the game begins...

M.I.P

2008-08-17T11:37:00.000-04:00

Moving in progress

2008-08-14T22:29:00.001-04:00

Pirated Games - Deal With It

Very interesting

2008-08-07T00:20:00.002-04:00

This has definitely got me thinking. Always have, but now more than ever.

2008-07-31T22:20:00.002-04:00

Amen

Been a while...

2008-07-17T15:55:00.001-04:00

Still at it, don't know if I'll make it in time for the Dream.Build.Play deadline but I'm going full speed a head.

Nothing else for the moment... ;)

Back to the drawing board

2008-02-26T19:05:00.004-05:00

Dam... the "game" concept I have been working on doesn't seem to work. I have strayed to far from my original vision. Practically, it's not fun. Some how, it has turned into a very watered down "tactics" game. While I love that genre, thats not what I had in mind.

I'm trying to save my original plan, but realizing what my game was all long has turned me away from it for now. I really hate starting over. But I have to accept this is not the way I want to go.

All is not lost. I surprisingly developed a lot of code that will most definitely be used in the next project.

For the record, I was trying to develop a strategic/comedy board game. Will see what happens.

2008-02-24T20:41:00.000-05:00

Oh shit...

>:O

2008-02-24T18:09:00.002-05:00

My 360 died... Shipped it to Microsoft. See how long this take. I read somewhere it takes about 20 days. We'll see how this turns out. Oh and this will be my 5th, yes 5th, Xbox360. All of them except one three red rings. *sigh*

I'm aware of all the GDC XNA news. All pretty cool, with the exception of Zune games which is just totally amazing. Can't wait.

2008-02-15T22:22:00.002-05:00

BTW, I'm not jumping on the bandwagon, though there is nothing wrong with that. I have been watching him since the beginning and decided I wanted him as my president around Oct. '07.

Lucky #5!

2008-02-13T19:24:00.003-05:00

So Microsoft will be sending me an empty box to ship my 360. When I get the new one back, it will be my fifth. I still can believe it. It's just my luck... Though I think Mass Effect has something to do with it this time.

Oh well, more PS3 time.

Excited!

2008-01-28T00:39:00.000-05:00

Can wait for the meeting!

I have never been to one and kind of down that there wasn't an active local chapter. But no more! Can't wait.

Little Busy

2008-01-04T00:11:00.000-05:00

Happy New Year!!

Yeah I'm a little late. I have been a little busy with the break and what not. That and school starting again on Monday (01/07).

In a little while I will post something about what I will enter into DreamBuildPlay (main competition). Hopefully putting it out there will motivate me even further.

Stay tuned!

2007-12-16T11:40:00.001-05:00

The Story of Stuff

DreamBuildPlay 2.0

2007-12-05T16:01:00.000-05:00

I'll ~~try~~ do it this year. I have to get started.

Interesting read 2

2007-11-30T15:07:00.000-05:00

Jon put the slides and recording from his presentation. Wow. I completely see where he is going with this. That article on gamasutra I read the other day was nothing compared to hearing it from Jon's mouth. I'm leaving the previous post up for comparison but I completely agree with him. Especially on the "ethics" of this whole discussion.

One thing I would like to clear up though is that I'm still into the entertainment side of this, however I love the art possibilities. I can honestly say I would like to make a game like Jon describes in his talk. And it really boils down to the ethics part. I wouldn't want to be the CEO of McGames Studios.

I don't have to time right now, mainly because I wanted to post my reaction really quick, to dissect everything when you can hear it from the man himself. Please do, you won't regret it.

Favorite line: "Would they still want to play our game if we removed the scheduled rewards?" Food all the way! (You'll now what I mean when you listen/watch it.)

Interesting read

2007-11-27T22:24:00.000-05:00

Note: This is the first time I have heard of Mr. Blow so theres a small chance I don't know what I'm talking about.

I just finished reading a summary of Jonathan Blow's speech at MIGS 2007. It's defiantly a head scratcher. Games to me have always been entertainment. Without a doubt they can be art (Ico) or they can just be entertaining (Halo, CoD, etc) and of course the mix of the two. What I got from that summary was mix of architecture astronauts meets game designer.

Without going into details, I think Blow was way to far out there. But at the same time bring up some good points in the ethical department. I had never thought about it that way.

I pretty much love Halo (1,2, & 3). I understand others for not liking it as much as I do, but hey thats not going to stop me from loving it. With that said, Halo 3 is brought up quite a bit. I got the impression, from the summary, that the game is being penalized for not being art. No body can say, including me, that Halo is art. It's entertainment, along with CoD, Bioshock and the rest.

Hopefully one day I can create games professionally and I won't be interested in the art part (at least not for the time being). But that's not to say others have the same feelings. More power to them and I'm glad there are others in it for the art, it's just not me. Just as in books, movies, etc there are those that do it for art and others for fun. Same with games. You can have your Icos and Flows, at the same time keep the Halos. There's room for everyone, not just one.

I would also like to note that this is in no way an "attack" or insult to Blow. Just trying to wrap my head around his "teachings" to better understand it, if at all. It's definitely an interesting topic to say the least.

Gutsy Gibbon

2007-10-21T19:38:00.000-04:00

Hands down the best one yet!

Dam...

2007-09-28T01:30:00.000-04:00

First BioShock, now Halo. Multi-player is just so much fun I can't stop. Man this fall is going to keep me really busy!!

Beat it!

2007-09-12T22:59:00.000-04:00

I finally beat BioShock. I know I'm slow, but I like to take my time. Very good game. Can't wait to play it again sometime this fall or winter. You know, after Halo 3, Crysis, and CoD4.

While playing my games, I have some how been able to continue my XNA reading. Made some pretty good progress. Not to show of course but I even impressed my self at how far I've gone.

Laters!

2007-08-30T21:40:00.000-04:00

BioShock.

Crazy day

2007-08-13T22:36:00.000-04:00

GameFest sure sounds like fun this year. Would be nice to check it one day. XNA 2.0 sounds like it's going to kickass. Xbox Live support, what!

Congrats to all the Dream Build Play winners. Well deserved.

Waiting for the BioShock demo to finish. I got into this game fairly recently but wow am I excited to play this game! Thats all for now, not much XNA "learning" for me today, it's just to crazy!

btw, did I mention there was a spider monkey running loose in the parking lot at my job?

Reading part 1.5

2007-08-12T02:40:00.000-04:00

Just wanted to add that I also bought XNA Unleashed. I was caught a little off guard with this one. I was surprised that my local B&N had so many XNA books so I checked them out. This one was very interesting so after about 30 mins of reading I bought it. So far, well worth it.

Now I'm reading everything together, referencing one or the other when need be.

Reading...

2007-08-06T01:56:00.000-04:00

Just thought I would mention that I was reading both XNA Game Studio Creators Guide and Riemer's XNA Tutorials. Really good material if you just started with XNA. Thought I would throw that out there. Don't know why I'm even typing this... no one is even reading. :p

GameDev Partner

2007-08-02T02:32:00.000-04:00

I seriously doubt anyone is reading this, but it's worth a shot. I'm looking to team up with another game developer as a partner. If anything, a small team (<5) where we all have equal say in the project. This would be just for kicks, a learning project if you will. If anything serious develops, we'll deal with it then.

Please, leave a comment if your interested.

Sorry had to do it.

2007-07-30T22:04:00.000-04:00

How to create an Angry American.

"The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it always to be kept alive."
- Thomas Jefferson