Sophisanmus

Well, not really.  I just think that I've been neglecting my traditional scribblings of late.  I'll throw a few together later, as proof that I can still put pencil to paper.

Right now I'm mostly working on the interface.  I have a (minimally) playable version working, pretty much just flying around a starry, cloudy, but otherwise devoid, region.  Energy management and battle damage work, but will still need expansion once more of the game is built.  I also have a few new ship graphics, and some revisions of older ones.  Once the GUI is more fleshed out, I start working on weapons and the simple AI that controls them.

Considering the time differential between this and the previous entry, I think I'll run a little summary.  Holidays resulted in family drama and a hold on my game progress, and art in general.  Mid-January I kicked back into gear, and started on new ships.  Early February I started back on the Actionscript, and now I have a fair pace re-established on both fronts, with occasional interludes on whims.  

I might have a pre-pre-alpha build done this coming week, though I will not be posting any sort of demonstrations until I at least have the play GUI mostly done.  Being an RPG at its core, I consider the HUD and control panels as vital to the game's essence as the ships themselves.  If I do post something, it will be a mockup or something similar.

First off, I will be picking up, more or less, where I left off with my drawing passtime.  I plan on working more in a general fantasy direction, though my Silver Drake's world will still be the focus.  I just need to focus on the unremarkable aspects more.  After all, what good is a dragon without a world to terrorize?

Second, I am working on a little Flash game.  The genre is spacefaring science fiction, essentially a progression of a concept I came up with as a High School project.  Right now I have a small pile of AS code in one hand and a smaller pile of sprite-style graphics in the other.  Ideally, I will have a playable proof-of-concept soon.  Though, to be honest, it will be more of a proof-that-I'm-not-incompetent.

I may be posting some of the ship designs.  They will be rather small, mostly sprite-esque in nature.  Perhaps I can even get a little feedback on the art.

I'll be back into the swing of things soon.  Expect art.  And such.  That is all.