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Un-Official GarageGames Weekly .Plan Highlights by Anton Bursch Week of October 30th - November 5th, 2005

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WOW. This week's plans were... astounding!! I am so impressed that I am sure that I must have sweared in excitement at least 100 times or more while reading thru these! If ya go to hell for swearing... I'll be seeing you there, cause, you are going to swear alot when you read thru these plans. Cause they are just swear worthy! Way to go to everyone who posted .plans this week!! Keep them coming!

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Also, I want to tell you guys something. I write these plan highlights to help promote everyone and their work and part the reason I do that is to make sure no body's plan gets overlooked. Well, I have to say that from what I have gathered from reading plans that this effort is mostly for the benefit of the community members and not the GG team. Not to say that I don't try to promote the GG team's plans, but to say that the people who are getting the most benefit from reading these highlights is not the GG team. See... what I have gathered from comments in these plans is that the GG team already read all of these plans. And especially, Jeff Tunnell. I have seen his comments on plans that NO ONE else has commented on. He and the rest of the GG team are very interested in what you are doing. That just makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. Knowing that they care enough to pay attention to what we are doing. Even more than we do. I just wanted to say Thank you, GG team for doing that. And I wanted to tell the rest of you about this so you can hear how important you are to the GG team. This really is a community of dreams. Where else do you get this kind of love and dedication? I don't know. Thanks again, GG team. Everyone else, let's keep on making our dreams come true!

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.plans

the 30TH

RavenSlay3r - I'm doing the senior-project thing, using Torque to make a game. Idea is to reimpliment the original The Legend of Zelda in TGE-3D. Also looking for a job!

Sounds like fun RavenSlay3r.


Lee-Orr Orbach - public prototype of my unnamed game, and I start working on wednesday...

Lee-Orr's second prototype.


Martin Askestad - I'm a NOOB.

Martin Askestad
real hackers work at night


Chris Newman (ChazCross) - T2D Animation Datablock Editor update NEW VIDEO!!! :)



Check out the awesome video!!


Dee - AI Demo (Pre-Alpha) - Feedback required Finally!



Check out the AI Demo!!



the 31ST

Jeremy Alessi - Pet Project Update ...

Update on Oust(formerly known as King of the Mountain). Also a demo of Nebula Wars.


John Seguin - The Indie Game Developer's Guide to Working with a Composer



If I rated .plans for their importants to this community I would have to give this one the highest rating so far. This is a MUST READ for everyone. And don't forget to listen to the demo reel.


Chris Labombard - The Funk is moving along at light speed



Chris won't be in this community for long. He's going to catch some big ass company's eye and get scooped up and abandon us. :( Until then, we get to watch and marvel.


Anton Bursch - Un-Official GarageGames Weekly .Plan Highlights by Anton Bursch Week of October 23th - 29nd, 2005

For the record... this is the most fun I've had in game development since I started. I really love doing this. I have always been excited to see what is going on in this community and I LOVE talking about it. I love bragging about what you are doing. I hope you all enjoy reading it. I am trying to make it as enjoyable and easy to read as I can. I am experimenting a bit here and there while finding the best way to promote everyone. If you feel I am not doing a good enough job, let me know what you think I could do better. I have used most of the ideas I have been told so far.

Also, if you have noticed I am putting up your synopsis of your plan beside your name. Don't forget that beyond being a synopsis of your plan... that is your chance to promote your plan to get people to read it. So, say stuff about your plan that you think will attract other people to reading it. It's there for you to share. Get people interested in you. Thanks again. Good luck on your plans. :)

Oh, and pictures and videos and sound files are a gooooood thing to include if you can.

Also, if you want me to know what you are working on so I can have a head start on talking about it in the plan recap, send me an email. I want to help make sure everyone knows about you and your work. So, if you can help me do that, even better for you.

Good luck!!


Phil Carlisle - This last week I've really been delving into the karmic side of game development. Having been on somewhat of a downer for most part of the month. As usual with games and programming, things are struggling against me in a huge effort to thwart my best plans.


Gary Haussmann - Yet another AI-related post





Well, a lack of AI developers is not a problem in this community anymore! :)


Andrew Nicholson - Last week I made the decision to go it alone:

Andrew, fantastic plan! For those of you thinking about starting your own game studio company, check this out. It's great.


Brett Fattori - Slow month, lazy coding, reading a lot...

LOL!!! This is definitely one of the funniest plan I've ever read around here!! You gotta read the Halo 2 story. It'll make you laugh. Well, maybe. If you are still bitter from a similar experience, then it might just make you mad.


