Getting stoked for the first part of the arcade cabinet build!

Well, these past couple of days have been crazy. I was checking the internet the other night looking for Arcade Auctions. The reason I was looking was because I am going to be working with a friend of mine in New York on what we hope to be the first Winnitron in the United States.
As I was looking for auctions I ran across one that was going to be happening the very next morning just a couple of hours away in Harrisburg PA.
Onis and I woke up at 530 am and rented a uhal van to head up there. When we got there we couldn't believe our nerdy little eyes.
There were probably over two hundred different games to play for the first couple of hours. We got a chance to play a bunch of cool stuff and mostly a lot of crap but a few gems.
Since I was going to look for broken cabinets I was upset to see most of the stuff working by the time the bidding came around. Unfortunately the bidding on the cabinets themselves was started about 5 hours after the bidding started. They went through bar signs, pinball machines, kiddie rides, racing games, pool tables, dancing games and all sorts of other crap.
I eventually got to bid on some of the cabinets that I was looking at and got two out of the three that I really wanted. One was a Tekken2 cabinet that I really liked the look of and the game still played well. The other was one that Onis and I split that was called Zero Gunner. It was a pretty cool game that you could tell wasn't originally in that cabinet. I really like the look of that cabinet too so we decided to get that one too.
Onis was really infatuated by a game called Twin Eagle II. This is a really cool shmup with helicopters where you can do a bunch of crazy moves and it's two player.
Well it was certainly fun trying to get the all the cabinets in the van and back home but once we got them home and set up then we got to play them and that was pretty awesome having an arcade set up in my house.
Check out my other blogs to track the progress of the new Winnitron that we are going to be building in New York. Also, we are going to be starting a Kickstarter at some point to fund some of the little things we are going to need on the project like new joysticks and controls and computer parts.
We got some photos of the event here, check them out.
Thanks for reading!

3rd and final post for the day!

So today I took my first foray in to pixel art and I think it came out pretty alright.
Sort of a Flash Gordon type character pressed up against a wall listening in on something just around the corner.

(The shading on the stomach didnt come out right but I know what I did wrong I just didnt feel like fixing it...)

Let me know what you think!

Also, worth mentioning

I have started to sit down with Gamemaker again in the past few days this time I am learning GML. Last year I messed around a lot with Gamemaker and Unity and threw together some little bullshit projects that I didn't really follow through on. I think part of the reason for that is that I am really having a hard time realizing any of my ideas with the drag and drop features. GML is a lot more empowering and gives me more of a sense that I have control over what I am doing.

I will post more as it develops.

and we're back

Hi again internet,
So since my last post a lot has happened. I made the arcade cabinet thing for the people up in NYC and took it up there. Unfortunately there was a big miscommunication and they weren't able to use it in the show. That being said I am still looking to be involved in future projects they might be putting together.
So, just a few days ago I set up a show here at the house and had Bodycop, Birthnoise, The Deads and AMFDM play and it went really well. Also, I "built" something for the house that I will continue to update for future shows.

check out the video HERE!

We are going to try to have more events after the show that center around games.
More to be posted soon.

Also check out the facebook group for upcoming show info!