YouTube - Freedom is only an Hallucination

This is my Hi-Quality res for the Video I've created some times ago. Not too much changed from that time, the smog, the depression of the working mornings, the insane traffic, the cold, and the lead of the road.

I know that there is much worst thing all around me, but the life I've dreamed in my thoughts is a bit different.

We are at war... whithin or outside: "Soldier, move on and stay low !!!".

Lord Hol Napult

PS:Warhammer Contest ended this evening... I hope to win something.. :P

WarHammer Italian Contest

Here in Italy there is an awesome contest, for free. I've decided to join the challenge and dare the world , trying to win this contest.
All I have to do is a flag of war for a WH legion; it should be original, well drawed and must be well accepted to the judges of the contest... of course.
Winning between thousands peoples you will get the warchest for a table playing with your friends, incuding the miniatures of "Battle of the skull way" (I hope to have well translated the italian package). I've never tried really the warhammer world, but some friends of mine did it. I think that I will start now to look at this fantasy, funny and much violent world!
Sadly the contest close at the end of this month, so I must be quick if I want to test my skills... hehehe.
All right, next time you will see the contest draw I've done.. hoping to reach out in this intent.
That's all for now. See Ya!

Lord Hol Napult

Videogames are the Solution ?

Inside the nature of man there is the survival instinct.
At every problem, the man, try to create a solution; often the problem is the life itself.
I look to myself, I see my world , I try my solutions...
My world is full of crime, have a lot of smog, I cannot breath it; my world is gray, cold, noisy, and people seems to be empty cells for me if they don't know me.

Everyone run for something, escaping from a place to another... it's a job! Every car move from north to south and viceversa... they must be quick, faster than the driver brain, so if I'm stupid I can at least go fast and pay less time for my stupidity. And every industry must be big and high... this means it's important!

In my little world I would like TO BURN all of THIS forever because it's a failing solution !!!Failing solutions waste my time, my brain and, probably, the life itself.
We must begin again from zero to find the right answer to our question about progress.

I think, finally, that videogame are the small solutions to many problem we have encountered in this new era.
They keep boys and girls within their homes, in front of a video, someway far from traffic and smog; they allow you to interact without knowing other people (in multiplayer mode) and to be enemies and friends at the same time. They give you a SECOND LIFE because the first is much less funny. I should say SAD at all.

Videogames are the perfect solution to escape from this sad world, but, how do we reached at this suffocating sunset ? And, more important, where will we go ?

Lord Hol Napult

Violence inside videogames...

Why are videogames violent ?
Simple, the man is violence; we are animals and inside us there is the survival instinct.
Consider a videogames where you get up, you say "hello" to everyone , you drink some coffee and , in a pseudo happy state, you go to work (this could be the most sold game, such as THE SIMS ).

Now, think about your real life. You get up in the cold of the morning; no one around you to support you; you are late. Always!. You drink something similar to be hot or you drink something cold to do faster. You arrive into the job place, if you have one... quickly someone remind your tasks, and quickly you must accomplish them all. If there is no one to do this, your conscience does it. If you did some mistakes the day before, someone will tell them all to you. It's incredible how reality became a sort of violent punch into your face. The only way to solves this is to do it better.

The humans in the world are educated to respect, quickness, precision, flexibility. Our instinct must be converted in the control of our emotions, to reach a common target; probably the target you point is the target of your masters, but it's not your true target.
This kind of process surely generates aggressiveness. If the things get worse you must relax in some way; violent enterntainment is the key, ready and simple. Revenge, omicide , killing everything is the escape for you from the real life ...inside a digital world; it's more than this, it is the key to travel inside another dimension. Over there, you start from zero, and you should became a myth, and idol, or something more in every videogame. The success will came using the instincts you haven't use into the real life!

So , why videogames keep some violence inside? Because inside a videogame you can show all the HUMAN instinct that elsewhere, in real world, must be hidden and tamed.
And what videogames are looking for inside the gameplay ? They look for freedom of expression and movement, a cliché overwritten from the society and not so completely covered by music and movies.

Now, return to frag them all, hoping reality will leave you a bit more free than it seems to leave.

