For me, I have several projects on/off the boil so here's a quick summary:

* Lawn Bowls simulator: About 50% complete on this one, looking like it might be a possible money-maker, here's hoping. All physics done (the hard bit!), now gotta implement the rules, match types, career mode and AI for computer players.
* Driving Test 3D Simulator: Still in design doco stage, but I'm keen to do this one when Lawn bowls is finished.
* 3D Movie Machine: Design docs done, interface mostly completed. Stuck until this guy I know finishes his Blitz plugin .dll to capture movies out to .avi (audio and video).
* Potty Pigeon remake: old politically incorrect 8 bit C64 game fondly remembered. Currently seeking permission from original developer/publisher to do a freeware remake.
* UNREAL2 Christian themed single player expansion pack: I've put Lawn bowls on hold temporarily so that I can build this. How it is going to work is that you will move through a story (taking place in the UNREAL universe), and instead of having mission objectives, you'll have pop-ups that give you 'suggestions'. One of these suggestions will be 'the right' way to complete the level and will have some kind of moral edge to them, the other suggestions will be kinda like your old nature (or Satan) tempting you to complete the levels in a very negative way. So one voice will be I guess God telling you how best to move on, and the other will be evil. These will come up all the time, and form the backbone of the gameplay. Going for an RPG story sort of feel, but minus the stats. I haven't done any level building for a while but I'm getting back into the saddle pretty quickly.
Anyway, now your turn, how's it all going? Hope you don't have as many projects as me

Looks like progress is going well for you.

Well i'm working on Jarods Journey 3d with Greaceworks, and also working on some web projects for myself, and clients.

--D-SIPL

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Graceworks Interactive

Other: Writing a SciFi novel; should be done early next year (Jan-Feb).

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Ignorance is bad, if you have it you will not have a good time.

um, now, I'm working on Captain Carnage: VietCong.
pretty much a top-down arcade shooter set in VietNam.
my old project, Bean and Rye, is put on hold so I can gain experience with smaller projects.

Gump, writting a sci-fi novel? awesome, I'm a big fan of them. tried writing a couple, didn't turn out well, tho. haha. I'd probably try picking it up again.

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Just stuff for DA, cant stop...DA CODEZ!!!!!!!!11111111oneonetwofour

*DA CODEZ!!!!!!!oneonetwofour was proudly brought to you by Farcestudios (c) 2003 all rights resurved*

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Originally posted by Gump:
Programming: Work for Two Guys on Eternal War and... other stuff. If Mack gives me permission I suppose I could post my list of things I'm working on.

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We'll wait until a bit later before we post any information - it's going to look great.

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It's not seeing is believing, it's believing and then seeing.
http://www.twoguyssoftware.ca

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We'll wait until a bit later before we post any information - it's going to look great.

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hmmm... keeping us in suspense, I see...

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Originally posted by ArchAngel:
hmmm... keeping us in suspense, I see...

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Better to keep a project underwraps and then show it later - easier on everyone in the long run

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http://www.twoguyssoftware.ca

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Originally posted by ArchAngel:
haha, yeah. I know.

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Hehehehehe---don't feel too bad--I am the Script Writer for TGS and there is a lot of times I have to bug the crap outta Mack for info (lol---jk)------but here is how a typical ICQ conversation with Mack and I starts since he knows me so well

Zookey: Hey man whattaup
Mack: no, nothing new TGS

so yeah just send him 20 private messsages and maybe you will have luck...........I cannot be sure tho because I always use the 'uber plz with sugar on top' thingy :-)

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Ignorance is bad, if you have it you will not have a good time.

We are using C# and VB.NET with Truevision3D (www.truevision3d.com) and encrypted XML to store the scripts generated. I just alpha tested a 64 x 64 tile map: http://www.paladingames.com/PGGallery.aspx The map responds to arrow key movement and scrolls. If you look at the screen shot, it's running 700ish in the fps so far, (that will go down dramatically as we add more code ) so we are excited. The games are all 2D old school type games. We will move to 3D slowly but surely as we progress. We are building a code base with a simple concept and expanding.

