Thank God. I voted which doesn’t matter since it’s Jersey. But I’m so relieved that America didn’t screw this up. Hopefully our country can heal the wounds of the last 8 years. Sorry, I’ll stop the politics stuff now. Apparently I missed October on here. If everyone hasn’t checked it out, take a look at the XNA Game Studio games that are coming out in a few weeks. I’m pretty excited about that in general, and am still getting comfortable in the Suites.
So the end of September means a few things. FIrst, that it’s dark by the time I get home. This kinda sucks as I had been biking of late after work, and I won’t really be able to do that anymore. Second, baseball playoffs. I don’t care about them, but the sports shows I like do. Ho-hum. Maybe the Mets will make the playoffs after all? Hhahahah. Third, NFL is a few weeks in. Yes, I love me some football. The NFC Beast is 8-0 in non-divisional games. I wonder how impossible it is to have a division be undefeated against other divisions.
And lastly, I’ve been working on one of my several projects. This is the XNA (Game Studio) one. It has pretty basic game logic, a few twists. The plan is to force fast games for several reasons. I don’t want my xna game to drag out (I have deeper games for that) and possibly target XNA with it. (Since the game is 2 players, you would be able to wirelessly connect and smash away for a few minutes.) I haven’t upgraded to XNA 3.0 so I haven’t looked at any of the capabilities, but I can imagine that should work. I have to get the normal networking stuff into the PC version, and finish tweaking the rules, but with a good few hours of work this will be a finished proving ground.
After I’m convinced of my proving ground, I’ll move onto either Global Skirmish in XNA or Dictatorship (which I’ll hold under the covers for now except for the name).
Well that’s all I have folks, maybe I’ll have some time to code all these projects I have running around.
Well, Labor Day is a great placement for a holiday. Right at the end of the summer, you can regenerate all your juices and enjoy the nice weather before it starts cooling off. I didn’t do anything fancy this weekend, but I did enjoy the weather. Now that the summer is fading away, I’m taking a peak back and thinking I did pretty well in the casual coding department. Unfortunately, you all aren’t seeing that here, but I did make some hefty progress in other places, that I can use as a foundation for Global Skirmish. Using lighter projects in the issue at hand (php/sql) to get me familiar with coding in that style is great, and should be able to make things smoother as I get ready to implement saved games/multiplayer.
I also have actually been fiddling around with XNA Game Studio, which really has a nice feel to it. I would recommend the toolset to any young developer who wants to create his own games. Because you can really get a good start on the meat and potatoes part of game programming, without having to deal too much with the sleep under your desk part of game programming.
Now that I’m done looking behind Labor Day it’s time to look forward, and that focuses on one thing for a few months. NFL. Yes yes, I’m quite the huge Football fan. I’m not going to deny it. I’m really pumped up for Thursday nights game, and hopefully it will live up to my hype. Of course, when it comes to rivalries, it’ll be a bit devastating for a loss, because it’s hard to look on the bright side. Not only does your team start off with a loss, it starts off with a division loss, which in the NFC East may be the difference between a wild card spot, and sitting home in January.
The teams know each other well, they’ve both been hampered by a few injuries. I think the wild card is the new coach for the Redskins. We’ll see how that West Coast Offense turns out.
