Arras.Theme – Gaming Edition 1.1.5 Update Available
Another update fixing minor CSS rendering issues and the adding of two new minor features, as well as the fix for admin options not saving correctly. If you wish to have the update please email me (along with the PayPal address you purchased with) to send you a free copy of the updated version.
Update Log:
- Score custom field is now not required to show pros and cons custom fields
- Added the option to choose to display either the first 25 words of the article or the excerpt of the article
- Fixed multi-select options resetting to default after saving in admin panel
- Fixed scoreboard not rendering correctly in Internet Explorer 7
- Fixed Latest Reviews and Latest Previews widgets not rendering correctly when placed in the footer sidebar (appears on later versions of WordPress)
- Fixed social bookmarking links not rendering correctly in Internet Explorer 7
Theme Demo – Now with Color Scheme Switcher!
I’ve just coded out a color scheme switcher so that anyone can view the theme in their 9 color schemes. Do check it out: http://arras.zy.sg/demo/
Updates on Everything
Kinda busy on work and life these days, the next school holidays is in December, but the holidays will still be a busy one due to my final year project. 
Arras.Theme – Gaming Edition
I’ve recently released a bugfix update if you haven’t noticed. You will need to send me an email (along with your PayPal email address) so that I know that you have bought the theme and send you the update free.
Over at the wiki, you can view and add the list of sites running the theme and report any bugs and feature requests. Wiki: http://wiki.zy.sg/.
In all, I think the theme is selling quite well, many thanks to those who bought it. 
WP Steam Flat Theme
I haven’t had any time to work on it, but I’ll assure you it will be released before the end of this year (at best it should be at the end of the month).
Final Year Project
I’m currently working on my final year project now, that pretty much takes up most of the time now. It’s a Flash-based mini MMORPG and I have started development on it. We’re pretty much still on the designing/animating part of the project and my other three teammates have been doing a great job on it. 
This is my first major ActionScript 3.0 project so there’s a lot to learn before coding this. I will not any screenshots at the moment (not until the first interim presentation). Hope everything goes well for this project.
PC Gaming
I’m still not done with Red Alert 3, and of course Fallout 3 (to completely clear the game needs A LOT of time). I still haven’t got myself a copy of Call of Duty: World at War. One game I’m anticipating is Left 4 Dead, which should be out by Tuesday (+GMT 8).
Arras.Theme – Gaming Edition 1.1.1 Released!
Arras.Theme – Gaming Edition 1.1.1 is a bugfix release as part of the ongoing efforts to ensure that the theme is bug-free and reliable.
This update isn’t necessary if you do not encounter any of the bugs that are fixed below. If you feel that you require the update, send me an email at zy[at]zy[dot]sg.
Update Log:
- Fixed rendering issue in Ad Management area at the admin panel
- Fixed rendering issue in post template which has a small chance of occurring
- Updated documentation links in admin panel
- Updated link to theme release page at footer
Left 4 Dead Demo Review
I pre-ordered Left 4 Dead through Steam and got myself an early access to the demo. Here’s my review on the game.
I started preloading the game (roughly 3.8GB) with full download speed, though my poor friend using Starhub only managed to download at 2KB/s. Anyway, after waiting a while to decrypt the game content and updating the game I successfully launched the game. Main menu looks like this:
The main menu interface is quite different the other standard Source Engine games. But all-in-all the options are almost the same. One thing nice about it is that you can view your friends playing the game at the menu, so that you can join their games easily.
I tried hosting a game of three, including myself. However once the game starts one of my friends got disconnected and the game performance was terrible, with major shuttering. After many tries, my friend managed to host the game successfully and off we go.
Another annoying thing about joining games is that there is no option for you to choose which lobby you can join. Sometimes I get matchmade into a lobby where most players are actually on the other side of the world. Hopefully Valve could fix it before the full retail release.
The two missions in the demo were great, but short (that’s why it’s a demo). The game in overall was quite easy with the Normal difficulty. Perhaps I should try a new game with Expert difficulty in the future. Probably the most fun part is that whenever the instructor tells you not to do something (eg. disturb the Witch), someone will eventually end up doing it, which gets the group kinda in trouble with hordes of zombies coming to us.
I wished the full retail is out, two levels is too short.