We hope to have some great storylines that will frequent every month or every other month depending on the amount of content, starting around June of next year. We will do a 3 to 6 part story each year then spend a few months updating engine code for the next version. Our June date could change pending editor development, alpha and beta, but we are very excited about this idea and our progress so far.

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http://www.paladingames.com
We update this site weekly!

We are at war: not to take lives, but to save them.

Zookey: haha.

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- Shards of Heaven 1.0: a 3D animated stained glass window screen saver, plus editor (ShardEd) and toolkit for others to build images and plugins for it: 90% complete.
- Codex 3.2 - an upgrade for my already-released Matrix screen saver: 80% complete.
- a website about Westcott and Hort, two 19th-century theologians from England, containing all their writings in searchable form. I have most of their books, and have begun scanning them and pumping the scans through an OCR engine to convert to text. Project just started, less than 1% done.
- part 2A and 2B to my screen saver articles on the CCN's articles page.
- a half-dozen (or more) other little projects in various stages of completion.

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[This message has been edited by BlazeQ (edited October 09, 2003).]

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I'm also working with TGS. In between I'm adding finishing touches to http://www.ccgr.org and working on my website: http://creationindigital.com

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You're working with us (tgs) too!!!!! Dude I must have been totally outta the loop for a while lol but hey supa cool !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! dude like a lot of people are joining us now it feels like the love of adoption or something but lol yeah!!

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hmm... well, zookey, I am looking for a job....

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Originally posted by ArchAngel:

hmm... well, zookey, I am looking for a job....

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WELL, I AM NOT IN A SUPERVISORY POSITION, SO I CAN'T DO IT---BUT APPLY TO MACK, IF THERE IS AN OPENING HE IS THE DUDE TO TALK TO:-)

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There are only 10 types of people - those who understand binary, and those who don't.
Switch Mayhem now available! Get it here
Codename: Roler - Planning, writing GFX basecode.

Or maybe as in "the stone has been rolled away"?

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Originally posted by ArchAngel:
dude, curry, teaching kids about the right to bear arms? AWESOME!!! I totally wanna check that out. I'm a big supporter of the right to bear arms.

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Glad you like it and support them! I'll let you know when it's finished or pretty much so.

It will probably be one of the first kid's books that presents a positive view of nuclear deterrence.

(You know, the mainstream activists dish out propaganda to kids in many forms and never imagine they will have any challenge. I just had to do it!)

In fact, perhaps I should seek out someone for a few b/w illustrations to make the book look better. Maybe I'll post a help-wanted notice about that.

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Originally posted by Curry:
It will probably be one of the first kid's books that presents a positive view of nuclear deterrence.
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YEAH INTERESTING:-) (XCUSE CAPS-AT WORK) ALTHOUGH, I HAVE SEEN EVIDNECE FROM SOME PPL SAYING THAT EVEN HAVING NUCLEAR PWR PLANTS IS NOT A GOOD IDEA--THESE PPL BELIEVE THAT WE JUST DON'T HAVE THE TECHNOLOGY TO CONTROL IT SAFEFLY ENOUGH AND THAT, WHEN SOMETHING GOES WRONG, IT IS TOO BIG OF A PRICE TO PAY------AND ACTUALLY THOSE PEOPLE ARE THE NAGASAKI FOUNDATION FOR THE PROMOTION OF PEACE----BUT IT IS KIND OF A WEIRD IRONY THAT THEIR CITY IS NOW POWERED BY NUCLEAR PLANTS (OR I THINK THEY ARE NUCLEAR PLANTS--THEIR PWER PLAN LOOK LIKE THE NUKE ONES I SEEN IN BOOKS ANYWAYS)------BUT EITHER WAY THEY HAD A 3D GLOBE WITH MARKINGS TO SHOW ALL THE NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS THAT HAVE HAPPENED ON EARTH---AND I WAS SHOCKED----WE HAVE MULTIPLE IN THE USA---AND ONLY 1 OR 2 WERE FROM THE MAKING OF THE BOMB THE REST WERE ACCIDENTS---AND ALSO THERE WERE HUNDREDS OF MARKS ON THAT GLOBE--AND ACCORDING TO THE LITTLE CAPTION THINGY NEXT TO IT--LIKE 90% WERE ACCIDENTS----SO I GUESS I AM JUST PUTTING THE QUESTION OUT THERE TO SEE WHAT PEOPLE THINK, DO YOU GUYS PERSONALLY THINK WE HAVE THE TECHNOLOGY TO CONTROL IT? I PERSONALLY LEAN SLIGHTLY TOWARDS NO BUT I WOULD LIKE TO SEE MORE INFO BOTH WAYS BEFORE I AM DEFINATE IN MY CHOICE:-)

