In case you didn't know already, the original plan for that Family Guy Presents Seth & Alex Almost Live thing FOX aired a while back was to have no commercials, but to integrate Windows 7 product placement directly into the show. This resulted in a series of horribly unfunny short sketches that just reused animation from previous episodes.

Once Microsoft realized that the Seth & Alex special made jokes about the Holocaust, masturbation, and disabilities (you know, like every single current episode of Family Guy), they pulled out of the sponsorship and the special was aired with film trailers as commercials instead. Microsoft still decided to put the Family Guy ads up online for some reason instead of just burying them in embarrassment.

My point is that I made this.

Also, the live action short I mentioned in the previous journal entry will be released later than I'd hoped because 1) After Effects is taking several hours to render it at this point, drastically slowing my progress; 2) I spent most of today working on the Windows 7 ad spoof.

Enjoy it. Savor it like it's a Windows 7 Whopper.

Loooong times ago (2005), I submitted several songs to OverLooked ReMiX (If you're not familiar with it, it's like OverClocked ReMix but for silly crap) and only one made it in: "I Can Play Mini Games Because I'm Single" (a combination of the minigames menu music from Pokémon Stadium 2 and a public domain German rap song called "Single"). I'll upload the others somewhere eventually, but they're on my old computer that I'd need to hook back up.

As of one week ago (read: submitted several months ago but hosting problems kept them from putting it up), I finally got another one up! It's called "Evangelical Mario" (no connection to Evangelion) and it consists of Mario trying to convert you to Christianity. It made it to the site despite getting two thumbs downs, so you know it's good!

In lighter news, I recently finished filming my first live action short film since dropping my college film class because I'm the only genius in the whole fuɔking business! I hope to finish editing it together by the end of Monday at the latest (ignore my track record), at which point I shall upload it to my NAveryW account on YouTube. I shan't say anything else about it other than that it was heavily improvised, meaning I can only take partial credit/blame for the jokes at best, and that it is cat related.

Finally, for the next while, the Webcam module on my userpage will contain important excerpts from my 2001 comic The Start of the Finish.

...with the Star Wars: The Clone Wars Game Creator. I spent a few minutes making them, but made them as almost impossibly hard as I could so it took me much longer to actually beat them so I could submit them. Then there's the ad you have to sit through to actually play it.

But the games themselves aren't the point of the games; the titles are. It gives you a limited set of words to create a three-word title with and I went as nuts as I could within my boundaries. In fact, the fact that there were boundaries made it much more fun to give them these titles. I wouldn't be surprised if the second one were removed because of its title, yes.

First game starring Anakin Skywalker

EDIT: The second game, "METAL GEAR SONIC", was deleted. I WONDER WHY?

I'd have some "real" games to show you (i.e. the Wii one that I really am about a day away from finishing, assuming I actually worked on it) except that I've been spending all my Flash time screwing around with Papervision, trying to make this particular thing to enter into the Newgrounds Halloween contest.

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Are all the others gone? OK, good. Remember when I was talking about how the second volume of Moral Orel needs to be released but the first volume sold horribly? Well, the first volume has finally been put back up for sale in the official Adult Swim store, so this is the perfect time to buy it if you haven't already. If you're reading this and you're of the easily offended variety or you're of the youngling variety and your parents would be upset with you for getting a DVD of such a show, buy it and don't watch it.

If you've seen the first season and weren't impressed with its silly shenanigans or just plain missed the third season, here are some of the episodes from the third (final) season up for free on the Adult Swim website to residents of the United States (or people outside the United States using a proxy with an IP located in the United States, of course) that show how the show transformed after Orel's dad got drunk and shot him and why this is such a special series (but if you haven't seen it at all yet, this is a terrible starting point and you should ignore my links):

"Numb" with optional commentary
"Help"
"Passing"
"Closeface"

...aaand there are more if you care, but I'm not going to post them all here. This isn't a library. And if you don't care, remember that I'm the reason you're here and you're going to buy the DVD so I can get the second volume on DVD. Got it?

If I've left one out, let me know.

McDarnold's: Back in 2005 I got about halfway through the conclusion before stopping. I'd felt I'd gotten much better at animation and wanted to move onto something better, intending to completely redo the conclusion at some point. I've decided to completely redo it with much better animation, but don't expect it for a long time. So far all I have is an outline, the first half of the story scripted and storyboarded in my head, and the incomplete first background. The resolution this time is 720p.

Alias: Sewer Mission: Waaaaay abandoned. Gone, gone. I don't even know where most of the toys I was going to use are anymore.

Raptor Lincoln: The "Intro" Flash should be considered an introduction to the character of Raptor Lincoln, as well as Dr. Bob Qualified and his sidestick. The story from the introduction will not be continued, but the characters will be around in Enthalpy.

Nicholas' Weird Adventure 3: I never started beyond initial planning. I was going to use the SWFZ engine, but that's gone now. It's quite a shame; it was the best 3D Flash engine of its time.

Nicholas' Wiird Adventure: Never started.

Enthalpy: The quality level I desire for this series is too much for me to animate even a small fraction of the ideas I want to use for it in my lifetime. The current plan is to make a pilot (the McDarnold's remake) and try to attract potential investors so I can get studio involvement. No, that doesn't mean that if I fail there won't be any Enthalpy. It means that if I succeed, it'll be a lot easier and faster for me.

That Saunich game: Evolved into Saunich der Hejhaug as seen in Flash animation form, which is a lot better in my opinion. I'll probably upload the very, very unfinished DS version (splash screen, title screen, short Saunich monologue, then the platform engine) soon.

Enthalpy Super Fun Adventure Game, Hooray! I "temporarily" stopped working on it to wait for a release of Fenix for the Dreamcast that would allow VMU saving; sadly, it doesn't seem that release will ever be made public. I'll probably salvage assets from this at some point, but I don't want to release this as a commercial console game without even the ability to save. No, this doesn't mean I'm abandoning programming for the Dreamcast. I'm just abandoning Fenix and am looking into SDL.

David Liebe Hart and James Quall: Superstar Saga: I made the engine and intro, but never got any further. The only reason I ever announced it was because I had taken an Ambien to help me sleep and the resulting high impaired my judgment. The next morning I realized I'd probably never finish and I regretted posting about it so prematurely.

That Wii game I mentioned in my previous journal entry: I could have finished programming it today, but I finally got Alchemy running and I screwed around with that all day instead. I mean... C AND C++ TO FLASH, GUYS. I'd played with the idea of making a Doom total conversion before but decided against it, but now that I'm actually able to port the resulting game to Flash thanks to Mike Welsh's work, I may get back into that.

Oh yes, that Ultimate WalrusGuy Collection DVD is, as I said, coming whenever I can buy Adobe Encore, the trial for which I was using to make it. Unfortunately, it's not possible to buy Encore by itself anymore, so I'm going to have to wait until I can buy the entire creative suite.

Well, there you go. I think that's everything I've ever announced or released unfinished versions of since 2005. No, wait... I forgot all about Enthalpic Comics. Crap. Status: I forgot all about it.