Despite the fact that I left considerably early, there I was on "El Camino Real"; grotesquely late for my doctor's appointment. I had printed out directions from my workplace, yet I was trying to get there from my apartment. This confusion led to much suffering.

So I was a bit frustrated. And, big surprise, it showed in my driving. I was a bit heavy on the acceleration at times, but I didn't think too much of it. Until I slammed hard on the accelerator to pass this big SUV and all of the sudden I am bathed in the erie red of the "oh shit" light. A warning tone sounds as I notice that I have lost all power. The display LCD flashes “PROBLEM”. No shit sherlock.

Needless to say, I never made it to my doctor's appointment. My car drives, but it's still saying “PROBLEM”. Bad day. Argh.

UPDATE: The light has now disappeared as mysteriously as it came. I have no idea what happened, but I think perhaps I tripped an auto-resetting circuit breaker for the electric motor somehow.

Finally, the day has arrived. This site is now on the first page of search results for the word "darco". Now to climb my way all the way to the top of the list...

UPDATE: Slipped to page two! AARRGH!

Well, it doesn't happen very often, but... I am quite sick this morning. Coughing, hacking, sniffling... My nose, ears and throat feel like crap. I hate to say it, but I might take the day off.

Project SEDE was an attempt to create a game of moderate quality on the seemingly dead American Net Yaroze Scene around early 1998. As the name implies, the project was started by 4 people, Steve Tolin, Ed, Darco (Me), and Elliot. Unfortunately the project fell apart after everyone except me lost interest in the project. After seeing that this project was a dead end, and having more interesting ideas to pursue, I finally abandoned the project. I created a visual, WYSIWYG (Except for sprites & objects), multi-layer level editor for the game which made level creation a breeze. I also wrote virtually everything that is in the game except for the music engine, which was written by Elliot. Even it it isn't finished, I am still proud of what it represents—my first real game.

Geode is the name of a game project I worked on while I was attending my second semester at the DigiPen Institute of Technology. I was responsible for the majority of the technical design of the game.

So... Here I am. Nathan is singing "master of puppets" in the other room. Mike is fixing Jessica's computer. I'm setting up my jabber server.

Time to chill.

I spent the night at Armando and Will's place in Eugene, and I'm about to get back on the road for the long haul. Wee....

I'm experimenting with a new look and feel to the site, one which better reflects a website called "deepdarc". This was just a quick-and-dirty re-design, and you can easily see that it is very similar to the previous "Kubrick" theme. As I continue to hack on the look, expect it to start to feel more unique and less like Kubrick.