Other News." Twisted Island has been re-begun, and the Paracosmos Tapestry Collection Topic re-revamped. Now all that's left
Bones CAFE -- Coolified Avs Freeware Emporium
bonescafe.webs.com
New website devoted to making my freeware powerpoint avs easily available for all! Been working on it a while; still a work in progress, but the most important page is ready NOW. Check out the:
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Nearly two hundred .ppt avs available in there. Not every recolor or version of the same face/mask is in there, just the best of the best IMO, but every face/mask that's available fo
And the Name the Expanded Multiverse Contest is now open.
Also, there's an artwork topic for it. Post and stuff.
Editing period for the Time Capsule Contest is now closed. Polls a-comin'.
I've got all the info noted in one file that I need to make the polls, except a few technical details on some of the entries. Those members have been PMed.
Assuming I get the answers before Tuesday, I intend to launch the polls then or Wednesday. Still gotta make thumbnail images for a lot of entries, but that should go fairly fast.
Looks like the category breakdown will be as follows:
Media (4)
Collage (2)
Art (3)
Text (1)
4+2=6+3=9+1=10
The numbers in parentheses are the number of winners the category will have, based on the percentages of those entered in the contest. That totals ten that will be featured in the BRC; ten that will be in the final "ranking" poll.
The distinction between collage and art will be that collage is the combining of LEGO-company-produced images into one image, while art is p
Edit: And that's it. A few entries were squeezed in, so glad I did that. Alright, from now on the only part of the contest that's open is the editing time, as explained below. Little under a week for that.
Repub: One hour left!
Repub: Four hours left now! No late entries have come in -- these four hours are your last chance!
The midnight quoted below is referring to TONIGHT now, at midnight EST.
So about nine hours left to submit late entries via PM!
All 21 chapters of the Bionicle Paracosmos epic Captain of Treason have finally been reposted. It would rock if someone would review. (I know some people said they were meaning to get around to reviewing for the final chapter, but the glitch got in the way.)
Now I've gotta get around to restarting Twisted Island and reposting the two Altacosmos Chronicles so far.... and writing the SS for the Monster Mystery Contest... and doing a bazillion other things....
Speaking of contests, great en
Alright, here's the theme I decided on for the next blog contest. This is another 2nd Chances contest and a New MOCs contest. It's the third Paracosmos contest -- winning MOCs will be in my fanfics. Yadda. So what's the dealio wit' da themeo?
Make a blue MOC. Any blue MOC.
It can be a hero, a villain, a morally-questionable, a beast, a titan, a small MOC, anything, as long as it is blue.
The top four winning MOCs will be featured in my next Paracosmos story, Endless Blue (during Bohro
Obviously I failyoord to keep up the weekly blog thing these past two weeks. Been even more busy than I thought and I just won't have time. So for the time being I'm declaring a mostly-total break from BZP. Will try to still answer simple PMs and contest questions and the like. Still hoping to have all this stuff done by end of April.
Also don't forget about the Blue MOCs contest which is still open!
