Secrets of Asherah Forum

It'll be good to be online again.

The new date for the computer to arrive is next Thursday, so if all goes according to (the revised) plan, we should be back online next Friday, July 25.

Sorry for all the delays.

Just sent in my application! 

For the launch of the new game (which is really old Asherah with a new engine and sprites), we need some art.

There are basically eight environments/ecosystems in the game. They are


Meadow/Farm
Village/City
Woods
Swamps
Highlands
Mountains
Subterranean Things (Mines, Caves, etc.)
Desert

We need paintings (digital, but not pixel art) to put on the site and in promotional materials. There are some criteria.

1) Must be original (although you can, of course, use photographs and even other paintings for inspiration)
2) Must be beautiful (Barbizon/Hudson River School/Miyasaki-style landscapes). We will consider other styles if you are exceptionally proficient.
3) Dramatic impact with use of light, perspective (bird's eye view, worm's eye view), chiaroscuro.
4) You must be prepared to work with us to tailor the piece to our needs.
5) They have to all be one consistent, unified style.

We will agree to a price and terms of payment before you commence work, but you will be paid only if we accept the completed work and you release all rights (except fair use rights) to the work. Payment will be in monthly installments on a pro-rata basis out of the profits of the game. This is contract work, and you will be responsible for all taxes and other surcharges.

This is also an excellent way to build a professional portfolio if you have limited experience.

To be considered, please send an email (to the usual address - b@g) with at least one scan of an original landscape as an attachment. You can include links to other works you would like to show us. In the email include all relevant professional or educational experience (this can be as simple as "I did a two-week plein air workshop in Vermont the summer between fifth and sixth grade"). Be sure to include mention of any exhibits, prizes or scholarships you've won for your art work.

Check with the IT Division at your school and see if they run short courses for students and staff. Generally when they give short courses, they get right into doing it almost immediately without a lot of theory. These are generally free and last four hours or so for one or two sessions. They're pretty intense though, obviously. They sometimes have modules available for self-study, if you can't take the course in person.

(Misleading topic ahoy)

So, I'm trying to learn how to...  What, write Java?  Program Java?  How to Java?

ANYWAY I'm trying to learn Java in my free time (as of about two hours ago from writing this), but the resources my friend passed to me are, well, useless.  The textbook she gave me is too wordy, so I'm basically skimming it for the important stuff.  And all the websites I've found don't give much in the way of complex tutorials past the infamous "Hello World!" sample.  Everything else they have is just basic facts of the components of the Java language.

What I need help with is this:

I learn things like this better by doing rather than reading.  I didn't spend my first three months learning violin by reading a book, or learn to play the upright/double bass by reading a book, when I switched to that instrument in high school.  I didn't learn how to shoot effectively by reading a book, and I learned how to put together a computer from the ground up in a period of 15 minutes by DOING, not by reading.

So, the point: if anyone knows of ANY tutorials or fancy learning resources that can teach me to do Java by actually doing it and not reading about it, please send them my way.  I don't care why you should truncate strings, I want to know how to effectively and properly write them.

Can anyone help with this?  Thanks in advance!  As a reward, here's something I found in that textbook:

Next time stay more than three minutes!

I don't even remember the last time I used IRC...

*Dias attempts to cast Good Morning* not enough mana.

Hurgh, is it morning already? ;-;

The IRC channel is efnet #secrets-of-asherah.

And good morning, guys...