News from the Editor

December 18th, 2011
Well, work has been sucking all of my lifeforce from me lately. Today however, I got a rare day to do whatever I wanted (thanks, baby!), so after getting some tasks out of the way, I got back to programming. Well, sort of…

I’ve slowed down programming for emulators as of late, and have been trying to dive back into BlitzMax. Well…I’ve forgotten a LOT already. What I’m trying to do is go back to a few programs that I’d abandoned, like my update of the old mainframe game “CHASE”. You may know it as either Escape, or Robotz, or maybe Daleks. It’s been remade bunches of times (the creators of Robotron have cited it as an inspiration). What I’m aiming for is something a little slicker, with more of an arcade feel (but with the same strategy-based play).

I’m trying to use one of my characters that I created a few years ago, named Wedgie, as the protagonist. Which means a lot of animation–8 frames per direction, eight directions in total. Plus extra animation for deploying the Sonic Screwdriver, impatient tapping of feet, etc.

So I’m knee-deep in hand-drawn animation, something I haven’t really done in over ten years. Funny how I keep coming back to the same things over and over again!

Anyhow, I just wanted to post what I’ve been up to, and wish you all Happy Holidays. See you next year!

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