J. Poulakos II Blog

MMOG’s are fast becoming the de facto standard in gaming. While other types of games are still played quite often, the recent explosion of MMO’s, expecially of RPG-based MMO’s, has opened up the doors for many developers to get into the game, so to speak.

I will be putting together a small crew to begin work on yet another MMOG. I have a basic concept of the game in mind, and have already shot some ideas off the heads of one of my other friends. At this point, I will only say that this project will be a steampunk-based MMORPG.

If you are interested in working on this project, please let me know either through the comment system here, or via email (admin@redsatori.com) and I will give you some more information about the project.

Thanks,

~Jim

I have been working pretty hard tyring to come up with good ideas for the new web design. I started off with something fairly complex, and then decided that I wanted to go with something a bit more plain.

Here are the links to the two different ideas I have. Don’t mind their plainness, as I have yet to finish making the template engine information for them. I also need to give them some more information, but as templates, they seem fairly decent.

First Attempt

Second Attempt

All feedback would be appreciated. Thanks,

~Jim

I am starting a new session at DeVry University. The course I am taking this session is GSP130: System Architecture and Assembler. I will post some nifty assembly code if I can find the time. Otherwise I will stick mostly to creating more tutorials for XNA and other languages/frameworks.

If you are coming to this blog from the GSP program at DeVry, I welcome you. I also apologize for the delays in getting everything up and running smoothly. Give me a little bit and things will look right.

~Jim

[New Age Expressionism]

This afternoon while I was working, I noticed that one of my co-workers had been messing around with some of the lumber I had stacked up on one of my pallets. I also noticed that it looked vaguely familiar…

I then compared it to:

And then I realized that one of my co-workers was a new age expressionist. He thinks I was joking when I said I would blog about it, but alas, I never kid about such things. Hope you enjoy!

I thought this story was quite funny. You should go read it because I said so:

http://www.thetolkienforum.com/showthread.php?t=18654

The first thing I really need to figure out is a new color scheme and logo for Red Satori. I have a few ideas I have jotted down in my sketch book for the purpose of a logo. I should be getting to that in the next day or so. I want it to be fairly simple, while at the same time showing the complexity of both myself and what I do.

As to color schemes, since I have red in my site’s name, I am thinking of using a dark red color on the site. I am thinking that a black and dark red combination would be fairly useful, and it would allow me to change the entire look of what I am doing, without really having to change too much of the content to do so.

I will be rebuilding the forums from scratch as well, in order to make it easier to use from my perspective. This will most likely take some time, and I will be adding features to the forums as I deem it necessary. While using a pre-made forum solution will remove a lot of the headaches, I don’t have nearly as much control over what is going on with those that I would like to have.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks to all who are concerned.

~Jim

I have recently switched over to a new hosting service and registrar for all of my domains. While I was originally going to just copy everything over to the new host, I have decided to redesign the entirety of both sites from scratch. Please check back for more information on the progress this is taking, as well as to have a chance to offer input on various design choices I may be putting up for users to decide upon.

Thanks,

Jim