Vaffanculo Day ("Fuck off Day")

Italy - near August - politics government betrayed again the entire population .

We are living a suffocating air in Italy because democracy is still a far and far away objective.
After the first year of the new government the parliament is still full of corrupted and CONDEMNED mafious figures, mainly associated to the "Casa delle Liberta" (Libertiy home) force, but not just them.

We have 25 persons (if I could say so...) that has been condemned in the past for corruption , thievery, bankrupt, and dark manouvers inside the wing of the law.

Wait! This is a videogame blog, so why I'm speaking about that ? For this time I thow an exception because what we are speaking about is the base for everything, videogames included.

This persons still resided inside the Goverment after the outgone Premier Silvio Berlusconi changed the election method ,about a year ago, locking the democratic election of the candidates.
The new law says that the ones who stand inside the Parliament hasn't been choiced from population, but from the various coalitions choosen from population. This is a trap!

The 8 SEPTEMBER 2007, in EVERY CITY OF ITALY, population will walk on the roads to manifest that we didn't want corruption inside the parliament ! So the Three advanced purposes are the following :
1) Fuck off to every politician that has been condemned . 2) Fuck off to every politician that has been inside the parliament considering this a career (2 ore more legislations). 3) Fuck off to the Berlusconi's modification of the politician election. The choice must return to the population.
Of course, FUCK OFF means Out from the Parliament. Out from Goverment. Out from italians balls.

In these years MAFIA expanded to all my beloved country, and like a web it suffocated the INFORMATION (TV and RADIO are corrupted or gagged), institutions (the law simply didn't work, a process in Italy lasts 10 years!!) and so on.

We, youngs, we don't know what we are really doing this time, but we are sure that's a way to do something GREAT. Against the HIGH CLASS and the MAFIOUS ones we will pacifically move the 8/9/2007 !!!

Come with us if you feel something within! Be accused and be ashamed, probably charged by policy for your pacific manifestation, as Jesus was, but , for at least one time in your simple history, be TRUE!
And be sure, THEY REALLY FEAR the TRUTH!

Beppe Grillo is a comic, but like us, he suffered some more offense from the Italian government.
He is capable to make you laughting about everything, even the worst things! We thanks him very much because this manifestaction has been created by him and his community!
Thank you Beppe! Thank you Network! Thank you all! In the towns we will be thousands just for this!!


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Lord Hol Napult

Country Song 1

Harmonica for my Games ;)

Hi, in these days I've decided , bought , and started to play the Harmonica. It' s a diatonic Blues Harp (Hohner) Harmonica in key G (SOL).
I don't know why, but in my game (No One Shoots Forever) , all the music has been recycled from midi compilations and this was a little sad to me.

I suppose that al midis are freeware because they are so boring and so unuseful at the day we are... but after doing coding and graphic , music was out of my range. So, today, my subconsciuous brain-subroutines decided for me : my istrument is the harmonica!

I've in mind a country game not so different from Nosf, and i think that it requires some good songs, maybe in wav format, otherwise again in midis. Harmonica seems to be perfect for me: it's cheap (as the autosolved budget of my game), it's country, and it's funny to play even for a noob as me. This was what I've thought about 3 weeks ago.

Ok ,now look at the skeme below:
These are the Diatonic Harmonica notes in key G (SOL in Italy), and all the tablatures I've got are in key C (DO in Italy). I think it's a bit difficult to translate the keys from an Harmonica to another, but this is what I've done to play something.
There are many keys for Harmonicas, and C is for beginners... So, why I don't complicate my life more than it already is ;) ??? Ok, next time, probably a playing test done by me.

See you Nosf Country. Ciao!

Lord Hol Napult

Ultima X - Sfigavatar's Crypt - announced!!!

I've lost another Contest - The TGM Contest 2007 - :)
Ok, I do not think to be the best, but the scoop I've reached was the "Ultima X - The Sfigavatar's Crypt" !!

It's a real scoop that should allow me to win somehting, but , damn, I 'm not so lucky.

Here the Screenshot I've found hacking the Richard Garriot websites! A new game about the famous series of Ultima that ended with the Ultima IX Ascension title.

A very famous and legendary saga that pasted millions of people in front of a screen! And the new version is coming out very soon! At least in a year or less.

Keep tuned because it's also a Multiplayer game that allow a single player trama in cooperative mode and , MOREOVER, a massive playing over all Sosaria.

Here the Screenshot! and Keep tuned. It would become a Masterpiece of the RPG section!


Ultima X - Sfigavatar's Crypt - Find the Hero inside of YOU, and FIGHT it!

