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December 23, 2008 - Cyanide - Overdose!

So here it is, a remake of my old rendition of Cyan's theme from Final Fantasy 6. The arrangement quality is much higher on this one than the original one, and there's more showoffy guitar work:

http://abstract-productions.net/music/cyanide_od.mp3

Enjoy!

April 30, 2008 - This was a triumph

I'm making a note here, HUGE SUCCESS

http://abstract-productions.net/music/stillalive.mp3

March 25, 2008 - Long Mario Level

Long mario level is loooooong

http://abstract-productions.net/long_mario_level.php

October 02, 2007 - Entering the Realm of Webcomics

I've decided to start my own webcomic. An interesting choice considering my lack of visual artistic skill, but I'm hoping to improve that over time. Besides, there's a ton of popular webcomics by artists of marginal skill who have a great sense of humour.

The title of the comic is OMGWTFALIENS and the storyline will be based on aliens on Earth, but I don't wanna spoil too much so you'll just have to see how the plot plays out.

First strip is up, but I don't have the comic site design yet so it's on a temporary crappy page:

http://abstract-productions.net/omgwtfaliens/index.php

July 24, 2007 - Song-a-day update

Due to a lack of available time, the song-a-day project is off for now (I got up to day 9). It's still alive and will be completed, but I'm not limiting myself to one song a day anymore.

June 29, 2007 - Song-a-Day II

Starting tonight, I will be composing one song every day, allowing one day each week as a break. I did the same thing last year, though that album was all over the place both in terms of genres and quality. This year I aim to create a cohesive concept album. All the songs will transition into each other and the CD version will be released as one long 30-40 minute song.

Wish me luck!

May 07, 2007 - PHP Update

This server's PHP updated recently, and in the process became much more strict in warning messages, so I've updated the forum code to comply with the new coding standards.

Also, if you've registered for the forum, you can edit your profile now.

February 14, 2007 - Another Section

It just occurred to me that this site is missing a "random crap" section for me to post the various completely random projects that I work on. I shall add this section post-haste.

As usual, post-haste means any time from tomorrow to five months from now :)

January 14, 2007 - Another Project

Well, that burst of activity kinda came to a quick stop. Ah well.

Anyway, I'm putting The ARC Legacy on the back burner again because I just got involved with a really interesting game project, which will be using an adaptation of my engine for The ARC Legacy with some interesting modifications to it... not sure what I can say about it at this point but if this project comes through it has the potential to be pretty big.

Now, the battle against laziness truly begins.

December 11, 2006 - Status update

Got some sprite artwork done for some NPC's and the inside of houses in the city of Pruthe. The indoors areas are starting to look a lot more real now. Also worked on the neighboring city of Zydnia a bit. I'll get some screenshots up soon.

December 10, 2006 - Whoa.

Did I just go and actually work on The ARC Legacy? Man, I haven't touched that project in about two years, but I'm totally going back into it now. I think I'm going to release another demo once I've got a respectable amount of content in the game. First order of business: construction of the city of Zydnia.

December 06, 2006 - Updated at last

So I finally got the games section back in, and got a links page up for good measure as well. It's starting to look like a complete website again.

I think I might even get back to work on The ARC Legacy... that's still up in the air though.

December 04, 2006 - Tomorrow, tomorrow, it's only a day away.

As I said several days ago, the games section is coming up tomorrow :)

Haha, I'm a lazy SOB

November 27, 2006 - Restoring to former glory

So, I'm looking at the site, and I've realized that I still haven't put up the whole games section that the site's previous incarnation contained. This laziness must be averted! I shall no longer procrastinate on bringing the site back to its former glory. I shall begin the push to complete the site once again!!!!

Tomorrow.

October 28, 2006 - I'm OLD!

As of 9PM today, I will have existed on this Earth for a quarter of a century. 25 years old, holy crap. Like, whoa. Damn. Wowwww.... 25...

Get off my lawn, dang kids!

