Plan for Weekly Plan Highlights
by Weekly Plan Highlights · 11/15/2005 (6:30 am) · 8 comments
intro
I'm sorry everyone who reads these, but I am too wiped out to finish this week's highlights. I have been fighting off crashing for the last few hours working on this. My eyes are going blurry. I didn't slept much last night. I had some unexpected fun with my mother in law having her medical insurance cancelled and her doctors from Montana drop her as a patient, since she isn't living in Montana anymore, a week before her 10 medications run out. I had to scramble to try to fix everything and it was particularly hard since yesterday was Sunday and I had a suprise meeting at work that I had to attend last night. A lot of paperwork later and I just can barely think anymore tonight. I should have done the plans a little at a time this week but I worked on my editor instead. You know, the editor to make doing the weekly plan highlights easier. :P Good news is, the editor definitely saved me a couple of hours of work, but the comments are what take so much time and I just don't have any thing left in me. This paragraph has taken me probably 5 whole minutes to get thru. I am one tired guy.
I just deleted the comments that I have made so far up to Mark Bellamy 'cause I think it would be worse to have only a part of the plans with comments. There are so many really great plans, so, please browse thru them and take a look. There's John Seguin's 2nd plan about music in your indie game that just can't be missed. Matt Fairfax discusses the progress of Torque Constructor. An update on Arcane-FX. Chris Labombard talks more about how to streamline and still be thorough making your game. I should stop mentioning plans now cause it will look like these are the best and they are not, browse, trust me. OK. One last tease. What if 3 of the people with the best potential for creating an AI pack joined together to finally make one? That's Dee's plan. See, you don't know what you missed. And this one week I am too tired to tell you everything. So, if you browse the plans below even though I haven't commented them, I will make it up to you next week by telling funny jokes, instead of my own.
Again, I am really sorry. I'll make sure this won't happen again. No more editors getting in the way of getting the work done. :P Oh, lol, my wife just reminded me that I have to return our video rentals tonight by midnight and that I have to take her to work an hour earlier tomorrow. This is why I sleep on my days off. You know. :P
.plans
the 6TH
Sam Bacsa - Delta 6 is here! OMG!
Tom Bampton - Using the TGE Terrain Editor as a tilemap editor for Torque 2D
Jon Frisby - Synchronizing movement with music in T2D, redux.
Dee - AI Pack Jumps forward!
Mike Haley - The Great Invasion: Two Years of Development
the 7TH
Alexander Luddy - I have released version 0.91 of Shaper.Which can be downloaded from here www.inversesoftware.com/Shaper.
James Lupiani - Reflections on IGC/boot camp/my internship at GarageGames.
Brandon Maness - Video Document System Nov05 Update pics.
Dylan Fitterer -
James W. Hofmann - educational software thoughts
Matt Fairfax - When will Constructor ship?
Weekly Plan Highlights - Un-Official GarageGames Weekly .Plan Highlights by Anton Bursch Week of October 30th - November 5th, 2005
the 8TH
Sam Bacsa - Codeweaver conversion going as planned... mwahaha
Chris Labombard - My design and development process
This was a good read.
Midhir - Shooting at things is fun, but not without something to hide in, on, behind, under, etc. So I busted open CShop and made a couple of shops, a factory, and an office building.
Kirby Webber - Well, another boring blog with nothing much to report - though I am trying my best to stay on a steady diet of once a month posting.
Jeff Faust - Arcane-FX: a special effects system for the Torque Game Engine (Update)
Mark Bellamy - I'm still in a learning process. I want to get to the point of having a good overall understanding with Torque and it's limitations. Right now I'm still trying to get the big picture.
Rubes - Chasing Windmills?
Stephen - Stephen A. plan... a singleplayer rpg with loads of npcs to interact with plus an array of missions and a dark story of epic betrayel. Project for now will be referred to as "Project Eternal"
Mark Barner - Plans for making our first game. Our project name is: "Kilo-watt: The quest for power". What is it about? It is a game based somewhat on the Mad Max movies. Tribes/clans will be fighting over gasoline, oil and other energy sources.
Josh Ritter - Minions of Mirth: Dedicated Server
the 9TH
Ramen Sama - As some of you may know,I'm working on making a Single Player, Console Style RPG. Well i've been busy. Had to take a step back from working on my Battle system cause it was lacking stat modifying.
Lee-Orr Orbach - Update on my game...
Brent "steh|e" Hild - My first .plan... Since I've been a long time lurker here, I thought it appropriate that I finally spoke up and introduced myself.
