WOW! An update! Its been many months, hasn't it! Things are cooking, yes indeed they are.

First and most unfortunately, no progress has been made directly on The Legend of Talibah. I have, however, been doing some coding. I'm taking a games programming class at UNT. I'm developing an isometric puzzle style game in direct X. I have another programmer and an artist helping me. The game concept is much like what I had planned for Bob 2. Last night I wrote map reading functions and made the blitter render a floor layer and then two object layers.

Unfortunately, our artist is having a difficult time understanding what we need as far as artwork. Her class project as an art student is nothing more than doing the artwork for this game, and I'm not sure if she's going to be able to do it. She's never worked on the pixel level before and she keeps trying to take strange approaches that I don't understand. I hope she catches on!

So here I am, making my first DirectX application using VC++. This was my first step. By the end of December, I should be done with this project and considering another one. I'm planning on taking the advanced version of this same class next semester so I might not start anything until next summer. HOPEFULLY, I'll start TLOT over in DirectX, but I might now. I may just make a move to Linux before I start over on TLOT.

In the meantime, I may post the current build of TLOT to the public, including source code. I don't know if anyone is still interested in this 16 bit DOS application written in Pascal. I must say that I do feel like I've failed. I took on a project too big for myself. I'll probably scale down my design doc for the new port of TLOT so I can actually finish. Who knows..

In regards to my professional life, my new company is doing great. I've got food on the table, a little bit (and I do mean little) of money in the bank, and pleanty of work to do. In regards to my personal life, I'm still single. I'm still close with my x-girlfriend, Amanda. She's great, I miss knowing that she's mine.... but life goes on.

I have no clue when I'll update again... I might start posting builds of Space Pirate.. (thats the name of the game we're workign on). I don't know why I'm posting this on my TLOT site, habbit I guess.. who knows, I might start a forum elsewhere..

Oh, almost forgot! Click on the space pirate logo and you'll get a screenshot of my Web page at 20k hits. This sent to me by Gerard Ian Prud'Homme. Many thanks!

later....