October 20, 2006 - Hello!

Yes, I am still around. Weird, I did that one song a day for a month thing, and then composed NOTHING for a couple months afterwards. The drought is over now, and in a big way - just finished making a song that took the #1 place in an original music competition! Head on over to

http://music.thetesttube.com/songs/OMC7/

and give it a listen, and the other ones too, everyone did a great job this month.

August 07, 2006 - Time to sell out!

So, check this out!

http://www.cafepress.com/abstractpro

Finished the project, and you can buy the CD at the link above, or continue to suck my bandwidth for free (ungrateful bastards!!!!) as I post the links to mp3's of the last two songs of the project below:

http://abstract-productions.net/music/songaday/day26.nsf - Genuine NES chiptune. Kind of an RPG title theme.

http://abstract-productions.net/music/songaday/day27.mp3 - Improv Jam with my buddy Rob (aka RedPaladin).

July 30, 2006 - Much More Music!

So, I've been faithfully following my song a day schedule (for the most part, some days got unavoidably left behind, and there were a couple of lazy days). I just haven't been updating this website with them, so without further ado

http://abstract-productions.net/music/songaday/day14.mp3 - Pipe organ fugue

http://abstract-productions.net/music/songaday/day15.mp3 - Pop-punk

http://abstract-productions.net/music/songaday/day16.mp3 - String Quartet

http://abstract-productions.net/music/songaday/day17.xm - XM-format music contest entry

http://abstract-productions.net/music/songaday/day18.mp3 - Thrash Metal

http://abstract-productions.net/music/songaday/day19.mp3 - Inspired by Stephen King's Dark Tower series, I was trying to make Roland's theme.

http://abstract-productions.net/music/songaday/day20.mp3 - Smooth Jazz, detective movie style

(day 21 is my Dwelling of Duels entry, which must remain anonymous until voting is complete)

http://abstract-productions.net/music/songaday/day22.mp3 - 50's happy sitcom theme

http://abstract-productions.net/music/songaday/day23.mp3 - Parody of both the Metal Gear Solid 3 theme and the Dragon Warrior theme.

http://abstract-productions.net/music/songaday/day24.mp3 - Improvisational rock (each track was one uninterrupted improv take)

http://abstract-productions.net/music/songaday/day25.mp3 - Dream Trance

July 11, 2006 - The machines take over

Two very mechanical-sounding pieces in the last couple of days, one decidedly much more experimental than the other...

Day 12 - Glitch
http://abstract-productions.net/music/songaday/day12.mp3

Day 13 - Industrial
http://abstract-productions.net/music/songaday/day13.mp3

July 09, 2006 - Day 11 arrives

Day 11 - classical guitar solo
http://abstract-productions.net/music/songaday/day11.mp3

July 08, 2006 - Threefer!

Here's the last three days' worth of songs. I'm still one day behind schedule on this, but I'll be making that up shortly.

Day 8 - Wacky accapella
http://abstract-productions.net/music/songaday/day8.mp3

Day 9 - Epic Orchestral
http://abstract-productions.net/music/songaday/day9.mp3

Day 10 - Gospel
http://abstract-productions.net/music/songaday/day10.mp3

July 03, 2006 - \m/

\m/

http://abstract-productions.net/music/songaday/day7.mp3

July 02, 2006 - Song #6 - with a special guest

So, today's song isn't entirely my composition. My friend Rob was over today and he laid down a really sweet piano track (all in one shot, whoa) and we worked together on orchestrating it into a nice emotional movie soundtracky kinda piece... here it is.

http://abstract-productions.net/music/songaday/day6.mp3

July 01, 2006 - Happy Canada Day!