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Ignorance is bad, if you have it you will not have a good time.

But about nuclear weapons for deterrence, I think they are--well, I'll just let Willie the Skunk tell about it when I finish that book.

Curry

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WE HAVE MULTIPLE IN THE USA---AND ONLY 1 OR 2 WERE FROM THE MAKING OF THE BOMB THE REST WERE ACCIDENTS

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That's odd - I've only heard of one. A nuclear power plant shouldn't completely explode - just melt down. In modern plants, the saftey measures should stop any reactions that get out of control, so even a meltdown should be unlikely. Is there any way to verify the information, or at least get more detail about the specific incidents?

I wonder how much longer until fusion power becomes feasible.

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There are only 10 types of people - those who understand binary, and those who don't.
Switch Mayhem now available! Get it here
Codename: Roler - Planning, writing GFX basecode.

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[This message has been edited by nfektious (edited October 11, 2003).]

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Originally posted by CobraA1:
That's odd - I've only heard of one. A nuclear power plant shouldn't completely explode - just melt down. In modern plants, the saftey measures should stop any reactions that get out of control, so even a meltdown should be unlikely. Is there any way to verify the information, or at least get more detail about the specific incidents?

I wonder how much longer until fusion power becomes feasible.

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IF I GET SOME FREE TIME---I WILL TRY TO FIND THE FOUNDATION'S WEBSITE THAT HAD THAT GLOBE-------FUSION POWER IS WATER BASED RIGHT? LIKE THAT TECHNOLOGY THAT GIVES US LIKE MILLIONS OF MILES FOR ONE GALLON OF WATER---I SAW IT ON A MOVIE ONCE---THE SAINT---VERY GOOD MOVIE WISH I STILL HAD IT :-)

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Ignorance is bad, if you have it you will not have a good time.

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FUSION POWER IS WATER BASED RIGHT?

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Yes and no - they're hydrogen-based, but they probably get the hydrogen from water. Right now, the biggest problem is making them efficient enough to make more power than they use. They've done it, but not on a scale large enough for a power plant - yet.

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There are only 10 types of people - those who understand binary, and those who don't.
Switch Mayhem now available! Get it here
Codename: Roler - Planning, writing GFX basecode.

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Ignorance is bad, if you have it you will not have a good time.

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Originally posted by zookey:
Zookey: Hey man whattaup
Mack: no, nothing new TGS

so yeah just send him 20 private messsages and maybe you will have luck...........I cannot be sure tho because I always use the 'uber plz with sugar on top' thingy :-)

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It's not seeing is believing, it's believing and then seeing.
http://www.twoguyssoftware.ca

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Originally posted by Mack:

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DANG I BEEN FOUND OUT--------HURRY ARCHANGEL SEND THE 20 PM'S!

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Ignorance is bad, if you have it you will not have a good time.

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Originally posted by zookey:
DANG I BEEN FOUND OUT--------HURRY ARCHANGEL SEND THE 20 PM'S!

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for(i=0; i < 20; i++)
printf("Hey, Mack, what's this project?");

(k, my C++ is very rusty....)