Tom Bampton - SunBurn continued, including screenshots and a re-enactment movie of the Boston Tea Party!





Tom Bampton's... that feels so weird to say. TomB's Game in a Day is coming along well. Here are some comments about the game.

Ajari Wilson
I like how you have the American ships winning over the British in most of the pics. Very realistic. :p

Tom Bampton
Yes, that simulates the annoying way in which they sunk all our tea. If you watch the movie, we actually win ;-)

Eric Elwell
Yeeeus!!!! Show those brits what we're made of, Yeah!!!!! That's what I like to call an opened can of Americano!!... wait... we had ships??

Tom Bampton
Eric, I dont actually know ;-) Ships were the only units i had to hand for placeholder and the brit vs america thing kinda reminded me about the boston tea party.

Melv May
Up with the british! Today is a good day to die!

Craig Ball
I say old chap, that scoundrel is firing on our ships. Thats really not on, tiffin will just have to wait.
Bring me the mustache starch, Jeeves. (*cue monacle dropping in glass of sherry*)

Mark Berry
Having our 'merkin buddies as pirates, isnt a political statement now is it? :-)

Josiah Wang
Actually, I don't think the US had a navy during the revolution...the French helped teh Americans for the most part...and then we backstabbed >_>
brings back memories of starcraft...

Tom Bampton
Ah well, who said games had to be accurate ? ;-)

Midhir
Look, Goerge W. Bush is a pirate....my god, am I surprised. *sarcasm*

J Lesko
As far as screenshots go, these are quite nice, but they would be a lot better with sea serpents or mermaids.


the 1ST

Thomas Einsporn - dot3 bump mapping





Aaron Ellis
Very nice. I look forward to seeing each of your .plans. You seem to be doing some really cool stuff.


Teri (krabbity) Thom - Soooo tired.. but Demo is up! Open Demo KWL v 0



The KrabbitWorld Labyrinth Demo is here at last!!


J Lesko - GID16 - Dead Man's 31





This was very cool. Very cool. Dead Man's 31. Give it a play.


Jake Shephard - New Model for the Car Theme Model Pack


Michael Cozzolino - I'm posting a couple of screens showing deployed turrets which I worked on for a while.





Adrian Tysoe - one of my on going pet projects. (Fun Racer) Someday I'd like to try and port it to Torque.



Calling all physics and networking coders. Adrian needs help porting Fun Racer to torque.


Dee - AI Demo (Pre-alpha) - Posted - Feedback desired



Updated AI Demo!


Andy Schatz - Butterflies in my stomach



Andy brags about living the good life. My wife Melissa and I really loved the amazing photos Andy and his fiance' took of a caterpillar turning into a butterfly in this plan. Check it out if you missed it. They photos are beautiful.

the 2ND

Thomas Einsporn - tge bump




James W. Hofmann - start of qcs scripting, map editor


Lockpick entertainment - After a few late nights at the office we have finally managed to put together our first in-game trailer for our coming title Dreamlords.







Check out the new Dreamlords Ingame Video!!!! Still wondering about whether or not to buy the RTS Starter Kit. Watch the video and wonder no more.

Andy Schatz
Production quality on the movie is really high. Cool stuff. I like your music.

Unsung Zero
The movie is very good. It made me want to check out dreamlords further. Good job :]

Josh "GimpMaster" Hintze
I love it. The movies were awesome and the music was sweet. Is this all done with torque and the RTS starter kit?

Lockpick entertainment
@Josh: Its TGE and (RTS)startar kit with some changes. Server and mmo handeling is inhouse code.

Rodney Burns
Very nice movies! Looks like you have a great game in the works. :)

Matt Fairfax
You managed to stop 5-6 people in their tracks here in the office as they were walking by Justin's desk when he played the video...had a little crowd just standing there watching =) Very impressive! Keep up the good work!

Ben "Djaggernaut" Chavigner
Very very nice work! Excellent movie, it really looks like the beginning of an adventure. ;)


Paul Sisneros - I intend to thoroughly learn to use the torque engine, And eventually make some small simple games to get me started. Once I'm well versed, I might start a real project.

Welcome to the adventure Paul. It sucks. You're gonna love it. :)


the 3RD

Weston Tracy - Guns, Robots, and the light at the end of the tunnel.



Drool over the Mac11 and Pistol videos!!


Burt Jarvis - We are finally past the planning stages on our first in-house title Boater Mania boating Arcade/Simulator/Training game. Your input on the name or if we are trying to cram too much stuff in to one game would be greatly appreciated.



