ANI-archy!

1) Name: Alon; Lonnie; Set; Liljan
2) Hood: My Room-State
3) If you could shave one thing into your head, what would it be?
Snow-White (form Ghosting Snow-White that is)
4) If you could dye your hair one color, what would it be?
Glossy Black. Or rubber.
5) If you could have a tattoo, what and where would it be?
I want Goliath (from Gargoyles) in flight on my right shoulder (I really, really do!) But now I think I’ll rather have Snow-White.
6) If you could turn into any animal, real or imaginary, what would it be?
A lynx. They are the coolest looking things in the world!
7) If you could meet one person in this world, who would it be?
Moon Unit Zapper!
8) What's your favorite brand of gum?
There are different brands???
9) Which is your favorite Mentos commercial?
I don’t remember it clearly, but I think it has a man who parks in this space, but there is enough room for this woman to park in the remaining space if he just moved back a little bit. (She has a small car) But he gets out and points at his watch and runs into a deli. Meanwhile these really big construction workers see what happens and picks up the car for the woman and places it in the space perfectly (at one point she popped those damned Mentoses into her mouth, don’t know when). The guy looks through the glass and smirks and the woman does that stupid spin showing her dumb Mentos and smiles like she just got the Reason Behind it All. I always found it funny, because what if the construction workers leave, and there is like no space between the cars now, just how the hell are they going to get out???
10) What color is your toothbrush?
Clear.
11) What color is your toothpaste?
White
12) Is the glass half-empty or half-full?
That is one of those stupid things like "If a tree falls and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? Yes! I’m sorry, but just because us humans are not around to hear it, I don’t think that physics would decide to take the day off! And that other one: Which came first, the Chicken or the egg? My god! That is the stupidest crap I ever heard! The chicken came first of course! Of course it took a couple of (million) years before it evolved to the point that it started laying eggs! Oh, yes, the glass is half-empty, because (and I assuming you are drinking something) you are always depleting the glass’s contents. DEPLETING. Get it? Get it?
13) What's on your ceiling?
A poster of Gargoyles the Video Game for the Sega Genesis. I thought that it would be cool to put a poster in the ceiling. I never did it again.
14) What's your favorite color to paint your toenails?
...
15) Pick a song that describes yourself.
"Princes of the Universe" by Queen (Megalomaniac? Me? No way, I really am better than all you!)
16) Which do you prefer- Cool Ranch or Nacho Cheese Doritos?
Nacho (because I like cow-boys.) (I don’t really though.)
17) What's your favorite flavor Snapple?
Orange Sunrise (Yeah, Mystic makes it, so what? SO WHAT???)
18) Who is your favorite character from The Breakfast Club?
That depressed girl, only because I liked that super large sweater look. And now that I think on it, she was pretty much a predecessor of our modern Goth. Or Grunge. I guess.
19) Which one, Coke or Pepsi?
Classic Coke
20) What's your sign?
The Twins. The Twins. (hehehehehehe, get it???)
21) If you were a dog, what would your name be?
Nemesis. (I’ll bite any damn human I could!)
22) How do you eat an Oreo?
In the handfuls.
23) Which kind of milk is your favorite?
No milk!
24) If you were to kill someone, which method would you choose?
Hehehe. One day long ago, Jin (my best buddy and programmer) and I was talking about this. I would tie (hehe) them down to a chair and tape a whole lot of little pins under their eyes (so they can’t blink) keep them like that for days so they can go mad with sleep deprivation then bash their head in with a rock.
25) Are you a righty or a lefty or ambidextrous (that means both)?
Right.
26) Do you type with your fingers on the right keys?
Usually. Sometimes I type the left side too (You JUST have to!)
27) Which is your favorite Adam Sandler movie?
I never seen one.
28) What do you wear to bed?
Boxers
29) When you notice a person of the opposite sex, do you notice their hair?
Yup.
30) Have you ever been attacked by a big dog?
Many times. But only in self defense. I liked going after the big ones.
31) Do you ever save your AOL conversations?
Nope
32) Do you eat chicken fingers with a fork?
Yup. Just to rebel with the natural order of things!
33) Do you eat the stems of broccoli?
Yes. I actually like broccoli.
34) Boxers, or briefs?
Boxers!
35) If you could streak in front of one person's house, who's would it be?
What the hell is streaking???
36) If you could be anything in a kitchen, what would you be?
An outlet.
37) Guys, If a random chick came up to you and asked you for your shirt, would you give it to them?
No. Only because of my private shame.
38) Girls, would you ever ask a random guy for his shirt?
...
39) If you could be one gardening tool, which one would you be?
A rake.
40) What kind of shoe would you be if you had the option to be a shoe?
Jack Boots
41) What kind of corn would you want to be (an ear of corn, canned, etc...)
An ear. If I was canned, it’ll be hell getting myself together. (Stupid, so what??????)
42) If you could do anything to the person you hated the most, what would you do?
Hehehehehehe, the beautiful thing is, I don’t have to do a thing! The bastard already failed. Yet again! (Up yours Liefeld! You damn loser!)
43) What's your favorite Jell-O flavor?
Cherry.
44) Which you prefer, mud wrestling or Jell-O wrestling?
Jell-O (HUHU! Cheap thrill!)
45) What's under your bed?
CENSORED!
46) Who're your crushes? They can be famous or not:
Hmmm.

