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I think the device is for experimenting, I had mine for ages, projects in mind, build an os, slowly gathering parts for a robot (have nearly all the movement and vision, but it needs a brain.

 

I sold mine so I am able to buy the upgraded version (got a good deal, some price that I paid for it.

 

The other person wanted it for a business client, they setup solar panels at schools, and record the information down to give to the teachers to teach the students about solar panels, they wanted to use the small factor of the pi as an client to download the information from the panels and ftp it to a web server to display the results.

similar feelings so I'm trying for next year to do this challenge http://onegameamonth.com/ just a single month to do an idea from start to finish, so don't have time to dither about it and get discouraged.

 

I did a similar exercise for writing http://www.nanowrimo.org/ 50k words in November and that felt quite positive.

You could take a look at Three Hundred Mechanics and see if anything inspires you, or perhaps try one of the Lost Garden prototyping challenges.

Thanks for posting that, was considering trying the 12 games in 12 months, and something like that would narrow down the thinking of idea's time.

I found video tutorials were good, usually when following written tutorials, there is an error that if you don't understand why it has an error, They can be hard to fix.

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8CAB66181A502179&feature=g-user-a

I found this tutorial in java useful..its a bit more advanced them some of the other game coding tutorials, but its easy enough to stop/rewind, there are simpler ones, and in other languages, if you do want to try something else.

Salem, its a new mmo..the character graphics annoy me, but sandbox open pvp with perma death. http://www.paradoxplaza.com/games/salem