Coming and Going in Beta – Monthly Post

Posted on 30th September 2018 by Patrick

Monthly Post!

I have been starting to try improvements on the site (which clearly needs them). Any advice or information from my kind friends would be greatly appreciated! I am also making progress on some Twine adventures that will be going out of and coming into the beta testing phase.

Going out of Beta

The current beta project, I Spy Baby Dragons, will hopefully very soon leave the beta stage. It is a point-and-click adventure in which you must find objects, culminating in the finding of the Baby Dragon. Clickable areas may be things to find, or may take you places, or may block a sword attack (or broom attack, as the case may be). You can look in your hat to see what you have so far.

If you would like to beta test the most recent version, the link is below. Let me know if something seems broken or incomplete, or if it is boringly easy or boringly difficult!

I Spy Baby Dragons

Coming into Beta

There is also a twin pair of adventures, involving the memorization of bywords or “songlets” to fend off evil things on the way through a dark forest. If you get even a punctuation mark wrong and try to go past the monster, you will have only seconds to get back to where you learn your words.

One game is called Into the Forest, in which you must recover a stolen treasure from the depths of the forest. One of the enemies you face is shown below.

Into the Forest

The second one is called Out of the Forest, in which you have been rescued from an evil kidnapper by a frog, and must now make your way back home. One of the places you must get through is shown below.

Out of the Forest

That is all I can think of at the moment; have a good month! Till next time, God be with you all!

– Patrick

Second Cartoon Strip and Name Reveal

Posted on 27th September 20181st May 2019 by Patrick

Here is the second strip, and the Name (which it has had since its conception some time ago)!

Wah! My Strip Title! (It was

Wah! My Strip is gone! That was a funny one!

Next – These are My Eyes

Previous – Proof of Concept

Second Seven Dailies Collection

Posted on 24th September 2018 by Patrick

The Second Collection of seven dailies from the Facebook page!

Keep the hand comely
In bloom as the flower, but
Hard in work as wood.

– Patrick Lauser

Interesting:

The “angel” in the word “evangelize”
(ev – angel – ize) is from the same root as the word “angel”.

The word “angel” is from the Greek word for “messenger”, the word “evangelize” comes from the Greek word for “good message”: the gospel.

I posted as a daily a gif from my now finished project, a 3D Twine Adventure called VValkabout.

You can try the adventure right away,

Or read a few words about how to do it, and also get a simple walkthrough if you want:

VValkabout

In Us

In the summer I am light,
In winter I am the snow.
In your heart I am your might,
In my soul are seeds to sow.
In my hand is living thought,
In the ways ill ways to bar.
In times now and past am sought
Where the wise and willing are.

– Patrick Lauser

God is Love, Love is not God.

– Patrick Lauser, after A. W. Tozer

The feet of the child
Or the childlike man, falter
But always are clean.

– Patrick Lauser

One Body

A will
To do the thing
That opens all the mind
Can only open all the heart
As well.

– Patrick Lauser

God be with you all!

Patrick

Wah! My picture!

Passage from Beowulf

Posted on 21st September 201821st September 2018 by Patrick

This is a passage from the ancient epic Beowulf that I quoted some time ago as a daily post, but I feel that the passage deserves a larger and more detailed quote.

So here it is from Francis Barton Gummere’s translation, with a recording.

“Whiles they vowed in their heathen fanes
altar-offerings, asked with words
that the slayer-of-souls would succor give them
for the pain of their people. Their practice this,
their heathen hope; ’twas Hell they thought of

in mood of their mind. Almighty they knew not,
Doomsman of Deeds and dreadful Lord,
nor Heaven’s-Helmet heeded they ever,
Wielder-of-Wonder. — Woe for that man
who in harm and hatred hales his soul

to fiery embraces; — nor favor nor change
awaits he ever. But well for him
that after death-day may draw to his Lord,
and friendship find in the Father’s arms!”

This is the original Anglo-Saxon with a recording (as well as I could pronounce it!).

