We're making a mad dash to the finish line... not running out of steam, but we're definitely running out of time. It's tough making the final decisions... looking at the long list of things we'd li...

Author Tony Richards Date 01/30/2007 (9:05 am) Comment 12 comments

Ok, so it's actually about two weeks, but with my vacation and everything, I only have four days of actual work.... I'm excited about the progress. AFX This morning (early) I complained a...

Author Tony Richards Date 01/17/2007 (8:20 pm) Comment 7 comments

So the last two weeks for the MMO contest are upon us... our alpha testing is progressing well, but we're still missing a few things, so we're scrambling to fill in some gameplay gaps. Before borin...

Author Tony Richards Date 01/16/2007 (11:59 pm) Comment 9 comments

Although the contest will continue through the rest of January, this week will be the last week of development. I'm going on a sailing vacation in the British Virgin Islands Jan 19th - Jan 28th, so I...

Author Tony Richards Date 01/09/2007 (8:38 am) Comment 14 comments

Continuing on with the MMO RPG Contest... a little less than a month left. Sometimes I'm thinking "will we ever finish?!?" but it's been an enjoyable ride. We've done great limiting scope creep an...

Author Tony Richards Date 01/02/2007 (10:38 pm) Comment 14 comments

Yay, nearly halfway through this... remind me never to commit to something like this without having my head examined first, though. Although it's been a ton of fun and I'm learning a lot of things, i...

Author Tony Richards Date 12/12/2006 (7:23 pm) Comment 6 comments

Programming, programming, programming. I've handed off to two other team members the Login GUI and the Advanced Camera and I don't have a status update from them yet, so hopefully they're done or c...

Author Tony Richards Date 12/06/2006 (8:51 am) Comment 6 comments

Wow, it's hard to believe that this contest is nearly 1/3 of the way over. Time flies when you're having fun I guess :P Since this is a major milestone, let me recap the progress so far... [b]W...

Author Tony Richards Date 11/29/2006 (5:40 am) Comment 12 comments

Wow, it's nearing the end of week 3 of the MMORPG Contest... 71 days left? Well, that's what the site says, but I think it's closer to 69 days left... but who's counting anyway? hehe I am, that's for...

Author Tony Richards Date 11/21/2006 (9:44 pm) Comment 8 comments

I took the weekend off to go up-state for a bit of relaxation, so I didn't get as much accomplished as I'd like, but we all still made some decent progress. I've made a decent amount of progress on...

Author Tony Richards Date 11/14/2006 (5:12 pm) Comment 7 comments

Ok, so week one of the MMORPG Contest is coming to a close... we're behind in the race, but mainly because we got a late start. Most other teams already had an idea, a team, etc already completed.....

Author Tony Richards Date 11/06/2006 (9:39 pm) Comment 22 comments

This was cross-posted on a forum, but I'll post it here as a current blog post... the idea is to create a team to compete in Dreamer's MMORPG competition. [url=http://www.garagegames.com/mg/forums/...

Author Tony Richards Date 11/01/2006 (8:37 pm) Comment 4 comments

Yay, Torque 1.5 is out... I purchased the upgrade, downloaded it and integrated it into my current game. $25 well spent. I've added some explosion effects plus the sounds to go with them... de...

Author Tony Richards Date 10/28/2006 (6:27 pm) Comment 0 comments

My newest map is nearing completion... I'm holding off on adding the "eye candy" until I'm sure the terrain is perfect... which it's not quite there yet. One recurring problem that's shown up in pl...

Author Tony Richards Date 10/22/2006 (5:33 pm) Comment 5 comments

Finally, the flight controls are almost perfect. The terrain following algorithm is still a little bouncy, and it will still let you hit the side of a hill if you're going too fast and the hillside...

Author Tony Richards Date 10/08/2006 (11:56 am) Comment 7 comments

I've been working on this since about 10:30 am... my 3d math sucks!. But, after a crash course, a bunch of debugging, stepping through the code and pulling out my hair, I've finally got it. ...

Author Tony Richards Date 09/30/2006 (10:58 pm) Comment 2 comments

I've gotten quite a bit more done these past two or so weeks than what I had expected. I'm very happy with my progress. Today was a bit of a bummer because of a hard drive crash on my main machine...

Author Tony Richards Date 09/23/2006 (6:45 pm) Comment 2 comments

Last Saturday's play testing went great! Only a couple of more minor tweaks and I'l be there. Flight control, although slightly complicated, is now easy enough for a new player to pick it up and...

Author Tony Richards Date 09/18/2006 (7:29 pm) Comment 9 comments

The main "hook" in my game is the flight model, so before I get very far with anything else, I must have it perfected. After hours of coding, tweaking, and play testing I thought I finally had it p...

Author Tony Richards Date 09/15/2006 (8:03 pm) Comment 3 comments

This weekend was a huge succes. I got more accomplished, tightened my focus and I definately know where I'm going and fairly closely how I'm going to get there. I hired a mentor / programmer that ...

Author Tony Richards Date 09/10/2006 (5:08 pm) Comment 5 comments