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In the stock market, you must buy high and sell low...Wait! That's not right!
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Yes, I can be intelligent at times!!

My Projects:

* Christian Educational Game
* Rather simple Old-School RPG - just finished the design doco, in development phase
* 3D Engine using DirectX 9.0c
* Christian Game Programming Tutorial Series (C++ tutorial starting from scratch)

First two are team projects, last two are individual.

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"But it is God who judges: He brings one down, he exalts another." - Psalm 75:7

Startup Christian Games Company Producing Mobile/PC Games/Tools

ANYWAY the projects I am working, through ArcAngel Entertainment, are pretty kept secret, but I can give the title, and what to expect when it comes out, lol. A Christian RPG called Kings of Ethristah, that, hopefully will rival, or beat, that of the AWESOME Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion. We are still in the design phase, but everything is moving smoothly. Check out the forum to read more... not much more, but there will be some updates soon.

http://arcangelent.proboards70.com/

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Arc~Angel Entertainment Home
Arc~Angel Entertainment Forum

So I'll just go with the flow.

Projects:
-Learning basic C++ to a level of proficiency.

-A small 2D game using C++ and SDL... (Details have yet to be decided. It is likely that the Bullet Dodging I mentioned to Buddboy will be used here instead. Haha)

-In the near future I will being prototyping a game I've had on my mind for a while. No Details For You Roundeyes! (Just know it has alot to do with magic). I'd eventually like to go 3D, but in the mean time I'll be testing the mechanics and various other aspects in text form.

-Learning PHP and the use of MySql.

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quit posting on CCN? nope. I havn't been driven off yet.

Halted:
Joe Final Demo (halted until at least Adventure demo 2 is finished)

Pre-Production:
Guardian in-game demo (Adventure Demo 3)

And hopefully I will follow up on this list

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[This message has been edited by lava (edited April 26, 2006).]

I WILL MAKE BIBLE MEMORY IF IT KILLS ME!!! (which at this rate it will!)

**Special Pong colaboration game: 70% done...

I cannot tell anybody about it... not with out permssion from all of my "Teammates" lol...

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yeah, im a little crazy

Blessed are those who suffer for doing what is right.
The kingdom of heaven belongs to them.-Matthew 5:10

PM ME YOUR DESCRIPTION OF ME! ILL PUT IT HERE!

Here's all the comments!

P.S. I HATE 640x480!!!!!!

[This message has been edited by Realm Master (edited April 26, 2006).]

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In the stock market, you must buy high and sell low...Wait! That's not right!
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Yes, I can be intelligent at times!!

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Originally posted by buddboy:
hey, a question... how do you guys know what percent you're on?? LOL...

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you just kinda guess, with me I think "ok what do I need to have done for my project?" after that then I think "ok now how far am I to reachng that goal?"

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Anyway, some of:
Target(90%)
SelfServer(75%)
SuperSearch(95%)
Animal Crossing Fireworks Screensaver(60%)

A lot of:
Findows(1%)

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"Be nice to the nerds because later on, you'll be working for them" - Bill Gates

[This message has been edited by firemaker103 (edited April 26, 2006).]

"When you think your 90% done, you have only done 10%, you still have another 90% left to do :P"

It's scary how close that is to being right!

But anywho, a good design document and a proper schedule (say in MS Project) has always been able to help know what percentage is done, and what is left. Being 80% completed could mean you've got a month left, or even a year, depending on the project.

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"But it is God who judges: He brings one down, he exalts another." - Psalm 75:7

Startup Christian Games Company Producing Mobile/PC Games/Tools

Well since everyone's listing their projects...

Bible Dave -- (Progress: 70% Complete)
Easy Cheese Linux Distro -- Don't ask me.. ask buddboy he's the one who started it (Progress: Designing Stage 0% Complete) {Goal: Emulate RPM and Debian package file dependencies so that the user can use either of those packages interchangebly. Configured to be faster than Kubuntu)

Plus some other code monkey projects.

