Life and Code

Yay for insomnia I guess, woke up early this morning and worked on my demo. The previous game projects have really given me a good idea of what I need to do to get to a running state. I was pleasantly surprised by how quickly I was able to start getting my basic framework in place. Today, I worked on base objects for cameras and lights as well as managers for both. Also built some more basic framework functions, like translation class.  Also started building my base game components like my base physics object. So far progress is looking good.

Interested in XNA here is the book I learned alot from:

Beginning XNA 3.0 Game Programming: From Novice to Professional

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So once again, I know, I am going down the building a game demo route. This time using one of my all time favorite games as a target for emulation. I do have alot of stuff going on, with contract work, freelance work, Android dev and everything else. But I know that if you love doing something you should actually do it and I miss some good deep programming and problem solving.

Here is the obligatory tech details post:

Platform: Windows, XBOX 360 (future)
Graphics etc: XNA
Physics: JigLibX

The plan is to do this to work on this project when I need a break from everything else. I am already enjoying it because ‘research’ is fun, see pic below. My goal is to actually put this one out there as an XNA indie game. I promise I wont keep it locked away in my collection of fun stuff I have made for me to play around with. I am looking forward to playing this game myself and that is a good sign.

Research is fun!!

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So I am all set up to write my excellent game (demo). I have come up with and shot down several of my own ideas. I think I have coder’s block. I know I have the ability to code this, however, I seem to be having problems designing. I think I need to just take some time off and unwind. The cold spell has actually given me a few ideas. We’ll see how it turns out I guess.

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