Until then, here are some things we may have forgotten to note as of late:

• We have a snazzy new 404 error page.
• Multiple chat conversations now exist in Pivot. People say multiple things!
• “The war has arrived at the gates of Hillys.” According to Petter, anyhow.

Today we welcome a new chunk of visual content to Cheese Media, The Galaxy Song!

Experience an out of this world adventure through millions of light years of space! And remember: Not wanting to learn about the galaxy is not an option!

For more information, check out the official web page!

last post! Tanzania was splendid, and climbing Kilimanjaro was a terrific although exhausting experience. I have added some photos to my rarely updated photo gallery in case you want to see some proof.

On the projects front things have naturally been standing a bit still these last few weeks – but not any more!

My friend and collaborator Nick ‘Lost’ O’er There is actively working on something new, a musical video of some sort but it’s still unknown exactly what this means. We – yes you heard right, we – also have a new musical piece in the works, with me arranging and Nick playing the violin. Hopefully it will please your ears when it’s ready.

Last but not the least; we’re back on track with Pivot development! The last major change was an upgrade to the latest version of Game Maker, GM8.  Doing this cost us a couple of hours of work, but it paid off! One problem that we kept facing while working in GM7 was its sprite engine. All the sprites we drew in Flash and Photoshop would have jagged edges in Game Maker – it just wasn’t possible to make them look smooth. GM8 however comes with full PNG alpha transparency support, allowing all our sprites to be silky smooth. Apart from this feature the new version also fixes a heap of bugs and saves both CPU and memory.

]]> http://cheesemedia.net/newsblog/?feed=rss2&p=296 3 http://cheesemedia.net/newsblog/?p=257 http://cheesemedia.net/newsblog/?p=257#comments Tue, 02 Feb 2010 11:37:26 +0000 LostOverThere http://cheesemedia.net/newsblog/?p=257 Me and Pete were having our sincere 2nd Anniversary tea when we got a call from our manager. I don’t have much time, but unfortunately, we have been in a bit of trouble with the taxation department lately. Turns out buying a knife to stab someone is not a business expense. Strange, no?

Regrettably this means within the next half an hour, the tax department will be here to both arrest us and take away all of our goods. I’ll keep this quick, because Pete is already gesturing to me from the van to grab the last wall of the house so we can escape by car to the Caribbean. Jokes on the tax department, when they arrive all that will be left of our office will be the floor and the roof. But I digress; to ensure the tax department aren’t on our tail, we drew up a nice piece of concept art right now to keep them busy.

No-one can resist concept art. Especially when it’s in black and white. And definitely not when the concept art is dealing with buoyant force and air density. Interesting.

The beauty is, however, that if you fund the project and it doesn’t achieve $800 by the end of January, you don’t have to pay a cent!

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