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All Your Base Are Belong To Us!!! chown -r us ./base
"After three days without programming, life becomes meaningless.'' -- Tao of Programming Book 2

well, yup, CPU, Goop2, and myself are working on a Linux distro called Easy Cheese. Goop2 and me came up with the idea in a chat program, not really intending to follow up on it. but late one night, i got bored. so i looked online while i was talking to goop. well we decided to use LFS (Linux From Scratch) to help us make it. well, later, we brought CPU into it, and he provided space for a site, and also started a mailing list. you can check out the site [url=]here[/url]. the mailing list is just for developers at the moment. well, that's basically it. hope i didn't bore you to tears, cuz saltwater can bejigger up keyboards. LOL.

Budd.
Boy.

DEMAND EASY CHEESE!

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Yes, I can be intelligent at times!!

I'm currently working on the cms for my new site. Hopefully it will be launched next week with my new Minix with X tutorial more details soon.

Then I have a couple of games to finish for my course, after that i'm on holiday for 4 months. So will be working on all those projects I never had a chance to finish.

-TKLinux (70%)
*Have a working python with ncurses installer.
*Need to tidy up the shell scripts and tools

-Website (30$)
*Just started my cms in php and mysql
*Tutorials etc

-Summer Game Project (5%)
* Have fleshed out an extensive design doc

Thats about it I think

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"One World. One Web. One Program." -Microsoft promotional advertisement
"Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Fuhrer!" -Adolf Hitler

Est. 2%

Working on previs right now, going to slap together a design doc, working on music and storyline as well. Also tinkering with character concepts (face, armor, weaponry, creatures, architecture, ect.)

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"I am very good at hiding, so if you don't see me, that's where I am." Orc Outlaw, TES III Morrowind

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Originally posted by D-SIPL:
TKLinux (70%)
*Have a working python with ncurses installer.
*Need to tidy up the shell scripts and tools

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Is that a linux distro with a python installer and lots of Tkinter? This sounds interesting and I'd like to learn more about it.

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All Your Base Are Belong To Us!!! chown -r us ./base
"After three days without programming, life becomes meaningless.'' -- Tao of Programming Book 2

99.999999% done. I get one MAV that makes no sense at all, and really pisses me off! Its the only thing not working!!! GAAAAAAA!!!!!!

(I already ranted about this on a differnet thread. )

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yeah, im a little crazy

Blessed are those who suffer for doing what is right.
The kingdom of heaven belongs to them.-Matthew 5:10

PM ME YOUR DESCRIPTION OF ME! ILL PUT IT HERE!

Here's all the comments!

P.S. I HATE 640x480!!!!!!

Hello everyone, I actually need to update my website, it has projects on it that have been at a standstill for a while. BUT, I have been very busy in the development of a really cool game... I'm working on Rebel Planet Orion these days.

Hey D-SIPL, would one of those projects be the one that we had going for a while?

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Your love, O Lord, reaches to the heavens, your faithfulness to the skies.
Your righteousness is like the mighty mountains, your justice like the great deep.
O Lord , you preserve both man and beast.
How priceless is your unfailing love!

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Originally posted by CPUFreak91:
Is that a linux distro with a python installer and lots of Tkinter? This sounds interesting and I'd like to learn more about it.

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Yeh it was a full distro that we wrote for a small server distro. It had a Python curses (text based) interface for the install plus a decent 40% completed package manager. It was a fun project. It's currently in 0.0.4 beta

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Hey D-SIPL, would one of those projects be the one that we had going for a while?

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--D-SIPL

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"One World. One Web. One Program." -Microsoft promotional advertisement
"Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Fuhrer!" -Adolf Hitler

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"I am very good at hiding, so if you don't see me, that's where I am." Orc Outlaw, TES III Morrowind

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"I am very good at hiding, so if you don't see me, that's where I am." Orc Outlaw, TES III Morrowind

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"I am very good at hiding, so if you don't see me, that's where I am." Orc Outlaw, TES III Morrowind

Chat Wars: 80-90 % (just have to get the hitpoints to actually work and improve graphics)

Boxing 60-70 % (just have to, again, get the hitpoints working and somehow make it so only 2 people can join per game)

Chicken (a frogger clone): 40 % (I still have yet to set up scoring and make the cars respawn)

I can't explain them all right now but I will later...

