EmptyCrate Software. Travel. Stuff.

Consequence is my first iPhone game, coming soon to the iPhone and iPod Touch app store. Consequence is a colored tile flipping puzzle game loosely based on a solitaire version of TicTacToe! that I released for the Palm back in 2000-2001.

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This blog and I have an ancillary interest in game development. In my personal reading about adventure game design I came across the "No Twinkie Database," as in: "Bad Game Designer, No Twinkie."

There are some great tidbits in there worth considering.

The results of the 7 hour challenge have been posted the google code project page.

Another 1.75 hours down. The days has in fact been very fragmented, but as I see it I still have 1.25 hours left in the initial challenge. The basic game play element of traveling has been implemented, but I don't have any UI as of yet. My plan is to take and modify the "radar" example from the gtkmm code and make it display my galaxy map. This should get me a start to graphical game play elements.

Well, I've now had 4 hours of time to work. My Saturday is getting broken up more than I anticipated and it looks like I'll only get about 5 hours total today. We'll see. Currently the code checked in to the google code project generates a random universe of 3-8 galaxies with 750-150 planets in each galaxy. I'm really not very happy with the distribution of planets in the galaxy and have spent probably 1 out of the 4 hours just trying to make that better. I've decided to give up on that and move on to the game player and game dynamics.

I'm getting ready to start a 7 hour challenge from my cousin to write a Elite style game called Ex Astris today. Actually, my version is inspired by Space Trader.

Last night I got the latest version of Ubuntu installed as I did not currently have a development environment set up at home that would allow me to do graphical Linux development.