I was a bit worried that I might have lost my privilege to post news on the front page when the rules changed, it turns out that I still have it though with the difference that I can only post every 14 days ;)
So, to my big surprise my, latest game (Battle Tank) made it onto the front page. I was very surprised as it got there about a day after the awards for the day I submitted it was handed out (and it barely made the top 10), I thought it was forgotten about long ago.
A part of me wish it were though.. I agree with most of the reviews saying that it has many flaws, that it's boring, repetitive, etc. I think that I started this project in February, and from the very beginning I had many things that I planned to add which would improve it. But these motivation drops that I have had so much trouble with for a while now made that impossible, the game was put on hold and after a while I just wanted to forget about it. I felt that I didn't want all those hours spent on it to just get lost though, so eventually I finished it and made sure it was at least somewhat decent so that I could forget about it and move on. The fact that much of it is really old and way worse than I would be able to make today prevents me from being all happy about getting the front page, I'm well aware of things that could be improved on it, but people wont know that. Now, I may not have that a big reputation to care about, but that's still how I feel about it ;)
Anyhow, enough about old stuff and on to current. My main project now is a sequel to OrbMania; it basically has the same gameplay as the original, but I'm adding as many features as I can think of, like levels, powerups (and downs), fancy effects and more :) The game is already coming along well, I might very well use my next front page post in two weeks to find people who can beta test ;) My plan after the end of this project is to finally get on learning Actionscript 3, which I'm really looking forward to.
In other news. I'm making my own website, which will be sort of a portfolio with a blog thingy.. Original, ey? ;) Anyhow, working on this site has really made me motivated to redo almost the whole of the current kungfugaming.com-site, the making of my site will most be a bit of a 'warm-up' as I never made any this size before. Actually, I never made any site at all before, just small parts XP
So now you know a bit of what I will be doing over the holidays, maybe there's even one or two of you out there who cares ;)
Random nice stuff:
-I just ordered a XBOX 360 :) If anybody wants to play me on COD4 just give me a shout and once I've gotten used to playing FPS with controller we can take a match or two.
-Got to level 25 yesterday, the icon for this level is pretty neat I think :)
-Battle Tank won the bonus for being one of the three best games in November in MaxGames contest. . The thing was just that nobody else entered last month ^^,
saltovergray
battle tank was a bit hard due to the controls, but i liked it and voted high.
knugen
Thanks, the controls is probably what I like best about the game though ^^,