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Brian Cable  

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NEW GAME! I broke the curse!

Journal Entry: Wed Aug 16, 2006, 12:19 PM
I didn't release a single game in the year of 2005, after making and releasing three games the previous year. However, I did have a lot of mostly finished games, and now, after over HALF of 2006 has passed, I've finally been able to get a game built enough to release it! Enter Clock Tournament!

Clock Tournament is a game I made for Clock Day 2006 (I try to make a clock game every year for it). There's a competition going on for it this year, where you could win one of 3 Xbox 360's. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that I win one, since I put a TON of time into this, it plays well, and otherwise I'm so poor I wouldn't be able to sneak a 360 into my budget for probably another year (contrast this to me buying the first XBox within 3 months of its launch, after having the money yet trying to HOLD OUT as long as I could before buying one). Now I've wanted one for months, but haven't been able to afford it for almost a year already.

But I was making the game anyway. The contest is just a perk. So give the game a try, make any suggestions for improvements here, and hopefully enjoy yourself :P.

Expect to see 2-3 more games released by the end of the year, as well! You might even see another one before the end of this month!

Devious Information

  • Current Age: 24
  • Current Residence: Chicago Suburbs, USA
  • Interests: Coding, Writing, Martial Arts, Tennis, Language
  • Favourite movie: Big Lebowski, Donnie Darko, Fight Club, Brazil
  • Favourite band or musician: Alice in Chains, Soundgarden, NIN, LTJ Bukem, Tenacious D, Prodigy
  • Favourite genre of music: Electronica, Rock, Punk, Funk, Jazz
  • Favourite artist: MC Escher
  • Favourite poet or writer: Robert Anton Wilson, Thoreau, Terry Pratchett
  • Favourite style or digital art: Chaos
  • MP3 player of choice: Winamp
  • Favourite game: Civilization III, Alundra, Morrowind, Wario Ware, Dynasty Warriors, Project Gotham, Oddworld, Halo 2
  • Favourite gaming platform: XBox, Dreamcast, SNES
  • Favourite cartoon character: Inu Yasha, Ranma, Excel, Duckman
  • Tools of the Trade: Flash MX, Photoshop 7, Cool Edit 2

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Devious Comments

~Monodi:iconMonodi: Mar 15, 2007, 1:26:30 PM
<3

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Eat an ass.
~Ammat:iconAmmat: Sep 4, 2006, 5:47:13 PM
The Shaft of Cables is quite deep.

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Lol I'm Ankh Clock.
{{ :macos: }}
*IronmanJames:iconIronmanJames: Aug 23, 2006, 2:11:21 PM
Awesome games!! Massive fan of the Clock Tournament game, it kicks ass.

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~Ace-Dragoon:iconAce-Dragoon: Feb 9, 2006, 7:50:29 PM
Wow you are a great flash artist i really like the gameses. :D ::thumbsup:

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Come here it teh cooless->[link]
~AlcoholicPixie:iconAlcoholicPixie: Sep 19, 2005, 3:27:42 AM
Heya, thanks for visiting my page, check back soon!

AP x x x

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Be The Miracle!
~AmythestViolet:iconAmythestViolet: Sep 18, 2005, 6:59:24 PM
thanx for the watch! ^.^

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~*~Forever Wishes~*~
Kiks
~soulcop:iconsoulcop: Sep 7, 2005, 12:27:24 PM
:]

Hey cableshaft.
Thought I'd comment you on dA.

I'll be addin you to my favorites. <3

- soulcop (DoppelgangerClock)
~Oniko:iconOniko: Jun 24, 2005, 12:38:28 PM
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE DEVWATCH!! :wave: :hug: I :heart: your games btw! ^_~

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":O_o: Wow...^^; er...I've never been turned on by chess pieces before... :blush:" :heart: ~Miyuki-chan "Miyuki-chan In Wonderland"
"Is the taste of dreams that have passed the expiration date bitter?" ~Utada Hikaru (Translation from "Time Limit")
~masterscribble:iconmasterscribble: May 29, 2005, 11:35:16 AM
Your games rock

are you working on one now

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~isbutisnot:iconisbutisnot: Jan 31, 2005, 11:53:59 PM
thanks for the add!

