Inactivity Lately...

Sorry, i've been very busy.
I'll be back to posting by tomorrow. (hopefully) :D
- Noah Weidner

Day 25: What is the Log, again?

lol.
Really?
So, we're on Day 25 of what the Log should be.
But it has turned into something new (and it's taken me till now to announce it)
The log will now be referenced as part of "365 Days of Darwin". :D
YAY.
No label.
D: AWWWWW.
I'll keep it under label "Log".
That's bout' it.
- Darwin12

Day 24: Random Minecraft

SO!
You see...
I don't have much to say...
lol.
Just kidding.
Day 24? ALREADY?
Well, welcome to a piece of my Randomness in Random Minecraft.

To get started, this thing to my right... eh... yeah this one >>>>>>>>>>>>
Is me in my "evil" hardcore world that i'm gonna DESTORYYY!
LOL.
Just kidding.
I'm gonna survive so well in there hopefully.
Eh..
No more DCMCServer details till tomorrow, but I will tell you that there is a new blog post over there!
Go see it at www.DCMCServer.blogspot.com

- Darwin12

Factions Exploration: Part 1

Hello Everyone.
Welcome to my new "mini-series" about Factions in the DCMCServer!
Just recently, we switched on the magical plugin by some people working for Bukkit. Immediately, we slammed on our keyboards to furiously create our Factions.
Captevyo made his faction: Dark.
Mine, was TeamDarwin.
Masonridge (flyingninjacake) made his faction TheBeast...
The Faction system is made for exploration purposes.
I'm sure most of you will be interested in making your own, but unfortunately... we cannot allow the creation of user-clans.
Part 1?
That's it?
Really?
This is gonna be like 5 parts, so this is a short announcement post I guess.
Yeah, so that's about it.
- Darwin12

DCMCServer Production Began

( Originally from DCMCServer Blog at www.DCMCServer.blogspot.com )

Hello everyone.
Welcome back to the DCMCServer Blog.
Tomorrow, a post on the Darwin12 Co. Blog will be announced.
But for today, you can read that post here one day EARLY :D

Okay, so as of 4/14/12, at 6:00pm EST. Me, Masonridge (flyingninjacake on Minecraft), and _Captevyo_ have began production (inDev) on Project DCMCS. Or DCMCServer!

We have decided to make a release of several pictures as of Day 1 in the creation of the game.
You can see them, along with their label below.

The main area, sometimes called the "Forum" or "Spawn Point".

Snapshot of West DarCity's current work.

The outside of the Blacksmith Shop.

Captevyo and Flyingninjacake on the inside of the upcoming "Chest Shop".

The outside and top of the BlackSmith Shop.

LOL.
That's about it.
More updates soon.

The Weekly Catchup: Week 5

Hello.
Welcome my Friends to the Weekly Catchup: Week 5.
This time, I'll be covering site news, Trapped in the Darkness, and the upcoming project titled "Herobrine" as well as new information on the Book Series for "Trapped in the Darkness".
Sorry that I was a bit late to post this, I was busy yesterday. So hopefully this will be the ONLY "Thursday" Weekly Catchup...
or WAIT.
TODAY'S FRIDAY!??
OMG.
It's no longer Thursday?
OMG. Fryday?
No, just Friday.
Okay... I see now.
Lets get into it.

Site News:
So http://www.darwin12co.blogspot.com/ - you have been reading it if you are reading it now.
If you are a first-timer we welcome you.
But we're also "supposed" to get a new design look...
will we?
Not anytime soon.
I will be creating a new site look, that could possibly be a site design of epicness...
lol, other than that. Thanks for 2k PageViews my friends.
It means a whole lot to me.

That's it for Site News.

Trapped in the Darkness: Production:
Current levels of production are high for Darwin12Videos, as a result of over 9 different projects going on ranging between short-films, to Series and so on. From times of 20 seconds to up to 9 minutes at a time.
The Trapped in the Darkness Project Production is a new test for our editors however as a result of numerous advancements in our abilities to work with other production companies.
One of the many and most recognizable productionthat we have worked/are working with are Johanskruger, not really a production company but he also prefers to go under "JohanFilmz" as well. We haven't verified an official name however.
Another one that we are working on a (not so very long) short film (about 1 minute at most) with WildRiderProductions.
The two projects i'm sure of at this point is Trapped in the Darkness and Herobrine.
But i'm here to talabout Trapped in the Darkness Production.
Production work has began as of today (Actually Tuesday + Wednesday) and yeah...

lol. I think that's it for now?
No, moving on.

