Well I've been thinking a lot about my next project because the current one is just about in the can. Time to go hook up my old gaming systems and pull out Mega Man, Bad Dudes, Double Dragon, Shinobi and the list goes on.

I'm really leaning towards either a Mega Man style game or back to the platformer ala Earthworm Jim. Who knows, I still have a little time before my vacation starts to decide. One thing for sure is that I have to be conscious of not going over board because I'm doing the artwork as well.

As of right now, I still need to put together a decent "custom" font engine. I'm not too pleased with any of the current alternatives I've stumbled across. At the end of the day I want to be able to use fonts with outlines and/or gradients or both. Which means that I'm more than likely going to have to implement the font engine the old fashion away and print the ascii characters on a bitmap and traverse the grids.

so if anyone has any better suggestions for fonts then I'm all ears.

Hope you all have a great weekend....now get some coding done!