It's been a while but I have definitely worked hard to get this far. I've been learning a lot about making code readable at work and using design patterns outside of work. I know I have been on and off with learning it but I need to put it under my belt. At least the ones in my C# 3.0 book.

With Game Development, I know its been on pause but I feel it is coming back with the recent things. These things are the following:

• More involvement with development at work
• Reading outside of work
• Playing more games on Fightcade to relax the mind from programming. 
• Doing more Katas to keep reinforcing the new things I learn in my career
• Seeing more developers stream their development sessions (ie Lachhh)
• Deactivated Facebook

I still do not know which game I want to pick up on or if I want to start work on a project I was pushing around to Exo a long time ago. I noticed no one has picked it up and it looks like it would be a neat game. I still have the following projects:

• Food Truck Hunter
• Pizza Man
• Syobon Action XNA [remake game?]
• Random projects for work
• Memorial Project

I don't know if I will end up scrapping them all to reorganize my thoughts but it is something I have been pushing around. Either way, I know I am going to work forward and update this blog with development news. As for Facebook, I may keep it up for personal stuff and make sure everything is in order.




Another day.. Another page...

I recently purchased Game Maker professional since I am going to work with my sister to finish her game. I've been playing around with the engine along with the Box 2D physics engine and its pretty cool. I finally found out the trick with tile set collision detection. It seems that they do it just like Sonic 2's platforming. Where you have a tile set just for display and a mask for collision. I'm used to other engines where the tiles have unique properties. I also got the vertical moving platform working good but horizontal is being a pain since my platform does not have a speed due to it moving along a path. I might end up making an IWBTG clone as a side project. 

I've been thinking a lot about things and I am wondering if I should continue my work in C# with XNA. Its a really nice framework and you can make some awesome games using it. I just realized to speed up my progress that I should switch to Game Maker. I can do technically do it all but why reinvent what's already there. Why haven't I thought of this before you may ask. I have but the problem was at the time there was no networking in Game Maker. It looks like with the new version there is so I can add multiplayer like I intended.

With that being said, I think I will pick up one of my projects but in Game Maker. I know that cancels out releasing on a console since it is a bit pricier I also realized that I could probably release the game on 360 without redoing a lot of stuff. So, for now, I will just work with Game Maker and come back to XNA if I want something on a console. The sad thing about that is by that time XNA may no longer be supported. Makes me wonder what Microsoft plans to do with Xbox One.

Scenery Change

Looks like I am finally done with moving and have some stuff in place. I haven't been working on any projects due to a lot of changes that's been going on. I plan to pick up my work and help with others as the year goes on.

Title change for Megaman Netplay game to avoid Capcom rape

So, I have been chatting around about making this game and people think it is a good idea. Some people did bring up legal issues and at first I thought that I could just ignore Capcom. Then, I started thinking if this game actually became big then I would want to port to the 360. The problem with that is that I cannot use copyrighted material. That means I will have to change the name of this along with assets. The project name for now is called Gearbot War which will have a similar flow to Megaman but altered gameplay due to multiplayer. The bad thing about it is the more I work on it the more I want to compelete Pizza Man. The good thing is I keep my source code for both games so that means I will eventually complete them.

Total stop on Sybon Action... Switching gears to Megaman Netplay

So, I decided to put a stop to Syobon Action as it will not generate a crowd to actually play. I know people do enjoy the game but it becomes frustrating in a sense that the normal person would not attempt. I realized that I am pretty busy at work and I am always learning so many new things. Since I am doing these things I cannot concentrate on making original content for my projects. With that said, I am shifting to a project that does not require me to do a lot of content creation. This project is Megaman Netplay, well it is called that for now. This game is a little bit in response to the following actions by Capcom: Releasing Megaman Online in Korea only, Cancelling Megaman Universe, Cancelling Megaman Legends 3 along with DLC. I noticed a lot of people are bargaining with Capcom to finally see what they want but I figured I can take the power in my hand. I plan to borrow all sprites from Capcom with proper credits shown. I want this game to basically be a multiplayer Megaman type game with simplified arcade logic. This game will be netplay using the lidgren-network-gen3 library and hopefully I will be able to create a level maker. I will try to keep this blog updated with any real statuses.

Also, apologies to anyone that was waiting on a Pizza Man demo. This game will resume some other time.

Pausing this project

Well, I think this project is at a pause due to a lot of different factors. That doesn't mean I don't stop thinking about programming or game development in general. I am currently working on converting some of the code for the game known as Syobon Action (Cat Mario). As most of you know, this is a game that may appear frustrating if you are familiar with playing Super Mario Bros for NES. The game is originally coded in C (with Direct X) and was converted to work in Java for it's web browser version. I may have this switched around because I cannot tell which version came out first. I do know for certain that the C version is available on the developer's website. I have converted his code into C# (with XNA) but I still need to fix things to make sense.


For example here are some of the variable names:
nx, any, nc, egtype, sree, a2tm, anotm and ee.


For those interested in looking at the game in web browser form please browse to:
http://www.geocities.jp/z_gundam_tanosii/home/applet/Main.html


Also, those interested in looking at the unconverted code browse to:
http://www.geocities.jp/z_gundam_tanosii/home/syobon-action-src.zip


I will continue sporadically working on things since life is being life again.