While working on that project for Infinite Death I mentioned I also wanted to spend some time looking at coding and making a quick game of my own. 4 hours later I have something like this:

Which basically sets up the character so that it moves via WASD (which is how I usually prefer to move in games). It is using an animation from an old unfinished game for now, and when it stops an idle animation faces whichever direction it stopped at.

I suppose I am getting ahead of myself though. The game concept is basically dungeon crawler, and I am just looking to demo some levels to see how it would play. Eventually I would love to see it develop into some sort of MMO, but one step at a time.

I have found quite a few game maker tutorials to be quite helpful, and coding is a lot more flexible than drag and drop; though I am sure my code will be messy and inefficient for a first try haha!

Been quite awhile.

I admit I have gotten distracted and side tracked but currently back into creating and honing my skills. Working with https://www.facebook.com/infinitedeathdevelopment and modeling stuff for a game they are creating.

In the meantime I learned a bit of zbrush!

Just got back from SoE live, had a blast. I think I will rest a couple days then start looking into the item forge stuff, seems like a good way to get my name out a bit and get experience at the same time! It was highly recommended by the devs I met at the fan faire. I also did my first EQ tournament while I was there, we had a good shot at third place but unfortunately did not kill quite fast enough (the tie breakers were determined by kill speed). Not a bad showing for a first try, and a pick up group at that! I would also like to give a shout out to Josh Augustine, one of the newer employees running the EQ tournament. He helped our group get rolling and made sure everyone had a fair shot when it came to the tournament event we attended. So great job setting that up Josh, and I will be writing a letter of thanks first thing in the morning to you and SoE for the great time I had.

My friend came into town and we discussed some game ideas a bit. Something involving a werewolf hero etc. Perhaps we might work on a game in our spare time sometime soon, but he gets so wrapped up in life sometimes. Still I will wait and hope for the day we get the chance to create a game together, I am sure we would have a blast. I will keep trying to update this as I can, but material is sparse right now. I guess I am kind of taking a break and practicing up for the SOE live tournament.

Well programmer problems yet again *sigh. My partners seem to never fully commit to their projects. I think I will finish up those characters at some point though. A blast from the past for you: I am playing Everquest again, looking to enter some of those SoE Live events and practicing up. I think I want to take a serious look at competitive gaming, though I will still keep my art skills polished up just in case! As always I will try to post something here when I can. It is kind of turning into more of a traditional blog than a game development journal, but that is life for ya.

Finished the scout animations. Taking things slow still, have the basic sketches done for the other heroes but have yet to get around to coloring them. Will set a goal to at least get that done this week.

Alright, I am getting back in the groove of things now sorry about the delays. I have recently started animating a character for the new game (Heroes village or some such) I am working on seen here: http://www.esnips.com/displayimage.php?pid=34209793 We got an attack and walk animation for an archer type character. It should look familiar because it was created back when I did Legion of Devagog stuff. However, it was never really used so I am using it here. I will have to start from scratch for some of the other animations but this is a good jumping off point. See ya next week! And if anyone knows of some freelance art work let me know, I am currently looking for some extra practice/cash.