NewDoodle

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There is a new doodle up, though.. it isn't actually new. I made it quite a few months ago, and I just thought I needed to change that eye picture on the front page.

School is going great, I'll be uploading some of my 3D stuff here very soon, along with a few of my 2D animations (quite primitive, but still, it's traditional stuff)

this was just a quick little post.
-PB

Flashticles

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I've FINISHED! Well I guess this flash could really have gone on forever but I've cut it here. I still have some ideas, but I'll save them for another time.

FLASHTICLES

Check it out.

-PB

Peas

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New Doodle -



I'm not sure why I named him peas, but he looked like the kind of person who would wear a pea green shirt.

I've joined the Flash Regs Collab on Newgrounds. It's going to be a massive minigame/movie thing. Where you have to figure out a murder (or murders...). A whole bunch of flash regs are being killed off, but I don't want to give away any more of the story. Everyone who signed up is paired, one ASer and one graphics artist (me). I'll be working with Kirk-Cocaine from Newgrounds.

I'm still helping out Supa-Monky, and he's helping me out. We haven't really done much for the game at the moment, at least I haven't, he's been working non stop. The last thing I did for him was make him a level.

I signed up for Deviant Art, just because I wanted to keep track of Supa-Monkys games. I've also discovered mr-insomnia777. He's an awesome animator, his style reminds me of Bonus Stage.

That's all for now.

-PB

Awesome Stop Motion

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If you are looking for some really cool stop motion animations. Check out:

-Creature Comforts
and
-Robot Chicken (some violence)

Creature comforts was originally made by Nick Park, the same guy who made Wallace and Gromit. Most of the voices are just from random British people who they interviewed. My uncle introduced me to this very entertaining show. People of all ages can watch it.

Robot Chicken is mostly for teens and up. I think it's hilarious. It's quite random which, as you can see from my cartoons, I love. Parodies are always awesome.

-PB

Grapple Game by Supa-Monky

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You can check out the game Supa-Monky made here.

Stuff I did in it:
-Preloader
-Menu
-Splat sounds
-Guy animations
-Brain bits

It's an unfinished version, but it still rocks.

I'm thinking about scanning a storyboard for my new flash idea into the computer and posting it here, but I'm not sure yet. I don't want to give away too much. Also if I don't complete it I don't won't to disappoint anyone.

That's all for now.

-PB

Hector

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Here is a little bit about the Hector doodle.

He is constantly made fun of by the octopi, because he was born with only 5 tentacles. This is the reason for his sadness, and you make him sadder by laughing at him. So don't. You can help Hector by Subscribing to Pillowbasher :D.

Anyway, I'll be putting up a new doodle in about a week, and I'll try to post daily and tell you what's new. Right now I've created a little storyboard for a new flash (with a plot this time). I won't say what it's about yet, but I'll be sure to post some screenshots when I get something done. The game is still coming along.

-PB

Game Menu

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I made this pretty cool game menu for Supa-Monky



I thought it was pretty nice, and I had fun making it. So if anyone else needs menus, graphics or anything done, I'd be happy too. I'm also doing some sound effects.

-PB

Quick Update

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Not much is new, I just thought I'd make a quick post to tell you what's going on.

As I may have said before, Supa-Monky is helping me out with some enemy AI for my game. As you can see, from his gallery, he is an awesome actionscripter. Hopefully I'll get some levels finished and I'll finish the game soon.

I really want to start making flash movies WITH plots. If anyone has some tips on how to concentrate and stick to working on something for more than 5 minutes please help! Of course the movies I will make will be random, but I want a basic storyline.

I'll have a new doodle soon.

-PB •ิ_•ิ

Black and White Collab 3

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I decided to squeeze in some time to do a short part for the Third Black and White Collab. My part is really short as you can see, but I had fun doing it.

Vote 5 :D

I'll try to work on my game more often, but right now I have exams coming up, and I also have a part time job. Just be patient and I'll have new stuff before you know it. Once exams are over I'll be able to put most of my time into flash and bass.

I don't have much else to say... Just subscribe to Pillowbasher to get the latest news and updates.

-PB

Subscibe to Pillowbasher

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Hey! You can now be informed of the latest Pillowbasher news by just subscribing .
You can also add Pillowbasher news to your customized google homepage .

I'll be adding more news now because it'll be easier to update. So keep checking for more updates and flashes!

Summary of what you've missed

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Sorry for not updating for so long, I'll try to sum up everything that's been going on.

The game hasn't really gone anywhere, but I'm still doing my best to find sometime to work on it. There have been quite a few top down shooters being submitted to Newgrounds lately, and I don't want to seem like I'm copying anyone.

The Trendy Collab was submitted a little while ago, and it was awarded the Daily 3rd Place award.
You can view the whole thing HERE, or you can view just my part HERE.

The Black and White Collab will be done soon, and I entered a really short part, so I'll keep you posted when it gets submitted.

I've been working on random little animations as usual, but nothing long enough to be a movie. I may do a thing at the end of the year like Xperimental Xperimentation, where I compile all my unfinished flashes into one massive movie.

I'm doing stuff for the Loneliest number collab, but I'm probably not going to have that big of a part in it.

Sam, an awesome programmer, is helping me out with some of the code in my game, but he is also pretty busy with his super cool physics engine.
You can view all his stuff HERE.

I think I got everything, if not I'll post again.

-PB

New Weapons!

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NEW WEAPONS ADDED IN THE GAME

Hey, I've been working on the game a bit, and I've discovered how to make more weapons. Before I was limited to only rapid fire, and single shot, but I've taken a few more tutorials and found out how to change the fire rate, and speed of bullets. Your character now also moves slower, or faster, depending on what weapon you have out.

I still have to figure out a way to get the baseball bat back in, because I'm thinking about adding some samurai swords or something.