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Yes, I can be intelligent at times!!

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Originally posted by Ereon:
How's that coming BTW Mack?

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It's challenging creating a next gen. game with no budget and a skeleton crew but it's going alright. As Gump mentioned; slow.

I believe the primary challenge, as with everyone else on here, is art resources. We could probably do a release by the fall if we had all the art resources we needed.

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BTW, just so you guys know the graphics quality in your game has become my goal for the graphics in my own game. You guys have done some really awesome stuff

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Minix Tutorial is almost done also, which will tie in with the launch.
Hurd tutorial on it's way.

Various other things in the pipeline too

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"One World. One Web. One Program." -Microsoft promotional advertisement
"Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Fuhrer!" -Adolf Hitler

lol, i havent posted for a while be casue i just got x-box live. Halo2, Battlefront II, Battlefield 2.... a lot of fun! lol!

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yeah, im a little crazy

Blessed are those who suffer for doing what is right.
The kingdom of heaven belongs to them.-Matthew 5:10

PM ME YOUR DESCRIPTION OF ME! ILL PUT IT HERE!

Here's all the comments!

P.S. I HATE 640x480!!!!!!

boxing is a sort of clone of an old atari game, called, well, boxing. it's got (somewhat) better graphics... still have to implement hitpoints, at least i know how to now =D

chicken is as i mentioned a frogger clone... it also came from an old atari game, where you're a chicken and you have to cross the road. i got the cars to restart, now i just have to make a points system.

Chat Wars, i think some of you know what it is. just a sort of textbased medievil fighting game. it has some lame graphics, but only to give it a sort of interactive feel, the graphics don't actually do anything but give you an environment to walk around in. that i still have to implement hitpoints in.

alright, Bouncy, some of you have seen. I have gotten the second demo done and uploaded. i have teleport pads which you can use to teleport to 3 places on the map. i have a cutscene (which isn't easy to do in BYOND) and a maze that you have to get through. i got the movement fixed, now i mostly have the programming out of the way, have to design the world more now.

an as yet unnamed MMORPG, which i started with crazyishone, but he bailed out > j/k no hard feelings =D actually, he bailed out whilst i was writing this topic =D i'm in the very beginning stages of it. i have a somewhat story, it's a little quirky =D your mother gets kidnapped and you have to go all anakin-ish and rescue her =D it's dungeon based, so far i've got 2 dungeons in which i, the creator, got lost =D and i have an outdoors, but it's just a path surrounded by trees =D

also i was working on just a quickie RPG for fun, pretty much done with that. it didn't have a name, still doesn't. if anybody who needs/wants an RPG base with no actual combat yet, and a lame character sprite (lol) can have it. you'll need to know/want to learn the BYOND language.

so that's pretty much my projects, Bouncy and the MMO are pretty much the only ones i've worked on lately... i will eventually finish up boxing and chat wars, dont know about chicken...

Budd.
Boy.

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*TKLinux (80%)
-Cleaned up the installer (compile options stuff)
-Basic package manager added (it's kinda flakey right now )
-Option of XFCE or Enlightenment (KDE and Gnome plus others may be added later)
-Server admin interface for minimal install (20% done)

*Website
-finished the beta of my CMS but need to sort out the security aspect, it is coming soon though.

*Python Scripts
-Re-wrote TODO list manager again (uses TKinter this time)
-2D map editor almost complete (uni assignment)

I think thats about it. I'm off for the summer now, exams are over, so i'm making loads more progress!

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"One World. One Web. One Program." -Microsoft promotional advertisement
"Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Fuhrer!" -Adolf Hitler

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int name()
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TkLinux? is that a distro that uses Tkinter for all the GUIs or something?

