Goodbye 2011

Well, it sure has been quite busy these past two months! I have finished up two iPhone apps, Ellipsis and Azure Nose. (As of this writing Azure Nose is still waiting for review, the link doesn't work yet) Ellipsis is a bit different than what I usually do. Instead of troubling myself with the annoyances and infexibilty of directly writing OpenGL, I used Cocos2d. Cocos2d is easy to learn (I figured it out in 30 minutes) and allows me to separate game logic from the underlying graphics rendering code.

The screenshot that you saw in the previous post was an early version of Ellipsis. My original goal for the app was around the end of 2011 like right now. Since the app was going so quickly with Cocos2d, I thought I might push the release date forward. That didn't work out since the music for the game was unfinished and various levels in the game needed rework.

Here's another look at Ellipsis (the actual music for the game is not piano):


The best part about Ellipsis is that it's free! If you have an iDevice you can download it today!

The first screenshot

Well, here it is.. (I know it's not much but I don't want to reveal too much of the app right off the bat)

This is going to be part of the new game I'm developing. Although it will probably look far different (as of this posting, I've already changed it), the idea is still going to be the same. I'll post more updates in the coming days as I begin to finish up design and layout work for the game.

It's all going more or less on schedule. I'm not trying to force stuff to be on time but I don't want it to be horrendously late. There are a few things that are going to be left out from the first release of the game but I hope that they will be added on in future updates. Over all, it should be a pretty interesting app.

You know what the best part is? It's FREE!!

Bye for now

Ben

I've been making a game

Hopefully it will be done by the 15th. I know that I have not been posting on here for a while buy I am posting now

I'll probably post some screen shots of the game in the next week or so. I've spent many sleepless nights working on it.

And the great thing is: it's going to be free!

I need to get to work..

Life is short and I probably shouldn't waste it blogging all day

People in Russia Seem to really Enjoy My Blog

As a thank you, I'm going to put up the soviet national anthem...

Internet is fixed

Miss me? No? Well, you've been forgiven.

On Sunday, my modem decided to go on strike and after many failed negotiations and a mediator person who came out but didn't know what to do about the strike. I almost decided to go buy another one and let it work until this one cooperated but I thought that it possibly might have been the working conditions changed and the modem had no idea about it so I decided to go find someone who knew how to fix it.

Anyway, everything is good. I got internet back and life will resume as normal. (Although the last few days were pretty tough.

Anyway, I think everything is back to normal.

Twitter

A couple of days ago I placed my twitter feed on my blog. I find that twitter is somewhat better than blogger when just writing short messages. It's quite hard to post on this blog with my cell phone especially since googles new blogger layout is ridiculously slow when typing. The characters that I type dont appear for a few seconds after I type it in. I've been quite interested in twitter actually. It's quite a unique service. I find twitter to be more suited for short updates rather than a long article on my few interests. Well happy Saturday! (I doubt I will make anymore of those animated smiles) Ben