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Nothing is true, Everything is Permitted
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~Apophysis, ultra-fractal
~Tropicana:iconTropicana: Oct 19, 2004, 2:28:17 PM
I know I have said this many of times but you are a action script god
~cableshaft:iconcableshaft: Oct 10, 2004, 3:00:09 AM
Who the hell are you?

And I've heard it on the grapevine that you say the word "fun" too often in casual conversation. This guy, who shall not be named, although he likes eucalyptus and his name is the same as a popular colorful memory testing electronic game, says to knock it off.
~nef:iconnef: Oct 9, 2004, 5:39:02 AM
Sup <3

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It tastes like a heart attack!
~stateless:iconstateless: Sep 22, 2004, 10:18:16 AM
lol, it has been the same way for me.

Your first favorite coding error is one that I've replaced with a similar one. I have been working on a massive commercial engine that must use 5-6 simultaneously loaded .swf files which are interchanged through its use (it's built to be modular so that the functionality to a point can be interchangeable, not just interchangeable graphics). I often mix up _root, _level2, _level4, etc, usually due to pasted code from a different level. The second coding error is a constant with me as well ^_^

My favorite of all time though is any bug that appears despite PERFECT coding, and then to discover later that it really should work, and it is a Flash bug that makes it not work. I discovered nearly every Flash glitch (literally) only to later find a site detailing every bug (I think on Macromedia's site) that I had found. If I had found that site earlier, it would have saved me so much agonizing work. Second to this is methods or objects etc in Flash that are not properly documented, leading to tons of trial and error.

I'm just thankful of how much I've cleaned up my coding practice and learned better debugging techniques; things are so much easier to debug now. But there's still always the odd persistent silly bug that will popup, taking days to fix until finally the simplest of errors is discovered.

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Taste is the enemy of art.
~cableshaft:iconcableshaft: Sep 21, 2004, 9:06:23 PM
You're absolutely right. It's not so bad for me anymore, but for the first year, it was hell understanding Flash's unique quirks and how to deal with them. But I still sometimes get bugs that completely stump me and leave the game in a state of unfinishedness for months, and sometimes they stay with the game all the way to release, if the game is still playable with them :).

Your favorite coding errors? Lately, mine is accidentally naming one of your variables the same as another variable higher up (usually as a result of copy/pasted code) and having it's contents overwritten and screwing up the whole flow of the program. Another favorite is swearing up and down you've got the logic right, going manually through the code step by step multiple times, and you find out later that the problem was in another section of the code entirely. Another good one is sometimes a _root function call buried in a movie clip won't be called unless you assign its (nonexistant) return value to a variable, which doesn't make and sense at all. I also love the classic forgetting a "semicolon/parenthesis/quotation mark", but at least in Flash those are fairly easy to find.
~stateless:iconstateless: Sep 17, 2004, 10:25:53 AM
thanks for the watch! Nice to see someone who has obviously incessantly beaten on Flash until it submited and actually worked. Isn't debugging fun?

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Taste is the enemy of art.
~cableshaft:iconcableshaft: Sep 3, 2004, 3:49:43 PM
Rubbaninja: Try downloading the exe from [link] . It's the older version, still, but that should work.
~TheZebu:iconTheZebu: Sep 2, 2004, 10:25:09 AM
You are one of the greatest scripters ever! I beg you to father my children!
~RubbaNinja:iconRubbaNinja: Sep 2, 2004, 5:08:25 AM
I really really really really like the look of you Clock Crew fighting game!... but sadly no matter what I try it refuses to load (even when I download the swf).
`zetab:iconzetab: Aug 31, 2004, 12:05:47 AM
:aww: thank you very much for adding me to your devwatch :hug:

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Zeta B.
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. || My :heart: belongs to `nyssi
~rilstix:iconrilstix: Aug 5, 2004, 5:43:40 AM
Dear Cableshaft,

You rule.

Signed, Jimmy H. Crackers