Looking Back at 2009, Looking Forward to 2010
Wednesday, January 06, 2010
This past year has been a notable one for me personally, and for the ScruffyDragon team as a whole. I know you've probably had your fill of "end of the year"/"end of the decade" posts, so I'll try not to bore you with that (much), and instead focus on my plans for the new year.
But first, a brief recap on 2009:
- In January, as part of last year's "12 Days of Christmas", BobStarsky and I released Savage Hulk
- In April, as part of our Scruffyversary event, I released the first public version of Parasite, updated betas of Elektra and Sinestro, and "remixes" of both Green Lantern Hal Jordan and Ice
- In May, I picked up a great new partner for Parasite work, in the form of Jet the Phoenix
- Things got quiet for a little while, until I got an idea for a new "Blackest Night" edition of Hal Jordan. That effort is still ongoing, and should bear fruit soon.
Now, here are my goals for 2010:
- Blackest Night Hal Jordan (here's a list of the planned changes)
- Mandarin needs my attention before the new Iron Man movie comes out in May. At least a beta if not more.
- I'll be assisting the SGM team with the coding on tenchimuyo4ever's Green Skull character (he's an Amalgam of Red Skull and Lex Luthor; how could I say no? ;))
- Get Sinestro to a 1.0-level release before the end of the Blackest Night crossover.
- XFields and I are planning to work together again on Elektra, and bring her up to that 1.0 level as well.
- Finally get to that Marrow remix I had planned two years ago
- Invisible Woman: maybe, maybe not. Honestly I'm not very motivated to work on her right now.
- Bizarro: possibly collaboration with Kal-Elvis will re-ignite my enthusiasm here, but Kal's busy working on his music career, so I have no idea how likely that is.
So, that's the plan. I'll try to keep up the pace I set last year of posting something here at least weekly (usually on the weekend, Friday or Saturday), and we'll see how things go. I'm looking forward to a great 2010, and I wish the same for everyone here.
Labels: Elektra, Green Lantern, Mandarin, Marrow, Parasite, Sinestro
New portait
Sunday, September 06, 2009
(First off, sorry for the apparent "filler" nature of this post; the next episode of "Hal Jordan: Blackest Night Edition" is coming soon, but I'm still working out the kinks in the palette and how I want the intro to work, before I post it.)With the above caveat out of the way, I wanted to show off the awesome portrait ScruffyDragon forum member The Arlequin just did for our in-progress Mandarin character:
Isn't that awesome? It's now the image on both the Character Select and Mandarin pages of the site. Thanks again, Arlequin! :D
I also tweaked the code that I was using to generate my tag cloud on the sidebar... the maximum and minimum text sizes were too outrageous, especially considering how many different tags I am using. So hopefully you'll agree that it looks better now.
Since this is a long weekend here in the U.S., hopefully you'll be seeing "Bluish-Green Lantern" Hal on Monday.
-Edit- Fixed internal page links.
12 Days of Christmas, Plus a few new WIPs
Wednesday, December 19, 2007
Two things to report on tonight:1. I plan to observe the "12 Days of Christmas" as a MUGEN event this year. What that means to you reading this site, will become clear on the 1st day of Christmas, December 25th.
2. I've picked up two new character WIPs, Mandarin (initial sprites by McCready) and Invisible Woman (initial sprites by DocOck4MUGEN). Check 'em out:
Labels: 12 Days of Christmas, Invisible Woman, Mandarin