time to grow.

ok
so my friend and i are talking.
and shes telling me eric you need to start putting your complete heart and soul into your work.
if your going to make these types of games you need to completely be yourself and take time on them! take months if you have to and make them good!
and while that sounds like ..well duh!
its really really true!
I need to start putting my all into my work you know. i've got to start really just making it so that when i make a game. first i need to not be afraid what other people think, and i've got to just sit down, not worry about what other games are out there. or whats been done because its never going to be the same anyways and make finished, fun, polished products.
everyone.. lol
you've got to be yourself
whatever you have is what you've got
and you need to be able to show that too the world without shame
no matter what it is as long as it's sincere and not harming anyone.
than you shouldn't be afraid what other people will think of you
and you need to put your heart and soul into whatever it is your producing.
we're all special people
we all have something special to give no matter how simple it seems or whatever lol
it's not simple
it's amazing, and well i guess you , me , we've
got to believe in ourselves.
thats what i've gathered at least.
so well.
it's time for me to grow and i hope you feel inspired to also!

the menu

so today i have to go to my little cousins choir concert
she texts me at like 7:30 in the morning with this big ol long text and i'm just like oh nooooooooooooooooooooooooo lol. this can't be happeningggg
and i text her back like 10 minutes later and i'm like.. sure lol
then i just close my eyes to go back to sleep and my phone starts ringing all loud again and i'm like ahhhhhhhhh haha i look at it and all she texts me back is .. k.
lol i'm like why why why hyhy so i'm laying back down and like an hour later her sister freaking texts me lol and it's some dumb chain text message picture mail thing lol and i'm just like i knew i shoulda just got up when i got the first text i just knew it.
but i'm like i'm so tired.. i have to go back to beddd.. and then i say i'm just gonna sleep until my alarm goes off. and then i lay my head back on the pillow and i feel just perfect and i swear just as my eyes close my alarms like WAKE UPP!!!! haha and i'm like nooooooo i don't want to go to work! but well i'm thankful to have a job...
haha so there is my funny story for the day.

i'm going to be teaching 3 classes this summer weeeeeeeeeeee
so if you live in southern california look it up!
were going to be learning how to draw manga
create animations with flash
and program our own video gamesss
its always fun and its for ages 7 to 18

lastly i'm thinking man
i've got to get another game out
so i've gotten one written up
it's a platfomer, collector, upgrader type game
its kind of like monster hunter it's gonna be good though.
trust me.
i really see this game from start to finish too so that makes me happy.
i'm really hopefull it will get sponsored cuz it's just gonna look and play
and be great.
i have so much to say but i'll save it for another blog
don't want to rambleee
:)

on my mind lately

lately i've started playing my ds again.
and i am remembering all over again why i love games,
why i want to make games,
and what it is that makes them fun.
I know that i'm working on a fighting game right now,
but at the moment I want to concentrate on getting some more action games out.
get things on a roll.
i have these ideas, and then they evolve into these crazy ideas
and i don't really want to do that right now.
i'm keeping the crazy ideas into my subconscience so they can become super! crazy ideas with structure.
but i'm keeping the base ideas for games and just going to work on them.
i want to do some more run, jump, shoot, collect, task type games.
i think it will bring in a new audience too.
I really hope i can find some good music guy soon. thats what i really want is to figure out what to do about music right now.

there's always this one little thing

that stands between you and where you want to be.
the fear..
but the fear of what?
rejection?
not being good enough?
realizing you were wrong?
putting yourself out there?

well.. this invisible wall may be quite hard to scale.
but once you step over it, you see how small it really was
and you see that hearing no isn't really that bad
and you see that your better now than you ever were
whether things turn out how you imagined or not.
you never know what you've just set up.
you never know what you've just put into motion.

Bedazzled

So there is a new puzzle game up called bedazzled
it's fun!
go play it!

I'm working on a fighting game right now!
i've had this vision for a fighting game and now i want to create it!
i have all of these wierd, and crazy characters i've designed
but i'm always so fearful to make the games that actually revolve around them!
especially as i'm making myself known for these "cute" type games.
i love innocence.
i'm an innocent person ^^
but like everyone i have another side
more mysterious
and i almost feel that by making these games
i'll taint mygameline.com!
it's like putting a biker in a prep school or something
there just not going to fit in there so right.
i'm almost thinking of making a side site to go along mygameline.com
that would have a bit more mature game geared towards a different audience?
i dont' know we'll see..
i'm going to ease my way into the more graphic game
with this fighting game.
notice i said easeee haha as i am going to be still using a character that has nice soft round shapes as the fighter.
it's gonna be a hit!
thanks everyone keep coming back to the site!
i'm cranking the games out!