Plan for Jared Coliadis

I had come up with a quick but undocumented idea for this month's GID. Taking the theme of ghosts, I had intended to make Reverse Pac-man, where you are a ghost hunting down the character we all know and love. After accidently sparking a long debate in IRC about copyright issues, I figured that as long as I didn't actually publically release the game, I should be fine "borrowing" some art.

Being that I didn't have any abstract idea how I would go about recreating the game, nor did I have any real experience programming AI, plus I had to work most of the weekend both at my job and on a project for my database systems class, I really couldn't realisitcally create this game over the course of the two days. I made an attempt regardless and set up all the level and nodes that I imagined I would need whenever I would get to interacting with these nodes, but I quickly came to the conclusion after about 3 hours that not only did I not have enough time to work on this, it most likely wouldn't have been any fun playing it. I unfortunately abandoned the project, and most likely won't work on it anymore.

Hopefully next month's GID will allow me more time to work on a project, but until then I'll try to improve my older GID's, my Mancala re-creation, and starting up my "real" project.

Slightly dissapointed but keeping priorities straight,
/Jared