Lord Hol Napult

No One Shoots Forever - OPENGL conversion

In these days I've decided to start some OpenGL coding.
The better way I've found is to convert my best game into something that no one can (shoot) forget!

The Pilgrimage has begun and it would take at least some months. I'm not confidential with OpenGL and I think they are great, but very complicated.

Here in Italy, it's difficult to find a manual about that, but fortunately I like English and CHM tutorials.
Using some sharing file program it's easy to get all the manuals and technical information required to move something. The problems came later... when advanced programming occurs.

The conversion I'm trying to do merge the Allegro (www.allegro.cc) code of NosF with the OpenGL code, wrapping this via AllegroGL (http://allegrogl.sourceforge.net) functions and set up.
It's easy , for a beginner , to get lost! The difference between me and a beginner is that I'm a beginner with the head hard as a rock :) .

I'm still trying to understand how to manage the various "buffers" on which the OpenGL writes.
Moreover, some particular test I've put inside NosF must be adapted, describing some info more or doing more controls. Pure CAOS for now, but I can reach my purpose studying some tutorials.

Ah, the best place I've found to try pure Opengl tutorial is NeHe (http://nehe.gamedev.net) .
This portals sucks a lot! I like it!
Of course, it's not so easy to port a pure Opengl program into an AllegroGL code, due to some not-so-clear-to-understand functions that wraps the two ambients.

Lately I've lost much time to set up the 3D ambient as it was 2D ; Then I've searched to made functions that create the proportions between the images and the squares that contain them.
Of course the Blending method , i.e. the method to show a texture upon a square, as been configured to eliminate the Alpha channel , with thousand of porting errors...

OK, I'll keep some update more, before the process could be considered completed.

That's all folks! Thanks for reading.
Seeya! A contest should finish in a couple of weeks, and I' expect to win ;P .
Ciao!

Lord Hol Napult

WarHammer Italian Contest : FAILED

A couple of months ago I've partecipated to an Italian Contest about the famous Warhammer universe.
The Target of the Contest was to create a war flag for the battle troups of Warhammer.

I've partecipated with the image here on the left. This is my personal artwork and my it's fully original. I've tought to an army compose of many Dwarves that ride the Goats.

The results is a glorious standard, and I've though to have done a good work.

To complete this post I will show also the winnings stendards, so you can undestand on your own if this is good or not ; the most important think is that you let me know what you think writing some comments.

In my opinion there was some triks in the judges mind, so not really winners have won, but preferred ones ... but this is only my personal opinion, or , pherhaps , the opinion of a loser.



The Winner number 1 - Yes, this is a very good drawing. I only don't undestand how a Standard of Death, property of the orcs, keeps an orc head upon the wood, and not a human head...

My personal rating: 10








The Second !

I really dislike this... It's not too bad to see, but I think this is not a Standard.
I can see many skulls, flames ... confusion. Everything hide something else, and images has been ripped from Iron Maiden albums, google images, and so on.

My personal rating : 4




The Third!

This is nice, but this isn't Warhammerish! This looks like the army of the Lord of the Rings elves places... do you know, all the armour with plants and the whithe tree of Minas Tirith... Toolkien rules here, but Warhammer... ?
Boh.

My Personal rating: 7





The Fourth!

This is incredible, easy clean and ... simple. A good formula for a standard, but nothing special... C'mon, it's heavily classic.

My Personal Rating : 6




The Last Winner! The Fifth!

Very good in my opinion. I don't understand why he has used the example standard and not the official icon as the others... mistery.

I do not suppose this is an handdraw of the author, but otherwise, this is great! Of course originality is always the same: a dragon and the flames... ok ok, I stop boring you (what a sadness...)

My personal rating : 8


And you, what Standard do you prefer ?
I only hope to win something with the other The Games Machine Contest.

See ya! Folks!

Lord Hol Napult

Am I a NERD ?

You code, you are a NERD .
This is only the beginning ,I should hope, of the various blame I've heard...

"Someone" think that a NERD is a very strange person, without any social interest, without any hope in love, and , of course, an neglected one.

I suppose that NERD are a social class ; it doesn't matter if they are recognized or not, they are anyway.
And so, if someone tell to you that you are a NERD , it doesn't mean necessary that you are wrong.

- Do you think I'm a NERD because the social manners aren't my tasks ?
You're right; I should run with my car from a place to another in a fast and furious way, like you; or I should wait outside the Pubs speaking about the weather of the day, the pussy girls (of the others), and drinking a lot o alcohol to be the hero of the night... like you; or I should only go to the middle of the public square looking at the total schizophrenia of this world.. like you.

