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This is what happens when I have writer's block and someone asks me the wrong question.
Level Name: Woodward Castle
Game Engine: Sauerbraten (Cube 2)
Version: Pre-alpha (Meaning no, you can't have it yet.)
When a little more advanced, I will release the game file so you can actually walk through the castle. It isn't ready for that at this point, however. Right now, the basic architecture of the main keep is finished, but as you can see, none of the outbuildings are there yet. And nothing has been properly textured on the interior. (The exterior texture is sufficiently acceptable that I"m not going to replace it.)
I hope this picture makes it obvious why a physical model of the castle would be... impractical.
How fast you get this walkthrough/game depends on how long my writer's block lasts.
Eric Storm
PS: To avoid any misconceptions: While some compromises had to be made with this particular game engine (such as the stair-stepping of the castle walls, instead of making them sloped, like I want them to be), the castle towers are NOT, in fact, round, and just made blocky in this game. The game can make circles, it's just a pain in the ass. In this case, however, Lord Woodward liked octagons, and many castle features reflect that. (Oh, and as to "pain in the ass", making a 24-sided polygon with this game wasn't all that fun, either, but that's what the curtain wall actually is.)
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Looking forward to being able to walk through it and look around
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You still here?
Hey Eric, Hope you are well. Also hope your wickedly talented mind is working on more chapters. I miss your writings and am forced to reread chapters of Agent of Change and Where Brontosaurus roam in hopes of seeing new chapters soon. I hope life is not getting in the way and if you need encouragement... here it is... You are a great writer and a make my imagination go places I didn't know it could. Thanks.
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Thank you for the encouragement, it is appreciated.
Unfortunately, it is my damned muse that doesn't want to write things, not me. So I'm having to "go it alone". Writing is happening, it's just happening slowly.
Eric Storm
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Missing Muse
Gimmie the contact info for your Muse, I'll get it back to work inspiring you.... need to know what's gonna happen...
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Zmaybe wrote:
Missing Muse
Gimmie the contact info for your Muse, I'll get it back to work inspiring you.... need to know what's gonna happen...
I don't think you want to go messing with my muses. First off, there's two of them; second off, they fight dirty; and third... do you really want to be immortalized in a story by a character who gets killed by having a hot poker shoved up his ass while masturbating into a jar of mayonnaise and ejaculating at the point of death? They're likely to do that kind of thing...
(Because, you know that I would never write something like that unless they made me... )
I have to live with these two. We don't go pissing them off.
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Eric Storm wrote:
... do you really want to be immortalized in a story by a character who gets killed by having a hot poker shoved up his ass while masturbating into a jar of mayonnaise and ejaculating at the point of death? They're likely to do that kind of thing...
So, what's the down side?
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Most people would think the equivalent of being burned in effigy WAS the downside.
I forgot, I'm surrounded by perverts...
LOL
Eric Storm
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Eric Storm wrote:
Most people would think the equivalent of being burned in effigy WAS the downside.
I forgot, I'm surrounded by perverts...
LOL
Eric Storm
--- Always willing to try something at least once....
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Perverts!!!??
How dare you say something like that!! Just cuz we resemble that remark!! LOL!! It's a bitch when everyone around you is just like you...and I think your muses are right there too. Like to think I know who your two muses are so shouldn't be hard to find them and get in touch. MWAHAHA!! We love you work so never worry that we don't love ya.
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Hey Eric I was just wondering are you still writing the artifact stories? You said it would be 4 book series and was just wondering. I enjoyed the first 2. I’m slowly working my way through ur stories. All good so far. Keep up the good work.
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"Still writing" is a very troublesome phrase, in this context.
Take a look at the release dates between Artifacts 1 and Artifacts 2, and you'll understand what I mean.
I have not STOPPED writing this series, shall we say? However, it is not in active development at the moment, nor do I know when it will be.
Eric Storm
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Eric, please write...you have my mind in a funk waiting for more chapters.
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1. If you look at the writing update thread, you'll notice that I have completed two chapters in the last couple weeks. They're just not posted yet.
