Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Hello Blogger.com

Hello Blogger.com and any of you other readers who stumble onto this blog. This post will be short and to the point... I hope... a lot of my other posts, probably not so much.

After creating a small Robotron 2048 type game for my Master's final thesis, I decided to give game design and programming another try. So I have started a small project, Project GGOT. Since I am terrible at Art I have enlisted the help of a friend, James, to handle all things art related for me. I will be doing 90%+ of Game Design 100% of Programming.

This blog is a way to try to keep my motivation level a little bit higher for a project I am working on to help me learn Microsofts XNA framework, specifically 3.0. The end goal is to have a XNA game up and available for download through Xbox360's Community Games feature. I will list basic features in this post and the following posts will either detail, Game Design, Programming or Art.

The end goals are very lofty. 1-4 Players. Leveling Up systems. XboxLive compatibilty & networked play etc. But to start, we are going to attempt a 1-4 player, non-networked game. The rest will have to wait and see.

Current Game Title: Project GGOT
Genre: Horizontal-Scrolling Schmup (think Gyruss, Ikagura etc...)
Built in: XNA 3.0 using C# 2008 express edition.

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