- Do you think I'm a NERD because I always seem to be absent ?
Uh.. What ?

- Do you think I'm a NERD because I'm always in front of the computer ?
Excuse me, but, where are you now and where have you been until now ?

- Do you think I'm a NERD because I do not partecipate too much to my "friends" life ?
Yes, probably there is no future between the laws of the young circles: drugs for funny, violence for saving the boring evening, pub ingnorance to explain fake motivations, smoking for reaching the personality never gained... and so on. Yes, my "friends" lifestyle is not my best.

- Do you think I'm a NERD because I haven't a girlfriend ?
...."Ok dear, you can came out from computer desk, they are gone! We are alone now! :) "

I like to be a NERD, and computer is my war field! join the battles or leave!

Lord hol Napult

No One Shoots Forever - To Hell and Back!

For those who stand and still,
for those who dare in suffering,
for those who have believed,
what cannot die, can still Live!

The site of No One Shoots Forever is reborn.
Against the system, against the fucked ones.

Hell awaits , and we are gathered! That's All

Lord Hol Napult

No One Shoots Forever DOWN !!!

My NosF homepage has been dropped, killed , erased, disappeared!!

The hoster www.Virgilio.it and the partner www.Alice.it, without any information or any advise, erased my entire account !
I cannot undestand why and I'm trying to contact the responsibles to reactivate the account.


Unfortunately the interest that this kind of society put inside the young is very LOW, and for now I haven't received the answer about this bad action.

So the link for the Game is DOWN. Do not try it with hope ...
I think I will soon move to another hosting server to reset the status and make happiness to all my fans.


The Game is FREE, Cages are for losers. To me, they losed.
Thank you & Keep tuned, and of course, enjoy the "gif" ;) !!


Lord Hol Napult

War games are boring !!!

At the beginning (there was the light... ;) there was "Operation Wolf" for C64; it was a videogames with fixed left scrolling and rapid shooting requirements. Also the magazines and the bullets was counted. I remember it because it was too difficult for me: I was a little child.

Then, may years later, come "Wolfstein 3D", by ID Software. A true revolution: a fake 3d world (it was a 2d projiection such as the windows screensaver if you know) and many many enemies to kill .

It was only the precursor of "Doom" itself. Doom has been the real revolution; the art of fake 3d become very fine. Lifters, doors, incredibles scenarios and so on...
It's one of the most important game because it contained the level editor with the possibility to create more maps and play the in LAN mode.

"Heretic", by Raven soft. , was the fantasy version of Doom and inserted inside the 3D engine the possibility to slightly move the head of the warrior from the bottom to the top.
It was only another code tip, used to increase reality. Also the translucent water made it first apperas ..

"Duke Nukem 3D" (3D seems to be well accepted inside the titles....) was the firs fake 2d game with high resolution (800x600) and some more tips to let you feel inside the 3d ambient. There was in fact a scroll scale never seen before again.

"Quake" ! Finally a TRUE 3d engine and low poly enemies... the first graphics card with accelerated 3d engines ("voodoo") appeared. The game was always the same : aliens come to the earth to kill everybody, you are alone, you are the only salvation for humanity.

"Half Life" come like a lightning inside the blue sky! Finally a game where you haven't to kill everything moves, but you must also start to use your brain. It became very popular because of Counter Strike mod and Day of Defeat mod, the first multiplayer games that gave some feelings more ... amusing! The game started to always have the MAP Editor inside as a standard of quality. Anyway there was still more road to travel..

From then , till now start a flood of war games that recreates all the minutes, all the second, all the ambients and all the soldier classes that first and second world war had.
"Medal of Honor", "Return to Castle Wolfestein", "Day of Defeat", "Call of Duty", "Vietcong", "Commandos", "Sniper", and so on... until you are sick!

I'm sick! Tired! Bored! I've played and finished at least the 90% of them and now I feel a permanent deja-vu about everything speak of world war. All my memories about my military duty arises (not so good) and falled (the man fear what he doesn't know...) .
I suppose this kind of fear you all have , the fear that became attraction, is something natural. The man try to exorcise his fears within, and this kind of games are over there for this scope. But now we I suppose we all are full!

A message for Softwar developers :
Stop the Marketing of the War, and grow the marketing of original gameplay and ideas! use the brain! Look at the IO inside! DEUS EX, NO ONE LIVES FOREVER, THIEF ! ...And, moreover, stop boring me !!!



Lord Hol Napult