An overview from the top of my multi-level tower which touches the clouds. I had to wait for the clouds to move before snapping this screenshot.

The Iron Room, fully made from blocks of Iron Ore. There is a Gold Room somewhere as well but its pathetically sparse.

My First Mine Pit which I covered with Glass.

There should be a way to make mushrooms multiply!... there has to be...

This is where I get pounced on by Spiders 80% of the time.

The strange thing about Minecraft is, I keep wanting to build Shrines... the bigger, the most ostentatious, the more magnificent the better... I've got a larger one somewhere in the works.

What fortress is complete without a Grand Hall? Complete with roaring fireplace (made with Netherack), bright red wool carpets and also strange artworks on the wall.

This bed would come in handy except for the fact that here, I'm all alone... all alone in the world except for sheep and cattle.... mmmm sheep...

A rail-line that takes me to an underwater construction I'm working on now. Should be quite fancy once its done.

The more I dig down, the more I want to build up! I want to change to a new world but this one held such strong foundations. :p

On a different note, Buzz if you're reading this... vertical files are larger than horizontal files.. Strange huh...

The Global Game Jam 2011 is OVER! And 19 bleary eyed game developers amble out of the MACCC Labs in Cyberjaya with dark eye-bags and vacant expressions on their faces. Still the sense of accomplishment is there as we managed to complete 4 games!

What is this,.. Global Game Jam you ask? Its 48 hours of pure awesomeness, simply put. 44 countries, 170 locations, 6500 participants, one weekend, one theme and almost 1500 games created! Our Malaysian session was organized by Buzz who is the local coordinator for the IGDA Chapter, Malaysia and was held in a secure MDeC facility hidden from the eyes of many.

19 participants pitched their ideas and 4 remained. The rest quickly hopped onto the project which interested them the most and we starting jamming. On Sunday, everyone was pretty much smelly, tired and sick of pizza but everyone managed to get their games up on the website.

Here's my team's game,.. hurriedly named Almost Extinct. (this has got to change XD)

Excellent art done by Kye Li! Show that girl the right side of the stylus and she goes crazy with it. An image that basically tell the entire story. It has dinosaurs in it, cavemen, raunchy sex scenes and excessive animal brutality.

The rest of the team (from the left to right),.. Joseph Gan, Me, David Tan, Ng Yun Bin, and Kye Li. My role in the project was as the designer and animator for the effects and background whereas Kye Li did work on the character sprites. Even Joseph had a hand in drawing characters which was a big change since he is usually THE programmer guy. Yun Bin did an excellent job and David stuck his hands in the balancing of the game. Sweet job you guys. Hope to see you next year!

We're working on making things a little more polished before we unleash it upon the mass public so stay tuuneed.

If WH40K did a remake of Final Liberation,... the world would be a brighter place.

Also, came across some imagery on my trawls through the web. These pics are in no ways mine but they did bring out a few nerdy chuckles from me.