Herobrine: Production:Wow, lots of Darwin12Video talk.
So yeah, we began working on the Herobrine set from what i've heard. Captevyo, Darwin12, and some other developers are making a simple town at this point which will be the roll point of the film series.
More stuff....

Trapped in the Darkness: Book Series:
Book 1?
Yes.
When?
August at least.
So here we are again my friends.
Such a pleasure,
anyway.
The long awaited TitD Project is in production, but who says the book series won't be coming out anytime later or beforehand?
The first chapter of the book is going into a slam-process, by Darwin12 (me :D) the only writer who claims "You'll be excited."
But more exciting news in the world of TitD Releases comes in the next paragraph or so.

Trapped in the Darkness: First Poster?
You are probably all aware of my abilities for graphic designs and catchy themes.
A new twist will bring the Trapped in the Darkness Poster to look less like your average poster.
The poster: along with 3 others for Herobrine, The Space Cruiser: Part 1, and (of course) The Meet the Series we began with Jacobthescientist, will be hitting the streets of R.S.A. H2 (v3) soon! To get the three projects popular in advance. The three posters will be up for grabs to be placed in places all over ROBLOXia.
The first poster: already under work is titled (of course) you know it already (the title).
But then our special quote...
"They are coming for you, be ready, prepare, expect them."
The poster releases sometime in the next month or so, so keep your eyes opened.

DarwinMusic is Opened:
So, about three weeks ago. We (executives) meaning me, Captevyo and Cheeseheadfoamy had been siked about the possibility of exclusive music for our projects.
Three weeks ago, we "secretly" opened DarwinMusic with the artists:
Darwin12
Captevyo
RomanNumbers
and hopefully more in the future.

We expect great things from it.

That's about it.
Also, Happy Friday the 13th.
Enjoy your day/night.
This concludes

Day 17: Filming is Beginning!

Filming for the long awaited "Trapped in the Darkness" prequel and afterward has began as of today. Production on a (now coming soon) Novel will also be released soon.
These words (novel), will be publicized and published for reading. :D
That's about it for now.
Nothing really big.
Thanks.
- Darwin12

Adventures in Minecraftia: Part 2

Adventures in Minecraftia!
Finally, at last, a collaboration of many of photos from our DarCity Minecraft Server.

_Darwin12_ next to his new friend, The Creeper.

This time, we don't really have as much to show you except the new "penthouses" in a new region on our map.

It isn't much of an adventure eh?
No, you have not the slightest idea what we've been through for this moment.
lol.

Getting to it.

Stop5051's Penthouse :D (at night, side)

As you can see to the right, you can see an assortment of photos that are also labeled.

You can scroll up and down and take a look at it.
But for now, i'll give you a rundown:
So this is Stop5051's penthouse, the entire thing is a chromium iron + glass consistent exterior and interior. The entire thing has numerous redstone "lamps" that are placed on/in the floor and ceiling.

Stop5051's Penthouse (at night, entrance)

No Wood is included in the structure. Except for the fences.
The "hangover" for the garden is stone and true glowstone.

From a view of sides, you can see some of the things, but from the front of the structure in the garden, you can see down the entrance hall and into some of the structure.

Stop5051's Penthouse (day, garden view)

Some of the structure is a patio that overlooks a good portion of the area we are located in.

Stop5051's Penthouse (night, garden view)

If you scroll down, you can see the "patio overlook" at Day/Night.
But yeah, that's about it.
For most of it at least.
The overlook consists of a mountain to the right, and a small "mountain valley". Some of it is fogged up in the distance. Kind of some water to the front; that's about it.

lol.
Again, "That's about it.".
So yes... :D



So Day is above... night to the right...

Lets do a bit of skipping...
skipping a bit...
lalalalalalaal.
more spam.
Wait some more...
Wait some more...

Stop5051's Penthouse (living room, interior living room)

Okay, lets talk about the interior now. This is the interior here. There is a little of wood, but it isn't typical wood, it's bookshelves, a TV and some redstone torches, a sofa and a chest in the background and jukebox.
Behind the picture, there are two rooms. Bedrooms to be true on that.
The lighting goes above the house and in the flooring (as demonstrated far to the far left).

Stop5051's Penthouse from afar.

Once again, from across the mountain(Ish) valley...
I hope you enjoyed Adventure in Minecraftia: Part 2...
Part 3 will be coming soon (I don't know how long).
:D
Bye.
- Darwin12

Use of NPCs in R.S.A H3: Part 2

So, if you haven't read part 1, read it now by clicking here.
So yes.

