Time for a wrap-up of the week!

Project Jack
My original plan was to continue working on the design for the rest of the month in "optimist" mode, throwing in whatever features I would think make the perfect game. However, the pessimistic part of me cannot take it anymore! As it stands, the present de…

This project of mine is now officially classified as a Herculean task, as for every page I write in my design document it seems that I have to write two more. I suppose this is still all going to plan; for now I'm writing down whatever elements I would want to include in my "dream" version of the g…

It seems like no-one managed to correctly guess my age. The closest guesses were made by mcguille25 and Laz, so you can both have a picture of a Xbox 360. Since I'm feeling generous, all other competitors can have the consolation prize of a picture of a PS1. I'll leave figuring out my age as an exe…

February really makes me feel my own mortality. First the undergraduates start pouring into the university reclaiming everything from us postgrads (and always looking younger than the year before). And today I have my birthday, adding another notch to the tally of years. Sigh.

So in honour of me mov…

It is becoming increasing clear that my subconscious desperately wants to make an action/adventure/RPG style game. I'm not entirely sure how my imagination managed to do this, but it's slowly twisted my plan for a roguelike dungeon crawler yet again into a story based action game; this time more li…

These days in the software stores around here they are devoting a large section of their space to empty game boxes promoting Xbox 360 games (the console hasn't been released in Australia yet). I was probably not going to be buying an Xbox 360 at launch, but I have been pondering about whether I sho…

It is probably unclear exactly what is happening with my project at the moment, which is hardly surprising given that I've been brainstorming so many different concepts over the last few weeks. It's probably a good time now to fix a few things by posting them in this update.

What is Project Jack?

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Hey kids! You too can create your very own hero for Project Jack! Just open your box of digital crayons and colour in what you want your hero to look like! Remember to colour within the lines!

Just a quick poll of your opinion on this, as the nature of the gameplay will depend on this...

I'm planning on making my game in an arcadey style, and so I'll be adding support for gamepads (as IMO that will be the best interface for this tyoe of game). This means I have to design for digital direc…