In a story that just won't die, 'Transformers' director Michael Bay now says he over-reacted when he posted a widely-reported angry message on his web site last night, condemning Paramount for dropping its support of Blu-ray.

After huddling with Paramount brass today (and apparently watching the '300' HD DVD -- "it rocks," says Bay), the 'Transformers' director says he understands where the studio is coming from, and that after hearing Paramount's rationale for choosing HD DVD over Blu-ray, "I like what I heard."

Bay now dismisses his earlier comments as an ill-informed late night post, written in haste following dinner with three owners of Blu-ray players. "I drank the kool aid hook line and sinker," said Bay.

The full text of Bay's new post follows below:

"Last night at dinner I was having dinner with three blu-ray owners, they were pissed about no Transformers Blu-ray and I drank the kool aid hook line and sinker. So at 1:30 in the morning I posted - nothing good ever comes out of early am posts mind you - I over reacted. I heard where Paramount is coming from and the future of HD and players that will be close to the $200 mark which is the magic number. I like what I heard.

As a director, I'm all about people seeing films in the best quality possible, and I saw and heard firsthand people upset about a corporate decision.

So today I saw 300 on HD, it rocks!

So I think I might be back on to do Transformers 2!"

Today I decided it would be a good time to release a little game I programmed over the last few weeks. It's inspired by "Gimme Friction Baby" by Wouter Visser


Over at gp2x.info, someone asked for a port and I decided to try it. It's up to version beta 06, although not completely finished, it is ready for release.

The game does not really need an explanation, just start it up, you'll get the hang of it soon enough

When you start the game, you can press X to rotate the game, so you can either play it 320x240 or 240x320. Start and A start a game. Once ingame, stick up/down/left/right/click and A/B/X/Y fire the ball. Select immediately quits the game, start or volup+voldown return you to the intro screen.

Read the readme on how to add your own music.
The game can be found here.

A big thanks to the people who have playtested it and helped me with suggestions (rx_shorty & GP2X.info!) Thanks to yaustar for Code::Blocks RC 4, great work!

Hope you enjoy it!

o Swapped blue and white; this is mostly conceptual business, but when
playing Gladiator you now want BLUE, and Friar wants WHITE more.

o Toughness skill reduces 'clear' damage, not spell damage; not as insanely
overpowered anymore

o When dealing any kind of damage, at least 1pt always hits the target; ie:
regardless of toughness or damage reduction or whatever, 1 lands.
- note that a _dodge_ voids the entire attack, so no damage is dealt. We may
need to balance that still .. but dodge is harder to go off anyway.

o Free moves only occur after a clear, as they were intended. Ooops! Also,
they should only occur when oyu actually get a move, not when you're missing
a move. Oops! All that 3am coding..

o Enemy level is now a little more in line with player; wont' really
outclass you so much until level 5+

o Skill points, spell points and gold are shown in the training area and
stores, so you know how much you've got left

o On match begin, for level 0-2, show a warning if you've not spent all your
skill and spell pts when firing up a match; you cna save them up, but these
early levels.. its wise to spend

o A damage bonus (for clears only) is added based on level; not until level
3 mind you, but helps to avoid long attles against giant hp, evne if you've
not geared up .. or a mage without a +dmg weapon in hand, say

o Weapon bonuses honoured now; ie: Pigsticker now has a +2 dmg bonus when
equipped, so that means a clear-3-skulls does 3+2 dmg now, not just 3.
Likewise, a 4-skulls does 6 dmg.
- when enemies have giant hitpoints due to level you need big gear, or big
spells, to keep the match short; if you have crappy gear or crappy spells, a
high level opponent will take forever to beat

Thats all for now, but much more to come

http://www.codejedi.com/battlejewels...x-054-beta.zip

Substantially untested; time was tight!

jeff

My latest game is now available on the archive.

Sleuth Slots is the first part of my Murder trilogy. It's a fruit machine simulator which I've tried to make as realistic as possible.

You can download it here.

My 5th homebrew is a memory test game that find same latte art each other.

You can select size (4x4, 5x5, 6x6) and mode (none, time limit, frequency limit) at option.

You can see latte art image at moment when it is clicked. It is reversed again.

Coffee Prince is my favorite drama title so I make it as a memorial at weekend.

This drama is love story between cafe boss and boyish hostess.