Volume 8, Issue 4 - February 22, 2009
irc.windfyre.net #zfgc
This week's banner courtesy of Yubel and icon courtesy of 4Sword
1. Community Announcements (Ctrl+F CA2)
2. Best of the Forum (Ctrl+F BF2)
3. Weekly Awards (Ctrl+F WA2)
4. The Big Question (Ctrl+F BQ2)
Community Announcements (CA2)-- The Themematic Original Music Composition Contest is looking for applicants. If you are interested view and post in the topic that is in the Community Speak board.
-- Jeod has a topic series where he is asking members of the community questions about themselves. This is going on in the Community Speak board.
-- With the Character Contest over there has been some interest in having another one later this year. If that is something you are interested in, look for the topic in the Character Contest 2008 board.
Best of the Forum (BF2)A Second Opinion.http://www.zfgc.com/forum/index.php?topic=33461.0What have we here? Circular logic, in-fighting, and administration with a face like this:
And those of you who relish in the drama because you don't have anything better to do with your time, look like this:
Meanwhile those of us on the sidelines enjoying life and not getting thorougly wrapped up into ZFGC drama look more like this:
My conclusion? Relax or qq more.
Working for the Man.http://www.zfgc.com/forum/index.php?topic=33482.0(as seen at my blog.dayjo.org)
I recently got a permanent job at a web development firm here in Brighton. Mainly working on www.doyourownsite.co.uk as both a Support operator and a Technician and Web Developer. I'm working on building new parts to their current system, which is a very easy-to-use online website building tool.
I'm now earning £18,000 which rocks 
.. need to brush up on my php / javascript however, as I've come across some pretty hardcore problems to solve, like crazy SQL queries with sub queries and joins and bollocks >_<.
Anywho.. pressure has lessened.. still need to pay of my credit card.. but at least I have some income now!
Homework Perfection.http://www.zfgc.com/forum/index.php?topic=33502.0Came up with this in about 30 minutes after a week or two of the course.
http://joessite.x10hosting.com/home.html
The bare bones minimum is much less than this to get an A. I'm capable of better work, though and I'm considering working a lot more on it to make it look sexier.
Project is due on Monday. Comments? Criticism?
EDIT:
Little more background:
I'm a freshmen in high school, HTML is pretty new to me, however I do have experience in other languages like C, objective C, BASIC, and C++. My teacher doesn't really know crap about crap and had a very ugly looking site as her example. This is enough to get an A, but I'd like to turn this into a little project of mine perhaps.
This was done in notepad in about 30 minutes, give or take a few minutes. The graphics were made in Paint as that's all the damn school provides me with, and the logo was done in Paint.net as soon as I got home. I'm quite crap at making graphics, but.. yeah.
Oh and Binary Pheonix's color scheme is absolutely sextastic so I had to use something similar.
I Name My Robots.http://www.zfgc.com/forum/index.php?topic=33490.0^
I call mine Cindy. My brother calls his Betsy.
Weekly Awards (WA2)Spritesheet of the WeekBludleef's RPG Maker Zelda
http://www.zfgc.com/index.php#?action=resources&sa=view&id=99This is a sprite of Zelda I made for The Legend of Zelda: Sage Knight can be used if credit is given.
Map of the WeekJeod's LTTP LA Maps
http://www.zfgc.com/forum/index.php?topic=33454.0Hey all. I've done the math conversions for the area of each "screen", so I decided to begin mapping Mabe Village. Here's what I have so far, but it took an hour and a half. The whole thing will take days to finish at this rate. Let me know if I can make improvements to anything; I'll be reloading the image below with the newest "screen" until the entire village is done.
Tutorial of the WeekHedanito's MC Font Tutorial
http://www.zfgc.com/forum/index.php?topic=33427.0How to make a MC font in gamemaker.
Making a minish cap font is very easy once you got the right sprite.
So add this sprite to your game:
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And thats how easy it is ^^. This font doesn't contain letters like á or è or other weird letters like that, but i might add them later.
Big Question (BQ2)Last week's question: Should Fierce Deity Link be featured in any future Zelda game?
Summary of answers: Of the one response given, possibly. Fierce Deity Link wasn't featured that much in Majora's Mask, but could possibly be featured in an upcoming Zelda game in the same way.
This week's question:
Should there be a Zelda game with a plot in which Link dies and cannot be revived by fairies?
Author of this week's issue: 4Sword
