Hey-lo folks! Time for a blog entry.
This is the last of my three day weeks for the summer. July went by so fast. I’ll be moving up to four-day weeks for August. I can only hope they go by as smoothly.
Last week I got my Collector’s Edition of Big Trouble in the Little China: The Game by Everything Epic Games and it was truly epic. We had a lot of fun trying it out on Wednesday. I got some rules wrong which made the game a lot easier than it should have been, and we just managed to squeak out a win. We played again on Saturday and while I got some rules right, there were still some I’d missed and while it was definitely harder, it was still easier than it should have been and we again barely pulled off the win. I look forward to playing it a third time, hopefully with all the correct rules to see if we can win that way. There’s the campaign mode that I’m also eager to try. It was a year-long wait to get it, but it was oh so worth it. It got me to rewatch the movie over the weekend and it was awesome to see how deeply they dug into the movie for references in the game. Good stuff!
A while back I believe I mentioned that I was having some trouble with some of my drawing software. Well, to update, everything seems to be better now. From reading online I saw that a common cause for the type of problem I was having is an incorrectly installed Microsoft Visual C++ update. I went back through the last couple and it seems to have done the trick. I can save without problem in Paint and I’m able to do my text balloons without incident in Manga Studio. While I was still trying to figure out what was going on, I switched up the way I did my strips. Instead of doing the strip in English and then saving a copy to change the text to French, I did two sets of text balloons in the one file. I can set one to invisible and save and then switch to the other layer and save again. I honestly don’t know why I haven’t been doing this from the start. It saves so much space to have just the one Manga Studio file. Something good came from all the problems I was having.
That’s all for this week folks. Have a good seven and we’ll do this all again next Monday. Carja V.