User:Artisticdude
-Who and/or what am I?
I am a student in high school who found BfW back in early 2009. Ironically, I downloaded one of the 0.8 versions instead of the more recent ones, partially because I was unaware of how much the game had progressed, but mostly because the more recent versions were so much larger. After playing Wesnoth for a while, I decided to try writing my own campaign. Therefore I was determined to learn WML. *cue drum roll*
It was a long and difficult process, but I finally succeeded in creating a 14 scenario campaign that actually worked, which I called The Traitor. It was, of course, very much a newb campaign as far as map design went (nine leaders, all but the player's recruiting level 2's and 3's on a gigantic map), but in some respects it was rather advanced. I varied the objectives, and used some fairly difficult coding for a beginner (it was a pain to get right, but I did finally manage it). The storyline was poorly planned, and it kind of fell apart after the first couple scenarios. But I still thought it was something else, and even now I am still surprised that I got it working. Sadly, due to a computer crash, a dying motherboard, and other similar problems, the campaign died in its sleep, entombed forevermore on a dead Windows computer. Luckily I still had an earlier version, which I promptly fixed up when I got my mac. Yet somehow it wouldn't work... it gave the dreaded 'unknown scenario' error, despite all the id tags matching perfectly. Someday I might pick that campaign up and redo it, but until then I'll let it take up space on my hard drive, waiting for its hour to come.
It was during this period I joined the Wesnoth community. I am currently creating Vix, my new sp campaign, as well as developing an RPG campaign with customized systems. The latter is on hold due to the difficulty I was having with juggling too many projects, so now I'm working on finishing Vix. Once that is done, I'll be free to devote my entire time to my RPG. (citation needed)
As an artist, I was nothing before I joined the Wesnoth forums. I've been here for 10 months now, and have been practicing pixel art steadily for the duration, and I have finally improved my artistic skills to mainline standard. I have also created art for several eras and campaigns, although, sadly, most of them are now abandoned.
-What are my favorite games?
I have broad tastes, and enjoy a wide range of games on the computer as well as in reality. Among my favorite 'real' games are Risk, Heroscape, Scrabble, and Bingo (I was going to say hide-and-seek, especially since I was a world-renowned champion in that particular game once, but...). A few of my favorite computer games (besides BfW, which is a given), are Battlefield 1942, The Geneforge series, the Avernum Series, Eschalon: Book 1, Frogatto, The Tradewinds series, Mad Skills Motocross, and Lux, just to name a few.
-What equipment do I use in my BfW projects?
I use a Mac Mini computer running OS X 10.6, and occasionally (okay, almost never) an HP laptop running Windows Vista. My other hardware consists of a Wacom tablet, mouse and pen, and a pair of headphones. Adobe Photoshop handles most of my art projects, but I use GIMP for utilities such as creating .GIF's, Artrage for concept art, and Paintbrush when I want to use a simple, uncluttered program. For coding WML I mainly use TextEdit, which, despite it's constant crashing, serves its purpose. I do also occasionally use Baufo's WML editor to program WML, and I'm thinking of switching to Baufo's WML editor for all my WML coding projects, although I just haven't been able to come to terms with the latter's lack of the 'find word' and 'find line' functions.
-What projects am I currently involved in/working on?
My mainline work to date consists of the following:
-Animated the Merman Warrior's se/sw attack
-Animated the Merman Fighter's se/sw attack
-Animated the Goblin Spearman's run cycle
I'm working on the following projects for mainline:
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""Some of the projects I've been involved in:""
-The War of Terrador
Graphics and WML assistance, balancing suggestions. Currently under development.
-Fossil: The Great Journey
Graphics, WML assistance. Currently under development.
-Brent
Graphics, code suggestions. Currently abandoned due to the disappearance of the author. My art never even made it in. :(
-The Promised Land (a.k.a The Anarchist)
Graphics
-The Wesnoth Forum Faction (personal project)
Graphics, WML coding, balancing
-Vix (personal project)
Creation, coding, balancing, story... okay, pretty much everything except some recall code that Gambit created for me. Got writer's block and never went back to it.
-The Dark Dagger Wars (personal project)
Creation, coding, balancing, story... in short, everything. Currently on hiatus due to my inability to juggle multiple projects at once.
-The Traitor: Resurrection (personal project)
Everything. Currently on hiatus for the same reason as above.
-Undead in the Sewers! (personal project)
An experiment in Wesnoth RPG, abandoned due to lack of player interest
-Swamplings
Miscellaneous minor graphic contributions.
Miscellaneous links and further reading
My Blog (that I do occasionally use): http://thehallofego.blogspot.com/
My Gallery (outdated & abandoned): http://wesnoth.dbzer0.com/blog/wpg2?g2_itemId=10628
My Art Thread in the Wesnoth Forums: http://www.wesnoth.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=28143
Clipboard- the place of all sorts of Wesnoth-related odds and ends
I was browsing through the oldest posts in the Art Contributions forum (yes, some of us do occasionally venture into those desolate reaches of cyberspace), and I came across an interesting description of orcs, copied exactly as the author wrote it:
Orc is not guy who read books and gets smart, goto school, is sentimental and buys rose for his gf and lits romantic candles and who eat steak and fries.
Orc is stupid guy who never take a bath, he burp and fart and eat rats and snakes, he shout and yell.
Here's the thread: http://www.wesnoth.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=6346&hilit=orcs+with+two+swords%3F&sid=34a85c41f9194ebf576b2edd0b3d4ae8