Earlier today I added some effects to darkness on the map - a little question mark particle effect sparks out from your head - and it makes me chuckle. When you walk into darkness, it casues your little avatar to get confused and he wanders out a random direction. I also polished off the timer altars so they shoot a firework up to the timer when you step on it. Also, really nice. It takes a surprising amount of time to tweak a particle engine and I am (admittedly) very picky on this point. Then I have to pick out the right sound effect of course. But so far, EXTREMELY COOL! I'm loving this game! Off to work on the portcullis.

On another front, I finally switched over to Firefox 1.5 for my browser. It is truly all that. Having tabs to browse is wonderful. Why did I wait so long?