Ross Turner - To PNG or not to PNG?

Ross talks development of Bit Riot.


Rex - Having finished and published my gameSpace to DTS player example in the TDN, I'm pushing forward after seeing the outline provided by the Max & Maya articles, and will attempt to put onto the network, any gameSpace examples that will mesh with the existing framework. Stay tuned; the 'simpleShape' article I'm working on right now is being hammered together and is looking pretty good. Nothing about gameSpace is 'simple'...

Jeff Gran
way to spearhead the TDN initiative man, keep it up.

Martin Askestad
I really want to thank you for the Gamespace article. I found it really usefull.


Jeff Gran - Torque Skeleton Generator update

AWESOME!!! AWESOME!! AWESOME!! Jeff has Max and Maya automatic skeleton generation scripts for you!!! How much cooler can you get than Jeff??!! That's what I want to know!


Jake Shephard - Update on Vehicles Mechanics Model Pack

Jake's making a content pack vehicle models. Images included.


Sam Bacsa - Just a minor update

Aarrgghhh!!! I hate it when someone has a plan that basically says, hold on for a few more days... and then a few days later they have something KICK ASS but it lands on NEXT week's plan recaps! I want to tell you about this now! Screw it! Here's the link to his next plan. :)


John McArthur - My first plan, my life story, and where do I go from here.

Jeff Tunnell
Very thoughtful. With this kind of planning, I look forward to seeing your results.


Geoffrey Ritter - My goal is to develop a game idea that will serve as a display piece of my abilities and as a fun desktop toy.

Good luck Geoffrey! :)


Oliver Ashford - Oli et Torque : The story so far...

Good read. :)



the 4TH

Jason Swearingen - t2d.net, KPL, and Educational Non-Profits

The usual good stuff from Jason. Keep up the great work, Jason!


Jeremy Alessi - LeadfootProductions.com back up!

I wonder who won or is winning the Nebula Wars Online Contest?


Ben Garney - Another day, another plan... 1.4 is imminent.


Jeremy Noetzelman - Fast Times, Big Fish, Sweet Jobs

If you are in the Seattle area and are a tools/LAMP type developer, a DBA, a Senior level windows guy, or a backend database coder email jeremy@bigfishgames.com.


Richard Van Stone - Well I'm working on my first content pack.





the 5TH

Phil Carlisle - November, ugh, depressing.

Phil grumbles about Holidays. He's having a bad month so far. Someone send him some flowers. Here. Here are some flowers for you Phil.




Andrew Hull - A new plan. This time, i'm actually getting somewhere.

Andrew is going to make a game with pirates. No, it's not a corporate tycoon game. Real pirates! With swords and ships and treasure!! I want to play a pirate game that plays like God of War. That would be cool.


Joe Rossi - Some of the junk I've been messing with.

#1 Compressed DDS support. #2 Lua support. Sounds great to me Joe! Keep up the great work!


Brian Jones - Sapporo, Japan - Life - All That Jazz

So much to do, so little time. I think a wise men once said that you should just pick one thing and stick with it. Who was that again? Oh yeah. Jack Palance in City Slickers. Hmmm... nevermind.


Kyle - Torque Inventory system. Finally I have something thats is worth making to a plan.

RPG inventory. Very cool. Keep it up Kyle!!



of interest



I saw the movie Jarhead, a true story about a team of Marine snipers in the first Gulf War. It is brilliant. How brilliant? Well.

It has a 53% rating on www.rottentomatoes.com. What is most interesting to me about this fact is that this split down the middle rating shows how wonderful this film really is. It doesn't play to an audience. It is just a true story. And it's interesting from start to finish.

You know how we all complain that we wish for games that take chances and reach for greatness even if it means losing the mass audience. But not in a RockStar let's break any ol' taboo and call ourselves daring kind of way. We want honesty and integrity. We want games that aren't afraid to be themselves. Not games that pretend to be themselves and are really just shock value counter marketing. That's why many of you make indie games.

This movie is that honest and brave movie. It doesn't tell you anything you wouldn't have already guessed about war. It just tells the story of the soldiers who were there and it doesn't pull punches and it doesn't exploit either. It just is. And it's perfect.

Every scene is shot beautifully. Every sound is amazing. Every performance is true and gripping.

I give it an A++. 5 stars out of 5. Go see this movie!! Then go make a game this good!


Thanks again for tuning in. So long and catch you all next week with more Un-Official GarageGames Weekly .Plan Highlights