Death?

You know, I’ve always been wondering what will happen once a person reaches death. I know it’s a topic no one wants to talk about but I have a few things. Now, I am a Christian, so my first point is that people will either go to heaven or to hell. Now, of course we always can argue how we have evidence compared to faith blah blah, but I presume we don’t need to get into that. Second, we could simply be wiped out. Kinda like shutting down a computer, once it is off, it can’t do anything. Think about it this way, we can all just be laying down on a couch, fall asleep, and then all of a sudden boom, nothing, we forget about our memories about life we earned, darkness forever, no interactions beyond death. Now, I’ve got one more question. If we have a “spirit” inside of us, why do we need a brain? Think about this scientifically now. The brain’s cells collect information and makes connections with other things, and that’s how we learn. Our brain also controls us ourself. If we were to remove our brains, nothing would function with us, so the idea of an afterlife in which we exist without brains is kinda out of the question, which eliminates us going to heaven or hell (I know I’m contradicting myself saying I’m a Christian and using this theory, but I kinda think this is true. And my third theory. Think about this, how were we born into existence in the first place? We just kind of “appeared” once we were born. We didn’t get to “choose” who we were, or know our parents before we came into existence, it just kind of happened. So what if, when we die, we disappear as stated in my second theory, but now we start a new life, as some new person coming into the world? I am edging more to this theory because the way we came into existence in the first place makes as little sense as knowing how space was created in the first place, plus when we die, won’t living eternally as us be kind of boring? That pretty much sums up this post. Just thought I’d bring that out there, hear other people’s voices, opinions, shout-outs, whatever. I tried to make this as unbiased as possible, but bringing up Christianity was something I had to do to get my message out.

In other news, I pulled out Game Maker 5.3A today, got Purper off of one of my archive disks, and modified it a bit to my liking and played. Purper is a Real Time Strategy (RTS) game that plays pretty well. Now that I understand GML, I could modify this game with ease. The only problem was figuring out the translations to the meanings of the variables set. They were either in German or French, not sure exactly, but it’s a fun game nonetheless.

The Big Gap

This blog may become another useless blog that starts off as active and dulls down to nothing. I know I said I’d go longer, but as you obviously can see I am literally posting monthly. So what’s been happening recently?

First, Z-Gamers has developed in the last few weeks. We now have three other members which help contibute. We also have some new games come this time around. We have Button Hero 2, some updates to Fighter’s field and Z-Tower Defense, and the start of Virus Attack and MegaLoManium.

School is starting again, so I don’t have much time to do anything at home and on the computer anymore. I haven’t been doing much on Fiesta either.

I’m only level 58. I could be level 60, but I don’t have any time to do anything, and I put Game Maker over Fiesta often.

It seems like I am liking Game Maker too much, but we’ll see what happens. Hopefully you’ll still hear from me on occasion.

Also, I am loving the Space Odyssey books. I just picked this book off of my school’s library shelf, started reading it, and got hooked. Reading 2001 A Space Odyssey now, but read 2010 odyssey two already.

Fighter’s Field Game Starting

So, it’s been close to a month since I’ve posted, but I haven’t been very active on here only due to the fact that I have been working on this new game and playing Fiesta often. It seems that I am becoming much better and more efficient at coding with GML, and it’s a matter of time before I start working on 3D games. (I have recently learned how to make an online game, so all that’s left is to make 3D games) Now that I have pretty much mastered everything about Game Maker, it’s going to be time to start putting it to good use. Right now, this is a very simple version of what my game is going to be like. (It is based off of Fiesta completely) It is at the moment a simple game where you can kill various enemies and participate in “kingdom quests” and do a “job change” quest, just like Fiesta (Except from my own perspective). Basically you choose from one of the four classes, Rogue (Basically a replacement name for Cleric), Fighter, Mage, and Archer. Probably the most interesting ones are Mage and Archer since you aim your attacks and magic. Fighters are just really powerful and Rogues can heal themselves. I continuously update this game, but please check it out, it is quite fun. You can head over to http://sigonasr2.servegame.org/zgamers/MiniRPG/fightersfield.php to download the game. Updated it this morning with EXP fixes, (You get less if you fight enemies too weak or too strong, just like Fiesta) Game Speed fixes for first kingdom quest. Also there are now notification icons on the right hand side every once in awhile when you level. These let you know what new things you can do or letting you know what’s happening.

In other news, I’m level 54 on my cleric now in Fiesta. Pretty decent. It’s getting pretty tough to level now. I want to save my quests, but grinding is just plain crazy. Asaph also handed over RadiantDawn to me and now seems to regret it a bit. Oh well, I’m the guild master now, so I call the shots.

School starts in a few days. Can’t wait, and kind of down at the same time. It’s like you miss school, but you just can’t go back just yet. Since school starts earlier now, that feeling is starting to happen more often.