Anyways, check out the new weapons, I'll be updating every time I fix some new bugs, so make sure you keep checking it out. I'm still looking for stories.


I was also asked to do a part for the "Trendy" Collab on Newgrounds. That should be coming out shortly. The guy who was supposed to do my part went missing or something, so they asked me to do it. I'll be sure to tell you when it is released.

-Pillowbasher

Have a Nice Day!

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Finally, after 4 months of grueling work, the Have a Nice Day Collab, is FINISHED! It was awarded Daily 2nd Place on Newgrounds as well. I had a great time working on it, and posting random stuff in the collab's thread in the Newgrounds forum. Hopefully I'll find another collab to join that I will enjoy just as much. Check it out:

Here

or Here (on Newgrounds if you want to give my bandwidth a break)

As for my game, it is still in need of a story, I have a preview for you to fool around with, there are still many glitches, and it lags like crazy unless you set it to low quality. You can preview it here.

Email me and tell me what you think.

-Pillowbasher.

Classical Music

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Lately, while I'm working on homework, flash or any other computer work, I've been listening to classical music. I heard some stuff about if you listen to music with no lyrics, it will help you concentrate more, and it works! I only started when I was at a friends house while working on my sites graphics. He always plays really bad music, so I suggested we put something else on. The first thing that came to my mind was classical music. So we put it on, and we got more work done than we've ever done before.

If you don't have any classical music, just go in iTunes and from the Library (left) menu, select Radio>Classical. There is a whole list there. I find the older more "Royal" sounding ones are more effective.

Happy Listening.

-Pillowbasher

New Game "The Adventures of?"

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Lately I've been practicing Action Script, and I have come up with a new game engine, and I have decided I'm going to make an Adventure/RPG game. All I have made right now is the basic code. Graphics still need to be improved, and some tweaking has to be done to the AS. The main thing I need right now is the story. If you have any ideas what the story should be, please email me or comment on this post.

Here are the controls so you get a basic idea of what kind of a game it is:

W A S D Keys - move your character around
Mouse - aims your character, and shoots/attacks when you click
1,2,3,4 - change weapons (1=Fist, 2=Vat, 3=Pistol, 4=Uzi)

Screen shots will be posted once I get the graphics done better.

-Pillowbasher

PS: Site graphics may be up soon, I'm still deciding on what I'm going to do.

Computer Troubles

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About my computer...

After I had signed up for ADM hosting, I was trying to find the place to upload everything, so I asked someone on Newgrounds, the guy who told me about ADM in the first place. He then sent me a link to a file that I was supposed to install a program to help upload my stuff, and me, being in a rush as usual, just clicked the link (I later found out it was not actually him, and that he had been tricked by the same people before me). It installed something, but I had no idea what at the time, until later that night when I shut down my computer. My shut down sound had been changed. I quickly restarted my computer to see what was wrong. A message popped up that told me my computer had been compromised, and was now in possession of a certain group of people (whose name I shall not say). After the message it started up, with a different start up sound, and my desktop background had been changed. My Newgrounds account had a new password, and I was not able to log on, or send a "Forgot your password" email. Wade helped me get that account back. The virus also disabled system restore, so I was forced to do a system recovery to completely wipe my hard drive.

So now my computer is back to normal, I think. And I will be much more careful in what I download/install.

Still Here

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This is just a post to let you know I'm still alive.

These graphics are just temporary, I will (hopefully) have the new graphics by next Saturday. I just wanted to leave a message and tell you how everything was going, and that the site hasn't died.

The Have a Nice Day Collab, is almost complete, there are just a few more parts to be finished, and a menu to be decided on. It seems to be going good, you may even see some more collabs from me later on. It has been a great experience and I can't wait to see how it turns out.

It's exam week, as you can see from "This Weeks Doodle". Luckily I have only 1 exam, (in my worst subject) Social Studies. But I also get all of next week off, so thats when I plan on finishing up those graphics with my friend. I am also working on a few games that I plan on finishing soon.

Oh, I'd like to mention that "This Weeks Doodle", does not mean I will post a new doodle every week, I will try to, but I don't usually get around to it for about 2 weeks.

That's all for now I guess, I'll post later about the problems I had with my computer.

-Pillowbasher

The Site is UP!

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HEY HEY! The new site is finally up. Unfortunately, pillowfighter.com, pillowfighter.net and pillowfighter.ca are all taken. So the new name is Pillowbasher, and you can find the new site at www.pillowbasher.net
The graphics will all be getting a makeover and the names will all have to be changed to pillowbasher. That may take some time, but it WILL get done.
I also have an unfortunate story of what happened to my computer, which I will post at a later date. Right now I'm just glad the site is up.
The next thing you should be seeing from me is the "Have a Nice Day Collab". I'm doing it with a bunch of people on Newgrounds, ShortMonkey is the leader. That should be done soon, I'm feeling quite good about it.
That's all for now.
-pillowfighter

ADM Hosting

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Good news everyone! I've decided to go with ADM Hosting. They have some awesome plans, and I think pillowfighter.net will be a great success. Yes I have decided on .net, .com is still taken by some other guy for just a picture of pillows.

Anyone willing to affiliate with me, just email me at pillowflash@gmail.com.
Please send your 88x31 banner, and a link to your site. You can find mine on the left side of my site.

New Layout

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Hey everyone. I hope you like the new layout of the site. It took a while to get up, as you may have noticed, but I think it turned out pretty good.

There still has to be some tweaking with the graphics for the site, but this is basically it. The "This Week's Doodle" may not stay up for that long, that's just there until I figure out what I want to put in that space. I'd also like to fill the space on the left of that.

I'll be trying to work on flash much more often now, so I can get this site on it's feet, and maybe even start making some money :D

-pillowfighter