My New Year’s Resolutions

Well, it is now 2007 and I thought it would be cool to map out my goals for this year. So, for the amusement for everyone, I present the list:

• Finish OjaiCMS and ready it for distribution.
• Launch Marching Band!
• Transfer this blog over to the new site.
• Find an apartment to live in.
• Become more socially active.
• Get a job as a computer support person.
• Find “the one.”
• Produce a full length student film.
• Contribute more to Wikipedia.
• Stop going to digg.com so much.

Well, that’s not everything, but I don’t want to bore you any further. I would love to hear your new year’s resolutions!

Gamers / Marching Band! Update

Ok, I said the other day that I would post a very special update to Marching Band! Sadly, I’ve been too busy to even work on OjaiCMS (the system behind Marching Band!). I have been working somewhat lazily on the next film project of the year, Gamers. The script is in it’s final form, apart from a few minor updates here and there.

Filming will take place this Monday, the 18th.

If you have a conflict with this, please let me know so we can work something out. This filming session will hopefully be more productive than the last one. And will not require a re-shoot.

Last Marching Band Performance Ever

Well, I’m in bundles of gear bending joy. Today marks the last day I will be part of any marching band. I have been waiting four years for this day to come, and it has passed. I did however leave the competition early. For starters I was feeling ill, and second I have a banquet to attend in about fifteen minutes. I would post pictures of the show, but I don’t have any sadly. Hopefully a fellow band member has some and is willing to share.

As part of tradition, I have to say my goodbyes too all the underclassmen who will, in no doubt, not miss me.

Later tonight, I will post some pictures of the Peperdine game and other random things. There may also be a Marching Band! game update Depends if I feel good.

Note: If you are in band, I would like someone to tell me what we scored. If you could call my cell, that would be awesome. I will be home really late tonight.

Marching Band! Update

As promised, you can log into your account and edit your details. Not much to show off yet. More to come next week.

Marching Band! – The Worlds First Online Marching Band Simulator

I guess you can now say the cat is out of the bag. This is another part of the huge announcement I will be posting soon.

Registration has begun for Marching Band! Claim your account before someone else does for you. You will be able to login by the end of the week. Don’t worry about forgetting about the site, all members will be notified via email when the beta begins.

About the game

Marching Band! is the sole creation of Troy Whiteley (that’s me if you didn’t already know). It started as a joke many years back in high school marching band. Little did anyone know that this day would come when band geeks around the world can compete in one location. Marching Band! was built using the soon-to-be public release of OjaiCMS, a dynamic content management system capable of running multiple sites under one installation.

Once registered for the game, you will be asked to create your school. From there you must recruit, train, and compete with your team. More details about this to come…

Why Marching Band?

Let’s look at it this way: there are lots of high schools around the United States. In California alone, there are thousands of high schools (grades 9-12) [source]. Some of these schools do not have bands, but most do. If you do the math, there is an extremely high number of people who perform with a marching band. This means that there is a large number of people who could be interested in a marching band simulator.

It’s just a market that has sadly only been targeted by ma-pop t-shirt, cheap video production, unhealthy food folks. Why no one has made a full blown video game about it is beyond me. But I do plan on being the first.

So what are you waiting for? Go sign up now!