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

The Mind is Lost

The best way to create a videogame , is to live it inside your head.
The bad way to create a videogame, is to follow your publisher directions and times.

I've no publisher, no "quality" controls, no businnes at all . I've lived my videogame as I lived every line of code I've written in my past. Every time I encounter a new problem, my head turns into a mechanical powerfull machine that will explode if the problem cannot be eliminated from the source.
The source is the Key.
The key is in You.

I think that heavy programming sessions turns your head into a ambiguous state of mind, and it's very difficult to return back when the line has been trepassed. After the A.I coding , you walk all around this world looking for people as they could be represented inside your engine.
And if you code a data structure, you look at every book or object in your bedroom as It could be organized in advanced language... with magical words. Then you do the same looking at the houses of your neighbors. Then you do the same to everything you look at.

This particular state of mind results in your eyes as they were always departed from reality. People became logic units, and you become a bit idiot in their eyes... but they cannot undestand you at all, of course.
The next step is to manipulate the reality, your reality, you feel like if you were a precompiled logic unit inside the program of another , you feel inside the Matrix (tm).

That's your main persistent question, that's the nail in your head! Damn, how it's REAL!

-The Mind is Lost-

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No One Shoots Forever - Trailer !!!

This is small trailer to show the funny " No One Shoots Forever " , a PC videogame . The Game is FREEWARE and fully Downloadable.

Get your Gun and start to shoot to every South Park Boys (blood filter included for children ).

This Game has been drawed and coded by Lord Hol Napult during 2004 / 2005 - all rights reserved -

By Darkness , Code shall Be !!!

What do you play in summertime ?

The summer, the holidays, finally they are coming for everyone !

I go to the sea, as many of you, and everytime I break my last working year I understand new things, I think to my next projects, I extract my last conclusions, and... I Relax (or this should be suppose to happens..).

I think About what !?! About everything of course. Not only videogames or computer, I really like to think to everything, the war, the politics, the sea, the birds, everything.

It's very important for a mind to change point of view, detach the connections, think differently, and whatever you want. I have, of course, some new projects for No One Shoots Forever Too. I don't speak about a second version but... :)

And you, tell me what do you do in your holidays !

by Lord Hol Napult.

The Hero inside...

Videogames, what are they ?
I suppose the best answer is an illusion in which we found ourselves.

Inside a videogame we can became legendary entity with the same purposes we look for in our lives too. Think about the most common videogames : you must kill the enemy, help the reason you believe, and Survive. Probably we are escaping for a while from the sadness of the current times, so colds and so gray. I suppose the main motivation I find to play videogame is to touch new systems ( it doesn't matter the nature they are) exploring and researching and testing if a projiection of myself could be right over there.

In War Titles I like to change the story, in Medieval Rpg's I do the same, but I discover an ancient world too. Inside the Shooter I only look for a blood action to unchain the stress of the day. All this can be done, of course , without offend (or damage) someone or something. That's very good.

..But Sometimes videogames doesn't care about the player and his reaction, his playing (long) sessiong, his capabilities to advance inside the difficultness. I take an heavy sight to the MMORPG because the young generation are completely involved inside of this. Gamewriters should provide an userfull parent tool for time playing limits ! But beyond the videogame there could be the television, and so on.

I suppose , at this point, that videogamers like to be great kings, but they didn't know nothing of nature and mountains around them... they like to be great soldiers, but they didn't do the obligatory military experience anyway... They like to be something they cannot do until they stay over there.The question is : Illusion can cover the "real" Life ? I don't know, MATRIX is a possibility, not a sure projiection....

and So on.. Live the present as a person and play the game as an Hero, but remember that the second is only a less complete illusion than the first :O

Watch below, freedom seems to be lost at this point....
... I suppose to require some holiday.

Ciao
Lord Hol Napult.