I'd like to wish everyone a belated happy 2008. =)

I've lately been working on a new project in which I use ASCII characters to create all of the graphics. You can see a screenshot of the game in the Screenshots section. I also posted a short demo of the game on the forum in the 'Other Games' forum if you'd like to see how it's progressing so far. (Well, I might say! =))

In addition to serving as the engine to the current ASCII game, I will have the opportunity to use this engine for other games as well; this should help to shorten development time on future projects that I work on.

I added a couple of plugins to the site for a linux text editor called GEdit. I find they improve my experience when using said text editor.

If by chance you downloaded them in the last week or so, note that I've posted slightly-updated versions of two of them. I had to change something that was slowing down the program and causing other processor-intensive programs (such as games) to run at a slower speed.

In a quick update on 'Dozer, I am still working on the game but I haven't made a lot of significant advancement. I have a couple of issue to resolve with the multiplayer, and I still need to create levels for the game. I hope to finish the game before too much longer. =)

I've continued to work on various aspects of 'Dozer in the last few days. I've needed to spend a bit of time (still) polishing up and adding bits of functionality here and there to the GUI system. That work will pay off in future and other current projects also, though. I added scroll bars to multi-line text boxes this evening. (Previously I only used them for editing tasks, so I held off adding the scroll bar.)

I'm finishing up most of the user interface business and I'll soon be starting on creating more levels for the single player mode. After that, I'll probably be ready to release the game. :)

I've recently been working on a new game called 'Dozer. You may have played games like 'Dozer before; you have to push blocks around onto targets to finish each level.

I have a couple of screenshots from the game in the screenshots section, and I added a video of the game to the videos page. They'll give you a good idea of how the game works.

The game will feature both a single player and a multiplayer mode. I don't have the details fully worked out in regards to the multiplayer aspect of the game, but I hope to have a couple of different gameplay modes available.

Check back later for more on 'Dozer.

Well, it might seem a bit ... crazy to have 2 out of the 3 most recent updates introduce a site redesign, but nonetheless I decided to update the look of the site a little bit. I've parted from the dropdown menus and gone with a different structure.

Mostly, I didn't completely like the code behind the previous page. I did a decent job and did create a validating webpage (just transitional though), but the time I spent putting together the new forum (we'll get to that in a second) helped me fine-tune my CSS knowledge; thus I decided that I didn't like all of the old code anymore. :P

As usual you'll see things here and there that I haven't finished yet. I might not have finished everything I wanted to on the previous design! :P

The forum also has a couple of small issues remaining, but most of those fall under the area of content as opposed to functionality. The forum has some cool features including various themes you can use. I encourage you to check it out! =)

On the gaming front, I've been spending a little time working on another Wii game, and I still work on the platformeRPG here and there. Hopefully in the not-too-distant future I can put together a demo of that for everyone to try out!