Plan for Ed Averill

Hunting and gathering...

Well, slowly but surely I become Torque-ified.

I've been spending a lot of time with the tutorials, both here and from various third parties. Also been watching all the IGC videos (thanks to all for making those available), very interesting stuff. Also researching into what I need to put together a decent production pipeline on my development system.. lots of good stuff out there, even for someone on a limited budget.

Being self-funded is never saying "Please give me more cash", although it does often involve the question "More tools.. or beer?". Thankfully, no spousal unit means that there's one less layer to pass through when making that kind of a decision (lol). Soooo...

Money has been flowing to bring decent tools in-house. Bought Visual Studio (urgh), bought Cartography Shop, bought the Lighting Pack, bought a couple of Content Packs, and finally bought Showtool Pro. Thankfully I already own some modelling tools and a copy of Milkshape! It's a good thing my day gig as an embedded systems engineer can fund all this.

I do have a game concept in mind - something fairly easy to implement, no real character animation involved, child-friendly and that sort of thing. Not an MMORPG, not an FPS, not an RTS, just something you can sit down, play for 1/2 hour or so, have fun, and smile at. I think of it as an "all-ages kids game". I certainly believe it's limited enough in scope for one person to finish without spontaneously combusting! After that, maybe some kind of environmental walkthrough/interaction kind of game, something.. surreal. Always wanted to do something along those lines, even if it's not "commercially viable".

Kids games.. heh.. having worked on the (ill-fated) Compaq/Fisher-Price Wonder Cruiser ages ago, maybe I'm trying to recapture fond memories!

I'm not expecting to have anything playable (or even screenshots) for a while as there's at least 2-3 months worth of learning curve minimum, I'd guess. Once I do, I'll post them in the Appropriate Places.