Spent the weekend mucking around with Flash - specifically, the rather nifty Flixel game library.

So to test it out I knocked together a fun little game that goes by the name of Arse Monkeys

Needs a little polish in the graphics department, but* it was surprisingly easy to put together. Looks like Flixel has some serious potential for future Beercave releases :D

* hehe - I said "butt"!

I've noticed the frame rate on Gun Bastard has a tendency to plummet when things get a bit splodey, so I should probably start looking at optimising the code a little before I go any further.
Since the explosions are the most obvious source of slowdown, at least some of the problem is likely down to object creation overhead on the various particles I'm chucking about the screen.

In order to minimise the overhead, I thought I should investigate object pooling...

http://www.beercave.co.uk/2009/09/01/playing-pool

Via The Daily WTF

http://www.beercave.co.uk/2009/07/31/mm-too-metal-one-hand


I absolutely fucking *love* Motörhead. So when I found out they were playing on my birthday I had to have tickets.

Lucky for me I've got a goddamn awesome wife - thankyou Vikki! I love you!

Currently contemplating whether or not to stay an extra night and catch another of my favourite bands - Skunk Anansie are back together and playing the same venue on the saturday!

The Pope, it seems, is fucking metal...

"Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue"

Took me a while to get around to it, but I finally dragged all the old blog content out of the archives and reupped it to the beercave blog

Now to keep it updated...

Dear Cunts on Radio 1,
SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP!!!!!

Die in a fire, you worthless pack of irritating unfunny fucking TWATS!!!

Love and hugs,
Jonny

Can you tell what it is yet?

You're my pretty

♥