Archive for June, 2009

New Compilation Tools For OSX

Saturday, June 13th, 2009

I needed to upgrade my compile tools as my current level was breaking the stock id ones. I converted Bengt Jardrup’s tools so that they compile and run on OSX. If you’re interested, you can grab the binaries and the source code here:

http://wantonhubris.com/BJPToolsOSX/

His site along with his documentation is HERE.

The BSP compiler requires full paths to the WAD files at the moment so that’s something to know before trying to use it. Other than that, these should work as they do on Windows.

Oh, and these ones support multithreading. A little extra I like to throw in for my OSX homies. :)

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Quake Sell Screen

Saturday, June 6th, 2009

I added LMP previewing to my PAK editor this morning and came across this sell screen buried in ID0.PAK. I’ve never seen this before. Looks somewhat placeholder, yeah? :)

Quake Sell Screen

Quake Sell Screen

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Story Review : Serial

Thursday, June 4th, 2009
Serial

Serial

Basically, it’s a hitch hiking horror story but it’s cool in that 2 horror authors got together and experimented. They each wrote a chapter on their own that defines their character and motives (and some gruesome killing), which they kept private from each other. They co-wrote the 3rd chapter, 100 words at a time, without knowing what the other guys character was about – they responded to what the other had written next. The serial killer characters were strangers to each other and were thrown together in the same car. The end result is really good, IMO.

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Book Review : Dead Sea

Thursday, June 4th, 2009
Dead Sea

Dead Sea

I read this book on the recommendation of some zombie lovers I know. The key words to getting me to try this one were : “zombie” and “whale”. Unfortunately the zombie whale only took up about 5 sentences of the book. Fortunately the rest of the book was pretty good.

The way the author writes zombies is fairly gruesome and he spares no effort in describing the horrific states in which we find most of the walking dead. Keene clearly loves zombies and it shows.

I found the choice of protagonist to be particularly interesting. A gay, black man. I haven’t seen that very often and it made for some situations and exchanges that you don’t normally see in horror books. At any rate, I really liked the main character and that was a large part of what drove me to finish the book.

Keene is an author who likes to explore the zombie situation in interesting ways. He focuses on questions like, “What would happen if animals could become zombies?”. I found that really refreshing and it made for some great description and scenery.

Oh zombie whale, I can only hope you get more ink devoted to you next time.

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