Misc

For some reason I’ve been listening to APC a lot lately (can you tell?). Maybe it’s been the numerous all-nighters I’ve pulled recently and this music soothes me late at night. It’s been too busy the past few weeks for me to sit down and gather some thoughts for a post. Been hard at work with the new game for Dream Build Play, along with life’s other issues. Don’t have much to show at the moment as everything is a bit too early in development, but I figured I’d at least post one of the concepts by Adam (below)....

Well, Nut Harvest is out to the public and so far it seems most that have tried it have enjoyed it. That’s always good to hear, considering it was just a toy-around game for my friends and I :). Unfortunately, I know that it certainly won’t get as big of an audience as WildBoarders simply because it’s an XBox360 XNA exclusive. There just doesn’t seem to be a good venue yet to release Xbox360 XNA games....

As you can see from the lack of updates, I’ve been pretty busy. Wrapping up Nut Harvest, which is a 360-only multiplayer XNA game. I’ve got a few minor fixes for WildBoarders to release in a patch once I’ve done some more testing. Plus another project I’m working on, you’ll here more about it soon :). School work is bearing down on me as I’ve hardly had any time this past week to work on anything, much less play any games :(....

It has been a while since I actually got a day off from school/work or whatever right on my birthday. Usually they tend to always ‘celebrate’ MLK’s birthday on the 2nd Monday of the month. It finally, got around to being where it should be :). I didn’t do much on my birthday except relax. I did get a cool new cell phone as a gift though. It’s pretty slick....

Hmmm, I was hoping to actually meet the deadlines I set for myself in the last update in regards to my current projects. Yet, even I can’t predict what will happen in a few days time. For one, I became ill right after the update for several days. Secondly, I’ve had to move back to Atlanta to start another semester of classes so I lost that window of free time due to illness and now the classes are requiring a lot of my time (who would have thought?...

Christmas is around the corner (for those that celebrate it), along with New Years. It’s a busy time of the year that’s for certain, and I’m busy just like the rest of you. Mark Coffman announced the winners and prizes for the xbox360homebrew contest over the last week, and I’m certainly happy at the results :). In regards to WildBoarders, the game has reached over one thousand downloads this past week!...

Strange how sometimes I feel like there’s nothing to do for a while and then suddenly I’m swamped with things that need to get done. I wish it would come gradually, but I guess I do this to myself. I’m in the process of fleshing out my project plan so I can get a better picture of my progress on the game I’m developing for the xbox360homebrew contest. I’ll be managing it within my blog so I’ll make a post linking to the page so for those interested can see the current progress of the project, otherwise just look out for my weekly updates on the homebrew site or here....

Every once in a while I see a game that really goes off in a different direction. Sometimes it’s a gameplay innovation/evolution other times it’s a visual style that seems so out there that I can’t help but appreciate it. Games like this just reaffirm the fact that games can be art. It really takes an open mind to break free of typical game conventions such as creating photorealistic graphics, or going for the typical cartoon style of graphics seen in many 2D games....

So I took the plunge. It looks like its going to be a wild ride (pun intended). Anyway, for the contest I’m required to keep a blog throughout the development of the game on their site. I’ll be keeping that blog updated with pictures and some comentaries of my experiences. Meanwhile, on this site I’ll just post a link to my blog and some additional notes to my self here if I missed it on the initial post....

Don’t have anything ready to post as of now, but I had to atleast share this little flash ‘game’ I came across. It has sapped atleast a couple of hours already from me: Line Rider It is in beta, but it was pretty solid from what I saw. I thought this was a really cool gameplay mechanic. While I had ideas of drawing levels as you go for a type of game, this game took it far beyond what I had in mind....