PSR (Project Status Report)

Whoa, it's been five days since my last post already? Well, I've been hard at work on several projects the whole time. I'm dedicating around 6-9 hours a day to game development lately! (Woo unemployment!)

To someone following my projects, it may seem like I have a lot going on right now, but I'm actually very focused on two things at the moment. My first Flash platformer is my primary concern, and RunMan: Race Around the World is coming in at second place. This might be confusing to some, seeing as I just teased Jumper 3D in my last post. It gets even more bewildering when I reveal that my first Flash platformer is not, in fact, Islands.

Here's the skinny on Jumper 3D: It does exist, but it is in a very early stage of development and I am not working on it yet. It is a collaboration with my friend Chevy Ray, and he is handling the early programming while I will be jumping in to do design work later. We're just experimenting with the third dimension and exploring the possibilities for Jumper-style gameplay right now. Hopefully it will turn into a full-size game (and hopefully one that is quite fun to play as well)!

Meanwhile, Islands is on hold for various reasons. Mostly because I need to finish a game soon. Islands is a bit too ambitious to finish quickly and I must release a Flash game this month to pay the bills. So Islands is completely off my plate for now - sorry I jumped the gun with teasing it only to take it away, but these things happen.

Also meanwhile, Runman: Race Around the World is slowly nearing the finish line. I don't have much else to say here except that yes, we are still working on it and yes, it rocks.

And finally, that brings us to my mystery Flash platformer. I don't want to reveal much, because a lot of it may change. All I will say is that it isn't a Jumper game and that I hope to have it done by the end of May.

Whew. The tangled webs we weave...

In the Night, a Bear!

Another teaser image from the ongoing development of Islands.

Here's some further details for those who are following along:

• It's a platformer made in Flash.


• It takes place on a series of floating islands in the sky.


• It is my first platformer to use scrolling stages and checkpoints.


• It involves a bear.

Also: I'm sorry I haven't been keeping Grandma fed and watered lately. I promise an update soon... Islands and spring cleaning have proven very distracting for the last few days.

Islands

Here's what I was working on today!

This is a test level for my new platformer, Islands. This area looks a little too similar to AUS's NightWalk for my tastes... it probably won't make it into the final game.

Also, the yellow box is the fill-in graphic for the player object, until I finish the animations.