Yea.. I've been pretty busy lately, not to mention that I'm in the final year at college and THE exam is knocking at my door. I went from forum trolling to playing DotA pretty frequent, almost every day. I still come here to see if anything new is "in the house" but it seems that the game info is in a blank point 'till the US&EU release. I didn't manage to get a new PC in the end but I got me a new pair of C1rca shoes and zip hood Better than nothing! Damn..school sucks.. Oh and...

I was reading a EuroGamer article of Diablo 3 and while reading, I started thinking about Shmak's aggro system revisions. Kinda of disjointed topics, but I tend to connect things that aren't there.

I was thinking about how I mentioned in a comment about being able to strike enemies from multiple angles and attacking them at certain parts of their bodies, which, in turn, affects the amount of damage that is dealt.

That lead me to think about how that system could be built...

Well, this monday our JV football team had a game and one of my teammates who went was this kid Ryne Dougherty. He just returned to practice this week after a concussion he got three weeks ago. I was practicing with the varsity but from what I understand, he tackled someone and suffered a brain hemorrhage.

He was taken to the hospital and was operated on to relieve the pressure. But I just caught wind that he was declared dead at 7pm. It's really depressing. I was going to see him today...

Let me preface this entry by saying that I enjoy MMO games. I am convinced that this genre will open up all kinds of new things to players. That said, the following things (and most of the things in this blog) are gripes I (and a few other players hopefully) have with most of the games out there. But this is not about griping, Its about presenting a problem and proposing a solution. I enjoy trying to solve these problems, not necessarily explaining the problems themselves (though it is necessary...

Senryth walked along the straight path. Grass was on both sides and trees beyond that. He stuck his arm out and examined his armor.

He inherited his armor from his Father, A retired Gladiator. It was all black, with gold detail. He didnt believe in wearing a helmet unless there was a serious battle approaching. So he let his long black hair flow over his shoulder plates. His Halbred was also black and gold and it had a Asmodian flower attactched to it, The flower glowed when...