Okay, so I did not quite get where I wanted to this October, but it would have been a challenge even if my freetime would have been higher.\u00a0 Work related stuff ended up taking a lot of my time, for almost 10 days in a row I was unable to make much progress at all, then work started slowing down, but I had an opportunity for a programming test; which ultimately failed as I found out last night.<\/p>\n
These are not excuses, as much as the truth of why I didn’t get where I wanted.\u00a0 I am actually quite far behind schedule now, although I am still holding high hopes that I can sell a copy by December 31st.\u00a0 I see more and more people are starting to become interested, as I released a video<\/a> of the game in replay mode last week, and have had a few instant messages with congratulations and stuff.<\/p>\n Overall I still feel positive about the project, and even after a few weeks of “here and there” development I think things are coming together nicely.\u00a0 I still need to edit the physics of the car\/world, and need work on the user interface of the game.\u00a0 One small piece of the gameplay portion exists before I start adding all the dressing and polish that will turn it from a ‘game’ into something playable.<\/p>\n Tonight I added a config file, so the player can change settings and they will remain stored for the next time they play.\u00a0 As soon as I finish writing this I will start working on resources for the car, so that tires can be depleted, fuel runs out over time and brakes heat up, performing worse under heavy use, although quickly cooling back off.\u00a0 Once I get that working I will need to add some more things to the track editor, and start making some tracks and content…\u00a0 We will see.<\/p>\n In other news I added music, for now it is just temporary although I am going to be getting in contact with a musician sometime (I hope).<\/p>\n Have a good time, and congratulations to all those in the community that finished their games in October!!!<\/p>","time":"November 3rd, 2010 7:05 pm","title":"BlackBird\u2019s Deadline: Come, and Gone"}