And for today's song, something that definitely fits the occasion.

http://abstract-productions.net/music/songaday/day5.mp3

July 01, 2006 - Double Whammy

I didn't update this page yesterday, but I still have been doing my song-a-day thing. Here's my latest two. The first is a cover of NIN's "Hurt", the other is some kind of subgenre of electronica, I'm not sure which exactly.

http://abstract-productions.net/music/songaday/day3.mp3
http://abstract-productions.net/music/songaday/day4.mp3

June 29, 2006 - Mr. Video Guy

So another day passes (well, technically I was a little past midnight when I finished it but whatever) and another song arrives!

This song is a song of appreciation, dedicated to video store employees around the world.

Day 2 - 80's synth pop: http://abstract-productions.net/music/songaday/day2.mp3

June 27, 2006 - Song a Day

I've made up my mind that from today until July 27th, I will compose a song a day. The idea is exactly how it sounds. One song of at least 1 minute composed every single day of the month. I'm gonna try for a different genre each time as well.

Day 1 - Salsa: http://www.abstract-productions.net/music/songaday/day1.mp3

I'd say this is turning out pretty good so far.

June 26, 2006 - Music!!

So I finally updated my music page with my most recent songs, and got rid of a couple of my embarrasingly bad older ones. I think I should get my games page back online pretty soon, though I really haven't worked on any of my game projects for a long time now... wondering if I should cancel them and focus more on music instead... I dunno.

June 10, 2006 - Registration open!

You can now register for the forum. I'm pretty sure that hardly anyone will post here but this was some nice PHP practice in any case.

http://abstract-productions.net/register.php

June 09, 2006 - Still workin'

The forum system is coming along pretty well so far. In fact, I'm posting this from the system!

Registration isn't open yet, that'll take a little while to program.

June 08, 2006 - Yes, I'm still updating

A bit of a design switch. I'm just going to go plain text and worry more about content.

I've switched the news updates over to a database, which I hope to use for a messageboard system which I'm programming myself. I'm doing this because my needs for a forum are very minimal, and all the extended functionality of phpbb means that I have to constantly update it to keep with the teh h4x0rz. If I make my own, and do it securely, then it would take a real hacker with a personal vendetta to possibly compromise me, rather than automatic script kiddie bullshit. And I don't think I have enough enemies for that to happen :)

