Big Update

Okay, so as some of you may have noticed many of my vids are being removed from Youtube or muted. Apparently it's the start of some sort of epidemic, as there are a huge amount of complaints currently flooding Youtube. If you use any popular music in your videos they will be removed. It doesn't matter if you give the artists credit, or whatever- it will get taken down. The only way to have the music is to purchase the 20 thousand dollar licenses, which I think it is safe to say that is not a realistic option for the majority of Youtube users. This is being done by WMG (Warner's Music Group), apparently they own the rights to the music, and will take the videos down if they include any of it- even if the artist of the song doesn't want it removed! Seriously, just search WMG on YouTube and you'll see what I mean. United Nations of Halo got removed, and now I'm pissed. So I guess from now on, I'll have to use lesser known music in my vids.

Whatever, that doesn't affect the good news that I'm about to give you. A new map. It's not done yet but it will be within a couple of days. And no this one isn't a puzzle map, it's an infection map. It's Dead Space, the highly requested sequel to my original hit Work Space. It's currently in the process of being made, and I'll tell you now that it is extremely superior to Work Space. This time the havoc takes place in a three story building, and the forging is top notch. Seeing as how Work Space was only the third map I made, my forging has improved greatly since then.

I should beable to get it to you by the next update.

I should also tell you that I plan to make a couple more new maps once I get my hands on the Mythic Map Pack. One will be my own version of the minigame "Monster Jam". The other will be my long-planned "Infection Colliseum" as Sandbox is the ideal map to forge it on. I also plan to do another puzzle map on Sandbox in the future. There are some problems that I have with Sandbox though. Sure, it's got three levels of forging awesomeness but the item content is less than what I expected. They got tons of cool new stuff, but they took out fence walls, sheild doors, and I believe a lot of the movable objects, such as crates, dumpsters etc. This eliminates many of the great tools for puzzle maps, so I'll have to see what I can do.

And here`s another cool thing: I posted my idea of a gamerscore system with rewards (see post below) on Microsoft's xbox forums. It was greatly received by the community and so I sent the forum to Microsoft and it seems that they've taken the idea seriously. I was sent a link where it looks like future games will reward avatar clothing for achievements associated with the game! How cool is that- and it was my idea!

If you're interested, here's the link:

http://www.massively.com/2009/02/03/future-xbox-360-games-may-award-clothing-for-avatars-as-achievem?icid=sphere_blogsmith_inpage_joystiq

As for the great gap in updates, I have a reason. I went to Sayulita, Mexico for two weeks of fun, and then came back to loads of school work, exams, and essays.

Don't believe me? Here are the pics:

This is how lush it is.

That's me and my old man, chilling it out together

My parents, and I, hitting up the surf.

I got up almost every morning to go surfing at 7

And still with this... Cut it out.