5/9/08 - The next storyarc after the current one is almost ready... And this one just started! I'm going to try to keep a full storyarc in buffer at all times.

5/7/08 - Starting on the 16th, I'm going to switch to a Tu/Fr schedule for a little while.

5/5/08 - I've actually finished this storyarc in buffer, and begun writing text for the next one.

5/2/08 - Update!

4/30/08 - Update!

4/28/08 - I don't really have anything to say today...

4/25/08 - The next comic exists, but might not be on time, for scheduling reasons.

4/23/08 - I think I might be able to keep up this M-W-F Schedule...

4/21/08 - I've made the full week's comics in advance, and written all the text for the following week's. I'd have more done, but SOMEBODY linked me to the archives of Terror Island, so I had to spend my time reading through it's archives... Gee, thanks, Ingiald.

And not only that, but one block from my apartment, they held some nerd convention called Comic Con. So, being a nerd and all, I had to go... A bunch of comics I read online had their people there as well. I was gonna buy a shirt from one of them, but they looked like they ran out. (I'll order one online eventually,) And I discovered that one of them has a second comic I didn't even know about, that's also good, so I had to read through THOSE archives as well after walking ALL THE WAY back to my apartment.

Both publishers that the company I code for devs for were there as well. I didn't go to my boss's panel, because I went Saturday, not realizing it was on Sunday, but I'm sure it was good. I've seen in the past that he's a good speaker.

Also I spent time recoloring the forum to look like it did back in the old days. I've still got a couple images to replace, but it's pretty ready to go with the new skin.

So that's all why I'm only roughly 1.5 weeks ahead.

4/18/08 - I have a buffer again. Yay!

4/16/08 - I'm not really happy with my Fox McCloud & Peppy O'Hare sprites...

4/14/08 - Gotta stay late at work tomorrow (playing games) so I won't be able to work on another update tomorrow.

4/11/08 - Not going to be home this weekend, so I won't be updating this weekend.

4/10/08 - Update. Not really much to say...

4/7/08 - That's all of my comic buffer. Also, I've got an important "Stay after work to play Rock Band" meeting to go to. It's a followup meeting of one just like it I had to stay after work for today...

4/6/08 - I'm basically seeing how, if at all, the comic can fit into my schedule. Any comics you see in the next few months are a test of that. Once I'm sure it can, I might even do something else entirely in it's place... We'll see.

4/5/08 - I might be picking the comic up again. Here's an update...

7/23/06 - The comic is over, for anyone who hasn't figured that out. It had started to shift somewhat from humor driven parody to fanfic, which is not what I wanted. That and the total lack of time...

I've been working on a Winx Club game for the DS. It's a side scrolling action shooter with six minigames. I think it's a fun game. Unfortnately, a lot of people out there won't buy a game that says "Winx" on it, so I think a lot more people could enjoy it than will enjoy it.

Recently, I've started writing a story. It was originally gonna be a drawn comic, but I don't have time to make a comic. However, in my attempts, I realized that a well made comic, whether drawn or sprite, takes about the same amount of time. The time spent arranging the sprites, like Colorforms (if anyone remembers those), is spent on drawing the initial outlines. All the time spent tweaking a sprite's pixels and trying to find/rip the sprites you need in a sprite comic is spent on coloring and shading in a drawn comic. I expected drawing a comic to be quicker and easier because I wouldn't have the limitations sprites impose to break through.

That Pikmin comic a while back was about as easy to make as my early sprite works, but I wasn't satisfied by that. I was going for more angles and better shading, so I couldn't simply copy + paste half my stuff from previous panels. I drew Olimar and squished/stretched him to make Louie and the President. I drew one Pikmin and pretty much copy + pasted all the others. I can probably make a drawn comic of that quality, but I have some trouble not putting all I've got into what I do, and I'm much better with Photoshop than I was, since I've upgraded versions and watched what the artists do at work when creating the art for Winx and other games.

Anyway, I've linked the chapters of the story I've written thus far above. You can read them if you wish.

2/22/06 - I got the job! Yay! I'm a professional video game programmer now!

2/19/06 - The job sounds promising. They burned my Klax game onto a cartridge and showed me it on a real GBA. The feel of playing one's own work on a real game console... It's... Amazing... This is why I was given life. To make these games.

I won't find out till March. They won't have room for me until they switch offices, which will be in March. Then I'll find out for sure if I've got it or not. In the meantime, there are a few others that look promising, and I always have my backup plans... I've got, like, five or so backup plans.

Lastly, Ctrl + C/V/Z is back. It's a great comic about Sonic the Hedgehog & Co. It's all animated. The comics are banner-ad shaped. It'll be going in the links section soon as I get a banner from the guy.

