1h and 14m Left!

"'Til what?," you may ask...

Metallica's first single from their latest album: Death Magnetic

I'm so pumped for this that I felt like I had to post about it before it even happened. I will, of course, be posting about it afterwards too! :)

\m/

Cybertronic Armageddon and More

Now that the RPG project is in full swing, everybody has agreed on a name for this creation of ours:

Cybertronic Armageddon

We all agreed that it would be best if the title revealed the overall theme of the game. We also agreed that the game will be released as freeware as opposed to the original plan to have a shareware-esque system.

Unfortunately, a bit of the engine was lost in the crash. So I guess I'll be spending the next week or so rewriting it.

Well, that's the update for today, folks.

Happy 4th!

Until the Next Post...

... This should tide you over.









I'm still getting everything setup on the newly restored computer. When I get back to work, I'll update you.

Not Dead...

Don't pack up your bags and move on to the next blog just yet! I'm actually not dead. I've just been having a few computer problems.

It started with the infamous UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME message accompanied by everbodys' favorite Blue Screen of Death. After swapping out hard drives countless times, I got every file backed up. How well they all survived remains to be seen.

After jacking around with all of that, I attempted a system restore:

"System restore has failed because a mass storage device was not detected."

It turns out that I had the wrong restore disc. I own a Gateway and apparently the restore disc was for Dell computers only. Gee, do you think it might have been helpful if the label would have said that? So anyway, I called Gateway and asked about their restore disc. They were going to charge me $20 and shipping. I had to explain that the disc wasn't packaged with the computer (like they should be.) After about an hour of telling them exactly what happened, they finally told me they would send it out for free but I would still need to pay shipping. That's fine. I'll gladly pay shipping. But I wasn't going to pay for a disc that was supposed to come for free.

So I get the disc in the mail and go through the whole bit. Now I'm here writing this. Nothing is wrong so far. We'll see how this goes.

LED v.01

Quick update and a screenshot for you!

This is the first running version of what will eventually be KevEngine 2's primary level editor, a program that I have dubbed "LED"

Until now, I haven't had a good, easy way to make maps for SWORDS and the new RPG (both of which run on versions of KevEngine 2) If you read the forums at all, you know that I've been researching new approaches to programming. I've been studying everything from the Wolfenstein 3D source code to programming essays scattered about the web. What you're seeing is a bit of that research actually put to good use!

When the editor is finished, I plan to rewrite a good chunk of KevEngine 2 to work with the new map format.

Updates...

A lot has been going on this month...

SWORDS is looking good. I'm getting close to the point where it actually becomes a game and not just an engine demo :) After changing the physics code a couple times, I finally settled on a system that suits the game perfectly. To speed up the process, a friend of mine has agreed to help with the graphics (I definately need help in that area :) I still have yet to see any completed work, but I'm confident that he'll deliver.

Of course the older projects are sitting around, too. I know when they should've gotten completed, but it's looking like it'll probably be awhile. I'm still just as juiced about those games as I am my new ones (Hint, hint), but there are things I need to finish before I can go back to those projects...

Now you might be thinking, "What's with the bold-faced 's' and the 'Hint, hint'?". I'll explain!

I've been recruited to work on an all new RPG set in a futuristic alternate-reality. More details on another day ;)

Before I get any emails saying, "Dude, you're already working on a game. It's going to wind up like your older projects!", don't worry. There's a whole team of people working on the artistic/musical/concept aspects of the game. My only position is lead programmer. I'm still spending most of my time on the projects back here at Kevlar Games HQ.

Well, that about covers it, really.

Thanks again for the support!

Cheers!

FAO Rome.Ro Users

Some of you people need serious psychiatric help. All you're doing is making yourselves look like low-life dirtbags when you go on somebody's ShoutBox and pick apart everything someone says on their blog. I'm done posting in that. The only thing that does is bring the scumbags of this world out of their cowardly shells to harass someone who did nothing to deserve it. Just remember that what goes around comes around, so those who have been rude for no reason in the past will get theirs. From now on, any post in Romero's ShoutBox under the name 'Bloodspiller' is fake.