Well I have been busy of the last week and even more so today. I have finally setup my new blog (the old one will remain for now as I have stated) and got a little intro up there already. Not to get too excited yet though, I am still working on chapter 1 for the 3D modeling tutorial, but it is coming along nicely. I am always very critical when it comes to the beginning of such things as if you don’t set the stage properly and get everyone to understand the terminology to be used, you can get in to all sorts of troubles later on.

2008 was not a good year for me. Work ramped up to 1000% and my family got a surprising present before the year had even begun. This did not bode well for my progress as a game developer so I became what is referred to as a slacker .

The Mythical Blender 2.5 project is finally getting momentum and great progress! Currently over 90k of the 300k lines that needed to be recoded are back. Not to say we’re on one-third of the work though… the new system requires to wrap or recode every (!) tool in Blender. Luckily this kind of work now is getting well defined, and interesting smaller tasks are available for all developers interested to help porting now.

Last year, I mentioned about EA releasing the fabulous (of it is time) game that started a whole raft of other like minded games (that sounded better in my head 🙂 ), it was Command and Conquer.

One of the issues I (and from the look on the XNA blogs around) have always had problems getting into 3D modelling, usual problems being:

XNA Game Studio V3 CTP is now out and available.

Competitions are always a good thing as they make people strive to compete and bring out their best work (or not in my case, hack-1 was never finished enough for my likes when i published it for the XBOX360Homebrew Contest).

Time being what it is, I seem to have less and less to play with. One of the biggest casualties has been my Game Development progress, including this blog. That is not to say I’ve stopped completely (9i’v still got my hands in and do my best to keep up to date with everything going on, especially with the XNA 2 release and the new developments with WiiWare) but time is just diverted to other things such as below.

Nope I’m not drunk and your not dreaming.

It’s not that often that I’ll comment on other peoples game ideas in my own blog but today is an exception.

Like quite a few developers these days, I like nothing more that sitting in the garden or relaxing on the couch (sofa) when I’m fumbling over some code, this is a bit hard to do with my trusty power hungry workhorse dev PC (just doesn’t feel nice to carry around in a backpack you know! :-)).

Seems a few guys now are really dishing it out to the public and rolling out their sweat ‘n’ guts and slitting their writs for the community.