01
Jan
Two Thousand And Eight
Where’s my jetpack already?
4 months since my last post, that’s just inexcusable. I suppose I haven’t been focusing much on my game development after the WiggiWorld contest, though I got 75% of the way through a contest for the JayIsGames contest and then couldn’t make the final stretch. It’s a shame, because I think the game had some potential; perhaps I’ll finish it one day.
Sometime early this year I want to redesign this site and get back into game development, I’m thinking about going back and working in XNA again though, now that the new version is out. Man, I’m so finicky, I can’t stay put. Anyway, I want to go back to my AI experiments; I was thinking of doing a side scrolling dungeon game that played itself (partially based on some of Squidi’s ideas), but the more I thought about it the more ambitious that sounded, too ambitious for an early experiment. So I think I’ll try to create my sheep/wolf/shepherd ecosystem experiment again.
I don’t think I’ve talked about it here before, but it’s pretty much just a simulation of sheep (flock together, find and eat grass), wolves (chase and eat sheep), and the shepherd (protect sheep from wolves). I started it a while ago in XNA and hit problems with the sprite architecture, but I might give it another go. I still haven’t actually decided whether I want to do this in Flash or XNA.
Anyway, happy new year everybody, and hopefully you’ll be seeing more from me on this site in the coming year.
