Plan for John "Johnny Action" Aho

My first .plan, what I've been up to and my goals. The biggest goal is the last one. Port Torque to PS2.

Well, it's about time I filled out my first .plan. I've been a GG member for a while and I didn't get serious about making games until last October. I talked the chair of the computer science department into letting me work on a game for credit to replace software engineering. It was an easy sell because software engineering wasn't being offered that quarter and it was the only class I needed from the CS department to get my CS minor.

Well many brutal weeks of work later here it is. www.FullMetalSpider.com It is in a rough beta state at the moment and there is still more kinds of bugs to be added to the player characters you can choose from as well as other issues.

I have roughly 540 hours into it and yes I know it's not done. :)

It would be along further but I took 2 months off from it when I graduated school in December.

What I've been up to lately:

1. Went to this years GDC with some friends. It rocked. I came back with a nice stack of business cards and I had made a few good friends.

2. Bugfixed the alpha until it was beta and recompiled it on a borrowed mac in time for e3. A friend of mine put my demo/beta on a compilation demo cd that she was going to hand out at e3.

3. Playing with my new toy, a linux ps2 kit. (very, very close to a dev kit)

4. Getting better from a bug, I was sick most of this week. I'm feeling much better now. Ironically last week I was chasing down a software bug that took me a while to find. :)


Goals for the next month:
1. Finish modelling the characters my concept artist made for me.

2. Animate those models

3. Add more levels and buildings to my game.

4. Port Torque over to PS2 Linux. :)