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The making of Symphony of the Five Rings.
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Namatsu
April 18, 2007
Education
Ok, so here is the story. I took a programming test for a gaming company a while back. Said test was timed and it was a rather short period of time. You only had two problems to solve. Needless to say I was unable to finish even the first problem in the time alloted. At that time I just gave up and…
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Namatsu
April 16, 2007
Combat Write Up - Rev 1
Its been a while. I've been doing lots on the game dev side. I just haven't had much time to post due to helping my wife start her own business and getting ready to go back to school. This post is going to be mostly a cut and paste from some of my design document. But it should give a good idea whe…
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Namatsu
March 01, 2007
Screeny Power!
Here is a new and improved screeny. With artwork that may make it into the game even. Granted said artwork is not complete. There is still more detail needed to be added to the background image. It is supposed to be Mount Fuji. Hopefully I am achieving this. I do not think I am bad at creating art …
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Namatsu
February 28, 2007
Level Editor
Work has begun. I bring you level editor screeny of proof. Next time it will be a better screeny.



now back to work with me.
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Namatsu
February 25, 2007
(( INSERT TOPIC NAME HERE ))
-Development--

The other day I realized that I have just been delaying making any progress by staying in the "Design Phase" of the project. I have a list of all the features I would like in the game, And a basic concept written out for the story / levels. So I am going to be moving out of the Design…
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Namatsu
December 25, 2006
X-Mas
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Namatsu
December 14, 2006
(OO)
So there have been a couple of journal entries about software engineering and unit testing. I was wondering if anyone out there had recommendations on books on these subjects. I'm looking to do allot more on the technical design front on my next project, and would like to read up on the subject. Un…
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Namatsu
November 11, 2006
Lets try this again
== Life ====================

Well I'm back... A Lot of bad has happened since I last Posted. I had quit my job so we could move to where my wife got a job, 6 months later my wife looses her job and now we are both unemployed. This mean we are living with he parents and looking for work / trying to d…
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Namatsu
August 20, 2006
Another Screeny
Here is another screeny to look at while I try and finish up big story/gameplan.

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Namatsu
August 19, 2006
More Info... Sorta
Well I was planning on having this big post, but unfortunately I way over slept and feel like I have a hangover. By over sleeping I mean like 13 hours of sleep. So here is the shortened version. I'll post the longer less crappy version latter.

Well here it is.

Story:

You are Experiment number 002321. …
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Namatsu
August 19, 2006
Introducing CodeNamed:Dusk
More information coming when I wake up. Now I must sleep, but first a screeny.

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Namatsu
August 14, 2006
Animated
my first atempt trying to do an animated sprite. Woot! for having a character simple enough to get away with only 2 frames.
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Namatsu
August 13, 2006
Options
I like options.

the player is going to get to choose between

4 mouth styles
4 eye styles
4 shirt styles
8 skin tones

here is an image of some option samples.
Of course i may change up some of the options.
I'm not sure about some of the skin tones.

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Namatsu
August 13, 2006
Untitled
Here is my design for the character for my next game. Programmer art FTW. Its still my first time drawing him so i'm sure he might change a litte, not sure i like the green skin, we will see.

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Namatsu
August 12, 2006
I are Noob
even the NPCs think I'm a noob.



In other news. I've been working on my map system for my next game. I finally desided to stop trying to make my own graphics engine and just make a damn game. I'm using hge for graphics and sound and lua/luaplus for scripting. so far so good. screenshots should be com…
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Namatsu
July 16, 2006
Untitled
Ok... So I did some thinking and These are the subsystem I came up with that I need. Yes at first all this is just going to be for a pong game. I do want to design this though so i dont have to code everything over again on my next project. So alot of this may seem overkill.

*Renderer
*Physics
*Sound
*…
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Namatsu
July 16, 2006
Update
I just recently moved to the Middleton, WI. My wife got a job here so I quit my old job. Good thing I hated my old job. I've been without a job for 1 month and 16 days and done abloslutly nothing with my time. I think I have figured out my problem though. I have been playing alot of World of Warcra…
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Namatsu
January 10, 2006
Graaahhh
So ok... I've got way to many projects going on. I've decided to put two of them on hold cause there is no way i can actually make any progress when working on 3 projects. I'm working on AX.
All other project are put aside now.

AX is going to be a 2d scrolling shooter with 3d graphics. I'm working wi…
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Namatsu
December 02, 2005
SOFR
Look at it... this is my new project. Really just a remake of an old console(dos) game me and some buddies did for our extra credit assignment in c++ class at Full Sail.



Its not done yet by far. Got the guy moving around and all the artwork is being hand drawn by my good pall steve.

As for those tha…
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Namatsu
November 24, 2005
Yup More Coin!
For those of you who loved and or hated Coin for the uter lack of effort put into the project and the fact that really it wasn't much of a game. Let your heart fill with joy to know that a new version of Coin is coming soon. With tons more features. (aka. more than just holding down the space bar t…
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Namatsu
November 20, 2005
Coin!
Here it its my 1W1B2 Entry. Not sure its good. But 2 hours 10 energy drinks later we have this. COIN! Go ahead check it out in all its spacebar suto game glory.

Coin!
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Namatsu
November 19, 2005
So yeah... I'm Stuck.
So after looking into Torque2d checking out a couple of other 2d engines. I finally decided that I didn't waste my money on T2D. It's actually a really cool engine, and once they release the next version (as it is still a early adopters release) it will be even better.

So now that I'm finally done…
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Namatsu
November 06, 2005
Torque2D
Well I bought Torque2D today. I figured the easiest way to get over the. "I can never finish my engine" syndrom is to just use a pre-existing one. I had to go to work before I could play around with it a whole lot, but it looks promising. Hopefully I'll have some screenies for you all by the end of…
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Namatsu
November 04, 2005
A new project.
Finally after a long time of not working on anything. I'm starting a new project. My goals this time are to just make something simple. Not to create some great dynamic game engine like all my previous project. I have most of the basic game play design done. Its going to be a RPG like combat system…
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