Status

January 25, 2009

Last Week

Got close to finishing game script

This Week

Finish the games script
Display Graphics for splash screen
Find audio for splash screen

Summary
Pretty big setback last week. My power adapter failed on Tuesday and I didn’t get a replacement until Friday night. Last weeks task have become this weeks.

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Game Review: Dodge

January 19, 2009

Dodge is kind of a throw-back game. It’s basic space shooter reminiscent of Space Wars and Asteroids. However, one big difference is that your ship has no weapons.
No Weapons!?!?
In this age of weapon power-ups, how can you have a game where the player doesn’t even have a weapon? Well, in Dodge, you do exactly what [...]

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Status

January 19, 2009

Last Week

Selected the questions
Started writing the game script
Display the splash screen (no graphics)

This Week

Finish the games script
Display Graphics for splash screen
Find audio for splash screen

Summary
I made reasonable progress. I got a pretty good start on the script. I need to keep the momentum going and finish it off. I have some ideas for what to [...]

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Status

January 13, 2009

Last Week

Setup a new TextMate project for development and testing
Added a couple more questions
Re-installed Trac

This Week

Select 7 questions
Start writing the game script
Display the splash page (not the full sequence)

Summary
Well the Trac installation crapped out after I had added a bunch of stuff. No idea why, just got a 500 error while trying to access it. [...]

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Game Review: The Last Stand

January 9, 2009

The Last Stand is a zombie survival shooting game. The goal is to survive until someone can come and rescue you. You start the game alone with a hand gun and a barrier. Zombies approach you and you need to “kill” them before they knock down your barrier and kill you. If you survive a [...]

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Status

January 5, 2009

Last Week

Gathered a bunch of questions for the new quiz game
Setup Trac for managing features and issues
Added a bunch of tasks to my to-do list

This Week

Setup game development environment
Start pruning the list of questions for the game
Start writing the script for the game

Summary
I’m still excited about the game, so that’s a good thing. Tons to [...]

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Game Review: Eschalon – Book I

January 2, 2009

I don’t play nearly as many games as I used to, AKA life before two daughters. But I do love old school computer RPGs (CRPGs) like Baldur’s Gate, et al. I know Eschalon – Book I is over a year old (I can tell from my old saved games), but I thought I’d review it [...]

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Book Review: Blog Blazers

December 16, 2008

If you look at the archives of my posts, you will notice that I’m a sporadic blogger. So when I heard about “Blog Blazers” (Stephane Grenier) I was looking forward to reading it. As luck would have it, I won a copy from Ian Landsman with the stipulation that I write a review. So here [...]

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Match with Luther

October 11, 2008

Here’s the Flash game I’ve been working on.
A simple little concentration game with Martin Luther looking on. Listen to some interesting sound bytes as you complete matches. You may even hear some words from Fr. Martin.

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Flash Development

July 22, 2008

My first/last game was based on Torque Game Builder. While it did have some nice things for game development, it is a little heavyweight for the types of game I want to try to build, and having to package applications feels so 90’s. So, I’m going to be using Flash as my development platform, it [...]

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