“Hwīlum hīe gehēton æt hærg-trafum
wīg-weorðunga, wordum bǣdon,
þæt him gāst-bona gēoce gefremede
wið þēod-þrēaum. Swylc wæs þēaw hyra,
hǣðenra hyht; helle gemundon

in mōd-sefan, metod hīe ne cūðon,
dǣda dēmend, ne wiston hīe drihten god,
nē hīe hūru heofena helm herian ne cūðon,
wuldres waldend. Wā bið þǣm þe sceal
þurh slīðne nīð sāwle bescūfan

in fȳres fæðm, frōfre ne wēnan,
wihte gewendan; wēl bið þǣm þe mōt
æfter dēað-dæge drihten sēcean
and tō fæder fæðmum freoðo wilnian.”

These are other translations, this next one from Lesslie Hall’s translation:

“At the shrines of their idols often they promised
Gifts and offerings, earnestly prayed they
The devil from hell would help them to lighten
Their people’s oppression. Such practice they used then,
Hope of the heathen; hell they remembered

In innermost spirit, God they knew not,
The true God they do not know.
Judge of their actions, All-wielding Ruler,
No praise could they give the Guardian of Heaven,
The Wielder of Glory. Woe will be his who
Through furious hatred his spirit shall drive to

The clutch of the fire, no comfort shall look for,
Wax no wiser; well for the man who,
Living his life-days, his Lord may face
And find defence in his Father’s embrace!”

This next from the translation by William Morris and Alfred John Wyatt.

“And whiles they behight them at the shrines of the heathen
To worship the idols; and pray’d they in words,
That he, the ghost-slayer, would frame for them helping
‘Gainst the folk-threats and evil So far’d they their wont,
The hope of the heathen; nor hell they remember’d

In mood and in mind. And the Maker they knew not,
The Doomer of deeds: nor of God the Lord wist they,
Nor the Helm of the Heavens knew aught how to hery,
The Wielder of Glory. Woe worth unto that man
Who through hatred the baneful his soul shall shove into

The fire’s embrace; nought of fostering weens he,
Nor of changing one whit. But well is he soothly
That after the death-day shall seek to the Lord,
In the breast of the Father all peace ever craving.”

Seven Dailies Collection

Posted on 17th September 2018 by Patrick

Here be the first seven Dailies posted on the Facebook Page!

If you are not grateful to God for the Internet, you do not deserve to use it.

– Patrick Lauser

Every action is both physical and spiritual in nature, because an action implies life,
and life is the union of the body and spirit.

– Patrick Lauser

Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else.

– Isaiah 45:22

The proper uses of emotion in a crisis are to prompt you to action, to give you sympathy with others,
and to give you fervency in prayer.

– Patrick Lauser

In the dim winter
Water hides in hardened forms
With the dimness gone.

– Patrick Lauser

An Old House

Welcome to a house of stone
Here to live with you alone,
Its building long, slow to waste,
Its dust pure, its chambers chaste.
The pattern you well will know,
The deep wall, and doorway low.

– Patrick Lauser

“I have been here all the time,” said he, “but you have just made me visible.”
“Aslan!” said Lucy almost a little reproachfully. “Don’t make fun of me. As if anything I could do would make you visible!”
“It did,” said Aslan. “Do you think I wouldn’t obey my own rules?”

– From The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C. S. Lewis

A Tree Picture by Nathaniel my Brother

Posted on 14th September 201814th September 2018 by Patrick

Here is a small tree picture drawn by my brother Nathaniel:

Proof of Concept Cartoon Sketch

Posted on 10th September 20181st May 2019 by Patrick

Here is one of my postponed Weeklies!

This is a very quick sketch of two characters – Pencilman and Hangman – in a possible cartoon strip.

Next – Name Reveal

Beta Testing Link for I Spy Baby Dragons

Posted on 7th September 201826th September 2018 by Patrick

The Current Project is now released for beta testing!

Make sure to post about any errors you find!

This is a point and click adventure: clickable areas may be items you need to collect, may take you to another place, or block a sword attack (or broom attack, as the case may be).

God be with you!