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persistance is rewarding

No I didn't finally manage to make something with TGE. But in my mind I have something much better. I got a job with a major game maker! After I got out of the Navy I started ap...

Author J Sears Date 01/25/2008 (12:36 am) Comment 9 comments

My thoughts, and my farewell

I've had TGE for several years now, also have TGB and some content packs. But I think at this point I've decided it was complete money wasted for me. I had some fun with TGB but most of the proj...

Author J Sears Date 08/28/2007 (1:29 am) Comment 38 comments

some progress on cards

Well I haven't gotten as much time put into my card game lately, but the time I did spend on it I've learned a lot. I used to think Guis were a tough part to make but I've learned how quick and ea...

Author J Sears Date 05/23/2007 (4:08 am) Comment 8 comments

teaching my computer to play cards

I finally decided to get back to work on a project I'd like to really see put out there. It's a different card game then most people are familiar with and I've put what I consider some improvemen...

Author J Sears Date 04/23/2007 (9:41 pm) Comment 3 comments

I'm not dead

I know most people don't even know who I am but I post a lot on other's blogs and occasionally in the forums. I had been working on a card game on tgb and while I was working on the mulitplaye...

Author J Sears Date 01/03/2007 (6:27 pm) Comment 7 comments

time to learn networking

Well I sat down and busted out enough scripting to have my card game work pretty well all on one machine, there were a couple small things to add but I saw those parts being very different in networ...

Author J Sears Date 12/06/2006 (8:28 am) Comment 6 comments

back on a decent pace

Today was my first day really getting some time back in on my card game. I had a bunch of other stuff to do today and didn't get as much time as I wanted but still made some decent progress. Th...

Author J Sears Date 12/05/2006 (7:23 am) Comment 6 comments

back at it

Well I had to take some time away from my card game due to holidays and working hard on a website I have been trying to launch (it has nothing to do with programming or games so I won't put a shamless...

Author J Sears Date 12/04/2006 (8:36 am) Comment 3 comments

not a good scripting day

Well I decided to put freecell on hold for a little bit now that I had learned a bunch and decided to work on the card game I really wanted to get out there. It's a version of a card game some pe...

Author J Sears Date 11/23/2006 (5:46 am) Comment 5 comments

Got some good parts of FreeCell finished

Well for the possibly 3 people that read my blog I added this part as a remark to my last post. After struggling early on the other day with how to best create games for FreeCell I ended up with...

Author J Sears Date 11/21/2006 (6:11 am) Comment 6 comments

slower day

Well I did not get as much accomplished today as I had hoped. For starters I ended up rewriting my automatic card movement to the suit pile code. And once I had it written up the way I wanted som...

Author J Sears Date 11/20/2006 (6:39 am) Comment 14 comments

furthering FreeCell

Well I decided to use this blog as a good reference of my progress. Considering I started this with very little knowledge I think I'm movng at a good speed, I did have some c/c++ self training but nev...

Author J Sears Date 11/18/2006 (6:31 am) Comment 8 comments

starting with TGB and starting on FreeCell

Well everyone else had a blog so I decided to make one too. After doing 4 of the 5 tutorials it mentions right off in the doucment that comes with it and finding them pretty simple I decided to make...

Author J Sears Date 11/17/2006 (3:25 am) Comment 3 comments