Still not done? Why am I not surprised?

Yeah yeah, I know...this thing called "Bill's Quest" that I've been promising you for about three years has still yet to ripen. At least it's made it to its beta stage, but not much farther.

You see, there's this thing called "school" that has gotten in the way of the damn project since it was thought of. Starting with 12th grade, followed by Freshman year of college, now I'm half way through my second year...but you see, school has this amazing ability to drain energy from making huge projects. I can't put my finger on it...especially here. I don't know why, and it's very irksome.

It's even more irksome because I can't finish the damn game on my computer anymore...I have to use the library's computers 'cause my computer can't handle the damn file anymore, Vista hates it (causes it to crash before even loading), and now it's in CS4. So my solution to the problem is using the library's Mac computers because they were built for this shit.

Three problems exist:

1. I don't like moving around sometimes, especially when the weather sucks. Good news is when my motivation is up enough, I will get my ass to the library to do it. Unless of course...

2. All the Macs might be taken. Sure, there are lots of computers in the library, but only half are Macs, and they seem to be highly coveted. Gee, I can't imagine why...oh right, every other computer in the lab area is a Vista. Vista or Mac...which would you rather work with? (However, if they upgraded to Windows 7, oh please dear god I hope they did, then it might not be an issue anymore). Regardless of what platform is used, though, doesn't matter because...

3. They're all public computers. Every time you log off, it resets everything to default settings. Sure, I need to make sure my Flash Drive is with me, and make absolutely sure the file I saved to the desktop to make it compile and save faster is on the Flash Drive. That's no big issue. But CS4 itself is still a new layout for me (I still use Flash 8), and every time I customize the layout, it resets. It gets really annoying really fast and clouds my judgment of how CS4 is.

Another issue is because I don't have CS4, I can't work on the project when I have the most free time of all: School breaks. Time I used to spend making the file my bitch is now used wishing I could work on it, and feeling guilty about not finishing it prevents me from doing anything else in Flash. Fuck.

So lack of sufficient software, time consumption, distractions, socializing (holy shit, I do this?!), and school keep me from doing what I love most.

But!

There is good news. I'm going to split the file into two: One for battles, one for everything else. The battle components take for-fucking-ever to load and save.

So when I get around to it (hopefully this weekend), I'm gonna get this game back on track and give you Bill's Quest Beta 2.0!