Games Page updated, stuff happening

So it took a little longer than expected but now my gamespage has been updated, now all my games are on the site, plus extra mirror links, windows downloads and even the source files for those who want to peek under the hood 😀

also, two new games added:

Pinapple22 Pinapple22

The Linear RPG The Linear RPG

I also made a neat little app a while back I havent mentioned here yet, SpiroDraw is like spirograph, but with extra awesome ^_^, check out the awesome stuff thats been made with it.

Anyhoo, I’m getting back to work on Edward now 🙂


Edward

So my big personal project right now would be Edward, Edward is a flash platform game engine I’m making as a replacement for my older, grubbier engine, edward is much more friendly, smarter and talented than the old engine and hes still just in alpha! anyway, I set up a subdomain just for him, heres the linky.

edward logo for now


General Thoughts

I kind of wanted to keep the blog specifically to game related news and updates, but thats not going to happen really, so lets get on with it =p

Truth be told I’m a pretty happy with my life, theres definately things I wish were different but they are things outside my control, so I dont let stuff like that determine how content I am. and after quite a long time thinking about it I realised I can be happy with very very little.

Thats not to say I dont have dreams and aspirations, and that I dont spend almost all my time pushing for them and doing all I can to achieve them, but they are so far from the kind of things other people strive for I sometimes worry that people may have concerns for my happiness in that way, that what I aim for many people wouldnt enjoy.

thats quite confusing actually, to put it another way, I dont care how much money I have, and I know for sure that some people see my attitude as pretty self-depriving, in that I make decisions that will lead me down the path of ‘less fortune’ than one of ‘security’, even when the safer path is easier I have this habit.

I guess its true, but I am honestly still happy, if my life is uneventful and I achieve nothing, find no-one who will spend time with me and am totally broke, I wont mind all that much. money and sucess would be nice I guess, but I’d only be happy with them on my terms. just like relationships I guess; you can pretend to be something you are not in order to be with someone, but you cant keep that up forever, and you cant be happy doing it.

I’m the kind of person who finds hapiness in the simple stuff, which if we are all honest, is the most important stuff. Anything you enjoy in life can be stripped down to just the one element that is special to you, I think I’m just lucky that I can find my elements so easily, and have so many of them to enjoy 🙂

anyhoo, in other news, a little toy I made a few weeks ago got pretty popular for a little while on deviantArt, which is cool, though making updates and stuff for it that people want is taking up alot of time, but I’m almost finished with them and once they are added I’ll go back to working on other stuff. To be honest I dont mind working on adding new stuff because I know its making some people happy (one of the elements I like), but its taking up alot of my time so I can complain about it (complaining is another pleasure I have, though a little bit of a guilty one =p)

In actual gaming news I have a new platform engine coming together to replace my old one so artists and non-programmers can make platform games, its really easy to use and wont require any scripting at all but also alowing a pretty wide range of possible game types. anyhoo, its called ‘Edward’ so if I mention its name thats what I mean 🙂


New Site + PizzaBitch

well the most noticable thing should be that I updated my website today, there may be the odd like labled ‘blog’ that goes to the new home page instead but I’m tidying them as I go 🙂

also, it was LudumDare recently so that means:

PizzaBitch can be downloaded from here. I wont put a page for it up on the site yet however, I want to make a few modifications as I’m not too pleased with it yet, but I like the concept 🙂


Update time

well it seems I havent updated since june… and havent released any games either, but I am keeping busy especially with University work, for which I get to be in a team and we take a design to playable prototype and thats lots of fun.

Screenshot

The above picture is actually the same game as the last blog post, but a totally fresh engine, and using a newer version of papervision too, its less poly heavy which allows for more effects/stuff on screen, and its also much closer to the original interface I had in mind. work is also continuing on runcible sky and even viviscape from time to time, sadly its unlikely anything will be finished this year, but my plan is to have at least the above game finished and polished next year.