2/14/06 - Been nearly a week... I've been spending all my free time coding a game for a coding test for a job. They liked it and want to interview me. I made Klax for the GBA. Here's the compiled rom I made if anyone wants to try it out. Unless you have a flash cartridge, you're gonna need an emulator too. I reccomend VisualBoy Advance, the bottom one on that list.

2/08/06 - A lot of webcomic artists blog when they update. I occasionally mention something that's going on, but I try to avoid it because I assume you don't really care what goes on in my life. This is somewhat hypocritical, since I DO read the blogs on the comics I read... Perhaps I'm mistaken...

2/06/06 - It seems everyone overlooks titles... I have a comic with a title inspired by the Blue Laser. I missed it last time.

Also, I just wanna mention here how awesome my webhost is. Click the banner at the top if you wanna see for yourself.

2/04/06 - I fixed a slight error on the Homestar Runner Wiki related to my site... I wasn't referencing Sir Strong Bad in Parsnips A-Plenty with Dr. Robotnik in Silent Comic. This was instead a general reference from both of us to really old movies. The other two references (which remain on the site) are accurate. There might technically be one more off the top of my head, but I was referencing someone else's references to Homestar Runner so it might not count. Something in this comic was inspired by their style as well, if you can find it (it's not related to the computer I'm using in it), but I'm unsure if it counts either.

1/30/06 - Today I went through ALL the boxes to ensure that each toy on the order was there. They were.

1/28/06 - UPS came today with 101 boxes. Boxes filled with toys. A whole truckload of fun. None of it's for me, I just had to help bring it all in.

1/26/06 - Long delay... I've been spending most of my time applying for jobs as a video game programmer.

Also, I fixed the vote button, so you can vote for this site on the two major top-webcomic lists.

Also, there seems to be a Wikipedia entry for GameCheetz. You fans did a nice job on it.

Also, it's very difficult to make good comics in only 3 frames. I thought it might be easier, so I could make them more plentiful, but it turns out that 9 frame comics are way easier than 3 frame comics.

Also, the games I made that are in the software section are now self-extracting.

Also, I seem to keep using the word "Also" when adding new points, rather than mixing it up with something else like "Another note" or "It is true as well that" or something else more interesting.

1/14/06 - Today I find out if I get a free ticket to the GDC, or if I gotta pay for one. This trip will nearly bankrupt me, but it'll be worth it since it's a near-guarantee of a job writing code for games. I've updated the Software section with more of my portfolio if you'd like to check out a few games that I've made. I plan on replacing the ZIP files with auto-extracting executables to simplify things.

1/5/06 - Here's another comic! With the return (finally!) of everyone's favorite character!

1/3/06 - Hey again... Since the comics are smaller, I'm updating more often, so check every 2-3 days for an update instead of weekly.

1/1/06 - Happy New Year! The above image is going to be used for navigation for a while. Simply click a character to see the latest comic that character has been in. The ones that are transparent are not in the latest comic. If they're not clickable, then they haven't come into this storyline yet.

12/25/05 - Happy Holidays! This should be the last long speach about GameCheetz history... I might add a page, or clickable or something concerning history specific to certain places, but I don't think I'll ever need a long-winded multi-comic explanation for anything ever again.

12/21/05 - I had a graduation ceremony on Sunday. I'm graduating from college. I just have to get through this last final's week and I'll be ready to apply for jobs at companies that make video games. Yay!

12/14/05 - Happy GameCheetz Day! On this GameCheetz Day, I give you GameCheetz reborn! I stopped enjoying making it, but after a while I just kinds... played with the textboxes... and before I knew it, I had made three more comics... So here you go!

11/9/05 - So busy! Busy, busy, busy! My work, however, requires large chunks of uninterrupted time... When I've only a small amount of time, I can do other stuff, since I can't get my work done.

10/03/05 - Here's a Halloween based comic for ya. If you want to know what storylines I had been saving, but never used, they've been posted here.

9/16/05 - It's over. For now, at least... With an ending like this I can easily take it up again in the future if I wished to... But that's doubtful.

9/09/05 - Fret not, Cheetzians, the good ole comic you know will return soon. I wanted to upload something tonight though, since it's been so long, and I would not have been able to complete the next comic on time.

Why have I been so busy lately? Sludge Crawler. The game I was working on. It's done. I might add a final boss... But for now I'm considering it completed. I wanted to finish on time to submit it to the IGF competition, so I dropped pretty much everything else in my life to finish it. It was done on time, and their site screwed up, so I'm not in. I entered their student showcase at least... *sigh*

What's up with today's comic? It's a second comic I'd like to create. I'm not sure I could pull off more than one, and GameCheetz takes precedence, so it probably won't go much further... But I'll give you this little taste of it anyway. (The comics after the first one would feature actual character rather than just computer screens like this one.)

8/17/05 - A thread concerning the state of the comic.