for those of you struggling with gamemaker, i found an excellent tutorial for the game, a set of several different ones, actually, from http://www.yoyogames.com go there, click tutorials on the left hand side of the main page, and then follow the tutorial for the particular kind of game you want to create. I would print off the PDF of the instructions for the tutorial and follow along with the hard copy, rather than having to switch back and forth between the game and Adobe Acrobat.

sorry for the lag

I just now realized it's been 3 weeks or so since I posted something. I spent ten days not playing any games at all, just to get my arm feeling normal again, and since that point, I have switched to console games. I got a used copy of XMEN Legends for the PS2, and my brother in law gave me a couple of games for my gamecube that I've been playing as well. I find online classes are often harder to stay motivated with, and keep up to date on the requirements, at least for me. I'm not self-disciplined enough to do what I need to do, every day, on my own. I'm working on it, though. having to re-teach myself how to walk and do everything else required of my rehabilitation from my injury while my wife is at work has been a learning and growing experience.

over-gaming addiction

Well, as I stated in my last entry, I started playing Star Wars: Empire at War. I beat the game by playing nearly 20 hours a day, for the first week I had it. Then I went out and bought the expansion pack, and did the same thing. My wife started complaining that I played my game too much. And I knew she was right. I became addicted to it, and I had to shut it off. It got so bad, I even had a reoccurance of my nerve injury I developed while being tethered to a desk as a video editor and tech support agent-i thought it was carpal tunnel, but it really ended up being a pinched nerve in my shoulder/neck area, which, in addition to the broken leg, was causing problems with me sleeping. So I uninstalled both games, which freed up about six gigabytes of hard drive space, more than enough to finish off a freelance video project I was supposed to be working on for a friend of mine. I also had my wife hide the install discs for the games. I will have to find other games to play. But for now, I'm taking a few days off to get my nerves back in order, and I'm sticking to simple yahoo games games instead-something that I can cut off after an hour or so. The other ones were too much for me to handle or control, by myself. I guess you could call this post a confession of an addict.