Plan for Thomas (TooKool) Oliver

Well my last plan I was working on my own game. That has been put on the back burner for the time being as I now have a job working for Luminous Studios. I am the Lead/Assistant Programmer on the "Gearo The Hero" project.

http://www.luminous-studios.com/

My first week with the company has been a great week. My todo list is growing at a nice rate and I am mangageing to keep on top of it. This week alone I have converted the project from 1.1 codebase (from back in 2002) to the new Head Release of Torque. I have managed to re-apply all the resources that was being used in the old base into the new base. Was not a small task since there was some big changes from the old base to the head base but I managed to tackle all of them.

Currently the project is doing great. More then 80% of the models have been modeled and animation are in place for most of them.

It seems the current show stoper and the biggest star on my list of todo is a melee combat system. I really liked the RW Melee system but it relies to much on the animation and nodes being setup a certain way.

My plan is to take about 6 to 8 hours to day and hammer out a nice rough draft of a melee system and get it into the code base and working.

I am really stoked about this project as it is so simple yet very fun to play. Even at its current early stages. I can only describe it as Zelda for the PC. Something that has not been done much for the PC. It seems all the current games are focuseing on the bleeding edge of graphics and realism that the roots of it all and the fun graphics days are starting to disappear. Well Gearo is a game that will bring the fun and the good Zelda style graphics back to the PC.

Dev Snapshot
http://www.garagegames.com/mg/snapshot/view.php?qid=761
http://www.garagegames.com/images/ul/1218.devshot02.jpg