Leadwerks - 3D World Studio and Torque (Cartography Shop 5)
Andy Schatz - The work doesn't end when you ship the title
Jay Moore - Off the road for a minute! It has been great to meet so many Torque Developers...
the 10TH
Jon Frisby - Unveiling the beginnings of my game to the world.
Tim Muenstermann - Chicago Area TGE/TSE mini-conference??
John Seguin - Working with a composer, A Guide, Part II
the 11TH
Markus Nuebel - Just returned from a one week vacation to the USA. We had a really great time and I ran the New York Marathon, my first Marathon by the way, in 3:31.59. Not bad for a hobby runner like me. As soon...
Graham Mcrobbie - So it turns out I have to keep an individual journal for the games development module. I'm doing this module as part of an MSc computer games technology course in the UK. So, a bit about the game we'r...
Sam Bacsa - Fun with Benchmarking. And jokes. Okay, no jokes. Well maybe some. But definitely fun!
Phil Carlisle - This week has been VERY busy. First of all, the quickie dev stuff. Air Ace Kristen is hard at it with Air Ace updating the physics, unfortunately that will have to stop for a week or s...
Anton Bursch - Weekly Plan Highlights Editor
Josh Ritter - Minions of Mirth - Promo Video #1
Jeff Gran - Animation transfer.
the 12TH
Adam Beaumont - Things have been quite slow this week on Roboherd. We're trying to increase the content in the game which basically means getting some more levels done. Last couple of weeks I've done quite a bit of...
Jay Barnson - Prototyping Means Sucking Less Sooner
Thanks again for tuning in. So long and catch you all next week with more Un-Official GarageGames Weekly .Plan Highlights
I'm sorry everyone who reads these, but I am too wiped out to finish this week's highlights. I have been fighting off crashing for the last few hours working on this. My eyes are going blurry. I didn't slept much last night. I had some unexpected fun with my mother in law having her medical insurance cancelled and her doctors from Montana drop her as a patient, since she isn't living in Montana anymore, a week before her 10 medications run out. I had to scramble to try to fix everything and it was particularly hard since yesterday was Sunday and I had a suprise meeting at work that I had to attend last night. A lot of paperwork later and I just can barely think anymore tonight. I should have done the plans a little at a time this week but I worked on my editor instead. You know, the editor to make doing the weekly plan highlights easier. :P Good news is, the editor definitely saved me a couple of hours of work, but the comments are what take so much time and I just don't have any thing left in me. This paragraph has taken me probably 5 whole minutes to get thru. I am one tired guy.
I just deleted the comments that I have made so far up to Mark Bellamy 'cause I think it would be worse to have only a part of the plans with comments. There are so many really great plans, so, please browse thru them and take a look. There's John Seguin's 2nd plan about music in your indie game that just can't be missed. Matt Fairfax discusses the progress of Torque Constructor. An update on Arcane-FX. Chris Labombard talks more about how to streamline and still be thorough making your game. I should stop mentioning plans now cause it will look like these are the best and they are not, browse, trust me. OK. One last tease. What if 3 of the people with the best potential for creating an AI pack joined together to finally make one? That's Dee's plan. See, you don't know what you missed. And this one week I am too tired to tell you everything. So, if you browse the plans below even though I haven't commented them, I will make it up to you next week by telling funny jokes, instead of my own.
Again, I am really sorry. I'll make sure this won't happen again. No more editors getting in the way of getting the work done. :P Oh, lol, my wife just reminded me that I have to return our video rentals tonight by midnight and that I have to take her to work an hour earlier tomorrow. This is why I sleep on my days off. You know. :P
.plans
the 6TH
Sam Bacsa - Delta 6 is here! OMG!
Tom Bampton - Using the TGE Terrain Editor as a tilemap editor for Torque 2D
Jon Frisby - Synchronizing movement with music in T2D, redux.
Dee - AI Pack Jumps forward!
Mike Haley - The Great Invasion: Two Years of Development
the 7TH
Alexander Luddy - I have released version 0.91 of Shaper.Which can be downloaded from here www.inversesoftware.com/Shaper.
James Lupiani - Reflections on IGC/boot camp/my internship at GarageGames.
Brandon Maness - Video Document System Nov05 Update pics.
Dylan Fitterer -
James W. Hofmann - educational software thoughts
Matt Fairfax - When will Constructor ship?
Weekly Plan Highlights - Un-Official GarageGames Weekly .Plan Highlights by Anton Bursch Week of October 30th - November 5th, 2005
the 8TH
Sam Bacsa - Codeweaver conversion going as planned... mwahaha
Chris Labombard - My design and development process
This was a good read.