Lord Hol Napult

A Dream of upcoming Future

"Someone said that dreams are the mirror of our soul..."
My dreams are heavy to accept, and I don't know why.
Sleeping, I've walked inside the lands of sorrow too many times, looking for a light I've never found. In my dreams I'm the only actor for thousands cruel worlds, or a lonely wolf for an infinite winter mountain.
The real life , the life I live, is tight for me and I feel the suffocating sense of disease killing my soul while I try to arrange some resistance.

The only escape I've always found in all of this is the ART.
Poetry, painting, drawing, programming, an endless refuge to escape... escape... escape but from what ?
I see through my child eyes the cold of people all around; over there the dreams are finished or ignored.
I see the "big men of power" that move population, starting wars without a bit of remorse; over there the gold is the only light, a light that made blindness.
I see that everywhere , the art is suffocated; and everywhere, artists have failed with themselves.
We should fight more for what we believe! No one can stop an unchained creative mind that strongly believes himself.. not a man , not a beast, nothing !!!

These are not only my dreams I suppose, but also the dreams of those who failed with this Era; those who advanced inside the dark without the light within and losed the main road. Should I say "nightmares" then?
No, dreams put a shadow of hope over all, and if there is a shadow there is also a light...
I will fight to return inside my dreams and I will try to transpose the most of them into my cold reality...good or worst this is what I must do.
If you have this Karma too, don't let it goes, but use it as a shield for this "dark medieval future"!

This is my only suggestion... To you, the last choice.

"A life without the Art loses the only sense she has"
Lord Hol Napult

Lord Hol Napult - Dark Galery - ( 2° release )

I'we worked hard for a couple of weeks to transform my old style site into an updated version, according with new technology and web editors...
SO, ladies and gentelement, I release to you my Dark Gallery! Hope you will take a look!

[ Lord Hol Napult - Art Gallery - ]

Here you will find my best drawings , artworks and much more! Feel free to download every desktop you like, and of course, send me some notice about (you also can use this post, or the e-mail on site).

And now... Let's Go!!! ****[ Lord Hol Napult - Art Gallery - ]*******

See Ya!
Lord Hol Napult.

Natale 2006 (Merry Chistmas 2006)

This is my annual post about the propositions for the future... so let' s start with my old 2006 desires, and control if everything gone right :

1) I hope this year all the wars will turn to the end.
Mmm...there has been some progress at this time but , of course, we have to work again with this subject... probably. Repeat. :|
2) I hope this year all the wrong shall fall.
I've had my revenge! In Italy politics confusion and falsity started to fall, leaving hard laws and bitter taste, but I think that's the right way to raise. Approved. :)
3)I hope this year NOSF would grow.
Whoops... I haven't worked upon Nosf, but I started the base coding and the general knowledge to convert my 2d code into an OpenGl super Accelerated engine... Let's continue by this way. Furthermore I've written a new plot for my future levels ...but.. Reperat : >

Ok, reassuming , my Christmas hopes are going 4 this:

1. I hope this Year all the wars will turn to the end.
2. I hope this Year NOSF would grow... in accelerated engine!
3. I hope this Year I will sell at least one copy of my second, very very special project : Builder's Heaven, Your divine Brick for Mainframe Programs_
4. I hope this Year many people would find the peace I cannot find within me...

And YOU!?! Post what you want from 2007 and, magically, it will became true!


But don't exceed 5 requests!

Ciao
Lord Hol Napult

Freeware Conversation

>Hi, I'm a videogame. My creator has spent for me at least 1 or 2 years, during nights, days, between a thought and another of life.
Now I feel a satisfied videogame, with good graphic (he also knows to draw) and some good effects (the most ripped, such as guns and explosions, but the others has been done with MP3 voice recorder). The code have been invented too, from zero.

But I given't satisfaction to the public... Why? Because I'm freeware.

- Wait! Explain me better... So? What's happen?
>If you are a zero costs game, it probably means that you are not so good!

- And so, what to do ?
>Oh, I've the only hope that some magazines can try me and introduce me to the others... but I'm sad. My sadness took me in place where there are many as me, the sad side of the videogame. It's a strange place where all that you wait is that a revier tells to the other about you. But you are freeware, and a review is less interested about you such as the others people. If you want to get some attention, you must put yourself in the queue, hope and wait...