2. Whether or not to write is never a voluntary decision. Given my own preference, I would write for a couple hours, minimum, every single day, because I enjoy creating those worlds and telling those stories, and I have a lot of stories that I want to tell. But the part of my mind that I refer to as "my muses", which is the part of me that creates freely, is too affected by stress, other projects, and general life necessities, for me to have things "my way". Rest assured, I have never once said, "You know, I could sit down right now and write a couple thousand words... but I'd rather not." I have, however, frequently said, "Dammit, I really wish I could get myself to start writing... but I just can't make it work."
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I read a story on here a while back that involved the use of paired portals. I remember water going through one portal and coming out the other, generating hydro-electric power. At some point their experiments "swallowed" the whole property and the story ended very abruptly. Anyone remember the name and author of that story?
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This would have been better posted to the general chat, rather than a specific author's chat. The right person might still see it, though.
I have not read the story you described, so I wish you luck in finding it. (To be clear, I have NOT read all the stories on this site, or even the majority of them.)
Eric Storm
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Here is a list of all stories containing the word "portal", minus those that I have first-hand knowledge are not the one you're looking for (such as the Woodward Academy series, which contains the word portal, but is definitely NOT what you're looking for):
Academic and the Nymphomaniac, The drgonzo1
Bait and Switch Dark_Brother
Blood and Iron WarLord
Boy and His Dungeon, A Pleidius
Boy In The Grass Magusfang
Bridge Between Worlds, A auguy86
Brimstone - The Tales of Drakara Book I Wicked Storm
Christmas Calamity Corvis
Contribution, The Blackie
Cruel Summer Imagineer
Destiny at Rhen Var Corvis
Fair Price, A Corvis
Just a Taste is all it Takes James Marcus
Khartshma Legacy, The Corvis
Lesbos Crystal, The Storymaster69
Lolita Beach Island MDH1969
Matchbox Blackie
Monster U. Karax
My Girls II: The End of Cycles, The Beginning of K... unknown1000u2
My Girls III: Truth, Power and Hope unknown1000u2
New Gods, The WojoMartin
Shadows In The Grass Magusfang
Talon Saga, Book 1: Heart of the Demon, The Daddycums
Talon Saga, Book 2: Slave of the Witch, The Daddycums
Talon Saga, Book 3: Secret of the Faewood, The Daddycums
Talon Saga, Book 4: Dungeon of the Forgotten, The Daddycums
Talon Saga, Book 5: Fall of the Paladin, The Daddycums
Talon Saga, Book 6: Champion of the Hunt, The Daddycums
Talon Saga, Book 7: Lord of the Harem, The Daddycums
Talon Saga, Book 8: War of the Shadows, The Daddycums
To Whome it may Concern James Marcus
Touch of Green, A Blackie
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I think you mean Boy and his dungeon
http://www.wolfpub.org/contributors/sho … ;cid=10105
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Eric Storm wrote:
(To be clear, I have NOT read all the stories on this site, or even the majority of them.)
shame on you, it takes almost no time ;P
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sermona wrote:
Eric Storm wrote:
(To be clear, I have NOT read all the stories on this site, or even the majority of them.)
shame on you, it takes almost no time ;P
I'll be sure to let my readers know you'd prefer I was reading instead of writing.
Eric Storm
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Oh god you invoke flagelation
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sermona wrote:
I think you mean Boy and his dungeon
http://www.wolfpub.org/contributors/sho … ;cid=10105
That's the one! Thanks!!!
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I've noticed that the pages of your site are not yet secure and my browsers don't want me to go there for obvious reasons. It I possible that others have chosen to not continue to the site once that popup comes on their browser.
My experience being an ISP, retired now, lets me believe your site will only improve with encryption. I have used this service in the past for all " not for profit" websites. Please check them out and if you can, add the code https://letsencrypt.org
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Letsencrypt is not supported by GoDaddy, and it requires a certificate reissue every 90 days. That gets old really fast, because you have to do the reissue manually every time.
I have actually purchased an SSL certificate. Not sure how this improved my website, other than getting the browsers to shut up, but I'm fully aware that the browsers are heading toward requiring SSL certificates to even load a page, which is why I had purchased an SSL certificate for my testing domain months ago. Hopefully I actually finish Pub 2.0 before that certificate runs out (in 4 1/2 years)...
Let me know if/when you find anything on the site broken. Switching to SSL can cause problems with "hybrid" pages, and I don't know if there are any in the site. I am force-redirecting HTTP to HTTPS (yes, I had to do that manually. GoDaddy gives virtually no help at all to its users)
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