Midhir - Shooting at things is fun, but not without something to hide in, on, behind, under, etc. So I busted open CShop and made a couple of shops, a factory, and an office building.
Kirby Webber - Well, another boring blog with nothing much to report - though I am trying my best to stay on a steady diet of once a month posting.
Jeff Faust - Arcane-FX: a special effects system for the Torque Game Engine (Update)
Mark Bellamy - I'm still in a learning process. I want to get to the point of having a good overall understanding with Torque and it's limitations. Right now I'm still trying to get the big picture.
Rubes - Chasing Windmills?
Stephen - Stephen A. plan... a singleplayer rpg with loads of npcs to interact with plus an array of missions and a dark story of epic betrayel. Project for now will be referred to as "Project Eternal"
Mark Barner - Plans for making our first game. Our project name is: "Kilo-watt: The quest for power". What is it about? It is a game based somewhat on the Mad Max movies. Tribes/clans will be fighting over gasoline, oil and other energy sources.
Josh Ritter - Minions of Mirth: Dedicated Server
the 9TH
Ramen Sama - As some of you may know,I'm working on making a Single Player, Console Style RPG. Well i've been busy. Had to take a step back from working on my Battle system cause it was lacking stat modifying.
Lee-Orr Orbach - Update on my game...
Brent "steh|e" Hild - My first .plan... Since I've been a long time lurker here, I thought it appropriate that I finally spoke up and introduced myself.
Leadwerks - 3D World Studio and Torque (Cartography Shop 5)
Andy Schatz - The work doesn't end when you ship the title
Jay Moore - Off the road for a minute! It has been great to meet so many Torque Developers...
the 10TH
Jon Frisby - Unveiling the beginnings of my game to the world.
Tim Muenstermann - Chicago Area TGE/TSE mini-conference??
John Seguin - Working with a composer, A Guide, Part II
the 11TH
Markus Nuebel - Just returned from a one week vacation to the USA. We had a really great time and I ran the New York Marathon, my first Marathon by the way, in 3:31.59. Not bad for a hobby runner like me. As soon...
Graham Mcrobbie - So it turns out I have to keep an individual journal for the games development module. I'm doing this module as part of an MSc computer games technology course in the UK. So, a bit about the game we'r...
Sam Bacsa - Fun with Benchmarking. And jokes. Okay, no jokes. Well maybe some. But definitely fun!
Phil Carlisle - This week has been VERY busy. First of all, the quickie dev stuff. Air Ace Kristen is hard at it with Air Ace updating the physics, unfortunately that will have to stop for a week or s...
Anton Bursch - Weekly Plan Highlights Editor
Josh Ritter - Minions of Mirth - Promo Video #1
Jeff Gran - Animation transfer.
the 12TH
Adam Beaumont - Things have been quite slow this week on Roboherd. We're trying to increase the content in the game which basically means getting some more levels done. Last couple of weeks I've done quite a bit of...
Jay Barnson - Prototyping Means Sucking Less Sooner
Thanks again for tuning in. So long and catch you all next week with more Un-Official GarageGames Weekly .Plan Highlights
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#2
11/15/2005 (8:46 am)
Once again you've done it. You're very dedicated, now get some sleep:)
#3
Good luck with it anyways. Cheers, Mark.
11/15/2005 (12:45 pm)
Makes me glad to be in the UK. My mother has had two bouts of Cancer, has a degenerative spine problem, and the usual for someone about twenty years older than her 55'ish years. It's why I now work from home. Thankfully however, its all on the NHS, so we never have to worry about doctors bills, prescription charges, or even getting to the hospital. Good luck with it anyways. Cheers, Mark.
#4
-Tim
11/15/2005 (1:16 pm)
Thanks for the recap! It's good to know you put your family first. I hope everything gets better for your family.-Tim
#5
I think it's VERY cool that you take time out of your own busy schedule to recap for the rest of the community.
Sorry that things have been so hectic for you lately. I hope everything pans out for you and return to a state of sanity.
Thanks again for doing this - you rock and the community is better for your presence. =)
11/15/2005 (2:07 pm)
No apologies necessary Anton.I think it's VERY cool that you take time out of your own busy schedule to recap for the rest of the community.
Sorry that things have been so hectic for you lately. I hope everything pans out for you and return to a state of sanity.
Thanks again for doing this - you rock and the community is better for your presence. =)
#6
11/15/2005 (6:46 pm)
I like this, thanks for the work.
#7
11/17/2005 (1:39 am)
Awesome! I'd missed this sort of thing since the Grease Monkey Blogs stopped
#8
11/22/2005 (5:28 am)
Torque Owner Thijs Sloesen