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CMPS80k: "The Three Princes" (final project)

http://rapidshare.de/files/15448384/3_princes.zip.html http://www.cse.ucsc.edu/classes/cmps080k/Winter06/games.html I would put up screen...

Author abc Date 03/15/2006 (10:00 am) Comment 3 comments

crunching

My game design class is coming to its close as I enter the final week of development and try to pull this thing together into presentable shape. The last two weeks have been hectic and it looks like t...

Author abc Date 03/07/2006 (11:22 am) Comment 0 comments

Words...don't come easy

My class teammates and I went with a completely new idea since I last posted, and good progress has been made. It looks like we've designed out a pretty deep narrative game, and it won't take sophisti...

Author abc Date 02/17/2006 (6:53 am) Comment 1 comments

School project....getting ugly

So, as the final project in our game design class, we have to make a video game. So we also have to propose the concept. We turn in the proposal a week from next Friday and have about a month from now...

Author abc Date 02/09/2006 (4:52 am) Comment 3 comments

"Tara"

So, I've been taking this game design class. It's been a great class; the lecture this particular day included a student demo of Guitar Hero, an overview of rules and how they relate to emergence vs. ...

Author abc Date 01/26/2006 (5:14 am) Comment 2 comments

The unknown's scary.

This is a big "think about career" post. As tends to happen when I start another quarter of school, my productivity for any sort of long-term project temporarily stops until about two or three weeks i...

Author abc Date 01/15/2006 (1:53 am) Comment 1 comments

Passive v. active interaction

So over my winter break I got to be around my older brother a while. He's a grad student and he's decided to(among other quirks) avoid keeping a computer set up in his apartment because it interferes ...

Author abc Date 01/08/2006 (2:01 am) Comment 3 comments

QCS Progress Report #5345235

I haven't updated on QCS recently. But it's all going well. I've been filling out editing functionality....now you can create new Things, rename them, delete them, edit some(not all yet) of their prop...

Author abc Date 12/23/2005 (3:35 am) Comment 1 comments

Plan for James W. Hofmann

Ludum Dare 7

Author abc Date 12/12/2005 (7:08 pm) Comment 0 comments

Plan for James W. Hofmann

The Movies, QCS

Author abc Date 12/04/2005 (10:38 pm) Comment 4 comments

Plan for James W. Hofmann

scripting language implementation in python

Author abc Date 11/25/2005 (4:12 am) Comment 0 comments

Plan for James W. Hofmann

qcs combat / in the groove

Author abc Date 11/17/2005 (9:51 am) Comment 3 comments

Plan for James W. Hofmann

educational software thoughts

Author abc Date 11/08/2005 (2:46 am) Comment 2 comments

Plan for James W. Hofmann

start of qcs scripting, map editor

Author abc Date 11/02/2005 (11:29 pm) Comment 1 comments

Plan for James W. Hofmann

Stuff is on screen

Author abc Date 10/22/2005 (10:32 am) Comment 0 comments

Plan for James W. Hofmann

Quest Construction Set

Author abc Date 10/15/2005 (11:07 am) Comment 1 comments