We we're talking about Quests and NPC shops last time we set off. Part 2 will probably be the last if not second to last part.

Lets just begin...

3. Informative:
Informative, we've kinda done that.
We added "Helper" a convenient helping and informative character to two positions in our game.
The museum and the main room.
Pretty much, that's it.

4. Quests (continued):
So #2 talked about Quests.
I wanted to go farther in depth with this by putting out that quests could be rewarding, putting characters in interesting situations to go to observatories, go to mission control and collect data, go to the servers, fix something, find something, etc. The possibilities are endless, but the formula finding what that would be would be something of the sort: (just an example, not actual code)
player_status:"questname" if
---first quest
talk_fn(character_class"helper(4)"))
find_fn(missinglense: brick_name"missinglense1"))
return_fn(character_class"helper(4)"))
talking_fn(character_class"helper(4)"))
etc. that's just a a formulated example, not actual code.
THAT ISN'T EVEN CLOSE TO LUA.
LOL.
So there ya go for your broadened things.
But, using another formula, lets say you get the wrong path, instead the script formulates two possible endings like...
if_path(1) = success (reward, quest completed)
if_path(2) = failure (no reward, quest marked incomplete)
Another formula there: lots easier to make notes like that.
So per say you're looking for a 200ml can of rootbeer, and you pick up a 100ml can of rootbeer and take it back, they would say that you have to find the 200ml, and if you take it back wrong it would say you basically failed, and that it's "okay". lol (funny).

So there's fun for ya.
What I do on the weekends, you will never know.
lol...
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LOADING COMPLETED.
That's about it.
Thanks for reading, I don't know if this is the last part, but if it is, thanks for reading Part 1 and 2.
If not, then see you in Part 3? lol.
- Darwin12

Day 11: Skeptical...

So, wow, it's Day 11... so exciting.
So these last few days, i've been considering opening an entirely new blog for personal use...
but that wouldn't be much fun would it?
Maybe, just for logs and stuff.
We're pretty far from our "Trapped in the Darkness" first "public" release.
Or so it seems.
The Space Cruiser has also gotten new details that confirm that it won't release till after August thanks to recent "school work", a lot of "post-production on other 'secret' projects, and the production of: of course, "Trapped in the Darkness".
While, Darwin12Videos says the project isn't cancelled, but on a very high stage of "hiatus" meaning that it is postponed, it is baffling that it has already completed filming.
So that'll be your headliner for Week 5 I imagine (the weekly catchup) i'll start probably abbreviating it TWC or something.
Something...
anyway, i'll see you Day 12 or something like that.
- Darwin12

The Weekly Catchup: Week 4

 So Yes.
Welcome to The Weekly Catchup: W4 I guess you can call it.
As you can see, i've put some pictures out to the side.
Some time ago I referenced making a fighting Arena for my Minecraft Server, well that is now completed!
Lets get into it.

Minecraft Stuff:
So, yeah...
pretty generic, I told you about the fighting arena, with three pictures out to the side, taken before "recent refurbs" were made to most of them.
So more good news for that, it really is used for mini-duels. But that's where I talk about my two Darwin12Videos things. Lets begin on that.

Darwin12Videos MC Server:
Beginning April 4th (that's today), I was supposed to begin whitelist requests for my MC server.
Unfortunately, we haven't exactly "locked in" any Dar-Games links between this and this, meaning we still have yet to determine if the server is going to be a real, physical and "good"
idea. Considerably, people seem to like the idea, me and my friend have been considering such a thing for the server to be online by May. If things would change, I'd post, but if things didn't change, you may see it referenced in the Weekly Catchups in the future.
We have called the small project name DCMCServer. Which stands for Darwin12 Co. Minecraft Server.
Once again, we're in a position prior to any "began" construction on the server in particular.
Should you be interested in "certain server stuff", you can check out the official new blog for the DCMC Server at www.DCMCServer.blogspot.com or click here.

Lets get the next thing.