Welcome to ANI-archy!—my personal space on the web to basically rant and bitch about everything and everyone in no order whatsoever. I have been meaning to fix up this page for the longest time. Since I wanted to workover the whole site, it only seemed logical that I finally tackle this one.

So I guess the best place to start is with the origin of Ghosting Snow-White.

Originally, this page was going to have a whole lot of summaries of all my worlds—my story settings, character profiles and game ideas (for which Ghosting Snow-White was created in the first place. See below) Jin (programmer) and I (mostly everything else) was going to make and so on. But then I got hit by the logic bug (post my stuff here, and down the line when I want to publish, I get hit with a copyright infringement suit (and yes, I think my stuff is good enough to steal, like I said: "Megalomaniac? Me? No way, I really am better than all you!")). So I dropped that. Jin and I talked about putting our reviews on anime and movies here (hence the word "ANI-archy"), but nothing ever came of that.

Then Jin (my best friend) moved back to his native soil (hopefully for a limited time. You HEAR me Jin!?), and there went the stuff about games (for which this whole thing was started in the—hey, wait, I said this stuff already), and pretty much everything that when along with it.

Just let me start a little from the beginning.

Jin and I have been friends for a long time. He loved computers (he has a magic touch with them) and always wanted to make games. I loved to write, and come up with super complex worlds (truth, truth, I have a lexicon for one that goes over a hundred pages and is not even done yet). So we decided to make games for the computer. So the foundation was set, we had to come up with a name. Something catchy.

At the time, I made up my own publishing company name—one I am going to use when I open up my very own publishing house (a dream I still share with my love Belle—and sheesh, do I sound like a kid in this whole thing or what?? "My very own publishing house." Sheesh!). I named it Cinderella’s Crash. Which I will not get into now.

So Jin and I were on the bus, thinking of a name. We came up with some (The Pit and the Pentium, among others), when the thought came to stay within the faerytale theme I started with Cinderella’s Crash.

I came up with "Hacking Snow-White."

Jin didn’t like it.

I screamed and bitched, but "Hacking Snow-White" was not meant to be.

After many variants, I came up with "Ghosting Snow-White." Though for the longest time I was not happy with it. I wanted my Hacking Snow-White!!!!!!

