Lots of neat things have been eating up my time lately, just thought I would share a bit of the progress I have been making on them since it has been rather quiet around here lately.
PARPG:
I may not have mentioned this here yet, but I recently became a full fledged developer on the open source indie game, PARPG (working title). It is an isometric 2d RPG set on a post apocalyptic earth. It is currently in super early development stages, and I really do mean super early. Mostly tons of back-end decisions and coding are in the works. Probably the two biggest undertakings (in the programming department) at the moment are the design and implementation of our questing engine as well as the restructuring of the limited GUI code we have right now so that its more modular. If anyone is interested in checking it out we should hopefully be releasing a tech demo of the game in late December I would guess, but depending on development speed it should be out this winter at the least.
I joined the project back in August of this year and it has been quite a learning experience so far. Who advancing your python skills through game development would be so enjoyable?
Subcreation:
Subcreation is also in the process of a bit of change. Currently I am working on getting us a blog up an running and fully integrated with our forum software. Currently I am working on translating the design of the forums over to the blog so that it is a seamless end-user experience and that should hopefully be up and running in another week or two.
The idea behind it is to get some of our more prominent community members to start blogging about their gaming experience’s from a Subcreation PoV, you know the whole “better gaming through intelligence” motif. Perhaps it will be successful, perhaps it will flop. Who knows until we try!
Kingdom Hearts 2:
Holy marvelous mickey batman! I started playing KH2 over this last weekend and so far after a couple hours of play time I have to say I have been completely sucked in by this series. Square may have been slacking off on the story end of the Final Fantasy franchise, but I would say that KH is picking that slack up and piling on even more awesome. Granted I am only a few hours into the game, but so far the setting is excellent, the mystery is fantastic, and the longing to keep playing even after you should have retired for the night is very high. Its almost like a great book you just can’t put down. (/me makes a mental note to go out and pick up the 358 2 days, and RE: Chain of Memories installments of the series.)
I should also be posting the Cowboy Bebop update soon to the anime guide as well, I just have been too preoccupied to sit and watch the movie myself! All in due time.