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It was my job to write the installer. Basicly it was based on a minimal Linux installation and we built it up from there. Now you have the ability to download via FTP.

We went for the curses interface because we used Slackware and that was all we were used to, none of these high res buffered images All-in-all it's fairly simple to create your own distro you just need to find a focus for it. TKLinux was about server and security not a desktop distro, it was meant to be minimal, fast and secure. Our websites ran on it perfectly and we also had our Ratbox irc server running on it, until our ISP phoned us up

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"One World. One Web. One Program." -Microsoft promotional advertisement
"Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Fuhrer!" -Adolf Hitler

As for me, I'm just a girl who grew up playing video games on the side with my brother and are looking to see what's going on in the Christian world of gaming.

~Ereon

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Of course God knew what would happen if they used their freedom the wrong way: apparently He thought it worth the risk.
C.S. Lewis

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! You too? I thought I was the only one.
C. S. Lewis

www.christiangaming.com

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I did my best--I have no regrets William Hung

[This message has been edited by zookey (edited August 03, 2006).]

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Originally posted by mjohnson:
So, does anyone on this forum actually make Christian video games??? I'm new, so I don't know anyone yet... If you do make Christian video games what do you do, where did you learn how to make video games, when was your latest release, etc.

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Thanks for the intro Ereon

Gump and Myself are from XRUCIFIX, a game studio that developes contemporary Christian games. We've already released 'Eternal War: Shadows of Light' (2003) to much praise, conterversy and has been labeled many times the 'Best Christian Action Game' by many media outlets. We're currently developing the sequel 'Eternal War: Nightmares' which will be released in multiple segments over a course of time.

I primarily handle the Project Development of the title while also managing some of the CEO tasks as well. I also dabble in other things like basic level design, art, story and what not. Gump is our programming lead and does engine and gameplay and also lends a hand in multiple things with the project.

The learning part for me what more along the lines of taking apart games and learning how they work on the inside. I also have a couple of design books by Chris Crawford and have done alot of reading online by various developers and designers.

Oh and Welcome to CCN!

My name is Jeff McArthur and my latest release was a little arcade game called Open Fire. If you want to take it for a sipin (its freeware) you can get it here. That game was just a learning project and was created by my studio BlueGill Flame (BGF) and another studio Blue·torch studios (BTS).

Its not a christian game just like my studio isn't a christian gameing studio. I am a christian and want to use my skills (game art) to create great games. In my opinion games are just another method of telling a story, just like films or books. Also in my opinion only people can have the lable christian attached to them. A school, bank, gaming studio, band etc. can not be labled "christian" in the ture sense of the word. Often people like to lable things as "christian" if they were made by a christian or if they express the views that christianity presents. I don't think the lable christian is viewed as a good one by many people, it has been baddly represented throught the ages. Thus I much prefer to think of christianity as a religion and what I have is much more than that its a relationship with God and a world view.

So the games that BGF create will express a world view, just like every game out there expresses some world view. The world view presented will be one based on good ethics, intelegent design, etc. We are taking an aproch to game design and development that will be similar to what J.R.R. Tolken and C.S. Lewis did with their writing. Therefore BGF is not a christian game studio, insted its a group of people, some christian some not that want to create great games, but games that tell a story and a story that has a reason to be told.

My first game was just a learning project. It was fun, a great way to improve my skills as a game artist, as well as learning how to work with another developer. It has no story and therefore it dousn't alighn with the goals of BGF its just a stepping stone. Our next project (also in colaboration with BTS) is another one of these stepping stones. It is a moon lander remake done in full 3D with a different graphics style, full PhysX engine and will be released as shareware sometime end of this year or begining of next year. I learned everything for game art development on my own by fooling around with art packages and working on various projects, most of which never got finished.

Welcome to CCN! Great to have a gamer girl around would love to talk to you some time about your opinion on comercial games and the way they present women. Take care. Jeff

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