Some really cool stuff here!

I'm currently working through an Open University course called MT264: Designing Applications with Visual Basic. I'm also just doing some C64 assembly using VICE, but nothing more than displaying the word "HELLO" on screen.

As for a project, I am currently planning to convert a "choose your own adventure" book into a Visual Basic application. At the moment I have chosen Star Wars: The Lost Jedi and its first book, Jedi Dawn. Aside from parsing a text file, there doesn't seem to any complications...

I just hope to find a Visual Basic game api to then move on to writing a DUNE 2000 style game. That game doesn't seem to run on 64-bit OS's so I guess I have no choice...

I'm currently working on 2 related projects: a game engine and a game project

The engine project started in june 2010, and the game is mostly still in pre-production, although some code has already been written (nothing too interesting though)
I can't say too much about the game project since we only want to 'show it to the world' when there's actually something cool to show. I can say however that the development of the engine is going great, since I finally got to fine-tuning my scripting system, allowing engine functions and game functions to be registered with Lua in a very clean and straightforward manner

Details and such can be found on www.rainware.org

I'm doing practical testing of my C# skills by putting together a bunch of mini-features that would make up a politics-driven 4x game. The (eventual) goal is to put them together to make a crappy game, but that's still a ways off.

I just realised my design has a fatal flaw Gonna have to either change the base concept a bit or think of a new thing alltogether. Damn you illusive 2D!

EDIT: I tried designing a Golden Axe clone-ish game, but now I realised it was actually 3D (you could jump, move forward/backward and outward/inward). So either I'll start learning 3D, or create a tricky 2D enviroment with some intelligent methods keeping track of where the player actually is. Which do you think I would choose?

EDIT2: I'll just disable jumping >w>

My game is now using a view, so I've began working on a simple map editor and parser. But theres nothing to show with that, yet.

I just realised my design has a fatal flaw Gonna have to either change the base concept a bit or think of a new thing alltogether. Damn you illusive 2D!

EDIT: I tried designing a Golden Axe clone-ish game, but now I realised it was actually 3D (you could jump, move forward/backward and outward/inward). So either I'll start learning 3D, or create a tricky 2D enviroment with some intelligent methods keeping track of where the player actually is. Which do you think I would choose?

EDIT2: I'll just disable jumping >w>

You could probably put a good depth system to use. Maybe use some fast sorting method to do it on the fly. What method are you using now?