Today I went ahead and contacted Kongregate about my work being stolen and how I’d like it removed. It didn’t take more than 20 minutes for me to get a response telling me my work had been removed. Now that is what I call service.
I ended up celebrating by adding The BUTTONS to Kongregate, finally under my own name. After a few adjustments I got it completely working. I might update it soon to integrate the Kongregate API, it sounds pretty interesting. But everything is good now, because what’s mine is mine again.
Internet, Projects
development, Flash
I finally got Flash working on my computer again. I had been out of commission there for a while now, so I quickly fixed that with my creating a new high scores system on FlashStuf, and integrating that into my classic game, The BUTTONS.
And as this is usually the case when other people watch The Slippery Slide of Death, I’ve been inspired to create another one. So look out soon for episode 7 of the Slippery Slide!
Projects
Flash, Slippery Slide of Death
I’ve created another blog, called life according to matt, that I’ll be doing on the side of this one. Really, for when I want to be a little more informal and let out my thoughts on things. Otherwise you can count on Late Night Fiction to keep chugging away with more of the.. other crap I ramble on about.
Projects
blogging
Now that I have a computer again I’ve gotten back to working on my Matt Baer Design CMS package. So, at the same time my focus is moving away from FlashStuf, unfortunately. I can develop it locally now as well (making it a lot easier and to make changes and add features), but it’s becoming less of a priority as it’s been developed enough to run by itself. Besides adding new things, the only thing needed to keep FlashStuf going is new content and new users. So really, that leaves me with taking care of adding any new content submitted manually.
It’s also summer for me. I “officially” finished high school yesterday, and now I’m pretty much left to my own means until college in the fall. And being unemployed since the beginning of last week, well, I’d say I have all the time in the world to do all these things I do. So all in all, even though FlashStuf is moving towards the bottom of the to-do list, I’ll have plenty of time to finish this package up to the status that FlashStuf is, at which point I can move back to what the “viewers” want, and get working on FlashStuf again.
Projects
FlashStuf, Matt Baer Design
The Slippery Slide of Death will be returning with a brand new episode! I’ll be working on Episode 6 this weekend. I was recently inspired to create another episode, because of the amount of people I’ve seen getting joy out of blood splurting as a man falls onto a slide in combination with a random saw (in Episode 1), as of late. This will be soon, when there is more daylight/awakeness.
Projects
animations, Slippery Slide of Death
I was going through my site today when I realized all the flash pages didn’t show in Internet Explorer. I instantly knew what it was. Only because a week ago I was working on another site that wouldn’t display a simple ad I created. Every time I had looked at my site I just figured it was Flash running slow. Turns out when I use the object tag, for the movie parameter you gotta specify the path as well as in the embed part. Luckily I had gone through that little run on the other site I was doing a week ago because I knew the problem instantly.
Thing is, the hits on FlashStuf have been steadily decreasing since right around the very beginning of January, when they were their highest. They were just falling for no apparent reason. When looking at my code of where the pages started going wrong, the very first incompatibly-coded page was made December 26. It all made sense.
This just shows how regular, constant testing is always necessary (though I’m usually pretty good about this). Especially when it’s dealing with my site’s main content. I must’ve lost tons of visitors because they figure most of the games and movies and stuff they came for isn’t even showing up. Granted it was 63 pages that needed the change, but that’s a huge deal considering my 150ish flash pages. Luckily I can attribute the hits-drop to that and some other reason I have no idea of. Basically, this has taught me a lesson. And I’m working on tons of other features for the site now that I know nothing big is broken (I won’t be wasting my time).
Projects
development, FlashStuf
This has been one hell of a summer for me. I’ve spent a lot of it developing a lot of web sites. They’ve been getting progressively better, too. The thing is, it’s been taking all my attention (or most) away from the site I run the most, FlashStuf.com. But the beginning of the summer brought about a new feature on FlashStuf that I’ve been carrying through on every single site I’ve done since.
I started really getting my web design business off the ground (MattBaerDesign.com) back in June, as I was making a site for my first “official” client (Brahma Vidya Peetham). I got into browser-based game-making in mid-July, creating my previously flash-made idea of (what is now) Your God (although this is the only one not completely publicly known). Leaving my Chicken Cheese Productions site out to dry, I made this blog you’re seeing now (which doesn’t count; it took me 30 seconds to set up) off of that site, because it’s basically my personal site. And just yesterday, started on my second client’s (okay, dad’s) site, The Baer Foundation. And, of course, all of these projects are still carrying on to this day.
Somehow I manage to do all of this and actually enjoy my summer.
Personal, Projects
Matt Baer Design
