Much thanks to my wife, who kindly stayed home with all three kids so that I could take part in today's Tae Kwon Do test. This was a comparably easy test: no patterns or breaking; just self-defense, sparring and terminology ( Read more... )

I've got about 5 projects that I want to work on, but it's probably going to be a while before I make any progress on them: babies take up a lot of what used to be free time. But they're awfully cute...


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This morning, Omega finally made it to the "catalog"--the online list of games available for sale on my cell phone:


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We're heading out in about half an hour to finally meet our newly adopted son Michael, who has just arrived in San Francisco and will be arriving in Philadelphia late tonight. Baby pictures will follow as soon as they're available. :)

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My wife is sick of hearing about these, but I can't stop laughing. I stumbled across this site earlier, and have selected some of my favorites for your reading enjoyment:

• The Great Wall of China was originally created to keep Chuck Norris out. It failed miserably.
  
  
• Most people have 23 pairs of chromosomes. Chuck Norris has 72... and they're all ( Read more... )

I've finished a rough breakdown of how the game will be put together. This is really the last step in the high-level design phase; from here the designs get much more detailed and cryptic.

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One of the most difficult design aspects of this game involves its special actions. For variety and strategy, it's essential that these things have a very wide flexilibity, encompassing most aspects of the game. And yet, that very flexibility makes them hard to implement ( Read more... )

As I've been working on the game's design, I've found a few things about the game summary that displease me. So I'm changing this and that. ( Read more... )

I've got about six pages of the next design document ready, but instead of posting that content today I thought I should probably back up a bit and explain (hey, it's Game Programming 101, right?) the overall theory on what's going on here.

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I mentioned in my last post that I'm working on the design for a new CCG-type game. Here's the formal game summary--which is just about everything I've got whipped up so far, this early in the design process ( Read more... )