I came up with the whole outlook of the thing. I wanted a really cool looking female robot (there was nothing at all of a tail), all glossy silver and everything, standing straight, while off to the side you see the back of some geek typing away on seven tower computers (get it?) which was hooked up to Snow-white. I wanted an outlet plug coming out of Snow-White’s foot, but not plugged into anything, yet her eyes glowing red anyway (an animated gif). It was quickly changed to this

What we got was a pic of a gargoyle (remember, I love them) I was The First EVER Snow-White pic fiddling with.

In the end, that is what we put up (sans the wings of course).

So the first major part of the whole thing was up—our launchpad, our webpage. (And after paying up a hundred bucks to make the original site long, long ago, I decided to learn HTML myself. All this is mine.)

The next part was coming up with a game and game format. That was the hard part.

We both had plenty of game ideas—thousands. Problem was, though I can draw, I was nowhere near up to drawing and animating sprites—I have not really drawn on the computer in years, and a scanner was a distant dream. The other problem was the fact that Jin’s programming language really wouldn’t let us do any of those things anyway. (For those who care, Turbo Pascal ((sp?)). Luckily for us, what we wanted to do did not need animations and such—we wanted to do text-based CRPGs. And to put one up on all the others text-based CRPGs out there, we planed to have graphics—just not animated. Battles would take place on a grid from a birds-eye-view. Battles akin to chess, with the rest of the game being text and of the "Chose Your Own Adventure" type thing.

As things moved on, and after thinking about using many of my story settings as a springboard, I came up with something totally original. Something that was to be for the game alone. I have never done anything like that before. It was fun. The game was called "Blood-of-Kings." We even found a great artist named Jason Davis to do some (translation: most) of the pics for us. (Where are you man?????)

Here. Read it for yourself:

You wish to know about Ghosting Snow-White?

--"Yeah, so who the heck are you three?"

We are Alon M. SaMarion (game designer), Jinsop Mendez (game programmer), and Jason Davis (graphic artist), a small (non-profit that is) company wholly and solely devoted to making GOOD anime games!

--"Yeah okay, but define 'GOOD anime games'."

To us, games shouldn't be anything but visual wonders. Don't get us wrong, we don't mind a few billion dollars spent on special effects, but a good game should be so much more than that. It should have a story that is interesting as well as original. We also like games that exercise the muscle in your skull rather than the one in your trigger finger. We will, however try to please a wide range of gamers. Sports and arcade action game fans probably won't find anything they like with the name Ghosting Snow-White on it (well at least not for awhile). For the most part, anyone who likes Computer Role-Playing Games (CRPGs) mixed along with strategy table-top gaming and even a dark fantasy-based Play-By-E-mail RPG - all in the style of anime - need look no further, for we are sure to please!

--"So what're you three workin' on now?"

Our first major project is called BLOOD-of-KINGS, an anime sci-fi/fantasy text story-based game with graphic strategy battle a la table-top games and plenty of puzzles and riddles. It would feature a "Choose Your Own Adventure"-type story that would send you on many different courses of action and many different endings. The graphics are pretty primitive compared to other recent games, but if the words "I liked the book better than the movie" ever escaped your lips, we're sure you can appreciate this game. And to celebrate the birth of Ghosting Snow-White, you'll be able to download a copy (yes the WHOLE game!) for !!!FREE!!!
Embrace the Chaos
Coming soon.

Sadly, though we made a working model (two of the game’s battles were finished), story all but completed, "Blood-of-Kings" would not be coming soon.

Jin moved. Leaving me with a site I really had nothing to put in it.

I didn’t want to get rid of it. I liked the site and all, (and did pay a hundred bucks for it) so I kinda shifted the focus of the games to my stories and artwork (this whole thing got me into drawing on the computer big time!).

So now I am in the process of a major site revamp. I have a whole new Snow-White character design (among other things).

So what do I plan on doing with the site, now that it’s major point of being is gone (for now!!!!!) and a company that started out with two, expanded to three, and is now down to one????

I have no idea. I guess I am just going to wait and see.

--Alon June 3

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