Darwin12Videos New "MC reality" PROJECT:
So, I did tell you I love the Hunger Games.
I didn't think it would catch the best of me, but soon people will be able to volunteer for a new reality "survival" project we call "The Ender Games".
The project originated from the generic idea of a place, for example our MC Village shown to the right/above. But it actually originated in a "First run" with our "whitelisted" members.
The Ender Games project would include possibly 4 people + Darwin12 (5 open spots on the server), or in our case if the DCMCServer for more spots. But lets say we have 4 people.
The way we did our first run with gogo505 (stop5051 on MC), 1wardude (same on MC), and Captevyo (_Captevyo_ on MC) only included three people, plus me filming. The event began with me spreading mysterious "chests" across the map in random places, in this case, the first run was held in a Forest Biome and there were no "exact" boundaries set at the time so that set the players off to try and find chests with weapons and food inside of them. Mostly, there wasn't very much food, so as part of the aspects of surviving, you had to hunt the food. But Creepers, Zombie Pigmen, Enderman (especially Enderman), Skeletons, and so many more mobs would come out at night and spoil your chances of winning the games.
When the game begins, the 10 minute, day cycle in Minecraft determines a huge thing. If everyone was spread out with no boundries, mostly they "stumbled" upon each other rarely, it only killed one person one time, but we gave our players two lives to make it more fair. But Creepers, Endermen and other mobs had claimed the amount of kills.
It's Minecraft + Hunger Games + Survival in Boundries. It's like "Secret Society" I guess.
The last surviving person would be the "Ender" or the winner, who would receive not only a chest-full of 64 Set Diamonds, but bragging rights and more.
That project will get farther in depth as time continues.

Anyway, lets see what we have left.

Oh yeah, just for the fun of it, back in the day when only me, Capt and Cheeseheadfoamy were the only residents of our server, we had created a super, super awesome Wipeout Course. Now i'm not saying I'm doing a reality "MineOut" Project type thing, but it's an interesting idea.
Just to put on the board.
Final stuff...

inDev R.S.A H3 Testing Activation:
So last week, Darwin12 created a shirt about the "indev" of R.S.A H3, saying you had to pay to get general "testing" access, which would be spent toward R.S.A ads, paying the developers, and more motivation to the community of R.S.A in terms of a new home.
Well that testing shirt is being activated soon, Dar-Games hasn't confirmed it will be when they begin the 1.3 update for inDev, or after it, but they say...
"We will begin the inDev shirt and continue it till 2.3 inDev, which in our case is 1.3 Alpha."
- Dar-Games Management
So does this mean 10 updates are valid for the shirt; will it go active when 1.3 begins it's updates?
We'll have to see in the future.
Dar-Games also confirmed that...
"Darwin12 is the base developer of 1.3 inDev, because most of the "interface" work needs to be refreshed and updated to fit the new abilities given in LUA and such... starting with a new introGUI, a functionality of "seasons"/conditional GUI, including what season, what month, all valid and good stuff, if there are meteor showers, etc... probably will nail the 1.3 interface for GUI "quests" at R.S.A H3 as well."
- R.S.A H3 Dev_Notes (ent.4)
So it sounds like 1.3 is going to be a GUI update with all that stuff, and a quest update? Hm, interesting... I posted something like that I'll have to write part two for...
so yeah.

Ending...
I guess that's all you get for Weekly Catchup 4.
Bye.
- Darwin12

Day 9: Adventures in Minecraftia: Post Part 2 is coming :D

So that was a self-explanatory, very long, summed up title for stuff.
So yes, bottom line. I'm working on Adventures in Minecraft: Part 2, the post. We all remember it right?
RIGHHTHTTT?
Sure...
Anyway, Not sure when to expect that.
Catchup Week 4 will be released this week :D
I'm glad about that, most of it will be Minecraft though as well as one Darwin12Video thing...
So yeah.
CoolstoryBro.
See ya then?
- Darwin12

Day 8: "Hunger Games"

Hunger Games...
You've probably read the novel.
You probably liked it.
You may have seen the movie.
Well, still having been reading Book 1, I decided to go see the movie with my friend.
When I walked in I expected one type of a movie.
But when I walked out, I had experienced a much more immersible world.
The Soundtrack: Amazing.
The Screenplay: Flat_out_BRILLIANT.
The Plot: As good as the Books.
I've come to love music lately, as a result of making it myself.
Screenplay is always fun to write.
Plots are fun to create.
So much fun.
:D
This Weekly Catchup will probably not be a very interesting Weekly Catchup.. it will be more special than interesting. I'll be talking strictly about my new "movie theories" about audience immersion and how the movie looks and what technically puts it all together.
I have a project in school due on Wednesday though so I have to catchup with that.
LOL.
That's about it.
- Darwin12

Day 7: DJ Station

Soyus.
I may not be a professional DJ, but i'm doing some awesome DJ-ing.
My own music included along with music by RomanNumbers, George and Jonathan, C418, Deadmau5, the NG_Portal People, and more.
lol.
I'm having fun with it too...
Will post on Day 8.
KBaiNow.
- Darwin12