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Home Music Games Photos Comic Forums Links hey, spam bot!	News December 23, 2008 - Cyanide - Overdose! So here it is, a remake of my old rendition of Cyan's theme from Final Fantasy 6. The arrangement quality is much higher on this one than the original one, and there's more showoffy guitar work: http://abstract-productions.net/music/cyanide_od.mp3 Enjoy! April 30, 2008 - This was a triumph I'm making a note here, HUGE SUCCESS http://abstract-productions.net/music/stillalive.mp3 March 25, 2008 - Long Mario Level Long mario level is loooooong http://abstract-productions.net/long_mario_level.php October 02, 2007 - Entering the Realm of Webcomics I've decided to start my own webcomic. An interesting choice considering my lack of visual artistic skill, but I'm hoping to improve that over time. Besides, there's a ton of popular webcomics by artists of marginal skill who have a great sense of humour. The title of the comic is OMGWTFALIENS and the storyline will be based on aliens on Earth, but I don't wanna spoil too much so you'll just have to see how the plot plays out. First strip is up, but I don't have the comic site design yet so it's on a temporary crappy page: http://abstract-productions.net/omgwtfaliens/index.php July 24, 2007 - Song-a-day update Due to a lack of available time, the song-a-day project is off for now (I got up to day 9). It's still alive and will be completed, but I'm not limiting myself to one song a day anymore. June 29, 2007 - Song-a-Day II Starting tonight, I will be composing one song every day, allowing one day each week as a break. I did the same thing last year, though that album was all over the place both in terms of genres and quality. This year I aim to create a cohesive concept album. All the songs will transition into each other and the CD version will be released as one long 30-40 minute song. Wish me luck! May 07, 2007 - PHP Update This server's PHP updated recently, and in the process became much more strict in warning messages, so I've updated the forum code to comply with the new coding standards. Also, if you've registered for the forum, you can edit your profile now. February 14, 2007 - Another Section It just occurred to me that this site is missing a "random crap" section for me to post the various completely random projects that I work on. I shall add this section post-haste. As usual, post-haste means any time from tomorrow to five months from now :) January 14, 2007 - Another Project Well, that burst of activity kinda came to a quick stop. Ah well. Anyway, I'm putting The ARC Legacy on the back burner again because I just got involved with a really interesting game project, which will be using an adaptation of my engine for The ARC Legacy with some interesting modifications to it... not sure what I can say about it at this point but if this project comes through it has the potential to be pretty big. Now, the battle against laziness truly begins. December 11, 2006 - Status update Got some sprite artwork done for some NPC's and the inside of houses in the city of Pruthe. The indoors areas are starting to look a lot more real now. Also worked on the neighboring city of Zydnia a bit. I'll get some screenshots up soon. December 10, 2006 - Whoa. Did I just go and actually work on The ARC Legacy? Man, I haven't touched that project in about two years, but I'm totally going back into it now. I think I'm going to release another demo once I've got a respectable amount of content in the game. First order of business: construction of the city of Zydnia. December 06, 2006 - Updated at last So I finally got the games section back in, and got a links page up for good measure as well. It's starting to look like a complete website again. I think I might even get back to work on The ARC Legacy... that's still up in the air though. December 04, 2006 - Tomorrow, tomorrow, it's only a day away. As I said several days ago, the games section is coming up tomorrow :) Haha, I'm a lazy SOB November 27, 2006 - Restoring to former glory So, I'm looking at the site, and I've realized that I still haven't put up the whole games section that the site's previous incarnation contained. This laziness must be averted! I shall no longer procrastinate on bringing the site back to its former glory. I shall begin the push to complete the site once again!!!! Tomorrow. October 28, 2006 - I'm OLD! As of 9PM today, I will have existed on this Earth for a quarter of a century. 25 years old, holy crap. Like, whoa. Damn. Wowwww.... 25... Get off my lawn, dang kids! October 20, 2006 - Hello! Yes, I am still around. Weird, I did that one song a day for a month thing, and then composed NOTHING for a couple months afterwards. The drought is over now, and in a big way - just finished making a song that took the #1 place in an original music competition! Head on over to http://music.thetesttube.com/songs/OMC7/ and give it a listen, and the other ones too, everyone did a great job this month. August 07, 2006 - Time to sell out! So, check this out! http://www.cafepress.com/abstractpro Finished the project, and you can buy the CD at the link above, or continue to suck my bandwidth for free (ungrateful bastards!!!!) as I post the links to mp3's of the last two songs of the project below: http://abstract-productions.net/music/songaday/day26.nsf - Genuine NES chiptune. Kind of an RPG title