This CTF game was written in the Godd™ Engine. It is not currently available, but other equally apocalyptic game layouts are — come to a morning meeting and ask about them.
Luckily, I have a remedy for all this political freakout “civil war” bullshit brought on by the asshole politicians in Washington and elsewhere — I plan to throw my hands into the air, and promptly and unequivocally, give up.
I mean it. Give up. Why struggle against that kind of relentless sandpaper? I have a secret “wonder-weapon”, with which to defeat them all in a single swoop.
It’s when political shit gets flung direcctly into the faces of the public, which you’re seeing now from all sides of the political spectrum — that I lay down my sword and shield right by the river-side, and take up my Ultimate Weapon — humor.
It might be too great a step, definite is cause for alarm, and that’s why I created a set of fun wearable gifts that really says what it’s all about, Alfie.
That’s right. I created a line of gifts and personal wearables featuring a color graphic of an empty Classified Folder”, which is actually the cover of my graphic novel, “SlimeWars”, now available as an e-book and audio book recording.
So I decided to create strange and unusual “Empty Classified Documents” folder wearable and useable products on zazzle — things that would be likely to be wanted by you, and I hope I’m right. If not, it costs me nothing to try, just moving a few electrons around, is all.
Please take a look at my classified documents offerings, and tell me what you think about my little joke. Will anybody out there actually “get it”??? I doubt it, but put aside my doubts and posted the things. You can see them by clicking on the hot link below:
Now for something a little more serious ….
Are you an artist? Ceramicist? Musician? Dancer? — I could name all the creative professions here, but I really can’t take up that much time and space, so take it as written that whatever creative impulses you may follow, you’re included.
So if you’re any kind of creative artist, you’ll have experienced the frustration of not getting out there, not getting seen, and even if you do manage to get into a gallery, it won’t pay the rent and keep food on the table, but an online gallery isn’t limited to the people who happen to pass by the shop.
You can be poor and yet reach a rich crowd — the internet doesn’t favor the rich, unless they happen to own a powerful media outlet like Fox & Fiends.
You’re better off online than you ever were on the street, and it’s a lot less hassle..
A street gallery can’t run the same artist’s work every month and get away with it, unless it’s Picasso.
Most artists have to be satisfied with one or two shows a year, and most get none at all.
If you’re a wannabe fashion designer, guess what? You’ll have to design, cut and press a bunch of stuff to have a show, unless you know the fashion hustler’s secret — you can get your item handmade to your order without putting out a penny in advance.
The thing is, you need a photo of it to show in order to sell it, and that’s the catch that is solved by a number of item printer companies, notably those that offer “in the round” textile printing.
The company I use for my fashions is paom.com — they’re not cheap, but their quality is the best, and they use typically silk, linen, cotton and polyester twill.
What they do is, they print your fabric with infusion ink that goes all the way through, not just on top, like your regular t-shirt or ball-cap printing.
The result generally wholesales to you at anywhere from $100 to $300, and then you need to get it onto your own website or social media platform so you can take paid orders for it.
Here’s a snapper of one of my fashion shows with all-around printed textiles.
I send the artwork. They print the artwork on a piece of stuff, cut it according to the size and pattern, making a custom-made garment that you can model and market.
You don’t have to buy anything. Just make the item and put it out there and wait for results, or play it smart and drive folks to your merch.
Your customer can specify any size from XXS to XXL in most silhouettes, meaning most of their line is well-sized to both extremes — you are going to place the actual work order, not your customer. They pay you, you pay your textile worker.
I can put a showroom together with a specific collection in about three hours, given the items are already in place on my sales landing pages, directly to paypal, get it?
What then happens is that the customer pays me, and I send for and pay for the item from my source, and I have several dozen sources, all of which have been very reliable.
I made $1,100 in my first month of fashion design using online facilities, and that’s without laying out a single dime in front!
Of course, if you don’t pay in money, you’ll end up paying some other way, and I do, in the sweat-time I put into designing textiles to go onto my creations.
Artists always have the problem of getting seen, and flat pictures of artwork on browser pages doesn’t have the same effect as walking into a gallery and seeing them on the walls and on pedestals in the center or sides of the gallery space.
In short, experiential immersion is what you want to produce here, and that’s what you get with the virtual gallery — experiential immersion.
Interested? You might be able to get the exposure for your artwork that you’ve always dreamed about but never could get out of the street gallery experience.
You’re invited to any of our morning meetings on zoom, where you can not only ask questions about this new artists tool, the virtual 3D gallery, and get instruction and help on setting up your own shop or chain of shops.
It doesn’t happen by itself. Any gallery, virtual or actual, needs customers, and they can only come from promotion, lots of it, and a lot of luck.
In the case of a brick-and-mortar gallery, you’re dependent on the folks in the neighborhood and the tourists or visitors that may walk past your shop, but online, you have the chance, if you know how to do it, to capture a world audience, and clients with the wherewithal to pay for things like a 20 foot tall sculpture or an 11 foot tall architectural painting or theatrical performance backdrop, like the ones I sell and rent out to jazz performance venues in support of the jazz musician’s support and jazz education societies to which I donate from those sales.
So what are you waiting for? Act now, while there’s still an internet!
I’m teaching classes in gallery-showroom construction and promotion, and also classes in fashion design that leads to your very own showroom and styles, a complete apparel line for NO MONEY, just hard work.
See You At The Top!!!
gorby