Artistic Programmer

Ok so I originally has this MMORPG game called darkcore, I did much of the artwork and my online friend wanted to help, she would do the writing. I started doing the artwork and 3d modeling and worked on the game in Blender 3D. The problem was network issues and it would have to be opensourced. So I said forget it lets do 2d, the whole point of this game is to make it accessable to almost everyone, small download, large game play. So I worked on the browser to create an ajax'd game engine... Didn't go so well developing for Firefox, Opera, IE6 ... well okay it was going pretty good. I had a decent demo up in hope to finally recuit someone (a pixel artist). She wrote the story, I did the art and programming, and yet no one responded. Well they did, and very positive but no one joined. All those that was thinking about it sucked ass at graphics and just wanted to join for the hell of it.

The game idea died and so did the feeling of the friend too. She was upset I had given up, yet she failed to understand that for ever 1 hour she put into the game, 10 hours of mine went into it. So After months I finally got motivated again but this time work with a group of "artists" (different game), the problem was none of them could draw as well as I could and well let face it im a programmer. I offered to teach them with weekly meetups but that ended in was a pile of weapon art, no story and a few spells. I got a small game engine developed in python but before my breaking point, the engine was too slow and my team was falling apart because they wanted faster results. So yet Another attempted failed.

So here I am yet again, Java equiped and everything on my own. I developed the story, art and ported the game engine from python to Java. I've written up a website, and web apps to help handle development tasks between team members. And in the end, I am all alone.

This is just helpful tips to making you web apps run better. When you are sending data to the browser from php & your server use JSON, but when you are sending data to your server from a browser you might get the idea that json would be idea? Wrong, although it will save you 15% data transfered, the overhead from Php decoding the JSON responce is far slower then using a Xml responce. The example below gave a whole 3 seconds difference between the xml vs json decoding.

Note: Requires Php 5

<?php
error_reporting(E_ALL | E_STRICT);
ini_set('display_errors', True);

$xml = "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<response>
    <status>get_auth_token_ok</status>
    <auth_token>9byo5bg8d2o3otp0voji0ej0v49bqcmo</auth_token>
    <user>
        <login>stas@itscript.com</login>
        <email>stas@itscript.com</email>
        <access_id>453</access_id>
        <user_id>453</user_id>
        <space_amount>2147483648</space_amount>
        <space_used>1024</space_used>
    </user>
</response>";

$json = "
{ 
    responce: {
        status: 'get_auth_token_ok',
        auth_token: '9byo5bg8d2o3otp0voji0ej0v49bqcmo',
        user: {
            login: 'stas@itscript.com',
            email: 'stas@itscript.com',
            access_id: 453,
            user_id: 453,
            space_amount: 2147483648,
            space_used: 1024
        }
    }
}
";

$json = trimall($json);
$xml = trimall($xml);

$time_start = microtime(true);
$json_obj = json_decode($json);
$time_end = microtime(true);
$time = $time_end - $time_start;
echo "Decoded JSON in $time seconds<br>";

$time_start = microtime(true);
$xml_obj = simplexml_load_string($xml);
$time_end = microtime(true);
$time = $time_end - $time_start;
echo "Decoded XML in $time seconds\n";


function trimall($str, $charlist = "\t\n\r\0\x0B")
{
  return str_replace(str_split($charlist), '', $str);
}
?>

Your meaning to me is not fetched in fantasy but in the rendition of happiness. This happiness is bound in the hope of a future in our presence. And yet this presence is the rope we shared, has been deeply cut, mainly by my own means, but I have no purpose in letting this rope break. Although a knot will fix the cut, it will forever show and for this I am truly sorry.

My solitude is abut to whom I am, not meaning to corrosively bind my hidden emotions. The preemptive walls we meant for well being, keeping us harbored, have been tainted with belief in each other. And for that I am sorry. I am sorry for our uncertain future, our uncertain present and just the uncertainly uncertainness I have left your mind. For the things we have been through and for the things we will go through I am sorry.

An importance of apology to you,
Joseph Montanez

I figured I'd upload a few of my images from my website here, this blog just got a little too technie and needs some art I also need to update the header to my own. Yeah thats all for today

nice templates you use from other people there guy..
come up with something original

Wow, I guess I am getting popular... The only site I have that uses a design not of my own but someone else is Shabb & Surfin Fire, Shabb is not released nor even near done. So where is this hate coming from? I offer an anonymous way for people to contact me and yeah... I get this and the email address of "me@me.com".

If this guy owned the templates I can understand, but im sure they would have left a valid email address. For www.AnimeReign.com when it first ran it used a template from http://www.oswd.org/, which went into 2 other designs which I did myself. Creator of the template which I got from http://www.oswd.org/ expressed some feeling on wishing to be credited, so I did. In web design and development I see so little bashing when it comes to coding, those that have less skills then you will not bash you, just because.

So this leads me to this, whom ever sent that email own up, show yourself, prove that you can design better then me and I will bow to you. I in no way shape or form think I am a "designer" I like drawing and that's about it, layout design is not what I do best.