theme. http://abstract-productions.net/music/songaday/day27.mp3 - Improv Jam with my buddy Rob (aka RedPaladin). July 30, 2006 - Much More Music! So, I've been faithfully following my song a day schedule (for the most part, some days got unavoidably left behind, and there were a couple of lazy days). I just haven't been updating this website with them, so without further ado http://abstract-productions.net/music/songaday/day14.mp3 - Pipe organ fugue http://abstract-productions.net/music/songaday/day15.mp3 - Pop-punk http://abstract-productions.net/music/songaday/day16.mp3 - String Quartet http://abstract-productions.net/music/songaday/day17.xm - XM-format music contest entry http://abstract-productions.net/music/songaday/day18.mp3 - Thrash Metal http://abstract-productions.net/music/songaday/day19.mp3 - Inspired by Stephen King's Dark Tower series, I was trying to make Roland's theme. http://abstract-productions.net/music/songaday/day20.mp3 - Smooth Jazz, detective movie style (day 21 is my Dwelling of Duels entry, which must remain anonymous until voting is complete) http://abstract-productions.net/music/songaday/day22.mp3 - 50's happy sitcom theme http://abstract-productions.net/music/songaday/day23.mp3 - Parody of both the Metal Gear Solid 3 theme and the Dragon Warrior theme. http://abstract-productions.net/music/songaday/day24.mp3 - Improvisational rock (each track was one uninterrupted improv take) http://abstract-productions.net/music/songaday/day25.mp3 - Dream Trance July 11, 2006 - The machines take over Two very mechanical-sounding pieces in the last couple of days, one decidedly much more experimental than the other... Day 12 - Glitch http://abstract-productions.net/music/songaday/day12.mp3 Day 13 - Industrial http://abstract-productions.net/music/songaday/day13.mp3 July 09, 2006 - Day 11 arrives Day 11 - classical guitar solo http://abstract-productions.net/music/songaday/day11.mp3 July 08, 2006 - Threefer! Here's the last three days' worth of songs. I'm still one day behind schedule on this, but I'll be making that up shortly. Day 8 - Wacky accapella http://abstract-productions.net/music/songaday/day8.mp3 Day 9 - Epic Orchestral http://abstract-productions.net/music/songaday/day9.mp3 Day 10 - Gospel http://abstract-productions.net/music/songaday/day10.mp3 July 03, 2006 - \m/ \m/ http://abstract-productions.net/music/songaday/day7.mp3 July 02, 2006 - Song #6 - with a special guest So, today's song isn't entirely my composition. My friend Rob was over today and he laid down a really sweet piano track (all in one shot, whoa) and we worked together on orchestrating it into a nice emotional movie soundtracky kinda piece... here it is. http://abstract-productions.net/music/songaday/day6.mp3 July 01, 2006 - Happy Canada Day! And for today's song, something that definitely fits the occasion. http://abstract-productions.net/music/songaday/day5.mp3 July 01, 2006 - Double Whammy I didn't update this page yesterday, but I still have been doing my song-a-day thing. Here's my latest two. The first is a cover of NIN's "Hurt", the other is some kind of subgenre of electronica, I'm not sure which exactly. http://abstract-productions.net/music/songaday/day3.mp3 http://abstract-productions.net/music/songaday/day4.mp3 June 29, 2006 - Mr. Video Guy So another day passes (well, technically I was a little past midnight when I finished it but whatever) and another song arrives! This song is a song of appreciation, dedicated to video store employees around the world. Day 2 - 80's synth pop: http://abstract-productions.net/music/songaday/day2.mp3 June 27, 2006 - Song a Day I've made up my mind that from today until July 27th, I will compose a song a day. The idea is exactly how it sounds. One song of at least 1 minute composed every single day of the month. I'm gonna try for a different genre each time as well. Day 1 - Salsa: http://www.abstract-productions.net/music/songaday/day1.mp3 I'd say this is turning out pretty good so far. June 26, 2006 - Music!! So I finally updated my music page with my most recent songs, and got rid of a couple of my embarrasingly bad older ones. I think I should get my games page back online pretty soon, though I really haven't worked on any of my game projects for a long time now... wondering if I should cancel them and focus more on music instead... I dunno. June 10, 2006 - Registration open! You can now register for the forum. I'm pretty sure that hardly anyone will post here but this was some nice PHP practice in any case. http://abstract-productions.net/register.php June 09, 2006 - Still workin' The forum system is coming along pretty well so far. In fact, I'm posting this from the system! Registration isn't open yet, that'll take a little while to program. June 08, 2006 - Yes, I'm still updating A bit of a design switch. I'm just going to go plain text and worry more about content. I've switched the news updates over to a database, which I hope to use for a messageboard system which I'm programming myself. I'm doing this because my needs for a forum are very minimal, and all the extended functionality of phpbb means that I have to constantly update it to keep with the teh h4x0rz. If I make my own, and do it securely, then it would take a real hacker with a personal vendetta to possibly compromise me, rather than automatic script kiddie bullshit. And I don't think I have enough enemies for that to happen :)
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