I discovered that I could do more with websites than telling everyone who happened by who I was and what my favorite things are. So I created Misty Dragons. This site started it all. My first goal was to post silly pictures I took with my cheap digital camera. Then I realized I had little of the content that I had started the site for.

I knew Alex from a few classes and knew that she had a knack for drawing dragons. I offered to give her space on my site. After some time and a lot of pestering I finally got her to accept my offer. I now had real content on my site. Something worthwhile for people to see. Although she says that she has a whole collection in her barn, I haven't received anything recently from her.

At this point I started to learn html and what it could do for my website. What a waste of time. I soon got Front Page and haven't typed code since. While it helps every now and then I found that Front Page could do my site wonders. There was more that I could do and I could make changes on the fly. With Misty Dragons still in good shape I didn't feel it was necessary to make another site. That problem was subject to change.

I discovered Aaron through his notebook He had complex sketches on notebook paper and detail was crucial to him. Those sketches were of old archaic or medieval style drawings. Many of them taking place in a specific region of which he had also sketched out. If Aaron needed to explain something you would find him saying, "Here, let me draw it out for you."  The pen is mightier than the word. I finally had an incentive to create what I could not do with Misty Dragons. I created The Green Tower.

The Green Tower was finally built and hasn't changed much in structure or design. However, I moved away from pictures. Pictures were my strongest content for all my sites and then I got bored. I worked with creating animated gifs and toyed with different graphic programs. Then Aaron and I collaborated our thoughts, mostly those thoughts came from his drawings, and came up with a few ideas. Both of us were fans of the Myst series and thought  it would be fun to create a game similar to Myst. Right now, Cyan is creating an online super game under the name Mudpie. This is just like Myst but set in many different worlds were one can wander through and take in all the scenery. A downside to this development is that the game is a subscription. You have to subscribe to it like you would a magazine.

This gave me my motivation for Amadris. Aaron's motivation came from D'ni Legacy. D'ni Legacy is a complete rip off of Myst. It is the fact that it was done by real amateurs like Aaron and I that amazed me and how well of a job they did. Aaron and I did most of the planning for the Amadris and The Green Tower in our Algebra 2 class. Our teacher, bless her, even let us use her computer to work on it a few times.

Amadris was very easy to put together. As I type this it is uncompleted but we are still vigilant in getting it finished. The game is simply built in Paint and Front Page. We took hundreds of pictures with Aaron's digital camera (as mine is unfortunately incapable of taking reasonable decent pictures). After editing the pictures in paint and used them as backgrounds for the individual pages and used sections from the pictures as the links. A nice touch has been added to the game, Amadris, by including music. The music was composed by Aaron's mother, although I am not sure how much of it is actually her playing it. Some of the sound effects Aaron came up with. Where they came from I do not know.

Our original plan was to have it to be playable online. After we included our musical score, we decided against that. If this Amadris is going to be launched completely online, it will have to be without its musical supplement. We still are going to have the site available for complete download via Zip or Wrar files. The game is large. But most of it is pictures. I believe that the music will be downloaded separate from the rest of the game to save time.