Alright, I’m back.  College is over and done with for over a month, so I have loads of free time to work on this game.  As of yesterday, I have begun re-building the entire game from the bottom up.  I’m basically using the code I already wrote but just reorganizing it/optimizing it in correct ActionScript 3 format (with class files and the whole lot).  As of right now this is going smoothly and I can see how this format is going to be incredibly helpful when things start to get more difficult down the road.

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Anyway, so that’s being worked on.  In more random news, it snowed like balls over her last night.  Here’s a picture I took earlier.  Really wish it could have been like this on Christmas Eve/Day, but we’ll see.

Anyway, I’ll make another post or two before Christmas, but until then, have a merry Christmas-week!

Also, you keen-eyed bastards should know the title of the game by now.

For all you thinking I pulled a classic “ForTheLose.org move” on this blog too, I didn’t.  Just give me one more week to get through this wave of college finals.  Plus it doesn’t help I’ve been sick all week.  Anyway, I’ll be done with school until sometime at the end of January starting next Wednesday, so just give me a few more days to focus on that nonsense and then I’ll be focusing on the game and this blog again.  K bye.

So, looks like I’ll finally be moving into the world of current-gen consoles.  It only took me four years…

Long story short, I was helping my parents buy an Xbox 360 console online for both my brother and I for Christmas.  Anyway, it arrived today.  It’s actually the Modern Warfare 2 Limited Edition one with the massive 250GB harddrive, which I think is pretty cool.  Of course I made sure I wouldn’t be without my 360-version of Left 4 Dead 2 so I threw that in the order as well.

Oh yeah and Madden 10

So yeah, I guess it’s almost time for me to see what all the hype is about.  I’m mainly making this post because I know a few of you (read: 3) will be excited by this and will want my Gamertag when I activate it.  It is called a Gamertag, right?  Oh God, I feel like an old person…

As for news about the game, look for that in an upcoming post.  Ha.

Alright, so I felt for my first real post here I should start off by giving some information on the game I’m working on.  I’m not going to give much, but I will let you guys in on some things, including a screenshot:

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Of course what I have pictured is the current test level.  What I mean by that is that you’ll never actually see this in the game, it’s just for me.

If you haven’t guessed from the screenshot yet, this is going to be a top down racing game.  In the image above you can see the 6 cars that I designed that will be used in the game.  You will be able to choose which you want to control at the start of the game.  Also, if you’re wondering, the brown/red areas are just temporary dirt/walls that I’m currently working on.

So yeah, that’s all I’m going to tell you for now.  They’ll be more news in an upcoming post more focused on the actual gameplay.  To be honest, this whole game is a tribute to a game I played (still do) when I was younger.  Seriously, +10 cool points to whoever can guess what that game is.