- But , after two years of code, drawings, level designing, ripping and manipulating effects, testing , debugging, screaming to the microphone, and realizying the homepage, you still have to wait ?!?
>Yes!

- Damn! I will spoke to my friends about you! But the ones who have played with you, what do they said ?
> Oh.. I must say, they reached the second level and stopped after a few matches. They still haven't discovered the washbasin tip...

- But why now ?!
> Because you are freeware again, and if you seems to be too much difficult is because you are not well coded, because you have zero costs that means zero quality in the mind of the People.

- That's not true, I know many cost titles that are boring and bad coded !
> No way to understand that. At the first, without advertise you are NOTHING! Second, without a price you are stupid game for stupid ones.

- And so, freeware means "dead of videogame.." ?
> No, It only represent the sadness of the coders because the feedback it's always ... such as me : Zero. Zero compliments, zero offerings, zero and no more. Feel free to play Oblivion or Morrowind (perhaps you should spend 50€ for the game and 350€ to updgrade the system) but don't forget that playing videogame means different thing, scope and businnes.

- Thank You NOSF.I'll take care about that !
> Yeah, leave me a sign in the comments then. ;) It's free!

Lord Hol Napult

Digital ID

We are Bits!

While I'm writing this lines I'm a registered user. My registration is some kind of identification that somewhere , upon some servers, define me and the data that I correspond.
So I've two identities, one biological and the other ... digital.
My Digital ID is more powerfull than my biological aspect. But in both cases I'm , probably, the same person.

If I go to an Internet Forum, I'm another couple of bits, upon another Server, located somewhere into the world.

When I use a Badge upon my job place, the same badge that allow me to access some restricted doors, I return to be a Bit. If my badge is later, I'm late.

When I pay with my Bancomat, damn, I'm a digital man again. If someone thief my credit card, someone thief me, and my money.

All around Internet and also inside my computer, I'm digital.

Now people make photos, digital photos... and I return to be some kind of logic unit.

This start to be boring... or difficult to understand, or can also be considered a fool series of exclamations.

And again, to force my mind I still consider a bit. When I will die , my bits would remain longer, my drawings, my games, my Digital IDs.
No one can link me to a series of Digital IDs witout hacking some code, do some research a so on. So , what of me will remain upon this pages ?
And what of me would die with me ?

When I've seen "Matrix" and "Matrix Revolution" my mind opened completely to this new Era.
When I've seen "Fight Club" I understood that new era is not well accepted by everyone.
When I've played "Deus Ex", probably I've chosen the wrong final scenes, where the world return to a digital caos between the firsts and the lasts, digital and biological ideologists.

And while we migrate into this kind of digital world (also using videogames and Internet), we forget what we have been, for a while perhaps, or for many years, but now we are forgetting everything at all to become something completely different.

The process has already begun, and we are inside a digital travel.
The Matrix is in You, or is ... you.

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First Step in OpenGL

Hi everyone,
today we will speak about OpenGL . I've started in these days the new chapter of a programmer life, the 3D computing. After the great No One Shoots Forever Game reach its first birthday, and beyond my side project lasted till now, I've decided to point my view to OpenGL.

OpenGL is a Library that allow the Programmers to recreate and compute a 3d volumetric space defining the Objects by vertex, applying textures upon them and rendering the ambient with the program execution. The power of this library is that it's an interface between the programmers mind and the GPU (Graphics Process Unit), that commonly corresponds to your video card.

My objective (remember to always have an objective in life) is to learn OpenGL , mix it with AllegroGL, and create fantastic Allegro games OpenGL powered !!
The problem is that all that I've learn is represented by the screenshot at the top, but it doesn't matter for now... ;P

3D programming , anyway , can also be used to create 2D videogames that are accelerated by the videocard GPU; this represent a huge amount of game speed and framerate, anyway.

My starting place, as many suggest from allegro Forum ( http://www.allegro.cc) has been a newbye OpenGl site : nehe.gamedev.net
In this site there is a complete set of tutorials about OpenGL. That's not everything I need to reach my objective but it's a very good start place . I thanks everyone about that site and his vocation to knowledge distribution!

If I'll reach my purposes, I'll notify to you everything... in the meanwhile, leave to me some comments or OpenGL directives to your preferred sites.

Thank you.
Lord Hol Napult