Time for updates on my game projects.

I've been thinking a bit about my ambitious game project, Project Hamlet. This is a hard decision, but I have to face facts; as it currently stands, the game design for Project Hamlet is fatally flawed.

Here's an overview of Project Hamlet as it currently stands:…

Time for another update on Project Nova

I've been looking at heaps of different sets of resources for the game, and it's all becoming really confusing. Reading through all those code examples has taught me that my programming knowledge isn't at it's best. I think I'm still pretty good with C. But th…

It's nearly the end of the week, so it's almost time to make a decision on the engine to use. Looking through a few different types, I think I'll go with ClanLib, at least for now. I'll see how easy it is to use and learn.

Now I have to figure out the design. Since Project Nova is really just a lear…

Now that I've figured out a guide for spending the next two years, I need to figure out how to meet my first milestone; the completion of Project Nova, the space scrolling shmup!

It's a bit daunting to aim to finish a game in two and a half months, but it's not impossible. Although I know there will…

Since the weekend I've been thinking about the plan for the short and mid term. I'm still in agreement with my present plan for the most part; at the moment I really need to be working on my skills. However, I'm starting to think I've forgotten to work on my weakest skills which also happen to be t…

Warning! Monster Journal Entry Ahead!

I've spent some of the last day thinking about both my game projects. At the moment, I'm really just working a bit haphazardly; just doing whatever I feel like at the time. While that's fine if I wish to remain a game hobbyist, but if I would like to try my hand…

Is it just me, or does anyone else hear the voice of "The Nameless One" from Planescape: Torment everytime they add a new journal entry? "Updated my journal..."

More practice in the creative side. Firstly, I've posted a couple of pieces of music up for review, which can be found on a thread I've sta…

Brief update:

I have started working on my pixel art skills by going through some of the tutorials available at http://www.pixeltutorial.cjb.net/. So far all I've got is four 16x16 grass tiles, but that's a start.


Here's all four tiles in a regular pattern. Not too bad for three shades of green. It's…

My week of R&R is over, as is the long weekend, so it's back to work. Since I was eithe too busy or too tired to get too much game work done last week, I'll try to get more done this week after hours.

Organisational ability isn't a strong point in my personality, but it's something I'll have to …

An update on how work is going so far:

There's only three months left in the year, and I've decided to use these to build up my skills while slowly working on my design for "Project Hamlet". Here's a breakdown of how the skill development is going:

• Music: I've finished one piece, and am tidying up th…