List of Todo's ...

As this is my first .plan, I figure I might as well list out everything I intend to do in the upcoming months.

First, I intend to license the Torque Game Builder (Pro License, gotta have source!).

After which, I have a series of 'source kits' I would like to create, more or less as educational paths for myself but I figure I can share the education with the community and convert the projects into tutorials or free code snippets, etc.

These kits include, but are not limited too:

A Fully Working Blog/Forum Reader complete with GUI Elements utilizing TorqueML, with a fully working MOD for both GeekLog (popular Blogger script) and phpBB2 (popular forum script) so that posts are output in TorqueML already -- less strain on the game client, no need to convert HTML to TorqueML, etc. This resource would be public.

I also intend to work on an RC Pro AM style racer game, which utilizes particle effects, TGB's physics engine (to the best of it's ability) and networking -- this would most likely become a free download with fully commented source as an option. Perhaps a tutorial, but the extent of the overall project may go past that of your average tutorial -- though I may write a tutorial along side it and make two projects (simplified, and rev'd up).

I'm also working on a Break Out / Arkanoid Clone, which is actually almost complete -- just have to add Levels and some minor gameplay functionality (power ups, lasers, etc) -- this will be released as a general tutorial, which may be split into a set of smaller tutorials (Working with Tile Layers in Code, Building Levels with Tile Maps, Working with Collisions, etc, etc -- dunno yet).

On top of that, me and my 'team' are almost done the design phase of our first Platformer, which we hope to be able to publish. It will be a children's game, most likely modelled after a popular kid's show (if we can get permission to use there character(s)).

EDIT (2006-09-12): After obtaining a TGB license, I've been sorting through all the TDN Docs and quite a bit of the resources -- Due to a limitation in TorqueML, I've got alot more work laid out for me then I thought I did -- there appears to be no way to have a "link" in TorqueML that generates a callback or calls a function within TorqueScript, so I'll have to create a framework for how the Blog/Forum GUI Kit will allow for it's output and then generate a list of all the posts, and allow the user to click through them one by one -- lots of parsing, lots of GUI code to write ... don't hold your breathe on this ... but don't give up on the idea, it's still on my TODO and has a high priority.