I've pulled myself out of the spiraling doom of programming, and have come to realize, that I need to be working on the things I've already started, instead of trying to make new ones. See, I told you before about this horrible, horrible thing. You start working on something... realize you can do something else that might be cooler... then another thing that's cooler.. and then before you know it, you're spending all your time making something way more complicated than you ever intentionally planned! The ORIGINAL plan was to complete Electris until I felt it was a polished game, and also continue work on my 2d, yes 2d, version of Defenders of Zentax. I planned, and originally started, a 2d game engine that used Direct3d to do rotations and scaling. That's what got me started on making actual 3d stuff. So enough of that. I already backed up what I had, then ripped out all the 3d crap I had been doing the past few weeks. So now it's back to the basic 2d rotating/scaling engine taking advantage of Direct3d hardware, like I planned to do in the first place!

Between work on Electris and DOZ, I'm also going to try and continue writing the actual story to DOZ. Not the storyline of the game... I'm talking the actual story. It's something that's been floating in my head for years, constantly changing and expanding. I just never feel like writing it out. Maybe one day I'll finish the story, which will probably be the size of a book by then. I have tons of little subplots, characters, and the like, all mixed up in the crazy mess I call a brain. Kind of like a little universe. Which was basically why I planned to make more than just the DOZ game I'm working on, such as an RPG in the future (which was what the original BBS door game was going to be when finished). And a few other types of game concepts I've come up with recently. Though the current space-fighting DOZ will have RPG elements to it as well.

Maybe I'll start posting chapters to the story as I write them?

Anyway, that's enough rambling for now. Just for the record.. I took a personality disorder test online earlier. lol. Don't worry, it said I wasn't crazy. Most of the results were "low" actually, meaning good, which were a bit surprising, considering the other people I know that took it had a lot of mediums and highs. Guess I'm the sane one. ;)

posted at 2:22 AM